The best Peter Brocco’s crime movies

Peter Brocco

Peter Brocco

16/01/1903- 20/12/1992
Today we present the best Peter Brocco’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 Peter Brocco’s movies.

Throw Momma From the Train

Throw Momma From the Train
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 11/12/1987
  • Character: Old Man
Larry Donner, an author with a cruel ex-wife, teaches a writing workshop in which one of his students, Owen, is fed up with his domineering mother. When Owen watches a Hitchcock classic that seems to mirror his own life, he decides to put the movie's plot into action and offers to kill Larry's ex-wife, if Larry promises to murder his mom. Before Larry gets a chance to react to the plan, it seems that Owen has already set things in motion.

The Breaking Point

The Breaking Point
7.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 06/10/1950
  • Character: Macho (uncredited)
A fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals.

The Narrow Margin

The Narrow Margin
7.6/10
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a tense train ride.

House by the River

House by the River
7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 25/03/1950
  • Character: Harry - coroner chairing inquest
Louis Hayward stars as a wealthy man who tries to seduce the family maid. She resists, and he kills her. Long jealous of his brother Lee Bowman, Hayward does his best to pin the blame for the murder on his sibling. Also affected by Hayward's arrogant dementia is his long-suffering wife Jane Wyatt. Originally, director Lang had proposed that the unfortunate maid be a black woman, but was over ruled

Fuzz

Fuzz
5.4/10
Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.

Roadblock

Roadblock
6.6/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 17/09/1951
  • Character: Bank Heist Man (uncredited)
An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.

Underworld U.S.A.

Underworld U.S.A.
7.3/10
A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.

Hollywood Story

Hollywood Story
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/06/1951
  • Character: Charles Rodale (uncredited)
A producer takes over a small film studio and - sensing that it'll be a good movie- begins investigating an old murder of a silent film star shot in his office years ago. He finds that his life is threatened as he digs deeper into the mystery.

Rogue Cop

Rogue Cop
6.6/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 17/09/1954
  • Character: George 'Wrinkles' Fallon
A police detective on the take tries to catch his brother's killer.

The Whip Hand

The Whip Hand
6/10
A small-town reporter investigates a mysterious group holed up in a country lodge.

Flaming Fury

Flaming Fury
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 28/07/1949
  • Character: E. V. Wessman
A Los Angeles fire captain (Roy Roberts) sends an arson-squad rookie (George Cooper) undercover.

Woman in the Dark

Woman in the Dark
6.2/10
A pastry-shop girl (Penny Edwards) sees a priest's (Ross Elliott) and a lawyer's (Rick Vallin) brother take part in a jewel heist.

Duffy of San Quentin

Duffy of San Quentin
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/03/1954
  • Character: Nealy
San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse.

Alias Mr. Twilight

Alias Mr. Twilight
5.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 24/12/1946
  • Character: Brick Robey
Geoffrey Holden (Lloyd Corrigan) is an elderly con-man who is a lovable old man when providing his beloved granddaughter (Gigi Perreau) with the simple luxuries of life, yet has no qualms when working a racket devised to relieve his victims of their property. Trudy Marshall is the governess of the granddaughter, and is in love with a detective (Michael Duane) who is about to expose the old man's unsuspected activities.

Post Office Investigator

Post Office Investigator
5.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/09/1949
  • Character: Bruno Antista
A mailman (Warren Douglas) leads PO-men to a pistol-packing stamp thief (Audrey Long) and her gang.

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