
Big Town Scandal
"It's Bullets vs. Basketball... as Steve Wilson Fights a Juvenile Crime Wave!"

"It's Bullets vs. Basketball... as Steve Wilson Fights a Juvenile Crime Wave!"
A crusading editor and his star reporter aid underprivileged youths and crack down on racketeers out to fix basketball.

A newspaper editor goes on an anti-crime crusade, but gets carried away.

One of the four films in the Pine-Thomas series based on radio's long-running "Big Town." This time out, society editor Lorelei Kilbourne is assigned to the police beat. Her paper, "The Illustrated Press", following its usual policy of socially-correct muckraking by crusading editor Steve Wilson, is putting heat on the chief of police. But Lorelei believes the chief is qualified to do the job. She and managing editor Steve Wilson, who, in the film series, is wrong more often than right, discover a corpse and then proceed to help the police solve the crime.

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.

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 of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.

A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?

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.

New York City newspaper The Day is in trouble. Even though editor Ed Hutcheson has worked hard running the paper, its circulation has been steadily declining. Now the publisher's widow wants to sell the paper, which will most likely mean its end. Hutcheson's only hope is to finish his exposé on a dangerous gangster before the sale is finalized.

A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.

Ruthless Italian-American banker Gino Monetti is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons refuse to help their father stay out of prison after he's arrested for his questionable business practices. Three of them take over the business but kick their father out. Max, a lawyer, is the only son that remains loyal.

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 spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

A telephone repairman in Los Angeles uses his knowledge of electronics to help a bookie set up a betting operation. After the bookie is murdered, the greedy technician takes over his business. He ruthlessly climbs his way to the top of the local crime syndicate, but then gangsters from a big East Coast mob show up wanting a piece of his action.

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

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.

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

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.

Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".

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.

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.

Phillip Reed
Steve Wilson

Hillary Brooke
Lorelei Kilbourne

Stanley Clements
Tommy Malone

Darryl Hickman
Harold 'Skinny' Peters

Carl Switzer
Frankie Snead

Roland Dupree
John 'Pinky' Jones

Tommy Bond
Waldo 'Dum Dum' Riggs

Vince Barnett
Louie Snead

Charles Arnt
Amos Peabody

Joseph Allen
Wally Blake

Donna Martell
Marion Harrison

John Phillips
Joe Moreley