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
Witness to Murder
Obsession
A Cry in the Night
Cry Vengeance
The Clay Pigeon
Baby Face Nelson
Desperate
The Phenix City Story
Dial 1119
New York Confidential
No Orchids for Miss Blandish
Nocturne
Tazza: The High Rollers
The Locket
Appointment with a Shadow
The Man Who Cheated Himself
Chinatown at Midnight
On the Beat
Scene of the Crime
The Thief
SIMILAR MOVIES
Witness to Murder
IMDB 6.3 | Apr , 1954
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.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.Baby Face Nelson
IMDB 5.6 | Dec , 1957
Famed Depression-era gangster “Baby Face Nelson” robs and kills while accompanied by his beautiful moll.Desperate
IMDB 6.5 | Jun , 1947
An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.The Phenix City Story
IMDB 6.6 | Jul , 1955
A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.Dial 1119
IMDB 5.4 | Nov , 1950
A deranged killer escapes from a mental institution. Intent on locating the psychiatrist whose testimony sent him to the asylum, he holds the patrons of a bar hostage.New York Confidential
IMDB 5.9 | Feb , 1955
Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts.No Orchids for Miss Blandish
IMDB 6 | Apr , 1948
A sheltered heiress is abducted on her wedding night by a trio of cheap hoods.Nocturne
IMDB 5.9 | Oct , 1946
In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure.Tazza: The High Rollers
IMDB 6.9 | Sep , 2006
Go-ni tries his best to worship Pyung Gyung-jang as his teacher, and promises to stop gambling after winning his money back. But people's desires are endless.The Locket
IMDB 6.3 | Dec , 1946
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.Appointment with a Shadow
IMDB 5.4 | Sep , 1957
George Nader plays a reporter whose career is ruined by liquor. A comeback opportunity presents itself when Nader is a bystander at the arrest of a well-known criminal.The Man Who Cheated Himself
IMDB 6.1 | Dec , 1950
A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.Chinatown at Midnight
IMDB 5.6 | Nov , 1949
A young man who steals valuable Oriental objects for a crooked antique dealer is hunted down by the police after his latest Chinatown robbery turns violent.On the Beat
IMDB 7.7 | Dec , 1962
Norman Pitkin wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst others). One day he gets out his father's old uniform and "walks the beat". This leads to a level of chaos that only Pitkin could causeScene of the Crime
IMDB 6 | Jul , 1949
A cop investigates the shooting of another policeman... that may have been involved in crooked activities.The Thief
IMDB 6.2 | Oct , 1952
A chance accident causes a nuclear physicist, who's selling top secret material to the Russians, to fall under FBI scrutiny and go on the run.