The best King Donovan’s crime movies

King Donovan

King Donovan

25/01/1918- 30/06/1987
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best King Donovan’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 King Donovan.

Mystery Street

Mystery Street
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/06/1950
  • Character: Reporter at Beach House (uncredited)
When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.

The Defiant Ones

The Defiant Ones
7.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 14/08/1958
  • Character: Solly
Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.

Behave Yourself!

Behave Yourself!
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 22/09/1951
  • Character: Lingerie Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
A young man takes in a dog that turns out to be wanted by mobsters.

A Lady Without Passport

A Lady Without Passport
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 03/08/1950
  • Character: Surgeon (uncredited)
A secret service agent falls in love with an illegal immigrant.

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.

One Way Street

One Way Street
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/04/1950
  • Character: Grieder
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.

Open Secret

Open Secret
6.4/10
A couple discovers that their friend has gone missing. Their investigation leads them to believe that anti-semites are behind the disappearance.

The Sun Sets at Dawn

The Sun Sets at Dawn
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/11/1950
  • Character: Reporter, National News Service
A reporter investigates the story of a young man who may have been wrongly convicted and sentenced to be executed.

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