Parker
Frank was removed from an investigation into Mac Brown, the owner of a pharmaceutical company, who was suspected of drug trafficking and illegal experiments on teenagers. When Brown is murdered, Frank is called to investigate...
Governor Boone / Moore
Victims of oppressive town boss Honey are offered help by an unusual alliance of gunmen and circus performers
Jack Rycher
The first film based on the television series MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, consisting of a compilation of a two-part episode of the original series from 1967 called THE COUNCIL.
Don Andrea
A rich, jet-setting playboy has a secret life: he's also a professional Mafia hitman. When he decides it's time to retire from that life, he finds that his former employers don't like the idea that someone who knows so much about them won't be under their control anymore, and decide to send their own hitmen to eliminate him.
Prairie Dog
전설로 전해져 내려오는 황금의 계곡. 그곳으로 향하는 지도를 가지고 있던 늙은 추장이 임종 직전, 보안관 맥켄나(MacKenna : 그레고리 펙 분)에게 그 지도를 넘긴다. 몇몇 탐욕스런 인디언들과 결탁해서 그 뒤를 쫓던 무법자 콜로라도(Colorado : 오마 샤리프 분)는 맥켄나가 이미 지도를 없앤 것을 알자 그를 인질로 삼아 황금의 계곡으로 향한다. 여기에 산체스의 무리들이 합류하여 일행은 대규모로 불어난다. 이들 중에는 아파치에 의해 장님이 되기 전에 황금의 계곡을 보았다는 노인도 있었다. 포악한 인디안들과 군대에 쫓기서 일행은 결국 뿔뿔이 흩어져 맥켄나와 콜로라도를 포함한 5인만이 남게 된다. 맥켄나는 비상한 기억력으로 지도에 있던 지형을 하나둘 더듬어 간다. 마침내 아주 잠시동안 계곡으로 향하는 길을 알려주는 독수리 바위 앞에 도달하는데...
Luigi
2차 세계 대전에서 패한 이탈리아 군대가 와인의 맛이 좋기로 유명한 이탈리아 북부의 산타 비토리아에 백만병의 와인을 내놓을 것을 요구한다. 화가 난 마을 사람들은 이탈로 봄볼리니에게 도움을 청한다. 봄볼리나와 마을 사람들은 힘을 모아 와인을 모두 숨기고, 마을에 도착한 군인들은 남아 있는 와인이 하나도 없다는 것을 알게 된다.
Don Peppino
아버지때부터 마피아 집안인 프랭크(커크 더글러스 분)는 고향 시실리를 떠나 미국에 건너온 뒤 노조를 장악하는 등 마피아 조직의 실력자로 성장한다. 그는 대학을 졸업한 동생 빈스(알렉 코드 분)에게 자부심을 느끼며 끔직히 사랑한다. 프랭크는 30여 년 전 조직을 배신하고 아버지를 밀고해 죽게한 인물이 빈스의 장인이자 오래전부터 알고 지내던 도미니크임을 알고 그를 살해한 뒤 시칠리아로 도망친다. 그리고 조직에서는 프랭크를 살해하라는 임무가 내려진다.
Arturo 'Fingers' Stilletto
"Spy in the Green Hat, The (1966)" on the other hand, is both exciting AND funny. Especially the scene where Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) hides from THRUSH agents under a young woman's (the incredibly cute Letícia Román) bed and is caught by the woman's grandmother (Penny Santon), who is forcing Solo to marry the young woman. He successfully escapes, but is hunted by a legion of stereotyped Italian gangsters. Now that's comedy.
Party Guest (uncredited)
텍사스의 작은 마을. 이곳은 석유 재벌 발 로저스가 모든 것을 장악하고 있는 곳이다. 강직한 성품의 보안관 칼더는 마을 사람들이 자신을 발의 앞잡이로만 여기는 것을 탐탁치 않게 여긴다. 그러던 중 감옥에서 버바 리브스가 탈출 하고 마을 사람들 중에는 리브스와 얽혀진 갖가지 추악한 과거들이 드러나길 원하지 않는다. 특히, 발은 아들 제이크가 리브스의 아내와 불륜의 관계에 있는 것을 알고 아들에게 해가 될까 두려워한다. 멕시코로 도망하려던 리브스는 실수로 고향으로 되돌아 오게 된다. 칼더의 임무는 리브스를 온전히 감옥으로 돌려 보내는 것이지만 마을은 이미 술과 광기로 미쳐가고 칼더는 집단 린치를 당하게 된다. 가까스로 리브스를 보안관 사무실로 데려오지만......
Eric Dancer
After a search for his father's killers, Wes Evans returns home only to find himself involved in a bloody land dispute.
Innkeeper (uncredited)
Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big things from Carla, only to learn that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed...
Marshal Graziani
As the Salo Republic crumbles around him, Mussolini, along with his mistress and several of his ministers flee with retreating Nazi soldiers, but are caught at the town of Dongo by red partisans. All are brutally executed without trial.
Arturo Zaccardi
An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.
Crespi
A party of explorers in the Amazon jungle are captured by a tribe of women, and learn that they are to be used as the tribe's "love slaves."
Mahri
A test rocket carrying wasps to outer space, to study the effects on them of weightlessness and radiations, crashes out of control back to Earth, into the jungles of Africa. The two astrobiologists in charge of the test mount an expedition to the Darkest Continent to retrieve their experiment, only to find the wasps have grown to giant size which are panicking all forms of life as they quest for food.
Alessandro Arlandi
A woman tries to gain control of his father's company after he dies.
Andros
Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal Greeks, he must flee...but fate and their mutual passions lead him to take Helen along. This gives the Greeks just the excuse they need for much-desired war.
Vescovo
Don Paolo, a young parson troubled by his love for Agnese, tries to make peace in a little village in Sardinia where two families are at war.
A young man leaves the countryside and falls for the owner of a nightclub.
Onegesius
Attila, the leader of the barbarian Huns and called by the Romans "The Scourge of God", sweeps onto the Italian peninsula, defeating all of the armies of Rome, until he and his men reach the gates of the city itself.
Ammiraglio Zora
Italian naval secret agents acquire a British codebook and the Italian counter-espionage agents start tracking enemy agents working undercover in Italy and providing false information.
Il padre di Giovanna (as Edoardo Cianelli)
A young and poor Venetian woman is invited to a masquerade ball by a charming count.
Dr. Vivaldi
Eight-year-old Roger Court is in Venice expecting to reunite with his father, British diplomat Major Court (Trevor Howard), whom he hasn't seen in three years. Roger lives with his Aunt Rose since his mother abandoned him.
During WWII, Sandro Ademari (Massimo Girotti), head of a group of Italian partisans, to escape from a Nazi catch, hides himself by a farm. Here he knows Luisa (Lea Padovani) and soon the two married and have a baby. After the war, Sandro, now a solicitor, succeeded also to be elected in Rome's parliament. Here he starts an extramarital affair with Germana (Patricia Neal). Sandro, now deep involved with Germana, tries all the way to leave Luisa (divorce wasn't legal during the '50s in Italy). But Luisa is determined to save her marriage and arrives in Rome to discuss with the two. The tragedy is behind the corner.
Claudio's father
프랑스, 이탈리아, 영국을 배경으로 벌어지는 세 젊은이들의 이야기. 첫 번째 에피소드에서는 돈 때문에 친구를 살해할 계획을 세우는 고등학생들을 다루고, 두 번째 에피소드에서는 담배 밀수와 얽힌 대학생들의 이야기를 다룬다. 그리고 세 번째 에피소드는 살인 사건의 이야기를 신문사에 팔려고 하는 가난한 시인의 이야기를 그린다.
Inquisitore
Coming of age, a girl is told the truth about her dead father: he is alive, but imprisoned for several crimes he did not commit... With the help of an old noble lady and a young count (who doubles as a daring sea captain), she will fight for the truth, and justice. Her opponent is the State Town's Inquisitor himself, who set her father's up to escape his own crimes.
Padre superiore
Voice of Silence is a 1953 Italian drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, written by Giuseppe Berto, starring Aldo Fabrizi and Jean Marais.
Arnaldo
Alfonso Navona
Turn-of-the-century Naples. Salvatore Ruotolo and his wife are murdered and their bodies are found in different locations. Since the evidence points to a crime by the Neapolitan crime organization, the Camorra, fear and corruption cause serious hindrances to the investigation by police authorities. In charge is a young and courageous judge who, using evidence discovered by chance, tries to reconstruct the story of the double murder. The plot that the judge must unravel is very complicated.
Capo delle spie (as Edward Ciannelli)
A naive clerk finds himself involved in the theft of a ring containing a dangerous liquid.
Sol 'Knuckles' Lanzetta
A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.
Saverio Luparello is the manager of Sicilian baron Occipinti's estate. The cunning greedy man intentionally lets the land turn into a wasteland, hoping that his employer, discouraged by its low returns, will sell his earth to him for next to nothing. His plans are thwarted by a share cropper, Diego Costa, who farms his lot zealously and to good results.
Ralph Clementi
A man drives his car off a cliff in an apparent suicide. One insurance investigator is not so sure it was an accident or suicide and gets 48 hours to prove his case.
Giulio
An exiled Italian prostitute (Anna Magnani) shields her sister (Geraldine Brooks) from a deep-sea diver (Rossano Brazzi) on an island volcano.
Giacomo Mola
The title of this Italian melodrama translates to Pact with the Devil. However, His Satanic Majesty does not appear in the film. Rather, this expensively produced period piece is more along the lines of Romeo and Juliet, with young love threatened by warring families. In his first Italian film, Hollywood veteran Eduardo Cianelli goes through his usual villainous paces as the scheming father of the male lead (Jacques Francois). The most fascinating performance is rendered by Umberto Spadaro, as the village idiot, or is he? Patto col Diavolo makes the most of the visual dynamics of Italy's mountainous Calabrian region.
Art Dealer (uncredited)
In 1500, Duke Cesare Borgia hopes to marry his sister to the heir apparent of Ferrara, which impedes his conquest of central Italy. On this delicate mission he sends Andrea Orsini, his sister's lover and nearly as unscrupulous as himself. En route, Orsini meets Camilla Verano, wife of the count of Citta' del Monte, and sentiment threatens to turn him against his deadly master, whom no one betrays twice...
Firago
An American serviceman remains in France after WWII and becomes a black marketeer.
Dr. Van Glock
Dr. Morgan (Onslow Stevens) and Dr. Cavigny (Ralph Morgan) star as a brace of scientists who return from the West Indies with a potent, phosphorescent serum that allegedly changes human beings into cats.
Maxim
Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the day's roving question. Martha suggests, "Has a little child ever changed your life?" Oliver gets answers from two slow-talking musicians, an actress whose roles usually feature a sarong, and an itinerant cardsharp. In each case the "little child" is hardly innocent: in the first, a local auto mechanic's "baby" turns out to be fully developed as a woman and a musician; in the second, a spoiled child star learns kindness; in the third, the family of a lost brat doesn't want him returned. And Oliver, what becomes of him?
John Vega Caprillo
A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife's mysterious past.
Maurice Duval
While visiting France, a criminal psychologist tries to clear a disturbed young man of his father's murder.
Father Rinaldo
In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19th-century poet, Jeffrey Ashton, who disappeared mysteriously. Using a false name, Lewis Venable rents a room from Juliana Bordereau, once Jeffrey Ashton's lover, now an aged recluse. Running the household is Juliana's severe niece, Tina, who mistrusts Venable from the first moment. He realizes all is not right when late one night he finds Tina, her hair unpinned and wild, at the piano. She calls him Jeffrey and throws herself at him. The family priest warns Venable to tread carefully around her fantasies, but he wants the letters at any cost, even Tina's sanity.
Cargan
Writer Kenneth Magee has bet that he can finish a story at rural resort Baldpate Inn, now closed for the winter. The owner has given him the "only" key to the front door. But there are six other keys, and peculiar characters, some of them up to no good, keep turning up as the mystery deepens.
Padre
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Johnny and Michael finally arrive, Lily is rich from her saloon and storekeeper (former slaver) Pharaoh Coffin is bleeding the miners dry. But worse troubles are ahead: California is inching toward statehood, and certain people want to make it their private empire.
Florini
After losing heavyweight contender Al Costa to mob boss Florini fight promoter Knobby Walsh recruits small town boy Joe Palooka to take his place. First in the series.
Baron Ferdinand Dvorak
A female escapee from a reform school joins a pickpocket academy in Paris.
Cartel Member (uncredited)
아르헨티나의 도박장에서 많은 돈을 딴 조니는 거리에서 강도의 습격을 받는다. 카지노 소유주 먼슨의 도움으로 위기를 모면한 조니는 그의 심복이 된다. 조니는 먼슨의 아내 길다를 소개받는데, 길다는 다름아닌 조니의 옛 애인. 길다와 조니는 서로에게 이끌리고 이것을 눈치챈 먼슨은 질투와 증오심을 참지 못한다. 먼슨이 비행기 사고로 죽자, 결혼하게 되는 조니와 길다. 하지만 조니는 길다의 과거 남성 편력에 대해 의심을 갖게 되고 이들의 결혼 생활은 순탄치 않게 된다. 그러던 중 죽은 줄 알았던 먼슨이 복수를 하기 위해 돌아오고, 조니와 먼슨의 최후의 격투가 벌어진다.
Jacques Antoine
In this sequel to the original story, Monte Cristo count Edmund Dantes (Martin Kosleck) returns to Paris to get revenge but soon finds himself pursued by a cruel policeman (John Loder). The count's brave wife Haydée (Lenore Aubert) throws the cop off her husband's scent by dressing up as the masked avenger herself and proving that she too is most competent with a sword.
Señor Aguirre
A tale of an international counterfeiting-ring operating in Mexico starts with Patrick Nevil viewed as a suspicious character by newspaper woman Agnes Stuart, who is working on a story to expose racketeering night-club owner Doc Lilley.
Nick Petroni (uncredited)
A criminal psychologist treats an artist whose blackouts coincide with a series of murders.
Nick the Greek
Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"
Maj. Nasta
Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without interfering with troop movements, all the while dealing with colorful citizens of the town. One of his quests is to replace the bell which orders the town's life.
Marco Minelli
The life of American public enemy number one who was shot by the police in 1934.
Colonel Almeida (as Edward Ciannelli)
A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon.
Blanco
A nightclub star helps trap an enemy agent on the trail of an American newsman.
Marukakis (as Edward Ciannelli)
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order to learn more about the man. Along the way he is joined by the mysterious Mr. Peters, who has his own motivation.
Chief Engineer
A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.
Kurt von Helger
Four youthful cadets are implicated in a series of murders, and must attempt to clear themselves of suspicion.
1937년 파시스트와 공화정부파로 갈라져 싸우던 스페인 내전에서 미국 청년 로버트 죠단은 정의와 자유를 위해 공화 정부파의 의용군에 투신하여 게릴라 활동에 종사하고 있다. 죠단에게 내려진 새로운 임무는 적군의 진격로에 해당하는 산중의 대철교를 3일 후에 폭파시키라는 것이다. 죠단은 안세르모라는 늙은 짚시를 안내로 삼고, 목적하는 산지로 찾아들어간다. 한편, 철교를 폭파시키기 위해서는 이 산악지방의 집시의 힘을 빌지 않고서는 불가능하다. 이 짚시의 두목은 술을 좋아하는 파블로로 그는 이일에 선뜻 협력하려들지 않는다. 그래서 죠단은 파블로의 아내 필라와 이 일을 협의하게 된다. 그녀는 자진하여 집시를 지휘해서 이 계획을 원조할 것을 제의한다. 파블로의 부하는 전원 필라의 명령에 따라 착착 계획을 진행하는데 이러는 중에 스페인의 소녀 마리아는 뜨겁게 죠단을 사랑하게 된다. 드디어 3일째인 이른 아침, 죠단일행은 철교 폭파에 성공한다. 그러나 그는 말을 몰고 달리는 순간, 적군의 포화에 쓰러지는데...
Roberto
The daughter of a musical mentor adores a promising composer, who is quite fond of the adolescent. When her father dies, an uncle arrives with his own grown daughter, who begins a romance with the composer which culminates in marriage but creates an emotional rivalry that affects the three.
Johnny Salvini
A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles to New York record and attracts the interest of the U.S. Navy, who want to send her on a spy mission.
Baldanacco
Bumbling reporter Robert Kittredge has been fired after bungling his latest assignment. His career isn't all he's botched up: his girlfriend Chris is tired of waiting for him to marry her. When he gets a hot tip on some Nazi spies operating in Washington, D.C., he convinces Chris to help him break the story so he can get his job back. The pair soon find themselves in several awkward predicaments as they track the criminals down in a night club, a burlesque show, and face a final showdown at a beauty salon.
Boss Greer
A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin.
Ahmed Ben Hassan (as Edward Ciannelli)
Reporter Homer Smith accidently draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Conwoys with robot-planes.
Vic Telli (as Edward Cianelli)
A New York doctor (Macdonald Carey) saves a chorus girl (Jean Phillips) from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.
Mouche
Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flees the city when the goose-stepping Nazi storm-troopers arrive. When her mother dies on the road to Bordeaux as a result of Nazi bombing, she returns to Paris and joins the underground movement. Nicholas Jordan, an American member of the RAF, stranded in Paris after the evacuation is also working with the Paris underground. Marianne kills her former fiancée, a pro-Nazi informant, for the traitorous state papers he is carrying, and she and Jordan try to flee over a French seaport...
Dr. Victor Martel
A ship's officer is sentenced to Devil's Island for murder after a fatal brawl.
Giovanni Riccio, the Hotel Manager
A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable diamond and gem necklace in Bombay and as the Japanese Army invades China.
Felix Lynx
Captain Bob Dayton and Lieutenant Ed Carey are partners in a company called "Sky Raiders" which seeks US government contracts for its inventions. Enemy spies attempt to steal, sabotage and discredit the inventions and founders of the company.
Count Brett (as Edward Ciannelli)
Like the first entry in Columbia's "Ellery Queen" series, Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery depicts its amateur-criminologist hero as an oafish ignoramus. This time around, Chinese ventriloquist Gordon Cobb (Noel Madison), is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen (Charles Grapewin) asks his son Ellery (Ralph Bellamy) to help out.
Giono
Kitty Foyle, a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young socialite Wyn Strafford but his family is against her.
Doctor Satan
A mad scientist named Dr. Satan plots to steal key pieces of technology to enable him to build an army of robots based on his prototype to conquer America. The only one standing in his way is Bob Wayne, who fights Satan as the enigmatic Copperhead. Mysterious Doctor Satan is a 1940 film serial named after its chief villain. Doctor Satan's main opponent is the masked mystery man, "The Copperhead", whose secret identity is Bob Wayne, a man searching for justice and revenge on Satan for the death of his step-father. The serial charts the conflict between the two as Bob Wayne pursues Doctor Satan, while the latter completes his plans for world domination.
The High Priest
A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving funding from an eccentric magician and his beautiful daughter, they set out into the desert only to be terrorized by a sinister high priest and the living mummy Kharis who are the guardians of Ananka’s tomb.
Mr. Krug
주인공 맥클란은 기자들과 함께 스파이 조직에 연루되면서 복잡한 암살을 비롯한 사건들이 벌어진다. 기자의 카메라에 숨겨진 총으로 벌어지는 암살 장면이나, 네덜란드의 풍물인 풍차가 등장하는 스펙타클한 장관, 그리고 전쟁이 시작되는 날 런던에서 출발하는 대서양 횡단 비행기 씬 등이 유명한 이 영화의 장면들이다. 초창기 영화에서 보여준 스토리 스텔링이라는 단순한 이야기 나열에 그치지 않고, 영화 본래의 기술인 볼거리 중심의 미장센 연출을, 완벽한 카메라와 편집, 계산된 연기 지도 등으로 보여준다. 이 영화가 헐리웃에서 대성공을 거두자 제작자들이 히치콕에게 찾아와 최고의 대우를 해 주겠다는 계약서가 줄을 이었다고 한다.
Gorno
A disillusioned factory worker is charged with the attempted murder of her mother's lover.
Koski
A beautiful young woman organizes an expedition to Africa to search for a sacred skull that is worshiped by the locals.
Dave Reeves
Government Agent Conway, posing as a crew member of a ship, is investigating the flood of counterfeit money that seemingly is originating for a gambling ship, moored off-shore beyond the three-mile limit and operated by gangster Dave Reeves.
Telez
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
Alfred Martino
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.
Henri Armides
Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond is on the precipice of matrimony to his beloved Phyllis -- but a bank robbery and a daring escape is going to get in their way before they reach the altar.
Jim Crelliman
Society lawyer Christopher Durant agrees to defend his friend Phil Siddall when Siddall is arrested for the murder of an ex-girlfriend. With the help of nightclub singer Pat Abbott and crime boss Tony Gazotti (a former client), Durant launches his own investigation of the murder in order to prove his friend's innocence
Philip Decarno
Radio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has been kidnapped.
Guru
인도에 주둔하고 있던 스코틀랜드 연대를 구하고 전사하는 인도 청년 건가 딘의 활약을 그리고 있다. 인도의 '사그단'이란 비밀결사에 의해 통신이 두절된 스코틀랜드 연대의 통신시설을 복구하려 맥, 카터, 펄 등 삼총사가 파견되었으나 이들은 '사그단'의 포로가 되고만다. 여기서 카터의 군 심부름꾼 건가 딘이 목숨을 걸고 나팔을 불어 연대는 위기를 모면하지만 건가 딘은 전사하고 만다.
Mitch
A Paris sculptor (Richard Dix) fakes blindness in Los Angeles to recover his blackmailed sister's love letters.
Rocky
A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution
Andreas Mazzini
A Paris cabaret singer dreams of becoming a Metropolitan Opera singer. A press agent arranges her Manhattan debut by way of Africa.
Ice Richmond
When her husband is accused of murder, an actress tries to prove his innocence.
Professor Herman
A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.
Franz Jorg
A female agent tacks down the cause of mysterious explosions.
Paul Chapin
Nero Wolfe agrees to investigate a series of murders that seem to be tied in with a past Harvard hazing prank that went awry.
Johnny Vanning
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
Gene Larkin
Barry Brandon, a criminal lawyer, visits the night club of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with Betty Walker, a spoiled society girl. The police raid the club and Brandon pleads that the whole group is guilty, just to get even with Larkin for a rebuke. On the same night in court, Madge Carter is on trial for disorderly conduct, and Brandon volunteers to defend her, and proves the case against her if a frame-up. Finding that she is penniless, Brandon hires her as his secretary, and falls in love with her. Brandon is appointed district attorney and has ambitions of becoming the state governor. Having dinner at Betty's home, she maneuvers him, while he is drunk, into marrying her. Later, Madge is a witness when Larkin shoots down a fellow gangster. By threatening Brandon's life, he forces her to commit perjury at his trial, and say he fired in self-defense. Brandon, the prosecuting attorney (who has had his marriage to Betty annulled) knows she is lying but doesn't know why.
Trock Estrella
A man is determined to find the real culprit behind the crime for which his father was wrongly executed.
Maurice Stern
A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a month on Earth to find one person to shed a tear for him before his fate is sealed.
Pofferoff aka Poffy
An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now wed to a psychiatrist (Frank Morgan).