"PORT OF THIEVES...NO-MAN'S-LAND OF CRIME!"
Insurance agent Jesse Arno is posing as a sailor while on the trail of a gang of waterfront thieves, supposedly headed by Tip Banning. Arno is aware that a gang member has been murdered by Rhino, Banning's simple-minded right-hand man, but says nothing when he is questioned by the police, who are unaware of his real profession. Banning, knowing that Jesse knew who the killer was, admits him into the gang.
Warner Baxter
Jess Arno
Mary Beth Hughes
Silky
Mike Mazurki
Rhino
Peggy Converse
Connie
Regis Toomey
Tip Banning
James Flavin
Police Sergeant Briggs
Julian Rivero
Organ Grinder
Ken Christy
Police Detective Whalen
William Forrest
Anderson
Insurance agent Jesse Arno is posing as a sailor while on the trail of a gang of waterfront thieves, supposedly headed by Tip Banning. Arno is aware that a gang member has been murdered by Rhino, Banning's simple-minded right-hand man, but says nothing when he is questioned by the police, who are unaware of his real profession. Banning, knowing that Jesse knew who the killer was, admits him into the gang.
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.
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
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.
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.
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
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.
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.