The best Bernard Lee’s crime movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Bernard Lee’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 Bernard Lee.
Beat the Devil
6.4/10
The script, which was written on a day-to-day basis as the film was being shot, concerns the adventures of a motley crew of swindlers and ne'er-do-wells trying to lay claim to land rich in uranium deposits in Kenya as they wait in a small Italian port to travel aboard an ill-fated tramp steamer en route to Mombasa.
Father Brown
6.7/10
Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.
Whistle Down the Wind
7.6/10
When an injured wife-murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the farmer’s three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.
Cage of Gold
6.4/10
A young woman, Judith Moray, deserts her prospective fiance, the nice doctor Alan Kearn, for an old flame, the dashing but roguish former wing commander Bill Glennan. Glennan makes her pregnant and marries her, but leaves her on the morning after the wedding when he learns that her father can't offer him financial support. Two years later she - having been told that Glennan is dead - has married Kearn and borne him a son. But then Glennan suddenly reappears and begins to blackmail her.
The Blue Lamp
6.8/10
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
The Yellow Balloon
6.9/10
A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death.
Dangerous Davies
7/10
When D. C. Dangerous Davies, not held in high regard by his superiors, is assigned to find a notorious criminal kingpin, he uncovers the details of 15 year old cold case.
The Brain
5.2/10
A millionaire businessman's brain is kept alive after a fatal accident, and communicates clues to a doctor on the trail of the killer
Calling Bulldog Drummond
6.2/10
Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.
The Secret Partner
6.6/10
A shipping tycoon with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the company vault.
Ring of Spies
6.5/10
The film is based on the actual events of the Portland Spy Ring trial in the U.K. A disgruntled Navy Clerk is transferred to a secret research establishment and is subsequently black-mailed/paid by Czech intelligence to procure secrets for them. He seduces the secretary who controls the most secret documents, and they enjoy the fruits of their treachery until the British authorities begin to close in on them.
The Ship That Died of Shame
6.7/10
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.
Nowhere to Go
6.8/10
A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who what's to know where he's hid his loot.
Murder in Soho
5.1/10
A London nightclub hostess (Sandra Storme) pretends to fall for the mobster (Jack La Rue) who killed her husband.
Across the Bridge
7.2/10
In Mexico, a financier on the run poses as a man he just murdered, only to find out that the man was also a murderer.
A Place to Go
6.5/10
Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that were happening in the lives of the British working-class at the time.
Clue of the Silver Key
6.4/10
The police investigate the murder of a wealthy old man.
The Share Out
6.1/10
A gang of high class corporate thieves use blackmail to induce their victims to sell property at knock-down prices.
Who Was Maddox
6.3/10
A publisher is nearly framed for murder, but he appears to have been goaded by the blackmailer who has also blackmailed the publisher's wife.
Clue of the Twisted Candle
6.2/10
A man is murdered in a room with no windows and a steel lined door which locks only from the inside.
