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.

Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 y...

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

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

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

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...

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However...

Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big power...

A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighb...

A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.

A Texas oil driller schemes to steal millions of dollars in oil.

Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having co...

A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.

Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's f...

The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habi...

A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec bein...

The secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy ...