The best Sidney Blackmer’s crime movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Sidney Blackmer’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Sidney Blackmer.
Little Caesar
7.2/10
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
6.9/10
A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.
It's a Wonderful World
6.8/10
Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by the police, tried, convicted and sentenced to jail: Guy for a year with Willie to be executed. On the way to jail, Guy comes across a clue and escapes from the police.
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.
Woman Trap
6.2/10
A gangland murder is the motivating factor of this fast-moving crime drama. George Murphy stars as reporter Kent Shevlin, whose investigation of the murder leads to a tenure as a temporary FBI agent.
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
6.7/10
Although Charlie and Lee are in Monaco for an art exhibit, they become caught up in a feud between rival financiers which involves the Chan's in a web of blackmail and murder.
Within the Law
6.4/10
A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.
Missing Girls
5/10
A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by the redoubtable Phil Rosen.
Nazi Agent
6.8/10
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo Von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage. But when Becker's friend Professor Sterling turns up dead, Becker accidentally shoots his brother and assumes his identity.
Thank You, Mr. Moto
6.9/10
Mr. Moto Heads to China on a quest for seven ancient scrolls that reveal the location of Genghis Khan's tomb—a crypt filled with fabulous treasure! But Moto isn't the only one stalking the scrolls—so is a shadowy band of thieves. But when his ruthless rivals go too far, the mild-mannered detective's quest for antiquities becomes a passion for vengeance—because if he can't bring these villains to justice... he'll bring them to their knees.
The Last Gangster
6.7/10
A crime boss goes searching for his ex-wife and son after a ten-year prison stint. His old gang has other plans though, and use the child to try and make him disclose the location of the loot he hid before going to the slammer.
Convict's Code
5.4/10
On parole after three years in prison, a football player (Robert Kent) encounters the man (Sidney Blackmer) who framed him.
This Is My Affair
6.6/10
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
The President Vanishes
6.1/10
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman and produced by Walter Wanger. Starring Edward Arnold and Arthur Byron, the film is an adaptation of Rex Stout's political novel of the same name.
Speed to Burn
7.2/10
Horse racing provides the framework of this crime drama that centers on an orphan who has been raising a promising horse.
