24 Dec 1947
The Lady from Shanghai
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
Black Tuesday
The most ruthless Robinson of all time!
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 who was to die right after him. Taking several hostages along, they try to get their hands on the loot from Manning’s robbery to finance their escape from the country.
Top Billed Cast
Edward G. Robinson Vincent Canelli
Jean Parker Hatti Combest
Peter Graves Peter Manning
Milburn Stone Father Slocum
Warren Stevens Joey Stewart
Sylvia Findley Ellen Norris
Jack Kelly Frank Carson
Hal Baylor Lou Mehrtens
James Bell John Norris
Vic Perrin Dr. Hart
Russell Johnson Howard Sloane
Lee Aaker Little Boy (uncredited)
James Bacon Reporter at Electrocution (uncredited)
Harry Bartell Boland (uncredited)
Arthur Batanides Reporter at Electrocution (uncredited)
Ray Bennett Alexander Watkins (uncredited)
Don Blackman Selwyn (uncredited)
David Bond Thompson (uncredited)
Alexander Campbell Prison Warden (uncredited)
Ken Christy Death Row Guard (uncredited)
Similar movies
The Lady from Shanghai The Lady from Shanghai Gilda 
Gilda 25 Apr 1946
Gilda
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
Murder, My Sweet 
Murder, My Sweet 14 Dec 1944
Murder, My Sweet
After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.
The Night of the Hunter 
The Night of the Hunter 27 Jul 1955
The Night of the Hunter
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
Appointment in Honduras 
Appointment in Honduras 16 Oct 1953
Appointment in Honduras
On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett, an American carrying money for a Honduran counter-revolution. Denied permission to land in Honduras, Corbett releases the prisoners and with their aid hijacks the ship. They land, taking the wealthy Sheppards as hostages, and start the arduous trip upriver to Corbett's rendezvous, meeting jungle hazards
Mildred Pierce 
Mildred Pierce 20 Oct 1945
Mildred Pierce
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
Karate Girl 
Karate Girl 17 Dec 1973
Karate Girl
Mute blond bombshell Zeynep lives with her aging father at a farm. One day, five criminals break in, killing the father and raping Zeynep. The shock restores Zeynep's speech and she seeks revenge. With the help of the friendly hobo Murat, she learns to be an expert shooter, takes a brown belt in karate, and sets out to kill them all.
Flesh Pier 
Flesh Pier 12 Apr 1958
Flesh Pier
Director Teruo Ishii's crime action follows the investigative adventures of an undercover cop working with a prostitution ring. It's done in an unique documentary style.
Payback 
Payback 27 Feb 2007
Payback
An escaped convict tracks down the cop who put him away.
The Brasher Doubloon 
The Brasher Doubloon 06 Feb 1947
The Brasher Doubloon
Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that belonged in her deceased husband's collection. Marlowe begins investigating, but quickly finds himself entangled in a series of unexplained murders.
Lady in the Lake 
Lady in the Lake 19 Dec 1946
Lady in the Lake
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.
Crime of Passion 
Crime of Passion 28 Dec 1956
Crime of Passion
Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a dangerous path.
Angel Face 
Angel Face 02 Jan 1953
Angel Face
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.
Secret Beyond the Door 
Secret Beyond the Door 24 Dec 1947
Secret Beyond the Door
After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.
Lost Highway 
Lost Highway 15 Jan 1997
Lost Highway
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
The Green Mile 
The Green Mile 10 Dec 1999
The Green Mile
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.
The Cobra Strikes 
The Cobra Strikes 24 Apr 1948
The Cobra Strikes
A newspaper reporter investigates the near-fatal shooting of a medical scientist.
Face/Off 
Face/Off 27 Jun 1997
Face/Off
In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns sour when the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.
Double Indemnity 
Double Indemnity 06 Jul 1944
Double Indemnity
A seductive housewife draws an insurance salesman into a plot of adultery and crime to collect on her husband's life insurance.
The Third Man 
The Third Man 31 Aug 1949
The Third Man
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.