Murder by Contract

The Face Behind the Mask

A kindly, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of crime after his face is badly disfigured in a hot

1941

The New Centurions

An idealistic rookie cop joins the LAPD to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is indoctrinated by a seasoned veteran. As time goes on, he

1972

Witness to Murder

A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.

1954

Vicki

A supermodel gets murdered. While investigating the case the story of a waitress turned glamor girl is revealed.

1953

Down Three Dark Streets

An FBI Agent takes on the three unrelated cases of a dead agent to track down his killer.

1954

The Crooked Way

A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his crimin

1949

I Love Trouble

A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife's mysterious past.

1948

Guilty Bystander

A drunken ex-cop gets a shot at redemption when his young son is kidnapped after a smuggling deal goes belly up.

1950

Ruthless

Horace Vendig always gets what he wants. Even as a poor youth, he charmed his way into high society by getting the father of his friend, Martha, to fo

1948

Illegal Entry

Long before he became producer/director of The Tonight Show, Fred DeCordova helmed the Universal meller Illegal Entry. Howard Duff, who later worked w

1949

The Goodbye Kiss

Leftist radical-turned-terrorist Giorgio—hiding out in Latin America since the 1970s—turns himself in as soon as the Berlin Wall falls. Wishing to lea

2006

The Great Flamarion

A beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.

1945

The Guilty

Two friends land in hot water when they begin dating twins and one of the women ends up dead.

1947

Gunman in the Streets

An American is on the run in the streets and back alleys of France.

1950

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for wh

1994

Quiet Please, Murder

A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.

1943

Never Let Go

John Cummings, an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman, has his unpaid-for car stolen by one of the hoods in the employ of Lionel Meadows, the sadistic org

1960

The People Against O'Hara

A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.

1951

Danger Signal

After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los Angeles

1945

The Damned Don't Cry

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.

1950