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.

Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company...

A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to c...

Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his police detective brother Ed...

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...

Rose Manning swears revenge for the unjust slaying of her father by Inspector McArthur. Five years l...

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

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

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 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.

Mary Gray elopes to Atlantic City, NJ, but begins having second thoughts about the marriage. Then sh...

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the fo...

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed f...

A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-pac...

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots...

Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbi...

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

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