The best Anthony Caruso’s crime movies

Anthony Caruso

Anthony Caruso

07/04/1916- 04/04/2003
We present our ranking of the best Anthony Caruso’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Anthony Caruso.
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The Asphalt Jungle

The Asphalt Jungle
7.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 12/05/1950
  • Character: Louis Ciavelli
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.

His Kind of Woman

His Kind of Woman
7/10
In a desperate attempt to get out of debt, career gambler Dan Milner agrees to rendezvous with a mysterious contact at a distant Mexican resort in exchange for $50,000. Upon arriving, Milner meets his fellow guests, including a plastic surgeon, a philandering movie star and his beautiful girlfriend. Soon Milner discovers that the man who hired him may be the ruthless gangster Nick Ferraro -- a deported crime boss looking to re-enter the USA.

The Blue Dahlia

The Blue Dahlia
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/04/1946
  • Character: Marine Corporal playing jukebox (uncredited)
Soon after a veteran's return from war his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.

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.

Young Dillinger

Young Dillinger
5.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 28/04/1965
  • Character: Rocco
The 1930s outlaw (Nick Adams) teams up with Pretty Boy Floyd (Robert Conrad), Baby Face Nelson (John Ashley) and Homer Van Meter.

Johnny Apollo

Johnny Apollo
6.9/10
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.

Lucky Jordan

Lucky Jordan
6.4/10
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.

Scene of the Crime

Scene of the Crime
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 28/07/1949
  • Character: Tony Rutzo
A cop investigates the shooting of another policeman... that may have been involved in crooked activities.

Hell on Frisco Bay

Hell on Frisco Bay
6.4/10
A cop framed for a murder he did not commit hunts the San Francisco waterfront for the Mob racketeers who are responsible.

The Undercover Man

The Undercover Man
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 21/03/1949
  • Character: Salvatore Rocco
Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal to seek information, but is frustrated when all he finds are terrified witnesses and corrupt police officers.

Phantom of the Rue Morgue

Phantom of the Rue Morgue
5.9/10
When several women are found mutilated and murdered, the Paris police are baffled as to who the killer may be. All evidence points to Dupin, but soon it becomes apparent that it is someone (or something) stronger and deadlier than a human.

Tall, Dark and Handsome

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

Mean Johnny Barrows

Mean Johnny Barrows
5/10
  • Genre: ActionCrimeDrama
  • Release: 27/11/1975
  • Character: Don Da Vince (as Tony Caruso)
A Vietnam veteran gets caught in a mob war with a couple of double-crossers.

Night Editor

Night Editor
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 29/03/1946
  • Character: Tusco
"Night Editor" was based on the already existing radio program in which a newspaper editor would recount the 'inside story' of some bit newspaper story, and later became a television series.

The Threat

The Threat
6.7/10
An escaped con kidnaps the people he thinks put him behind bars.

Baby Face Nelson

Baby Face Nelson
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 11/12/1957
  • Character: John Hamilton
Famed Depression-era gangster “Baby Face Nelson” (Mickey Rooney) robs and kills while accompanied by his beautiful moll (Carolyn Jones).

The Racket Man

The Racket Man
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 18/01/1944
  • Character: Cpl. Tony Ciccardi
A gangster is drafted into the Army and, soon realizing how wrong his life of crime has been, agrees to help the FBI break up a black market ring by pretending to have been kicked out of service and to have resumed his old life of crime.

Whistling in Brooklyn

Whistling in Brooklyn
6.7/10
Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect himself.

A Gun in His Hand

A Gun in His Hand
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 15/09/1945
  • Character: Frankie
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young man graduates from the police academy at the top of his class. He then teams up with some local thieves and uses his knowledge of police procedures to pursue a career of undetected crime.

Incident

Incident
6.6/10
An innocent man -- due to a case of mistaken identity -- is beaten. Once recovered, the stockbroker tries to find the actual intended target -- a gangster-- and warn him.

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