After losing his company's $5,000 cashier's check in a crooked card game, a stranger in Chicago commits suicide. The group of gamblers, with Danny Haley (Charlton Heston) as a member, worries about the dangers of cashing the check, but this becomes the least of their worries when the head of the group is found hanged. Police Captain Garvey (Dean Jagger) concludes the hanging to be a case of homicide and discovers that the stranger had a mentally deranged...

A one-time private investigator walks the straight and narrow of small-town life until an acquaintance from his past pulls him back into the troubles he'd left behind.--

Alan Ladd is a special investigator sent to Indiana to solve a murder and track down the sole witness to the act. After learning the identity of the culprits, he soon uncovers the gang's plot to pull off a million-dollar mail heist.

A straight-arrow cop and an old-school gangster find a common foe: big shots who run crime like a corporation. -- box.

The Mexico-California border is the power-keg setting for a tale of government agents versus greed and murder. -- box.

After committing an act of sabotage against the Nazis, Vincent Van Der Lyn escapes from the Netherlands to neutral Portugal, where he enlists in the underground resistance under the leadership of Ricardo Quintanilla. Tasked by Quitanilla with uncovering a traitor, Vincent soon finds himself being fitted for a frame while falling for the secretive Irene, and the Nazis are closing in.