Twelve Crowded Hours (1939)

John Ellman es un hombre acusado falsamente de asesinato y ejecutado en la silla eléctrica. Testigos de su inocencia recuperan el cuerpo y consiguen devolverlo a la vida mediante una innovadora técnica. Tras su regreso de la muerte, Ellman planeará vengarse de aquellos que provocaron su ejecución.

Un cantante y bailarín de éxito, a pesar de que atraviesa una etapa muy crítica, está decidido a volver a Broadway, el escenario que le dio la gloria y la fama.

Johnny Eager (Taylor) es un gángster que, para no levantar sospechas, lleva una doble vida: finge que vive en una humilde casa con sus parientes, pero en secreto continúa siendo el rey del juego ilegal. Lisbeth (Turner) es una inocente chica que conoce a Johnny y se enamora de él.

Una banda de jóvenes asalta a los comerciantes de la ciudad para exigirles, después, dinero a cambio de "protección". Nicola, un policía que se ha propuesto acabar con la red, pierde la primera batalla y va a parar al hospital, pero desde allí sigue la lucha contra los delincuentes.

Jonah Goodwin (Thomas Mitchell) y Olaf Johnson (John Qualen) son dos pescadores a los que el gángster Harold Goff (John Garfield) extorsiona, exigiéndoles dinero a cambio de la protección de su barco. Temerosos de ir a la policía, deciden encargarse personalmente del asunto, tras descubrir que Goff se ha enamorado de la hermosa hija de Jonah (Ida Lupino).

Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.

Fritzie, dueña de una casa de juego, no desea que su hija Paula se relacione con los tipos que pululan por ahí. Pero cae en las redes de Eddie, un mafioso.

A dapper gangster sponsors an alcoholic violinist in order to win the love of a glamorous divorced socialite.

Magazine writer Ann Mason infiltrates the United Defenders, a public service organization which is actually a front for racketeers. But a case of amnesia threatens to blow her cover.

Second Jerry Cotton movie. A ring of gangsters has been terrorizing New York City. Special agent Jerry Cotton is summoned by the FBI to help crack down on the Criminals and put them out of business. He doesnt pull any punches either.

A convicted racketeer becomes prison trustee when an inmate whom he persuaded to escape is killed.

Set in post Second World War Britain, Noose is the story of black market racketeers who face attempts to bring them to justice by an American fashion journalist, her ex-army fiancée and a gang of honest toughs from a local gym. When a corpse turns up at black market front The Blue Moon Club, Yank reporter Carole Landis starts snooping, much to gang boss Joseph Calleia’s annoyance. And soon there’s a hit man on the way...

An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.

The murder of nightclub hostess leads an investigator (Kane Richmond) to seedy nightspots.

Durante la Segunda Mundial, un periodista descubre un complot nazi para volver a los árabes en contra de los aliados.

In this gangster movie, a criminal king-pin and his gang hide out in his hometown where they witness a religious revival that inspires the man to begin billing himself as a "born-again" evangelist so he can cash in on the guilty consciences of local businessmen.

Un mujeriego mafioso (Montgomery) es herido por la policía y se esconde en una casa de campo, donde se enamora de una chica de campo (O'Sullivan).

Racketeers muscle in on construction business, use inferior materials, make big profits and endanger the public safety.

The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick buck. The idea of working never enters their minds until Halop is egged on by Grey to show his capabilities. Before long, he and Hall are working on the ranch of Galli, an elderly Italian woman who treats her workers like human beings instead of animals. Galli's son disappeared as an infant, and Halop tries to convince her that he is that long lost son, thus possibly sharing in her wealth. Galli is such a good person that Halop is soon motivated by respect instead of greed, so he devises a plan to help her when truckers and a labor organization band together to keep her crops from making it to market.

Ben es un alcohólico cuya vida se está yendo al traste. Decide irse a Las Vegas, la ciudad donde los bares nunca cierran, para beber hasta morir. Allí conoce a Sera, una prostituta. Se aceptan, se enamoran, se separan y se reencuentran. Una maravillosa historia sobre dos personas que aprenden a aceptarse el uno al otro, sobre cómo en medio de la oscuridad puede surgir una pequeña llama de esperanza en sus vidas.