Crime Does Not Pay #43 (1945)

In 1945, a Chicago boarding house becomes the stage for a tragic twist when a love-struck circus clown, Charles Conway, grows obsessed with a woman named Sophie Singer, whose affection for another man ignites a dangerous fixation. As his pleas for love turn desperate and his behavior increasingly erratic, the situation spirals into violence—leaving a dead woman and a husband who refuses to abandon his wife, even as she faces the consequences of his crime.

"Doctor of Evil" follows the rise of Joseph Moran, a man expelled from medical school for his deceitful nature, who reinvents himself as a mob doctor during Prohibition. Using his medical guise to treat gangsters under dangerous conditions—from operating in speakeasies to performing surgery by flashlight—he becomes indispensable to criminals, even as his unreliable hands and drinking habits lead to fatal mistakes. As his reputation grows, so does his entanglement with violent underworld figures, setting the stage for a reckoning he may not survive.