Burglar Nat Harbin and his two associates set their sights on wealthy spiritualist Sister Sarah, who has inherited a fortune -- including a renowned emerald necklace -- from a Philadelphia financier. Using Nat's female ward, Gladden, to pose as an admirer and case the mansion where the woman lives, they set up a perfect break-in. Things get complicated afterwards.

Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 y...

Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to...

After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly ...

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood o...

The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and f...

Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that bel...

Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But whe...

Two thieves, who travel in elegant circles, try to outsmart each other and, in the process, end up f...

Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack ...

Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayn...

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However...

The charismatic criminal Dobermann, who got his first gun when he was christened, leads a gang of br...

Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big power...

A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighb...

A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.

A Texas oil driller schemes to steal millions of dollars in oil.

Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having co...

A guilt-ridden man blames himself for his wife's death and secretly pays an assassin to kill him. Bu...

A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.