Search results for "Edward G. Robinson"
Black Tuesday

Black Tuesday

Black Tuesday
IMDb: 6.6
80

Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning – a bank robber and cop killer…

Genre: Crime
Nightmare

Nightmare

Nightmare
IMDb: 6.4
89

Clarinetist Stan has a nightmare about killing a man in a mirrored room. But when he wakes up and finds blood marks on himself and a key from the dream,…

Genre: Crime
Flesh and Fantasy

Flesh and Fantasy

Flesh and Fantasy
IMDb: 6.9
93

Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The second involves a psychic who predicts murder. The third…

The Man with Two Faces

The Man with Two Faces

The Man with Two Faces
IMDb: 6.4
73

Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Vance is around. When Vance takes her to the apartment of a…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Silver Dollar

Silver Dollar

Silver Dollar
IMDb: 6.3
83

A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.

Genre: Drama
The Hole in the Wall

The Hole in the Wall

The Hole in the Wall
IMDb: 5.7
63

Mrs. Ramsey sent Jean Oliver to prison on a false charge. To get even, Jean (disguised as Madame Mystera) plans to kidnap her daughter and turn her into a thief….

Genre: Drama, Mystery
Illegal

Illegal

Illegal
IMDb: 7
88

A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair — only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Tampico

Tampico

Tampico
IMDb: 6.4
75

Robinson plays the role of the captain of an oil tanker during World War II, Captain Bart Manson, who rescues Katherine Hall (Bari) when her ship is sunk by a…

Genre: Drama, War
A Dispatch from Reuters

A Dispatch from Reuters

A Dispatch from Reuters
IMDb: 6.9
90

German Julius Reuter (Edward G. Robinson) sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.

Genre: Drama, History
Barbary Coast

Barbary Coast

Barbary Coast
IMDb: 6.8
91

Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Luis Chamalis’ Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco…

Genre: Action, Romance
Manpower

Manpower

Manpower
IMDb: 6.7
104

Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the…

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Hatchet Man

The Hatchet Man

The Hatchet Man
IMDb: 6.3
74

When he’s forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man’s daughter.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Destroyer

Destroyer

Destroyer
IMDb: 6.4
99

Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is…

Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Actors and Sin

Actors and Sin

Actors and Sin
IMDb: 5.3
82

Two-part story–the first is about a washed-up Broadway actor and his tough daughter, who is a bigger star than he is; the second is about a literary agent whose newest…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Grand Slam

Grand Slam

Grand Slam
IMDb: 6.9
121

Professor James Anders is a seemingly mild-mannered teacher, an American working in Rio De Janeiro. Anders, bored with years of teaching, decides to put together a team to pull off…

Genre: Crime, Thriller
I Am the Law

I Am the Law

I Am the Law
IMDb: 6.7
83

With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Thunder in the City

Thunder in the City

Thunder in the City
IMDb: 6.2
87

A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Confessions of a Nazi Spy

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

Confessions of a Nazi Spy
IMDb: 6.8
104

FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.

Genre: Drama, War
Kid Galahad

Kid Galahad

Kid Galahad
IMDb: 7.2
102

Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the ‘kid’ falls for his sister.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Two Seconds

Two Seconds

Two Seconds
IMDb: 6.9
67

A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in flashback, we witness a…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Smart Money

Smart Money

Smart Money
IMDb: 6.8
81

Two brothers’ trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Five Star Final

Five Star Final

Five Star Final
IMDb: 7.3
89

An unscrupulous newspaper editor searches for headlines at any cost.

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Little Giant

The Little Giant

The Little Giant
IMDb: 7.1
76

Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from…

Soylent Green

Soylent Green

Soylent Green
IMDb: 7.1
97

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…

Song of Norway

Song of Norway

Song of Norway
IMDb: 4.1
138

Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg and his attempts to develop an authentic Norwegian national music. It stars…

Genre: Drama, Music
The Prize

The Prize

The Prize
IMDb: 6.8
134

For some reason, this year’s Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the young author Andrew Craig, who seems to be more interested in women and drinking than writing….

The Cincinnati Kid

The Cincinnati Kid

The Cincinnati Kid
IMDb: 7.3
102

An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.

Genre: Drama
Seven Thieves

Seven Thieves

Seven Thieves
IMDb: 6.5
102

A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief decide to join together and pick a team to pull off one last job–the casino vault in Monte Carlo.

Hell on Frisco Bay

Hell on Frisco Bay

Hell on Frisco Bay
IMDb: 6.4
98

A cop framed for a murder he did not commit hunts the San Francisco waterfront for the Mob racketeers who are responsible.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Violent Men

The Violent Men

The Violent Men
IMDb: 7
96

A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but the low price offered by Anchor’s crippled owner and the outfit’s…

Genre: Western
The Woman in the Window

The Woman in the Window

The Woman in the Window
IMDb: 7.7
99

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity
IMDb: 8.3
107

A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners…

The Stranger

The Stranger

The Stranger
IMDb: 7.4
96

A man working for the War Crimes Commission suspects that an important Nazi official has folded himself into a quaint Connecticut town.

The Red House

The Red House

The Red House
IMDb: 6.8
100

An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.

Key Largo

Key Largo

Key Largo
IMDb: 7.8
100

A hurricane swells outside, but it’s nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up – and holds at gunpoint hotel…

House of Strangers

House of Strangers

House of Strangers
IMDb: 7.4
101

Gino Monetti is a ruthless Italian-American banker who engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons, refuse to help their father stay out of prison…

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Sea Wolf

The Sea Wolf

The Sea Wolf
IMDb: 7.5
100

Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who’s losing his mind.

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Little Caesar

Little Caesar

Little Caesar
IMDb: 7.2
79

A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?

Mr. Winkle Goes to War

Mr. Winkle Goes to War

Mr. Winkle Goes to War
IMDb: 6.7
80

Wilbert Winkle, a henpecked, mild-mannered, middle-aged bank clerk and handyman finds himself in the midst of battle in the South Pacific.

Genre: Comedy, War
Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet

Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet

Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet
IMDb: 7.4
103

True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.

Genre: Drama