The best Whit Bissell’s crime movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Whit Bissell’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 Whit Bissell.
Soylent Green
7/10
In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret involving the origins of a revolutionary and needed new foodstuff.
Brute Force
7.6/10
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?
The Defiant Ones
7.6/10
Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.
Birdman of Alcatraz
7.8/10
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.
The Desperate Hours
7.5/10
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.
Tokyo Joe
6.3/10
Joe Barrett returns to Tokyo after World War II where he once owned a bar, Tokyo Joe's, and deserted his wife Trina. They have a seven-year-old daughter. Kimura forces Joe into piloting war criminals by revealing that during the war Trina made treasonous propaganda broadcasts.
A Double Life
7/10
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.
Raw Deal
7.2/10
A revenge-seeking gangster is sent to prison after being framed for a crime he didn't commit. After seducing a beautiful young woman, he uses her to help him carry out his plot for vengeance, leading him to the crazy pyromaniac who set him up.
He Walked by Night
7/10
This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.
Convicted
6.8/10
A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.
Riot in Cell Block 11
7/10
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.
The Sellout
6.6/10
A small-town newspaper editor risks everything to expose a corrupt sheriff.
Somewhere in the Night
7/10
George Taylor returns from the WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, he tries to track down his old identity, stumbling into a 3-year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million.
Side Street
7.1/10
A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money from the office of a corrupt attorney. Instead of a few hundred dollars it contains $30,000 and when he decides to return the money things go wrong and that is only the beginning of his troubles.
The Family Secret
6.2/10
When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder.
Cry Rape
6/10
A man who is arrested for rape swears it wasn't him but somebody who looks just like him, but the victim insists it was him.
Hoodlum Empire
6/10
It's a deadly play for power when a Mafia chieftain's top gun goes straight and threatens to testify against the big boss and his cruel, nationwide network of crime. The picture, which was shot in a semi-documentary style, was inspired by the Kefauver investigations of 1950-51.
A Tattered Web
5.6/10
A detective discovers his son-in-law is cheating on his wife. He confronts the other woman and accidentally kills her, then tries to pin the crime on a local derelict.
The Crime Doctor's Diary
6.3/10
A criminal psychologist tries to clear his patient of arson charges.
Shack Out on 101
6.3/10
A greasy spoon diner provides a base for a spy smuggling nuclear secrets.
