The best Ralph Peters’s crime movies

Ralph Peters

Ralph Peters

03/08/1902- 12/04/1959
Today we present the best Ralph Peters’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 Peters’s movies.
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While the City Sleeps

While the City Sleeps
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 19/04/1956
  • Character: Gerald Meade (Sentinel crime reporter)
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer"

The Racket

The Racket
6.7/10
Mobster Nick Scanlon has managed to buy several of the local government and law-enforcement officials. However, he can't seem to touch the incorruptible police captain Tom McQuigg, who refuses all attempts at bribery. Prosecuting attorney, Welch, and a police detective, Turck, are crooked and make McQuigg's job as an honest officer nearly impossible.

Experiment Alcatraz

Experiment Alcatraz
5.6/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 21/11/1950
  • Character: Bartender
A doctor testing drugs on convicts gets mixed up in a murder investigation.

Sky Liner

Sky Liner
5.3/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 28/07/1949
  • Character: Passenger in First Row (Extra)
Travellers board a flight, unaware that other passengers might be spies and counterspies, complete with secret documents, poison and elaborate plans to engage in international espionage!

Chicago Deadline

Chicago Deadline
6.3/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 17/10/1949
  • Character: Taxi Driver (Uncredited)
On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Ames comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.

Cafe Hostess

Cafe Hostess
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 11/01/1940
  • Character: Cab Driver
A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.

Lucky Jordan

Lucky Jordan
6.4/10
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.

Black Magic

Black Magic
6.3/10
Chinese detective Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) solves a murder linked to the occult. This movie had an alternative title: Meeting at Midnight.

Junior G-Men

Junior G-Men
6.5/10
A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor of a super-explosive and its remote detonator, from the clutches of a band of foreign subversives call the "Flaming Torch Gang". A 12-episode movie serial with the chapters: •1. Enemies Within •2. The Blast of Doom •3. Human Dynamite •4. Blazing Danger •5. Trapped By Traitors •6. Traitors' Treachery •7. Flaming Death •8. Hurled Through Space •9. The Plunge of Peril •10.The Toll of Treason •11.Descending Doom •12.The Power of Patriotism

Nobody Lives Forever

Nobody Lives Forever
7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/11/1946
  • Character: Windy Mather
A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece.

Find the Blackmailer

Find the Blackmailer
6/10
A private eye is hired by a mayoral candidate to prevent any sort of adverse publicity. It seems that, somewhere in town, there's a talking blackbird who insists upon saying that the candidate will commit a murder. When the killing occurs, the candidate is implicated, and the detective is off on a hectic pursuit of the incriminating crow and the actual murderer.

Murder, He Says

Murder, He Says
6.9/10
Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opinion surveyor who went there goes missing. Visiting the hillbilly family of Mamie Fleagle, Pete begins to suspect that she and her two sons have murdered the surveyor. Pete then believes that Mamie is slowly poisoning wealthy Grandma Fleagle, who has put a vital clue to her fortune in a nonsensical embroidered sampler.

The Lone Wolf Strikes

The Lone Wolf Strikes
6.4/10
Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf.

Mandrake the Magician

Mandrake the Magician
6.3/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 06/05/1939
  • Character: Mohawk Steward-Henchman
Mandrake and his team attempt to prevent "The Wasp" from stealing and using a new Radium invention.

Convicted Woman

Convicted Woman
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 31/01/1940
  • Character: Truck Driver (uncredited)
A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.

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