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One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.
Mike Hammer
Dr. G.E. Soberin
Carl Evello
Eddie Yeager
Lt. Pat Murphy
Friday
Velda
Christina Bailey
Lily Carver
Nick
Sugar Smallhouse
Charlie Max
Sammy
Cheesecake
Doc Kennedy
Manager
Harvey Wallace
Popcorn Vendor (uncredited)
Carmen Trivago
Self - Singer (voice)
20 Jun 1929
A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl, without knowing of their relationship. Thunderbolt hopes to stave off the execution long enough to kill young Moran for romancing his girl.
09 Sep 2012
A hard-boiled female detective has to solve a murder plot orchestrated by vampires.
01 Oct 1978
A comatose hospital patient harasses and kills though his powers of telekinesis to claim his private nurse as his own.
07 Jul 1950
A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
26 Jan 1995
Unable to move on from the loss of his daughter, Freddy, now a shell of the person he was before, swears to kill the man responsible for her death.
12 Dec 1950
A family man – desperate for a job – latches onto a friend who encourages him into being a criminal.
08 May 1953
A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps.
31 Aug 2010
Dispatched to a small Italian town to await further orders, assassin Jack embarks on a double life that may be more relaxing than is good for him.
08 Nov 2018
Two sisters are trapped under the fiberglass cover of an Olympic sized public pool and must brave the cold and each other to survive the harrowing night.
21 Apr 1943
A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husband she's fallen in love with.
01 Feb 1939
Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corpse. However, he soon finds himself accused of the murder of a maid at a near-by boarding house.
15 Apr 1955
Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to carry out the abduction, balks when he learns what is at stake and helps Leduc out instead.
13 Feb 1947
A neglected wife gets mixed up with an hypnotic charmer and murder.
22 Feb 1951
A convicted racketeer becomes prison trustee when an inmate whom he persuaded to escape is killed.
27 Sep 1949
Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to double-cross them.
27 Feb 1955
Mr. Dean's body is found face down in the fireplace, burned beyond recognition. Nightclub-singer Eden Lane is convicted of the crime. She is escorted to prison by one of the arresting detectives when she convinces him that she just spotted the murderer outside their train.
17 Dec 1947
Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann Lorrison is initially skeptical about Kenet's story and reluctance to undergo treatment. But against her better judgement, she begins to doubt his guilt.
16 Nov 1944
A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.
28 Mar 1954
Bank teller Mike Donovan (Barry Sullivan) takes the first step on the road to Perdition when he fails to report a $49,000 shortage. Accused of theft, Donovan is fired from his job. He is then prevented from finding other employment by Javert-like insurance investigator Gus Slavin (Charles McGraw). Despite many setbacks, Donovan attempts to clear his muddied name.
22 May 1947
On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.