Crime Movies of 1960
Ocean's Eleven
During a Los Angeles Christmas, a group of 82nd Airborne vets assembles under the leadership of ... [ Crime movie - 1960 ]
Seven Thieves
Discredited professor Edward G. Robinson organizes a seven-person criminal gang. Robinson plans to steal a fortune from the underground vaults of the Monte Carlo casino. Despite a few tense moments, the plot moves like clockwork. Alas, ... [ Crime movie - 1960 ]
The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
Back in Germany for the first time since 1933, director Fritz Lang returned to the screen character that brought him enormous success in ... [ Crime movie - 1960 ]
Classe Tous Risques
A criminal on the run finds going home after a decade is harder than he expects in this drama from French filmmaker Claude Sautet. Gangster Abel Davos (Lino Ventura) is wanted for murder in France, and ... [ Crime movie - 1960 ]
Hell Is a City
With an award-winning screenplay by director Val Guest, this is a first-rate cops-and-robbers crime drama about a dangerous escaped convict and the police inspector who goes after him. The gritty industrial town of Manchester ... [ Crime movie - 1960 ]
Murder, Inc.
This true crime story was hardly "ripped from today's headlines," since the events took place some 20 to 30 years before the movie was released. Still, Murder, Inc. is not afraid to name names, notably those of ... [ Crime movie - 1960 ]
Never Let Go
This shockingly violent yet engaging crime drama is about a bitter battle for survival in the lingering poverty of post-World War II London. Richard Todd plays optimistic but ineffectual soap and shampoo salesman ... [ Crime movie - 1960 ]
The Flesh and the Fiends
Mania is the venerable Burke and Hare story, previously cinematized by producer Val Lewton as The Body Snatcher. Peter Cushing plays a respectable 19th-century Edinburgh doctor ... [ Crime movie - 1960 ]
The Criminal
Directed by American expatriate Joseph Losey, the British The Criminal is a gloom-wallow elevated by superb performances. Top crook Stanley Baker plans a clever bank robbery. It goes off hitchless, but the clerk ... [ Crime movie - 1960 ]
Circus of Horrors
One of a small cluster of creepy films to come from England's Amalgamated Studios in the late '60s, this lesser entry details the twisted practices of a deranged German plastic surgeon (Anton Diffring) who hides out in France after ... [ Crime movie - 1960 ]
It Takes a Thief
Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe's blond competition in the late '50s and ... [ Crime movie - 1960 ]
Afraid to Die
Yasuzo Masumura's yakuza yarn begins with an assassination attempt on Takeo (played by novelist Yukio Mishima), a gangster about to be ... [ Crime movie - 1960 ]
Pretty Boy Floyd
The short but bloody career of one of the most infamous outlaws of the 1930s is chronicled in this drama. Charles Arthur Floyd (John Ericson) finds work on an oil rig after serving time for armed robbery, but when he becomes ... [ Crime movie - 1960 ]
The Girl in Lover's Lane
TV star Brett Halsey is the lead in The Girl in Lover's Lane. While drifting through a small town, Bix (Halsey) becomes involved with local tease Carrie (Joyce Meadows). Shortly afterward, Carrie is murdered, and Bix is held responsible. ... [ Crime movie - 1960 ]
The Hand
In this odd crime film, Scotland Yard begins searching for the one-armed killer behind a series of ... [ Crime movie - 1960 ]
Ma Barker's Killer Brood
The story of America's most notorious gangster mother is chronicled in this crime drama. The tale starts in Oklahoma during the Depression. It is ... [ Crime movie - 1960 ]
