The best Melville Cooper’s crime movies

Melville Cooper

Melville Cooper

15/10/1896- 31/03/1973
Today we present the best Melville Cooper’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 Melville Cooper’s movies.

Murder Over New York

Murder Over New York
6.9/10
When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.

Blind Alley

Blind Alley
6.3/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 11/05/1939
  • Character: George Curtis
A gangster takes a doctor and his family hostage.

The Underworld Story

The Underworld Story
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 26/07/1950
  • Character: Maj. Redford
A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.

Scotland Yard

Scotland Yard
6.8/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 03/04/1941
  • Character: Dr. Crownfield
Inspector Cork pursues a bank robber who serves in the army and receives facial injuries. After plastic surgery he shows up as a bank president planning an enormous robbery.

Black Coffee

Black Coffee
6.7/10
Black Coffee is a 1931 British detective film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Based on the 1930 play Black Coffee by Agatha Christie featuring her famous private detective Hercule Poirot, it stars Austin Trevor as Poirot with Richard Cooper playing his companion Captain Hastings.

The Bishop Misbehaves

The Bishop Misbehaves
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 13/09/1935
  • Character: Collins
On a walking tour of English cathedrals, Donald Meadows meets Hester Granthem in church. Hearing he is from that hot-bed of crime, Chicago, Hester asks Donald to help her in a robbery she has planned. Thinking it a joke, he plays along; but Hester is serious, and hearing that she plans to rob Mr. Waller, the man who has cheated her father out of thousands of pounds, Donald agrees. A robbery at a pub is arranged, but the Bishop of Broadminster, an avid mystery fan, and his sister stumble into it. Playing detective the Bishop complicates matters and each side, the Bishop, the unscrupulous Waller, the gang Hester hires, and Hester and Donald, each get the upper hand along the way.

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