A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
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.
Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.
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?
A family man – desperate for a job – latches onto a friend who encourages him into being a criminal.
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
Liberal district attorney decides to seek the death penalty for a man who slaughtered a family at Christmastime, then drank their blood. He escapes, though, and starts killing again.
A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an experimental medical procedure on his wife, while a gambler believes he's on a lucky streak. A waitress begins engaging in promiscuous sex, and a young girl whose father is among the dead gains unexpected fame.
A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.
Set in the dark and old Parramatta prison built by the original convicts our lead character Ray a war veteran finds himself serving 18 months for manslaughter after defending his fiance. He soon realizes that the prison boss has it in for him and does everything possible to break Ray even going after his fiance.
After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.
Walter Reed
The Chaplain
Lee Frederick
Blackie
Houseley Stevenson
Pops
Howard St. John
The Warden
Sally Parr
The Girl
Patrick Waltz
The Boy (as Philip Shawn)
Louise Lorimer
The Warden's Wife
Raymond Bramley
The Deputy Warden
Charles Meredith
Reporter, AP
Jack Reynolds
Reporter, EP
King Donovan
Reporter, National News Service
Charles Arnt
Reporter, Globe Express
