Law of the Underworld
"By Day, a Polo-Playing Socialite...By Night, King of the Racket Mob!"
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"By Day, a Polo-Playing Socialite...By Night, King of the Racket Mob!"
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.
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
Three sideshow performers form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" - a ventriloquist, midget, and strongman working together to commit a series of robberies.
The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.
A duel between a suspected murderer and a detective pressed by people who want results. But whose skin is really wanted?
A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy.
The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on the force, and his loyal patrolman, Johnson, take on the violent Nick.
At a desert diner, the lives of five strangers become linked through a single twenty-dollar bill. Shot for $20,000 and starring Philip Baker Hall, the short premiered at Sundance and later inspired Anderson’s debut feature Hard Eight (1996).
Blizzard, deranged from a childhood operation in which both his legs were needlessly amputated after an accident, becomes a vicious criminal, and eventually mob leader of the San Francisco underworld.
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”
In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.
Tired of their mother's alcoholism and a string of her abusive boyfriends, two sisters plot to kill her.
Chester Morris
Gene Fillmore
Richard Bond
Tommy Brown
Anne Shirley
Annabelle Porter
Eduardo Ciannelli
Rocky
Lee Patrick
Dorothy Palmer
Walter Abel
Special Prosecutor Warren Rogers
Paul Guilfoyle
Henchman Batsy
Eddie Acuff
Henchman Bill
George Shelley
Henchman Frank
Anthony Warde
Henchman Larry
Jack Carson
Henchman Johnny
Vinton Hayworth
Henchman Shorty