The best Oscar O'Shea’s crime movies

Oscar O'Shea

Oscar O'Shea

08/10/1881- 06/04/1960
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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.

Wildcat Bus

Wildcat Bus
5.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/08/1940
  • Character: Charles Dawson
A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.

International Crime

International Crime
5.4/10
The second and final Grand National Pictures film to feature The Shadow, played again by Rod La Rocque. In this version, Lamont Cranston is an amateur detective and host of a radio show with his assistant Phoebe (not Margo) Lane. Cabbie Moe Shrevnitz and Commissioner Weston also appear.

Stranger on the Third Floor

Stranger on the Third Floor
6.8/10
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.

Undercover Agent

Undercover Agent
5.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 19/04/1939
  • Character: Pat Murphy
A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.

Racket Busters

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

City Without Men

City Without Men
5.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 14/01/1943
  • Character: Joseph Barton
A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she moves into a boardinghouse near the prison whose residents are the wives of inmates.

Sleepers West

Sleepers West
6.6/10
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.

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.

Missing Evidence

Missing Evidence
6.3/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 15/12/1939
  • Character: John C. 'Pop' Andrews
G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself upon the honest citizenry of the US. The crooks have flooded the market with counterfeit lottery tickets, reducing many an unwary speculator to poverty.

The Tell-Tale Heart

The Tell-Tale Heart
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeHorror
  • Release: 25/10/1941
  • Character: First Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
In this classic Edgar Allan Poe story, a man commits a murder, but afterward the victim's beating heart torments the murderer's mind.

I Was Framed

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

The Mystery of the Riverboat

The Mystery of the Riverboat
6.8/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 24/10/1944
  • Character: Capt. Ethan Perrin
A movie serial in 13 chapters: Some swampland becomes valuable, and various factions squabble over ownership of it.

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