When two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.

An insurance representative lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions.

A screenwriter is hired to rework a faded silent film star's script only to find himself developing a dangerous relationship.

An ingenue insinuates herself into the company of an established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater friends.

A veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise.

An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.

Fred Dobbs and Bob Curtin, two Americans searching for work in Mexico, convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.

Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.

In Chicago in September 1936, a young con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner teams up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker.

A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.

A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive.