The Big Heat

(1953)

A young woman who has just become engaged has her life completely shattered when she is raped while on her way home from work.

Two friends pick up a psychopathic escaped convict who tells them that he intends to murder them when the ride is over.

A man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, though her fiancé persuades her to con him out of the fortune they mistakenly assume he possesses.

Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.

A self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.

A Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator.

A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses, and duplicitous dames.

Two undercover agents infiltrate a drug-smuggling ring in Mexico, but neither is aware of the other's identity.

Hit men kill an unresisting victim, and investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins.

Crook Johnny Clay assembles a five-man team to plan and execute a daring racetrack robbery.