The Killers (1946)

A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses and duplicitous dames.

Surprised that their contract victim didn't try to run away from them, two professional hit men try to find out who hired them and why.

A major heist goes off as planned, until bad luck and double crosses cause everything to unravel.

Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.

A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband... but even once the deed is done, they must live with the consequences of their actions.

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.

After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.

An armored truck driver and his lovely ex-wife conspire with a gang to have his own truck robbed on the route.

Johnny Farrell is a gambling cheat who turns straight to work for an unsettling casino owner Ballin Mundson. But things take a turn for Johnny as his alluring ex-lover appears as Mundson's wife, and Mundson's machinations begin to unravel.

A doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious "great whatsit."

A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. But she begins to have doubts...

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. Shortly after the plan takes place, events take a crazy turn