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Scarlet street: a bank cashier and amateur painter falls for a pretty face who figures he's a rich and famous artist, leading to his being taken advantage of by her scheming boyfriend. Detour: a Ma...

Scarlet street: a bank cashier and amateur painter falls for a pretty face who figures he's a rich and famous artist, leading to his being taken advantage of by her scheming boyfriend.

Detour: a Manhattan night-club piano player hitchhikes to Hollywood to meet up with his girl friend. Along the way, he's picked up by a driver who winds up dead. The hitchhiker assumes the dead driver's identity but winds up being blackmailed.

The strange love of Martha Ivers: a gambler with a dark past returns to his hometown to find that his wealthy ex-fiancee is now married to the district attorney. The D.A. tries to use the gambler's new friend to get rid of him.

Whistle stop: a woman of ill repute returns to her home town looking for money and rekindles her relationship with her old love, an alcoholic gambler. His bartender pal lures him into a plot to do away with a wealthy and corrupt nightclub owner.

He walked by night: a detective is on the trail of a cop-killer.

Trapped: A forger is allowed to escape from prison so that the feds can secretly follow him to his counterfeiting plates. His plan is to head to Mexico.

Impact: a femme fatale and her boyfriend conspire to murder her industrialist husband, who survives the attempt but suffers from amnesia - until he gradually retrieves his memory and begins to plot his revenge.

D.O.A.: an accountant discovers he has only a week to live after he is poisoned. Together with his secretary, he tries to beat the clock to find out who poisoned him - and why - before it's too late.

Quicksand: an auto mechanic falls for a scheming waitress, and is pulled into the dark world of crime by her ruthless boyfriend.

The hitch-hiker: Two army buddies pick up a psychotic hitch-hiker on their way to Mexico.

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