Directed by: Phil Rosen
Two strangers, a man and a woman, are framed for a jewel robbery and thrown in jail. After they get out, they join forces to track down the real thieves.
Runtime: 53 min
Archive for the 'Crime' Category
Directed by: Walter Shumway
Runtime: 57 min
Directed by: Joseph Santley
When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers up a murder committed by his new partner.
Runtime: 68 min
Directed by: Howard Bretherton
Runtime: 50 min
Directed by: Fred C. Newmeyer
Runtime: 62 min
Directed by: Wallace Fox
Danny helps to capture a wanted criminal and receives a $200 reward. However, he has a falling out with the gang when they believe he should share the money with them. Complications ensue when the crook that Danny helped capture escapes from jail and comes looking for him.
Runtime: 65 min
Directed by: Charles E. Roberts
The family of a wealthy young heir is appalled and worried when the fellow decides to amuse himself by becoming a high speed auto racer.
Runtime: 56 min
Directed by: Robert F. Hill
Tyler, a boxer whose career ends after he loses a fixed fight, winds up with a job as a ranch hand. When his new boss gets involved with a crooked fight promoter, Tyler winds up back in the ring with a chance to vindicate himself.
Runtime: 54 min
Directed by: Louis J. Gasnier
Propaganda film that relates the story, as told by high school principal Dr. Carroll to parents at a PTA meeting, of the scourge of marijuana. The tale revolves around Mae and Jack, accomplices in the distribution of marijuana, who manage to entice the local high school kids to stop by Mae’s [...]
Directed by: Robert F. Hill
A boxer is framed for murder after an opponent dies in the ring.
Runtime: 65 min
Directed by: Phil Rosen
Playboy Johnny Gray (Edward Norris) is framed and sent to prison after his stolen car is found at a holdup committed by Rico (William Castello as Willy Castello), and while the latter is not suspected, his henchman Harry (Mauritz Hugo), Creeper (Charles Jordan) and Red (Sam Bernard) are convicted with Johnny. Stung [...]
Directed by: Alfred Zeisler
Parole officers fight against gangsters trying to infiltrate the parole system.
Runtime: 71 min
Directed by: Joseph Kane
A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by gangsters.
Runtime: 53 min
Directed by: Raymond Cannon
Bob Terry (Ben Alexander) is in love with Lois Borden (Kay Linaker) the daughter of his employer, John Borden (Ralph Morgan.) When some bonds are missing from the office, Bob is accused and because of Borden’s strong sense of obligation to his stockholders, Bob is railroaded to prison. A few years later, [...]
Directed by: Raymond Cannon
A wife catches her husband messing around with another woman. Outraged, she proceeds to Reno, Nevada, for a quickie divorce. Since Reno requires a six-week wait for a divorce to become final, the wife must find something to do during that time, so she decides to take advantage of the night life [...]
Directed by: William West
Captain Hadley (J. Farrell MacDonald, who also appeared as the City Editor in “Danger Ahead”) reaches the age limit for firefighter and is retired. While he is bored out of his mind at home, an arsonist (George Pembroke), who evidently is called Wendell, despite the fact that noone ever calls him by [...]
Directed by: Steve Sekely
A young woman is on death row for the murder of a man who was blackmailing her family, although she claims she was framed. Her fiance, a doctor who is conducting experiments on reviving the dead, also happens to be the state’s executioner, and is assigned to pull the switch when she [...]
Directed by: Lewis D. Collins
Door-to-door salesman Johnny Dill, the exact double of a notorious gangster, finds himself struck between the forces of good and evil.
Runtime: 75 min
Directed by: Charles Lamont
Lamont Cranston, amatuer criminologist and detective, with a daily radio program, sponsored by the Daily Classic newspaper, has developed a friendly feud that sometimes passes the friendly stage with Police Commissioner Weston (Thomas Jackson.)
Runtime: 62 min
Directed by: Jack Pollexfen
A violent criminal called The Butcher is brought back to life by a scientist using electricity. The Butcher becomes an invulnerable mute, and seeks vengeance upon those who caused his execution.
Runtime: 71 min
Directed by: Bernard B. Ray
When a nightclub singer is murdered, a local gossip columnist begins his own investigation.
Runtime: 69 min
Directed by: Clarence Bricker
Runtime: 57 min
Directed by: Sam Newfield
Reporter Steve Haines (Boyd), on the trail of a business tycoon, follows his subject onto an ocean liner and gets wound up in a cruise full of intrigue, romance and murder.
Runtime: 56 min
Directed by: Walter Matthau
Gangster and cop killer Jack Martin is on the run from the law, and hides out in a small town. Low on funds, he engineers a clever bank robbery that yields him a big bundle. Now he has not only the cops and the FBI after him, but also the local crime [...]
Directed by: Lambert Hillyer
A ruthless but clever gangster who knows every loophole in the law has the tables turned by a dedicated District Attorney and his assistant.
Runtime: 63 min
Directed by: Roy William Neill
A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers of the boxes start to be murdered, Holmes and Watson investigate.
Runtime: 72 min
Directed by: Leslie Goodwins
A group of thugs tries to steal the cursed title gem from a jeweler who has been hired to cut it into small, saleable pieces.
Runtime: 61 min
Directed by: Sam Newfield
Six Fugitives Break For Freedom!
Runtime: 66 min
Directed by: Eugene Cummings
Prizefighter Bob Neal (Ray Walker) is in debt to gangster Vic Santell (Hooper Atchley) for training expenses. Santell orders Bob to take a dive in the fourth round so Santell can recoup prior gambling losses. Taunted by his ring opponent, Bob wins the fight. Realizing that his profession and underworld characters connected [...]
Directed by: Charles E. Roberts
Runtime: 67 min
Directed by: Elmer Clifton
A number of young girls turns up dead or missing, and the one connection they have is that they were all students at a drama school. The town District Attorney suspects that the school is a front for a prostitution racket, and when he is framed and blackmailed in an attempt to [...]
Directed by: W. Lee Wilder
When scheming fortune hunter and erstwhile Latin lover Ricardo De Villa learns that a wealthy but sickly widow has terminal heart disease, he seduces and marries the vulnerable millionairess. Playing the part of a faithful and doting husband, he carries on a torrid affair with sexy exotic dancer Fritzi Darvel while [...]
Directed by: Charles Lamont
Molly Fitzgerald (Cecilia Parker), who works for Abrams and Co. Jewelers (although the company safe reads “Adams & Co. Jewelers”), is accosted on the street by a stranger who asks her for a date, but her fiance, police officer Terry Mulvaney (Russell Hopton)chases him away. Spike (Jack Gardner), the stranger, is interested [...]
Directed by: Otto Brower
Police lieutenant Sam Carson investigates a political murder after the victim is dumped at the door of police headquarters.
Runtime: 64 min
Directed by: Herbert Meyer
Johnny Fraser leaves his mother in their small home town and sets out for the big city. He obtains a job with a large firm of architects. Steve Carson, a fellow employee, is constantly flaunting the money he has won at the race track. Johnny also bets the races, but loses heavily [...]