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

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...

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

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

A seductive housewife draws an insurance salesman into a plot of adultery and crime to collect on he...

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

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

George Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor, has to postpone a vacation with his wife - again...

Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls, N....

Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a frantic ...

George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, he tries to track down his o...

Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfr...

A fatally shot female gangleader recounts her sordid life of crime to a police officer just before s...

Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks...

A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments...