The best Gene Lockhart’s crime movies

Gene Lockhart

Gene Lockhart

18/07/1891- 31/03/1957
Today we present the best Gene Lockhart’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 Gene Lockhart’s movies.

The House on 92nd Street

The House on 92nd Street
6.6/10
The US Government tries to track down embedded Nazi agents in the States.

I, Jane Doe

I, Jane Doe
6.9/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 25/05/1948
  • Character: Arnold Matson
While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl but leaves her behind when he returns to the U.S. The French woman follows him to America only to discover he’s already married to a successful lawyer.

A Scandal in Paris

A Scandal in Paris
6.6/10
A smooth-talking French thief (George Sanders) wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 22/11/1935
  • Character: Lushin
A man is haunted by a murder he's committed.

Blackmail

Blackmail
6.7/10
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.

Francis Covers the Big Town

Francis Covers the Big Town
6.3/10
A man who has a talking mule gets a job on a newspaper, and both get mixed up in a murder trial.

Tell No Tales

Tell No Tales
6.5/10
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.

Red Light

Red Light
6.3/10
Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky, who gets out a week before Nick, to murder Jess... who, dying, tells revenge-minded Johnny that he'd written a clue "in the Bible." Frustrated, Johnny obsessively searches for the missing Gideon Bible from Jess's hotel room.

Hoodlum Empire

Hoodlum Empire
6/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 15/04/1952
  • Character: Sen. Tower
It's a deadly play for power when a Mafia chieftain's top gun goes straight and threatens to testify against the big boss and his cruel, nationwide network of crime. The picture, which was shot in a semi-documentary style, was inspired by the Kefauver investigations of 1950-51.

The Gay Bride

The Gay Bride
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 14/12/1934
  • Character: Jim Smiley (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.

Juke Girl

Juke Girl
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 30/05/1942
  • Character: Henry Madden
During the depths of the Great Depression a hitch-hiker Steve Talbot and jukebox-joint hostess Lola Mears stumble into Cat-Tail Florida where farmers and pickers struggle under the buyer who rules by monopoly, dirty contracts and violence. Steve helps organize against the buyer, leading to further escalation ending in a lynch mob.

Find the Blackmailer

Find the Blackmailer
6/10
A private eye is hired by a mayoral candidate to prevent any sort of adverse publicity. It seems that, somewhere in town, there's a talking blackbird who insists upon saying that the candidate will commit a murder. When the killing occurs, the candidate is implicated, and the detective is off on a hectic pursuit of the incriminating crow and the actual murderer.

Meet the Girls

Meet the Girls
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 06/10/1938
  • Character: Homer Watson
Entertainers (Lang and Bari) lose their jobs and their fares from Honolulu back to San Francisco so they must become stowaways.

Thunder in the Night

Thunder in the Night
6.6/10
A whodunit set in Budapest, starring Edmund Lowe as a detective investigating the murder of an unemployed vaudeville actor.

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