The best Egon Brecher’s crime movies

Egon Brecher

Egon Brecher

16/02/1880- 12/08/1946
Today we present the best Egon Brecher’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 Egon Brecher’s movies.
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Manpower

Manpower
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 09/08/1941
  • Character: Antoine 'Pop' Duval
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.

Black Legion

Black Legion
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 30/01/1937
  • Character: Dombrowski
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.

Racket Busters

Racket Busters
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/07/1938
  • Character: Peters (uncredited)
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.

Buyer Beware

Buyer Beware
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 17/08/1940
  • Character: Child's Father (uncredited)
This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with shady companies selling fake merchandise.

I Was an Adventuress

I Was an Adventuress
6.7/10
Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists! They mingle with Europe's high society, always looking for the next wealthy victim to fleece with their fake jewellery scam... Then Tanya meets the dashing young Paul Vernay. At first she wants to rob him. Then she decides she wants to marry him and to leave her criminal past behind her. Her accomplices agree but only if she'll join them in one last, big swindle...

You and Me

You and Me
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeRomance
  • Release: 01/06/1938
  • Character: Abie Levine
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.

Just Before Dawn

Just Before Dawn
6.3/10
In the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway is summoned to take attend a diabetic, and gives an injection of insulin taken from a bottle in the patient's pocket. The man dies and Ordway discovers that what he thought was insulin was really poison. Oops! Two other people are murdered before Ordway discovers who replaced the insulin with poison and what the motive was

Charlie Chan's Secret

Charlie Chan's Secret
7/10
Allen Colby, heir to a huge fortune, is presumed drowned after an ocean liner sinks off the coast of Honolulu. Mysteriously, Colby reappears at his mansion only to be murdered soon after. When his body is discovered during a seance, everyone in attendance becomes a suspect, and it's up to Chan to find the murderer before he or she strikes again.

We Are Not Alone

We Are Not Alone
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 25/11/1939
  • Character: Mr. Adolf Schiller
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.

Know Your Money

Know Your Money
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 27/01/1940
  • Character: Samuels the Druggist (uncredited)
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short tells the fictitious story of a bill counterfeiting ring and explores the government's attempt to curb counterfeiting.

The Florentine Dagger

The Florentine Dagger
5.9/10
A playwright descended from the Borgias becomes a murder suspect.

Invisible Enemy

Invisible Enemy
5.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 03/04/1938
  • Character: Kirman
Jeffrey Clavering is hired in London by The Great Eastern Oil Corporation to go to Paris to prevent unscrupulous industrialist Nikolai Kamarov from gaining control of their oil fields and turning them over to a foreign power.

The Spy Ring

The Spy Ring
5.4/10
Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when one of them is murdered. The other vows to get the spies that are after the invention and avenge his friend's death.

Calling Philo Vance

Calling Philo Vance
5.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 03/02/1940
  • Character: Austrian Judge (uncredited)
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.

For the Common Defense!

For the Common Defense!
5.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 20/06/1942
  • Character: Adolph (uncredited)
This Crime Does Not Pay short shows how cooperation among all the nations of the Americas helps the war effort. In this case, a US government agent travels to Chile and Colombia. He works with local authorities to try to thwart an Axis plan to ship stolen ammunition.

So Dark the Night

So Dark the Night
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 10/10/1946
  • Character: Dr. Boncourt
Inspector Cassin, a renowned Paris detective, departs to the country for a much-needed break. There he falls in love with the innkeeper’s daughter, Nanette, who is already betrothed to a local farmer. On the evening of their engagement party, Nanette and the farmer both disappear. Cassin takes up the case immediately to discover what happened to them and who is responsible.

Alibi for Murder

Alibi for Murder
6/10
A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them do the detecting. This proves impossible when a famed scientist is murdered in Perry’s studio, right in the middle of the interview. All evidence points to Perry, and he sets out to clear his name before the Shadow-like villain roaming the hallways of the radio station gets away with murder.

Blondes at Work

Blondes at Work
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 05/02/1938
  • Character: J.Z. Beckman (uncredited)
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.

While America Sleeps

While America Sleeps
6/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 14/04/1939
  • Character: Klaus
An episode in the "Crime Does Not Pay" series. Dave Miller, an aircraft plant worker, is actually selling secret bomber plans to foreign agents. United States Intelligence Department agents plan to trap him and the spies he works for.

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