Crime

This Robert Benchley ‘How To’ comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics.

A general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.

A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but ...

A reporter and his newspaper’s attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars.

Dan Adams resigns his position as prosecutor on the district attorney’s staff and sets out to clean up a gang of fake-accident racketeers. ...

A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang he keeps ...

Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of ...

A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police’s description: his name ...

A crazed scientist invents a serum that induces a catatonic state in anyone who gets the injection. He uses the serum to paralyze his enemies, in ...

When a friend of Charlie’s is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul ...

Allen Colby, heir to a huge fortune, is presumed drowned after an ocean liner sinks off the coast of Honolulu. Mysteriously, Colby reappears at ...

A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 ...

While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top’s co-owner to investigate threatening letters that ...

A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds her first case is defending a childhood friend ...

Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter’s will, ...

After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al ...

Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska ...

Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora’s cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery ...

The story of an egotistical crime writer who gets involved with the case of a notorious art thief (who is believed to be dead) while at the same ...

Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer ...

Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He’s never late for work and nothing interesting ever ...

Hot jewels from London make their way to New York, where they are stolen by racketeer Ed Dexter, who hides them with the help of his vivacious ...

Holmes, retired to Sussex, is drawn into a last case when his arch enemy Moriarty arranges with an American gang to kill one John Douglas, a ...

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman, wanting a life of luxury, takes the “easy” way, and winds up in jail.

A young Iowa woman inherits her late estranged father’s New York business, but the dead man’s crooked associates think they can ...

A reporter turned tax agent infiltrates a crime ring to catch a racketeer, working with the mobster’s bookkeeper. When she agrees to ...

A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.

Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for ...

An escaped convict redeems himself by becoming an auto racing champion.