Yield to the Night

A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. Poole begins his plans to get revenge when he escapes his captors.

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.

Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.

After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.

A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.

After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.

A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.

After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.

Three juvenile delinquents arrive at a correctional center and are put under the care of an experienced guard.

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.

Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.

After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.