The best Don Porter’s crime movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Don Porter’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Don Porter.
My Friend Irma Goes West
6/10
Singer Steve, friend Seymour and fiance Jane, along with her dizzy blonde room mate Irma, have a series of misadventures on a California-bound train and end up involved with a gang of murderous gangsters in Las Vegas.
She-Wolf of London
5.2/10
A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a nearby park.
The Racket
6.7/10
Mobster Nick Scanlon has managed to buy several of the local government and law-enforcement officials. However, he can't seem to touch the incorruptible police captain Tom McQuigg, who refuses all attempts at bribery. Prosecuting attorney, Welch, and a police detective, Turck, are crooked and make McQuigg's job as an honest officer nearly impossible.
The Legend of Lizzie Borden
7.4/10
A dramatization of the famous 1893 Massachusetts trial of the woman accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an ax.
White Line Fever
6.1/10
An independent trucker with a pregnant wife fights cargo crooks and the big shot they work for.
711 Ocean Drive
6.8/10
The Horatio Alger parable gets the film noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmund O’Brien as a whip-smart telephone technician who moves up the ladder of a Syndicate gambling empire in Southern California until distracted by an inconveniently married Joanne Dru and his own greed. Ripped from the headlines of the 1950 Kevaufer Organized Crime Hearings, this fast-moving picture is laden with location sequences shot in Los Angeles, the Hoover Dam and Palm Springs including the famous Doll House watering hole on North Palm Canyon Drive!
Eyes of the Underworld
6/10
Blackmail and murder in a tale of an auto-theft ring.
Keep 'em Slugging
6.2/10
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
Mystery of the White Room
6/10
A doctor (Bruce Cabot) and a nurse (Helen Mack) solve an operating-room murder.
Danger Woman
5.3/10
A woman plots to steal secrets from her Atomic-expert husband.
Top Sergeant
5.6/10
An army sergeant recognises a young recruit as the man responsible for his brother's death, while attempting a robbery.
