The best Bert Freed’s crime movies

Bert Freed

Bert Freed

03/11/1919- 02/08/1994
Today we present the best Bert Freed’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Bert Freed’s movies.
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No Way Out

No Way Out
7.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 16/08/1950
  • Character: Rocky Miller - Beaver Canal Resident (uncredited)
The Biddle brothers, shot while robbing a gas station, are taken to the prison ward of the County Hospital; Ray Biddle, a rabid racist, wants no treatment from black resident Dr. Luther Brooks. When brother John dies while Luther tries to save him, Ray is certain it's murder and becomes obsessed with vengeance. But there are black racists around too, and the situation slides rapidly toward violence.

Detective Story

Detective Story
7.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/11/1951
  • Character: Det. Dakis
Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.

Madigan

Madigan
6.5/10
Policemen Bonaro and Madigan lose their guns to fugitive Barney Benesch. As compensation, the two NYC detectives are given a weekend to bring Benesch to justice. While Bonaro and Madigan follow up on various leads, Police Commissioner Russell goes about his duties, including attending functions, meeting with aggrieved relatives, and counseling the spouses of fallen officers.

The Desperate Hours

The Desperate Hours
7.5/10
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Where the Sidewalk Ends
7.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 07/07/1950
  • Character: Det. Sgt. Paul Klein
A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.

Boomerang!

Boomerang!
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 28/02/1947
  • Character: Herron, a Man in Alley Mob (uncredited)
In a quiet Connecticut town, a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner. The citizens are horrified and demand action from the police. All of the witnesses identify John Waldron, a nervous out-of-towner, as the killer. Although Waldron vehemently denies the crime, no one will believe him. District Attorney Henry Harvey is then put on the case and faces political opposition in his attempt to prove Waldron's innocence. Based on a true story.

Death Scream

Death Scream
6.3/10
Loosely based on the true story of the killing of Kitty Genovese: A young woman's murder is witnessed by fifteen of her neighbors who do nothing to help and refuse to cooperate with the police.

711 Ocean Drive

711 Ocean Drive
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/07/1950
  • Character: Steve Marshak (uncredited)
The Horatio Alger parable gets the film noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmund O’Brien as a whip-smart telephone technician who moves up the ladder of a Syndicate gambling empire in Southern California until distracted by an inconveniently married Joanne Dru and his own greed. Ripped from the headlines of the 1950 Kevaufer Organized Crime Hearings, this fast-moving picture is laden with location sequences shot in Los Angeles, the Hoover Dam and Palm Springs including the famous Doll House watering hole on North Palm Canyon Drive!

The Gazebo

The Gazebo
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 15/01/1960
  • Character: Lt. Jenkins
TV writer Elliott Nash buries a blackmailer under the new gazebo in his suburban backyard. But the nervous man can't let the body rest there.

Why Must I Die

Why Must I Die
5.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/06/1960
  • Character: Adler
A night club singer who is the daughter of a small-town crook is tried and convicted of murder.

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