The best Basil Radford’s crime movies

Basil Radford

Basil Radford

25/06/1897- 20/10/1952
We present our ranking of the best Basil Radford’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 Basil Radford.

Jamaica Inn

Jamaica Inn
6.3/10
In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an inkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.

Young and Innocent

Young and Innocent
6.8/10
Robert Tisdall finds on the beach the corpse of a woman he knew. Others wrongly conclude that he is the murderer. Fleeing, he desperately attempts to prove that he is not the killer. A young woman becomes embroiled in the effort.

Whisky Galore!

Whisky Galore!
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 16/06/1949
  • Character: Captain Paul Waggett
Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank outside Eriskay, The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in bad weather, containing 250,000 bottles of whisky. The locals gathered as many bottles as they could, before the proper authorities arrived, and even today, bottles are found in the sand or in the sea every other year.

The Flying Squad

The Flying Squad
5.9/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 12/10/1940
  • Character: Sederman
Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.

Jump for Glory

Jump for Glory
5.8/10
A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner.

Girl in the News

Girl in the News
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 28/08/1940
  • Character: Doctor Threadgrove
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later the nurse, under a new name and identity, cares for a patient who also dies of an overdose. When her real identity comes out, suspicions arouses.

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