House of Numbers

Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.

During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.

Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.

An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.

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.

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

A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl's apartment.

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

A woman is kidnapped when she goes to get help for her husband who is trapped on a beach with the tide coming in to surely drown him.

A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy.

A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be able to analyze.