A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town.

A lawyer is haunted by a previous case in which he manipulated evidence and convicted an innocent man.

A young actress hits Hollywood determined to be a movie star and runs into a lot of roadblocks along the way.

Dan Adams resigns his position as prosecutor on the district attorney's staff and sets out to clean up a gang of fake-accident racketeers. He gets a job with an insurance company, and assures the company president he will get the goods on the gang or die in the attempt. At the company offices, he meets Carol Carter and she, believing he is a shyster (possibly redundant) lawyer in the employ of the racketeers gives him as little help as possible. Dan visits his brother Eddie, who is mixed up with the gang and tries to make him break away. Eddie is belligerent but finally, because of the pressure brought by Dan and his wife Tonia, agrees to go straight. The gang, led by "Duke" Trotti, fears he will squeal and they kill him, plus they make his death look like an accident and plan to collect on it. Dan is closing in on the gang when Carol, who is now his assistant, comes up with some conclusive evidence, but "Duke" has plans to get rid of her before she can give the information to Dan.

The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can divide up her money. To show them that there are no hard feelings, she invites them to her estate for the weekend so she can decide to whom she actually will leave her money when she dies. Soon, however, family members begin turning up dead.

A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss.

Runyonesque crooks on the lam hide out on blind man's pastoral farm and decide to go straight.

Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.

A district attorney and a reporter try to find the killer of a D.A. who uncovered a massive stock fraud.

1943 film by Michael Gordon

1932 film by John Francis Dillon

Captain Nemo has built a fantastic submarine for his mission of revenge. He has traveled over 20,000 leagues in search of Charles Denver - a man who caused the death of Princess Daaker. Seeing what he had done, Denver took the daughter to his yacht and sailed away.