The best Harlan Briggs’s crime movies

Harlan Briggs

Harlan Briggs

17/08/1879- 26/01/1952
We present our ranking of the best Harlan Briggs’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 Harlan Briggs.

Marked Woman

Marked Woman
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 10/04/1937
  • Character: Sad Man with Emmy Lou in Nightclub (uncredited)
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.

A Double Life

A Double Life
7/10
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.

Danger Street

Danger Street
5.6/10
Magazine owners (Jane Withers, Robert Lowery) sell a revealing photo, then play detective when the deal leads to murder.

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
7.1/10
On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder of a Scotland Yard friend.

Brother Orchid

Brother Orchid
7/10
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.

You and Me

You and Me
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeRomance
  • Release: 01/06/1938
  • Character: Thomas McTavish (uncredited)
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.

Tell No Tales

Tell No Tales
6.5/10
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.

Mysterious Intruder

Mysterious Intruder
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 11/04/1946
  • Character: Mr. Brown
Don Gale is a detective hired by Edward Stillwell to find a girl, Elora Lund. Edward doesn't tell him why he wants to find Elora. After a series of events, Gale gets arrested for a thief's murder.

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 11/01/1940
  • Character: Foreman in Jury
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.

One Wild Night

One Wild Night
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 02/06/1938
  • Character: Mayor
Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money from the local bank in Stockton, Ohio.

The Sea Hornet

The Sea Hornet
6/10
"The Sea Hornet" was a merchant ship sunk, supposedly by a torpedo, less than a mile off the California Coast during World War Two. Six years later when his buddy is killed, attempting to blow up the sunken ship, on the orders of Suntan Radford and Tony Sullivan, deep-sea diver "Gunner" McNeil has his suspicions aroused... especially since Suntan is the daughter of the ship's captain that died when the ship sunk, and Sullivan was a crew member. Plus the fact the ship had over a million dollars in cash on board. During the course of his investigation, he becomes romantically involved with Ginger Sullivan

Trouble at Midnight

Trouble at Midnight
6.1/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 16/10/1937
  • Character: Sheriff
Noah Beery Jr. stars as Kirk Cameron in the modern-day western Trouble at Midnight. Freshly discharged from WWI, Cameron goes into the dairy-farming business, only to be hounded by his chief creditor, flint-hearted banker Everett Benson (Charles Halton). Despite his uncharitable feelings for Benson, Cameron falls in love with Catherine (Catherine Hughes), the banker's daughter.

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