Female Fugitive (1938)
Genre : Drama, Thriller
Runtime : 58M
Director : William Nigh
Writer : Bennett Cohen, John T. Neville
Synopsis
Police set up a dragnet to trap an outlaw's wife whom they believe to be his accomplice.
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
An insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer's books have on his fans is more than inspirational.
CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they think. During a night out with the rest of the office employees, they go to watch Voltan, a magician who secretly hypnotizes both of them.
Merle Kramer works as a stenographer for a psychiatrist. She is casually dating Karl Benson, a private eye and former cop. Merle mentions in passing that one of her boss's patients is an author with recurring dreams of murdering his wife, and she includes the fact that the wife owns valuable jewels. When the wife is found murdered in a manner identical to that of her husband's dream, the husband is naturally the prime suspect. But as the investigation of the police and insurance investigator Joe Cooper proceeds, it turns out that several people in the case, including Merle, are not what they seem.
Jun-oh, an insurance claims agent, faces off with a client who he suspects of committing murders with the intention of collecting insurance premiums.
A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.
A botched diamond burglary and a dead publishing company executive set off a string of murders and betrayal.
A model and a private eye help a New York insurance investigator on a deadly case in Acapulco.
An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.
A famous skier, his mistress and a ski instructor rob a bank in the Alps and hide the loot in a crevasse.
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.
A society doctor helps an insurance-company file clerk check deaths related to a big policy.
A U.S. businessman (Warren Douglas) abroad is the patsy for the theft of a rajah's jewels.