Time to Kill (1942)

A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese Falcon.

El compañero del detective privado Mike Hammer ha sido asesinado. Ahora, todos sus esfuerzos se centran en descubrir al culpable. Sin embargo, hay alguien más interesado en las investigaciones.

Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.

Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.

A detective's wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer in his first film adventure. Originally screened in 3D.

Un policía tiene una regla fundamental: no debe enamorarse del sospechoso. Pero Burden lo tenía claro hasta que conoció a Catherine Merrims investigando un asesinato. Catherine es una mujer intrigante, sensual, por la que uno estaría dispuesto a morir y a matar.

Chinese detective Charlie Chan solves a murder linked to the occult. This movie had an alternative title: Meeting at Midnight.

Un niño de seis años presencia cómo su padre es asesinado en una piscina por tres hombres. Años después, los líderes principales del crimen organizado internacional van siendo asesinados por un joven desconocido...

In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.

Hugh Beaumont stars as detective "Michael Shayne" in this 1946 B-film.

Lloyd Nolan is back as detective Michael Shayne who's in search of a stolen coin.

A man believed to be dead and buried escapes from his grave and returns to the scene of the crime seeking revenge.

A private detective, who has been shot, stumbles into the office of Michael Shayne (Hugh Beaumont), and dies before Shayne can question him. Shayne finds a baggage ticket in his hand. He claims it and finds the checked-bag contains the loot from a robbery. Now, he has about fifty minutes left of the running time to find the crooks, bring them to justice and return the money to the rightful owners. And needs all of it.

A policeman devises an unorthodox plan for bringing criminals to justice after his partner is brutally gunned down.

In the second of the PRC "Michael Shayne" series,civic crusader Burton Stallings hires private detective Michael Shayne to locate the former's missing step-daughter Helen. Shayne discovers that Stallings himself has had Helen confined in an asylum in order to obtain her money.

Drug lords take over the empire left by convicted Sonny Hokori.

Un psicópata para castigar a la humanidad por sus pecados, comienza a poner una serie de bombas en lugares públicos. La policía está confundida por estos atentados, aparentemente inconexos y carentes de sentido. La primera destruye un colegio, matando a tres estudiantes. La segunda derriba un hospital mental y la tercera destruye un hotel. Eligen a un investigador de la policía para que trabaje con las escasas pruebas que tienen y para que diseñe un modelo de comportamiento que les ayude a comprender el método y los motivos que impulsan al psicópata. Es una película llena de suspense, dramatismo y profundas emociones.

Michael Shayne mystery involving counterfeit tickets at a race track.

Michael Shayne is a private detective who is disliked greatly by Pete Rafferty, local chief of police detectives. Rafferty notifies the newspaper press that he is going to close Shayne's agency, just as Michael is about to be hired by the wealthy Eleanor Ramsey, who is being blackmailed. She is the stepmother of what she considers to be two grown-up brats, Dorothy and Ernest, and she considers their father to be of little value to the world himself. They all conspire to get their hands on her money, even to the extent of attempting to hire Shayne to frame an insurance robbery. Mrs. Ramsey is murdered, and Rafferty is trying to pin the killing on Shayne, despite the fact that suspicion points to Buell Renslow, brother of the slain woman. Shayne's secretary, the fetching Phyllis Hamilton, decides to do a little detective work to help her boss.