"Only a woman's heart could reach out for such a man!"
A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
Social & External
The people behind it
Dana Andrews
Det. Sgt. Mark Dixon
Gene Tierney
Morgan Taylor
Bert Freed
Det. Sgt. Paul Klein
Gary Merrill
Tommy Scalise
Karl Malden
Det. Lt. Thomas
Tom Tully
Jiggs Taylor
Ruth Donnelly
Martha
Craig Stevens
Ken Paine
Fred Aldrich
Detective at Staff Meeting (uncredited)
Tom Coleman
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The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
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A corrupt cop gets in over his head when he tries to assassinate a beautiful Russian hit-woman.
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A woman employs a gay man to spend four nights at her house to watch her when she's "unwatchable".
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An ex-cop turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD dispatch a female police psychologist to talk him down. However, unbeknownst to the police on the scene, the suicide attempt is a cover for the biggest diamond heist ever pulled.
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A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit.
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A master thief recruits a notorious thief to help him steal two famous Faberge eggs from an impenetrable vault in an effort to pull off one final job and repay his debt to the Russian mob.
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Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
