The best Mickey Rooney’s crime movies

Mickey Rooney

Mickey Rooney

23/09/1920- 06/04/2014
We present our ranking of the best Mickey Rooney’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 Mickey Rooney.
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
7.5/10
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.

Quicksand

Quicksand
6.6/10
Young auto mechanic Dan Brady takes $20 from a cash register at work to go on a date with blonde femme fatale Vera Novak. Brady intends to put the money back before it is missed, but the garage's bookkeeper shows up earlier than scheduled. As Brady scrambles to cover evidence of his petty theft, he fast finds himself drawn into an ever worsening "quicksand" of crime.

Pulp

Pulp
5.9/10
A seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels is recruited by a quirky, reclusive ex-actor to help him write his biography at his house in Malta.

Manhattan Melodrama

Manhattan Melodrama
7.1/10
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

Drive a Crooked Road

Drive a Crooked Road
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 10/03/1954
  • Character: Eddie Shannon
A mechanic gets caught up with the mob when he falls for a gangster's girlfriend.

The Beast of the City

The Beast of the City
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaRomance
  • Release: 13/02/1932
  • Character: Mickey Fitzpatrick (uncredited)
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his corrupt brother Ed to watch over Daisy who was associated with Belmonte.

Baby Face Nelson

Baby Face Nelson
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 11/12/1957
  • Character: Lester M. 'Baby Face Nelson' Gillis
Famed Depression-era gangster “Baby Face Nelson” (Mickey Rooney) robs and kills while accompanied by his beautiful moll (Carolyn Jones).

The Big Operator

The Big Operator
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/08/1959
  • Character: Little Joe Braun
A power-mad union boss resorts to murder to eliminate witnesses scheduled to testify against him. The eclectic cast includes Mickey Rooney, Mamie Van Doren, Mel Torme, Jay North, Vampira, Charles Chaplin Jr., Jackie Coogan and Norman Grabowski.

Hide-Out

Hide-Out
6.9/10
Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with the farmer's daughter who at first is unaware of his criminal record. Lucky is fully prepared to shoot his way out when the cops come calling, but he is softened by the daughter's affections.

Riffraff

Riffraff
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 03/01/1936
  • Character: Jimmy
Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him and goes to jail. He gets a new job, foils a plot to dynamite the ship, and promises to wait for Hattie.

A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed

A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 01/12/1958
  • Character: Gus Harris
Two bunglers (Tom Ewell, Mickey Rooney) rob a bank and buy a racehorse, then try to rob another bank.

The Last Mile

The Last Mile
6.6/10
Jail house tensions mount as a killer's execution approaches.

Sin's Pay Day

Sin's Pay Day
5.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 02/03/1932
  • Character: Chubby Dennis
A woman married to a defense lawyer leaves him when he refuses to stop defending criminals she believes are guilty.

King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein

King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
5.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 11/06/1961
  • Character: Johnny Burke
Gambler Arnold Rothstein marries an actress, avenges his buddy and meets an underworld fate.

Officer Thirteen

Officer Thirteen
5.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 15/12/1932
  • Character: Buddy Malone
A motorcycle policeman's partner is deliberately run off the road and killed by a member of a syndicate that controls the gambling--and much of the justice system--in his town. When the killer is freed because of perjured testimony and the corrupt legal system, the dead officer's partner quits the force and vows to bring the killer to justice.

Lord Jeff

Lord Jeff
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 17/06/1938
  • Character: Terry O'Mulvaney
Spoiled child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and steal jewelry from exclusive shops. During a a caper, Geoffrey is caught and is sentenced to a reformatory where young men are trained to be sailors. He is befriended by model in-mate Terry O'Mulvaney but soon starts to get them both in trouble.

The Strip

The Strip
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/08/1951
  • Character: Stanley Maxton
Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of murder.

The Big Chance

The Big Chance
4.8/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 28/08/1933
  • Character: Arthur Wilson
Gangsters try to get a boxer to throw an important fight.

A Slight Case of Larceny

A Slight Case of Larceny
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 05/06/1953
  • Character: Augustus "Geechy" Cheevers
Two nitwits decide to open a gas station. Comedy.

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