The Unknown Man
"Shocking! Revealing! Timely!"
A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.
"Shocking! Revealing! Timely!"
A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.
Walter Pidgeon
Dwight Bradley Masen
Ann Harding
Stella Masen
Barry Sullivan
Joe Bucknor
Keefe Brasselle
Rudi Wallchek
Lewis Stone
James V. Hulbrook
Eduard Franz
Andrew Jason Layford
Richard Anderson
Bob Masen
Dawn Addams
Ellie Fansworth
Philip Ober
Wayne Kellwin
A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.
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 to represent criminals and low lifes.
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.
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.
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
Movie star Charlie Castle draws the ire of Hollywood producer Stanley Hoff when he refuses to sign a new seven-year contract. Castle is sick of the low quality of the studio's films and wants to start a new life. While his estranged wife supports him in the decision, Castle's talent agent urges him to reconsider. When Castle continues to be uncooperative, Hoff resorts to blackmail in order to get his way.
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.
An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.
An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.