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.

When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides...

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his ...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the author...

Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night.

Bank robber Kalle Grabowski escapes from prison while his unemployed smalltime crook buddy is sittin...

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

Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local in...

Axel Foley returns to the land of sunshine and palm trees to investigate the near-fatal shooting of ...

Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it da...

Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company...

Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recentl...

Two musicians witness a mob hit and need to quickly find a way out of Chicago. Their only opportunit...

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...

A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother-in-law, as the king of the ambulance...

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...