Crime

A treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, and a ship full of red herrings complicate Charlie’s search ...

Robert Montgomery plays a jealous man who plots to fake his death and incriminate his wife’s suspected lover.

Members of a traveling jazz band try to keep their talented leader from dying after he breaks from the band and begins drinking and taking drugs.

A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves ...

Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.

A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he “discovered” as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin ...

High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.

Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

Columbia’s 12th serial of 57 total (following 1940’s “Deadwood Dick” and ahead of 1941’s “White Eagle”) ...

Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his ...

A reporter enlists the help of a gangster’s secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to justice.

Undercover agent Mark Sheldon gets paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine manned by slave labor run by sadistic Stephen Danel.

Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.

The trials and tribulations of a group of newly sworn-in police officers.

In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick ...

An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time ...

A mad scientist named Dr. Satan plots to steal key pieces of technology to enable him to build an army of robots based on his prototype to ...

A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-spending wife. Deciding on suicide, he ...

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 ...

A man accused of planning a prison break turns the tables on escaped cons by leading the group into the desert.

When Charlie’s old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was ...

Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy ...

When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents ...

Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner ‘Wentworth Castle’ (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit ...

Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with ...

When his friend Professor Kingsely (Ridges) is at deaths door, brain surgeon Dr. Sovac (Karloff) saves his life by means of an illegal operation ...

The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New ...

A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals’ blood, but secretly tests it on ...