진리와 정의를 위해 뛰어다니는 후래치는 뛰어난 변장술을 가진 데다가 재치있는 행동으로 사건을 파해치는 기자다. 그가 파헤지는 사건들은 의문쩍은 살인 사건과 마약 조직 사슬이다. 마약상인을 추적하고자 마약 사용자처럼 변장한 후래치는 자신을 죽여달라는 이상한 살인의뢰를 받고, 경찰에 의해 계속 쫓기게 되는데...
각자가 가진 현실의 고통에서 벗어나려는 영화사 사장과 배우가 함께 영화를 만드는 과정에서 삶의 의지와 희망을 갖게 되는 모습을 그린 코믹 액션 영화
The film is a story of the ways in which insurance investigator Roland Copping interferes in and manipulates the lives of others with outrageous games and gimmicks. Eventually he becomes involved in an escalating vendetta with a couple who make an unusual insurance claim.
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?
스릴러로서는 조금 떨어지지만 드라마는 즐길 만하다는 평을 받았다. 렉스 블랙(Rex Black: 로렌스 하비 분)은 아내 스텔라(Stella Black: 리 레믹 분)와 짜고 글라이더 사고를 위장해 자신이 사망한 것처럼 만든 다음 스페인으로 떠난다. 스텔라가 보험금 지불을 기다리는 동안 렉스는 스페인에서 호주인 갑부의 여권을 훔쳐 그의 행세를 하며 스텔라를 기다 린다. 보험 회사 직원인 스티븐 매독스(Stephen: 앨런 베이츠 분)는 렉스의 죽음에 의심을 품지만 스텔라는 결국 보험금을 받아 내서 스페인으로 떠난다. 스페인에서 재회한 스텔라와 렉스, 두 사람은 큰 돈을 손에 넣은 것에 행복해 하며 호사스런 날들을 보낸다. 하지만 그런 행복도 잠시였다. 휴가를 맞아 스페인을 찾았다는 스티븐이 그들 앞에 나타난 것이다. 처음에 스티븐을 기억하지 못하던 스텔라는 그가 보험 회사 직원이라는 사실을 알고 긴장하고 그를 멀리하지만 스티븐은 스텔 라와 렉스 주위에 계속 머문다. 스티븐의 행동 하나하나에 렉스와 스텔라는 계속 긴장하고 스티븐의 존재에 위기감을 느낀 렉스는 스티븐을 죽일 계획을 한다. 한편 스티븐은 스텔라에게 사랑을 고백하는데.
A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name.
Benny and his wife Ruthie are getting set to drive down to Florida, but Benny needs someone to look after his department store while he's gone. Though he doesn't think much of him, Benny hands the responsibility over to his son, Russell. While Russell doesn't get much respect from his parents, he's better off than his brother, Ezra, whom Benny has gone so far as to disown. Ezra is currently battling with his work (coach of a high school basketball team that hasn't won in ages) and his wife (who keeps nagging him that she wants to have a baby as soon as possible) at the same time.
그들에게 탄소는 황금보다 빛났다. 오염물질 배출권 거래 제도를 이용해 막대한 돈을 챙긴 일당들. 세상을 발칵 뒤집어 놓고, 사람들에게 세기의 사기극이라 불렸던 사건. 그 실체를 추적한다.
The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back by conning an insurance company. But they don’t count on the persistence of insurance man Rosmer Peck and his secretary Norma Perry.
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues as she tends to Wynn's elderly aunt Julia. Jokingly given the 'rank' of Miss Pinkerton, after the famous detective agency, Adams probes into the mystery, but not before a second death.
The 'Dead End Kids & Little Tough Guys' are working as collectors for a finance company, when they discover the company's illegal activities and try to stop them.
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.
사업가 제이크(Jake: 존 말코비치 분)와 티나(Tina: 앤디 맥도웰 분) 커플은 일정한 거주지없이 여행을 즐기며 서로간의 사랑을 만끽한다. 그러나 부두의 파업으로 제이크의 코코아 사업이 차질을 빚으면서 재정적인 문제가 심각해지고 급기야 호텔 숙박비까지 밀리게 된다. 제이크는 해결 방편으로 티나가 전남편에게서 선물로 받은 청동 조각상을 팔아 빚을 정리하자고 한다. 세계에 단 하나 남은 것으로 2만 7천달러 상당의 가치가 있는 청동상이기에 티나는 팔기를 거부하며 그 대신 잃어버린 것으로 신고하고 보험금을 타자는 제안을 한다. 그러던 중, 두사람이 방을 비운 사이 청각 장애자이며 벙어리인 호텔 종업원 제니(Jenny: 루디 데이비스 분)가 그들의 방을 청소하다가 조각상을 몰래 가져가고 조각상이 없어진 것을 알게된 제이크와 티나는 서로를 의심하게 된다. 이로 인해 둘 사이의 갈등은 점점 커져가는데...
The Stooges are taking care of their invalid friend Mary who is confined to a wheelchair. What they don't know is that Mary is only faking her disability to swindle the insurance company. When the boys witness a hypnotist, "The Great Svengarlic", doing his act on the street, they think he might be able to hypnotize Mary so she can walk. Instead, they become subjects for his show and are hypnotized into walking out on a flagpole high above the ground. When they come out of their trance and realize their predicament, they fall into a window, startling Mary, who jumps from her wheelchair just as the insurance adjuster is about to hand her a check.
Grandchild fraudsters scare their victims on the phone with so-called "shock calls". The losses run into millions. Month after month. Many victims are left severely traumatized. But the scam has a weak point. And the izzy team has found it. During a year-long investigation, izzy figurehead Cedric Schild pretends to be an elderly person and supposed victim on the phone. This not only makes for a few laughs, but also drives the perpetrators crazy - at the same time, the editorial team penetrates deep into the structures of the criminal clans. Thanks to more than 1200 minutes of recorded conversations from real shock calls, the izzy film "Die Enkeltrick Betrüger" shows all the tricks used by fraudsters for the first time and thus makes an important contribution to prevention. In cooperation with the law enforcement authorities, the perpetrators are arrested in front of the cameras.
Cutting edge technology spawns an enterprise of unimaginable, greed which manipulates life and death as the ultimate profit-making tools.