The best Ralph Forbes’s crime movies

Ralph Forbes

Ralph Forbes

29/09/1904- 31/03/1951
Today we present the best Ralph Forbes’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 Ralph Forbes’s movies.

Calling Philo Vance

Calling Philo Vance
5.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 03/02/1940
  • Character: Tom McDonald
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.

Adventure in Diamonds

Adventure in Diamonds
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/03/1940
  • Character: Mr. Perrins
A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.

The Mystery of Mr. X

The Mystery of Mr. X
6.9/10
A sophisticated jewel thief tries to prove himself innocent of a string of cop murders.

The Solitaire Man

The Solitaire Man
6.3/10
An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered when Bascom, a gang member, arrives with a stolen necklace, putting their whole gang at risk.

Rescue Squad

Rescue Squad
6.7/10
An independently wealthy collector of objets d'art tries to influence an artist's model away from marrying a notorious scoundrel and to help an Asian importer raise money for a son's surgery by buying a sacred statuette of Buddha, the sale of which the importer believes will curse him; therefore, the importer secretly plans to poison the collector after receiving the cash and keep the statuette in his possession. The titled "rescue squad" appears only briefly in the picture to help firemen rescue two principal characters from a stuck elevator in a building set afire by accident. There are no arsonists in this film.

I'll Name the Murderer

I'll Name the Murderer
5.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 26/01/1936
  • Character: Tommy Tilton
Gossip columnist Tommy Tilton, who excels in slinging nonsense about, is not a timid bluffer when it comes to coaxing out a murderer.

Woman Against the World

Woman Against the World
5.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/09/1937
  • Character: Larry Steele
A young woman marries against her father's will, but the happy life she expected turns into a series of tragedies.

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