The best G. Pat Collins’s crime movies

G. Pat Collins

G. Pat Collins

16/12/1895- 05/08/1959
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Dead End

Dead End
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 27/08/1937
  • Character: Detective at Killing (Uncredited)
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses paths with Dave, a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city's East Side slums.

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
8.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 09/11/1932
  • Character: Wilson (uncredited)
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.

White Heat

White Heat
8.1/10
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.

Manhattan Melodrama

Manhattan Melodrama
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaRomance
  • Release: 04/05/1934
  • Character: Killer in Prison (uncredited)
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

The Mayor of Hell

The Mayor of Hell
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 24/06/1933
  • Character: Brandon
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

20,000 Years in Sing Sing
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 24/12/1932
  • Character: Death Row Convict Mike (uncredited)
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.

Invisible Stripes

Invisible Stripes
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 30/12/1939
  • Character: Alec - New 'Fish' (uncredited)
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.

Brother Orchid

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.

Picture Snatcher

Picture Snatcher
7/10
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.

Afraid to Talk

Afraid to Talk
7/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 01/12/1932
  • Character: Detective Archie Quinn
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.

The Racket

The Racket
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/11/1928
  • Character: Patrolman Johnson
In this silent film, a renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss.

The Whip Hand

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

Baby Face Harrington

Baby Face Harrington
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 12/04/1935
  • Character: Hank
Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy No. 2." Comedy.

The Big Shakedown

The Big Shakedown
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 06/01/1934
  • Character: Gyp
Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products.

Flaming Fury

Flaming Fury
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 28/07/1949
  • Character: Battalion Fire Chief
A Los Angeles fire captain (Roy Roberts) sends an arson-squad rookie (George Cooper) undercover.

Girl Missing

Girl Missing
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeMystery
  • Release: 04/03/1933
  • Character: Crawford (as George Pat Collins)
Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June decide to look for her to claim the reward.

Bureau of Missing Persons

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

Fog

Fog
5.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 11/11/1933
  • Character: Mullaney
The murders are committed in swift succession on board a liner crossing the Atlantic in a dense fog, and many of the passengers come under suspicion before the actual killer is bought to justice with the aid of a very substantial "ghost."

The Vice Squad

The Vice Squad
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 29/05/1931
  • Character: Pete - Detective
A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.

A Very Honorable Guy

A Very Honorable Guy
6/10
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.

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