Detroit'e dönen polis Axel Foley televizyon izlerken haberlerden Los Angeles polis teşkilatındaki şefi Andrew Bogomil'in esrarengiz bir kadın tarafından vurulduğunu öğrenir. Eski şefini hastanede ziyaret etmek için şehre giden Axel, Bogomil'i vuran kadını bulmaya karar verir. Ona araştırmasında yine Billy ve Taggart yardım edecektir. Üç polis yaptıkları incelemeler sonucunda olayın bir hırsızlık çetesi ile alakalı olduğunu anlarlar.
Yılın en iyi 10 filminden biri Küçük numaralar ile geçimini sağlayan Roy"un hayatı, uzun zamandır görmediği Lilly"nin ortaya çıkması ile karışır. İlk karşılaştıkları andan itibaren birbirlerinden hoşlanmayan Lilly’nin ve sevgilisi Myra’nın arasında kalan genç adam, ya dolandırıcılığı bırakacak ya da büyük tezgâhlar planlayacaktır. Hangi tarafta yer alacağına karar veremeyen Roy, kimin kimi dolandırdığının belli olmadığı bir oyuna sürüklenecektir. Son dönemin en önemli İngiliz yönetmenlerinden Stephen Frears"ın zeki diyaloglarla örülmüş bir senaryo ile usta oyuncuları bir araya getirdiği Dolandırıcılar, yapımcılığını Martin Scorsese"nin üstlendiği muhteşem bir gerilim filmi.
The Horatio Alger parable gets the film noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmund O’Brien as a whip-smart telephone technician who moves up the ladder of a Syndicate gambling empire in Southern California until distracted by an inconveniently married Joanne Dru and his own greed. Ripped from the headlines of the 1950 Kevaufer Organized Crime Hearings, this fast-moving picture is laden with location sequences shot in Los Angeles, the Hoover Dam and Palm Springs including the famous Doll House watering hole on North Palm Canyon Drive!
When Chloe and Riley Lawrence are invited to London to participate in the international Model U.N. competition, they enjoy seeing the sights and head over heals romance with cute british boys of course.
The chronicle of an average American housewife who just happens to be addicted to gambling.
A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.
Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee. But Caroline Whipple forces Steve to use a known star, not a newcomer. Sally purchases a horse, she used to train when her parents had a farm before the depression and with to ex-vaudevillians, Sonny Ledford and Peter Trott she trains it to win a race, providing the money Steve needs for his show.
As youths in Azusa, Vinnie, Carter, and Rosie pull off a racing scam, substituting winners for plodders and winning big bucks on long odds. When an official uncovers the scam, they set him up for blackmail. Jump ahead twenty years, Carter and Rosie are married, successful racers in Kentucky about to sell their prize stallion, Simpatico. Vinnie is a drunk in Pomona. Vinnie decides to make a play for Rosie, lures Carter to California, steals his wallet and heads for Kentucky with the original blackmail material. Carter begs Vinnie's friend, a grocery clerk named Cecilia, to follow Vinnie and get the stuff back that he has in a box. Will she succeed?
Treasury Department officials recruit a florist (Raft) to lead them to a wanted criminal (Macready); but once he gets too close, he finds he's the hunted.
A couple attempts to win custody of their orphaned grandson, who's being raised by his veterinarian uncle in a racetrack environment.
A habitual loser at the race-track is approached by a man who claims to be an inventor with a machine that can see into the future; but can it predict the winner of tomorrow's race? And just whom is the “inventor” trying to escape anyway?
The lives and loves behind the scenes at the racetrack are detailed in this thoroughbred soap opera. An ambitious young trainer, Joel Tarrant (Ty Hardin), enters into an illicit affair with the stable owner's wealthy wife, hot-to-trot Laura Rubio (Suzanne Pleshette), in the hope that someday he'll have enough dough to buy his own horses and stable.
An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
This short film takes the viewer on a tour through the world of harness racing and show horses.
A blonde seduces a quirky liquor-store worker as inspiration for her artist boyfriend.
Frankie Reynolds (Frankie Darro' ), youngest member of a family of jockeys, borrows $4.85 (yes, four dollars and eighty-five cents) from his sister Phyllis (Gladys Blake), who is not a jockey, to buy a crippled colt from the stables owned by Clay Harrison (Kane Richmond). He nurses the colt back to health, and in two years has one of the fastest horses in the country.
First narrative polish film. The janitor sweeps the pavement in front of the tenement house. A carriage comes with a rather solidly inserted young man. He is well-dressed but has lost all his strength. Merry Fellow needs help.