The best Charles D. Brown’s crime movies

Charles D. Brown

Charles D. Brown

01/07/1887- 25/11/1948
Today we present the best Charles D. Brown’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 D. Brown’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.

The Killers

The Killers
7.7/10
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

I Walk Alone

I Walk Alone
7/10
Bootleggers on the lamb Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught and jailed, but Noll manages to escape and open a posh New York City nightclub. 14 years later, Frankie is released from the clink and visits Noll with the intention of collecting his half of the nightclub's profits. But Noll, who has no intention of being so equitable, uses his ex-girlfriend Kay to divert Frankie from his intended goal.

Night Editor

Night Editor
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 29/03/1946
  • Character: Crane Stewart
"Night Editor" was based on the already existing radio program in which a newspaper editor would recount the 'inside story' of some bit newspaper story, and later became a television series.

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.

Undercover Maisie

Undercover Maisie
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 01/03/1947
  • Character: Captain Mead
Maisie Revere, a showgirl stranded in Los Angeles, decides to join the local police department on the persuasion of Lieutenant Paul Scott who wants to use her as an undercover agent to expose a conman.

Follow Me Quietly

Follow Me Quietly
6.5/10
1949 thriller about the hunt for a serial killer known as "the Judge" who kills his victims on rainy nights.

Buyer Beware

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

Just Before Dawn

Just Before Dawn
6.3/10
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

Tell No Tales

Tell No Tales
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaMystery
  • Release: 12/06/1939
  • Character: Police Lt. Brandt (uncredited)
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.

I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes

I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 23/05/1948
  • Character: Inspector Stevens
Around Christmas time, a woman tries to prove the innocence of her dancer husband jailed for a crime she just knows he didn't commit.

The Last Crooked Mile

The Last Crooked Mile
6.1/10
A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.

Johnny Apollo

Johnny Apollo
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaRomance
  • Release: 19/04/1940
  • Character: Sergeant Putting Pinch on Mickey and Johnny (uncredited)
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.

Smashing the Money Ring

Smashing the Money Ring
5.6/10
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.

Danger Woman

Danger Woman
5.3/10
A woman plots to steal secrets from her Atomic-expert husband.

Know Your Money

Know Your Money
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 27/01/1940
  • Character: George D. Waldron
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short tells the fictitious story of a bill counterfeiting ring and explores the government's attempt to curb counterfeiting.

Having Wonderful Crime

Having Wonderful Crime
6/10
Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain resort on a search for a missing magician.

Island in the Sky

Island in the Sky
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 01/04/1938
  • Character: Inspector Whitehead
A secretary (Gloria Stuart) solves a murder for her boyfriend (Michael Whalen) in the district attorney's office.

Mr. Moto in Danger Island

Mr. Moto in Danger Island
6.7/10
In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find themselves involved in murders by thrown daggers, the frame-up of an overstressed Army colonel, and a pirate gang led by an unknown boss who has inside knowledge of the ensuing investigation.

City of Chance

City of Chance
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 13/01/1940
  • Character: District Attorney
Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.

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