A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a...

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots...

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involvi...

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful li...

Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a bet...

An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.

Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murder...

A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitre...

Matti Mäki is a young man who gets involved with a corrupt police man seeking proof that his wife, a...

In a moment of madness a middle-aged, married and respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is ...

An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.

Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even tr...

After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply compl...

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood o...

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...

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

Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayn...

Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the great...