Cheap but gold

Detectives try to solve the case of a murdered Los Angeles defense attorney.

In this Americanized retelling of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, a medical student--broke, hungry and desperate for money--murders a loan shark to whom he owes money. After the killing, he's tormented by guilt over what he's done. A police captain, who's convinced the student committed the crime but can't prove it for lack of evidence, plays on the young man's guilt in order to get him to confess to the crime.

Banker Kenneth Holden (Albert Dekker) steals funds from an estate and decides to marry the heiress, Claire Worthington (Catherine Craig), to safeguard his position. He arranges for her fiancé to be killed but does not state the fiancé's name. Claire, meanwhile, has a change of heart and marries Holden, so he now becomes the target of the killer and attempts to cancel the deal--except he doesn't know who the hired killer is.

Newlyweds come to visit groom's friend, only to discover him missing; and their investigation uncovers evidence of a ring of anti-semites terrorizing the neighborhood.

A woman apparently marries a corrupt deputy D.A. to get evidence that a certain criminal was framed for murder.

A man fleeing the police after having committed a murder hides out in a boarding house in a small town.

Police investigate a murder that occurred in a burlesque theater.

Two detectives investigate the murder of a local businessman by a mysterious woman.

An arrogant criminal offers to seduce a woman for his dim, sexually inexperienced partner.

An aspiring reporter is the key witness at the murder trial of a young man accused of cutting a café owner's throat, and is soon accused of a similar crime himself.

The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.

Two guys sharing an apartment meet twin girls (both Bonita Granville). One's sweet, the other a major piece of bad news. The nice one is murdered and her boyfriend is accused of the crime. The wrong man/wrong victim plot strikes again.

The sister of a murdered model poses for the same artist to try to catch her killer.

A mortally-wounded female gangster recounts how she and her gang revived an executed killer from the gas chamber to try to find out where he buried a fortune in cash.

After Paul has bizarre dreams about a faceless, sinister man, he suspects the man who is courting his Mother has ulterior motives.

A sadistic husband mentally tortures his wife, while eventually planning to murder her. Although no one believes her, she gets help from an unexpected source.

Three psychotic murderers escape from a mental institution and stalk women in Los Angeles.

Traffickers force border farmers to plant poppy and threaten to kill anyone who refuses.

Angela (Mara Lane), secretary to an important businessman in Italy, Bertolati (Nino Crisman, is an attractive and sophisticated girl, which is sufficient cause for Steve Catlett (Dennis O'Keefe ), an American car salesman, to fall in love with her. At her apartment, Steve finds Bertolati dead as a result of a heart attack, according to Angela. But, in order to prevent a scandal, Angela urges Steve to get rid of the body without calling the police. Smitten Steve agrees and takes the body to his car with the intention of staging a crash. He is about to go do that when he finds out that Angela was indeed the lover of the dead man, and he hesitates. But a new character makes a violent entrance - a brutal ex-convict named Nino (Rossano Brazzi) - and he turns out to be Angela's husband. A fight ensues during which Nino gets hold of Steve's gun and shoots Bertolati's corpse, thereby implicating Steve, now less smitten with Angela than he was earlier, in the death of Bertolati. Nino then tries to kill Steve by pushing him into the car and into a nearby abyss, but Steve turns the tables and kills the aggressive Nino, hurling him into the car, with Bertolati, and into the abyss. Steve now suspects Angela's conduct and sincerity despite her efforts to convince him she is on the level. More surprises are coming Steve's way.

In Manhattan, prostitutes are being murdered by a psycho. A detective is assigned to track him down and bring him in.