Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.
Una bionda mozzafiato dal passato burrascoso ha aperto, in una zona desertica degli Stati Uniti, una casa da gioco che gestisce con successo. La donna ha una figlia che, uscita dal collegio dove è stata rinchiusa, torna a vivere con lei. Non abituata al mondo esterno la ragazza cede alla corte di un ex cow boy che ora fa il poliziotto. Ma un altro uomo dal passato torbido piano piano la trascina nella passione e soprattutto la rende insensibile ai consigli della madre. Nonostante le raccomandazioni di quest'ultima la ragazza fugge con l'amico. La tragedia scoppia all'improvviso nel corso del viaggio...
Johnny, dopo alcuni anni in galera, fa l'autista, ma è anche il capo di una banda di gangster. Maria, la figlia del procuatore distrettuale, si innamora di lui, e Johnny, pur amandola, se ne serve per ricattare il padre della ragazza.
Magazine writer Ann Mason infiltrates the United Defenders, a public service organization which is actually a front for racketeers. But a case of amnesia threatens to blow her cover.
A Roma, il racket colpisce spietato chi non paga il pizzo. I bravacci della mala hanno avuto mano libera: violenza e morte per chi sgarra. Di fronte all'impotenza della Legge, il maresciallo Nico Palmieri organizza una squadra di vigilantes violenti quanto i cattivi.
An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.
Set in post Second World War Britain, Noose is the story of black market racketeers who face attempts to bring them to justice by an American fashion journalist, her ex-army fiancée and a gang of honest toughs from a local gym. When a corpse turns up at black market front The Blue Moon Club, Yank reporter Carole Landis starts snooping, much to gang boss Joseph Calleia’s annoyance. And soon there’s a hit man on the way...
A young woman's murder sheds light on a crooked talent agency.
A convicted racketeer becomes prison trustee when an inmate whom he persuaded to escape is killed.
The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick buck. The idea of working never enters their minds until Halop is egged on by Grey to show his capabilities. Before long, he and Hall are working on the ranch of Galli, an elderly Italian woman who treats her workers like human beings instead of animals. Galli's son disappeared as an infant, and Halop tries to convince her that he is that long lost son, thus possibly sharing in her wealth. Galli is such a good person that Halop is soon motivated by respect instead of greed, so he devises a plan to help her when truckers and a labor organization band together to keep her crops from making it to market.
A dapper gangster sponsors an alcoholic violinist in order to win the love of a glamorous divorced socialite.
Un gangster ricercato dalla polizia s'impossessa di un'automobile e fugge dalla città. I poliziotti perdono le sue tracce. Il fuggitivo, stanco per la lunga corsa e sfinito per l'emozione, esce di strada con l'automobile e si ferisce. Soccorso da una famiglia campagnola, nell'ambiente lindo e sano della vita campestre egli riacquista la salute e la serenità. Ma, quel che più conta, a contatto di quella gente onesta, e specialmente per la vicinanza di una gentile e buona fanciulla, il gangster si redime e decide di cominciare una nuova vita. I poliziotti scoprono il suo rifugio e si presentano per arrestarlo. Egli allora confessa alla fanciulla il suo vero essere, e quando essa gli dichiara che aspetterà, perchè lo ama, che egli abbia scontato la sua pena, accetta l'espiazione del carcere per ritornare degno di una nuova esistenza vicino a colei che ama.
Second Jerry Cotton movie. A ring of gangsters has been terrorizing New York City. Special agent Jerry Cotton is summoned by the FBI to help crack down on the Criminals and put them out of business. He doesnt pull any punches either.
Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with juvenile delinquency, petty crimes, graft and also a recent unsolved murder of a strip-tease dancer. Recognizing the laxity of the department he implements many changes and soon finds himself under fire by the newspapers, the attorney of a racket leader and the denizens of this human jungle.
In this gangster movie, a criminal king-pin and his gang hide out in his hometown where they witness a religious revival that inspires the man to begin billing himself as a "born-again" evangelist so he can cash in on the guilty consciences of local businessmen.
Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.
Racketeers muscle in on construction business, use inferior materials, make big profits and endanger the public safety.