Double Cross
"Men behind the law badge back municipal graft...to pay back the underworld with bullets!"
5.3
NR
1941
61 min
"Men behind the law badge back municipal graft...to pay back the underworld with bullets!"
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals.
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.
When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge.
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.
The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of getting the job done.
A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money from the office of a corrupt attorney. Instead of a few hundred dollars, it contains $30,000. When he decides to return the money, things go wrong - and that is only the beginning of his troubles.
A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he assists in a manhunt of a suspected murderer.
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.
Kane Richmond
Jim Murray
Pauline Moore
Ellen Bronson
Wynne Gibson
Fay Saunders
John Miljan
Nick Taggart
Richard Beach
Steve Bronson
Mary Gordon
Mrs. Murray
Robert Homans
Capt. Murray
Charles Miller
Mayor John Frawley
Frank Moran
Cookie (as Frank C. Moran)
Heinie Conklin
Miggs
Edward Keane
Commissioner Bob Trent (as Edmund Keane)
William Halligan
Houston
