Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
A roustabout joins a traveling carny and schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband.
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.
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.
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
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.
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 spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.
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.
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.
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".
An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.
Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.
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.
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murderer is, Frank, with the help of his assistant and girlfriend, Paula, begins to trace back over his last steps. As he frantically tries to unravel the mystery behind his own impending demise, his sleuthing leads him to a group of crooked businessmen and another murder.
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.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Bill O'Brien
Rita Hayworth
Nina Barona
Thomas Mitchell
Gene Gibbons
John Qualen
Charles Engle
George Watts
Joseph Hopper
Ralph Theodore
Dutch Enright
Eddie Foster
Louie Artino
Jack Roper
Eddie Burns
Constance Worth
Sylvia Marbe
Harry Antrim
Court Clerk (uncredited)
Walter Baldwin
Rennick (uncredited)
Richard Bond
Stevie - Sylvia's Escort (uncredited)
