The best Edward Keane’s crime movies

Edward Keane

Edward Keane

28/05/1884- 12/10/1959
Today we present the best Edward Keane’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Edward Keane’s movies.
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Scarlet Street

Scarlet Street
7.7/10
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.

The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties
7.9/10
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

'G' Men

'G' Men
7.1/10
  • Genre: ActionCrimeDrama
  • Release: 04/05/1935
  • Character: Bank Teller (uncredited)
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.

Double Cross

Double Cross
5.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 27/06/1941
  • Character: Commissioner Bob Trent (as Edmund Keane)
A lawman infiltrates a gang of racketeers.

Undercover Maisie

Undercover Maisie
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 01/03/1947
  • Character: Police Chief (Uncredited)
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.

City for Conquest

City for Conquest
7.2/10
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?

Girls on Probation

Girls on Probation
5.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 22/10/1938
  • Character: Bob Brian
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.

Rio

Rio
6.1/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 29/12/1939
  • Character: Mr. Albert (uncredited)
Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to a penal colony off the coast of South America.

Torchy Gets Her Man

Torchy Gets Her Man
6.5/10
A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands.

The Green Hornet

The Green Hornet
6.5/10
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.

A Fugitive from Justice

A Fugitive from Justice
5/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 15/06/1940
  • Character: Partridge
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.

The Escape

The Escape
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 05/10/1939
  • Character: Captain of Detectives
An embittered Louie Peronni (Edward Norris) returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni (Amanda Duff), is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell (Kane Richmond), and also finds that his secret wife Annie Qualen (June Gale) has placed their baby girl in a foundling home. With his old gang again, Louie plans a robbery of a fur warehouse. Louie shoots down the night watchman and is trailed home where his father Guiseppe Peronni (Henry Armetta) persuades him not to fight it out with the police. Determined to let Louie take the full rap, the gang kidnaps the district attorney's daughter. Annie informs Louie that the kidnapped child is really their own and was adopted from the foundling home.

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.

We Who Are About to Die

We Who Are About to Die
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/01/1937
  • Character: Ed Stanley (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.

Midnight Limited

Midnight Limited
5/10
The Phantom Robber gets a fortune in jewels and some valuable papers from a robbery on the crack train "The Midnight Limited" and Val Lennon and his pretty assistant, Joan Marshall, are on his trail. But the Phantom strikes three more times and adds murder to his list. Val decides to use himself as bait, although Chief Harrigan and Joan beg him not to risk his life. But Val, disguised as a wealthy Canadian, boards the train for a rendezvous with a killer.

Josette

Josette
6/10
Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love.

The Golden Fleecing

The Golden Fleecing
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 16/08/1940
  • Character: Barney aka Derby Hat
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

The Good Humor Man

The Good Humor Man
6.3/10
Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an insurance investigator. Margie won't marry Biff, though, because she is the sole support of her kid brother, Johnny. Biff gets involved with Bonnie, a young woman he tries to rescue from gangsters. But Biff's attempts to help her only get him accused of murder. When the police refuse to believe his story, it's up to Biff and Johnny to prove Biff's innocence and solve the crime.

Show Them No Mercy!

Show Them No Mercy!
7/10
A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 11/01/1940
  • Character: Warden
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.

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