The best Cecil Kellaway’s crime movies

Cecil Kellaway

Cecil Kellaway

22/08/1890- 28/02/1973
Today we present the best Cecil Kellaway’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 Cecil Kellaway’s movies.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice

The Postman Always Rings Twice
7.4/10
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.

The Letter

The Letter
7.5/10
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.

Smashing the Rackets

Smashing the Rackets
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/08/1938
  • Character: Barrett
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...

Adventure in Diamonds

Adventure in Diamonds
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/03/1940
  • Character: Emerson
A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.

Brother Orchid

Brother Orchid
7/10
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.

Night in New Orleans

Night in New Orleans
5.9/10
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.

Phantom Raiders

Phantom Raiders
6.1/10
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter and his eccentric associate Bartholomew to investigate. Nick recognizes influential nightclub owner Al Taurez as a shady operator, but getting the goods on him depends on slick diversions involving the heavyweight champ of the Pacific Tuna Fleet, a Panamanian bombshell armed with American slang, a young couple in love and a whole raft of crooks and cutthroats.

Female on the Beach

Female on the Beach
6.4/10
Lynn Markham moves into her late husband's beach house the morning after former tenant Eloise Crandall fell from the cliff. To her annoyance, Lynn finds both her real estate agent and Drummond Hall, her beachcomber neighbor, making themselves quite at home. Lynn soon has no doubts of what her scheming neighbors are up to, but she finds Drummond's physical charms hard to resist. And she still doesn't know what really happened to Eloise.

Law of the Underworld

Law of the Underworld
5.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 06/05/1938
  • Character: Phillips - Gene's Butler
A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution

Everybody's Doing It

Everybody's Doing It
4.9/10
Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze.

We Are Not Alone

We Are Not Alone
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 25/11/1939
  • Character: Judge
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.

Night Spot

Night Spot
5.2/10
A young singer, Marge Dexter, becomes involved in trouble when she works in a nightclub in which two of the band-members are in reality undercover-police officers who believe that the club is the headquarters of a dangerous gang of crooks.

Double Danger

Double Danger
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeDrama
  • Release: 28/01/1938
  • Character: Fentriss, aka Gilhooley
A crime novelist devises a scheme to catch the thief who has stolen the valuable "Konjer Diamonds". Director Lew Landers' 1938 B-film stars Preston Foster, Whitney Bourne, Cecil Kellaway, Donald Meek, Samuel S. Hinds, Arthur Lake, Paul Guilfoyle and June Johnson.

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