Crime Movies of 1950
Quicksand
Mickey Rooney, with his kid roles and musicals behind him, went for a major change of image in this harrowing film noir. He gives what many consider to be the best performance of his career as Danny Brady, a well-meaning grease monkey ... [ Crime movie - 1950 ]
Night and the City
Jules Dassin's Night and the City opens with cheap grifter Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) running for his life through the streets of London. ... [ Crime movie - 1950 ]
Borderline
This crime melodrama with humorous undertones involves the ... [ Crime movie - 1950 ]
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Based on a novel by Horace McCoy (They Shoot Horses, Don't They), Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye offers James Cagney at his nastiest. The star ... [ Crime movie - 1950 ]
The Damned Don't Cry
A woman's desire to rise above her drab lower middle-class life take her down the road to destruction in this gripping crime melodrama. The story opens as she cowers insider her old home, fearing the ... [ Crime movie - 1950 ]
The Asphalt Jungle
The Asphalt Jungle is a brilliantly conceived and executed anatomy of a crime -- or, as director John ... [ Crime movie - 1950 ]
Twilight in the Sierras
The King of the Cowboys and the Queen of the West perform their noublesse oblige in Twilight in the Sierras. Roy Rogers plays a US marshal, pursuing a vicious gang of counterfeiters. Dale Evans (not yet Mrs. Rogers) ... [ Crime movie - 1950 ]
Woman on the Run
Frank Johnson (Ross Elliott), a window-dresser and struggling artist, accidentally ... [ Crime movie - 1950 ]
Gunman in the Streets
Eddie Roback (Dane Clark), an American army deserter turned criminal, is going to trial in Paris after a ten-month delay when he is sprung on his way to court in a pitched gun battle. A manhunt ensues with the police just a few ... [ Crime movie - 1950 ]
