Der New Yorker Detektiv Mark Dixon steht für seine äußerst rüden Methoden bei Vorgesetzten und Kollegen in der Kritik. Er ist blind vor Hass auf Kriminelle, bis er bei der Jagd nach einem Mörder selbst zu einem wird: Bei der Auseinandersetzung mit Verdächtigen verschuldet er den Tod eines Unbeteiligten. Fortan muss er die eigene Tat vertuschen, bis es ihm gelingt, den gesuchten Mörder zu fassen.
A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police officer father is killed in the line of duty. Soon his prime suspect is murdered as well, and he finds himself framed for the crime. As more witnesses get murdered, he finds himself on the run from both the police and former Prohibition violators who seem to have found a new racket.
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
A café singer buys a gambling casino and several men fall in love with her.
Annie, Obsthändlerin in den Straßen New Yorks, läßt ihre Tochter Louise, die ein vornehmes Konvent besucht, in dem Glauben, sie gehöre zur besseren Gesellschaft. Als die Louise eines Tages ihren Besuch anmeldet, muss die hochstapelnde Mutter ihr eine Komödie vorspielen und dazu auf die Hilfe ihrer zwielichtigen Freunde zurückgreifen.
Bobby Martin, a young middleweight champion boxer, is an honest and decent fighter. However, a dishonest but beautiful woman uses every trick to ensnare him.
Der New Yorker Polizist Johnny Blake hat es satt, dass die Geschäfte in der Stadt von Gangstern übernommen wurden. Der neu ernannte Polizeipräsident, der mit Hilfe der Öffentlichkeit und der Zeitungen den kriminellen Sumpf, der alle Bereiche des städtischen Lebens erfasst hat, austrocknen will entlässt (zum Schein) Blake - seinen besten Mann, damit dieser die Verbrecherorganisation von Al Kruger, der seinen alten Gegenspieler gerne bei sich aufnimmt, unterwandern kann.
Der Ganove Jimmy Corrigan verdient sein Geld mit der Suche nach verschollenen Millionenerben. Seine Geliebte Joan hasst die illegalen Tricks, die Jimmy dabei anwendet. Sie verlässt Jimmy und arbeitet für seinen schärfsten Konkurrenten James J. Wallingham. Der ist zwar auch ein Betrüger, doch er kann seine faulen Tricks besser hinter einer seriös wirkenden Fassade verbergen. Jimmy beschließt, Joan die Augen zu öffnen und Wallingham eine Lektion zu erteilen...
Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.
Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.
A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown.
Two bit hood Eddie Condon (Kane Richmond) sells babies under the counter. A highly lucrative racket he soon finds out. But when will the police get wise to this highly immoral scheme of his? And will they be able to pin a rap on him before he goes a little too far? ALL IS TOLD in this EXCITING tale of CRIME and CORRUPTION!
Die Mafia erpresst Schutzgeld, ihre Methoden werden immer skrupelloser und brutaler. Unmöglich ihnen mit legalen Methoden das Handwerk zu legen, entscheidet sich Inspektor Nico Palmieri (Fabio Testi) die vormals Unterdrückten zu einer schlagkräftigen Einsatzgruppe aufzurüsten um gemeinsam mit ihnen die Gangster ein für alle Mal zu erledigen.
A policeman in New Mexico takes payoff money but still manages to go after a racketeer.
Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products.
Prizefighter Bob Neal (Ray Walker) is in debt to gangster Vic Santell (Hooper Atchley) for training expenses. Santell orders Bob to take a dive in the fourth round so Santell can recoup prior gambling losses. Taunted by his ring opponent, Bob wins the fight. Realizing that his profession and underworld characters connected to it are causing him problems, Bob decides to join the police force. After taking nurse Mary Prentiss (Geneva Mitchell) to a drive-in restaurant where the total bill is a depression-era cheap eighty-two cents, Bob and his fellow officers round-up a gang of fur thieves in a warehouse shoot-out.
After several years of supporting parts, Victor McLaglen once more landed a leading role in Republic's City of Shadows. McLaglen plays Big Tim Channing, an ageing but powerful gangster who raises young newsboy Dan Mason as his own son. Upon reaching adulthood, Mason (John Baer) becomes a law student, with the covert (and illegal) help of Channing. Despite his checkered past, Mason opts for honesty when he falls in love with Fern Fellows (Kathleen Crowley). This decision ultimately spells the doom for Mason's mentor Big Tim.
Rocky and Dan, war buddies, are prowl car cops on night duty. Dan is a cynic who views all lawbreakers as scum; Rocky feels more lenient. Both are attracted to the radio voice of communicator Kate Mallory; but in person, Kate proves reluctant to get involved with men who just might stop a bullet. By lucky chance, Rocky and Dan cause big trouble for murderous racketeer Ritchie Garris; but when he swears vengeance, Kate's fears may prove justified.
Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys meet Steve's mother, Alice Bell and Tommy is given a job in the storage garage which she owns jointly with Mack Steward. Steve's brother Don Bell is working with some gangsters by tipping them off on valuable merchandise that can be hijacked. Pig, Ape and String overhear Don's plans to use Tommy as the fall guy in the next hijacking.
In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a shady nightclub where he is mistaken by the mobsters for a highly esteemed racketeer.