99 River Street

6.8

1953

83 mins

Crime

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A former boxer turned taxi driver earns the scorn of his nagging wife and gets mixed up with jewel thieves.

The Set-Up

Year : 1949Rating : ⭐ 7.4

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

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Year : 1950Rating : ⭐ 7.2

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

You Only Live Once

Year : 1937Rating : ⭐ 7.1

Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.

Framed

Year : 1947Rating : ⭐ 6.5

Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.

Pitfall

Year : 1948Rating : ⭐ 6.8

An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.

The Big Combo

Year : 1955Rating : ⭐ 7.0

Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.

Hell Drivers

Year : 1957Rating : ⭐ 6.7

An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company owner who encourages competion amongst his drivers.

Nightfall

Year : 1956Rating : ⭐ 6.9

An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

The Web

Year : 1947Rating : ⭐ 7.1

A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.

Macao

Year : 1952Rating : ⭐ 6.3

Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord. Undercover, can he mislead the bad guys and still woo the attractive singer/petty crook, Julie Benson?

Fallen Angel

Year : 1945Rating : ⭐ 6.6

An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn't interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle.

The Locket

Year : 1946Rating : ⭐ 6.3

A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.

They Live by Night

Year : 1949Rating : ⭐ 6.8

An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.

The Dark Corner

Year : 1946Rating : ⭐ 6.6

Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.

Desperate

Year : 1947Rating : ⭐ 6.5

An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.

The Damned Don't Cry

Year : 1950Rating : ⭐ 7.0

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.

Quicksand

Year : 1950Rating : ⭐ 6.1

Young auto mechanic Dan Brady takes $20 from a cash register at work to go on a date with blonde femme fatale Vera Novak. Brady intends to put the money back before it is missed, but the garage's bookkeeper shows up earlier than scheduled. As Brady scrambles to cover evidence of his petty theft, he fast finds himself drawn into an ever worsening "quicksand" of crime.

No Man of Her Own

Year : 1950Rating : ⭐ 6.9

A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.

The Blue Lamp

Year : 1950Rating : ⭐ 6.6

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.

Plunder Road

Year : 1957Rating : ⭐ 6.9

A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.