The best Charles Arnt’s crime movies

Charles Arnt

Charles Arnt

20/08/1906- 06/08/1990
Today we present the best Charles Arnt’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 Charles Arnt’s movies.
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This Gun for Hire

This Gun for Hire
7.4/10
Sadistic killer-for-hire Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.

Big Town After Dark

Big Town After Dark
5.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 12/12/1947
  • Character: Amos Peabody
A crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.

Hollow Triumph

Hollow Triumph
6.7/10
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.

The Man Who Cheated Himself

The Man Who Cheated Himself
6.8/10
A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.

High Wall

High Wall
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 17/12/1947
  • Character: Sidney X. Hackle
Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann Lorrison is initially skeptical about Kenet's story and reluctance to undergo treatment. But against her better judgement, she begins to doubt his guilt.

Buyer Beware

Buyer Beware
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 17/08/1940
  • Character: Les Carter (uncredited)
This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with shady companies selling fake merchandise.

Big Town

Big Town
5.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/08/1946
  • Character: Amos Peabody
A newspaper editor goes on an anti-crime crusade, but gets carried away.

Just Before Dawn

Just Before Dawn
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaMystery
  • Release: 07/03/1946
  • Character: Attorney Allen S. Tobin (uncredited)
In the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway is summoned to take attend a diabetic, and gives an injection of insulin taken from a bottle in the patient's pocket. The man dies and Ordway discovers that what he thought was insulin was really poison. Oops! Two other people are murdered before Ordway discovers who replaced the insulin with poison and what the motive was

Behind Green Lights

Behind Green Lights
6.4/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 15/02/1946
  • Character: Daniel Boone Wintergreen
An unscrupulous private investigator with a penchant for blackmail is found dead in a car and the leading suspect is Carole Landis, the daughter of a mayoral candidate. With the election just weeks away, the press, here depicted as shadowy and ruthless, will do anything to get a juicy story. They muscle the medical officer into switching the corpse with another body when it becomes clear that Carole couldn't have been the murderer. Detective Sam Carson must find a way to clean up the mess and save the girl he's beginning to fall for.

Big Town Scandal

Big Town Scandal
5.3/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 27/05/1948
  • Character: Amos Peabody, publisher
A crusading editor and his star reporter aid underprivileged youths and crack down on racketeers out to fix basketball.

Stolen Harmony

Stolen Harmony
6.4/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 20/04/1935
  • Character: Clem Walters
Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two become a successful dance act. However, when an ex-inmate buddy of Ray's robs the tour bus, Ray is suspected of wrongdoing by Jack and the others in the group. After a gang of thugs hijacks the tour bus, Ray tries to use his street smarts to redeem his reputation.

Fall Guy

Fall Guy
5.9/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 15/03/1947
  • Character: Uncle Jim Grossett
A drugged man covered in blood is picked up by police. Before the cops can get answers the man escapes in search of answers to the mystery himself.

Mr. District Attorney

Mr. District Attorney
6.2/10
An assistant prosecutor (Dennis O'Keefe) and his spunky friend (Florence Rice) investigate a suddenly hot case.

The Sun Sets at Dawn

The Sun Sets at Dawn
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/11/1950
  • Character: Reporter, Globe Express
A reporter investigates the story of a young man who may have been wrongly convicted and sentenced to be executed.

Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture

Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
6.1/10
Blackie is seen leaving a Chinese laundry where the proprietor has been murdered, and must track down the real killer in Chinatown.

Angel's Holiday

Angel's Holiday
6.4/10
Lively June (Jane Withers), teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett (Jon Qualen), who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye (Sally Blane) and her companion Stivers (Joan Davis). Reporter Nick Moore (Robert Kent), once sweet on Pauline, is convinced that her sudden disappearance is a publicity stunt, which is true -- until gangster Bat Regan (Harold Huber) decides to get involved.

Double Exposure

Double Exposure
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 18/12/1944
  • Character: Sonny Tucker
In New York City, a newly hired photographer becomes embroiled in a scandal when her photo is mistaken for evidence of a murder and she must try to prove her own innocence.

Flood Tide

Flood Tide
6.7/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 01/02/1958
  • Character: Appleby
When the testimony of a crippled child sends a murder suspect to prison, a friend of the accused sets out to investigate the crime on his own.

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