The best Donald Douglas’s crime movies

Donald Douglas

Donald Douglas

24/08/1905- 31/12/1945
We present our ranking of the best Donald Douglas’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Donald Douglas.
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Jesse James

Jesse James
7/10
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.

Murder, My Sweet

Murder, My Sweet
7.5/10
Gumshoe Philip Marlowe is hired by the oafish Moose Malloy to track down his former girlfriend. He's also hired to accompany an effeminate playboy buy back some jewels. When the exchange results in the playboy's murder, Marlowe can't leave the case alone, and soon discovers it's related to Malloy's. As he gets drawn deeper into a complex web of intrigue by a mysterious blonde, the detective finds his own life in increasing jeopardy.

Special Inspector

Special Inspector
4.9/10
U. S. Customs Agent Tom Evans is given the assignment of running down a smuggling ring which hijacks Canadian fur-shipper's trucks and sells the loot in the United States.

Sleepers West

Sleepers West
6.6/10
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.

Calling Philo Vance

Calling Philo Vance
5.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 03/02/1940
  • Character: Philip Wrede
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.

The Spider's Web

The Spider's Web
6.8/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 21/10/1938
  • Character: Jenkins (the butler)
Pulp hero "The Spider" seeks to destroy all criminals. In this serialized adventure, he battles The Octopus, who intends to replace the government of the United States.

Charlie Chan in Panama

Charlie Chan in Panama
7.1/10
Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic.

Island of Doomed Men

Island of Doomed Men
5.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 20/05/1940
  • Character: Department of Justice Official
Undercover agent Mark Sheldon gets paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine manned by slave labor run by sadistic Stephen Danel.

Smashing the Rackets

Smashing the Rackets
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/08/1938
  • Character: Harry Spaulding
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...

Within the Law

Within the Law
6.4/10
A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.

A Fugitive from Justice

A Fugitive from Justice
5/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 15/06/1940
  • Character: Lee Leslie
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.

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.

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.

The Falcon Out West

The Falcon Out West
6.1/10
When a Texas playboy is murdered in a New York City nightclub the Falcon investigates. When he learns that the victim was slipped rattlesnake venom, the trail leads to Texas, his own kidnapping and near death.

Dead Men Tell

Dead Men Tell
6.9/10
A treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, and a ship full of red herrings complicate Charlie's search for a murderer on board a docked ship.

The House of Fear

The House of Fear
6.3/10
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...

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