Dangerous Business (1946)
PARTNER IN LAW BY DAY! PARTNER'S IN "CRIME" BY NIGHT!
Género : Comedia, Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 59M
Director : D. Ross Lederman
Escritor : Harold Jacob Smith
Sinopsis
Two young lawyers open an office together. They are hired to defend a utilities magnate who claims he has been framed. He is kidnapped by a gangster, and a battle royal ensues when the lawyers try to rescue him.
William Foster is a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks and shady characters. He's adept at keeping them out of jail, winning acquittals, and having decisions reversed, thus springing criminals out of prison. He is romantically involved with dancer Irene Manners, who is two-timing him, although she wants to marry him. She kills a man driving while out with her other man, Jack Defoe, who takes the blame. Unfortunately, a ring Foster had just given Irene is found at the crime scene. Foster ends up defending Jack, but when the ring is found, he thinks he is protecting Irene, so pleads guilty to jury tampering.
A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.
Vijay es un oficial de policía brutalmente honesto que ha sido transferido de nuevo por el sistema para perseguir a los matones del hampa corruptos del bajo mundo de Bombai.
La historia está basada en el auténtico asesinato de un periodista del Chicago Tribune a manos de los sicarios de Al Capone, cuando éste descubrió que le traicionaba. Aquí la cosa se adorna con la biografía de dicho personaje, un humilde muchacho del Sur que vio la oportunidad de avanzar en la gran ciudad como periodista. Para ganar más dinero acepta un trato con un capo mafioso llamado Louis Blanco (Clark Gable) para manipular la información.
Thomas Douglas era el gángster mas respetado en su ciudad, hasta que un despiadado narcotraficante conocido como "The Iceman" entró en escena y lo apartó del negocio. Siendo duro, Douglas siguió adelante... hasta que amenazaron lo que más quiere: su familia. Entonces Douglas decide ponerse manos a la obra para proteger a los suyos y su legado.
A PR man for a low-budget movie studio comes up with what he believes is the perfect gimmick--to make a gangster picture with a real mobster in the lead role.
A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.
Hank Palmer, un importante abogado, regresa a su hogar tras la muerte de su madre. Se entera entonces de que su padre, que es el juez del pueblo y de quien está distanciado, es sospechoso de haber cometido un crimen. Su decisión de investigar el caso lo lleva poco a poco a restablecer con los suyos una relación que estaba rota.
Grant hides stolen money in the luggage of Bonnie Shea who is moving west. Later when he and his men arrive to retrieve the money, they also kidnap Bonnie. This sends Reasonin' Bates and his cowhands on their horses after the gangsters in their cars.
After getting sentenced with one month in prison for contempt of court, the lawyer Sbankh tries to take advantage of his jail time to establish many relations, most notably with drug dealer Hassouna,and Salim Abu Zaid, one of the centers of power in the 60s.
Exploitation movie about a war between pimps in Cologne, Germany, in the Sixties.
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Wealthy, reckless Californian Julie Merriday, accompanied by her boyfriend Harry Lindsay, an attorney, narrowly avoids crashing into a motorcycle driven by young Ben Gunther. Ben temporarily abandons his damaged cycle and accepts a ride from Julie but insists upon calling her Barbara. Later, at the Merriday beach house, Julie's Aunt Sarah tells Julie that her great great grandmother was named Barbara, and furthermore, that ancestress had an illegitimate child fathered by one Benjamin Gunther.
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A crooked nightclub owner, pretending to go straight, is forced to kill a henchman when the latter tries to run off with the gang's latest haul.
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