Crime Movies of 1955
Pete Kelly's Blues
Pete Kelly's Blues is arguably the most stylish of director/star Jack Webb's theatrical features. Beginning with a brilliantly evocative pre-credits prologue, wherein we see how WWI vet Pete Kelly (Webb) ... [ Crime movie - 1955 ]
The Ladykillers
Music professor Alec Guinness rents a London flat from sweet old ... [ Crime movie - 1955 ]
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, the real-life personality so brilliantly (albeit briefly) portrayed by Elizabeth ... [ Crime movie - 1955 ]
House of Bamboo
Samuel Fuller directed and cowrote this typically hard-boiled drama set in Japan following World War II. Eddie Kenner (Robert Stack) is given ... [ Crime movie - 1955 ]
Swamp Women
Swamp Diamonds is the family-trade title for the sweaty Roger Corman crime melodrama Swamp Women. Policewoman Carole Mathews ... [ Crime movie - 1955 ]
Rififi
Jules Dassin -- in his second European film after being driven out of the United States during the years of the house Un-American Activities Committee hearings -- directed this ... [ Crime movie - 1955 ]
Bob le Flambeur
Both a tribute to classic American gangster films and the source of inspiration for French New Wave filmmakers, Bob le Flambeur is the first in a series of stylish noirs that Jean-Pierre ... [ Crime movie - 1955 ]
