Il detective Mark Dixon viene degradato a causa del suo comportamento troppo brutale. Date queste premesse, nel momento in cui uccide involontariamente, in una colluttazione, un sospetto è perciò spinto a nascondere il cadavere e a tentare di attribuire ad altri la responsabilità dell'omicidio. In particolare, cerca di incastrare il gangster Scalise, ingaggiando con lui una vera e propria lotta personale.
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
La vecchia Annie, venditrice di mele negli ambienti equivoci di Broadway, mantiene sua figlia in un aristocratico collegio in Spagna. La fanciulla riceve un'offerta di matrimonio dal conte Romero. Annie si trova allora in una situazione imbarazzantissima perché la figlia Louise, dalla quale lei si è sempre fatta credere una signora dell'alta società, le ha annunciato una prossima visita con il fidanzato ed i genitori di lui. Ma uno dei suoi assidui compratori di mele, un avventuriero soprannominato "il Damerino", decide di aiutarla. La fa trasformare in una dama di gran classe, affitta per lei un appartamento e le mette accanto un marito di parata. Tutto è a posto e l'incontro si svolge senza incidenti. Tutto si conclude a meraviglia con la festa del fidanzamento ufficiale.
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.
Racketeer Jim Barnes is trying to force the independent taxicab-drivers to join his "protection service" at the cost of five bucks a day. Champion race-car driver, Bob Kane, joins with his friends Lee and "Dad" Martin in a fight for the street rights of a big city.
A policeman in New Mexico takes payoff money but still manages to go after a racketeer.
Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.
Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
Michael is a young Englishman abroad who deliberately visits a tough Chinese district of Tiger Bay to test his strength. He falls in love and battles a protection racket.
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.
Bobby Martin, a young middleweight champion boxer, is an honest and decent fighter. However, a dishonest but beautiful woman uses every trick to ensnare him.
Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys meet Steve's mother, Alice Bell and Tommy is given a job in the storage garage which she owns jointly with Mack Steward. Steve's brother Don Bell is working with some gangsters by tipping them off on valuable merchandise that can be hijacked. Pig, Ape and String overhear Don's plans to use Tommy as the fall guy in the next hijacking.
A lawyer changes from defending public enemies to bringing them to justice after his brother is killed.
After several years of supporting parts, Victor McLaglen once more landed a leading role in Republic's City of Shadows. McLaglen plays Big Tim Channing, an ageing but powerful gangster who raises young newsboy Dan Mason as his own son. Upon reaching adulthood, Mason (John Baer) becomes a law student, with the covert (and illegal) help of Channing. Despite his checkered past, Mason opts for honesty when he falls in love with Fern Fellows (Kathleen Crowley). This decision ultimately spells the doom for Mason's mentor Big Tim.
Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.
Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products.
Rose Manning swears revenge for the unjust slaying of her father by Inspector McArthur. Five years later, as a nightclub hostess, she is sought by Chuck Gaines, secretly a bootlegger, but she centers her attentions on young Jimmy Carter, who, she learns, is the son of McArthur.
Due poliziotti, Purvis e Barnes sono entrambi innamorati della segretaria dell'ufficio presso cui lavorano, alla fine lei sembra indifferente poi si innamora di Barnes e decidono di sposarsi. La notte prima del matrimonio lo sposo viene ucciso da un malvivente che crede che i due abbiano arrestato un suo compare. Purvis a questo punto si metterà sulle loro tracce per fare giustizia.
When love came the way of this gentleman crook he turned to the right---only to be caught in the swirling eddy of his criminal past! (original ad)