Passé à vendre (1936)

Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a videotape of him with his young mistress and demand $100,000. Fearing that the story will hurt his wife's political campaign if he goes to the police, Harry pretends that he will pay the men, but does not follow through.

After being released from prison on a bum charge, Harry Barber is out for payback to regain his lost two years. He's hired by Mrs. Malroux to fake the kidnapping of her stepdaughter (the daughter of a dying millionaire). He discovers that he is being set up on multiple levels and will soon face a longer sentence if he doesn't prove the truth.

A writer accidentally shoots his blackmailer and tries to hide the body.

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.

An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.

Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a rich general, a pornographer and a gangster.

When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.

Two friends are drawn into a seedy underworld of extortion and violence when they try to blackmail a gang of bank robbers.

A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life.