In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself…

Ma Delano runs a penny arcade in Coney Island, living upstairs with her sons and daughter. Story involves rum-running, accidental murder and a frame-up.

Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It’s not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there’s…

All the passengers on an airplane headed for San Francisco are drugged, and when they wake up, it is discovered that a quarter-million dollars is missing. Charlie Chan–and, of course,…

Erich Kästner’s beloved novel has been adapted for film or television six times since its publication in 1929; this 1935 British version was the first in English. Believed lost for…

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio ‘Tony’ Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the…

George Stroud, a crime magazine’s crusading editor, has to postpone a vacation with his wife – again – when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his…

A greasy spoon diner provides a base for a spy smuggling nuclear secrets.

When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.

Director Peter Godfrey’s 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the notorious jewel thief known as “The Hollywood Raffles”, whose famous robbery victims included such real-life…

Three convicts escape from prison on Devil’s Island just before Christmas and arrive at a nearby French colonial town. They go to the store of the Ducotels, the only store…

A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gun turns out to be a clue in a ten-year-old murder…