The best Richard Dix’s crime movies

Richard Dix

Richard Dix

18/07/1893- 20/09/1949
Today we present the best Richard Dix’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 Dix’s movies.

Hell's Highway

Hell's Highway
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/09/1932
  • Character: Frank 'Duke' Ellis
A prison-camp convict learns that his younger brother will soon be joining him behind bars.

The Power of the Whistler

The Power of the Whistler
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 19/04/1945
  • Character: William Everest
A woman uses a deck of cards to predict death within 24 hours for a stranger sitting at a bar, then tries to help him remember who he is based on items in his pockets.

Blind Alibi

Blind Alibi
5.5/10
A Paris sculptor (Richard Dix) fakes blindness in Los Angeles to recover his blackmailed sister's love letters.

Special Investigator

Special Investigator
6/10
A lawyer changes from defending public enemies to bringing them to justice after his brother is killed.

Mysterious Intruder

Mysterious Intruder
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 11/04/1946
  • Character: Don Gale
Don Gale is a detective hired by Edward Stillwell to find a girl, Elora Lund. Edward doesn't tell him why he wants to find Elora. After a series of events, Gale gets arrested for a thief's murder.

Twelve Crowded Hours

Twelve Crowded Hours
5.5/10
An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.

Secret of the Whistler

Secret of the Whistler
6.3/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 07/11/1946
  • Character: Ralph Harrison
The Whistler, mysterious narrator of the radio series of the same name, "knows many things" for he "walks by night." This time the unseen whistler knows all about mentally disturbed artist Richard Dix, whose first wife died under mysterious circumstances. Wife Number Two (Leslie Brooks) begins to suspect that Dix's earlier spouse may have been murdered, and that the artist was the killer.

The Public Defender

The Public Defender
6.4/10
A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.

The Thirteenth Hour

The Thirteenth Hour
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 06/02/1947
  • Character: Steve Reynolds
In this drama, a trucker's business is nearly destroyed after he is wrongfully accused of killing a policeman with whom he recently quarreled.

Fools First

Fools First
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 27/05/1922
  • Character: Tommy Frazer
Tommy Frazer is one of a gang of crooks lead by "Tony the Wop". Frazer gets caught and is sent up the river for three years on a forgery rap. When he gets out of prison, he finds his girl, Ann Whittaker, waiting for him -- and she's got a scheme. She is working in a bank and wants to pull an inside heist.

Young Donovan's Kid

Young Donovan's Kid
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 06/06/1931
  • Character: Jim Donovan
A crusader tries to keep a dope dealer from corrupting children.

Quicksands

Quicksands
5.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 28/02/1923
  • Character: Lt. Bill
Stationed at the Mexican border, a young lieutenant whose job is to capture a ring of narcotics smugglers, spies his sweetheart, the daughter of a U. S. Customs official, in a cantina suspected of being the headquarters of the dope ring.

Easy Come, Easy Go

Easy Come, Easy Go
5.7/10
Dix plays radio announcer Robert Parker, working at a station run by his girlfriend's father. Becoming a bit overexcited on the air, our hero lets slip a few (fortuitously unheard) profanities. Fired from his job, Parker enters into an amusing series of misadventures with veteran bank robber Jim Bailey (Charles Sellon).

Eyes of the Underworld

Eyes of the Underworld
6/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 02/10/1942
  • Character: Police Chief Richard Bryan
Blackmail and murder in a tale of an auto-theft ring.

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