Movies: Joe Downing

An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true identity....

Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner....

Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie silent, even a...

A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin....

A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue....

Gangster Charlie McCormick despairs as his young brother Bobby lays near death and vows to break the quarantine of the ocean liner Pacific Queen in order to retrieve the iron lung Bobby needs. Meanwhile, newspaper editor Lonigan searches for reporter...

Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio show. A radio engineer then tries to solve the murder....

An overambitious shutterbug almost gets his lights put out permanently when he decides to snap a picture of a mob boss....

The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to....

A small town soda jerk discovers a gang of criminals staying at a local hotel. Comedy....

In this musical comedy, a traveling salesman gets mixed up with a bratty heiress after she gets in a car wreck as she heads for her elopement. The two begin traveling together and get further mixed up with a fleeing bank robber, a crazy tourist camp,...

A rookie assistant DA is assigned to investigate the murder of a longshoreman, killed for exposing gangster involvement on the piers, and meets up with a "code of silence" amongst all potential witnesses....

Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion....

Longshoreman Johnny Barnes is in love with Kitty Tracy, barmaid at her father's waterfront saloon, and he beats up Cassidy, a crooked politician who has been annoying her. Cassidy is murdered that night and Johnny is jailed for the crime. Kitty, her ...

Scientists assembled to prove their methods are effective in criminal investigation try to solve a series of murders....