The best Tom Powers’s crime movies

Tom Powers

Tom Powers

07/07/1890- 09/11/1955
We present our ranking of the best Tom Powers’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 Tom Powers.

Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity
8.3/10
A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners in crime plan the perfect murder to collect the insurance, which pays double if the death is accidental.

The Blue Dahlia

The Blue Dahlia
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/04/1946
  • Character: Capt. Hendrickson
Soon after a veteran's return from war his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.

The Last Crooked Mile

The Last Crooked Mile
6.1/10
A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.

Double Jeopardy

Double Jeopardy
6.3/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 23/06/1955
  • Character: Harry Sheldon
Marc Hill is the attorney for Emmet Devrey, a real estate developer with a past, who is being blackmailed by his former partner Sam Baggett. When Sam's unfaithful wife Marge cooks up a scheme with her used car salesman lover Jeff Calder to bilk both Devrey and her alcoholic husband, Sam is killed and Devrey is accused of the crime. Mark is called to prove his employers innocence.

New York Confidential

New York Confidential
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 15/02/1955
  • Character: Dist. Atty. Rossi
Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts.

Scene of the Crime

Scene of the Crime
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 28/07/1949
  • Character: Umpire Menafoe
A cop investigates the shooting of another policeman... that may have been involved in crooked activities.

I, the Jury

I, the Jury
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 14/08/1953
  • Character: Milt Miller
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer in his first film adventure. Originally screened in 3D.

I Love Trouble

I Love Trouble
6.7/10
A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife's mysterious past.

Chicago Deadline

Chicago Deadline
6.3/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 17/10/1949
  • Character: Glenn Howard
On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Ames comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.

The Phantom Speaks

The Phantom Speaks
5.7/10
A reporter learns that an executed killer has taken over a scientist's mind.

Chinatown at Midnight

Chinatown at Midnight
5.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 17/11/1949
  • Character: Captain Howard Brown
A young man who steals valuable Oriental objects for a lady friend who operates an antique shop gets mixed up in a twisted murder plot.

Devil's Canyon

Devil's Canyon
5.4/10
An outlaw woman helps one Arizona convict stop another with a Gatling gun.

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