The best John Garfield’s crime movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best John Garfield’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 John Garfield.
Force of Evil
7.2/10
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.
The Breaking Point
7.5/10
A fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals.
The Postman Always Rings Twice
7.4/10
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
He Ran All the Way
7/10
A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl's apartment.
They Made Me a Criminal
6.8/10
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
Dust Be My Destiny
6.8/10
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
East of the River
6.3/10
Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.
Nobody Lives Forever
7/10
A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece.
Blackwell's Island
6/10
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
Out of the Fog
6.8/10
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.
Castle on the Hudson
6.7/10
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
