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.
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...
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...
A power-mad union boss resorts to murder to eliminate witnesses scheduled to testify against him. Th...
A Bonnie & Clyde criminal couple rob a movie theater on Christmas Eve, and have time to kill before ...
When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement ag...
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.
After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply compl...
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a bet...
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the ...
A mother finds it hard to believe that her son is convicted as a terrorist and is sent to gallows. E...
A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. Th...
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...
New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his B...