The best Frank Darien’s crime movies

Frank Darien

Frank Darien

17/03/1876- 20/10/1955
Today we present the best Frank Darien’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 Frank Darien’s movies.

Prison Break

Prison Break
6.1/10
Barton MacLane stars as a tuna fisherman who has been wrongfully convicted of a murder he did not commit. His exemplary behavior in prison ensures that he is up for early parole. He realizes, however, that his movements will be limited, and he will be unable to join and wed his beloved. The only solution is to escape and hunt down the real killer, himself.

The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead
6.6/10
Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.

The Accused

The Accused
6.8/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 14/01/1949
  • Character: Jerry (uncredited)
A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.

Dr. Socrates

Dr. Socrates
6.5/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 19/10/1935
  • Character: Sam - a Druggist
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.

Blackmail

Blackmail
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 08/09/1939
  • Character: Ramey's Oil-Well Watchman (uncredited)
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.

Public Hero Number 1

Public Hero Number 1
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 31/05/1935
  • Character: Dr. Hale - Plastic Surgeon (uncredited)
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.

Satan Met a Lady

Satan Met a Lady
5.9/10
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.

The Whip Hand

The Whip Hand
6/10
A small-town reporter investigates a mysterious group holed up in a country lodge.

The Story of Temple Drake

The Story of Temple Drake
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 06/05/1933
  • Character: Gas Station Manager (uncredited)
The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.

The Gay Bride

The Gay Bride
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 14/12/1934
  • Character: Mr. Bartlett (uncredited)
Mary wants to marriy a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.

Out of the Fog

Out of the Fog
6.8/10
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.

Journal of a Crime

Journal of a Crime
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 10/03/1934
  • Character: Stage Manager
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.

The Way of All Flesh

The Way of All Flesh
6.7/10
Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang and Mary Brown, gang accomplice, proves he is. Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and, when he confronts the gang, he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track. He comes to, struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring by. Paul escapes but his watch is found and he is reported as the dead man. But he can't go home again.

Bureau of Missing Persons

Bureau of Missing Persons
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/09/1933
  • Character: Man Identifying Daughter's Photo (uncredited)
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...

The Tip-Off

The Tip-Off
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 16/10/1931
  • Character: Edna's Uncle
A young radio repairman becomes involved with gangsters and one of their girlfriends when he repairs their radio.

The Public Defender

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.

The Last Installment

The Last Installment
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 05/05/1945
  • Character: Dad Pilkington (uncredited)
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a criminal idolizes the life of a famous gangster - unaware that his hero met a tragic end.

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