When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder.
Evie Carpenter
A childless couple adopts a baby girl, but a crime committed by the husband's secretary could cause them to lose custody of the infant.
Hysterical Woman (uncredited)
시리아와 프랑스가 교전을 하고 있는 1925년 다마스커스. 해리 스미스(험프리 보가트)는 무기 밀매와 군사 식량을 고가에 팔아 이윤을 챙기는 무역업자. 한편 시리아에도 무기를 밀매하던 스미스는 페로 대령에 의해 발각된고, 그를 살려주는 대신, 시리아의 접선 장소를 알려 달라고 하고, 휴전 협상을 위해 목숨을 걸고 시리아로 들어간다. 군 사령부는 핵심 인물이 페로 대령의 안전을 위해 시리아에 돈을 주고 페로 대령을 빼와 달라는 부탁을 스미스에게 하고 페로 대령을 구하지만, 스미스 본인은 죽음을 맞이한다.
Mary - Secretary (uncredited)
When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands, with whom he regularly played poker, to a letter he left each of them claiming to have had an affair with each's wife.
Sadie
Joan Grey is a young pianist that falls for the good manners and nice clothes of a gang of mobsters. She is warned by Mark Hampton, an investigator, that she is associating with gangsters and she is heading for trouble. She refuses to believe him and becomes innocently involved in some robberies and killings.
Elizabeth Alonescu
A secret service agent falls in love with an illegal immigrant.
Nickie
A down-on-her-luck San Francisco woman, turning in desperation to jewel robbery, barely escapes getting nabbed in a heist and moves to Los Angeles where she gets an honest job as a waitress. Her troubles start again, however, when she falls madly in love, blind to the fact that her boyfriend is a four-flushing, small-time con man.
Marie
While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl but leaves her behind when he returns to the U.S. The French woman follows him to America only to discover he’s already married to a successful lawyer.
Mrs. Tanner
Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.
한 남자가 살해당한 채 발견된다. 목격자의 증언에 따라 경찰은 한 여성을 용의자로 지목하지만, 곧 그녀에게 쌍둥이 자매가 있음이 드러난다. 과연 두 사람 중 진짜 범인은 누구일까. 사건은 미궁으로 빠지고, 스티븐슨 형사의 혼란은 더 커져간다. (2017년 한국시네마테크협의회 - 다크 시티: 필름 누아르 특별전)
Johnny Riggs, a con man on the lam, finds himself in a Latin-American country named Patria. There, he overhears a convent-bred rich girl praying to her guardian angel for help in managing her tangled business affairs. Riggs decides to materialize as the girl's "angel", gains her unquestioning confidence, and helps himself to the deluded girl's millions. Just as he and his partner are about to flee Patria with their booty, Riggs realizes he has fallen in love with the girl and returns the money, together with a note that is part confession and part love letter. But the larcenous duo's escape from Patria turns out to be more difficult than they could ever have imagined.
Baby's Mother
A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.
