Chicago Deadline (1949)

An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.

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

Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.

Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.

After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.

Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.

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