The best Ida Lupino’s crime movies

Ida Lupino

Ida Lupino

04/02/1918- 03/08/1995
Today we present the best Ida Lupino’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Ida Lupino’s movies.
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They Drive by Night

They Drive by Night
7.2/10
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
7.3/10
Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis, Sherlock Holmes, by making him fail to prevent the perfect crime. Does it involve a family curse, the crown jewels of England, or something else…

High Sierra

High Sierra
7.5/10
Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.

Woman in Hiding

Woman in Hiding
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 22/11/1950
  • Character: Deborah Chandler Clark
Deborah Chandler's rejected suitor, Selden Clark, manages the factory of her father, who dies a suspicion death. But charming Clark manages to win her over and marry her. On the honeymoon, Clark's former girl Patricia intervenes and opens Deborah's eyes, alas too late. Now Clark tries to kill Deborah. Believed dead by all but Clark, she flees. But drifter Keith Ramsey recognizes and follows her. Can she trust him? Can he believe her?

On Dangerous Ground

On Dangerous Ground
7.2/10
A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he assists in a manhunt of a suspected murderer.

While the City Sleeps

While the City Sleeps
6.9/10
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer"

The Big Knife

The Big Knife
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 25/10/1955
  • Character: Marion Castle
Movie star Charlie Castle draws the ire of Hollywood producer Stanley Hoff when he refuses to sign a new seven-year contract. Castle is sick of the low quality of the studio's films and wants to start a new life. While his estranged wife supports him in the decision, Castle's talent agent urges him to reconsider. When Castle continues to be uncooperative, Hoff resorts to blackmail in order to get his way.

Outrage

Outrage
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 27/09/1950
  • Character: Country Dance Attendee (uncredited)
A young woman who has just become engaged has her life completely shattered when she is raped while on her way home from work.

Out of the Fog

Out of the Fog
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 14/06/1941
  • Character: Stella Goodwin
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.

Private Hell 36

Private Hell 36
6.7/10
In New York, a bank robbery of $300,000 goes unsolved for a year, until some of the marked bills are found in a Los Angeles drugstore theft. Police detectives Cal Bruner and Jack Farnham investigate and are led from the drugstore to a nightclub, where singer Lili is another recipient of a stolen bill. With Lili's help, the partners track down the remaining money, but both Lili and Frank are dismayed when Cal decides he wants to keep part of it.

Women's Prison

Women's Prison
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/02/1955
  • Character: Amelia van Zandt
A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.

Beware, My Lovely

Beware, My Lovely
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 29/08/1952
  • Character: Helen Gordon
A psychopath on the run takes a job as a handyman at the house of a lonely widow.

The Strangers in 7A

The Strangers in 7A
5.5/10
Andy Griffith plays a philandering apartment house manager who picks up a pretty young girl (Suzanne Hildur) in a bar. He takes her home, whereupon the girl's male cronies show up armed with guns. Griffith and his wife (Ida Lupino) are held hostage by the crooks, who plan to use the apartment as headquarters while they pull off a big robbery. Director Paul Wendkos stages the action essentially from the victim's point of view; we see only what they see, and are kept guessing as to the full details of the crime and the ultimate fate of the hostages. Based on a novel by Fielden Farrington, The Strangers in 7A was first telecast on November 14th, 1972 as a CBS Movie of the Week.

The Ghost Camera

The Ghost Camera
6.2/10
When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a passing car belonging to chemist John Gray who becomes amateur sleuth after developing the film and goes in search of the woman captured by the photograph. When the camera is stolen from his laboratory, Gray's suspicions are further aroused.

The Lady and the Mob

The Lady and the Mob
6.3/10
Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.

Search for Beauty

Search for Beauty
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 02/02/1934
  • Character: Barbara Hilton
Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictures.

My Boys Are Good Boys

My Boys Are Good Boys
4.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/01/1978
  • Character: Bess Morton
Teenagers at a correctional facility devise a plan to rob an armored van.

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