Movies: Joe Downing

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...

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

Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout....

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

A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden....

A con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason....

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....

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

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

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

G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself upon the honest citizenry of the US. The crooks have flooded the market with counterfeit lottery tickets, reducing many an unwary speculator to poverty...

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

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,...

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....