The best Ed Brady’s crime movies

Ed Brady

Ed Brady

06/12/1889- 31/03/1942
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Ed Brady’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 Ed Brady.

Fury

Fury
7.8/10
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.

Honky Tonk

Honky Tonk
6.6/10
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.

An American Tragedy

An American Tragedy
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaRomance
  • Release: 22/08/1931
  • Character: Train Brakeman (uncredited)
A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.

Penthouse

Penthouse
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaMystery
  • Release: 08/09/1933
  • Character: Man at Crelliman's Place (uncredited)
Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.

Blackmail

Blackmail
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 08/09/1939
  • Character: Prisoner Worrying About Dick Tracy (uncredited)
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.

Public Hero Number 1

Public Hero Number 1
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 31/05/1935
  • Character: Convict in Prison (uncredited)
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.

The Mad Miss Manton

The Mad Miss Manton
6.7/10
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.

Dressed to Kill

Dressed to Kill
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 17/03/1928
  • Character: Singing Walter
A mob boss' gang gets suspicious about their boss' new girlfriend, a beautiful young girl who doesn't seem to be the type who'd hang out with gangsters. They're not quite certain if she's actually a police agent or just a "groupie".

We Who Are About to Die

We Who Are About to Die
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/01/1937
  • Character: Worker Throwing Stone (uncredited)
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.

Girl Missing

Girl Missing
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeMystery
  • Release: 04/03/1933
  • Character: Motorcycle Policeman (Uncredited)
Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June decide to look for her to claim the reward.

Sworn Enemy

Sworn Enemy
6.1/10
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.

The Eternal Struggle

The Eternal Struggle
  • Genre: CrimeDramaWestern
  • Release: 08/10/1923
  • Character: Jean Caardeau (as Edward J. Brady)
Believing she's responsible for the death of her would-be seducer, a young woman flees to North Vancouver.

The Double Room Mystery

The Double Room Mystery
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 15/01/1917
William Newman, a notorious shyster lawyer, in return for a cut of the jewels, agrees to take the case of Morris, a man convicted of stealing diamonds. After gaining possession of the gems, Newman appropriates all of them and then refuses to carry out his share of the deal. Subsequently, Newman, who is attracted to Georgianna, a maid at his boardinghouse, frames the girl on charges of theft and then arranges for her freedom, thus appearing to be her savior.

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