Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corpse. However, he soon finds himself accused of the murder of a maid at a near-by boarding house.

The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanl...

Warren Quimby manages a drugstore while trying to keep his volatile wife, Claire, happy. However, wh...

Jenny Marsh, recently released from prison for killing a man, finds herself under the watchful eye o...

In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when ...

Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he mee...

Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate resul...

An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned...

Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He fi...

A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught...

Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-trippi...

A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as...

A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ...

A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army. But which one? And...

A seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels is recruited by a quirky, reclusive ex-actor to help him write ...

Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.

Two narcotics agents go after a gang of murderous drug dealers who use ships docking at the New York...

Young auto mechanic Dan Brady takes $20 from a cash register at work to go on a date with blonde fem...

The real-life deportation of gangster Lucky Luciano was the inspiration for this romanticized and sl...

After serving five years of a life sentence, Rocky Mulloy hopes to clear his friend who's still in p...

An undercover officer tracks waterfront corruption from California to New Orleans and back.