Thriller, Crime
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.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Flanagan Boy
The Arnelo Affair
Under the Gun
Trapped
Murder Is My Beat
Blast of Silence
Panic in the Streets
Scenes from a film noir
The Solution
Experiment Perilous
Monsieur Verdoux
Strange Impersonation
Road House
Tread Softly Stranger
Escape in the Fog
The Red House
A Lady Without Passport
Tomorrow Is Another Day
The Devil Thumbs a Ride
Highway 301
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Flanagan Boy
IMDB 5.8 | Apr , 1953
Johnny Flanagan did not have the privileges of a good education or wealthy background but the streets developed his natural talent to be a great fighter. His enormous potential to reach the top is born out of a string of spectacular successes. All of which is brought to a halt when he develops a physical relationship with his manager's wife, the beautiful but manipulative Lorna. His naive temperament is no match for her callous, dispassionate scheming and he unwittingly becomes a pawn in Lorna's ultimate plan... .to murder her husband.The Arnelo Affair
IMDB 5 | Feb , 1947
A neglected wife gets mixed up with an hypnotic charmer and murder.Under the Gun
IMDB 6.1 | Feb , 1951
A convicted racketeer becomes prison trustee when an inmate whom he persuaded to escape is killed.Trapped
IMDB 5.9 | Sep , 1949
Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to double-cross them.Murder Is My Beat
IMDB 5.8 | Feb , 1955
Mr. Dean's body is found face down in the fireplace, burned beyond recognition. Nightclub-singer Eden Lane is convicted of the crime. She is escorted to prison by one of the arresting detectives when she convinces him that she just spotted the murderer outside their train.Blast of Silence
IMDB 7 | Mar , 1961
A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York. But a special girl from his past and a fat gun dealer with pet rats get in his way.Panic in the Streets
IMDB 6.9 | Jul , 1950
A medical examiner discovers that an innocent shooting victim in a robbery died of bubonic plague. With only 48 hours to find the killer, who is now a ticking time bomb threatening the entire city, a grisly manhunt through the seamy underworld of the New Orleans Waterfront is underway.Scenes from a film noir
IMDB 10 | Jan , 2016
Detective Douglas seeks to solve the crime of a former co-worker. Only the help of El Gaucho will be able to protect him against the plan that is coming.The Solution
IMDB 0 | Feb , 2026
A math professor, rejected over and over again for publication, finds herself supplanted by her genius-level teaching assistant, and resorts to drastic measures to re-assert her authority.Experiment Perilous
IMDB 5.6 | Dec , 1944
In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and gets suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife.Monsieur Verdoux
IMDB 7.7 | Aug , 1947
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.Strange Impersonation
IMDB 6 | Mar , 1946
A female research scientist conducting experiments on a new anesthetic has a very bad week. Her scheming assistant intentionally scars her face, her almost-fiancee appears to have deserted her and she finds herself being blackmailed by a women she accidentally knocked down with her car.Road House
IMDB 6.7 | Sep , 1948
A night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for embezzlement when the chanteuse falls in love with him.Tread Softly Stranger
IMDB 7.4 | Aug , 1958
Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.Escape in the Fog
IMDB 5.3 | Apr , 1945
A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. When she meets a man who is a federal agent at the inn, she is astounded to discover that he is the man in her dream who is the intended murder victim.The Red House
IMDB 6.3 | Feb , 1947
An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.A Lady Without Passport
IMDB 5.2 | Aug , 1950
An undercover U.S. Immigration agent falls in love with an immigrant attempting to enter the United States through Havana, Cuba in an illegal smuggling ring.Tomorrow Is Another Day
IMDB 6.5 | Aug , 1951
A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released, and struggles to adjust to the outside world and escape his lurid past. He gets involved with a cheap dancehall girl, and when her protector is accidentally killed, they go on the lam together, getting jobs as farm labourers. But some fellow workers get wise to them.The Devil Thumbs a Ride
IMDB 6.5 | Feb , 1947
Steve Morgan kills a man in a holdup and hitches a ride to Los Angeles with Fergie. At a gas station, they pick up two women. Encountering a roadblock, Morgan takes over and persuades the party to spend the night at an unoccupied beach house. The police close in as one by one, the others learn that Morgan is a killer.Highway 301
IMDB 6.4 | Dec , 1950
The "Tri-State" gang goes on a successful bank robbing streak causing local authorities to turn up the heat on the daring career criminals.