The best Oscar Apfel’s crime movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Oscar Apfel’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Oscar Apfel.
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.
Quick Millions
6.3/10
A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pillar of the community.
Bordertown
6.6/10
An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with his boss's neurotic wife.
Five Star Final
7.3/10
An unscrupulous newspaper editor searches for headlines at any cost.
Hell's Highway
6.8/10
A prison-camp convict learns that his younger brother will soon be joining him behind bars.
I Am a Thief
6.2/10
A man dodges jewel thieves while carrying a fortune in diamonds on the Orient Express.
Pick Up
6.7/10
The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison, she tries to put her life back together.
Huckleberry Finn
6.3/10
A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home while Huck Finn, chafing under "civilizing" influences like school and shoes, plans to run away. His scapegrace, abusive father intervenes; Tom and black Jim help him escape; and (departing from the novel) all three raft down the Mississippi, where they're joined by two likable rogues and meet pretty orphans Ella and Mary Jane. The latter may change Huck's mind about girls...
We Who Are About to Die
6.5/10
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
The Story of Temple Drake
7.1/10
The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.
Another Face
5.9/10
The surgeon who did the job was dead. Only the nurse knew what this gangster looked like in his new face. He learned about women from her!
The Menace
6.4/10
A man framed for murder escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence.
Whirlpool
6.6/10
An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists.
The Big Shakedown
6.2/10
Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products.
Bulldog Edition
5.6/10
Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious gangster inserts himself into the middle of it. Also complicating matters is that one newspaper's editor and circulation director are competing for the affections of a pretty blonde reporter.
The Finger Points
5.9/10
Lee is a fresh young kid from the South when he gets a job with The Press. His first assignment on gangsters gets his name in the paper, the police on a raid and Lee in the hospital.
The Calling of Dan Matthews
8/10
Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a man who controls the town with his real estate and business interests. Strong is an upstanding citizen who has fallen into the hands of a clever racketeer, Jeff Hardy (Douglass Dumbrille), who acts as Strong's manager of some innocent-appearing amusement places that are really secret dens of vice.
The Famous Ferguson Case
6.4/10
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglers", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.
Sidewalks of New York
5.6/10
A dim-witted slumlord tries to reform a gang of urban boys (and impress an attractive young woman) by transforming their rough neighborhood into a more decent place.
Tomorrow at Seven
5.6/10
People in an old, dark mansion are menaced by a maniac called "The Black Ace.
