The best Karen Morley’s crime movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Karen Morley’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 Karen Morley.
Scarface
7.7/10
A murderous thug shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
Mata Hari
6.6/10
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.
Framed
6.9/10
Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.
Black Fury
6.5/10
A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management.
Jealousy
6.2/10
A female cabbie is suspected of killing her drunken husband.
Are You Listening?
6.2/10
WBLA is on the air, presenting the live music, the sudsy dramas and the sell-sell-sell of commercial interludes that keep consumers buying and sponsors smiling. But one sponsor, a producer of plumbing supplies, isn’t happy. So WBLA scriptwriter Bill Grimes is bounced from his job, setting in motion this movie’s turn from comedic to darkly tragic. William Haines, two years removed from being Tinseltown’s top male star, plays Grimes in a melodrama noted for its glimpses of live radio production and for a Depression-era ethos that includes peroxide cuties eager to land a job, a sugar daddy or both.
Politics
6.3/10
A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town.
The Thirteenth Hour
6.4/10
In this drama, a trucker's business is nearly destroyed after he is wrongfully accused of killing a policeman with whom he recently quarreled.
The Phantom of Crestwood
6.5/10
Five men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.
Thunder in the Night
6.6/10
A whodunit set in Budapest, starring Edmund Lowe as a detective investigating the murder of an unemployed vaudeville actor.
