A telephone repairman in Los Angeles uses his knowledge of electronics to help a bookie set up a betting operation. After the bookie is murdered, the greedy technician takes over his business. He ruthlessly climbs his way to the top of the local crime syndicate, but then gangsters from a big East Coast mob show up wanting a piece of his action.

An imaginative boy who frequently makes things up witnesses a murder, but can't get his parents or t...

A Los Angeles newspaperman seeks a woman's sister and finds a black-market baby ring.

After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul...

When actress Diana Baring is found in a daze beside her colleague’s murdered body, all evidence poin...

In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the rem...

A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York. But a special...

A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a train journey from Chicago ...

A private detective is hired to find a young heiress but finds himself accused of murder.

A bedridden and gravely ill man believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him, and outline...

A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. Whe...

A neglected wife gets mixed up with an hypnotic charmer and murder.

Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Cl...

Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he ...

Mr. Dean's body is found face down in the fireplace, burned beyond recognition. Nightclub-singer Ede...

On the run and in search of help, two wounded gangsters find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeb...

In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for e...

Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the si...

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

The fast career of a young Neapolitan among contraband, gambling dens, bribes and illegality. He wil...