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Lady Gangster

1942

Lady Gangster

1942
5.5
An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 bank robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, thinking to use it as a bargaining chip to be released from prison. However, her former partners have different ideas.
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine

1942

The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine

1942
6
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset by this venture, all the moreso when some of its citizens begin to be murdered. The radio personality and the local newspaper's young daughter collaborate on solving the murders while revealing Valentine, who has become one of the suspects.
The Panther's Claw

1942

The Panther's Claw

1942
6
The police arrest a man climbing over the wall of a cemetery after midnight. He claims that he is being blackmailed and is following instructions he received by mail to leave $1000 on a certain grave. It turns out that he's not the only one who got a blackmail letter from the same person--calling himself "The Black Panther"--and it also turns out that all the recipients are connected to an opera company.
Borrowed Hero

1941

Borrowed Hero

1941
4
A struggling lawyer is named as special prosecutor in a racketeering case.
Ball of Fire

1941

Ball of Fire

1941
7.3
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
No Hands on the Clock

1941

No Hands on the Clock

1941
4.9
A wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case.
Bowery Blitzkrieg

1941

Bowery Blitzkrieg

1941
5.8
The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying in school and becoming a boxer, and is getting mixed up with gangsters.
Desperate Cargo

1941

Desperate Cargo

1941
1
When two showgirls decide to leave South America and head for home, they sweet talk the purser of a clipper ship into giving them berths. In the course of the voyage, a band of thieves attempts to take over the ship and make off with its cash cargo. The heroic purser has other ideas and weighs in to save the day.
Double Cross

1941

Double Cross

1941
4.8
A disgraced cop aims to reclaim his honor by nailing a corrupt crime boss.
Gangs Inc.

1941

Gangs Inc.

1941
5.2
Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local crime organization.
Invisible Ghost

1941

Invisible Ghost

1941
5.2
The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.
City of Missing Girls

1941

City of Missing Girls

1941
4
A female reporter goes undercover to investigate the series of mysterious disappearances of young women, who were all linked to a local drama school.
Mr. District Attorney

1941

Mr. District Attorney

1941
5.4
An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.
The Face Behind the Mask

1941

The Face Behind the Mask

1941
6.5
A kindly, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of crime after his face is badly disfigured in a hotel fire.
Murder with Music

1941

Murder with Music

1941
6
Night club singer Nelle Hill has many suitors an escaped convict, a piano player and a newspaper man. One is killed. With musical shorts such as “Murder in Swingtime,” “Black and Tan Fantasy,” “Symphony in Black,” and “Ain’t Misbehaving.”
The Devil Bat

1940

The Devil Bat

1940
5.3
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.
Phantom of Chinatown

1940

Phantom of Chinatown

1940
5.8
In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton,the famous explorer, drinks from the water bottle on his lecture table, collapses and dies. His last words "Eternal Fire" are the only clue Chinese detective Jimmy Wong and Captain Street of the police department have to work on.
Marked Men

1940

Marked Men

1940
5
A man accused of planning a prison break turns the tables on escaped cons by leading the group into the desert.
The Case of the Frightened Lady

1940

The Case of the Frightened Lady

1940
6.3
A classic British thriller set in a sinister old house, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.
Doomed to Die

1940

Doomed to Die

1940
5.5
Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming. Of course, Captain Street arrests Dick, but reporter Bobbie Logan, the attractive thorn in Street's side, is so convinced he's wrong that she enlists the help of detective James Lee Wong to find the real killer.