Anna Battista is a young, popular, 24yearold Italianborn International film actress who engages herself on a hectic and selfdestructive spree which takes her across Europe and to America to shed her boytoy image to become an artist in order to write and direct herself in a semibiography movie of herself titled Scarlet Diva. After working in Rome, and winning a presigious film award in Milan, Anna travels to Paris to save her best friend from an abusive relationship, then avoids sleazy film producers in Los Angeles, meets and falls in love with a rock star who abandons her, finds out later that shes pregnant, and begins using drugs to numb her pain at this predictament shes gotten herself into.

While attending a conference in Quebec City, Sherlock Holmes and his good friend Dr. Watson are drawn into a murder investigation in the nearby village of La Mort Rouge. Holmes had received a letter from Lady Penrose asking for his assistance as she feared for her life. It was too late however as she had already been killed by the time he received it. Her throat was torn out and the local villagers are spreading rumors about monsters and evil spirits as being the cause. Holmes doesn t believe any of that and sets out to find the killer. He believes that Lady Penrose s past as an actress may have something to with her death. As others in the village are attacked, Holmes believes the killer is among them, impersonating a local villager as he goes about his business.

Chris Cross, 25 years a cashier, has a gold watch and little else. That rainy night, he rescues delectable Kitty from her abusive boyfriend Johnny. Smitten, amateur painter Chris lets Kitty think he s a wealthy artist. At Johnny s urging, she lets Chris establish her in an apartment (with his shrewish wife s money). There, Chris paints masterpieces; but Johnny sells them under Kitty s name, with disastrous and ironic results.

Chris Cross, 25 years a cashier, has a gold watch and little else. That rainy night, he rescues delectable Kitty from her abusive boyfriend Johnny. Smitten, amateur painter Chris lets Kitty think he s a wealthy artist. At Johnny s urging, she lets Chris establish her in an apartment (with his shrewish wife s money). There, Chris paints masterpieces; but Johnny sells them under Kitty s name, with disastrous and ironic results.

An aging killer trains a young hired gun in a plot to assassinate a meek brothel owner performing barbaric abortion acts on his prostitutes.