The best Stephen Chase’s crime movies

Stephen Chase

Stephen Chase

11/04/1902- 01/04/1982
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Stephen Chase’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 Stephen Chase.

Buried Alive

Buried Alive
4.6/10
A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed for murder of guard.

Paper Bullets

Paper Bullets
5.4/10
Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local crime organization.

Appointment with a Shadow

Appointment with a Shadow
6.5/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 01/09/1957
  • Character: Sam Crews
George Nader plays a reporter whose career is ruined by liquor. A comeback opportunity presents itself when Nader is a bystander at the arrest of a well-known criminal.

Outside the Wall

Outside the Wall
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/02/1950
  • Character: Bartender
Larry Nelson, paroled from prison after serving nearly half of his thirty-year sentence, is determined to not fall into the clutches of the law again, and takes a quiet job at a country sanitarium. Thete, he meets and falls for a nurse, Charlotte Maynard, and he knows the only way to enter her web is to have a lot of money, for Miss Maynard is somewhat of a gold-digger.

Flight from Destiny

Flight from Destiny
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/02/1941
  • Character: Walter Sender
After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes nothing but harm to society. When Henry learns that his friend Betty's husband, Michael, has been painting forgeries of ancient paintings for gallery owner Ketti Moret, he investigates the fraudulent dealer's life. Judging that Ketti is truly evil, Henry prepares to murder her.

Forty Naughty Girls

Forty Naughty Girls
6/10
Hildegarde Withers (ZaSu Pitts) and Inspector Piper (James Gleason) try to solve a murder while attending the opening-night performance of a Broadway show. Comedy-mystery.

Tarnished

Tarnished
6.2/10
Bud Dolliver, a former WWII hero, and an ex-convict, returns to his home town in an effort to make a new life for himself but, even with the help of Lou Jellison, a cannery worker, he finds it hard to live down his reputation.

The Spider Returns

The Spider Returns
6.3/10
The evil and masked "Gargoyle" is sabotaging all of America's industrial plants. It is up to the Spider to save the country.

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