Boomerang, directed by Elia Kazan, is a chilling film noir, the true story about the
murder of a priest, the subsequent arrest and trial of a jobless drifter, and the efforts of young state's attorney Henry Harvey (Dana Andrews) to ...
The modest MGM programmer Code Two follows a group of police academy aspirants from the
grueling training process to their first days on the job. The plot concentrates on three of these trainees: self-satisfied Chuck O'Flair (Ralph Meeker), bridegroom-to-be Harry ...
When the blame for a deadly freeway crash falls on the shoulders of the police
department, a veteran police detective and his partner launch a comprehensive investigation into the tragic accident. In the aftermath of a violent six car pile ...
Cover-Up transfers the metropolitan film noir milieu to a small Midwestern town. Dennis O'Keefe plays
Sam Donovan, an insurance detective, investigating the suicide of a policy holder. All signs point to murder, but no one in the victim's hometown is ...
G Men planted Warner Bros' bad boy James Cagney firmly on the side of the
law, where he remained until a full-scale return to villainy in White Heat. Cagney plays a young lawyer whose education has been financed by soft-hearted ...
Joe Coughlin (Ben Affleck), the son of a Boston police lieutenant, moves to Florida during
the Prohibition era to become a bootlegger. As his operation grows, Coughlin faces off against local gangsters, Klansmen, and religious evangelicals while he fights for ...
An honest man struggles to do the right thing, even if it means breaking the
law, in this drama. Artie Lewis (Michael Keaton) is a scrupulously ethical cop who believes in his work, loves his wife Rita (Rene Russo), and ...
Joseph Wambaugh's The Onion Field is based on an actual 1963 case. L.A. plainclothesmen Karl
Hattinger (John Savage) and Ian Campbell (Ted Danson) routinely investigate a pair of suspicious types, Greg Powell (James Woods) and Jimmy Smith (Franklin Seales). Unexpectedly, ...