On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Ames comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.

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 ...

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 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...

Communists blackmail a shipping executive into spying for them.

An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.

Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When ...

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

After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measure...

A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ...

A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army. But which one? And...

Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.

Crime - When reporter Nicki Barrington investigates a man on death row for the murder of a young wom...