A road trip to Los Angeles inadvertently leads a young man from Wyoming into a wild maze of psychotic hit-men, racy women, jewel thieves and a salsa band.
En 1940, à New York, Betty Ann Fitzgerald a été engagée pour moderniser la compagnie d'assurances North Coast. Cette énergique et arriviste enquêtrice affiche d'emblée ses ambitions en déclarant la guerre aux méthodes de travail quelque peu obsolètes de C.W. Briggs, le meilleur détective de la boîte.
À sa sortie de prison, Cheung Tan renoue vite avec son gang et ses mauvaises habitudes. Avec ses complices, il planifie le braquage parfait et dérobe deux joyaux d’une valeur inestimable durant le Festival de Cannes. Pierre, un détective français, cherche à les coincer depuis plusieurs années. Sa traque va le conduire jusqu’à Prague pour mener le coup de filet du siècle.
A con man with his beautiful accomplice and a hostage steals a half million dollars worth of diamonds but finds they're all lost in the desert without water.
A gang of clever thieves kill a wealthy woman in hopes of stealing her gems. But the thieves aren't clever enough to ascertain the location of those gems, so they consult a phony spiritualist. Then they decide to dispose of the mystic by framing her for the murder.
After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a train wreck, he gets plastic surgery and returns to expose the real killers.
Bombay, dans un hôtel de luxe. Gerald Meldrick, un habile cambrioleur, subtilise à la belle Anya von Duren le fabuleux diamant de la duchesse de Beltravers, dont elle venait justement de s'emparer. Les deux malandrins ont tôt fait de se juger et de s'apprécier. De concurrents, ils pourraient devenir complices, voire amants. Leur pouvoir de séduction réciproque les y pousse. La police interrompt vite le ballet des sentiments, en se jetant sans ménagement à leurs trousses. C'est décidé, le tandem décide de s'associer et embarque sur un cargo. Chang, le capitaine, les démasque facilement et menace de les livrer à la police. Ils s'échappent à nouveau..
Un groupe de voleurs, composé d'une femme Vivian Palmer et de deux hommes Ed et Harry pille des bijouteries à Paris. Ross McBride, un agent du gouvernement américain tombe sur Vivian qui essayait de fuir le pays avec le butin et ses acolytes. Les deux protagonistes s'éprennent l'un de l'autre. Ross McBride apprend la vérité sur Vivian Palmer. Il l'arrête
Seeking to avoid arrest while fleeing through a city park at night, two jewel thieves, Gordon and young Tommy, stash some just-stolen jewels on elderly, unknowing Martha Abbott. They then invite Martha to come live with them as their housekeeper, duping her into helping fence their goods. When Martha eventually becomes aware of the criminal activities, she strives to help Tommy reform.
When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back.
Nigel Duxbury, frère jumeau de Lord Menden, se lie avec la chambre de sa belle-sœur, Jane, afin d'obtenir de l'argent.
La belle Fay Cheyney voyage vers l’Angleterre à bord du Queen Mary en compagnie de son majordome Charles. Elle est très courtisée par Lord Francis Kelton et Lord Arthur Dilling. Arrivée à Londres, Fay devient la coqueluche de la haute société et la tante d’Arthur, la duchesse d'Ebley, l’invite à passer le week-end chez elle. Mais Fay et Charles sont des escrocs et la belle aventurière semble très intéressée par le collier de perles de la duchesse…
A young man gets mixed up with a stolen necklace and a gang of ruthless jewel thieves.
Eric and Ernie decide to take a holiday to the South of France and unwittingly become mixed up with a band of jewel thieves.
Its suspected that a society matron, Mrs. Van Bustle, will marry the exotic Prince Shaam. To get the story, reporters Curly, Larry and Moe take jobs in her mansion as a cook and two butlers. The parrot climbing into the turkey scene is a Stooge classic. This was the last of many Stooge appearances by supporting actor Bud Jamison, who passed away in September, 1944, at the age of 50. First appearance by Stooge supporting actress Judy Malcolm.
Jewel thieves quickly dispose of the loot when the alarm is raised, then track down the family upon whose truck they threw them, meanly interrogating them in the hope of getting them back.
A married couple are mistaken for jewel thieves and forced to go to a party. The husband turns on the burglar alarm by mistake and the real thieves are captured.
Detective Barker has his work cut out for him when his red-haired nanny, Kate Blond, turns out to be a master thief in disguise. Barker’s close friends are a wealthy count and countess who has recently purchased a valuable piece of jewellery at an auction. With a poisoned sewing needle, Kate knocks the countess out and steals the jewellery. She sets the countess’ clock back an hour so the nanny-job is a bulletproof alibi when Barker investigates the case. Barker is at a loss until his trained eyes spot a red hair at the crime scene. (Stumfilm.uk)
From the co-founder of Slamdance comes the story of a young man who returns home from a trip abroad to confront not just his peculiar family and friends, but also a pair of Colombian jewel thieves and a roving gang of Iowa kickboxers, culminating in a showdown at Carhenge. A seminal movie in the history of independent film, "Omaha: The Movie" was the film that spearheaded the birth of the Slamdance Film Festival.