Blues in the Night (1941)
Blues in the Night 1941 Jigger Pine forms a band that includes singer Ginger Character Powell, wife of the trumpeter Leo Powell, and Nickie Haroyen and Peppi All of them dedicate themselves to work as a unit and to play blues music The dedication isnt paying off in money and, while riding the rails
Caged (1950)
Caged 1950 Frightened 19 year old Marie Allen gets sent to an Illinois penitentiary for being an accomplice in an armed robbery A sympathetic prison head tries to help, but her efforts are subverted by cruel matron Evelyn Harper Maries harsh experiences turn her from doe eyed innocent to hard nosed
Hollywood Story (1951)
Hollywood Story (1951) Hollywood 1950: The successful producer Larry O'Brian arrives in Los Angeles to found a motion picture company. He buys an old studio which was unused since the days of silent movies. He's shown the office where the famous director Franklin Farrara was shot. The case hasn't be
The House of Fear (1945)
The House of Fear (1945) Seven rich men retire to a Scottish castle and promptly begin to die in violent fashion. Each death is preceded by the delivery of orange pips to the next target. As all the likely victims are heaviliy insured, Sherlock Holmes is asked by the insurance companies to investiga
Slightly Scarlet (1956)
Slightly Scarlet (1956) Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison in custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" political candidate Frank Jansen. Ben Grace, associate of crime boss Sol Caspar, sees this as a way to smear Jansen's campaign. But after falling out with Caspar,
Lured (1947)
Lured (1947) A serial killer in London is murdering young women he meets through the personal columns of newspapers. He announces each of his murders to the police by sending them a cryptic poem. After a dancer disappears, the police enlist an American friend of hers, Sandra Carpenter, to answer adv
The 13th Letter (1951)
The 13th Letter (1951) Respectable citizens receive anonymous letters revealing their adulterous relationships.
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)
Night Has a Thousand Eyes 1948 After heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiance Elliott Carson probes her relationship to John Triton In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition His partner, Whitney Courtland, uses Tritons talent to
The Madonnas Secret (1946)
The Madonnas Secret (1946) The sister of a murdered model poses for the same artist to try to catch her killer.
The Web (1947)
The Web (1947) Leopold Kroner, formerly of Colby Enterprises, is released after five years in prison for embezzlement. Andrew Colby, claiming that Kroner has threatened him, hires lawyer Bob Regan as a secret bodyguard. Sure enough, Kroner turns up in Colby's room with a gun, and Regan kills him. Th
The Secret Fury (1950)
The Secret Fury 1950 During the ceremony marrying Ellen and David, a stranger stands up when that phrase if anyone knows why these two may not be joined is spoken The stranger announces that Ellen is already married Ellen however insists she is not, and the strain of proving she is telling the truth
The Brasher Doubloon (1947)
The Brasher Doubloon (1947) Philip Marlowe is hired when a rare doubloon is stolen, and he soon discovers that it is being used for blackmail purposes. Marlowe's involvement has him encounter a girl who goes into hysterics when touched by a man; a domineering mother; three corpses; a couple of scuff
Shield for Murder (1954)
Shield for Murder (1954) A vicious cop kills a bookie's runner and steals $25,000 from the corpse. He then frames everyone in sight in order to keep the money to buy a new home for his would-be lounge singer girlfriend.
The Man Who Died Twice (1958)
The Man Who Died Twice (1958) A nightclub singer loses her husband in an automobile accident, and soon afterward witnesses the murders of two narcotics agents, and suffers a nervous breakdown. The police come to believe that all three murders are related, as they had suspected her husband was involv
Step by Step (1946)
Step by Step (1946) Using a white lie, young Evelyn Smith is able to get a sensitive job as secretary to Senator Remmy. They will be working out of the senator's isolated and usually unused Malibu beachfront house. The current case they will be working on is one of national security, that despite th
The Beast of the City (1932)
The Beast of the City (1932) Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is fighting gangster Sam Belmonte. He asks his dishonest brother Ed to keep an eye on Daisy who was connected with Belmonte.
The Big Combo (1955)
The Big Combo 1955 Police Lt Diamond is told to close his surveillance of suspected mob boss Mr Brown because its costing the department too much money with no results Diamond makes one last attempt to uncover evidence against Brown by going to Browns girlfriend, Susan Lowell
Kansas City Confidential (1952)
Kansas City Confidential (1952) A down-on-his-luck ex-GI finds himself framed for an armored car robbery. When he's finally released for lack of evidence--after having been beaten up and tortured by the police--he sets out to discover who set him up, and why. The trail leads him into Mexico and a we
Black Friday (1940)
Black Friday (1940) When his friend Professor Kingsley is at deaths door, brain surgeon Dr. Sovac saves his life by means of an illegal operation that transplants part of injured gangster Red Cannon's brain. Unfortunately, the operation has a disastrous Jeckll and Hyde side effect and under certain
Night and the City (1950)
Night and the City (1950) Harry Fabian is a London hustler with ambitious plans that never work out. One day, when he encounters the most famous Greco-Roman wrestler in the world, Gregorius, at a London wrestling arena run by his son Kristo, he dreams up a scheme that he thinks will finally be his t
Deported (1950)
Deported 1950 An American gangster born in Italy, Vic Smith Jeff Chandler, after being deported back to Italy as an undesirable citizen, gets involved with an Italian black market ring and falls in love with Countess Christine di Lorenzi, a beautiful widow
All My Sons (1948)
All My Sons 1948 All My Sons tells the story of Joe Keller, a successful, middle aged, self made man who has done a terrible and tragic thing He framed his business partner for a crime and engineered his own exoneration Now, his son is about to marry the partners daughter, the affair is revisited, a
The Dark Past (1948)
The Dark Past (1948) When a detective scoffs at his suggestion that an 18 year-old criminal be referred for psychiatric examination Dr. Andrew Collins, the police psychiatrist, tells him the story of his encounter with Al Walker. Walker had a history of violence and killed the prison warden during a
Make Haste to Live (1954)
Make Haste to Live (1954) Crystal 'Chris' Benson, a single mother in a small New Mexico town, senses a shadowy menace stalking her in the night. She acquires a gun and makes arrangements anticipating her own death, tape-recording a message for her teenage daughter which (in flashback) tells of her i
The Houston Story (1956)
The Houston Story (1956) In Houston, a man working as an oil driller comes up with a scheme for stealing millions of dollars worth of oil from the fields. He insinuates himself with a local mobster in order to get financing for his scheme.
The House on 92nd Street (1945)
The House on 92nd Street (1945) Preface: a stentorian narrator tells us that the USA was flooded with Nazi spies in 1939-41. One such tries to recruit college grad Bill Dietrich, who becomes a double agent for the FBI. While Bill trains in Hamburg, a street-accident victim proves to have been spying
Outrage (1950)
Outrage 1950 A young girl is raped while coming home from work The trauma of the attack turns her away from her parents and her fiance Unable to face society, she runs away and, using an assumed name, takes a job on an orange ranch A young clergyman takes an interest in her although she wont confide
5 Steps to Danger (1956)
5 Steps to Danger (1956) When his car breaks down during a trip from Los Angeles to Texas John Emmett meets another motorist, Ann Nicholson, who offers him a lift. He learns that she is running away from her physician, Dr. Simmons, and the police, who want to question her about a murdered Central In
The Strange One (1957)
The Strange One (1957) Jocko De Paris, cadet leader in a Southern military academy, so manipulates events that George Avery, Jr., son of the school's executive officer, is found drunk and expelled. Through various pressures, Jocko silences such involuntary accomplices as his roommate Harold Koble, f
City That Never Sleeps (1953)
City That Never Sleeps (1953) Chicago cop Johnny Kelly, dissatisfied with his job and marriage, would like to run away with his stripper girlfriend Angel Face, but keeps getting cold feet. During one crowded night, Angel Face decides she's had enough vacillation, and crooked lawyer Biddel has an ill
The Last Crooked Mile (1946)
The Last Crooked Mile (1946) The notorious Jarvis gang robs a bank, one member is killed in the subsequent shootout, they ditch the getaway car, but are recognized at a roadblock as they take it on the lam and are killed in a car chase. The getaway car is sold to a carnival sideshow, where an insura
Johnny Allegro (1949)
Johnny Allegro (1949) Los Angeles hotel lobby florist Johnny Allegro is a man with a secret: he's a former criminal who escaped from the Sing Sing prison.However, Johnny went straight and became a legitimate businessman. One day, a high-class, well dressed attractive blonde runs into his arms, in th
The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)
The Killer That Stalked New York (1950) Sheila Bennett returns to New York from Cuba, carrying $40,000 worth of smuggled diamonds...and smallpox, which could start a devastating epidemic in the unprotected city. Treasury agent Johnson loses her but keeps doggedly on the trail; while Public Health do
The Tijuana Story (1957)
The Tijuana Story (1957) Tijuana is a city ridden with crime, vice and corruption, with the local Mexican mob stopping anyone who attempts to clean up the city. However, the mob meets its match when it is ...
Midnight (1934)
Midnight 1934 The foreman of a jury asks questions that send a woman to the electric chair for a murder committed in the heat of passion On the night of the execution, his actions come back to haunt him
A Bullet Is Waiting (1954)
A Bullet Is Waiting 1954 A policeman and his prisoner survive the crash of the plane in the mountains in which they were traveling They seek shelter in the lonely hut of a man and his daughter
Big House, U.S.A. (1955)
Big House, U.S.A. (1955) Jerry Barker finds a lost boy whose rich father is extorted into paying a ransom for his return but the boy accidentally dies and Jerry goes to prison.
I Wouldnt Be in Your Shoes (1948)
I Wouldnt Be in Your Shoes (1948) Tom (Don Castle) and Ann (Elyse Knox) are a down-and-out dance team, and while Don seeks engagements, Ann works as an instructor at a dance academy, with Detective Judd (Regis Toomey) one of the many customers she meets. On a hot summer night Tom, awaken from his sl
Angel Face (1952)
Angel Face 1952 When Mrs Tremayne is mysteriously poisoned with gas, ambulance driver Frank Jessup meets her refined but sensuous stepdaughter Diane, who quickly pursues and infatuates him Under Dianes seductive influence, Frank is soon the Tremayne chauffeur but he begins to suspect danger under he
The Case Against Brooklyn (1958)
The Case Against Brooklyn (1958) When a reporter claims that New York police are on the take letting the mob run its horse parlors at will, a shocked District Attorney Michael Norris decide to do something about it. Not knowing who can be trusted on the force, he turns to recent police academy gradu
Walk a Crooked Mile (1948)
Walk a Crooked Mile 1948 A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile nation To investigate the case more efficiently, Dan OHara, an FBI agent, and Philip Grayson, a Scotland Yard sleuth, join forces Wi
Johnny OClock (1947)
Johnny OClock (1947) New York gambling house operator Johnny O'Clock is junior partner in a posh casino with Guido Marchettis and Chuck Blayden, a crooked cop. But Blayden is trying to cut into the casino's profits and warns Johnny not to interfere with his intention of becoming Marchettis' full par
Drive a Crooked Road (1954)
Drive a Crooked Road (1954) Eddie Shannon is an undersized, sports-car mechanic who dreams of racing an expensive car in a European meet. He meets and falls in love with Barbara Mathews, and thinks she loves him. She introduces him to Steve Norris and Harold Baker, who ask him to drive the getaway c
The Night Holds Terror (1955)
The Night Holds Terror (1955) A group of escaped convicts take over a suburban home to evade the ongoing police manhunt, making the lives of the family living there a nightmare. The longer the men stay there, the more the tensions build and the more likely it becomes a tragedy will occur. Based on a
Pillow of Death (1945)
Pillow of Death (1945) Attorney Wayne Fletcher and his secretary are having an affair, so when Wayne's wife is found smothered to death, he becomes the prime suspect. As the police investigate the murder, a ...
Thunderbolt (1929)
Thunderbolt (1929) A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl. Thunderbolt hopes to stave off the execution long enough to kill young Moran for romancing hi
Illegal (1955)
Illegal 1955 Ambitious D A Victor Scott zealously prosecutes Ed Clary for a womans murder But as Clary walks the last mile to the electric chair, Scott receives evidence that exonerates the condemned man Realizing that hes made a terrible mistake he tries to stop the execution but is too late Humble