It's a pleasure to have your home wrecked by a man like him.
A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at a low-rent detective agency. He soon gets involved with a woman with ties to a crooked gambling club owner, who is a client of his agency.
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William Powell
Donald Free
Margaret Lindsay
Janet Reynolds
Arthur Hohl
Dan Hogan
Ruth Donnelly
Amy Moran
Gordon Westcott
Tony Bandor
Natalie Moorhead
Helen Burns
James Bell
Whitey
Hobart Cavanaugh
Harcourt S. Burns
Irving Bacon
Cab Driver
Arthur Byron
Tracey (Uncredited)
Heinie Conklin
Bartender (Uncredited)
Eddie Dunn
Club Doorman (Uncredited)
Charles Lane
Process Server (Uncredited)
Eddie Phillips
Mrs. Wright's Paramour (Uncredited)
Georges Renavent
Ship's Captain Henri LaFarge (Uncredited)
Sheila Terry
Mrs. Wright (Uncredited)
Charles Cahill Wilson
Club Bartender (Uncredited)
Toby Wing
Free's Lady Friend (Uncredited)
Joan Barclay
Gambler (Uncredited)
Bill Elliott
Man at Roulette Table (Uncredited)
1955
When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer and his old drug dealer re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds himself succumbing to his old habits.
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2003
An aging gambler on a losing streak attempts to rob a casino in Monte Carlo. But someone's already tipped off the cops before he even makes a move.
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1941
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
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1998
A duel between a suspected murderer and a detective pressed by people who want results. But whose skin is really wanted?
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1980
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
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1958
Delinquent Danny Fisher flunks out of high school, quits his job as a nightclub busboy, and one night gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and local crime boss Maxie Fields wants to hire him to perform at The Blue Shade. Danny declines, but Fields won't take no for an answer.
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1947
When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature, Johnny slowly begins to return Nancy's affection and decides to run away with her, but conflict within his business threatens their plans. As Johnny tries to distance himself from the casino, his shady past comes back to haunt him.
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1950
A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
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1944
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
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1931
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.
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1939
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
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1957
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
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1951
After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a solid case against an elusive gangster whose top lieutenant is about to testify.
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1953
Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. The other two former cellmates then attempt to force him into doing a bank job.
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1949
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
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1942
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
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2017
Librarian and real crime buff Aurora “Roe” Teagarden never liked Detective Sergeant Jack Burns, but she also never wanted to see him dead. When his body is found outside of Aurora’s home, she then becomes the main suspect. Determined to find the killer and clear her name, Aurora can't help but to get involved once again.
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1950
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.
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1950
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
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1955
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.
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