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Crime, Drama
Gangster Frank Dillon is on the run with his gang after a bank robbery in which one of them, Joe Madison, sustained a serious bullet wound and a fractured skull. The gang stops at a doctor's office, but when the doctor tries to call the police to report the gunshot wound, Dillon kills him. Dillon hides in a lodge and sends for nurse Nora Madison, who comes because she is Joe's sister.
Crime
Hal McQueen, a young unsuccessful debt collector, lures a gang of delinquents into a kidnap-for-ransom plot. The gang consists of tough-guy Monte and a waitress named Glory. There's also the wisecracking Tic Tac and his best bud Duke, who works at a liquor store.
Crime, Drama
A villain murders the wealthy Sir Percival Glyde in the gold fields of Australia (by hammering a tent peg into his ear as he sleeps) and assumes his identity in order to inherit his estate in England. On arriving in England, he schemes to marry an heiress for her money. With the connivance of the enigmatic Dr.
Crime, Noir
Edward Stillwell, the aged proprietor of a music store, hires private detective Don Gale (Dix) to find Elora Lund, who, after her mother died seven years before, vanished at the age of fourteen. Stillwell can only pay $100, but hints mysteriously that finding Lund could make Gale a rich man. A young woman claiming to be Elora Lund shows up at Stillwell's shop, supposedly in answer to his newspaper advertisement.
Comedy
Honest but naive locksmith Ernest Wright believes that everybody is equally honest. First, he is duped by a debonair con man into opening a car. He is caught but given probation.
Crime, Drama
New York law professor John Lindsay, due for a year-long sabbatical, is asked by Eugene Ferguson, a member of the governor's civic committee, to become a special prosecutor to fight protection rackets in the city, leading a legal staff that includes Ferguson's promising lawyer son Paul. Lindsay does not know that Ferguson is secretly involved with the racketeers. Ferguson, hoping to use Lindsay to remove some of his criminal competitors, arranges for Lindsay to meet alluring blonde Frankie Ballou, who takes Lindsay on the town for a night of dancing.
Noir, thriller film
Chick Graham has settled in Puerto Rico after the war to operate a small business with his army buddy and brother-in-law Buster Cox. Graham returns home one evening to find his wife Cora acting as though he is an insane stranger. A man who exactly resembles Graham named Bert Rand has taken his place and is playing cards and drinking in his living room.
Crime, Drama
Detective Nick Carter boards an airliner with John Keller, the inventor of a revolutionary new aircraft at the Radex Aviation Company. The pilot makes an unscheduled landing so that his confederates can try to steal Keller's plans, but Carter holds them off, and stewardess Lou Farnsby manages to fly them to safety. Carter poses as Robert Chalmers, the new assistant to Hiram Streeter, the boss of the California factory, and has Lou reassigned to the infirmary.
Action, American football film, Crime
Red Grange is thrown off the Clay College football team in disgrace when his friend, Buddy Courtland, takes a bribe to throw the big game and Red attacks him in anger. Red then proceeds to investigate and hunt down the head of the gambling ring responsible, a criminal enterprise operated out of the Mogul Taxi company offices. Red eventually clears his name, and both he and Buddy are reinstated on the team.
Crime, Drama, Noir
Frank Duncan (Barry), a shrewd oil driller from Galveston, Texas, conceives a plan to sneakily siphon millions of dollars' worth of oil from the oil fields and sell it as his own. He goes through nightclub singer Zoe Crane (Hale) to insinuate himself with a Houston mobster, Paul Atlas (Arnold) to get financing for his scheme. Atlas tells right-hand man Gordon Shay privately that he plans to double-cross Duncan as soon as the money's in hand.
Terry Cuff (Yasmine Bleeth) is a bartender who yearns to raise a family. When she marries Bobby Woodkin (Richard Grieco) she finds herself one step closer to her dream. However, Bobby has had a vasectomy, is a con artist and, unbeknownst to Terry, kills young mother Dana McThomas (Sabrina Grdevich) and steals her 3-month-old baby, a girl named Gail (Lauren and Marlee Konikoff), so he and Terry can raise the infant as their own daughter.
Crime, Drama
A Fleet Street reporter investigates the claim of Dr Becker, a professor of mathematics, to possess an infallible system of beating the roulette wheel at Monte Carlo. He refuses to take his fiancee Gilian along, but she decides to go anyway and report on the story for a rival paper. Dr Becker winds up dead and it looks like suicide, but Gilian is convinced it is murder.
Biography, documentary film
The film examines the motives for the murder of Dayton, Ohio native Dorothy Mae Stang, a 73-year-old nun of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur order who fought for the preservation of the Amazon Rainforest in the Brazilian state of Pará. It also follows the trial of those convicted for murdering Stang.
Henry Hawkwood, the bumbling son of a recently deceased crime boss, does his best to follow in his father's footsteps, but to little avail. In the end, he accidentally switches sides and helps to bring in the crooks.
Crime
Private detective Michael Shayne and his girlfriend/secretary Phyllis are in the office ready to leave on a duck-hunting vacation but are puzzled when a mysterious stranger arrives who announces that he intended to offer a bribe to not take a certain unspecified case, but hearing that Shane is going away anyway, abruptly departs. The mystery deepens when Shayne is invited over by a Mayme Martin with an offer to sell certain valuable information which Shayne declines. Leaving Martin's, Shayne is ambushed by a pair of odd thugs under orders of their boss seeking to know what Martin told him, which was nothing; they beat up and leave Shayne…
Christmas film
In the Christmas spirit, Boston Blackie decides to entertain the inmates at his old "alma mater" by bringing a variety show headed by clown Roggi McKay. Roggi drops one of his showgirls, Eve Sanders, as she has already visited her prisoner brother, Joe Trilby, the maximum allowed number of times that month. However, Blackie kindheartedly lets her tag along.
Crime
The gangster Augie Martello is riddled with bullets in an assassination attempt organized by Tony Ledo, a mob lieutenant. Mafia boss Johnny Lucero is returning after 10 years out of the country. Ledo intends to kill Lucero and take over.
crime thriller film, Detective
Farmer Adam Smith decides to enact vigilante justice when he discovers fugitive criminal Leroy and his accomplices Dinelli and Ackerman hiding out in his barn.
Crime, Mysterie, mystery film
When a prominent racehorse owner winds up dead-allegedly kicked to death by his prized stallion, Charlie Chan is called in to investigate. But when the indomitable detective discovers evidence of foul play, he's soon hot on the hooves of an international gambling ring with an evil plot to turn the racetracks of the world into a trifecta of terror!
Crime, Drama
The film opens with an auditor, Rudolf Kurka, arriving by bus on a hot summer day. He absorbs the scenery, including people-watching at a community pool. One of those people is assistant shop manager Alena Winter, whose lunch break concludes as she catches the trolleybus back to work.
Crime, Drama
The Putnams, Roger (Ian Buchanan) and Maria (Jennifer Gatti), continue an unstable marriage. She is unhappy at his obsessiveness and possessiveness, and he continually suspects her of having an affair. On Tuesday and Thursday nights, Maria is allowed out for a gym workout with their mutual friend and his colleague, Linda (Dedee Pfeiffer), but she gets home so late that he presumes she is up to something behind his back.
Adventure
A body is found floating in the Torres Strait and pearler Ted King is asked to investigate. He discovers the murder is connected to a people smuggling ring and involves one of his men, Yusep. He is helped by Peter Merriman, the playboy owner of King's company who romances King's daughter Rusty.
Crime, Mysterie, thriller film
Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond has just returned to England and as he is driving home in the dark, a young woman jumps out in front of his car. He misses her, but she falls to the ground. As he tries to revive her, he hears a shout for help, then gunshots and when he goes to investigate, the woman drives away in his car.
Crime
A deserter from the American army holds a young British woman hostage, believing she knows the location of a fortune in diamonds.