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

In 18th century London, a vivacious young woman becomes a chambermaid for a brothel madam.

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.

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…