Within the Law

Police sergeants Johnson and McManus take on Los Angeles confidence tricksters. Con man Tony Wells, lining up rich widow Jessica Royce as his latest mark, sets up a false paranormal society with other charlatans to convince the credulous Jessica that her late son is speaking to her through their sham seances. When the plan leads to murder, Johnson and McManus must bring the group down before they kill again.

An ex-prize fighter -- now reporter -- tries to expose a gambling ring after an uneven bout in the ring kills a pugilist.

A gambling boss is pressured by the law and press when a crusade is started against him after one of his collectors becomes a killer.

A private detective and his assistant are hired to find a missing husband by the detective's former girlfriend who dumped him. The case is quickly complicated by a sexy brunette, a missing bank executive, a castle in the desert, and a dead body with its "head blown off" but identified as the husband.

A man looking for his fortune in a mine decides to tempt his partner with his much younger wife. The goal? To catch them "in the act" and kill him without consequence.

A group prison breakout goes from bad to worse when the desperate warden tries to steal the gang's dough.

A struggling writer becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation when his publisher is found dead in a manner mirroring one of the writer's proposed mystery storylines.

A customs agent follows a jewel smuggler's trail of corpses from Paris to New York.

Cop Andy Doyle investigates a car-bombing murder and the killing of a sleazy modeling agency owner. Are they connected?

A con woman tries to swindle her partner-in-crime husband with the help of one of her former marks. But is she to be trusted?

A falling-out between thieves over the proceeds of a stickup results in several deaths and a priest being marked for murder because of a confession he receives from one of the gang members.

A car accident traps two men inside a car near the water. With the tide coming in, they discuss the circumstances that led up to the accident.

A petty thief schemes a big score when he plans an armored car robbery.

A drunken attorney tries to sober up in order to defend a friend in murder case.

A lawyer tries to exact justice on a woman he defended in court -- a woman whom he found out was guilty after getting her off.

Two detectives investigate the strangulation murder of a man whom everyone seemed to like.

A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he falls in love with a blue-blooded lady. But first he must mend his ways and then dump his nightclub singer girl friend. She's not so easy to get rid of, neither is his past.

A young woman's suicide attempt is stopped by an old man passing by. The two fall in love -- but the relationship between the young girl and old man is threatened when a blackmailer from her past shows up.

In 1841, in the small Morovian village of Skalni Hradec, a judge makes his much younger wife witness the public humiliation of an unfaithful wife who is bound with ropes to a wooden half-cross. He then tells her he'll kill her if he ever catches her being unfaithful. Things get tense when she falls for another man.

The life of American public enemy number one who was shot by the police in 1934.