The best Mel Welles’s crime movies

Mel Welles

Mel Welles

17/02/1924- 19/08/2005
We present our ranking of the best Mel Welles’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Mel Welles.

The Big Knife

The Big Knife
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 25/10/1955
  • Character: Mustached Party Guest
Movie star Charlie Castle draws the ire of Hollywood producer Stanley Hoff when he refuses to sign a new seven-year contract. Castle is sick of the low quality of the studio's films and wants to start a new life. While his estranged wife supports him in the decision, Castle's talent agent urges him to reconsider. When Castle continues to be uncooperative, Hoff resorts to blackmail in order to get his way.

Pushover

Pushover
7.1/10
A police detective falls for the bank robber's girlfriend he is supposed to be tailing.

Cut-Throats Nine

Cut-Throats Nine
6.7/10
A wagon load of convicts on their way to prison is being escorted through the mountains by a cavalry troop. They are attacked by a bandit gang, and only a sergeant, his beautiful young daughter and an assortment of seven sadistic, murderous prisoners survive, and they are left without horses or a wagon. The sergeant must find a way to get his prisoners to their destination while protecting his daughter, watching out for the still pursuing bandits and trying to determine which one of the prisoners was the man who raped and murdered his wife.

Rock All Night

Rock All Night
5.7/10
Cloud Nine, the local teen hangout, has been taken over by a pair of escaped killers, who hold the local teens hostage. The bartender realizes it's up to him to save the kids.

Appointment in Honduras

Appointment in Honduras
5.5/10
On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett, an American carrying money for a Honduran counter-revolution. Denied permission to land in Honduras, Corbett releases the prisoners and with their aid hijacks the ship. They land, taking the wealthy Sheppards as hostages, and start the arduous trip upriver to Corbett's rendezvous, meeting jungle hazards

Flight to Hong Kong

Flight to Hong Kong
5.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/10/1956
  • Character: Boris
On an airliner bound for Hong Kong, Tony (Rory Calhoun), a career crook who deals in stolen diamonds, agonizes over whether he should stick with his girlfriend (Dolores Donlon) or pursue Pamela (Barbara Rush), an intriguing novelist with whom he's instantly infatuated. Viewing Tony's dastardly deeds as great material for her new book, Pamela gladly encourages him to continue his criminal behavior.

High School Confidential!

High School Confidential!
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 30/05/1958
  • Character: Charlie O'Flair
A tough kid comes to a new high school and begins muscling his way into the drug scene. This is a typical morality play of the era, filled with a naive view of drugs, nihilistic beat poetry, and some incredible '50s slang.

Joyride to Nowhere

Joyride to Nowhere
4.5/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 01/06/1977
  • Character: Tank McCall
Teenage friends Cindy and Leah have decided to leave their abusive homelives behind, stealing Cindy's father's car and setting out on the road to freedom. On the way, they meet up with a sleazy guy named Tank who invites them up to his place. As Tank showers, the two girls decide to take off, stealing Tank's wallet and his car. His car, however, happens to contain $2 million from a bank job he just pulled off, and Tank is now rather intent on tracking the pair down and reclaiming what's his.

Hell on Devil's Island

Hell on Devil's Island
6/10
An ex-con from Devil's Island enlists the support of the governor's daughter in exposing a prison mining operation.

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