The best Bernard Miles’s crime movies

Bernard Miles

Bernard Miles

27/09/1907- 14/06/1991
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Bernard Miles’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 Miles.

The Man Who Knew Too Much

The Man Who Knew Too Much
7.4/10
A widescreen, Technicolor remake by Hitchcock of his 1934 film of the same title. A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When the child is kidnapped to ensure their silence, they have to take matters into their own hands to save him.

Sapphire

Sapphire
7.2/10
Two Scotland Yard detectives (Nigel Patrick and Michael Craig) investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects -- including the girl's white boyfriend and his disapproving parents -- the investigators wade through a stubbornly entrenched sludge of racism and bigotry. Director Basil Dearden won a British Academy Award for his deft, sensitive hand at the helm.

Fortune Is a Woman

Fortune Is a Woman
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 13/03/1957
  • Character: Mr. Jerome
An insurance man (Jack Hawkins) discovers his ex-girlfriend (Arlene Dahl) and her husband's (Dennis Price) art-forgery/arson scam.

Late Extra

Late Extra
5.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/01/1935
  • Character: Charlie (uncredited)
A newspaper reporter sets out to track down the murderer of a policeman.

Tiger in the Smoke

Tiger in the Smoke
6.2/10
Having been sent a picture of her husband, a war hero killed in France, Meg Elgin is led to believe he is still alive and arranges a meeting at a London railway station. When she arrives there with the police accompanying her, she catches sight of a man in the distance wearing an old coat of her husband's. When he is pursued and captured, he turns out to be Duds Morrison a former soldier and out-of-work actor recently let out of prison. He refuses to tell them anything, and having nothing they can charge him with, the police release him. His interest aroused by the pictures sent to Meg, her new fiancé Geoffrey Leavitt follows Morrison and tries to demand an answer from him about his sudden appearance masquerading as Meg’s dead husband.

Crown v. Stevens

Crown v. Stevens
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 03/08/1936
  • Character: Detective Wells
When an ex-dancer marries a man for his money she is suprised find he is a real skinflint. She owes a lot of money to a loan-shark who is after her. However, her husband does carry a lot of insurance

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