Young auto mechanic Dan Brady takes $20 from a cash register at work to go on a date with blonde femme fatale Vera Novak. Brady intends to put the money back before it is missed, but the garage's bookkeeper shows up earlier than scheduled. As Brady scrambles to cover evidence of his petty theft, he fast finds himself drawn into an ever worsening "quicksand" of crime.
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.
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.
An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.
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.
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
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 college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.
Remake of the 1931 Fritz Lang original. In the city, someone is murdering children. The Police search is so intense, it is disturbing the 'normal' criminals, and the local hoods decide to help find the murderer as quickly as possible.
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".
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin, team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.
Federal agent Alexandra Barnes believes that Catherine Petersen is a serial killer who marries rich men and then murders them for their money. But since Catherine is seemingly a master of disguise and has multiple identities, Alexandra can't prove anything with conventional detective work. With no other option, she goes undercover, pursuing the same man as Catherine, and hoping that Catherine will slip up and reveal her true identity.
Glenn Ford
Mike Lambert
Janis Carter
Paula Craig
Barry Sullivan
Steve Price
Edgar Buchanan
Jeff Cunningham
Karen Morley
Beth
Jim Bannon
Jack Woodworth
Art Smith
Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Lillian Wells
Girl in Coffee Shop (uncredited)
Stanley Andrews
(uncredited)
Walter Baldwin
(uncredited)
Jack Bailey
(uncredited)
Eugene Borden
(uncredited)