The best Minor Watson’s crime movies

Minor Watson

Minor Watson

22/12/1889- 28/07/1965
Today we present the best Minor Watson’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 Minor Watson’s movies.

Dead End

Dead End
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 27/08/1937
  • Character: Mr. Griswald
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses paths with Dave, a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city's East Side slums.

The File on Thelma Jordon

The File on Thelma Jordon
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 04/11/1949
  • Character: Judge Calvin H. Blackwell
Cleve Marshall is an assistant district attorney who falls for the shadowy Thelma Jordon. With her sordid past -- and her relationship with thief Tony Laredo kept secret from the married attorney, Jordon seduces the easily swayed Marshall, and uses him to cover up her misdeeds. When Jordon becomes the prime suspect for the murder of her wealthy aunt, she turns to Marshall, who goes to great lengths to clear her name.

Mister 880

Mister 880
7/10
The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has amazingly managed to elude the Secret Service for 20 years.

Christmas Holiday

Christmas Holiday
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 28/06/1944
  • Character: Townsend (uncredited)
Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin marries Southern aristocrat Robert Monette. Unfortunately, Robert has inherited his family's streak of violence and instability, and soon drags Abigail into a life of misery.

The Monster and the Girl

The Monster and the Girl
6/10
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.

The Big Shot

The Big Shot
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 13/06/1942
  • Character: Warden George Booth
Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth conviction will mean a life sentence. Finally, haunted by his past and goaded by his cohorts, he joins in planning an armoured car robbery.

Boy Friend

Boy Friend
6/10
A cop pretends to be a crook in order to catch a gang of outlaws. The bad guys run a night club as a front. The cop's sister helps him by singing there; otherwise, she's busy making love to a military cadet.

Mr. District Attorney

Mr. District Attorney
6.2/10
An assistant prosecutor (Dennis O'Keefe) and his spunky friend (Florence Rice) investigate a suddenly hot case.

Charlie Chan in Paris

Charlie Chan in Paris
7.1/10
Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket. But his agent, apache dancer Nardi is killed before she can tell him much. The case, complicated by a false murder accusation for banker's daughter Yvette, climaxes with a strange journey through the Paris sewers.

The Falcon Out West

The Falcon Out West
6.1/10
When a Texas playboy is murdered in a New York City nightclub the Falcon investigates. When he learns that the victim was slipped rattlesnake venom, the trail leads to Texas, his own kidnapping and near death.

Shadows in the Night

Shadows in the Night
6.3/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 27/07/1944
  • Character: Frederick Gordon
A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion.

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