The best Shirley Ross’s crime movies

Shirley Ross

Shirley Ross

07/01/1913- 09/03/1975
Today we present the best Shirley Ross’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 Shirley Ross’s movies.

Manhattan Melodrama

Manhattan Melodrama
7.1/10
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

Prison Farm

Prison Farm
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 17/06/1938
  • Character: Jean Forest
Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to six months on a prison farm populated by both men and women (segregated, of course). Ross is also incarcerated, suffering the cruelties of the sadistic male and female guards (including J. Carroll Naish and future "Ma Kettle" Marjorie Main!)

Buried Loot

Buried Loot
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 19/01/1935
  • Character: Girl in Apartment (uncredited)
An embezzler who expects to serve his time in prison and then pick up his buried loot is in for a surprise.

Dangerous to Know

Dangerous to Know
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 11/03/1938
  • Character: Herself / Singer on Recording (voice)
Racketeer Steve Recka (Akim Tamiroff), art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying (Anna May Wong), his beautiful Oriental friend and hostess (read:mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret Van Kase (Gail Patrick), a socialite not impressed by his power nor his wealth, having no money herself, and Steve makes frantic efforts to win her and turns away from the loyal Lin Yang.

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