The best Harvey Stephens’s crime movies

Harvey Stephens

Harvey Stephens

21/08/1901- 22/12/1986
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Harvey Stephens’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 Harvey Stephens.

Let 'em Have It

Let 'em Have It
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 15/05/1935
  • Character: Van Rensseler
Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces. An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader.

Whipsaw

Whipsaw
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 18/12/1935
  • Character: Ed Dexter
Vivian is the partner of jewel thieves who have stolen precious pearls in Paris and fled to the United States. In New York undercover government agent McBride latches on to Vivian, who travels cross country with the pearls in her possession.

Parole Fixer

Parole Fixer
5.9/10
This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving convicts parole from prisons. The point is made when FBI agents Scott Britton'William Henry (I)') and Ross Waring (Lyle Talbot) are assigned to track down "Big Boy" Bradmore (Anthony Quinn, who after getting an undeserved parole, via the efforts of a shyster lawyer, promptly murders an FBI agent.

The Murder Man

The Murder Man
6.8/10
Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business partner, Grey is one step ahead of the police to the extent that he often dictates his story in advance of its actual occurrence. He leads the police through an 'open and shut' case resulting in Mander being tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Columnist Mary Shannon is in love with Steve but she sees him struggle greatly with his last story before Mander's execution. When she starts typing out the story from his recorded dictation, she realizes why.

Sworn Enemy

Sworn Enemy
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaRomance
  • Release: 11/09/1936
  • Character: District Attorney Paul Scott
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.

Dangerous to Know

Dangerous to Know
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 11/03/1938
  • Character: Philip Easton
Racketeer Steve Recka (Akim Tamiroff), art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying (Anna May Wong), his beautiful Oriental friend and hostess (read:mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret Van Kase (Gail Patrick), a socialite not impressed by his power nor his wealth, having no money herself, and Steve makes frantic efforts to win her and turns away from the loyal Lin Yang.

You Can't Get Away with Murder

You Can't Get Away with Murder
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/03/1939
  • Character: Fred Burke
Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie silent, even after he and Johnnie themselves wind up in the big house.

After Office Hours

After Office Hours
6.4/10
Hard-hitting news editor Jim Branch falls for high-society type Sharon Norwood but can't get to first base as he continually makes use of her knowledge of the rich and famous to try to solve the murder of one of her socialite acquaintences. Written by Doug Sederberg

Cell 2455 Death Row

Cell 2455 Death Row
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 19/04/1955
  • Character: Warden
A Death Row inmate uses his prison law studies to fight for his life. Based on a true story.

King of Gamblers

King of Gamblers
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 22/04/1937
  • Character: J.G. Temple
A fast moving and low budget crime drama seasoned with mystery & comedy.

Tough Guy

Tough Guy
5.9/10
An unhappy child, accompanied by his dog, runs away from home and is befriended by a gangster on the lam.

Sleepers East

Sleepers East
No good deed goes unpunished for Lena Karelson (Wynne Gibson), hooker with a heart of gold trying to go straight in the big city. Covering a bachelor party for a friend in need, Lena winds up at a gambling house where she is the sole witness when Mayor Wentworth's drunken lout of a son shoots the owner. Wentworth's political machine wants Lena to falsely incriminate mob boss Callahan to bolster their re-election campaign. Callahan's mouthpiece nabs Lena first, conveying her stealthily by train from Toledo to New York to prevent her from testifying against the big boss. A midnight special smash-up, a tense courtroom finale and true love triumphant round out this typical Fox pre-Code programmer, released just before the Legion of Decency dropped the hammer in 1934.

The House of Fear

The House of Fear
6.3/10
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...

Baby Face Harrington

Baby Face Harrington
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 12/04/1935
  • Character: Ronald Lawford
Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy No. 2." Comedy.

Joe Smith, American

Joe Smith, American
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 01/02/1942
  • Character: Freddie Dunhill
Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is kidnapped by enemy agents who are determined to get military secrets out of him by any means possible. Will Joe keep quiet or betray his country...

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