Authentic Police Cases #19

A bank teller named Paul Brindle is drawn into a scheme with two criminals, "Hush" Lamarr and Judd Tonnel, who exploit his mounting debts and desperation to use him as inside help for a major heist. When the robbery goes down with shocking violence, Brindle must live with the consequences of his choice—and the fear of being discovered.

When criminal Danny Carneri winds up in a jail cell awaiting trial, he thinks he's finally found safety from Big Tom Salerno's vendetta—but the mob boss has other plans. A crooked locksmith named Jake Kohler arranges his own arrest to get close to Danny in Cell No. 5, carrying concealed tools and murder on his mind. "Murder Knocks at Cell No. 5" is a taut crime tale that traps two men in the same cellblock with murder as the only way out.

Broadway Betty Hiller ditches her struggling modeling career to become a gun moll, getting in on a jewelry store heist with a trio of criminals who see her as the perfect inside woman. But as Betty proves herself valuable to the gang and plans mount for bigger scores, she begins playing her own angles—and the men around her have no idea she's working angles of her own.

Willie Reuther, a skilled pickpocket with a sixteen-year criminal career, aims for one big score to escape to Easy Street—but when he targets Big Al Greco's roll at a boxing match, he unwittingly sets himself in the crosshairs of one of the city's most dangerous racket bosses. With Detective Marty Flynn already hunting him and Greco's men closing in, Willie races against time to flee the city before his luck runs out. It's a tense cat-and-mouse game where the small-time criminal's confidence in his nimble fingers proves no match for the weight of the underworld bearing down on him.

When deported criminals disguised as merchant seamen slip back into North America with plans to cross the border, an FBI undercover agent stumbles onto their operation—but a betrayed informant and a ruthless smuggler known as El Mono leave him for dead in a well. In "Smuggling Human Cargo," the agent crawls back from the brink to turn the tables, planting a trap that forces the conspirators' getaway plane down on a remote highway where law enforcement closes in. A tense game of survival unfolds as the criminals make their desperate stand against capture.