Ralph Smiley

『ダーティ・ハリー』ほか、骨太なアクション演出に定評のあるドン・シーゲル監督、初期の傑作。リチャード・ウィドマーク演じる刑事が、スパニッシュ・ハーレム地区を舞台に活躍するハード・ボイルドな逸品だ。

A man who completes compiling a dossier on a mysterious billionaire begins to get the feeling that he is becoming the victim of a conspiracy.

A Greek Fisherman brings an Atlantean Princess back to her homeland which is the mythical city of Atlantis. He is enslaved for his trouble. The King is being manipulated by an evil sorcerer who is bent on using a natural resource of Atlantis to take over the world. The Atlanteans, or rather the slaves of Atlantis, are forced to mine a crystalline material which absorbs the suns rays. These crystals can then be used for warmth. The misuse of science has created weapons out of the crystals that can fire a heat ray to destroy whatever it touches.

Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.

Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to carry out the abduction, balks when he learns what is at stake and helps Leduc out instead.

カメラマンのジェフは足を骨折し、ニューヨークはグリニッチ・ヴィレッジのアパートで療養中。身動きの取れない彼にとって退屈しのぎの楽しみは、窓から見える中庭と向いのアパートの住人たちを眺める事だけ。だが、その中で、セールスマンの夫と激しい口論をしていた病床の妻の姿が見えなくなった事に気づいた。セールスマンの様子を窺う内に、ジェフはその男が女房を殺したのではないかと推測、恋人のリザと看護人ステラの協力を得て調査を始めるのだが……。

A burlesque comic doubles for a spy in Tangier and meets the spy's girlfriend, who is also a spy.