Tread Softly Stranger
"A Stark Drama Filmed Against the Turbulent FIERY Background of Steel"
7.4
NR
1958
90 min
"A Stark Drama Filmed Against the Turbulent FIERY Background of Steel"
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.
In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
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.
A charming but ruthless criminal holds the family of a bank manager hostage as part of a cold-blooded plan to steal £90,000.
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism. When Martin fears Candella will implicate his girlfriend Teena, he'll do anything to protect her. How many others will he drag down to disaster with him?
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
A police detective falls for the bank robber's girlfriend he is supposed to be tailing.
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.
In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified information to the communists, Candy, who has been trailed by FBI agents for months in hopes of nabbing the spy ringleader, is sent by her ex-boyfriend, Joey, to find Skip and retrieve the valuable microfilm he now holds.
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
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.
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.
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
In New York City, a bank robbery of $300,000 goes unsolved for a year, until some of the marked bills are found in a Los Angeles drugstore theft. Police detectives Cal Bruner and Jack Farnham investigate and are led from the drugstore to a nightclub, where singer Lilli is another recipient of a stolen bill. With Lilli's help, the partners track down the remaining money, but both Lilli and Jack are dismayed when Cal decides he wants to keep part of it.
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
