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"TRUE! BRUTAL! SHOCKING!"
A young woman's murder sheds light on a crooked talent agency.
"TRUE! BRUTAL! SHOCKING!"
A young woman's murder sheds light on a crooked talent agency.
Kane Richmond
Nick Mantee
Audrey Long
Nancy Howard
Conrad Nagel
Police Lt. Williams
Ralph Byrd
Police Sgt. Tom Ramey
John Gallaudet
Benny Nordick
Anthony Warde
Mr. Barda
Pamela Blake
Janet Winters
Charles Trowbridge
Police Capt. Webb
Nana Bryant
Mrs. Howard
A young woman's murder sheds light on a crooked talent agency.
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.
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.
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.
In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.
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.
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism. When Martin fears Candella will implicate his girlfriend Teena, he'll do anything to protect her. How many others will he drag down to disaster with him?
Gamblers who "took" an out-of-town sucker in a crooked poker game feel shadowy vengeance closing in on them.
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.