The best Edmund Breese’s crime movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Edmund Breese’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 Edmund Breese.
Mata Hari
6.6/10
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.
The Hurricane Express
5.3/10
The Wrecker wrecks trains on the L & R Railroad. One of his victims is Larry Baker's father. Baker wants to find the evildoer, among a host of suspects, but it will be difficult since the Wrecker can disguise himself to look like almost anyone
Chinatown After Dark
4.2/10
The female head of a criminal gang in Chinatown is after a valuable jewel, and lets nothing stand in her way of finding it.
The Hatchet Man
6.2/10
When he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter.
The Billion Dollar Scandal
6.4/10
An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron finds trouble when his brother messes around with the boss's daughter.
The Public Defender
6.4/10
A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.
Defenders of the Law
5/10
A gang of racketeers, with the aid of a high-ranking city official has control of a big-city, and the police plant an undercover cop to gather evidence against the hoodlums - except the police keep telling the wrong person what they are up to.
Bright Lights
5.6/10
In this light-hearted musical, an early color film, a successful actress tires of the bustle and hustle of her tawdry life and settles down to what she thinks is the blissful mundaneness of married life. Unfortunately, the actual drudgery of wifedom takes her by surprise and domestic turmoil ensues.
The Czar of Broadway
6.8/10
Mort Bradley, New York political boss and underworld czar, controls not only the city's most popular nightclub but also much of the press; however, the managing editor of the Times is determined to expose him. Jay Grant, a San Francisco reporter, is assigned to investigate Mort, who believes Jay to be a country boy and is delighted to see him fall in love with Connie Colton, of whom Mort has tired. Dismayed to learn that Jay is a reporter, Mort plans to have his gunman, Francis, kill him, but both Mort and Francis are shot by rival gangsters. Jay, believing that Mort will recover, rushes to the newspaper with an exposé, but while writing it he learns of Mort's death and decides their friendship would not permit him to submit the story. He leaves his paper and embarks on a new life with Connie.
The Perfect Crime
4.6/10
A police inspector "solves" a crime that, in fact, may not have occurred at all.
