The Payoff
β 5.9 Β· 1942 Β· 74m Β· Action Β· Thriller Β· Crime Β· Mystery
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.
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