The System
The shakedown shootout monster-reign that crimedom called... The System
1953 · 1h 30m · Approved
Crime
Directed by
Lewis Seiler
Overview
A gambling boss is pressured by the law and press when a crusade is started against him after one of his collectors becomes a killer.
Director and cast
- Lewis Seiler Director
- Frank Lovejoy as John E. 'Johnny' Merrick
- Joan Weldon as Felice Stuart
- Robert Arthur as Rex Merrick
- Paul Picerni as David Wiley
- Don Beddoe as Jerry Allen
- Jerome Cowan as Barry X. Brady
- Dan Seymour as Mr. Marty
- Sarah Selby as Liz Allen
- Fay Roope as Roger Stuart
- Frank Richards as Charley, Merrick's Butler
More films
The Letter (1940)
Crime · Drama · Not Rated
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Director
- William Wyler
- Cast
- Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Crime · Mystery · Thriller · Approved
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "someth...
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Director
- Robert Aldrich
- Cast
- Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart
The Narrow Margin (1952)
Crime · Thriller · NOT RATED
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a train journey from Chicago to Los Angeles.
- Runtime
- 1h 11m
- Director
- Richard Fleischer
- Cast
- Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White
Blast of Silence (1961)
Crime · Drama · Thriller · NOT RATED
A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York. But a special girl from his past and a fat gun dealer with pet rats get in his way.
- Runtime
- 1h 17m
- Director
- Allen Baron
- Cast
- Molly McCarthy, Larry Tucker, Bill DePrato
Panic in the Streets (1950)
Crime · Thriller · Approved
A medical examiner discovers that an innocent shooting victim in a robbery died of bubonic plague. With only 48 hours to find the killer, who is now a ticking time bomb threatening the entire city, a grisly manhunt through the seamy underworld of the New Orleans Waterfront is underway.
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Director
- Elia Kazan
- Cast
- Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes
Underground (2007)
Action · Not Rated
In the UK suburbs, an underground tournament is set to challenge twelve fighters from different backgrounds to compete for the price of £500,000. They have been handpicked for a no-holds barred competition that will push each fighter to their limit. Each fighter has their own reason for competing, and each will give everything they've ...
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Director
- Chee Keong Cheung
- Cast
- Mark Strange, Nathan Lewis, Joey Ansah
Bodyguard: A New Beginning (2008)
Action · Drama · Thriller · R
Leung is the bodyguard of a Chinese Triad boss, Wong, to whom his loyalty is unrivaled. Living in Hong Kong, Wong requests that his bodyguard travel to the UK to protect a young British woman, whose true identity is known only by Wong himself. Even Wong's son, Yuen, is kept in the dark, which leads to a betrayal that threatens to destr...
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Director
- Chee Keong Cheung
- Cast
- Vincent Sze Cho-Lam, Richard Ng Yiu-Hon, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Comments
Talk about the film with other members