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.
Chick Hewes is released from prison and finds work as an accountant. Two years later, Chick's crooke...
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his own corrupt brother Ed to w...
A gambler wanted for murder hides under the guise of a clergyman.
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbi...
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company...
In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the fo...
Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, ...
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...
Two brothers' trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events.
An escaped convict and the detective tasked with hunting him down end up working in parallel to clea...
A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being releas...
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life...
A salesman gets in trouble with a party girl and a debutante in Detroit.
Gabby Denton, a hard-drinking, down-on-his-luck drifter, seems to get a chance at redemption when hi...
A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to c...
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed f...
Infamous burglar "The Bat" commits a daring jewelry theft despite heavy police presence. Soon after,...
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.