A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.

A bucolic lawyer takes on big-city corruption, setting out to prove that an above-suspicion politician is actually a crook – all while falling in love with the politician’s daughter.

A modern-day tale of gangsterism and revenge. After a notorious mobster murders a Jewish tailor and is let off for the crime, a band of outraged high-school students turns into…

When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.

In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterprising ‘king of the beggars’.

High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.

Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished ex-con Janet Haley, widow of a bank robber, who can’t find her baby. Later she helps Kildare sew up gangster Hanlon in a…

In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city’s most powerful gangsters.

Jacques d’Athys, a French adventurer, returns to his home in Nice after an expedition to Indochina where he has picked up a Eurasian fiancée and a book that, unbeknownst to…

Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the ‘kid’ falls for his sister.

A woman of twenty-one opens her grandfather’s will left to her thirteen years earlier, per his instructions. Murder soon follows.

When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it’s up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.