The best George Guhl’s crime movies

George Guhl

George Guhl

27/09/1875- 27/06/1943
Today we present the best George Guhl’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 George Guhl’s movies.
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Another Thin Man

Another Thin Man
7.3/10
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.

The Petrified Forest

The Petrified Forest
7.5/10
Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.

Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase

Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
6.6/10
Nancy Drew and Ted Nickerson solve a murder and save two elderly ladies from losing their family home. The old mansion is complete with a moving wall and a hidden staircase.

Dust Be My Destiny

Dust Be My Destiny
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/09/1939
  • Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.

Sworn Enemy

Sworn Enemy
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaRomance
  • Release: 11/09/1936
  • Character: 2nd Prison Gate Guard (uncredited)
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.

Murder by Invitation

Murder by Invitation
5.8/10
The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can divide up her money. To show them that there are no hard feelings, she invites them to her estate for the weekend so she can decide to whom she actually will leave her money when she dies. Soon, however, family members begin turning up dead.

The Golden Fleecing

The Golden Fleecing
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 16/08/1940
  • Character: Night Elevator Man
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

Torchy Gets Her Man

Torchy Gets Her Man
6.5/10
A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands.

Nancy Drew... Reporter

Nancy Drew... Reporter
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeMystery
  • Release: 18/02/1939
  • Character: Policeman at Lambert Estate (uncredited)
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.

Smart Blonde

Smart Blonde
6.4/10
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.

Blondes at Work

Blondes at Work
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 05/02/1938
  • Character: Desk Sergeant
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.

Blackwell's Island

Blackwell's Island
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeDrama
  • Release: 24/01/1939
  • Character: Police Officer (uncredited)
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.

Torchy Blane in Panama

Torchy Blane in Panama
5.9/10
Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.

Torchy Blane in Chinatown

Torchy Blane in Chinatown
6.1/10
Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and death-threats written in Chinese characters.

Among the Missing

Among the Missing
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 25/09/1934
  • Character: Detective Jones
Seeking to avoid arrest while fleeing through a city park at night, two jewel thieves, Gordon and young Tommy, stash some just-stolen jewels on elderly, unknowing Martha Abbott. They then invite Martha to come live with them as their housekeeper, duping her into helping fence their goods. When Martha eventually becomes aware of the criminal activities, she strives to help Tommy reform.

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