The best Howard Douglas’s crime movies

Howard Douglas

Howard Douglas

12/01/1896- 01/01/1973
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Howard Douglas’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 Howard Douglas.

They Made Me a Fugitive

They Made Me a Fugitive
7.2/10
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.

Jungle Street

Jungle Street
5.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 07/01/1960
  • Character: Old Bill
In this crime drama, a mugger accidently kills a man during a robbery and finds himself blackmailed into cracking a nightclub safe. The mugger escapes by double crossing the blackmailer by stealing the money and his girlfriend to boot. Unfortunately the police are in hot pursuit.

Whistle Down the Wind

Whistle Down the Wind
7.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 25/07/1961
  • Character: The Vet, Dr. Weaver
When an injured wife-murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the farmer’s three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.

Wanted for Murder

Wanted for Murder
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 17/06/1946
  • Character: Head Park Keeper
The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.

The Upturned Glass

The Upturned Glass
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 17/06/1947
  • Character: Lorry Driver
A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how after the affair was over, the woman fell out a window and died. The surgeon, suspecting that she was murdered, set out to find her killer -- but, instead of turning the suspect over to the police, he planned to take his own revenge on the murderer.

Design for Murder

Design for Murder
6.1/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 27/03/1939
  • Character: The Landlord
When a wealthy, lonely university music student is beaten and has his apartment trashed by a fellow dorm resident-bully and his gang, he goes mad, lures the bully into his room on pretense of forgiveness, slips him a paralyzing agent in a drink, throws him in a trunk and locks him in, and taunts the bully with the promise that he will be buried alive in the trunk. Only, once he gets his trunk and his prey to his country estate, the vengeful victim finds things keep going wrong...

Appointment with Crime

Appointment with Crime
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 04/11/1946
  • Character: Mr. Quilp
Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin (William Hartnell) is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman (Raymond Lovell) and driver Hatchett (H. Victor Weske), when the robbery they are committing goes wrong. After serving his prison sentence, Leo emerges with an intricate plan for revenge. Leo implicates Loman, as well as his amoral boss, Gregory Lang (Herbert Lom), for murder -- but Inspector Rogers (Robert Beatty) suspects Leo.

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