The best Thomas Mitchell’s crime movies

Thomas Mitchell

Thomas Mitchell

11/07/1892- 17/12/1962
We present our ranking of the best Thomas Mitchell’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Thomas Mitchell.

While the City Sleeps

While the City Sleeps
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 19/04/1956
  • Character: John Day Griffith (Sentinel managing editor)
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer"

Out of the Fog

Out of the Fog
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 14/06/1941
  • Character: Jonah Goodwin
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.

Adventure in Manhattan

Adventure in Manhattan
6.5/10
Fun little film about an egotistical crime writer who gets involved with the case of a notorious art thief (who is believed to be dead) while at the same time romancing a lovely young actress who's in a play that also happens to be the cover for massive jewel job. Art connoisseur and criminologist George Melville (Joel McCrea) is hired to track down art thieves, assisted by perky Claire Peyton (Jean Arthur) and goaded by Phil Bane (Thomas Mitchell), the roaring newspaper editor who has employed him. The mastermind poses as a theatrical impresario and stages a war drama, replete with loud explosions, to divert attention from his band of thieves, who are cracking safes in a bank adjacent to the theater.

I Promise to Pay

I Promise to Pay
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 21/04/1937
  • Character: District Attorney J.E. Curtis
A man goes to a loan shark to finance his family's vacation.

Angels Over Broadway

Angels Over Broadway
6.5/10
Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-spending wife. Deciding on suicide, he scribbles a note, stuffs it in his pocket and goes for one last night on the town. He is pulled into a poker game by conman Bill O'Brien and singer Nina Barone, but when they discover the dropped note, they resolve to turn the tables, get Engle his $3,000 and save his life.

Flight from Destiny

Flight from Destiny
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/02/1941
  • Character: Prof. Henry Todhunter
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.

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