

"No woman could resist his sinister charm!"
Edward "Teddy" Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he's hit the big time when he kills his older wife, believing he will inherit a fortune. When things don't go according to plan, Teddy sets his sights on a new victim: wealthy widow Freda Jeffries. Unfortunately for the unscrupulous criminal, Freda is much more guarded and sassy than his last wife, making separating her from her money considerably more challenging.

Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.

On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.

In early 19th century New England, an unscrupulous woman uses her beauty and wits to seduce, deceive and control the men around her.

An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.

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

A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.

Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.

An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.

A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.

The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.

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 dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.

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.

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.

A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.

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.

Dirk Bogarde
Edward "Teddy" Bare

Margaret Lockwood
Freda Jeffries

Kay Walsh
Charlotte Young

Kathleen Harrison
Emmie

Robert Flemyng
Phillip Mortimer

Mona Washbourne
Monica Bare
Philip Stainton
Charlie Mann

Walter Hudd
Coroner
Lita Roza
Singer
Myrtle Reed
Waitress (Uncredited)
Joe Wadham
Ballroom Dancer (Uncredited)

Guy Standeven
Brighton Tea Shop Customer (Uncredited)