The best Martin Benson’s crime movies

Martin Benson

Martin Benson

10/08/1918- 28/02/2010
Today we present the best Martin Benson’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 Martin Benson’s movies.
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A Shot in the Dark

A Shot in the Dark
7.4/10
Inspector Jacques Clouseau investigates the murder of Mr. Benjamin Ballon's driver at a country estate. A Shot in the Dark is the second and more successful film from the Pink Panther film series where both animated and real life sequences are mixed. A cult classic from Blake Edwards based on the play L’Idiot by Marcel Achard and Harry Kurnitz.

Captain Clegg

Captain Clegg
6.6/10
What secret lay behind the dreaded Marsh Phantoms, the ghostly riders whose silent approach in the darkness of the bleak, unwelcoming Romney Marshes causes men to die of fright? Are they a genuine manifestation or a cover for illegal smuggling activities. Perhaps Dr. Blyss, the benign vicar of the quiet village of Dymchurch, knows the truth about the ruthless pirate and smuggler who lies buried in the village graveyard and can unravel the phenomenon of the curse of Captain Clegg.

23 Paces to Baker Street

23 Paces to Baker Street
6.9/10
Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to find a kidnapped child. When he gets no help from the police, he along with his butler, and his ex fiancée, attempt to track down the crooks.

Interpol

Interpol
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 02/04/1957
  • Character: Captain Varolli
Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis embarks on an investigation that takes him from New York to London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and finally Athens in pursuit of McNally's shapely associate, Gina Broger.

Istanbul

Istanbul
6.1/10
A suspected diamond smuggler returns to Istanbul and finds the lady love he thought was dead...or does he?

A Matter of WHO

A Matter of WHO
6.2/10
Health officials from the World Health Organization link a smallpox outbreak in Europe to oil drilling in the Middle East.

Mystery Junction

Mystery Junction
5.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/09/1951
  • Character: Steve Harding
In this crime drama, an escaped convict is recaptured and charged with killing two people in a lonely waystation during a snowstorm. Fortunately, a novelist is around to prove him innocent.

The Flesh is Weak

The Flesh is Weak
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 06/08/1957
  • Character: Angelo Giani
Giani is a pimp who preys on the naïve, ‘just off the bus’ young women who come to post-war London for fortune.

Recoil

Recoil
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/08/1953
  • Character: Farnborough
A jeweller is killed in a gang robbery leaving the daughter as the only witness. When the police can't build a case against him she decides to go undercover to infiltrate the home of the killer's brother. Slowly she is drawn into the world of the rival gangs.

Mozambique

Mozambique
5.3/10
An American pilot assists the Portuguese colonial police who are battling a gang of criminals involved in drug smuggling from Lisbon to Mozambique to Zanzibar.

I'll Get You for This

I'll Get You for This
5.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/01/1951
  • Character: Sperazza
Nick, an American gambler, arrives in San Paolo and falls in love with Colleen, an American tourist, after she loses all of her money at the casino. Nick flees with Colleen after they are framed for murder and he tries to track down the real killer.

Spin a Dark Web

Spin a Dark Web
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/03/1956
  • Character: Rico Francesi
A boxer is lured into a murder plot by a scheming woman.

Night Without Stars

Night Without Stars
6/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 03/04/1951
  • Character: White Cap
A partially blind Englishman retires to the French Riviera. He meets and falls for the Widow of a French Resistance fighter but is horrified when he discovers she is involved with smugglers and murderers.

The Gambler and the Lady

The Gambler and the Lady
5.9/10
A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he falls in love with a blue-blooded lady. But first he must mend his ways and then dump his nightclub singer girl friend. She's not so easy to get rid of, neither is his past.

Escape by Night

Escape by Night
5.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 01/12/1953
  • Character: Guillio Rossini
An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story.

Assassin for Hire

Assassin for Hire
5.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 09/04/1951
  • Character: Catesby
Antonio Riccardi, a rare stamp dealer who is secretly a hired killer, pays for the violin lessons of his gifted brother Giuseppe. To meet the expenses of Giuseppe s concert debut he accepts a further job, but his decision to do so provides Detective Inspector Carson, who has long hoped to ensnare Tony, with an opportunity hat might now enable him to bring about his downfall.

A Woman of Mystery

A Woman of Mystery
6/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 21/04/1958
  • Character: Freddy
UK mystery about a reporter investigating the suicide of a seemingly insignificant hatcheck girl.

Wide Boy

Wide Boy
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/12/1952
  • Character: Rocco
Picking a pocket leads to blackmail and murder for a petty criminal (Sidney Tafler) in London.

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