A reporter investigates the story of a young man who may have been wrongly convicted and sentenced to be executed.
A New York journalist lies when his fake story about a pimp describes a real pimp up for murder.
Marian Forbes has been having an affair with her boss and when he drops her for another woman. In an act of jealousy and greed she convinces an acquaintance to murder her former lover and then impersonate him just long enough to get their hands on a large sum of money.
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".
A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
George Nader plays a reporter whose career is ruined by liquor. A comeback opportunity presents itself when Nader is a bystander at the arrest of a well-known criminal.
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
A fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals.
Roy and Gilbert's fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He's killed before, and he lets the two know that as soon as they're no longer useful, he'll kill again. The two friends plot an escape, but the hitchhiker's peculiar physical affliction, an eye that never closes even when he sleeps, makes it impossible for them to tell when they can make a break for it.
A golddigging femme fatale leaves a trail of men behind her, rich and poor, alive and dead.
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angles.
A newly promoted police sergeant discovers his girlfriend my be involved with a gang of car thieves.
A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.
A woman travels to Hawaii to find out if a man in prison there is actually her missing husband.
Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, have cheated him out of the company's profits. He decides to get revenge by altering bats to grow twice their normal size and training them to attack when they smell a perfume of his own making. He mixes the perfume into a lotion, which he offers as a gift to Mary and Henry. When they turn up dead, a newspaper reporter decides to investigate.
An insurance detective encounters numerous surprises when he is assigned to investigate a meticulously-planned train robbery in Arizona.
A man who is believed to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the one to actually kill her using the scarf she was wearing.
A woman is kidnapped when she goes to get help for her husband who is trapped on a beach with the tide coming in to surely drown him.