Crime
A telephone repairman in Los Angeles uses his knowledge of electronics to help a bookie set up a betting operation. After the bookie is murdered, the greedy technician takes over his business. He ruthlessly climbs his way to the top of the local crime syndicate, but then gangsters from a big East Coast mob show up wanting a piece of his action.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Blackout
Stolen Face
5 Against the House
The Breaking Point
Your Day Will Come
The Human Jungle
The Glass Web
I, the Jury
Hue and Cry
The Long Wait
Quiet Please, Murder
Never Let Go
The People Against O'Hara
Danger Signal
The Sleeping City
Yhden yön hinta
Obsession
A Cry in the Night
Cry Vengeance
The Clay Pigeon
SIMILAR MOVIES
Blackout
IMDB 6 | Mar , 1954
When a beautiful young woman suddenly offers inebriated Casey Morrow a lot of money for a quick and easy job, he doesn't ask too many questions. But when the girl's father is found murdered the following day and Morrow's coat is soaked with blood, he must unravel the mystery to clear his name.Stolen Face
IMDB 5.6 | May , 1952
A plastic surgeon changes the face of a female convict to match that of the beautiful woman who broke his heart and left him. He marries the convict but trouble starts when his true love returns.5 Against the House
IMDB 5.9 | Jun , 1955
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.The Breaking Point
IMDB 7.1 | Oct , 1950
A fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals.Your Day Will Come
IMDB 0 | Nov , 1951
With her husband terminally ill, a wife becomes the target of her husband's friend who wants her money so bad that he kills his friend and proposes to his newly-widowed wife.The Human Jungle
IMDB 4.8 | Oct , 1954
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.The Glass Web
IMDB 6 | Nov , 1953
A manipulative diva blackmails a married man and insults her secret lover, leading to her murder. As the husband tries to cover his tracks, the lover sabotages him and suggests turning the case into a TV show episode.I, the Jury
IMDB 5.7 | Aug , 1953
After his best friend and war buddy is mysteriously gunned down, Mike Hammer will stop at nothing to settle the score for the man who sacrificed a limb to save his own life during combat. Along the way, Hammer rides a fine line between gumshoe and a one-man jury, staying two-steps ahead of the law—and trying not to get bumped off in the process.Hue and Cry
IMDB 6.4 | Feb , 1947
A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies.The Long Wait
IMDB 5.8 | May , 1954
Soon after thumbing a ride from a truck driver, Johnny McBride is badly burned and suffers from complete amnesia when the vehicle he’s riding in blows a tire and goes over an embankment in a fiery blaze. McBride later receives a tip from an acquaintance that a photo of him was placed prominently in the window of a photography studio in a town called Lyncastle, so Johnny immediately leaves for the burg in the hopes that something there will jog his memory.Quiet Please, Murder
IMDB 6.8 | Mar , 1943
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.Never Let Go
IMDB 6.5 | Jun , 1960
John Cummings, an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman, has his unpaid-for car stolen by one of the hoods in the employ of Lionel Meadows, the sadistic organizer of a London car conversion racket. The car was not insured, and since the police appear indifferent to his plight, Cummings decides to find it himself -- and gets himself involved in an underworld battle.The People Against O'Hara
IMDB 5.7 | Sep , 1951
A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.Danger Signal
IMDB 5.8 | Nov , 1945
After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los Angeles. Under a new identity and claiming to be a writer, Ronnie finds lodging at the home of Hilda Fenchurch and her mother. He woos Hilda, knowing she has money, but when he discovers that Hilda's sister, Anne, has just inherited $25,000, he switches his attentions to her.The Sleeping City
IMDB 5.8 | Sep , 1950
A young doctor taking a break from work is shot in the head, and the police can't find a clue even as to a possible motive. Inspector Al Gordon (John Alexander) decides that he has to put some men on duty at the hospital, and one of them is Fred Rowan (Richard Conte), a detective with experience as an army medic, masquerading as an intern. What Rowan finds is a high-pressure world in which interns are hopelessly squeezed for time, sleep, energy, and -- most of all -- money, and walk a fine line on the edge of personal and professional disaster.Yhden yön hinta
IMDB 6 | Feb , 1952
The streets of Helsinki, Finland, at night. Violence mixed with incidents and everyday life. Reported by police officers on the graveyard shift.Obsession
IMDB 6.8 | Aug , 1949
A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.A Cry in the Night
IMDB 5.2 | Aug , 1956
A police captain's emotions get in the way when his daughter is kidnapped.Cry Vengeance
IMDB 5.9 | Nov , 1954
Ex-cop Vic Barron crossed the wrong mobsters; his wife and child were killed and he was scarred, framed, and imprisoned. On release, Vic has but one desire, revenge on still-hiding Tino Morelli.The Clay Pigeon
IMDB 5.5 | Mar , 1949
Jim Fletcher, waking up from a coma, finds he is to be given a court martial for treason and charged with informing on fellow inmates in a Japanese prison camp during WWII. Escaping from the hospital he tries to clear himself by enlisting the aid of Martha Gregory, widow of a service buddy he was accused of informing on. Helped also by Ted Niles, a surviving fellow prisoner, he gets closer to finding the answers he needs, and becomes ensnared in a grandiose scheme involving his Japanese ex-prison guard, $10,000,000 of US currency forged by the Japanese and a burgeoning crime network poised to wreak havoc throughout southern California.