Dragnet Girl
A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him.
Girl Missing
Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy’s wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June decide to look for…
From Headquarters
When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it’s up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.
F.P.1
Urged by famous airman Ellissen the Lennartz Company puts into reality the project proposed by his friend Droste: F.P.1, a huge floating platform in the Atlantic that makes long-distance flights…
Crime on the Hill
In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted, the fiance of the rich man’s niece, was…
The Crime of the Century
Driven to desperation by his young and extravagant wife, alienist Dr. Emil Brandt has arranged a perfect crime; now he begs the police to lock him up before he can…
Clear All Wires!
Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being…
Bureau of Missing Persons
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work…
Blondie Johnson
A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.
The Big Chance
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.
Young America
Mrs. Doray sits with a Juvenile Court Judge to learn more about problem children and what to do about them. One of the cases involves 13 year old Arthur, “the…
Virtue
Given a second chance after her arrest for prostitution, Mae decides to go straight. Mae is soon befriended by kindly cab driver Jimmy Doyle who gets her work at a…
Vanity Street
A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in “The Follies”.
Two Seconds
A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in flashback, we witness a…
Trouble in Paradise
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob…
Three on a Match
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor’s preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the…
Taxi!
Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the…
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
A fast-talking reporter befriends a young woman and her male companion who are wanted for a policeman’s shooting.
The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes’ Greatest Case
A young woman turns to Holmes for protection when she’s menaced by an escaped killer seeking missing treasure. However, when the woman is kidnapped, Holmes and Watson must penetrate the…
Scarface
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio ‘Tony’ Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the…
The Phantom of Crestwood
Five men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.
Men Of America
Bank robbers and killers cause mayhem in a small western town.
Love Is a Racket
A gossip columnist helps a Broadway ingenue who’s beholden to a penthouse gangster.
Jewel Robbery
A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron’s wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller’s shop.
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime…
Hotel Splendide
Jerry Mason inherits the Hotel Splendide at Speymouth but is disappointed when he sees it is a quiet place with few permanent residents. Gentleman Charlie, a jewel thief arrives after…
The Hatchet Man
When he’s forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man’s daughter.
The Girl from Chicago
An undercover government agent on a case in Mississippi meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman who’s being menaced by a local crime boss.
Behind the Mask
A Secret Service agent nabs a scalpel-happy doctor who runs drugs in caskets.
The Beast of the City
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his own corrupt brother Ed to watch over Daisy who was associated with Belmonte.
Are You Listening?
WBLA is on the air, presenting the live music, the sudsy dramas and the sell-sell-sell of commercial interludes that keep consumers buying and sponsors smiling. But one sponsor, a producer…
American Madness
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson’s wife…