Once a Thief

One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum....

Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps (the "nine queens").

A former thief driving through a small town is coerced into stealing a valuable statue but finds himself in hot water after he's accused of murder.

Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters,...

A con man tries to blackmail a Mexican gangster.

When a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner in a quiet Connecticut town, the citizens are horrified and demand action from the...

Claude is a ruthless and efficient contract killer. His next target, a woman, is the most difficult.

Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him....

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

Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes...

Gabriel Caine has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man who owns most of Diggstown, a boxing-mad town. The bet is...

A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.