True Crime Files
The cases that haunt you.
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Murder on the High Seas
Also known as "Love Bound". Copyright date is listed as 1949 on the film, but it's obviously a 1930s feature. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page .
29m
Movie Serial - Dick Tracy (1937) Chapter 01: The Spider Strikes
Dick Tracy movie serial (1937) - 15 chapters Information about this serial can be found on its IMDb page . This serial is already uploaded to the archives but won't play in some browsers, so I'm up...
1h 18m
He Walked by Night
Richard Basehart becomes the target of an intense manhunt. You'll find that this copy is sharper than the version that was already here at the Archive.
They Made Me a Criminal (1939)
Directed by Busby Berkeley and starring John Garfield, Claude Rains, and The Dead End Kids. It is a remake of the 1933 film The Life of Jimmy Dolan.
1h 1m
Gang Bullets
From IMDb : A ruthless but clever gangster who knows every loophole in the law has the tables turned by a dedicated District Attorney and his assistant. Stars: Anne Nagel and Robert Kent This movie...
1h 29m
Angel on My Shoulder
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
1h 28m
The Green Glove
Title: The Green Glove Summary: An ex-soldier and his new girlfriend comb France for a valuable relic...which others are willing to kill for. Directed by: Rudolph Maté Actors: Directed by Rudolph ...
1h 0m
Ghost Patrol
Professor Brent (Lloyd Ingraham) invents a radium tube that gives off previously undiscovered rays which can control electricity. He rather foolishly trusts Kincaid (Wheeler Oakman) who imprisons h...
1h 11m
Alimony
Small town girl Kitty Traves (Martha Vickers) comes to New York with the idea of getting rich fast. Beginning as a 'model' she then becomes a divorce co-respondent in hotel room frame-ups. When her...
1h 30m
Capture, The
Taken from IMDB : An American working for an oil company in Mexico shoots a man suspected of stealing the payroll; later, he fears that the man was innocent.
53m
Captured in Chinatown
A feud between two gangs in Chinatown breaks out into a tong war.
11 Neath Brooklyn Bridge
' Neath Brooklyn Bridge is a 1942 film released by Monogram Pictures . The film is the eleventh installment in the East Side Kids series and one of the more dramatic films of the series,...
56m
The Violent Years
A newspaper publisher's daughter suffers from neglect by her parents. She and her friends turn to crime by dressing up like men, holding up gas stations, raping young men at gunpoint, and having ma...
1h 3m
Tomorrow We Live
Julie Bronson (Jean Parker), whose father, "Pop" Bronson (Emmett Lynn) operates a desert café, is attracting the unwanted attention of a half-crazed gangster known as The Ghost (Ricardo Cortez) wh...
Maniac
Notorious film from early exploitation king Dwain Esper, who brought us such classic early titles as "Sex Madness," "Narcotic," "Reefer Madness," "How To Undress In Front Of Your Husband," and "Mar...
1h 5m
Man with Two Lives
A man is brought back from death at the same time a vicious criminal dies in the electric chair. However, the man's soul is now taken over by the electrocuted gangster, who embarks on a vengeful cr...
Outer Gate
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page .
53m
Youth On Parole
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page .
1h 6m
Big News
A early talkie from Pathé, this crime drama starred relative newcomers Robert Armstrong and a very young Carole Lombard, the title credits still spelling her first name Carol. They play husband an...
Prison Shadows
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page .
1h 3m
The Boss of Big Town
From IMDb : Diligent City Market official Michael Lynn resists overtures by well-to-do gangster Kenneth Craige to fix produce and dairy prices during wartime. Lynn seems unable to stop the resultin...
1h 5m
Chained for Life
A Siamese twin kills the husband who left her. The courts have to decide if she is convicted of murder, how can they punish her sister, who had nothing to do with the crime?
1h 25m
Satan's Harvest
This tells the story of an American private detective who inherits a large estate in South Africa. When he arrives he finds himself a hunted man. He discovers that his land is being used as a plant...
1h 8m
Gambling with Souls
Mae Miller (Martha Chapin) wants the finer things in life, luxuries that she feels her husband (Robert Frazer), a doctor, cannot provide for her. She begins to gamble in order to ring in spending m...
59m
Crime Patrol
Bob Neal (Ray Walker) agrees to lose a fight so gangster Vic Santell (Wilbur Mack) can make some money. He wins the fight and Vic tries to have Bob beaten up for his double cross; he fails and is a...
59m
Sucker Money
A phony spiritualist (Mischa Auer) hypnotizes the daughter (Phyllis Barrington) of a wealthy banker (Ralph Lewis) in a scheme to swindle the banker out of his money. A reporter (Earl McCarthy) inve...
1h 11m
The Rebel Set (1959)
A gang of beatniks pulls off a robbery. Features Edward Platt (the chief from "Get Smart").
1h 5m
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain who robs banks using a nerve gas.
1h 24m
Back Door to Heaven
James Lydon appears as Francis (Frankie) Rogers, a small boy living a desperate existence in a slum area, who steals a harmonica in order to fit in with his classmates. He winds up in reform school...
1h 7m
The Woman in Green
Taken from IMDB : Holmes and Watson investigate a series of bizarre and apparently unconnected murders, and the death of a possible suspect.