Police Line-Up #2

Wilbur Underhill rose from small-time hood to Public Enemy No. 1 through a brutal cycle of armed robbery, murder, and repeated paroles that should never have been granted—until a daring prison escape with the underworld's help launched him on a tri-state rampage of destruction. Now cornered by federal agents near Shawnee, Oklahoma, Underhill makes his final stand with nothing left to lose and everything to prove.

When bank teller John Rance's embezzlement scheme is about to be discovered, he hatches a twisted plan: recruit a down-on-his-luck stranger named Peter Gregg who bears an uncanny resemblance to him, then stage Gregg's death as a suicide to cover his tracks and escape with his wife Gloria. But as the scheme unfolds, nothing goes quite as Rance calculated, and his own desperation becomes his undoing in this ingeniously twisted crime tale from 1951.

Willie Bioff rises from petty Chicago street thug to powerful labor racketeering boss, learning the business of intimidation first under Mike Galvin, then through Al Capone's organization before parlaying his talent for brutal persuasion into control of the theatrical unions. When he and George E. Brown seize dominance of the stage employees' union and begin squeezing money from theater owners across the country, Bioff's ambitions only grow—but his methods leave a trail of enemies he can't afford to ignore.