The best Adele Mara’s crime movies

Adele Mara

Adele Mara

28/04/1923- 07/05/2010
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Adele Mara’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Adele Mara.
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I, Jane Doe

I, Jane Doe
6.9/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 25/05/1948
  • Character: Marga-Jane Hastings
While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl but leaves her behind when he returns to the U.S. The French woman follows him to America only to discover he’s already married to a successful lawyer.

The Last Crooked Mile

The Last Crooked Mile
6.1/10
A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.

The Trespasser

The Trespasser
6.4/10
Stevie Carson, a newspaper reporter, and Denny Butler, the feature editor on the same newspaper, set out to track down a gang of literary forgers who are making a fortune off of selling fake first editions.

Crime Doctor

Crime Doctor
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 22/06/1943
  • Character: Nurse
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.

Lucky Legs

Lucky Legs
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 01/10/1942
  • Character: Secretary
Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the money on a production called "Lucky Legs" that will star her. Unfortunately, the money has "made the rounds" prior to reaching Gloria and several less-than-scrupulous characters set out to separate Gloria from her inheritance.

Exposed

Exposed
5.7/10
A private eye (Adele Mara) and her sidekick solve the case of a dead client.

Blackmail

Blackmail
5.6/10
A private detective is offered a job protecting a rich business man from suspected blackmail. Before he can accept the case a murder is uncovered.

The Inner Circle

The Inner Circle
5.9/10
Johnny Strange (Warren Douglas) a fresh-faced young detective, gets set up, framed for murder, and alibied by a smart blonde (Adele Mara).

The Sea Hornet

The Sea Hornet
6/10
"The Sea Hornet" was a merchant ship sunk, supposedly by a torpedo, less than a mile off the California Coast during World War Two. Six years later when his buddy is killed, attempting to blow up the sunken ship, on the orders of Suntan Radford and Tony Sullivan, deep-sea diver "Gunner" McNeil has his suspicions aroused... especially since Suntan is the daughter of the ship's captain that died when the ship sunk, and Sullivan was a crew member. Plus the fact the ship had over a million dollars in cash on board. During the course of his investigation, he becomes romantically involved with Ginger Sullivan

Count the Hours!

Count the Hours!
6.2/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 01/04/1953
  • Character: Gracie Sager, Max Verne's Girlfriend
A lawyer defends a migrant worker in a sensational murder trial.

Riders of the Northwest Mounted

Riders of the Northwest Mounted
5.7/10
Fur thieves, who murder trappers when they refuse to give up their pelts at a low price, occupy the attention of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police. The leader of the gang is Victor Renaud (Dick Curtis), also the mayor of the small Canadian town where the gang is headquartered. Lucky Kerrigan is broken from the mounted service for apparent disobedience to orders, which results in the death of a fellow Mountie. Lucky, working undercover, aids the Mounties in rounding up the gang and gains back his uniform, and also the love of Gabrielle Renaud (Adele Mara), Renaud's sister who was unaware of his criminal activities.

Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood

Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood
6.2/10
Blackie receives a call from a friend who asks him to retrieve some money from his apartment and deliver it to him in California. Performing this good deed, he is accused of theft, but is allowed to proceed to Hollywood to help the police find a lost diamond.

Passkey to Danger

Passkey to Danger
5.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 11/05/1946
  • Character: Renee Beauchamps
An advertising man's new campaign for a fashion designer attracts the attention of mysterious characters.

Call of the South Seas

Call of the South Seas
5.2/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 07/04/1944
  • Character: Aritana
FBI Agent Kendall Gaige goes undercover on a South Seas island in order to expose the underhanded and exploitative business practices of Steve Landrau. In the course of his investigation Gaige is introduce to the Paris-educated native princess Tahia, who believes that he has arrived to save her people from poverty. A romance, of course, ensues as Gaige attempts to expose Landrau before his cover is blown.

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