The best David Newell’s crime movies

David Newell

David Newell

23/01/1905- 25/01/1980
Today we present the best David Newell’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 David Newell’s movies.
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The Letter

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

Missing Evidence

Missing Evidence
6.3/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 15/12/1939
G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself upon the honest citizenry of the US. The crooks have flooded the market with counterfeit lottery tickets, reducing many an unwary speculator to poverty.

Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation

Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
6.5/10
All work and no play makes Mr. Moto a busy detective! Mr. Moto heads to Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. But the action heats up and the suspense soars when the precious treasure begins its perilous journey to America and Mr. Moto must race against time to unmask a cunning thief who will stop at nothing—not even murder—to get what he wants!

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.

Dangerous to Know

Dangerous to Know
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 11/03/1938
  • Character: Guest at Party
Racketeer Steve Recka (Akim Tamiroff), art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying (Anna May Wong), his beautiful Oriental friend and hostess (read:mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret Van Kase (Gail Patrick), a socialite not impressed by his power nor his wealth, having no money herself, and Steve makes frantic efforts to win her and turns away from the loyal Lin Yang.

The Escape

The Escape
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 05/10/1939
  • Character: Reporter
An embittered Louie Peronni (Edward Norris) returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni (Amanda Duff), is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell (Kane Richmond), and also finds that his secret wife Annie Qualen (June Gale) has placed their baby girl in a foundling home. With his old gang again, Louie plans a robbery of a fur warehouse. Louie shoots down the night watchman and is trailed home where his father Guiseppe Peronni (Henry Armetta) persuades him not to fight it out with the police. Determined to let Louie take the full rap, the gang kidnaps the district attorney's daughter. Annie informs Louie that the kidnapped child is really their own and was adopted from the foundling home.

Footsteps in the Dark

Footsteps in the Dark
6.7/10
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out.

The Florentine Dagger

The Florentine Dagger
5.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 30/03/1935
  • Character: Rodrigo (uncredited)
A playwright descended from the Borgias becomes a murder suspect.

Stunt Pilot

Stunt Pilot
5.6/10
The second of a series of four features Monogram made based on the comic strip by Hal Forrest (Universal also used the strip characters in two serials), finds a movie company shooting a war picture at Three Points airport, with Tailspin Tommy Tompkins as a stunt pilot in the film. Tommy is incensed by the complete disregard for human life shown by the film's director, Sheehan, and quits. Sheehan gets a replacement pilot named Earl Martin, who is known as a reckless pilot who will try an aerial stunt for a thrill. He hand Tommy get into a fight when Martin takes Betty Lou Barnes for a ride in a plane that is practically falling apart.

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
7.1/10
A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the doctor performs plastic surgery. It is here that an arch fiend takes refuge. The museum also houses a statue of Charlie. Frustrated number-two son kicks statue in rear; oops, number-two son wrong in his assumption

We Are Not Alone

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

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