"I confess I'm the kind of girl every man wants - but shouldn't marry!"
Cleo Moore stars as Mary Adams, whose first step on the road to ruin is a $25,000 robbery. Mary hides the money, then confesses to the crime, secure in the belief that she can dig up the loot upon her release from prison.
Cleo Moore
Mary Adams
Hugo Haas
Dragomie Damitrof
Glenn Langan
Johnny
Helene Stanton
Smooch
Anthony Jochim
Father Benedict
Burt Mustin
Gardener
Leonid Snegoff
Gregory Stark
James Nusser
Warden (as Jim Nusser)
Russ Conway
Police Officer
Cleo Moore stars as Mary Adams, whose first step on the road to ruin is a $25,000 robbery. Mary hides the money, then confesses to the crime, secure in the belief that she can dig up the loot upon her release from prison.
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.
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
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.
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.
A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.
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.
A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.
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.