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- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsRobert MitchumKim HunterDean JaggerA naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.
- DirectorMax NosseckStarsLawrence TierneyEdmund LoweAnne JeffreysJohn Dillinger begins his life of crime as a petty thief, meets his future gang in prison and eventually masterminds a series of daring robberies.
- DirectorWilliam NighStarsKay FrancisPaul KellyOtto KrugerStory of women who marry GIs just so they can receive the soldiers' pay and their life insurance if they are killed in action.
- DirectorPhil RosenStarsEdmund LoweJean RogersDonald DouglasFamed magician Mr. Gregory is visited back stage one night by an amateur magician and his wife. Immediately smitten with Ellen Randall, Gregory plots to win her over.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsRalph MorganKane RichmondJayne HazardThis George Morris story was based on an article that appeared in "Woman's Home Companion" and later reprinted in "Reader's Digest." Eddie Condon, a two-bit racketeer, teams up with an alcoholic doctor, Judson, to set up a maternity home with free facilities to expectant mothers, with the proviso that the women sign away all rights to their newborns. The babies are then offered for adaptation to couples willing to make a substantial "contribution" to the home. Things go well for this borderline within-the-law business until a baby is still-born. Conden had already sold the baby for $5,000 and has no intention of returning the money, so he substitutes the child of the sister of his wife. There is a slip-up on the filing of the certificates and the District Attorney's office gets involved.
- DirectorAlfred ZeislerStarsPeter CooksonWarren WilliamAnne GwynneIn this Americanized retelling of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, a medical student--broke, hungry and desperate for money--murders a loan shark to whom he owes money. After the killing, he's tormented by guilt over what he's done. A police captain, who's convinced the student committed the crime but can't prove it for lack of evidence, plays on the young man's guilt in order to get him to confess to the crime.
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsBelitaBarry SullivanBonita GranvilleFrank Leonard, the proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes Joe Morgan, a peanut vendor at the show, to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's star Roberta, who also happens to be the owner's wife. However, he soon begins to notice that Joe is paying more attention to his wife than he believes is appropriate, and begins to suspect that he has designs not only on his wife but on his business. Meanwhile, someone from Joe's past shows up with information that could wreck his plans.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsKane RichmondBernadene HayesPeter CooksonTwo card sharks, pretending to be brother and sister, clean out a small-town banker, then take over a crooked gambling joint.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsWarren DouglasRamsay AmesJan WileyA veteran, Joe Hilton (Warren Douglas), returns from the war to find that his brother Jeffrey Hilton (George Meeker), a gangster, has been killed. His quest for revenge leads him to take over his brother's illegal operations but his sweetheart, Lynn Turner (Ramsay Ames), persuades him to change his ways and return to the straight and narrow.
- DirectorJack BernhardStarsJean GillieEdward NorrisRobert ArmstrongA mortally wounded female gangster recounts how she and her gang revived an executed killer from the gas chamber, to try and find out where he buried a fortune in cash.
- DirectorPhil KarlsonStarsKay FrancisPaul CavanaghRobert ShayneCareer-slipping movie star Carole Raymond (Kay Francis) buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell (Paul Cavanagh). As it happens, through his secretary Nola Reed (Veda Ann Borg), Caldwell runs a matrimonial bureau, and aided by his associate Lee Kirby (John Gallaudet), they defraud and blackmail a large group of lonely people. Carole is unknowingly used as bait for one of their victims, Walter Desmond (Barton Yarborough), who apparently commits suicide. Reporter William Tyler (Robert Shayne) thinks otherwise, and posing as a rich rancher, he contacts Miss Raymond. The latter, now being blackmailed by Caldwell, is forced to persuade Tyler to invest in a fraudulent oil deal. In her own attempt to break the racket, Carole uncovers Mildred Hayes (Teala Loring), another innocent victim of the Desmond case. Despite leading each other on for their own purposes, Carole and Tyler fall in love and combine their efforts.
- DirectorReginald Le BorgStarsTeala LoringRobert ArmstrongLeo PennTom Cochrane (Leo Penn'), full of dope (cocaine) and covered with blood, is picked up by the police and then questioned by detectives Shannon (Douglas Fowley) and Taylor (Harry Strang), but manages to escape. His girl friend Lois Walter (Teala Loring) , against the wishes of her guardian, Jim Grosset (Charles Arnt), assists Tom and his police-officer brother-in-law Mac McLane (Robert Armstrong) in trying to clear Tom of a possible murder charge. Tom only recalls meeting a man in a bar and going to a party. Tom and Mac find the man, Joe (Elisha Cook Jr.), who takes them to the party scene, the apartment of the Sindells. They find the body of a murdered girl in the apartment above.
- DirectorJohn ReinhardtStarsBonita GranvilleDon CastleRegis ToomeyTwo guys sharing an apartment meet twin girls (both Bonita Granville). One's sweet, the other a major piece of bad news. The nice one is murdered and her boyfriend is accused of the crime. The wrong man/wrong victim plot strikes again.
- DirectorJack BernhardStarsNancy ColemanMichael O'SheaSheldon LeonardUndercover reporter Ann Mason infiltrates a neo-fascist group that recruits disgruntled veterans, but amnesia prevents her from exposing them.
- DirectorJohn ReinhardtStarsLee TracyDon CastleJulie BishopA fast-moving automobile fails to make a sharp turn of the highway from Malibu to Los Angeles. It overturns and its occupants, Tim Slade, Newspaper man turned private investigator, and Hugh Fresney, managing editor of the Los Angeles Currier, are pinned underneath. Both are seriously injured and are unable to move. As they wait for the tide to come in and cover them, Fresney recounts that his boss, Clint VAughn has been killed, presumably by gangsters in the pay of Nick Dyke, who Fresney has fought against through his newspaper columns. Slade had been hired to avenge Fresney if Dyke's gang killed him in retaliation, Slade, one-time sweetheart of Vaughn's dipsomaniac wife Julie Vaughn, believed she still loved him, but he had fallen for Dana Jons, Vaughn's beautiful secretary. Police Detective O'Haffey investigated Vaughn's death and unearthed several suspects, including Slade, Julie, Dykes and Dana, but Slade was not satisfied and looked elsewhere.
- DirectorWilliam NighStarsDon CastleElyse KnoxRegis ToomeyA dancer is pinned for murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene of the crime. His wife follows the trail of clues to the genuine killer.
- DirectorWilliam NighStarsKane RichmondAudrey LongConrad NagelThe police find the body of hostess Helen Howard (Wanda McKay), disposed of by petty racketeer Nick Mantee (Kane Richmond) after she was shot in his Bluejay night club by Benny Nordick (John Gallaudet) because she knew too much about Mantee's rackets. Police Lieutenant Williams (Conrad Nagel) and police Sergeant Tom Ramey (Ralph Byrd) inform the dead girl's parents and sister Nancy (Audrey Long) of the run-away's death. Nancy, inpatient waiting for the police to get a solid case together, signs with the Mercer Agency operated by Nordick, training girls for an excessive sum which they work off as hostesses at the Bluejay Club. Nancy becomes a hostess at the club and after a party for Latin-American night club owner Barda (Anthony Warde), she uncovers evidence that places Helen at the club. She accuses Nick and Benny of the murder and the two mobsters realize they must do away with her.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsWarren DouglasJane FrazeeRobert OsterlohStockbroker Joe Downey(Warren Douglas), mistaken in the dark for gangster "Slats" Slattery (Robert Osterloh), is brutally beaten by a rival gangster, "Knuckles" Morgan (Meyer Grace), and Downey winds up in jail on a drunk charge. His sweetheart, Marion Roberts (Jane Frazee), and friend, Bill (Harry Lauter), obtain his release, and then the three set out to find and warn the intended-victim. This pulls them into some violent incidents, including a hijacking and a murder.
- DirectorJean YarbroughStarsDon McGuireTracey RobertsJohn AbbottA Treasury Department agent on the trail of an international jewel smuggling ring joins a carnival that he thinks the gang is using as a front. He finally locates the jewels hidden as the eyes of wax figures.
- DirectorEdward BerndsStarsStanley ClementsGloria HenryTed de CorsiaAfter fighter Jim O'Hara is killed during a bout against a much heavier opponent, Mark Miller, a former boxer who left the profession to become a sportswriter, learns that a gambling ring led by Dano Rizzo forced Jim into the unfair fight. Mark's editor, Al Bragg, encourages him to investigate Jim's death further and publish his findings. Jim's manager, Doc Allen, is murdered before he can tell Mark that Jim was secretly in love with Rizzo's girl friend, Doris Burton, who was using him for his money. Rizzo and his thugs, Dutch Gordon and Augie Grotz, next blackmail Doris' brother Bill, a college basketball star, into throwing the college games by threatening to ruin Doris' reputation. Mark, meanwhile, continues his romance with fashion editor Kerry Barker, and writes columns about the disreputable Rizzo. His columns earn him death threats from Rizzo and pressure from the newspaper's nervous publisher. When Bill's duplicity is discovered and he is expelled from school, Doris commits suicide after having sent a written confession to Mark. Although Rizzo tries to silence Mark and Bill by murdering them, his attempts fail and he and his cohorts are arrested after a brawl in the newspaper's offices.
- DirectorJoel NewtonStarsIda LupinoHoward DuffRobert NicholsAgnes Langsley gets a job, through Jim Hollis, as caretaker of an old and vacated estate. The owner's cousin, Jennifer, was the last occupant and mysteriously disappeared. Agnes soon begins to believe that Jennifer was murdered and that Jilm, whom she has fallen in love with, is responsible.
- DirectorRobert AldrichStarsDan DuryeaGene LockhartPatric KnowlesIn Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of selling him to the highest bidder.
- DirectorNathan JuranStarsRichard ConteJoan BennettWanda HendrixWrongly accused of killing a bar-girl he was seen with earlier, a Korean War vet flees from the police in the company of a woman photographer and her young female model.
- DirectorDon SiegelStarsNeville BrandEmile MeyerFrank FaylenFed up with the inhumane prison living conditions, a general prison riot breaks out, leading to hostage-taking, a stand-off with the guards and eventual negotiations with the prison administration officials.
- DirectorHarold D. SchusterStarsBarry SullivanCharles McGrawDorothy MaloneA bank teller attempts to clear his name and rebuild his career after he is wrongly accused of theft.
- DirectorJoseph M. NewmanStarsGary MerrillJan SterlingRegis ToomeyPolice procedural film about a police captain assigned to take over a demoralized precinct and turn it around by settling all the unsolved cases, as well as some new tough ones.
- DirectorMark StevensStarsMark StevensMartha HyerSkip HomeierViolent ex-cop Vic Barron comes to Ketchikan, Alaska seeking revenge on an old enemy.
- DirectorJoseph H. LewisStarsCornel WildeRichard ConteJean WallaceA police lieutenant is ordered to stop investigating deadly crime boss Mr. Brown because he hasn't been able to get any hard evidence against him. He goes after Brown's girlfriend, who despises him, for information instead.
- DirectorEdgar G. UlmerStarsPaul LangtonBarbara PaytonRobert ShayneA police detective helps a singer heading to prison for the murder of a man she claims is still alive.
- DirectorDaniel B. UllmanStarsBill ElliottHelene StanleyKeith LarsenThe first of the five films in which Bill Elliott plays a detective lieutenant in the L.A. Sheriff's Department, "Dial Red 0" opens with war-torn veteran Ralph Wyatt getting word that his wife is divorcing him; he flees the veterans' hospital's psychiatric ward to go talk to her. His escape touches off an all-out manhunt led by Lieutenant Andy Flynn of the Sheriff's Department. Wyatt's wife Connie is having an affair with Norman Roper, a judo expert in Wyatt's old Marine unit. When Roper refuses to divorce his own wife (Regina Gibson) to marry Connie, they have a violent quarrel in Connie's apartment. Roper kills Connie and incriminates Wyatt, who is arrested and held on suspicion of homicide. Convinced that Roper is the real murderer, Wyatt escapes from his cell in the Hollywood Sheriff's office and goes to Roper's home. Lt. Flynn has discovered evidence pointing to Roper as the killer, and arrives in time to prevent Wyatt from killing him. Jazzman Shorty Rogers and his Giants are also on hand as part of the Hollywood nightlife. Elliott's name was changed to Andy Doyle for the next four films, as a real Andy Flynn worked in Los Angeles law enforcement.
- DirectorFrank McDonaldStarsRichard ConteConstance SmithBruce BennettRichard Conte plays two-bit newspaper columnist Johnny Denton, who gains notoriety by printing tips on upcoming gangland activities.
- DirectorSidney SalkowStarsDennis O'KeefeColeen GrayCharles WinningerA teacher writing a book about gambling meets a hotel/casino owner threatened by a gangster.
- DirectorHarold D. SchusterStarsFrank LovejoyForrest TuckerPeggie CastleAn ex-con goes undercover for the government to "finger" the crime boss who made his sister a drug addict.
- DirectorPhil KarlsonStarsJohn McIntireRichard KileyKathryn GrantA crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.
- DirectorEdward DeinStarsTerry MooreFrank LovejoyKeenan WynnAn isolated diner on California's 101 highway provides the backdrop of the story involving nuclear secrets, foreign spies and federal agents.
- DirectorHubert CornfieldStarsBill ElliottTom DrakeBeverly GarlandA woman who heads a sportswear manufacturing company is found dead. Although it is ruled a suicide, the police detective in charge believes she was murdered, and his subsequent investigation begins to focus on the woman's son, who was blinded by her in an accident several years before.
- DirectorRussell BirdwellStarsAnne BaxterSterling HaydenJohn HoytUnscrupulous con woman gets involved in murder.
- DirectorDon SiegelStarsJohn CassavetesSal MineoJames WhitmoreSocial worker tries to befriend local slum gang.
- DirectorIrving RapperStarsEdmund PurdomIda LupinoAnn HardingWhen a soldier is killed in action during the Korean War, his best friend returns home to fulfill his dying wish that he kill his two children if they are being raised by another man.
- DirectorEdward BerndsStarsBill ElliottDon HaggertyKathleen CaseTwo homicide detectives search for a connection between the car-bombing murder of a fellow investigator and the mutilation murder of a much-hated owner of a modeling school.
- DirectorPaul LandresStarsBill ElliottJimmy LydonDon HaggertyA paroled inmate accidentally becomes an amnesiac, aimlessly wanders around and is later used as a patsy by an adulterous wife and her lover after they kill her rich husband.
- DirectorHarold D. SchusterStarsEdward BinnsCarolyn CraigVirginia GreggA tavern owner in mid-century Portland, Oregon finds the safety of himself and his family threatened when he becomes involved in a war between labor unions and a violent local crime syndicate.
- DirectorLaslo BenedekStarsJohn CassavetesRaymond BurrSara ShaneSongwriter falls in love with a crippled man's wife.
- DirectorJohn SledgeStarsStacy HarrisLouis SirgoEllen MooreIn this crime drama, two detectives travel around the bad side of New Orleans pursuing various cases, including a murderer. They also find clues which lead to the capture of a dope ring after they go undercover as sailors.
- DirectorPaul LandresStarsRichard EyerStephen McNallyColeen GrayGangster and police look for a gangster's son who witnessed a murder.
- DirectorRichard WilsonStarsErnest BorgnineZohra LampertAlan AustinBetween 1906-1909, NYPD Lieutenant Joe Petrosino heads the 'Italian Squad' and tries to stamp out organized crime from the city, often times amid assassination attempts by the Mafia.
- DirectorSamuel FullerStarsPeter BreckConstance TowersGene EvansBent on winning a Pulitzer Prize, a journalist commits himself to a mental institution to solve a strange and unclear murder.
- DirectorWilliam Cameron MenziesStarsRichard CarlsonVeronica HurstKatherine EmeryA Scotsman abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty and moves to his uncle's castle in the Scottish highlands. Kitty and her aunt follow Gerald a few weeks later, and discover he has suddenly aged. Some mysterious things happen in a maze made from the hedges adjoining the castle.
- DirectorPhil RosenStarsEdward NorrisMarlo DwyerEleanor LawsonA man is brought back from death at the same time a vicious criminal dies in the electric chair. However, the man's soul is now taken over by the electrocuted gangster, who embarks on a vengeful crime wave.
- DirectorThor L. BrooksStarsSteve BrodieLyn ThomasTom HubbardJohnny Broderick, arson squad investigator, and his assistant, Ben Howard,, investigate a warehouse fire and find evidence of arson. Lawyer William Yarbo is behind the series of incendiary fires that have been plaguing the city. Keely Hariss, an actress, inherited the warehouse from her father. Yabro calls on her and says that he and her father had heavily insured the building and planned to burn it and collect, and also tells her she must accept half of the insurance money or he will see that she is blamed for the arson. "Pop" Bergen, the father of Marily Bergen, is the torch man hired by Yarbo, and he perishes in one of the conflagrations. Yarbo learns that Keely is cooperating with Broderick and he enters the movie studio where she is working, determined to kill her.
- DirectorSidney SalkowStarsDane ClarkLita MilanAnthony CarusoA U.S. agent diguises himself as a gunrunner to smash an international smuggling ring.
- DirectorJean YarbroughStarsForrest TuckerBarbara BrittonKeith LarsenA railroad man finds himself at war with a trucker bent on blasting him out of business.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsCarole MathewsBeverly MichaelsPeggy KnudsenThe governor appoints lawyer Jeff Darrow to open an investigation on the reported cruelties inflicted on the inmates of the Bayou Reformatory For Women. The investigation is opposed by Mrs. Ballard, head of the prison, whose moronic brother, Cletus, is keeper of the prison bloodhounds. Nora Collins, once engaged to Jeff, but now an inmate because she had stolen to protect her brother, is resentful of prison methods and particularly bitter against the sadistic methods of a brutal prison guard named Darcy. Honey Blake and Kate unsuccessfully try to use Cletus in an escape attempt. But they try a second escape using Jeff, Nora and Mrs. Ballard as hostages. Mabry, Kate's gangland lover, hears of the escape and knowing she will go where she had hidden $50,000 gets there ahead of her.
- DirectorHarold D. SchusterStarsJohn IrelandDorothy MaloneKeith LarsenAn FBI agent on vacation in the mountains begins to suspect that a Communist spy ring may be operating in the area.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsCraig StevensJoyce HoldenRichard BenedictA husband hires a killer to murder his wife, then arranges for it to look like he committed the crime. At his trial, he presents irrefutable evidence that he could not have committed the crime - which, of course, he didn't - and is acquitted, thereby assuring that he can't be tried again for the murder. A police detective, however, is convinced that the man was responsible for the wife's murder, and sets out to prove it.
- DirectorLew LandersStarsJohn EricsonMari BlanchardCharles McGrawTension and rivalry among a crew of steeplejacks.
- DirectorRex BaileyStarsGeorge BrentHillary BrookeMorris AnkrumLos Angeles, 1953. The author David L. "Dave" Brady wants to bring a missed ex-newspaperman back to Los Angeles. Therefore Dave has to travel to Mexico City. Dave gets involved with a murder case that occurred fifteen years ago. It's an obsession for Dave to solve that murder.
- DirectorJustus AddissStarsHarry LauterJack NicholsonCarolyn MitchellA teenage boy panics and takes hostages when he thinks he's committed murder.
- DirectorJoseph M. NewmanStarsPeter GravesMala PowersChuck ConnorsA government agent investigates the use of illegal amphetamines among long-haul truck drivers.
- DirectorJean YarbroughStarsBill ElliottDon HaggertyEleanore TaninA gambling addict is the logical suspect in the death of a card-playing neighbor who caused his relapse - too logical, think the two detectives on the case.
- DirectorJack BernhardStarsPreston FosterBelitaPierre WatkinDespite her pleas of innocence, an honest cop arrests his own girlfriend for her alleged part in a jewel robbery and he keeps hounding her after her release from prison, even though he still loves her.
- DirectorWilliam AllandStarsPaul AnkaRuth RomanAlex NicolA teenager's parents finally realize how bad their home life is when their son is arrested for prowling.
- DirectorJoseph M. NewmanStarsDavid JanssenJeanne CrainDina MerrillA famous movie star's fan-club secretary has been brutally murdered. She has in her office old newspaper clippings regarding a missing heiress. Did the secretary know something about the mystery of the heiress? David Janssen investigates.
- DirectorDon SiegelStarsKevin McCarthyDana WynterLarry GatesA small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsWilliam PrinceJim BackusChristine WhiteA doctor's daughter is kidnapped and buried alive, and he is given just five hours to find and rescue her.
- DirectorSamuel FullerStarsConstance TowersAnthony EisleyMichael DanteA former prostitute relocates to a buttoned-down suburb, determined to fit in with mainstream society. But perverse secrets simmer beneath the wholesome surface.
- DirectorRobert StevensStarsJohn Drew BarrymoreLita MilanRobert BrayFollowing the life of an orphan and the events that change his life and lead him into a life of crime.
- DirectorR.G. SpringsteenStarsGene EvansRobert BlakeTimothy CareyGannon is an imprisoned racketeer kingpin who tries to manipulate his young cell mate into staging a riot and prison break, but the cell mate tries to back out when he realizes other inmates may be killed in the process.
- DirectorBoris IngsterStarsDon DeForeAndrea KingGeorge TobiasThe US secret service goes after a counterfeit ring, whose engraver Eugene Deane has covertly constructed his plates while serving a life sentence in San Quentin. In order to infiltrate the gang, federal agent John Riggs poses as an Eastern kingpin who wants to purchase a large quantity of the fake currency. During his investigations he falls in love with beautiful Nora Craig...
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsJune KenneyFay SpainJohn BrinkleyA delinquent girls' gang pursues a nice ingenue linked romantically to the male leader of a rival gang, and apparently to the murder of one of their members.
- DirectorHarold D. SchusterStarsMark StevensDorothy MaloneBarton MacLaneWhen his father is killed in front of him during a stagecoach holdup, a teenage boy vows to rid society of outlaws and he eventually grows into a vicious gunman working for a stagecoach line.
- DirectorJack L. CopelandStarsStephen McNallyColeen GrayVic MorrowA disgruntled ex-employee of a missile fuel plant plans to commit suicide by blowing himself and the plant up with explosives.
- DirectorJoseph M. NewmanStarsRay DantonJayne MansfieldJulie LondonDancer George Raft (Ray Danton) finds himself involved with the criminal underworld. After a conflict with gangster boss Frank Donatella (Joe de Santis), he is exiled to Hollywoood, where he wins a role in the film "Scarface" and becomes famous. He lives with actress Lisa Lang (Jayne Mansfield) in a huge villa, but when his mother dies, he deserts her. His career slides downhill until he is offered a part in "Some Like it Hot" and becomes famous again.
- DirectorGordon WilesStarsBarry SullivanBelitaJoan LorringShubunka (Barry Sulivan) is a cynical gangster who controls the Neptune Beach waterfront. He runs a numbers racket with the local soda shop owner. The police are in his pocket and the local hoods are on his payroll.