Crime

Cowboy Larry O’Day and his sidekick Lucky Smith happen upon a distraught Barbara Hartwell, who is about to be arrested for the murder of ...

A 15 episode serial in which Blake battles the “Scorpion” over possession of a ‘death ray’ machine.

Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge’s murder. After he’s convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and ...

A blackmailer tries to stop a woman from revealing evidence that could save a condemned man.

Ed Harwood, a wisecracking private investigator from New York, discovers a crime at a hotel in Nice during a carnival. The unraveling of the ...

A madman sets out to destroy a group of Chinatown merchants.

In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.

Pat Heaton may be the best crime reporter in town but his fiancée Claire, despairing of the more tawdry aspects of his profession, makes him ...

Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that ...

A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a ...

Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint ...

Famous private detective Tip O’Neil is summoned by telegram to the estate of old friend Paul Harding, but finds the telegram was sent by ...

This Robert Benchley ‘How To’ comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics.

A general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.

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

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but ...

A reporter and his newspaper’s attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars.

A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang he keeps ...

Dan Adams resigns his position as prosecutor on the district attorney’s staff and sets out to clean up a gang of fake-accident racketeers. ...

Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of ...

A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police’s description: his name ...

A crazed scientist invents a serum that induces a catatonic state in anyone who gets the injection. He uses the serum to paralyze his enemies, in ...

When a friend of Charlie’s is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul ...

Allen Colby, heir to a huge fortune, is presumed drowned after an ocean liner sinks off the coast of Honolulu. Mysteriously, Colby reappears at ...

While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top’s co-owner to investigate threatening letters that ...

A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 ...

Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter’s will, ...

The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.