The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the…

A strangler is loose on a British estate, and he not only strangles his victims but brands an “M” onto their foreheads before he decapitates them.

An American talks a retired French crook into robbing a bank, but kidnappers demand the loot as ransom.

Young, pretty and innocent, Fanny Hill has lost her parents and must find her way in life amidst the perils of turbulent 18th-century London. She’s fortunate enough to rapidly find…