The best Ferdy Mayne’s crime movies

Ferdy Mayne

Ferdy Mayne

11/03/1916- 30/01/1998
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Ferdy Mayne’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 Ferdy Mayne.

Revenge of the Pink Panther

Revenge of the Pink Panther
6.6/10
Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau's car after being shot off the road. Naturally, Clouseau knows differently and, taking advantage of not being alive, sets out to discover why an attempt was made on his life.

Our Man in Havana

Our Man in Havana
7.2/10
Expatriate Englishman Jim Wormold lives in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter. Owning a poorly-performing business, he accepts an offer from the British Secret Service to recruit a network of agents in Cuba. Wormold hasn't got a clue where to start, so he decides to manufacture a list of agents and provide fictional tales for his masters in London, and is soon known as the best agent in the Western Hemisphere. However, it all unravels when the local police decode his cables and start rounding up his 'network' and he learns that he's the target of a group out to kill him.

Cairo Road

Cairo Road
5.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 21/06/1950
  • Character: Doctor, Port Said
A police chief stationed in Egypt sets out to crack down on drug traffickers along the frontiers. With his assistant, he attempts to block the smugglers' passage along the notorious Cairo Road route into the country.

The Walking Stick

The Walking Stick
6.5/10
A young woman's highly ordered and structured life is turned upside-down when she meets a handsome stranger at a party. Friendship soon develops into romance and for the first time in her life she is truly happy. This happiness is short lived, however, as little by little she discovers her partner has been lying to her about his past. It is soon revealed that he and his friends have been planning to rob the auction house that she works for and they require her inside knowledge in order to pull off the crime.

Third Party Risk

Third Party Risk
5.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/10/1954
  • Character: Maxwell Carey
Vacationing at a resort hotel in Spain, a man discovers he is the only one not mixed up one way or another in murder, drugs and microfilm smuggling. But, the police are after him!

Fire Over Africa

Fire Over Africa
5/10
Maureen O'Hara hunts drug smugglers in Africa. Director Richard Sale's 1954 film also stars Macdonald Carey and Binnie Barnes.

The Man Who Watched Trains Go By

The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/12/1952
  • Character: Louis
A meek teller thinks he's killed his boss. He flees with a box of cash hoping for a new life with his younger mistress.

To the Bitter End

To the Bitter End
5.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 22/10/1975
  • Character: Wallace
15 years ago Paul Jordan was a star in Hollywood musicals. But then he retired from showbiz and married the rich Joan. Now, after being dependent on his wife's money for many years, he's sick of it and wants to work again. A romantic affair with his stepdaughter, Shirley, gives him the guts to ask for a role. His former agent gets him one but it's with a small company in Vienna, Austria. The stress worsens his alcoholism; the tablets he takes to hide the effects lead him to hallucinations. When his wife and girlfriend appear at the same time, he's no longer capable of handling the situation.

You Pay Your Money

You Pay Your Money
4.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 13/02/1957
  • Character: Delal
Crime drama in which a couple get involved in a web of intrigue surrounding the husband's employer.

The End of the Line

The End of the Line
5.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/12/1957
  • Character: Edwards
The wife of a night club owner frames an American writer for his murder.

The Blue Parrot

The Blue Parrot
5.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/10/1953
  • Character: Stevens
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 Glass Cage

The Glass Cage
5.5/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 15/04/1955
  • Character: Bertie
A circus barker stages a sensational new act, the world's longest fast undertaken by “Sapolio”, on view in a glass cage. But this act also results in several murders, a kidnapping, and a poisoning!

The Big Chance

The Big Chance
6.1/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 01/09/1957
  • Character: Dimitri Aperghis
A clerk sees his big chance to escape a humdrum existence, but his resolve is tested as many unexpected obstacles arise.

A Woman of Mystery

A Woman of Mystery
6.1/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 21/04/1958
  • Character: Andre
UK mystery about a reporter investigating the suicide of a seemingly insignificant hatcheck girl.

Three Steps to the Gallows

Three Steps to the Gallows
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/12/1953
  • Character: Mario Satargo
A U.S. sailor (Scott Brady) docks in London and in three days tries to save his brother from the gallows.

The Narrowing Circle

The Narrowing Circle
5.4/10
A journalist is framed for the murder of a rival and has to prove his innocence, whatever the cost.

Die Ameisen kommen

Die Ameisen kommen
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 14/03/1974
  • Character: Michel

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