The best Bess Flowers’s crime movies

Bess Flowers

Bess Flowers

23/11/1898- 28/07/1984
Today we present the best Bess Flowers’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 Bess Flowers’s movies.
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The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep
7.9/10
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.

To Catch a Thief

To Catch a Thief
7.4/10
An ex-thief is accused of enacting a new crime spree, so to clear his name he sets off to catch the new thief, who’s imitating his signature style.

Witness for the Prosecution

Witness for the Prosecution
8.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaMystery
  • Release: 17/12/1957
  • Character: Courtroom spectator (uncredited)
When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to appear on his behalf. Sir Wilfrid, recovering from a near-fatal heart attack, is supposed to be on a diet of bland, civil suits—but the lure of the criminal courts is too much for him, especially when the case is so difficult.

Dial M for Murder

Dial M for Murder
8.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 29/05/1954
  • Character: Woman Exiting Ship (uncredited)
An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to have his wife murdered after discovering she is having an affair, and assumes she will soon leave him for the other man anyway. When things go wrong, he improvises a new plan—to frame her for murder instead.

Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity
8.3/10
A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners in crime plan the perfect murder to collect the insurance, which pays double if the death is accidental.

Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce
7.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 20/10/1945
  • Character: Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
After her unfaithful husband leaves her, Mildred Pierce proves she can become independent and successful. However winning the approval of her spoiled daughter proves a greater challenge.

They Drive by Night

They Drive by Night
7.2/10
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.

Angel Face

Angel Face
7.2/10
An ambulance driver gets involved with a rich girl that might have a darker side.

Guys and Dolls

Guys and Dolls
7.1/10
Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky Masterson that Sky cannot get virtuous Sarah Brown out on a date. Despite some resistance, Sky negotiates a date with her in exchange for bringing people into her mission. Meanwhile, Nathan's longtime fiancée, Adelaide, wants him to go legit and marry her.

The Prize

The Prize
6.8/10
For some reason, this year's Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the young author Andrew Craig, who seems to be more interested in women and drinking than writing. Another laureate is Dr. Max Stratman, the famous German-American physicist who comes to Stockholm with his young and beautiful niece Emily. The Foreign Department also gives him an assistant during his stay, Miss Andersson. Craig soon notices that Dr. Stratman is acting strangely. The second time they meet, Dr. Stratman does not even recognize him.

Dead Reckoning

Dead Reckoning
7.1/10
Paratroopers Captain 'Rip' Murdock and Sergeant Johnny Drake are mysteriously ordered to travel to Washington, DC. When Drake learns that he is to be awarded the Medal of Honor, he disappears before newspaper photographers can take his picture. Murdock follows the clues and tracks him down, where he learns Drake is dead. Further investigations reveal unexpected twists. Rip learns that Johnny had been accused of murder and sets out to find out whatever he can. He falls in love with Coral whose husband Johnny is supposed to have killed.

The Blue Dahlia

The Blue Dahlia
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/04/1946
  • Character: Coctail Party Guest (uncredited)
Soon after a veteran's return from war his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.

The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties
7.9/10
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

The Woman in the Window

The Woman in the Window
7.6/10
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

The Chase

The Chase
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 16/11/1946
  • Character: Woman sitting at bar at Florida Club
Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare.

The Woman in Green

The Woman in Green
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeMysteryThriller
  • Release: 15/06/1945
  • Character: Bar Patron (seen in mirror) (uncredited)
Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.

The Glass Key

The Glass Key
7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 08/09/1942
  • Character: Dinner Party Guest (uncredited)
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

Deadline - U.S.A.

Deadline - U.S.A.
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 14/03/1952
  • Character: Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster.

Seven Thieves

Seven Thieves
6.5/10
A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief decide to join together and pick a team to pull off one last job--the casino vault in Monte Carlo.

I Wake Up Screaming

I Wake Up Screaming
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 31/10/1941
  • Character: Lady Handel's party guest (uncredited)
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.

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