Young auto mechanic Dan Brady takes $20 from a cash register at work to go on a date with blonde femme fatale Vera Novak. Brady intends to put the money back before it is missed, but the garage's bookkeeper shows up earlier than scheduled. As Brady scrambles to cover evidence of his petty theft, he fast finds himself drawn into an ever worsening "quicksand" of crime.
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of a...
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots...
Lulu is a young woman so beautiful and alluring that few can resist her siren charms. The men drawn ...
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...
A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs ...
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest o...
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally ...
In the late 1940s, a murderous couple known as the 'The Lonely Hearts Killers' kills close to a doze...
Jeff Bailey seems to be a mundane gas station owner in remote Bridgeport, California. He is dating l...
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a ...
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whe...
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, g...
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 tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean becomes engaged through correspondence to a ...
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no acc...
In order to avoid a jail sentence, Sean Boswell heads to Tokyo to live with his military father. In ...