The best Douglas Fowley’s thriller movies

Douglas Fowley

Douglas Fowley

30/05/1911- 21/05/1998
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.
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The High and the Mighty

The High and the Mighty
6.6/10
Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself on a routine Honolulu-to-San Francisco flight - one that takes a terrifying suspense-building turn when disaster strikes high above the Pacific Ocean at the point of no return.

Edge of Doom

Edge of Doom
6.4/10
A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.

Armored Car Robbery

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.

Desperate

Desperate
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 20/06/1947
  • Character: Pete Lavitch, Private Eye
An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.

Scared to Death

Scared to Death
4.1/10
A woman is married to the son of a doctor, the proprietor of a private sanatorium, where she is under unwilling treatment. Both the son and the doctor indicate they want the marriage dissolved. Arriving at the scene is a mysterious personage identified as the doctor's brother who formerly was a stage magician in Europe. He is accompanied by a threatening dwarf...

Behind Locked Doors

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.

One Body Too Many

One Body Too Many
5.4/10
An insurance salesman, Albert Tuttle, is hired as a body guard for a millionaire.

Docks of New Orleans

Docks of New Orleans
5.7/10
Detective Charlie Chan springs into action when top officials of a New Orleans chemical company begin dropping like flies.

Mr. Moto's Gamble

Mr. Moto's Gamble
6.6/10
Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-blooded murder! Assisted by detective-in-training Lee Chan, Moto sets out to track down the killer based on a single ominous clue: a poisoned boxing glove! But when Moto's hunch points to a corrupt gambling syndicate, he's forced to wager his very life to unmask the culprit—or go down for the count...permanently!

Flaxy Martin

Flaxy Martin
6.5/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 15/02/1949
  • Character: Max, Detective
Messing with a mobster's girlfriend gets a lawyer framed for murder.

Charlie Chan on Broadway

Charlie Chan on Broadway
7/10
Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to insure her silence.

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
7.2/10
Charlie's investigation of a phony psychic during the 1939 World Exposition on San Francisco's Treasure Island leads him to expose a suicide as murder.

The Glass Alibi

The Glass Alibi
6.1/10
Eying a large inheritance, a reporter marries a rich woman with failing health. When she begins feeling healthy after the wedding, the reporter takes drastic measures to make sure his wife dies.

I Live on Danger

I Live on Danger
6.1/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 16/06/1942
  • Character: Joey Farr
A cocky radio reporter sets out to prove an ex-convict is innocent in the murder of a mob boss.

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