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A wistful PI reflects on the case of Alice Draper, a young starlet whose death he failed to solve.

Henry J. Tyroon leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. ...

The owner of a tavern is pressured by the local mob to go into business with them, and figures it's better all around if he does that rather than...

A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, threatening to derail his career on the path of...

The illness challenges the couple's love in a way they never anticipated, shifting the narrative from a sweet romance to an emotional journey.

The rugged editor of a city newspaper poses as a journalism student and flirts with the professor.

A psychopath on the run takes a job as a handyman at the house of a lonely widow.

A college student witnesses a gang attack and as his curiosity behind the encounter tries to get the better of him, he realizes that his dad and the...

George Sanders stars in this engrossing melodrama about a very domineering sister who holds a tight grip on her brother -- especially when he shows...

Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master...

A group of escaped convicts holds a household prisoner as the police close in.

Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is loveless. Even worse, Ohlrig seems to have manic,...