Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one...

A Texas oil driller schemes to steal millions of dollars in oil.

Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county...

After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led him to the killing.

The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.

Bootleggers on the lam Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught and jailed, but Noll manages to escape and open a...

Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means...

A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.

In a major murder case, an innocent man is convicted. Though saved at the last moment, his sanity is gone and he kills himself. Soon, the jurors on...

An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.

G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the...

Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corpse. However, he soon finds himself accused of the...

Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is...

An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from...

A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam...

An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.

Three criminals plan to break out of prison the day before their release in order to carry out a daring jewel robbery, intending to establish the...

Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.

Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of...

A kindly, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of crime after his face is badly disfigured in a...

During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.

A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be...

Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.