Crime
Police sergeants Johnson and McManus take on Los Angeles confidence tricksters. Con man Tony Wells, lining up rich widow Jessica Royce as his latest mark, sets up a false paranormal society with other charlatans to convince the credulous Jessica that her late son is speaking to her through their sham seances. When the plan leads to murder, Johnson and McManus must bring the group down before they kill again.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Dead Again
The Spellbinder
The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery
Family Plot
Subway in the Sky
The Criminal
Follow Me Quietly
The Flanagan Boy
The Steel Trap
I Accuse My Parents
The Wild World of Batwoman
Grand Theft Auto
Trapped
Murder Is My Beat
Highway 301
The Mark of the Whistler
The Power of the Whistler
Double Jeopardy
Mysterious Intruder
The Secret of the Whistler
SIMILAR MOVIES
Dead Again
IMDB 6.4 | Aug , 1991
In 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a detective comes across a mute amnesiac woman who is somehow linked to the Strauss murder.The Spellbinder
IMDB 6 | Jul , 1939
Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father’s courtroom performance, but unaware of his back-room tactics, marries the killer her father has just unjustly save from the electric chair. What’s a poor father to do?The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery
IMDB 6 | Sep , 1959
Career criminals and a local youth carefully plan and rehearse the robbery of a Missouri bank.Family Plot
IMDB 6.8 | Apr , 1976
Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.Subway in the Sky
IMDB 5.7 | Nov , 1959
Berlin provides the backdrop for this crime drama that centers on a military doctor falsely accused of dealing illegal drugs. Determined to prove his innocence, he escapes from the MPs and ends up holing up in the apartment his wife rented. He doesn't know that she has sublet the flat to a nightclub singer. When he finds out, he begs the singer to assist him. She is attracted to him and agrees. The doctor believes that his wife is behind the black-market dealings, but in the end, they find the real culprit.The Criminal
IMDB 6.3 | Sep , 1960
When a robbery at a racetrack goes wrong ex-con Johnny Bannion is caught and sent back to prison. He won't tell the rest of the gang where he has stashed the loot leading to violent consequences.Follow Me Quietly
IMDB 6.2 | Jul , 1949
When it rains in the city, a serial killer known as "The Judge" looks for his next strangling victim. For months, the madman has been stalking at night, leaving behind clues, but police efforts have been fruitless. Constructing a life-size dummy of the murderer, police Lt. Harry Grant is growing obsessed with capturing him, and always following Grant is the relentless reporter Ann Gorman looking to break the story, but the hunt continues.The Flanagan Boy
IMDB 5.8 | Apr , 1953
Johnny Flanagan did not have the privileges of a good education or wealthy background but the streets developed his natural talent to be a great fighter. His enormous potential to reach the top is born out of a string of spectacular successes. All of which is brought to a halt when he develops a physical relationship with his manager's wife, the beautiful but manipulative Lorna. His naive temperament is no match for her callous, dispassionate scheming and he unwittingly becomes a pawn in Lorna's ultimate plan... .to murder her husband.The Steel Trap
IMDB 6.6 | Nov , 1952
Joseph Cotten plays an assistant bank manager who steals $1,000,000 from the safe late on a Friday and then plans to flee to Brazil over the weekend.I Accuse My Parents
IMDB 2.7 | Oct , 1944
Ignored by his alcoholic parents, Jimmy Wilson starts hanging around with some shady characters. After falling in love with a lounge singer, Jimmy tries to impress her by doing jobs for her shady boss. After one of these jobs goes bad, Jimmy ends up on the run. Eventually, he must confront the truth, his past, and his parents. The judge cites parental neglect in the case of a teenager (John Miljan) charged with murder.The Wild World of Batwoman
IMDB 2.3 | Jan , 1966
Batwoman and her bevy of Batmaidens fight evil and dance.Grand Theft Auto
IMDB 5.2 | Jun , 1977
A rich girl steals her dad's Rolls Royce and heads off to Las Vegas to get married. However, her angry parents, a jealous suitor, and a bunch of reward seekers are determined to stop her.Trapped
IMDB 5.9 | Sep , 1949
Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to double-cross them.Murder Is My Beat
IMDB 5.8 | Feb , 1955
Mr. Dean's body is found face down in the fireplace, burned beyond recognition. Nightclub-singer Eden Lane is convicted of the crime. She is escorted to prison by one of the arresting detectives when she convinces him that she just spotted the murderer outside their train.Highway 301
IMDB 6.4 | Dec , 1950
The "Tri-State" gang goes on a successful bank robbing streak causing local authorities to turn up the heat on the daring career criminals.The Mark of the Whistler
IMDB 6 | Oct , 1944
A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man's old partner, who is now in prison because of a conflict with him over the money in that account.The Power of the Whistler
IMDB 5.8 | Apr , 1945
A woman uses a deck of cards to predict death within 24 hours for a stranger sitting at a bar, then tries to help him remember who he is based on items in his pockets.Double Jeopardy
IMDB 5 | Jun , 1955
Marc Hill is the attorney for Emmet Devrey, a real estate developer with a past, who is being blackmailed by his former partner Sam Baggett. When Sam's unfaithful wife Marge cooks up a scheme with her used car salesman lover Jeff Calder to bilk both Devrey and her alcoholic husband, Sam is killed and Devrey is accused of the crime. Mark is called to prove his employers innocence.Mysterious Intruder
IMDB 5.9 | Apr , 1946
A private detective is hired to find a young heiress but finds himself accused of murder.The Secret of the Whistler
IMDB 5.9 | Nov , 1946
A deranged artist who may have murdered his wife is investigated by the Whistler.