The best Russell Napier’s crime movies

Russell Napier

Russell Napier

28/11/1910- 19/08/1974
Today we present the best Russell Napier’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 Russell Napier’s movies.

Hell Is a City

Hell Is a City
7/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 10/04/1960
  • Character: Superintendent
Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England's most wanted man. Ruthless villain Starling together with his cronies engineered a robbery that resulted in the violent death of a young girl. Detective Inspector Martineau has been assigned to hunt him down and bring him in. From seedy barrooms, through gambling dens the trail leads to an explosive climax high on the rooftops of the city.

Stolen Face

Stolen Face
6/10
A doctor changes a woman's face to match the one that broke his heart. Trouble starts when his love returns.

36 Hours

36 Hours
5.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 04/12/1953
  • Character: Detective at Ann's Apartment (Uncredited)
When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely concerned about her welfare. He returns home but is only able to meet with her briefly before she is found murdered. Dan is the obvious suspect but has only 36 hours to find out who murdered her. In so doing he uncovers a shocking catalogue of his wife's past affairs and an identity that he knew nothing about.

The Brain Machine

The Brain Machine
5.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 01/01/1955
  • Character: Insp. Durham
A British psychiatrist (Elizabeth Allan) reads an amnesiac's (Maxwell Reed) brain waves and sees the mind of a killer.

Tread Softly Stranger

Tread Softly Stranger
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/08/1958
  • Character: Potter
Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.

The Last Man to Hang

The Last Man to Hang
5.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/08/1956
  • Character: Detective Sgt. Bolton
A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.

The Narrowing Circle

The Narrowing Circle
5.4/10
A journalist is framed for the murder of a rival and has to prove his innocence, whatever the cost.

The Man in the Road

The Man in the Road
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 01/03/1956
  • Character: Scotland Yard Supt. Davidson
A brilliant scientist who has lost his memory is hunted by Communist agents out to obtain a secret formula.

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