Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with juvenile delinquency, petty crimes, graft and also a recent unsolved murder of a strip-tease dancer. Recognizing the laxity of the department he implements many changes and soon finds himself under fire by the newspapers, the attorney of a racket leader and the denizens of this human jungle.

Agnes "Astra" Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the...

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...

In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when ...

A family man – desperate for a job – latches onto a friend who encourages him into being a criminal.

A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps.

A nightclub dancer and a detective try and catch the gangster who framed her brother.

Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corps...

Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic sc...

Eddie Darrow, seeking a mobster's widow in Macao, gets involved in a casino owner's affairs.

Gentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and find t...

An unhinged woman is dangerously jealous of her ex-boyfriend's new lover. For April, performing stri...

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 prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.

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

In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him tha...

The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining inco...

A female research scientist conducting experiments on a new anesthetic has a very bad week. Her sche...