A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to re-jump start his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.

A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses and duplicitous dames.

Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.

The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.

A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. But she begins to have doubts...

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. Shortly after the plan takes place, events take a crazy turn.

A major heist goes off as planned, until bad luck and double crosses cause everything to unravel.

A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.

Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.

Four men plan a technically perfect crime, but the human element intervenes...

Hit men kill an unresisting victim, and investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins.