The best Warner Richmond’s crime movies

Warner Richmond

Warner Richmond

11/01/1886- 19/06/1948
We present our ranking of the best Warner Richmond’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 Warner Richmond.

Scarface

Scarface
7.7/10
A murderous thug shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.

Quick Millions

Quick Millions
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 17/04/1931
  • Character: 'Nails' Markey
A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pillar of the community.

Chinatown Squad

Chinatown Squad
6.2/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 31/05/1935
  • Character: Detective
Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.

Hell's Highway

Hell's Highway
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/09/1932
  • Character: Captain Pop-Eye Jackson
A prison-camp convict learns that his younger brother will soon be joining him behind bars.

The Beast of the City

The Beast of the City
6.7/10
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his corrupt brother Ed to watch over Daisy who was associated with Belmonte.

Missing Girls

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.

Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry Finn
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 07/08/1931
  • Character: Pap Finn
A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home while Huck Finn, chafing under "civilizing" influences like school and shoes, plans to run away. His scapegrace, abusive father intervenes; Tom and black Jim help him escape; and (departing from the novel) all three raft down the Mississippi, where they're joined by two likable rogues and meet pretty orphans Ella and Mary Jane. The latter may change Huck's mind about girls...

Big News

Big News
5.4/10
A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.

Below the Deadline

Below the Deadline
5.5/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 07/06/1936
  • Character: Diamond Dutch
After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a train wreck, he gets plastic surgery and returns to expose the real killers.

Corruption

Corruption
5.6/10
A young lawyer is elected mayor of the city and promises to rid it of the corruption it's famous for. The problem is that most of the corruption he's vowed to eliminate is caused by the crooked political machine that helped elect him.

Chicago

Chicago
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/12/1927
  • Character: Asst. District Attorney
Based on a true crime story, the movie is about a wild jazz-loving and boozing wife Roxie Hart who kills her boyfriend in cold blood after he leaves her, and how she finagles her way out being convicted. Remade once as a movie, and as a Broadway musical.

Night Court

Night Court
6.9/10
A corrupt night court judge tears an innocent young family apart in his efforts to elude a special prosecutor.

The Gold Racket

The Gold Racket
5.5/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 10/04/1937
  • Character: Doc Johnson
At the request of the Mexican government, a federal agent and a lady reporter team up to catch a gang that has been smuggling gold from Mexico to the U.S. and then selling it to the U.S. government.

Finger Prints

Finger Prints
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 08/01/1927
  • Character: Andy 'Annie Laurie' Norton
A gang of inept crooks and even more inept lawmen search for a cache of hidden money.

The Redeeming Sin

The Redeeming Sin
The Redeeming Sin (1929) is a crime drama part-talking silent film with Vitaphone music and sound effects. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and stars Dolores Costello. This film is currently a lost film.

The Headline Woman

The Headline Woman
5.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 14/05/1935
  • Character: Henchman Bradley
When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first hoping to get an exclusive story, the reporter eventually finds himself falling in love and trying to find the real killer.

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