The best Leonard Penn’s crime movies

Leonard Penn

Leonard Penn

13/11/1907- 20/05/1975
Today we present the best Leonard Penn’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 Leonard Penn’s movies.

Lonely Heart Bandits

Lonely Heart Bandits
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 29/08/1950
  • Character: Detective Stanley
Two con artists join forces and pose as brother and sister. He then meets rich widows through the "personals" sections of newspapers, marries them, and both kill the widows for their money.

The Way of All Flesh

The Way of All Flesh
6.7/10
Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang and Mary Brown, gang accomplice, proves he is. Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and, when he confronts the gang, he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track. He comes to, struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring by. Paul escapes but his watch is found and he is reported as the dead man. But he can't go home again.

Almost a Gentleman

Almost a Gentleman
6.3/10
Saving a dog from the pound gets a man mixed up in murder.

Women from Headquarters

Women from Headquarters
5.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/05/1950
  • Character: Police Officer Allen
Joyce Harper is an ex-Army nurse who enters police work with the L.A. Police Department, when her friend Ruby gets involved with a petty crook, Max Taylor refuses to listen to Joyce's warnings, and eventually marries the hoodlum. Joyce gets through the detailed trained required to become an L.A. policewoman, and she and her newly-assigned detective partner, Harvey Gates cleanup up a skid-row Bar-girl scheme.And she and Gates are told to get the goods on a narcotics gang ran by Richard Cott , and Ruby and Max Taylor reappear.

The Hat Box Mystery

The Hat Box Mystery
5/10
Susan Hart, assistant to private detective Russ Ashton, is given a camera concealed in a hat box and assigned to take a picture of a woman. A gun is accidentally hidden in the box and the woman is killed. Susan is charged with murder, but Russ and his less-than-useful associate, Harvard, get on the case and prove that the fatal shot was fired by the killer from across the street.

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