Shoot to Kill
"A Newspaperman... A Grafting Politician... And A Beautiful Girl... In A Story Of Underworld Revenge!"
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Shoot to Kill
"A Newspaperman... A Grafting Politician... And A Beautiful Girl... In A Story Of Underworld Revenge!"
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
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.
Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his crime was allegedly committed—but it involves an innocent party. When he tells Carter the truth and the newspaper runs it, tragedy follows, forcing Carter to face up to the responsibilities of her job when she is confronted by Gallagher.
The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.
An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.
A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. Poole begins his plans to get revenge when he escapes his captors.
New York City newspaper The Day is in trouble. Even though editor Ed Hutcheson has worked hard running the paper, its circulation has been steadily declining. Now the publisher's widow wants to sell the paper, which will most likely mean its end. Hutcheson's only hope is to finish his exposé on a dangerous gangster before the sale is finalized.
A prizefighter-turned-longshoreman with a conscience goes up against labor leaders to expose corruption, extortion, and murder among the union ranks.
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.
The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on the force, and his loyal patrolman, Johnson, take on the violent Nick.
An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances. It seems that any or all of them could have had a hand in her death. But who is the mysterious Inspector and what can he want of them?
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
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.
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 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.
Movie star Charlie Castle draws the ire of Hollywood producer Stanley Hoff when he refuses to sign a new seven-year contract. Castle is sick of the low quality of the studio's films and wants to start a new life. While his estranged wife supports him in the decision, Castle's talent agent urges him to reconsider. When Castle continues to be uncooperative, Hoff resorts to blackmail in order to get his way.
George Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor, has to postpone a vacation with his wife - again - when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence that he is the killer.
A murderer is brought to court and only Miss Marple is unconvinced of his guilt. Once again she begins her own investigation.
Russell Wade
George 'Mitch' Mitchell
Luana Walters
Marian Langdon (as Susan Walters)
Edmund MacDonald
Lawrence Dale (as Edmond MacDonald)
Robert Kent
'Dixie' Logan aka Judge Joel Conroy (as Douglas Blackley)
Vince Barnett
Charlie Gill
Nestor Paiva
Gus Miller
Charles Trowbridge
District Attorney John Forsythe
Harry Brown
Jim Forman
Ted Hecht
Al. Collins
Harry Cheshire
Mike Blake
Robert Riordan
Ed Carter
Joe Devlin
Smokey