Universal Pictures Company, Inc. (1946)

Eleven Gilbert & Sullivan numbers are melded within the murder-mystery plot of "Girl on the Spot", with a result that either G&S and/or the plot are always seemingly on stage-wait or in the wings awaiting a cue. Lois Collier is the girl-on-the-spot of the title because she was on the scene of a murder. The police conclude she didn't do it and they use her to set a trap for the real killer, a G&S addict, by financing a Broadway production starring Collier. The police department evidently found the money for financing a Broadway show under "Misc.Expenses" in the city budget.

Indian Agent Kip Lewis arrives in Gun Town where Buckskin Sawyer is having her payroll shipments robbed by Indians. Kip and his men are ready the next time and learn the robbers are white men dressed as Indians. Kip finds Davy Sawyer's case at the scene and confronts him. When Davy accuses Talbot whom he lent it to, Talbot shoots him. But Davy names Talbot before he dies and Kip goes after him.

A young woman who wants to break into the theater schemes to become the protege of a famous Broadway star.

An attorney engaged to an actress gains acquittal for a wealthy playboy accused of manslaughter. The actress, anxious to play the lead in a production backed by the playboy's uncle, neglects her fiancé in favor of the playboy. The enraged attorney kills the playboy's uncle and makes plans to kill the playboy.

When the fabled Star of Rhodesia diamond is stolen on a London to Edinburgh train and the son of its owner is murdered, Sherlock Holmes must discover which of his suspicious fellow passengers is responsible.

Larry Brewster, partner in the music publishing firm of Brewster and Crow, returns from a trip to find that his partner, J.C. Crow has hired Pat O'Rourke as a song plugger. Larry doesn't approve of the plan and, in a bad mood, refuses to see composer Wilfred Potts who is offering a song for publication. Pat, in spite of Larry's objections, stays on the job. She has the firm promote an amateur song-writing contest, and the winner is a submission by Potts, but because he used the name of Wicks, the firm can't locate him and is facing prosecution on charges of using the mail to conduct a fraudulent contest.

Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like The Time of Their Lives (1946), in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.

Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past.

A young girl goes to work as a live-in caretaker for a spooky old woman. She doesn't know that every night, the woman drains some blood from her to feed her strange plant.

An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named "The Creeper" from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho into murdering his critics.

Two doctors try to find the cure for a fatal disease, while battling each other for the affection of a beautiful woman doctor.

Jane Budden, a country girl marries Hiram Maxim a struggling inventor leading to their happiness with two children and Maxim's portrait in the National Hall of Science.

Storyteller Aesop tries to help loony King Croesus and manages to fall in love on the way.

A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a nearby park.

A black cat is suspected of being possessed by the spirit of a elderly murdered woman.

An unassuming professor is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written a steamy bestseller under a pseudonym. While in the city, she receives a bump on the head and begins to believe that she is the author.

Unable to complete the deal by telephone, advertising executive Roberts sends his assistant Ann to Cuba to lure a Cuban band, led by Desi Arnaz, on to an American radio program. Attracted to Ann, Arnaz and his band come to New York but complications arise when the squeaky-voiced, addle-brained sponsor of the program decides she wants to be the vocalist on the program.

Maverick private eyes Kildane and Quayle leave a large agency to work on their own. Their first assignment (pirated from the old firm): retrieve eloping heiress Penelope Hampton, in competition with their former boss Prentiss. Kildane finds Penelope with surprising ease and keeps her one jump ahead of Prentiss with assorted difficulties, but can he avoid a romantic complication with his lovely charge?

Over breakfast, Bill Fry tells his wife Constance that he has had another call from their old friend, Dan Carter, who is the principal at their overly imaginative teenage son Junior's school. When Junior comes to the table, Bill reproaches him for making up wild stories about Dan, whom the boy believes to be at the center of a widespread conspiracy. After Bill drives his son to school, Junior discovers that his father's pistol has fallen out of the car. Junior puts the gun in his pocket, but as he and his buddy Horace are sneaking into the school through an air vent, the gun falls out of his pocket and discharges. When the police show up, Junior, who suspects that Dan used his father's gun, suggests that they have ballistics compare the gun's bullets with a slug retrieved at the unsolved Midvale Bank robbery fifteen years before. The police ask for more information about the robbery, and when they encourage the boy to use his imagination, Junior enthusiastically begins his story: On a stormy night in Midvale, a criminal robs the bank and kills the teller, then flees with the police in pursuit. The next day, Constance Denning swerves to avoid a telephone company truck stopped in the middle of the road, and her car gets stuck in the mud. Bill, the lineman, agrees to drive her to the bus stop so she can continue on her way to Los Angeles to get married. When Constance misses her bus, she and Bill quarrel, and she is about to set out on foot when the bank robber emerges from the back of the truck and takes them hostage. The radiator bursts, and while the truck is stopped, they encounter Cudgeons, a mousy necktie salesman. The robber sends Cudgeons away, and as he and his hostages search for shelter, the attraction between Bill and Constance grows. They eventually reach the Petrucci winery, where they are given shelter for the night, and Bill admits that he could have stopped Constance's bus if he had wanted to. In the middle of the night, Constance sneaks out the window, climbs the telephone pole and uses Bill's handset to tap into a line. After calling her fiance to break off their engagement, she attempts to contact the police, but the robber wakes up and shoots at them before escaping through the winery. Back at Junior's school, the boy is near the end of his story when a policeman brings the news that Bill's gun was the one used in the robbery. Junior continues to cast suspicion on his principal, and the police bring in Cudgeons, who agrees with Junior's account of the long-past events. That evening, Bill and Constance learn that Dan is in jail, and when they go to see him, they are promptly locked up as well. Junior suddenly gets an idea and runs off to crack the case. He and Horace break into Cudgeons' home and call out from the darkness, urging Cudgeons to give himself up. Just as Cudgeons grabs a gun and traps the boys, the police step in to seize him. Junior's heroic deed makes the front page, and the boy confesses that he first suspected Cudgeons because he was the only person who actually believed his story. Junior then looks on in amusement as his parents begin to tell their friends greatly exaggerated versions of his exploits.

A war-weary newsman (Robert Paige) joins a Spanish dancer (Maria Montez) hunting down a Nazi puppet in North Africa.

Sherlock Holmes sets out to discover why a trio of murderous villains, including a dangerously attractive female, are desperate to obtain three unassuming and inexpensive little music boxes.

A faithful wife takes gentle revenge on her philandering husband.

A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who knows about their past threatens to expose it unless they agree to help him rob the department store.

An atomic scientist who was one of the brains behind the A-bomb is now working in private life, trying to adapt atomic power for business purposes. One day his long-estranged wife--who had walked out on him years before and taken up with a string of boyfriends--shows up claiming to want a reconciliation, but soon the scientist finds himself in the center of what appears to be a plot to steal his secrets.

Businessman Logan Stuart is torn between his love of two very different women in 1850's Oregon and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.