Screenplay: Martin Mooney

Direction William Keighley

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Joan Blondell · Barton MacLane · Humphrey Bogart

Plot After he's thrown off the force for hitting his superior, ex-cop Edward G. Robinson is hired as an "advisor" by city crime boss Barton MacLane, but gunman Humphrey Bogart doesn't...

Direction William Keighley

Cast Bette Davis · George Brent · Ricardo Cortez · Jack La Rue

Plot Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and...

Direction Phil Rosen

Cast Joan Woodbury · Jack La Rue · Linda Ware · John Archer

Plot Afterseeking revenge for her boyfriend, Joan Woodbury finds herself in jail on a hit-and-run charge. Ladd plays an undercover reporter doubling for a notorious gangster.

Direction William Beaudine

Cast Forrest Tucker · Carol Hughes · Evelyn Brent · Emmett Vogan

Plot A test pilot and his weather observer develop a "robot" control so airplanes can be flown without pilots, but enemy agents get wind of it and try to steal it...

Direction Lew Landers

Cast Leo Carrillo · Tom Neal · Martha Tilton · Lionel Atwill

Plot Mobster Bugs Kelley stubbornly refuses to become part of the syndicate that rules organized crime like a business in the city. He further antagonizes "Crime Inc." by kidnapping Tony Marlowe,...

Direction Howard Bretherton

Cast Russell Gleason · Shirley Deane · J.M. Kerrigan · Maude Eburne

Direction Steve Sekely

Cast John Carradine · J. Carrol Naish · Maris Wrixon · Edwin Maxwell

Plot A Nazi spy operating as an optometrist on the San Francisco waterfront discovers that his code book, which also has the names of his fellow Nazi agents and saboteurs, has...

Direction Joseph H. Lewis · Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast Benny Fields · Gladys George · Alan Dinehart · Roscoe Karns

Plot The story of a singer in a minstrel show, from his career highs to the tragedies in his personal life.

Direction William Nigh

Cast Charles Bickford · Barton MacLane · Pat Moriarity · Dennis Moore

Plot A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison. The prison chaplain, seeing that the new arrival...

Direction Jean Yarbrough

Cast Frank Albertson · Maris Wrixon · Bradley Page · Evelyn Brent

Plot District Attorney Holden and his special investigator Betty Higgins are trying to convict brothers Joe and Lou Manson, silk-racket hoods, after they are indicted for murder.

Direction Nick Grinde

Cast Rochelle Hudson · Frieda Inescort · June Lang · Lola Lane

Plot Jobless Betty Andrews, although innocent, is convicted of a department store theft and, despite the best efforts of her lawyer and noted social worker Mary Ellis and a reporter, Jim...

Direction George B. Seitz

Cast Franchot Tone · Madge Evans · Stuart Erwin · Joseph Calleia

Plot a story about some gangsters now moving in on different rackets and in this case the numbers racket. Robert Barrat plays a Lucky Luciano type kingpin and Joseph Calleia his...

Direction Sam Newfield

Cast J. Carrol Naish · Ralph Morgan · Tala Birell · Wanda McKay

Plot Mad scientist injects his enemies with acromegaly virus, causing them to become hideously deformed.

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Dick Foran · Harry Carey · June Lang · Mary Carlisle

Plot A rookie cop and his girlfriend's uncle, a police captain, disagree on the methods that should be used to catch criminals.

Direction George Amy

Cast Wayne Morris · Jane Wyman · Gilbert Roland · John Litel

Plot Gambling boss Greg Morella runs a crooked ship-- all the gaming tables on his floating casino are rigged. Because the ship operates outside of the three-mile state limit, the authorities...

Direction Lew Landers

Cast Onslow Stevens · Helen Mack · Vinton Hayworth · Maxine Jennings

Plot When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.