While on vacation, the Falcon is arrested for kidnapping after striking up a friendship with a girl whose nurse has been recently murdered.

An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn’t even know he exists.

Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.

Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and…

Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow into giving up her savings for a nonexistent memorial….

Ma Delano runs a penny arcade in Coney Island, living upstairs with her sons and daughter. Story involves rum-running, accidental murder and a frame-up.

The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had…

A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.

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

An ocean-side nightclub owner loves a singer who only has eyes for a gambler.

George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father’s mysterious death.

Los Angeles, 1953. The author David L. “Dave” Brady wants to bring a missed ex-newspaperman back to Los Angeles. Therefore Dave has to travel to Mexico City. Dave gets involved…

In Mexico, a financier on the run poses as a man he just murdered, only to find out that the man was also a murderer.

A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.

When a woman is found dead with her throat torn out, the local villagers blame a supernatural monster. But Sherlock Holmes, who gets drawn into the case from nearby Quebec,…

Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner ‘Wentworth Castle’ (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office at the…

James Martin and Carol Wall have plans to elope, but a fight with her father’s solicitor ends in murder committed by an unknown third-party, and Martin is hunted for the…

A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.

A relationship gradually develops between a savvy New York City street girl and a good-hearted cab driver, but other matters keep getting in their way, including financial problems and a…

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…

A police detective’s violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.

An ex-convict, freed to fight in World War II, gets a factory job and is accused when a bracelet is missing.

Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters…

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.