Crime

“Crime Does Not Pay” — a positively addictive collection of all 50 shorts released by the Warner Archive Collection — is a standout dramatic crime series with very high production values, solid casts, and first-rate scripts, atmospheric cinematography, excellent special effects and made with care by such future directing greats as Fred Zinneman, Jacques Toureur and Joseph Losey, as well as gifted journeymen like Joe Newman, Roy Rowland, Felix Feist, the mysterious Errol Taggart, future Dr. Kildare series director Harold Bucquet.

A crime syndicate starts a crime wave in Turin, they rob a bank, taking a hostage to get away from Police Inspector Betti and Ferrari, his partner. However, the hostage turned out to be their accomplice in disguise.

Two wealthy law-school students go on trial for murder in this version of the Leopold-Loeb case.

A small-time hood wants to go straight for a good girl but finds that starting over isn't as simple as it sounds.

The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.

A desperate man with a sick daughter decides to commit a robbery in order to help her. He begins to feel remorse though, which makes him question his decision.

The sparkling series featured the irresistible William Powell and Myrna Loy chemistry as husband and wife sleuths who solved murders with the aid of their wire-haired terrier, Asta. Set in the glamorous world of 1930s upper-class.

From Montmartre to the remote French countryside, Maigret encounters the dark side of the human psyche. Yet, he manages to maintain both compassion and a sense of humor as he explores the complex motives that lie behind every crime.

A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.

A young director (Tony Hudson) is a struggling filmmaker making hardcore features for the mob. His latest feature, he hopes, will be his big break into the world of "mainstream" filmmaking, but will the mafia allow him to realize his dream?