The best Bill Elliott’s crime movies

Bill Elliott

Bill Elliott

16/10/1904- 26/11/1965
Today we present the best Bill Elliott’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 Bill Elliott’s movies.
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Scarface

Scarface
7.7/10
A murderous thug shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.

'G' Men

'G' Men
7.1/10
  • Genre: ActionCrimeDrama
  • Release: 04/05/1935
  • Character: Bootlegger Who Gives Eddie the Bottle Outside the Club (uncredited)
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the 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.

Dr. Socrates

Dr. Socrates
6.5/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 19/10/1935
  • Character: Tom Collins - Greer's Associate
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.

Blonde Crazy

Blonde Crazy
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeDrama
  • Release: 03/12/1931
  • Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.

Midnight Mary

Midnight Mary
7/10
A young woman is on trial for murder. In flashback, we learn of her struggles to overcome poverty as a teenager -- a mistaken arrest and prison term for shoplifting and lack of employment lead to involvement with gangsters. In a brothel, she meets a young lawyer, scion of a wealthy and prestigious family, who falls for her and helps her turn around her life. But her past catches up with her, and she must face the music rather than cause him scandal.

Midnight Court

Midnight Court
5.9/10
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.

Bullets or Ballots

Bullets or Ballots
7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 06/06/1936
  • Character: Hunter - Bank Worker (uncredited)
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.

Wonder Bar

Wonder Bar
6.5/10
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.

The Case of the Black Cat

The Case of the Black Cat
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 31/10/1936
  • Character: Sam Laxter
Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter's will, to keep her from marrying suspected fortune hunter Doug. Peter dies in a mysterious fire and Laxter's two grandsons, Sam Laxter and Frank Oafley, inherit his estate on the condition old caretaker Schuster and his cat Clinker are kept on. When cat-hating Sam threatens Clinker, Perry steps in and learns Laxter's death was suspicious and the family fortune and diamonds are missing. Schuster's found dead in his basement apartment, Laxter's nurse Louise is murdered with Schuster's crutch, and circumstantial evidence brings Doug to trial for Louise's death. Mason's investigation produces a surprise witness who turns the trial around. Written by Sister Grimm

The Payoff

The Payoff
5.6/10
An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.

Private Detective 62

Private Detective 62
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 10/06/1933
  • Character: Man at Roulette Table (Uncredited)
A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at a low-rent detective agency. He soon gets involved with a woman with ties to a crooked gambling club owner, who is a client of his agency.

Sudden Danger

Sudden Danger
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 14/12/1955
  • Character: Det. Lt. Andy Doyle
Det Andy Doyle (Bill Elliott) suspects that a suicide is actually a murder. He suspects the victim's son, Wallace (Tom Drake) who is blind and he pursues him until he gets to the truth..

The Case of the Howling Dog

The Case of the Howling Dog
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaMystery
  • Release: 22/09/1934
  • Character: Reporter in Courtroom (uncredited)
A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is a death in the neighborhood. He also wants a will written giving his estate to the lady living at the neighbors house. It is all very mysterious and by the next day, his will is changed and Cartwright is missing, as is the lady of the house next door. Perry has a will and a retainer and must find out whether he has a client or a beneficiary.

The Case of the Velvet Claws

The Case of the Velvet Claws
6/10
Perry and Della are finally married by his old friend, Judge Mary. They plan to go on a honeymoon, but before it can start, Perry is retained by a woman with a gun and $5000.

The Public Defender

The Public Defender
6.4/10
A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.

Dial Red O

Dial Red O
6.5/10
The first of the five films where Bill Elliott played a detective lieutenant in the L.A Sheriff's department, Dial Red "O" (the correct title with the number 0 (zero), as on a telephone dial, shown in ") opens with war-torn veteran Ralph Wyatt getting word that his wife is divorcing him, and he flees the psychiatric ward of the veteran's hospital, wanting to talk to her. His escape touches off an all-out manhunt, led by Lieutenant Andy Flynn of the sheriff's department.

Footsteps in the Night

Footsteps in the Night
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 14/04/1957
  • Character: Detective Lieutenant Andy Doyle
Two detectives investigate the strangulation murder of a man whom everyone seemed to like.

Calling Homicide

Calling Homicide
6.5/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 30/09/1956
  • Character: Det. Sgt. Andy Doyle
Cop Andy Doyle investigates a car-bombing murder and the killing of a sleazy modeling agency owner. Are they connected?

Two Against the World

Two Against the World
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 11/07/1936
  • Character: News Commentator (uncredited)
A radio-network manager's boss makes him air a serial based on a murder, tormenting a woman involved.

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