After several years of supporting parts, Victor McLaglen once more landed a leading role in Republic's City of Shadows. McLaglen plays Big Tim Channing, an ageing but powerful gangster who raises young newsboy Dan Mason as his own son. Upon reaching adulthood, Mason (John Baer) becomes a law student, with the covert (and illegal) help of Channing. Despite his checkered past, Mason opts for honesty when he falls in love with Fern Fellows (Kathleen Crowley). This decision ultimately spells the doom for Mason's mentor Big Tim.

After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly...

Rose Manning swears revenge for the unjust slaying of her father by Inspector McArthur. Five years l...

A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.

A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.

An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss.

The adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.

Rocky and Dan, war buddies, are prowl car cops on night duty. Dan is a cynic who views all lawbreake...

Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles a criminal gang terrorizing a sleepy Italian town, e...

Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. ...

An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and te...

A lawyer changes from defending public enemies to bringing them to justice after his brother is kill...

Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and tr...

Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate kn...

In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces ...

Michael is a young Englishman abroad who deliberately visits a tough Chinese district of Tiger Bay t...

A group of children put on a show in order to prove that a down and out musician was the real compos...

A gangster is drafted into the Army and, soon realizing how wrong his life of crime has been, agrees...

This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with illegal gambling and bookmaking.