The best Addison Richards’s crime movies

Addison Richards

Addison Richards

20/10/1902- 22/03/1964
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'G' Men

'G' Men
7.1/10
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.

Monsieur Verdoux

Monsieur Verdoux
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 26/09/1947
  • Character: Bank Manager (uncredited)
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.

The Petrified Forest

The Petrified Forest
7.5/10
Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.

Illegal

Illegal
7/10
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.

Call Northside 777

Call Northside 777
7.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 13/02/1948
  • Character: State Commissioner John Albertson (uncredited)
In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.

The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead
6.6/10
Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.

Smart Blonde

Smart Blonde
6.4/10
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.

Bullets or Ballots

Bullets or Ballots
7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 06/06/1936
  • Character: William Kennedy - Newsreel Narrator (uncredited)
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.

Black Legion

Black Legion
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 30/01/1937
  • Character: Prosecuting Attorney
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.

Strange Confession

Strange Confession
6.5/10
A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who releases the vaccine before it's ready, resulting in the death of the scientist's young son.

Crime Doctor

Crime Doctor
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 22/06/1943
  • Character: Prison Warden
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.

Little Big Shot

Little Big Shot
6.2/10
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.

Tell No Tales

Tell No Tales
6.5/10
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.

Step by Step

Step by Step
6.3/10
Marine veteran Johnny Christopher meets and is immediately drawn to beautiful Evelyn Smith one day on the beach. Evelyn's new job as secretary to a U.S. senator in California soon brings unexpected intrigue and trouble for her and Johnny. The machinations of a sinister group of Nazi spies lead to mysteries and mistaken identities, and the two soon find themselves framed for murder!

Road Gang

Road Gang
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 28/03/1936
  • Character: Parmenter (Prison Farm Warden)
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.

Tall, Dark and Handsome

Tall, Dark and Handsome
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 24/01/1941
  • Character: Miitary Academy Commandant
Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.

Man Hunt

Man Hunt
5.5/10
A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.

Blue, White, and Perfect

Blue, White, and Perfect
6.5/10
In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.

Alcatraz Island

Alcatraz Island
5.6/10
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.

Charlie Chan in Panama

Charlie Chan in Panama
7.1/10
Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic.

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