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- A drug kingpin is released from prison and seeks to take total control of the criminal underworld in order to give back to the community.
- A comedy about a psychiatrist whose number-one patient is an insecure mob boss.
- A cat burglar is forced to steal Da Vinci works of art for a world domination plot.
- A prisoner becomes a lawyer and fights to overturn his life sentence for a crime he didn't commit.
- A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.
- A reformed convict goes undercover with the help of an angry detective to ensnare a psychotic mobster.
- Based on the true story, two homicide detectives track Martha Beck and Raymond Martinez Fernandez, a murderous pair known as the "Lonely Hearts Killers" who lured their victims through the personals.
- A crook arrested for a jewelry heist initially refuses to give up his accomplices, but he changes his mind once his wife dies under worrying circumstances.
- A paroled labor racketeer attempts to connect with his rebellious teenage daughter. Meanwhile, his deceitful former partner wants to kill him and a politically ambitious attorney wants to jail him.
- Spike has just finished the 20-year process of digging a tunnel from his prison cell but he picks the wrong place to hide.
- A corrupt D.A. (Thurston Hall) with political ambitions is angered by news stories implicating him in criminal activity and decides to frame the reporter (James Cagney) for manslaughter in order to silence him.
- When a crooked businessman is fatally shot, a hotshot New York newspaper reporter specializing in murder stories narrows in on the dead man's associate.
- An ex-con who wants to go straight has difficulties trying to reintegrate into society while on parole.
- The Wolf escapes from prison but is hounded by the police dog named Droopy. Wherever The Wolf goes, the little fellow is there, too.
- The son of a jailed Wall Street broker turns to crime to pay for his father's release.
- Acting as a decoy in a bank robbery Dot get arrested. But before going to jail she manages to steal the $40, 000 loot from her accomplices. Her arrest attracts the attention of her former sweetheart Ken who believes her innocent.
- Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.
- An arrogant mobster, sentenced to a long prison term in Sing Sing, becomes a changed man when given a chance by the fair and progressive warden.
- The true story of a suburban teenager whose one mistake leads to a life changing punishment. Peter Madigan, a 15-year-old from the suburbs commits a senseless act, causing a commuter train to derail killing the engineer.
- The work of the prison staff at Mariah State Penitentiary.
- After robbing a bank, a criminal is wrongfully pardoned from prison.
- Helen Briggs volunteers to conduct a mask-making workshop at the local penitentiary. As she struggles to convey her empathy for the prisoners, Helen is forced to question her own faith in the redemptive power of Art.
- Count Fabiano Romani, an Italian nobleman, discovers that his wife is in love with Arturo Durazzi, and shortly afterward is stricken with what appears to be cholera. The guilty couple, who have long been anxious to have the husband out of the way, bury him in the family vault of the Romani, but Count Fabiano, who was not dead, manages to escape from the tomb, and with the thought of breaking up the unfortunate affair between his wife and Arturo, disguises himself, and conceives the novel idea of winning back his wife from the man who has taken her from him. Fabiano meets Juliet by posing as a rich friend of her dead husband, and succeeds in winning her promise to marry him. Arturo, furious at discovering her fickleness, challenges Fabiano to a duel, but on the dueling ground, Fabiano reveals his real identity, and then kills Arturo. Shortly after her marriage, Juliet begs her husband to show her the hiding place of his wonderful collection of jewels and, the time for his revenge having come, Fabiano takes her, blindfolded, to the tomb in which she had imprisoned him and in one of the most powerful scenes of the photoplay, discloses to her the fact that he is her first husband. In spite of her prayers for forgiveness, he confines her in the tomb, there to await the fate which she had planned for him.
- A woman who owns a boarding house winds up being the "mother hen" to the assorted mobsters and racketeers who live there. Her foster son takes the blame for a murder that was actually committed by his girlfriend. When he's released, her boarding-house pals decide to try to help her out in order to keep his girlfriend's reputation isn't spoiled.
- Jerry Davis is a street tough and troublemaker who winds up in Sing Sing framed for murder. There he discovers he has a great singing voice, and with the help of prison chaplain Father Connor, Jerry begins to rehabilitate himself.