John Cummings, an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman, has his unpaid-for car stolen by one of the hoods in the employ of Lionel Meadows, the sadistic organizer of a London car conversion racket. The car was not insured, and since the police appear indifferent to his plight, Cummings decides to find it himself -- and gets himself involved in an underworld battle.

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

Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in...

In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman,...

Tensions rise when a U.S. military base is built in a small village in post-war Germany.

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...

After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply compl...

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...

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...

In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whe...

A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets in...

In-Ja, the madam of a cabaret is a mistress of the boss of espionage agent. She gathers information ...

A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.

A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful re...

A seductive housewife draws an insurance salesman into a plot of adultery and crime to collect on he...

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest o...

A self-assured businessman murders his employer, husband of his mistress, which unintentionally prov...