The best Douglas Fowley’s crime movies
We present our ranking of the best Douglas Fowley’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 Douglas Fowley.
The Thin Man
7.9/10
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
Walking Tall
6.9/10
Buford Pusser's a wrestler, whose wife wants him to settle down, so they go to his home town in Tennessee, where he plans to get into business with his father. But he is shocked to discover all sorts of graft and corruption going on. And when he is a victim of it and decides to strike back by running against the corrupt sheriff. And he wins and wages his own little war against them
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
6.1/10
In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate who Dr. Gillespie believes belongs instead in an insane asylum.
Edge of Doom
6.4/10
A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.
Armored Car Robbery
7/10
The film tells the story of a well-planned robbery of an armored car when it stops at a sports stadium. Yet, the heist goes awry, and a tough Los Angeles cop is in hot pursuit.
Cafe Hostess
6.5/10
A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.
Desperate
6.8/10
An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.
Fall Guy
5.9/10
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.
East of the River
6.3/10
Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.
Criminal Lawyer
6.3/10
A drunken attorney tries to sober up in order to defend a friend in murder case.
Backlash
6/10
In a series of flashbacks, shows that attorney John Morland has given a lift to a hitchhiker who turns out to be a murderer. As a result, Morland himself is implicated in a killing. A pair of detectives discover that Morland has been having business problems and no end of difficulties with his wife Catherine. The trail of clues leads to a surprising revelation.
Blonde Alibi
6.3/10
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past.
The Trespasser
6.4/10
Stevie Carson, a newspaper reporter, and Denny Butler, the feature editor on the same newspaper, set out to track down a gang of literary forgers who are making a fortune off of selling fake first editions.
She Had to Eat
6.6/10
An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster.
Woman-Wise
7.5/10
A crusading sportswriter exposes racketeers involved in paying off fighters to throw their matches.
Undercover Maisie
6.3/10
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.
This Is My Affair
6.6/10
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
This Woman Is Dangerous
6.1/10
A crime gang leader is losing her sight, so while her lover go into hiding, she checks in to the hospital for extensive surgery to recover her eyesight. There she is treated by a handsome young doctor, Ben Hellack. As expected not only the doctor successfully open her eyes, he also opened her heart for him.
Behind Locked Doors
6.5/10
Behind the locked doors of a mental institution resides crooked politico Judge Drake (Herbert Heyes), free from prosecution so long as he pretends to be crazy. To get the goods on Drake, private detective Ross Stewart has himself committed to the asylum as a patient. Meanwhile, reporter Kathy Lawrence (Lucille Bremer), posing as Stewart's wife, acts as his liaison to the outside world.
Bunco Squad
6.1/10
Police sergeants Johnson and McManus take on Los Angeles confidence tricksters. Con man Tony Wells, lining up rich widow Jessica Royce as his latest mark, sets up a false paranormal society with other charlatans to convince the credulous Jessica that her late son is speaking to her through their sham seances. When the plan leads to murder, Johnson and McManus must bring the group down before they kill again.
