"Nick Scanlon is an old-fashioned kind of gangster. If someone crosses you, settle it with a fist or a bullet. Tom McQuigg is an old-fashioned kind of cop. Grab the bad guy, not the bribe. But they're both living in a corrupt new world of smooth operators on both sides of the law, efficient green-eyeshade types who run a crime ring like a corporation. They won't mind if Scanlon and McQuigg square off... if they bring each other down"--Container.

An account of the life of Al Capone, tracing his rise to the top of Chicago's underworld.

"'You know how it is. You hit us. We hit you.' Career thief Earl Macklin pays no mind to the mobster's threat. He intends to put a big hurt on an L.A crime outfit. He, his girlfriend, and his partner will avenge the murder of Macklin's brother by cutting down gangland operations bit by violent bit"--Container.

Harry Morgan is an honest charter-boat captain who is facing hard times, takes on dangerous cargo to save his boat, support his family, and preserve his dignity. Left in the lurch by a freeloading passenger, Harry starts to entertain the criminal propositions of a sleazy lawyer, as well as the playful come-ons of a cheeky blonde, making a series of compromises that stretch his morality, and his marriage, farther than he₂ll admit.

Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumbs. No more. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out. And there's something else that won't stay hush-hush: Gertie and Jackson are falling in love.

When ambitious attorney Jerry Ladimer makes a deal with a gangster for future political favors, his first order of business is to kill the DA, a reformer who vowed to wipe out the rackets. Appointed special prosecutor, Ladimer keeps tabs on forensic scientist Gordon McKay, whose crime lab gathers the clues. So when the mayor begins to suspect the truth and is murdered before he can act, McKay digs up evidence that will lead to the lawyer, unless Ladimer...

"An inept criminal gang plans a daring train robbery. When deported Chicago mobster Cesare Celli is kidnapped by five amateur thieves, he soon finds himself on the top 10 unwanted list. Considered a poor credit risk, no one will pay Cesare's ransom. Down but not out, the proud mafioso persuades his none-too-bright abductors to join him in the heist of the century -- a great train robbery worth millions. Enlisting the aid of wily criminal mastermind...

A tong executioner allows his wife to run off with a gangster only to learn she's been sold into prostitution.

Cagney plays a truck driver who is rear-ended by a woman who runs a cafe. In a series of retaliations between the two, they become mixed up in a milk war between local dairy farmers and a crooked milk company which employs gangsters to fight the farmers.

"The folks who live in the teeming tenements lining Manhattan's Tenth Avenue could sure use an angel. And they have one Flavia Mills, a little girl with big dreams who touches the lives and hearts of everyone in her run-down neighborhood"--Container.