The best Geoffrey Keen’s crime movies

Geoffrey Keen

Geoffrey Keen

21/08/1916- 03/11/2005
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Geoffrey Keen’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 Geoffrey Keen.

The Scapegoat

The Scapegoat
6.8/10
An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.

Hunted

Hunted
7.3/10
An unusual relationship develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.

Odd Man Out

Odd Man Out
7.6/10
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

Face the Music

Face the Music
5.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 29/01/1954
  • Character: Maurie Green
A famed trumpet player is suspected of murdering a blues singer. Using only two minor clues, he narrows the suspects to four people, but only after surviving poison placed on the mouthpiece of his trumpet!

Nowhere to Go

Nowhere to Go
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 02/12/1958
  • Character: Inspector Scott
A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who what's to know where he's hid his loot.

High Treason

High Treason
6.7/10
Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.

House of Secrets

House of Secrets
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/10/1956
  • Character: Col. Burleigh, CIA
Police in Paris recruit an English ship's officer (Michael Craig) to help trap counterfeiters by joining them.

The Glass Cage

The Glass Cage
5.4/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 15/04/1955
  • Character: Harry Stanton
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!

Fortune Is a Woman

Fortune Is a Woman
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 13/03/1957
  • Character: Michael Abercrombie aka Young Abercrombie
An insurance man (Jack Hawkins) discovers his ex-girlfriend (Arlene Dahl) and her husband's (Dennis Price) art-forgery/arson scam.

A Matter of WHO

A Matter of WHO
6.2/10
Health officials from the World Health Organization link a smallpox outbreak in Europe to oil drilling in the Middle East.

Portrait of Alison

Portrait of Alison
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 29/11/1955
  • Character: Inspector Colby
An actress (Terry Moore) and an artist (Robert Beatty) are linked by his brother (William Sylvester) to deadly smugglers sought by Scotland Yard.

The Long Memory

The Long Memory
7/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 23/01/1953
  • Character: Craig
1953 British noir thriller, starring John Mills. An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court. Based on a 1951 novel by Howard Clewes.

The Clouded Yellow

The Clouded Yellow
6.9/10
After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers (played by Trevor Howard) finds work cataloging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion (wrongfully) falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux (Jean Simmons). Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together. After a cross-country chase they arrive at a coastal city with the intention of leaving the country by ship. All's well that ends well after the true identity of the murderer is revealed.

Turn the Key Softly

Turn the Key Softly
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 29/04/1953
  • Character: Mr Gregory
A bitter burglar (Yvonne Mitchell), a prostitute (Joan Collins) and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail.

Return to Sender

Return to Sender
6.2/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 01/03/1963
A fraudster is arrested for stealing a large sum of money from his partners. When he learns that a particularly brilliant barrister will lead the prosecution against him he sets out to undermine the credibility of the barrister.

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