Movies and TvShows featuring "attempt-to-murder" theme.
Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with juvenile delinquency, petty crimes, graft and also a recent unsolved murder of a strip-tease dancer. Recognizing the laxity of the department he implements many changes and soon finds himself under fire by the newspapers, the attorney of a racket leader and the denizens of this human jungle.
When the nephews of Phyllis Carter are killed in an automobile crash while under the influence of narcotics, she persuades Police Lieutenant Jim Hahan to use her as an undercover agent.
A newspaper man uses a mobster's tips to get the scoop on gangster activities.
A man in Chicago becomes the target of a serial killer after witnessing a murder. As he tries to solve the case, he encounters various obstacles and suspects along the way.
Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for nightclub singer Diana Wayne and a difference over ethics.
Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.
Pier 23 was one of three hour-long mysteries produced by Lippert Productions for both TV and theatrical release. Each of the three films was evenly divided into two half-hour "episodes," and each starred Hugh Beaumont as San Francisco-based amateur sleuth Dennis O'Brien. In Pier 23, O'Brien first tackles the case of a wrestler who has died of a suspicious heart attack after refusing to lose a match. He then agrees to help a priest talk an escaped criminal into returning to prison.
A single mother in New Mexico senses her own death in the hands of a mysterious stalker.
A jeweled Madonna, property of rancher Joe Salinas, attracts two crooks to his ranch, Monica Dell, a smooth operator, and ruthless Nick Julian. Joe believe that the statue has a miraculous power to ward off evil, and Monica, after a narrow escape from injury while trying to steal the statue, is converted to Joe's faith and refuses to go through with the robbery. Nick has no such intentions.
In Bulldog Drummond, a young adventurer finds himself trapped in a deadly game of cat and mouse. With a stormy night as the backdrop, the world war one veteran uses his wit and courage to outsmart his enemies. As he navigates through a web of lies and deceit, Bulldog Drummond encounters a femme fatale, an evil scientist, and a secret hideout. With the fate worse than death hanging in the balance, Bulldog Drummond must uncover the truth before it's too late.
An arson investigator goes undercover to break up a ring that sets fires in order to collect the insurance.
An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story.
The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.
A veteran, Joe Hilton, returns from the war to find that his brother Jeffrey Hilton, a gangster, has been killed. His quest for revenge leads him to take over his brother's illegal operations but his sweetheart, Lynn Turner, persuades him to change his ways and return to the straight and narrow.
A man pays a hitman to kill him. Circumstances change and he tries to call off the hit but he has trouble getting the deal killed.
A rookie reporter in pursuit of an expose gets tangled up with big-time mobsters.
A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around three different storylines.
Before Dawn is a pre-code film set in Austria. It revolves around a sinister force hidden in an old dark house. When a gangster attempts to murder a clairvoyant, a police investigation is launched. As secrets are revealed, the plot takes unexpected turns involving hidden money, greed, and a father and daughter relationship. The story is filled with suspense and thrilling moments.
Police Chief Jim Murphy, in a crime-ridden city, deputizes newspaper-reporter Sam Wire, to work as an undercover operative to rid the town of the gangster element. Sam taunts and tricks the two leading gangsters, a mob girl, 'Silk" Cantrell, and a bribe-taking police official, into setting ambushes and death-traps for him, which backfire on them, and achieve his assignment directive.
Dan Frazier is a U. S. Border Patrolman on the California-Mexico border whose hot temper and ready-fists keep him in trouble, both of which indirectly lead to the death of a fellow trooper. He resigns from the force in order to find out who was responsible. He believes it was a gang of smugglers, engaged in smuggling illegal aliens into the United States from Mexico, and in order to get inside the gang he fakes smuggling activities.