In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterprising ‘king of the beggars’.
Mobsters conspire to loot another criminal’s treasure secured in an enormous booby-trapped vault.
A group of hooded vigilantes hang wrong-doers with a rope stolen from Scotland Yard’s Black Museum.
A Chinese general’s daughter (Anna May Wong) tracks her father to a slave-labor tyrant’s (J. Carrol Naish) jungle empire.