Sam Smith is forced to move into the run down Flushing, New York house of his entertainment business partner Ernest Grey after they are evicted from their offices for making pornographic movies and losing all their money and equipment in the process. Ernie originally bought the house on Sam`s ill-advice of the property soon being expropriated for a highway, which never happened. Further adding to the house`s lack of appeal is that it is located next to a cemetery. As Ernie tries to sell the house, which is run by his devoted but exasperated housekeeper Molly Fletcher who hates Sam, he rents out rooms in it. As soon as Sam moves in, strange occurrences happen in the neighborhood, including a mutilated body being found in the cemetery, and one of their neighbors, Mrs. Potter, being attacked by a howling man. Ernie`s new physician, Dr.

"The Maltese Cross" - Prince Dmitry a descendant of the Romanov dynasty is kidnapped by a mafia boss - who also claims to have royal blood and sees himself as the new Russian emperor.

The same day that Cecilia and Une meet Leo for the first time, a corpse appears on the beach in Skutebukta. Who is he and what does he have to do with Cecilia’s mother’s death the year before?

"The Adventures of the Maltese Cat" is an adaptation of the Rudyard Kipling short story. Producer Larry Spangler had just produced a documentary feature film about polo and he thought having a cartoon proceeding it would add a little something! So he came to Buzzco Associates to produce this very ambitious short.

An appreciation and the story of the making of the 1941 film "The Maltese Falcon."

Compilation of three Corto's adventures, all set in 1918. In "Out of Misery" Corto is asked by his friend, a Bedouin called El Oxford, to help him infiltrate a Turkish fort in Yemen and rescue young boy Prince Saud who is being held hostage by his unscrupulous uncle. They are joined by Cush, an extreme coldblooded Danakil (African ethnic group) fighter who hates most white people, seeing them as occupiers, and always quotes the Quran. The key to their mission could be the Scottish prisoners of war, but things get very complicated. Some time later, Cush is whipped by a cowardly commander of a small British military unit. Cush's revenge is swift, cold and brutal. In "Different Romeos. Other Juliets, Cush and Corto are now almost friends. They arrive at Cush's village in Ethiopia just as a war between his Muslim village and the neighboring Christian village is about to break out over the Christian village chief's missing daughter. She fell for a Muslim, but her father forbade her to ...

Teen detective Ruby Skye is back with an intriguing and hilarious new adventure. She finds herself in the middle of not one, but three mysteries! Who stole the fabulous furry Flobbles from FONK, the local children's charity? Who owns the adorable white puppy that her sister, Hailey, wants to keep? Who is that little kid and why does she keep following Ruby? In her quest for justice (and answers), Ruby accidentally destroys a crime scene, annoys a detective and disguises herself as a boy. Her list of enemies is growing by the minute and includes her little sister, her maybe boyfriend, the victim of the crime and every one of the suspects. At least the puppy still likes her. Can she find the bad guys, make her sister happy and win back all her friends? Find out as Ruby takes her on her funniest and most baffling case yet.

A compilation of three short Corto's adventures all set in 1917. In "Heads and Mushrooms", he's in Maracaibo, Venezuela apparently suffering from slight amnesia. His friend Jeremiah Steiner, a down-on-his-luck elderly former university professor he met and helped in "Under the Sign of Capricorn" is keeping an eye on him until he recovers. Influential local antiquarian and Steiner's acquaintance, Levi Columbia, brings them a long lost diary written by a famous explorer who disappeared in the jungles of Venezuela while searching for the legendary mythical city of gold - El Dorado. He suggests that Corto continues the perished explorer's journey since there are clues in the diary to where El Dorado might actually be. Levi will finance the expedition, of course. He also gives Steiner a small bag of hallucinogenic mushrooms that supposedly restore memory. The journey proves to be an ill-fated one. Or does it? In "Banana Conga", Corto is in Honduras seeing the Mosquito coast and visiting a ...

A tripped-out noir murder mystery based in London’s clubland.

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