

Horace Vendig always gets what he wants. Even as a poor youth, he charmed his way into high society by getting the father of his friend, Martha, to foot the bill for his Harvard education. When Vic, another childhood pal, is invited to Horace's mansion for a party, he brings along Mallory Flagg, who happens to bear a striking resemblance to Martha. As Vic and Horace reunite, old resentments rise to the surface.

A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.

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

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

Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor. As the police close in around him, he makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man’s fiancée, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression.

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

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

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

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.

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 con man tries to blackmail a Mexican gangster.

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.

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

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.

After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.

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

Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.

A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order to learn more about the man. Along the way he is joined by the mysterious Mr. Peters, who has his own motivation.

Zachary Scott
Horace Woodruff 'Woody' Vendig

Louis Hayward
Vic Lambdin

Diana Lynn
Martha Burnside / Mallory Flagg

Sydney Greenstreet
Buck Mansfield

Lucille Bremer
Christa Mansfield

Martha Vickers
Susan Duane

Dennis Hoey
Mr. Burnside

Edith Barrett
Mrs. Burnside

Raymond Burr
Pete Vendig

Joyce Arling
Kate Vendig

Charles Evans
Bruce Endicott McDonald

Robert J. Anderson
Horace Vendig as a Child