After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.

Igor, aged 15, and his father Roger deal in housing and peddling illicit labor in the outlying distr...

Kenneth Bianchi is a security guard whose attempts to become a police officer are repeatedly thwarte...

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...

An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who help...

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

Three different scenarios, intercut, all using the same words but with very different meanings. A co...

In 1943, U.S. marines are stationed near Wellington. One of them is murdered by the boss of the Hot...

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 strange mortician tells four horrific tales to three drug dealers that he traps in their local fun...

When Danny and his gang attempt to rob the warehouse of a mob boss, they find themselves on the run....

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...

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

Communists blackmail a shipping executive into spying for them.

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