The best Arthur Hoyt’s crime movies
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Fury
7.8/10
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.
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
6.8/10
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.
American Madness
7.4/10
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.
Chinatown Squad
6.2/10
Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.
Sergeant Madden
6.1/10
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
Welcome Home
7.1/10
A con artist attends a reunion in his hometown and discovers that his former classmates are trying to trick an old millionaire into returning to build a factory.
The Criminal Code
6.9/10
After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes the prison warden and offers the beleaguered Robert a job as his chauffeur. Robert cleans up his act, but, on the eve of his pardon, his cellmate drags him back into the world of violence, and he faces a difficult choice that could return him to prison.
Girls on Probation
5.7/10
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
The Devil's Party
5.7/10
Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.
You and Me
6.8/10
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.
Two in the Dark
6.3/10
Director Benjamin Stoloff's 1936 mystery, set in Boston, stars Walter Abel as an amnesiac and Margot Grahame as an unemployed stage actress who work together to solve the murder of a playwright.
Great Guy
6.2/10
A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.
We Who Are About to Die
6.5/10
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
Keep 'em Slugging
6.2/10
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
6.6/10
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
One Wild Night
6.4/10
Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money from the local bank in Stockton, Ohio.
How to Be a Detective
5.4/10
This Robert Benchley 'How To' comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics.
Vanity Street
6.7/10
A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".
Her Private Affair
5.1/10
A married society woman accidentally kills her would-be blackmailer and suffers a crisis of conscious when his disgruntled butler is charged with the crime. Even after his acquittal, however, the woman suffers guilt and paranoia.
The Westland Case
6.1/10
A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside.
