The best William B. Davidson’s crime movies

William B. Davidson

William B. Davidson

16/06/1888- 28/09/1947
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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.

Marked Woman

Marked Woman
7.1/10
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.

Invisible Stripes

Invisible Stripes
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 30/12/1939
  • Character: Montgomery (uncredited)
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.

Each Dawn I Die

Each Dawn I Die
7.2/10
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.

Upperworld

Upperworld
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 19/04/1934
  • Character: City Editor (uncredited)
A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the millionaire.

Racket Busters

Racket Busters
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/07/1938
  • Character: Trucking Chairman (uncredited)
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.

Larceny, Inc.

Larceny, Inc.
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 24/04/1942
  • Character: McCarthy
Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers...

Midnight Court

Midnight Court
5.9/10
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.

Special Agent

Special Agent
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 14/09/1935
  • Character: Charlie Young - Carston's Lawyer
Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. An informer squeals on them. Julie is kidnapped by Carston's henchmen as she is about to testify

Circumstantial Evidence

Circumstantial Evidence
5.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 20/04/1945
  • Character: Chairman
A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.

Highway West

Highway West
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 07/08/1941
  • Character: Gorman
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.

Lady Killer

Lady Killer
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 09/12/1933
  • Character: Director Williams
An ex-gangster tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal activities after he accidentally becomes a movie star.

Bordertown

Bordertown
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/01/1935
  • Character: Dr. Carter
An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with his boss's neurotic wife.

Dick Tracy's Dilemma

Dick Tracy's Dilemma
5.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 20/05/1947
  • Character: Peter Premium
Dick Tracy investigates the theft of a fortune of fur coats, a possible insurance swindle and several murders, all linked to a huge thug who wears a hook in place of his right hand.

You and Me

You and Me
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeRomance
  • Release: 01/06/1938
  • Character: N.G. Borton, Attorney-at-Law
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.

Road Gang

Road Gang
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 28/03/1936
  • Character: Attorney General Mardsen
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.

Fog Over Frisco

Fog Over Frisco
6.5/10
Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.

Blonde Alibi

Blonde Alibi
6.3/10
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past.

The Menace

The Menace
6.4/10
A man framed for murder escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence.

Woman Wanted

Woman Wanted
6.5/10
Ann Grey is wrongly convicted of murder. On her way to prison a car accident gives her the opportunity to escape. She is helped by young lawyer Tony Baxter. He hides her from the police, as well as his fiancée, with the help of his butler Peedles. Ann is also wanted by the mobsters who really committed the murder as they think she knows where $250,000 worth of bonds are hidden. When the mobsters find and abduct her, Tony enlists the help of the D.A. and the police to try to get her back.

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