Murder Among Friends (1941)

Com o desaparecimento do escritor de terror Sutter Cane, todo o Inferno está se soltando ... literalmente! Autor Cane, parece, tem um jeito para descrição que realmente traz seus malvados rastejantes para a vida. O investigador de seguros John Trent é enviado para investigar o misterioso desaparecimento de Cane e acaba na pacata cidadezinha de Hobb's End, na costa leste.

C.W. Briggs (Woody Allen) é, segundo ele mesmo, o melhor investigador de seguros dos anos 40. Briggs se orgulha de conseguir capturar qualquer trapaceiro entrando em sua mente e desvendando seus mistérios. Entretanto, desta vez Briggs tem um desafio diferente: precisa capturar um ladrão que utiliza poderes hipnóticos oriundos do Escorpião de Jade. Sabendo que está sendo perseguido pelo investigador, o ladrão utiliza seus poderes para entrar na mente de Briggs e envolvê-lo em um roubo de jóias.

Pistoleiros matam uma vítima que não resiste, e o investigador Reardon descobre seu envolvimento passado com a bela e mortal Kitty Collins. Dois assassinos profissionais invadem uma pequena cidade e matam um atendente de posto de gasolina, "o sueco", que os espera sem opor nenhuma resistência. O investigador de seguros Reardon investiga o caso contra as ordens de seu chefe, que considera o caso trivial. Juntando os fios da vida do sueco, Reardon descobre uma complexa história de traição e crime, tudo ligando com a deslumbrante e misteriosa Kitty Collins.

An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.

The wife of an executive finds her husband shot to death and destroys his suicide note in order to claim his insurance.

A famous skier, his mistress and a ski instructor rob a bank in the Alps and hide the loot in a crevasse.

Merle Kramer works as a stenographer for a psychiatrist. She is casually dating Karl Benson, a private eye and former cop. Merle mentions in passing that one of her boss's patients is an author with recurring dreams of murdering his wife, and she includes the fact that the wife owns valuable jewels. When the wife is found murdered in a manner identical to that of her husband's dream, the husband is naturally the prime suspect. But as the investigation of the police and insurance investigator Joe Cooper proceeds, it turns out that several people in the case, including Merle, are not what they seem.

Security guard, wounded in a robbery of furs, arouses the suspicions of an insurance investigator.

Dono de um posto de gasolina contrata novo empregado. Jovem e sedutor, acaba se envolvendo com a esposa do patrão e com ela planeja matar o dono do local para herdar seus bens.

Jim Bronton is an insurance investigator, but he's unhappy with his work and gets involved with a gang of arsonists. His conscience is troubling him ...

Walter Thoren é um magnata que morre em um acidente em Acapulco, deixando um seguro de US$ 5 milhões. A companhia responsável pelo pagamento envia Jake, um detetive, para verificar se houve fraude. Jake então contrata Ellie, uma estonteante modelo, para se fazer passar por sua esposa. Os dois viajam para Acapulco e constatam que algo está errado. Enquanto a viúva está fria e distante, Jake e sua esposa tentam desvendar a intrincada trama.

Jun-oh, an insurance claims agent, faces off with a client who he suspects of committing murders with the intention of collecting insurance premiums.

An insurance investigator tumbles onto a series of similar deaths, by brain hemorrhage, of patients of a psychiatric clinic in France where therapy involves a device which can implant visual imagery in the minds of patients, ostensibly to help them relax.

Two men (Don Castle, John Litel) and a woman (June Lang) form a triangle confined by a lighthouse.

Police set up a dragnet to trap an outlaw's wife whom they believe to be his accomplice.

A botched diamond burglary and a dead publishing company executive set off a string of murders and betrayal.

Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.

A U.S. businessman (Warren Douglas) abroad is the patsy for the theft of a rajah's jewels.

A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships for the insurance money. He finds himself involved in a web of deception, double-crossing and murder.

A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.