Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she’s long been under the hoodlum’s thumb. She’s secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed…

A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each having attended the…

A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.

A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of affairs.

After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes…

A hooker gets followed home by a man she thinks is drunk, but it turns out he’s been wounded in a robbery of a radio factory where he used to…

Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After wronging a vicious gambler, Spanky and Buckwheat are…

A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana’s grimy underworld.

Prophetic tale of a mother in 1940 trying to keep her son out of war.