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American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].。Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated negro woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished negro youths. Within Our Gates was created in response to The Birth of a Nation which depicted southern whites in need of the Ku Klux Klan to protect them from blood thirsty blacks. Micheaux shows the reality of Dixie racism in 1920, where a...。本剧集是描述三十年代，一代影星阮玲玉传奇的一生。一九三五年三月八日，著名电影演员阮玲玉服毒自杀了！消息传开后，三天之内，有十万人先后前往万国殡仪包瞻仰她的遗容。举殡之日，有三十万人为之送丧……可以说是轰动一时。年青的观众对阮玲玉的名字可能感到陌生，但是上了年纪的观众一定还记忆犹新，阮从影十年，一共拍摄了二十七部影片，她在影片中扮演的尽是悲剧角色。她的爱情，她的婚姻，她的自杀，也是一出感人的悲剧，到底阮玲玉是由出身至踏上毁灭自我这杀路，经过多少个风浪呢？。
