The best Buster Crabbe’s crime movies

Buster Crabbe

Buster Crabbe

07/02/1908- 23/04/1983
We present our ranking of the best Buster Crabbe’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Buster Crabbe.

Illegal Traffic

Illegal Traffic
6.2/10
G-Man Charles Bent Martin is sent out to break up a nationwide racket. A transport company is aiding fugitives making a getaway in exchange for the lion's share of their loot. Through an old friend, whom he once barnstormed in an air circus, Martin joins the gang as a pilot. He becomes interested in Carol Butler, a beautiful girl involved with the gang through the activities of her ne'er-do-well father.

Search for Beauty

Search for Beauty
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 02/02/1934
  • Character: Don Jackson (as Larry 'Buster' Crabbe)
Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictures.

Daughter of Shanghai

Daughter of Shanghai
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaRomance
  • Release: 17/12/1937
  • Character: Andrew Sleete (as Larry Crabbe)
A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.

King of Gamblers

King of Gamblers
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 22/04/1937
  • Character: Eddie (as Larry Crabbe)
A fast moving and low budget crime drama seasoned with mystery & comedy.

Call a Messenger

Call a Messenger
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 03/11/1939
  • Character: Chuck Walsh (as Larry Crabbe)
A tough street kid attempts to rob a post office and is caught. In order to avoid reform school, he takes a job as a messenger with the post office. He finds that he likes it, and when his brother is released from prison, attempts to help his brother go straight. However, the two of them get mixed up with a local gangster, who has plans to start robbing post office branches and using the messenger and his brother to do it.

Wild Horse Phantom

Wild Horse Phantom
5.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeWestern
  • Release: 28/10/1944
  • Character: Billy Carson
A lawman stages a prison break so a gang of imprisoned robbers will lead him to their hidden loot.

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