A pint-sized Mountie pursues a gang of moonshiners.
To impress the girl he loves, a naive country boy tries to capture a group of local bootleggers.
A rich but hypochondriac heiress inherits a sanitarium. What she doesn't know is that it is a front for bootleggers, and a hideout for criminals on the run from the law.
A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss.
Based on the Hammett novel, this ultra-rare film—is nominally taken from the author's classic gang-war novel Red Harvest, which proved too brutal and cynical even for pre-Code Hollywood.
A gangster's wife, fearful that he is about to be murdered by his rivals, tips off the police to his whereabouts in order to save his life. Her husband, however, believes her reason was that she wanted him out of the way so she could have his best friend.
When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring reporter; however, his naive younger brother Rodney takes a twisted path and gets involved with the wrong people.
Ein schießgewandter junger Mann verliebt sich in die Stieftochter eines Ganoven, gerät durch sie in allerlei Schwierigkeiten und schließlich sogar in Mordverdacht. Die Gangsterorganisation will das Paar liquidieren, doch der junge Mann bleibt Sieger. Mamoulians unbedeutender Kriminalfilm nach einem Roman von Hammett ermöglichte immerhin eine der besten Leistungen von Sylvia Sidney und begründete ihre Starkarriere.
Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.
The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents' notoriety.
A stock market broker plans to liven up his boring life by taking up piracy on the high seas.
A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss.
The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.
An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.
Der berüchtigte Chicagoer Gangster Bugs Ahern will nach dem Ende der Prohibition seine Gangsterkarriere an den Nagel hängen und in Kalifornien von seinem angehäuften Vermögen ein ehrliches Leben führen. In Kalifornien angekommen versucht er sich krampfhaft unter die oberen 10.000 zu mischen. Als er sich in eine vermeintlich angesehene Familie einheiraten möchte merkt er, dass nicht alles Gold ist was glänzt.
Betty Ingals walks out on her fiancé in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles upon a gang of bootleggers.
Die Prohibition ist abgeschafft – Alkohol ist wieder legal. Und das bedeutet: Schwarzhändler Remy Marco muss sich umstellen. Ab sofort ist sein Bierhandel kein Syndikat mehr, sondern ein Unternehmen. Angestellte waren bisher Flachhirne und Armleuchter – jetzt sind sie Geschäftspartner. Und Marco wird auch nicht mehr als “Boss” angeredet. Jetzt sagt man “Sir”. Denn ab sofort ist alles ganz legal, kapiert? Edward G. Robinson zieht als Marco sein legendäres Image als “kleiner Cäsar” genüsslich durch den Kakao und kämpft mit Leichen, Gläubigern und heißen Bräuten.
A popular high school valedictorian and star athlete becomes a pariah when it's discovered that his father is a former bootlegger.
Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
After losing their parents in a flood at a young age, two brothers grow up to become a police officer and a lawyer, working with a local newspaper owner to help rid the city of bootlegging gangsters.