The owner of a San Francisco saloon yearns to rank among the upper crust of Nob Hill. Read More »
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Ill Get You for This (1951) Joseph M. Newman, George Raft, Coleen Gray, Enzo Staiola
American gambler Nick Cain arrives at the Mediterranean town of San Paola, and befriends an orphan Italian shoe-shine boy named Toni. Read More »
Johnny Allegro (1949) Ted Tetzlaff, George Raft, Nina Foch, George Macready
Los Angeles hotel lobby florist Johnny Allegro is a man with a secret: he’s a former criminal who escaped from the Sing Sing prison. Read More »
Night After Night (1932) Archie Mayo, George Raft, Constance Cummings, Wynne Gibson, Comedy, Drama
A successful ex-boxer opens a high-class speakeasy in what once was the childhood home of a formerly rich society girl. Read More »
Johnny Angel (1945) Edwin L. Marin, George Raft, Claire Trevor, Signe Hasso, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Johnny Angel sets out to find out who chased a gold shipment out of his dad’s boat and murdered his father, the captain. Read More »
A Bullet for Joey (1955) Lewis Allen, Edward G. Robinson, George Raft, Audrey Totter, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Montreal: the former well-known gangster Joey Victor is fetched from Europe, where he was deported to from USA. Read More »
I Stole a Million (1939) Frank Tuttle, George Raft, Claire Trevor, Dick Foran, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
A grizzled cabbie is scammed out of his life savings by a fake finance company. He tries to no avail to get police assistance. Read More »
Jet Over the Atlantic (1959) Byron Haskin, Guy Madison, Virginia Mayo, George Raft, Crime, Drama, Thriller
FBI man Stafford is extraditing convicted killer Brett Murphy from Spain to the USA. At the last minute, Murphy’s fiancée, entertainer Jean Gurney, finds he’s been taken and slips on the plane. Read More »
Bolero (1934) Wesley Ruggles, Mitchell Leisen, George Raft, Carole Lombard, Sally Rand, Drama, Music
This is the story of an egotistical nightclub dance performer named Raoul, his determination to succeed at all costs Read More »
Intrigue (1947) Edwin L. Marin, George Raft, June Havoc, Helena Carter, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Dishonorably discharged from the Army Air Corps, Brad Dunham (George Raft) disconsolately decides to try his luck with Shanghai’s postwar black market. Read More »
Rogue Cop (1954) Roy Rowland, Robert Taylor, Janet Leigh, George Raft, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Detective Chris Kelvaney has a brother, Eddie, who also is a policeman. He witnessed a murderer running away from the scene of the crime. Read More »
Race Street (1948) Edwin L. Marin, George Raft, William Bendix, Marilyn Maxwell, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Nice-guy bookie Dan Gannin plans to quit the racket; he’s opening a new night club with his torch-singing sister as main attraction. Read More »
You and Me (1938) Fritz Lang, Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Robert Cummings, Crime, Romance
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Read More »
She Couldn’t Take It (1935) Tay Garnett, George Raft, Joan Bennett, Walter Connolly, Comedy
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of patriarch Dan Van Dyke. Read More »
Every Night at Eight (1935) Raoul Walsh, George Raft, Alice Faye, Frances Langford, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to ‘lease’ the dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singin, but they are caught and fired. Read More »