The best Edwin Richfield’s crime movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Edwin Richfield’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 Edwin Richfield.
The Face of Fu Manchu
5.8/10
Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility that fiendish Fu Manchu may not after all be dead, even though Smith witnessed his execution. A killer spray made from Tibetan berries seems to be involved and clues keep leading back to the Thames.
Model for Murder
5.7/10
An American officer scours Britain in search of his dead brother's girlfriend and becomes involved in a jewel heist.
No Trees in the Street
5.9/10
Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn't completely dug itself out of the worldwide depression. Melvyn Hayes is featured as an aimless teenager, who tries to escape his squalid surroundings by entering a life of crime. He falls in with local hoodlum Herbert Lom, who holds the rest of the slum citizens in the grip of fear including Hayes' own family. No Trees in the Street chronicles Hayes' sordid progress from nickel-and-dime thefts to murder.
The Break
5.9/10
A group of inmates escape from Dartmoor prison. They hide out in the English country side but are doggedly chased by police.
Locker Sixty-Nine
5.8/10
A shady business man has perpetrated a fraud that has resulted in the death of a large number of people. His business partner has evidence of the fraud and threatens the fraudster with exposure in the event of any further dishonest dealing. But when the fraudster suddenly receives death threats he decides to fake his own murder in a plan both to get his hands on the evidence.
Devil's Point
5.9/10
A Thames River barge operator finds a mysterious package dropped by smugglers.
The Blue Parrot
5.4/10
Suspense and romance meet in this film. A nightclub is the scene of a murder. The club's hostess and her American boyfriend find the killer.
The Big Chance
6.1/10
A clerk sees his big chance to escape a humdrum existence, but his resolve is tested as many unexpected obstacles arise.
The Brain Machine
5.5/10
A British psychiatrist (Elizabeth Allan) reads an amnesiac's (Maxwell Reed) brain waves and sees the mind of a killer.
Radio Cab Murder
6.2/10
Fred Martin, a taxi driver who is a reformed convict, is used by the police to go undercover in order to help catch a gang of safe robbers. However things start to go wrong when the police stake out the wrong bank and Fred finds himself alone with the crooks.
The Hide-Out
5.5/10
An insurance investigator in London attempts to thwart smugglers trafficking stolen lambskins infected with anthrax.
