One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.

When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starti...

After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly ...

Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attac...

London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal sla...

An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocc...

A down-and-out Brooklyn detective is hired to track down a singer on an odyssey that will take him t...

A prizefighter-turned-longshoreman with a conscience goes up against labor leaders to expose corrupt...

The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and f...

Hugh Beaumont stars as detective "Michael Shayne" in this 1946 B-film.

The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely...

Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern ...

A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit th...

'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the stu...

Working-class waitress Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married Mitch...

Seattle medical examiner David Krane is obsessed with solving his wife's murder. A possible solution...

Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that bel...

Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But whe...

In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his ...

Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack ...

In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while...