The Payoff

Nov 24, 1942

1h 14m

★ 5.8

HE'S BACK AGAIN... The Fastest talking newshawk in his greatest role!

Overview

The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried as it appeared to be.

Genres

Action

Thriller

Crime

Mystery

Production Companies

PRC

The Payoff Trailers

No Trailers found.

Cast

Brad McKay

Lee Tracy

Guy Norris

Tom Brown

Phyllis Walker

Tina Thayer

Alma Dorn

Evelyn Brent

John Angus

Jack La Rue

Inspector Thomas

Ian Keith

Lester Norris

Robert Middlemass

Moroni

John Maxwell

Sgt. Brenen

John Sheehan

Dr. Steele (as Harry Bradley)

Harry C. Bradley

Hugh Walker

Forrest Taylor

Pat - Reporter

Pat Costello

Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story.

6.7

The Sniper

May 9, 1952

Eddie Miller struggles with his hatred of women, he's especially bothered by seeing women with their lovers. He starts a killing spree as a sniper by shooting women from far distances. In an attempt to get caught, he writes an anonymous letter to the police begging them to stop him.

4.8

Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity

Sep 18, 1987

In the future, two slaves in a distant galaxy escape prison and crash-land on a strange planet. They meet Zed, whose hospitality attempts to hide the fact they are to be hunted for sport. Armed only with knives and their wits, the girls must battle their way across the jungle to a hidden arms cache before Zed catches and kills them.

4.3

The Louisiana Hussy

Apr 1, 1959

Cajun newlyweds must deal with the jealousy of his brother, who also loved her, and the arrival of a mysterious seductress in their bayou backwater.

4.3

The Banker

Dec 20, 1989

High-priced prostitutes are being systematically murdered, their corpses mutilated, and a bizarre South American symbol painted in blood is found at the scene. The cop investigating is out to solve the crime before his ex wife, a reporter, becomes the next victim.

7.5

Zodiac

Mar 2, 2007

The Zodiac murders cause the lives of Paul Avery, David Toschi and Robert Graysmith to intersect.

6.0

Marui Video

Feb 1, 2023

The video evidence of the murder, which is especially brutal and graphic, that shouldn't be released to the public; a reporter who has access to the prosecutor's office hears about a cursed tape in the video archive and begins reporting on it.

4.8

The Gangster

Nov 25, 1947

Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sullivan as a small-time hood who suffers a mental breakdown as his big plans begin to crumble. Beautiful Belita is the slumming society girlfriend who only fuels his paranoia.

6.1

One Girl's Confession

Apr 6, 1953

Cleo Moore stars as Mary Adams, whose first step on the road to ruin is a $25,000 robbery. Mary hides the money, then confesses to the crime, secure in the belief that she can dig up the loot upon her release from prison.

5.7

Women's Prison

Feb 1, 1955

A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.

4.0

Final Assignment

Oct 1, 1980

An intrepid television journalist sent to cover the Canadian prime minister's visit to the Soviet Union has trouble sticking to her assignment when she unearths a horrific experimental drug trial involving children. Determined to prepare a video that will show the world exactly what's been going on, she dodges the long arm of the KGB and falls into bed with a Communist bureaucrat.

4.5

Midnight Manhunt

Jul 27, 1945

Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.

5.1

A Shriek in the Night

Jul 22, 1933

Rival newspaper reporters Pat Morgan and Ted Rand find themselves unraveling the mystery behind the death of a millionaire philanthropist who fell from his penthouse balcony. When it is discovered that the plunge was not an accident, the building's residents come under suspicion. Soon, the body count begins to mount as three more murders occur by strangulation.

6.2

Dust Be My Destiny

Sep 16, 1939

Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.

6.0

Nancy Drew... Reporter

Feb 18, 1939

While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.

4.8

Port of New York

Nov 28, 1949

Two narcotics agents go after a gang of murderous drug dealers who use ships docking at the New York harbor to smuggle in their contraband.

5.2

Riders of Destiny

Oct 10, 1933

James Kincaid controls the local water supply and plans to do away with the other ranchers. Government agent Sandy Saunders arrives undercover to investigate Kincaid's land swindle scheme, and win the heart of one of his victims, Fay Denton.

5.3

The Blue Parrot

Oct 1, 1953

'Rocks' Owen, the well-off owner of a car-hire business, is found murdered; the last place he was seen alive was the Blue Parrot nightclub. Scotland Yard go in to investigate, with the help of a visiting American detective and a nightclub hostess who may not be all she appears to be.

6.6

Loophole

Mar 28, 1954

Bank teller Mike Donovan (Barry Sullivan) takes the first step on the road to Perdition when he fails to report a $49,000 shortage. Accused of theft, Donovan is fired from his job. He is then prevented from finding other employment by Javert-like insurance investigator Gus Slavin (Charles McGraw). Despite many setbacks, Donovan attempts to clear his muddied name.