Edward "Teddy" Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he's hit the big time when he kills his older wife, believing he will inherit a fortune. When things don't go according to plan, Teddy sets his sights on a new victim: wealthy widow Freda Jeffries. Unfortunately for the unscrupulous criminal, Freda is much more guarded and sassy than his last wife, making separating her from her money considerably more challenging.
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
Communists blackmail a shipping executive into spying for them.
A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies bank teller Leon Poole as the ...
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measure...
A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired wit...
After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a...
A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps.
Eddie Darrow, seeking a mobster's widow in Macao, gets involved in a casino owner's affairs.
The French Revolution, 1794. The Marquis de Lafayette asks Charles D'Aubigny to infiltrate the Jacob...
Having met on a train, a smooth-talking psychotic socialite shares his theory on how two complete st...
Jeff Bailey seems to be a mundane gas station owner in remote Bridgeport, California. He is dating l...
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the ...
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a bet...
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in...
After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly ...
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involvi...
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful li...
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But whe...
Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack ...
A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death.