The best George Meeker’s crime movies

George Meeker

George Meeker

05/03/1904- 19/08/1984
Today we present the best George Meeker’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 Meeker’s movies.
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High Sierra

High Sierra
7.5/10
Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.

The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties
7.9/10
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

Superman

Superman
6.8/10
Superman comes to Earth as a child and grows up to be his home's first superhero with his first major challenge being to oppose The Spider Lady.

It's a Wonderful World

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.

Larceny, Inc.

Larceny, Inc.
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 24/04/1942
  • Character: Mr. Jackson
Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers...

Sky Liner

Sky Liner
5.3/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 28/07/1949
  • Character: Financier
Travellers board a flight, unaware that other passengers might be spies and counterspies, complete with secret documents, poison and elaborate plans to engage in international espionage!

Welcome Home

Welcome Home
7.1/10
A con artist attends a reunion in his hometown and discovers that his former classmates are trying to trick an old millionaire into returning to build a factory.

Afraid to Talk

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

Nick Carter, Master Detective

Nick Carter, Master Detective
6.1/10
Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.

Secret Enemies

Secret Enemies
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 17/09/1942
  • Character: Rudolph Dietz
FBI agents Carl Becker and John Trent raid a New York hotel, sending Nazi spies to an upstate hunting lodge.

Just Before Dawn

Just Before Dawn
6.3/10
In the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway is summoned to take attend a diabetic, and gives an injection of insulin taken from a bottle in the patient's pocket. The man dies and Ordway discovers that what he thought was insulin was really poison. Oops! Two other people are murdered before Ordway discovers who replaced the insulin with poison and what the motive was

The Crime Doctor's Warning

The Crime Doctor's Warning
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 27/09/1945
  • Character: Mrs. Lake's Attorney #1 (uncredited)
A criminal psychologist treats an artist whose blackouts coincide with a series of murders.

Smashing the Rackets

Smashing the Rackets
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/08/1938
  • Character: District Attorney Aide
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...

Black Market Babies

Black Market Babies
6/10
Two bit hood Eddie Condon (Kane Richmond) sells babies under the counter. A highly lucrative racket he soon finds out. But when will the police get wise to this highly immoral scheme of his? And will they be able to pin a rap on him before he goes a little too far? ALL IS TOLD in this EXCITING tale of CRIME and CORRUPTION!

Dead Man's Eyes

Dead Man's Eyes
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 10/11/1944
  • Character: Nick Phillips
Artist David Stuart is blinded by a jealous assistant / model. His fiance's father generously offers his eyes for a sight restoring operation. There's only one hitch: Stuart has to wait until after the man dies. Not surprisingly, when the benefactor dies a very premature death, suspicion falls on the artist.

Hi, Nellie!

Hi, Nellie!
6.9/10
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.

King for a Night

King for a Night
6.7/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 09/12/1933
  • Character: John Williams
A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.

Vanity Street

Vanity Street
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 14/10/1932
  • Character: Val French
A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".

The Famous Ferguson Case

The Famous Ferguson Case
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 19/04/1932
  • Character: Jigger Bolton
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglers", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.

The Westland Case

The Westland Case
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 30/10/1937
  • Character: Richard Bolston
A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside.

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