The best Joe Turkel’s crime movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Joe Turkel’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 Joe Turkel.
The Killing
7.9/10
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
6.6/10
Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it.
Johnny Cool
6.4/10
A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S.
Johnny Stool Pigeon
6.6/10
A federal agent infiltrates a crime syndicate.
The Case Against Brooklyn
6.5/10
A rookie cop takes on criminals who have the local government in their pocket.
Inside Detroit
6.2/10
Gus Linden, former racketeer head of a Detroit local of the United Automobile Workers of America, A.F.L, attempts to destroy his successor, Blair Vicker, so he can put his old rackets back into the auto factories. Vickers fights him off, ultimately winning help from Linden's attractive daughter Barbara and from Joni Calvin, Vickers' moll.
The Devil's Eight
5.1/10
The Devil's 8 is a 1969 film from American International Pictures. It is about a Federal agent (Christopher George) who recruits six convicts to bust a moonshine ring.
House of Numbers
6.4/10
Palance plays twin brothers - one trying to help another escape from prison.
Cell 2455 Death Row
6.4/10
A Death Row inmate uses his prison law studies to fight for his life. Based on a true story.
Duffy of San Quentin
6.7/10
San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse.
Mad at the World
5.7/10
A neighborhood is terrorized by group of young juvenile delinquents called The WolfPack. When a young father's infant child is seriously injured because of the WolfPack, he decides that the police aren't working fast enough to catch the ones who hurt his baby and sets out to infiltrate the gang himself and mete out the punishment they deserve.
The Bonnie Parker Story
5.8/10
In the 1930s, amoral blonde tommy-gun girl Bonnie Parker cut a swath of bodies across the South-West. Starting out on gas stations and bars with side-kick Guy Darrow she graduated to bank hold-ups with Darrow's brother and, after bloodily springing him, her jailed husband. But there was never any doubt who was in charge.
City Across the River
6.3/10
Brooklyn youth Frank Cusack, good son and brother by day, is a gang member by night. The Dukes, seemingly likable dead-end-kids, are dangerously involved with racketeer Gaggsy Steens. Despite the efforts of Franks's parents, he and pal Benny get involved in a serious crime. Can Stan Albert, head of the community center, prevent them from becoming full-time crooks?
The Midnight Story
6.7/10
Beloved priest Father Thomasino is murdered in a San Francisco alley, and the police have few clues. But traffic cop Joe Martini becomes obsessed with finding the killer; he suspects Sylvio Malatesta. Ordered off the case, Joe turns in his badge and investigates alone. Soon he is a close friend of the Malatesta family, all delightful people, especially lovely cousin Anna. Uncertain whether Sylvio is guilty or innocent, Joe is now torn between old and new loyalties.
The Purple Gang
6/10
The story of the infamous Purple Gang - a ring of bootleggers, hijackers and killers in 1920's Detroit.
The Human Jungle
5.9/10
Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with juvenile delinquency, petty crimes, graft and also a recent unsolved murder of a strip-tease dancer. Recognizing the laxity of the department he implements many changes and soon finds himself under fire by the newspapers, the attorney of a racket leader and the denizens of this human jungle.
A Slight Case of Larceny
6/10
Two nitwits decide to open a gas station. Comedy.
Portrait of a Mobster
6.6/10
A vicious hood rises to the top of the rackets in Depression-era New York in this account of the life of Dutch Schultz.
Southside 1-1000
6.3/10
The U.S. Secret Service goes after a counterfeiting ring by placing one of its agents in a criminal mob.
