Famous features such as 'Sherlock Holmes Faces Death', 'Johnny Allegro', 'My Forbidden Past', 'His Kind of Woman', 'The Big Carnival', and 'After the Thin Man' are examined, plus the 'Bulldog Drummond' series, and a number of serials including 'The Clutching Hand', 'Chick Carter, Detective', 'Panther Girl of the Congo', 'Holt of the Secret Service' and 'The Last of the Mohicans'. Two bonus features are monographs on Robert Siodmak (of 'Cobra Woman', 'The Phantom Lady', 'The Spiral Staircase', etc.) and Otto Preminger, who made 'Laura', 'Fallen Angel', 'Whirlpool', 'Where the Sidewalk Ends', 'The 13th Letter' and 'Angel Face'.