Agostino Borgato

Adhering closely to Dashiel Hammett's story, sleazy detective Sam Spade seeks the whereabouts of a jewel encrusted statuette and his partner's cold-blooded killer, unaware the two quests may be related. Well received in its time, today it looks like a dress-rehearsal for John Huston's definitive version made ten years later. (imdb)

A young woman disguises herself as a man and follows her fiancéé into the trenches during World War I to find out what war is really like. (imdb)

Bianca loves Tito the clown and resents the advances of the Crown Prince of Illyria. Maddened by Bianca's refusals, the prince lures her to his hotel but she uses her gymnastic skill to escape. Tito kills the prince and assumes his identity. Believing Tito to have been killed Bianca leaves the circus to seek vengeance. During the coronation, she is about to kill the prince when he reveals his identity, and together they escape to the circus. (AFI)

Easy-Money Charley, the best fake crippled beggar in New York, loses his beloved dog and adopts a dying prostitute's daughter to fill the empty place in his heart.