The Case Against Brooklyn
"Is this cop for sale?"
A rookie cop takes on criminals who have the local government in their pocket.
"Is this cop for sale?"
A rookie cop takes on criminals who have the local government in their pocket.
Darren McGavin
Pete Harris
Margaret Hayes
Lil Polombo nee Alexander
Warren Stevens
Rudi Franklin
Peggy McCay
Mrs. Jane Harris
Tol Avery
Dist. Atty. Michael W. Norris
Emile Meyer
Police Capt. T.W. Wills
Nestor Paiva
Finelli
Brian G. Hutton
Jess Johnson
Robert Osterloh
Det. Sgt. Bonney
A rookie cop takes on criminals who have the local government in their pocket.
When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature, Johnny slowly begins to return Nancy's affection and decides to run away with her, but conflict within his business threatens their plans. As Johnny tries to distance himself from the casino, his shady past comes back to haunt him.
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
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.
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 crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he assists in a manhunt of a suspected murderer.
Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.