"In the middle of a kiss...Murder!"
A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.
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The people behind it
William Gargan
Tony Cochrane
Janis Carter
Jill Merrill
Jeff Donnell
Martha Cochrane
Coulter Irwin
Johnny
Charles D. Brown
Crane Stewart
Paul E. Burns
Ole Strom
Harry Shannon
Capt. Lawrence
Frank Wilcox
Douglas Loring
Robert Kellard
'Doc' Cochrane (as Robert Stevens)
Roy Gordon
Benjamin Merrill (Uncredited)
Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.
Private Detective H. Gibson loses a case-file for the first time in his decade-spanning career. He decides to try to solve the mystery, of what it is he is supposed to be investigating.
When mobsters try to put an honest policeman on the payroll, he seeks revenge on the mob. But, he soon learns that his actions, however honest, have dire consequences.
An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.
When a poor college student who cracks an online poker game goes bust, he arranges a face-to-face with the man he thinks cheated him, a sly offshore entrepreneur.
A journalist receives 32 new photos of 9/11 from a camera found in the rubble of the World Trade Center — and uses clues in each frame to ID the photographer.
The struggle-battle of power, jealousy, and jazz.
Mr. Bricks: A Heavy Metal Murder Musical introduces tattooed muscleman Tim Dax as Mr. Bricks, an ex-con left for dead in an empty New York City warehouse. Rocked by headaches caused by the bullet lodged in his brain, he pieces together memories — the barrel of a gun…his girl’s scream…and eventually, the face of the dirty cop (Vito Trigo, Dark Windows) who pulled the trigger! All he wants is to find his missing girl Scarlet (Nicola Fiore, Mr. Cannibal Holocaust, Game Over), and vows to kill anyone that gets in his way…but what if Scarlet doesn’t want to be found?
A jazz bandleader, falsely accused of murdering his girlfriend, tries to stay one step ahead of the police as he dives into Tokyo's sin-city in search of the real killer.
On a tense set of a film noir, two background actors quietly form a connection take after take
Crime Without Witness is a classic film noir-style short film that follows detective Fred. The story begins when Fred, after following clues that point to a murderer named Alan, receives a mysterious call upon arriving at a house and realizes that a woman has been murdered. Driven by tragedy, Fred tracks down Alan and confronts him. However, the attempt at justice ends in tragedy: The calculating criminal kills Fred. It all ends with Alan walking away down the street unpunished.
A television producer helps a woman assaulted on the waterfront and takes her to his apartment to recover, where she recounts her recent adventures in New York and he discusses Nudism.
A reporter on a visit to his hometown hears of dangerous conditions at the local coal mine, and proceeds to investigate.
Three detectives become embroiled in a tense struggle after a tragic accident that leaves a child in critical condition. One is guilty of a crime, one will try to cover it up, and the other attempts to expose it. How far will these men go to disguise and unravel the truth?
Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s long admired. Yet something ugly is taking place behind the town’s peaceful facade. And when Freddy uncovers a massive, deadly conspiracy among these local residents, he is forced to take action and make a dangerous choice between protecting his idols and upholding the law.
After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against expectations. As a New Year's resolution, Bridget decides to take control of her life, starting by keeping a diary in which she will always tell the complete truth. Her charming boss takes an interest in her, and she cannot stop running into a rather disagreeable acquaintance whom Bridget cannot help finding quietly attractive.
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 tried to escape.
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
A duel between a suspected murderer and a detective pressed by people who want results. But whose skin is really wanted?
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 in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.
New York City newspaper The Day is in trouble. Even though editor Ed Hutcheson has worked hard running the paper, its circulation has been steadily declining. Now the publisher's widow wants to sell the paper, which will most likely mean its end. Hutcheson's only hope is to finish his exposé on a dangerous gangster before the sale is finalized.
An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.
A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese Falcon.
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.
Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.
After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.
In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle may be hiding a terrible secret—and that danger has quietly entered her home.
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
Holly Parker, the wife of a wealthy diplomat, is compromised by the accidental death of a man who has been romantically pursuing her. She is forced by her mother-in-law to assume a new identity in order to save the reputation of her husband and infant son. She wanders the world, trying to forget her heartbreak with the aid of alcohol and unsavory men. Eventually returning to the city of her downfall, she murders a blackmailer who threatens to expose her past. Amazingly, Holly is represented at her murder trial by her now adult son, who has become a public defender. In the hope of protecting her family, she refuses to reveal her real name and is known to the court as "Madame X".
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin, team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
