The best William Royle’s crime movies

William Royle

William Royle

22/03/1887- 09/08/1940
We present our ranking of the best William Royle’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 William Royle.
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Torture Money

Torture Money
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 02/01/1937
  • Character: Chief of Police (uncredited)
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, police go after a fraud operation that stages automobile accidents to collect insurance money.

Tell Your Children

Tell Your Children
3.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 15/06/1938
  • Character: Prosecuting Attorney (uncredited)
High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens. In his story, a drug supplier entices several restless teens, including sister and brother Mary and Jimmy Lane and Mary's boyfriend, Bill, into frequenting a "reefer" house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives and leads to a terrible crime.

Let Us Live

Let Us Live
6.7/10
In Springdale, a small town near New York, taxi driver Brick Tennant and his friend Joe Linden are unjustly accused of a hideous crime and blindly convicted by those who are only interested in feeding the voracious machinery of an inhumane justice system.

Rio

Rio
6.1/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 29/12/1939
  • Character: First Guard (uncredited)
Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to a penal colony off the coast of South America.

The Jury's Secret

The Jury's Secret
6.4/10
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.

Code of the Streets

Code of the Streets
5.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 13/04/1939
  • Character: Club Manager Bert
Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor (Harris Berger), Murph (Hally Chester), Monk (Charles Duncan), Trouble (Billy Benedict) and Yap (David Gorcey). The son of disgraced police officer Lt. Lewis (Harry Carey), Bob vows to clear his dad's name, and also to prove that accused murderer Tommy Shay (Paul Fix) is innocent.

It Can't Last Forever

It Can't Last Forever
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 15/07/1937
  • Character: Assistant District Attorney
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's radio-program future-predicting cons gets out of hand.

Slaves in Bondage

Slaves in Bondage
4.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 24/07/1937
  • Character: Newspaper City Editor
Mary Lou manages to escape abduction by a prostitution ring. She tells the Chief of Detectives they were planning to take her to the Berrywood road house, a well-known den of iniquity. Jim Murray and beautician Belle Harris are using her beauty shop to recruit floozies for their road house circuit. Dona Lee, who works at the beauty salon, is falling in love with young reporter wanna-be Phillip, but Murray gets jealous and makes life rough for him. Meanwhile Dona begins to figure out the racket, but becomes threatened by Murray's unwanted advances.

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