Law of the Underworld
"By Day, a Polo-Playing Socialite...By Night, King of the Racket Mob!"
5.8
NR
1938
61 min
"By Day, a Polo-Playing Socialite...By Night, King of the Racket Mob!"
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
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 spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
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 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.
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
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.
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.
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.
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".
Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. The other two former cellmates then attempt to force him into doing a bank job.
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...
Tired of their mother's alcoholism and a string of her abusive boyfriends, two sisters plot to kill her.
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.
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.
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
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