"Homicidal smugglers in the big city !"
A customs agent follows a jewel smuggler's trail of corpses from Paris to New York.
Social & External
The people behind it
Dean Jagger
Cliff Holden, alias William Harrah
John Carradine
Doc Spencer
Harry Landers
Owney Shor
Lottie Elwen
Kathe van Bourne
Rene Paul
Matty Royal
Walter Vaughan
Customs Inspector Brandon
Adelaide Klein
Minnie Hoffman
Edith Atwater
Lydia Brundage
Jean Ellyn
Birdie Alton
Walter Brooke
Joe
A police detective interviews 2 people about an incident involving the death of a common acquaintance.
Berlin provides the backdrop for this crime drama that centers on a military doctor falsely accused of dealing illegal drugs. Determined to prove his innocence, he escapes from the MPs and ends up holing up in the apartment his wife rented. He doesn't know that she has sublet the flat to a nightclub singer. When he finds out, he begs the singer to assist him. She is attracted to him and agrees. The doctor believes that his wife is behind the black-market dealings, but in the end, they find the real culprit.
A mad writer checks into a hotel. In the window of a opposite building he sees four men and starts to write their life story. Every man is an anonymous person who have done or experienced something irreversible in his life. They end up together to plan a heist.
A mad bomber holds an innocent family hostage.
A falling-out between thieves over the proceeds of a stickup results in several deaths and a priest being marked for murder because of a confession he receives from one of the gang members.
A drifter riding the rails gets mistaken for the new sheriff of a small town. He takes the police job and is immediately pressured to crack down on local organized crime.
Framed for two crimes he didn't commit, and betrayed by his girl, Cliff Banks finds himself on the run from the police. Now distrustful of everyone, he finds a safe haven hiding out at a quaint country cottage under the care of a kindly old farmer and his daughter, a Cinderella-like blind woman who seems to be able to communicate with nature. There he is forced by their love to question his misanthropy.
Detective Sal Vallentinetti visits The Filthy Fox to further inquire about the killer behind a string of recent murders in Midnight City.
An ex-con is inspired to go undercover and "finger" the mob after finding out his sister is hooked on illegal drugs.
A lawyer tries to exact justice on a woman he defended in court -- a woman whom he found out was guilty after getting her off.
During a bitter 1964 Massachusetts winter, young secretary Eileen becomes enchanted by Rebecca, the glamorous new counselor at the prison where she works. Their budding friendship takes a twisted turn when Rebecca reveals a dark secret — throwing Eileen onto a sinister path.
A struggling writer becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation when his publisher is found dead in a manner mirroring one of the writer's proposed mystery storylines.
Cop Andy Doyle investigates a car-bombing murder and the killing of a sleazy modeling agency owner. Are they connected?
In the Windy City, the mob infiltrates a powerful union.
A con woman tries to swindle her partner-in-crime husband with the help of one of her former marks. But is she to be trusted?
Two detectives investigate the strangulation murder of a man whom everyone seemed to like.
A convict is forced to participate in a prison break even though he only has a year left on his sentence.
While Le Tampon might seem peaceful, Katiana goes undercover as a delivery driver to solve the mystery of the neighborhood florist and his hidden romantic life.
Alcoholic detective investigating the murder of an actress starts getting worried when all fingers begin to point at him.
A man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn't commit.
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
A kindly, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of crime after his face is badly disfigured in a hotel fire.
After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.
An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.
An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.
A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.
Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to find himself entangled with fellow guests at a luxurious resort and suspecting that the man who hired him may be the deported crime boss Nick Ferraro aiming to re-enter to the USA.
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.
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.
Nancy Drew, a smart high schooler with a penchant for keen observation and deduction, stumbles upon the haunting of a local home. A bit of an outsider struggling to fit into her new surroundings, Nancy and her pals set out to solve the mystery, make new friends, and establish their place in the community
In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified information to the communists, Candy, who has been trailed by FBI agents for months in hopes of nabbing the spy ringleader, is sent by her ex-boyfriend, Joey, to find Skip and retrieve the valuable microfilm he now holds.
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin, team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office. Unscrupulous salesmen try to hawk dubious real estate to suckers.
In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.