After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.

Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that belonged in her deceased husband's collection....

Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne...

Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the...

Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.

Vincent's life is on hold until he finds his wife's killer. Alice, his neighbor, is convinced she can make him happy. She decides to invent a...

In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

A mad bomber holds an innocent family hostage.

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.

Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.

An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.

A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.

Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous...

Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is...

An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent...

Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.

An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord. Undercover, can he...

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.

Young auto mechanic Dan Brady takes $20 from a cash register at work to go on a date with blonde femme fatale Vera Novak. Brady intends to put the...

Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's...