The best Frank Faylen’s crime movies
We present our ranking of the best Frank Faylen’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Frank Faylen.
Detective Story
7.5/10
Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.
The Blue Dahlia
7.1/10
Soon after a veteran's return from war his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.
They Drive by Night
7.2/10
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
Invisible Stripes
6.7/10
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
Marked Woman
7.1/10
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
The Sniper
7.1/10
Eddie Miller struggles with his hatred of women, he's especially bothered by seeing women with their lovers. He starts a killing spree as a sniper by shooting women from far distances. In an attempt to get caught, he writes an anonymous letter to the police begging them to stop him.
99 River Street
7.4/10
A former boxer --now taxi driver-- gets mixed up with jewel thieves.
Kid Galahad
7.2/10
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
Convicted
6.8/10
A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.
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?
Night Waitress
5.7/10
Helen Roberts, who's on probation, goes back to work as a waitress at Torre's Fish Palace, a San Francisco waterfront dive. The customers are low characters trying to make time with Helen and ex-rum runners trying to make a dishonest dollar. Some of the latter, including Helen's unwelcome suitor Martin Rhodes, are after a mysterious, valuable hidden "cargo"; when violence erupts, Helen finds herself innocently involved, and is soon on the run from both cops and crooks.
Brother Orchid
7/10
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
It's a Wonderful World
6.8/10
Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by the police, tried, convicted and sentenced to jail: Guy for a year with Willie to be executed. On the way to jail, Guy comes across a clue and escapes from the police.
Castle on the Hudson
6.7/10
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
Dino
6.9/10
A juvenile delinquent on parole receives support from a social worker and a girl from a slum.
Bullets or Ballots
7/10
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.
Riot in Cell Block 11
7/10
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.
Twelve Crowded Hours
5.5/10
An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.
Road Gang
6.3/10
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.
Smart Blonde
6.4/10
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.
