The editor of a sleazy tabloid newspaper has been borrowing money from his lover, the wife of a rich theatrical producer, and promises to marry her when she gets a divorce. However, the husband refuses to grant her a divorce, and takes back all the money and jewelry he has given her. The editor sees her husband leaving her apartment and, seeing his opportunity, kills her, takes all his IOUs (and the jewelry) and frames the husband for the murder.
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies bank teller Leon Poole as the ...
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ...
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.
Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.
Eddie Darrow, seeking a mobster's widow in Macao, gets involved in a casino owner's affairs.
A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob...
Having met on a train, a smooth-talking psychotic socialite shares his theory on how two complete st...
Jeff Bailey seems to be a mundane gas station owner in remote Bridgeport, California. He is dating l...
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a bet...
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots...
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involvi...
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful li...
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...
A bank employee uses a loophole in Argentine law to concoct the perfect crime, planning to reap the ...
Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However...