The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grifter) Bill Bailey, who, in the course of his work, crosses paths with every kind of offender there is, from first-time defendants to career criminals.

A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?

Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life...

Passing herself off as a countess, glamorous Lucy Stavrin hobnobs with the rich and famous along the...

Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his own corrupt brother Ed to w...

Two brothers' trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events.

A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides ...

A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sen...

A trio of former sideshow performers double as the "Unholy Three" in a scam to nab some shiny rocks.

Infamous burglar "The Bat" commits a daring jewelry theft despite heavy police presence. Soon after,...

A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob...

In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangste...

In 19th century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to...

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economi...

A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.

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

Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, mastermind...

A Secret Service agent nabs a scalpel-happy doctor who runs drugs in caskets.

Nora Moran, a young woman with a difficult and tragic past, is sentenced to die for a murder that sh...

The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out,...

Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a hou...