The best William Demarest’s crime movies

William Demarest

William Demarest

27/02/1892- 28/12/1983
Today we present the best William Demarest’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best William Demarest’s movies.
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
7.5/10
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.

That Darn Cat!

That Darn Cat!
6.7/10
A young woman suspects foul play when her cat comes home wearing a wrist watch. Convincing the FBI, though, and catching the bad guys is tougher than she imagined.

Behave Yourself!

Behave Yourself!
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 22/09/1951
  • Character: O'Ryan
A young man takes in a dog that turns out to be wanted by mobsters.

Dangerous Blondes

Dangerous Blondes
6.6/10
Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance when killings plague the fashion photography studio of Ralph McCormick (Edmund Lowe). After his secretary, Julie Taylor(Anita Louise) reports an attempt to murder her there, Erika McCormick's (Ann Savage) Aunt Isabel Fleming (Mary Forbes) is stabbed and the evidence points to Madge Lawrence (Bess Flowers) an older model and an apparent suicide. Police Inspector Joseph Clinton (Frank Craven) declares the case closed...but then Erika is murdered.

The Strip

The Strip
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/08/1951
  • Character: Fluff
Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of murder.

King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein

King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
5.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 11/06/1961
  • Character: Henry Hecht
Gambler Arnold Rothstein marries an actress, avenges his buddy and meets an underworld fate.

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.

Miracles for Sale

Miracles for Sale
6.2/10
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.

The Golden Fleecing

The Golden Fleecing
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 16/08/1940
  • Character: Swallow
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

Josette

Josette
6/10
Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love.

Charlie Chan at the Opera

Charlie Chan at the Opera
7.1/10
A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago.

All Through the Night

All Through the Night
7.1/10
Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.

Twenty Plus Two

Twenty Plus Two
6.1/10
A famous movie star's fan club secretary has been brutally murdered. She has in her office old newspaper clippings regarding a missing heiress. Did the secretary know something about the mystery of the heiress? David Janssen investigates.

The Murder Man

The Murder Man
6.8/10
Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business partner, Grey is one step ahead of the police to the extent that he often dictates his story in advance of its actual occurrence. He leads the police through an 'open and shut' case resulting in Mander being tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Columnist Mary Shannon is in love with Steve but she sees him struggle greatly with his last story before Mander's execution. When she starts typing out the story from his recorded dictation, she realizes why.

After Office Hours

After Office Hours
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaRomance
  • Release: 22/02/1935
  • Character: Police Detective (uncredited)
Hard-hitting news editor Jim Branch falls for high-society type Sharon Norwood but can't get to first base as he continually makes use of her knowledge of the rich and famous to try to solve the murder of one of her socialite acquaintences. Written by Doug Sederberg

Red, Hot and Blue

Red, Hot and Blue
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeMusic
  • Release: 05/09/1949
  • Character: Charlie Baxter, Press Agent
A Broadway director (Victor Mature) rescues a starlet (Betty Hutton) from mobsters who blame her for a shooting.

White Lies

White Lies
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 27/12/1935
  • Character: Roberts
Crime drama starring Fay Wray

Hell on Frisco Bay

Hell on Frisco Bay
6.4/10
A cop framed for a murder he did not commit hunts the San Francisco waterfront for the Mob racketeers who are responsible.

One Wild Night

One Wild Night
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 02/06/1938
  • Character: Collins
Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money from the local bank in Stockton, Ohio.

Finger Prints

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

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