Woman-Wise
"How you'll laugh... and how you'll love it...When this pert little newspaper woman out-wits and out-socks her woman-wise boss!"
A crusading sportswriter exposes racketeers involved in paying off fighters to throw their matches.
"How you'll laugh... and how you'll love it...When this pert little newspaper woman out-wits and out-socks her woman-wise boss!"
A crusading sportswriter exposes racketeers involved in paying off fighters to throw their matches.
Rochelle Hudson
Alice Fuller
Michael Whalen
Tracey Browne
Thomas Beck
Clint De Witt
Alan Dinehart
Richards
Douglas Fowley
Stevens
George Hassell
John De Witt
Astrid Allwyn
'Bubbles' Carson
Chick Chandler
Bob Benton
Pat Flaherty
Duke Fuller
A crusading sportswriter exposes racketeers involved in paying off fighters to throw their matches.
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.
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
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.
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
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.
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.
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".
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.
Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, including an unethical promoter named Roberts, who tempt the man with a number of vices. Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.