The Fake

Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters,...

Posing for a portrait, Dorian Gray talks with Lord Henry Wotton, who says that men should pursue their sensual longings, but laments that only the...

Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss,...

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.

A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.

Fast-talking, quick-thinking Detroit street cop Axel Foley has bent more than a few rules and regs in his time, but when his best friend is murdered,...

After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home...

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that belonged in her deceased husband's collection....

Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne...