Mark Dixon est détective à New York. Réputé pour sa brutalité envers les criminels, il mène une enquête sur le meurtre d'un riche Texan poignardé après avoir gagné 19 000 $ aux jeux. Au cours de son investigation, Dixon interroge le suspect principal, Ken Payne. Le truand l'agresse et, pendant la bagarre, reçoit un coup de poing meurtrier. Désemparé devant cette situation, Dixon décide de faire disparaître le corps. Un chauffeur de taxi est alors soupçonné, mais Dixon tombe amoureux de sa fille, Morgan Taylor.
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.
Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.
A Broadway, une vendeuse ambulante de pommes fait croire depuis des années à sa fille résidant en Espagne qu'elle mène la grande-vie. Quand sa fille lui apprend qu'elle s'apprête à lui rendre visite, la semi-clocharde -aidée par des mafieux généreux- élabore un plan pour paraître riche et influente ...juste la durée du séjour de la fille.
Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
Patsy, caïd de mèche avec des politiciens corrompus, reçoit un poste de directeur adjoint d'une maison de correction.
D'abord intéressé par les revenus que ce poste lui apportera mais peu par la situation des jeunes gens enfermés dans cet établissement géré d'une main de fer par M. Thompson, il va peu à peu se soucier de la qualité de vie des délinquants détenus ici et qui lui rappellent que lui aussi a été un gamin des rues.
Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.
A policeman in New Mexico takes payoff money but still manages to go after a racketeer.
Un policier tente de convaincre les victimes d'une bande de voyous de porter plainte. Jugeant ses méthodes trop brutales, la police le chasse. Il organise alors un commando dont le seul but est de se venger des diverses agressions horribles subies...
Al Kruger règne à la tête des gangs et sème la terreur dans la cité. Johnny Blake, un policier intègre, décide de réagir et s'introduit dans le cercle de Kruger...
When love came the way of this gentleman crook he turned to the right---only to be caught in the swirling eddy of his criminal past! (original ad)
Rose Manning swears revenge for the unjust slaying of her father by Inspector McArthur. Five years later, as a nightclub hostess, she is sought by Chuck Gaines, secretly a bootlegger, but she centers her attentions on young Jimmy Carter, who, she learns, is the son of McArthur.
Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.
After several years of supporting parts, Victor McLaglen once more landed a leading role in Republic's City of Shadows. McLaglen plays Big Tim Channing, an ageing but powerful gangster who raises young newsboy Dan Mason as his own son. Upon reaching adulthood, Mason (John Baer) becomes a law student, with the covert (and illegal) help of Channing. Despite his checkered past, Mason opts for honesty when he falls in love with Fern Fellows (Kathleen Crowley). This decision ultimately spells the doom for Mason's mentor Big Tim.
A lawyer changes from defending public enemies to bringing them to justice after his brother is killed.
Racketeer Jim Barnes is trying to force the independent taxicab-drivers to join his "protection service" at the cost of five bucks a day. Champion race-car driver, Bob Kane, joins with his friends Lee and "Dad" Martin in a fight for the street rights of a big city.
Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys meet Steve's mother, Alice Bell and Tommy is given a job in the storage garage which she owns jointly with Mack Steward. Steve's brother Don Bell is working with some gangsters by tipping them off on valuable merchandise that can be hijacked. Pig, Ape and String overhear Don's plans to use Tommy as the fall guy in the next hijacking.
A café singer buys a gambling casino and several men fall in love with her.
A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse.
Bobby Martin, a young middleweight champion boxer, is an honest and decent fighter. However, a dishonest but beautiful woman uses every trick to ensnare him.