The best Norman Willis’s crime movies

Norman Willis

Norman Willis

27/05/1903- 27/01/1988
Today we present the best Norman Willis’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 Norman Willis’s movies.
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Marked Woman

Marked Woman
7.1/10
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.

They Drive by Night

They Drive by Night
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 26/07/1940
  • Character: Neves, Mike's Assistant (uncredited)
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.

The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties
7.9/10
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

Torture Money

Torture Money
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 02/01/1937
  • Character: Henchman Doc (uncredited)
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, police go after a fraud operation that stages automobile accidents to collect insurance money.

Midnight Taxi

Midnight Taxi
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 04/04/1937
  • Character: Jefferson
A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.

Bullets or Ballots

Bullets or Ballots
7/10
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.

Racket Busters

Racket Busters
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/07/1938
  • Character: Gus Hawkins
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.

Tell No Tales

Tell No Tales
6.5/10
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.

Johnny Apollo

Johnny Apollo
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaRomance
  • Release: 19/04/1940
  • Character: Plainclothesman (uncredited)
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.

Homicide Bureau

Homicide Bureau
5.6/10
After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Bureau to clean up all their cases, but without violating the constitutional rights of any suspect. Detective Jim Logan is ordered to meet the incoming new-head of the Police Department lab and internal affairs, J.G. Bliss, and takes an instant dislike to her over her attitude toward criminal's rights.

You, the People

You, the People
6.4/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 30/11/1940
  • Character: Henchman
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his crime "machine" to fraudulently win reelection for the current corrupt mayor. By using several illegal tactics, and aided by voter apathy, the crime boss nearly continues his control of the city.

Blackwell's Island

Blackwell's Island
6/10
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.

Convict's Code

Convict's Code
5.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 18/01/1939
  • Character: Joe Russell
On parole after three years in prison, a football player (Robert Kent) encounters the man (Sidney Blackmer) who framed him.

Men In Exile

Men In Exile
5.6/10
An ex-con takes flight after he's framed for a jewelry store robbery and murder.

I Was Framed

I Was Framed
5.4/10
A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.

Apology for Murder

Apology for Murder
5.7/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 27/09/1945
  • Character: Allen Webb
Head over heels in love with a stern and cold older businessman's young wife, a reporter is seduced into conspiring to murder him so she can inherit his estate, while pinning the murder on another businessman.

Alibi for Murder

Alibi for Murder
6/10
A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them do the detecting. This proves impossible when a famed scientist is murdered in Perry’s studio, right in the middle of the interview. All evidence points to Perry, and he sets out to clear his name before the Shadow-like villain roaming the hallways of the radio station gets away with murder.

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