The best H.B. Warner’s crime movies
We present our ranking of the best H.B. Warner’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about H.B. Warner.
Crossroads
6.7/10
A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.
Five Star Final
7.3/10
An unscrupulous newspaper editor searches for headlines at any cost.
High Wall
6.9/10
Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann Lorrison is initially skeptical about Kenet's story and reluctance to undergo treatment. But against her better judgement, she begins to doubt his guilt.
The Phantom of Crestwood
6.5/10
Five men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.
City of Missing Girls
4.9/10
A female reporter goes undercover to investigate the series of mysterious disappearances of young women, who were all linked to a local drama school.
Gentleman Joe Palooka
5.9/10
In the second film of Monogram's Joe Palooka series, Joe is 'used', by two state senators scheming to obtain oil-rich lands, in a publicity campaign to get the land transferred to the state, supposedly for a park. When Joe learns that he has been used as a dupe he becomes disillusioned and leaves the prize=fighting profession. But, his manager, sparring partners, and fiancée manage to expose the land-grab scheme, clear Joe's name and discredit the crooked politicians.
The Menace
6.4/10
A man framed for murder escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence.
Night Alarm
5.9/10
A reporter itching to get off the boring gardening "beat" gets a chance to investigate a series of arson fires that have been plaguing the city. He believes the fires are tied into a web of political corruption involving a wealthy businessman, the mayor and the police chief. Complicatins ensue when the girl assigned to help him turns out to be the businessman's daughter.
In Old Santa Fe
5.7/10
Gangster Chandler and his accomplice Tracy arrive at a dude ranch. Cowboy Kentucky arrives at the same time. When Tracy double-crosses his boss and has the stage robbed, Kentucky finds the outlaws and brings them in. Tracy frames him for the murder of the driver but his pal Cactus gets him out of jail. He returns just as Chandler shoots Tracy and Kentucky finds himself arrested for another murder.
