The best Glen Cavender’s crime movies

Glen Cavender

Glen Cavender

19/09/1883- 09/02/1962
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Glen Cavender’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 Glen Cavender.
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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.

'G' Men

'G' Men
7.1/10
  • Genre: ActionCrimeDrama
  • Release: 04/05/1935
  • Character: Headwaiter (uncredited)
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.

Dr. Socrates

Dr. Socrates
6.5/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 19/10/1935
  • Character: Townsman
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.

Confession

Confession
7.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 19/08/1937
  • Character: Bailiff (uncredited)
Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's life.

Bordertown

Bordertown
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/01/1935
  • Character: Man Restraining Johnny in Courtroom Fight
An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with his boss's neurotic wife.

Racket Busters

Racket Busters
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/07/1938
  • Character: Truck Driver (uncredited)
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.

Girls on Probation

Girls on Probation
5.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 22/10/1938
  • Character: Policeman
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.

Little Big Shot

Little Big Shot
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeDrama
  • Release: 07/09/1935
  • Character: Bystander at Shooting (uncredited)
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.

Smart Blonde

Smart Blonde
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaMystery
  • Release: 02/01/1937
  • Character: Trooper Sergeant (uncredited)
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.

Midnight Court

Midnight Court
5.9/10
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.

King of the Underworld

King of the Underworld
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaRomance
  • Release: 14/01/1939
  • Character: Deputy Shooting Bill (uncredited)
After the killing of her husband by friendly fire during a police raid, Dr. Carole Nelson tries to find gangster Joe Gurney to clear her name with the medical board.

Love Is on the Air

Love Is on the Air
5.4/10
A newscaster (Ronald Reagan) gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.

Smashing the Money Ring

Smashing the Money Ring
5.6/10
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.

Secret Service of the Air

Secret Service of the Air
5.7/10
Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.

Code of the Secret Service

Code of the Secret Service
5.1/10
Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.

Nancy Drew... Reporter

Nancy Drew... Reporter
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeMystery
  • Release: 18/02/1939
  • Character: Newspaper Office Worker / Beldenburg Hotel Passerby (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.

The Florentine Dagger

The Florentine Dagger
5.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 30/03/1935
  • Character: Detective (uncredited)
A playwright descended from the Borgias becomes a murder suspect.

Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite

Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
6.1/10
Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.

Highway West

Highway West
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 07/08/1941
  • Character: Hotel Doorman (uncredited)
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.

Calling Philo Vance

Calling Philo Vance
5.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 03/02/1940
  • Character: Train Porter Asked to Send Telegram (uncredited)
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.

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