A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral candidate after a gangster threatens his family. Features tidal wave…

A cop on suspension is framed for murder when he noses in on a murder investigation.

The story concerns two agents, one Mexican (PJF) and one American, who are tasked to stop the smuggling of Mexican migrant workers across the border to California. The two agents…

A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he’s hid his loot.

After two gang-related killings in “Center City,” a suspect (who was framed) is arrested, released on bail…and murdered. Inspector Briggs of the FBI recruits a young agent, Gene Cordell, to…

Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that belonged in her deceased husband’s collection. Marlowe begins investigating, but quickly finds himself entangled…

A tramp steamer lands sick crewman Jake Davis on rubber-growing island Oraka, from which voluptuous, bedroom-eyed saloon singer Coral is about to be ejected because “men like her too much.”…

Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.

An overambitious shutterbug almost gets his lights put out permanently when he decides to snap a picture of a mob boss.

A closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate.

A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club’s main act.

A nightclub singer can’t choose between a charismatic small-time gangster and an honest newspaperman.