Drifting floozy Billie Nash gets a bar job where she seduces the owner's husband by convincing him to defraud his drunkard wife in order to elope together to Mexico, but a sleazy neighbor with designs on Billie jeopardizes her plans.

A woman travels to Hawaii to find out if a man in prison there is actually her missing husband.

A newly promoted police sergeant discovers his girlfriend my be involved with a gang of car thieves.

A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.

A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.

Sean Kane is forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department's Narcotics Division when he goes berserk after his partner is murdered. He decides to fight alone and follows a trail of drug traffickers into unexpected high places.

A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.

Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-spending wife. Deciding on suicide, he scribbles a note, stuffs it in his pocket and goes for one last night on the town. He is pulled into a poker game by conman Bill O'Brien and singer Nina Barone, but when they discover the dropped note, they resolve to turn the tables, get Engle his $3,000 and save his life.

An Ohio bank clerk's life becomes a nightmare when his descriptions is a fit of a maniac killer.

In this Gothic tale, a returning WW2 vet goes looking for a small-town girl whom he knows only from letters. It’s the pretext for an off-beat treatment of sexual frustration morphing into a dangerous delusion, and eventually murder.

After accidentally destroying an important piece of literature, two young publishing house employees must work throughout the night to try to piece together the remains of the destroyed manuscript in order to save their jobs.

A golddigging femme fatale leaves a trail of men behind her, rich and poor, alive and dead.