The best Richard Denning’s crime movies

Richard Denning

Richard Denning

27/03/1914- 11/10/1998
Today we present the best Richard Denning’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 Richard Denning’s movies.

The Glass Key

The Glass Key
7/10
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

Creature with the Atom Brain

Creature with the Atom Brain
5.5/10
Murders, with victims dying from spines broken by brute strength, erupt in the city and the killers, when encountered, walk away unharmed by police bullets which strike them. A police doctor's investigation of the deaths leads to the discovery of an army of dead criminal musclemen restored to life, remotely controlled by a vengeful former crime boss and a former Nazi scientist, from the latter's laboratory hidden in the suburbs.

You and Me

You and Me
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeRomance
  • Release: 01/06/1938
  • Character: Salesman
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.

Queen of the Mob

Queen of the Mob
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 28/06/1940
  • Character: Charlie Webster
Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.

Illegal Traffic

Illegal Traffic
6.2/10
G-Man Charles Bent Martin is sent out to break up a nationwide racket. A transport company is aiding fugitives making a getaway in exchange for the lion's share of their loot. Through an old friend, whom he once barnstormed in an air circus, Martin joins the gang as a pilot. He becomes interested in Carol Butler, a beautiful girl involved with the gang through the activities of her ne'er-do-well father.

Girls in Prison

Girls in Prison
5.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/07/1956
  • Character: Rev. Fulton
An inmate is persuaded to take part in a breakout by cellmates anxious to cash in on loot they believe she has hidden.

Parole Fixer

Parole Fixer
5.9/10
This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving convicts parole from prisons. The point is made when FBI agents Scott Britton'William Henry (I)') and Ross Waring (Lyle Talbot) are assigned to track down "Big Boy" Bradmore (Anthony Quinn, who after getting an undeserved parole, via the efforts of a shyster lawyer, promptly murders an FBI agent.

Quiet Please, Murder

Quiet Please, Murder
6.4/10
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.

Insurance Investigator

Insurance Investigator
6.2/10
When a businessman who has had a double indemnity policy taken out on him dies mysteriously, his insurance company sends an undercover investigator to town to determine exactly what happened.

The Crooked Web

The Crooked Web
6/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 30/11/1955
  • Character: Frank Daniel
Undercover agents investigate a murderer in Chicago.

The Glass Web

The Glass Web
6.6/10
The ice-cold diva Paula ruthlessly exploits the guys she dates. While blackmailing the married Don with a recent one-night-stand, she has a secret affair with Henry, who works as researcher for the weekly authentic TV show "Crime of the Week", which Don writes for. When Henry fails to help her to a role, she insults him deadly... and ends up dead herself. Now Don desperately tries to hide his traces, but Henry sabotages his efforts and suggests he write the unsolved murder case for next week's show...

Assignment Redhead

Assignment Redhead
4.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/10/1956
  • Character: Major Gregory Keen
An American army officer working for British intelligence comes to post-war Berlin to solve a murder. His investigation is compromised when he falls for a nightclub singer, not realising she is an agent of the criminal mastermind he is on the trail of.

Golden Gloves

Golden Gloves
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 02/08/1940
  • Character: Bill Crane
An amateur boxer's (Richard Denning) girlfriend (Jean Cagney) inspires him to face a ring pro entered by a gangster.

Harbor of Missing Men

Harbor of Missing Men
6.4/10
  • Genre: AdventureCrime
  • Release: 26/03/1950
  • Character: Jim 'Brooklyn' Gannon
A smuggler (Richard Denning) hides from hit men with a Greek fisherman (Steven Geray) and his daughter.

King of Chinatown

King of Chinatown
6.2/10
  • Genre: ActionCrimeDrama
  • Release: 17/03/1939
  • Character: Protective Association Henchman
Violene and death stalk the Chinese of a big American city, but one man, Dr. Chang Ling, and his daughter, Dr. Mary Ling, defy the racketeers who are responsible, and, against terrific odds, bring peace to their oppressed neighbors.

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