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.

A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. Th...

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

An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud ...

A self-assured businessman murders his employer, husband of his mistress, which unintentionally prov...

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...

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful re...

A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.

A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.

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

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

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

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.