93 Edward G. Robinson Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

In this film adaptation of James M. Cain.1935 novel, a manipulative Phyllis Dietrichson convinces an insurance agent Walter Neff to murder her husband in order to claim his accidental insurance policy. The plan is successful but trouble begins when Neff’s boss Barton Keyes decides to get to the bottom of the matter and investigates the case himself.

Key Largo is an action crime drama film which tells the story of Army veteran, Frank McCloud, who arrives at the Hotel Largo in Key Largo, Florida, in order to visit his deceased war comrade’s family, who owns the hotel. He sees that a gangster has been running things, but soon, a hurricane approaches as well. 

Scarlett Street is a thriller drama film which tells the story of a woman who befriends a man going through a mid-life crisis. Thinking that the man is very wealthy, her fiancé persuades her to swindle him out of the fortune.  

The Woman in the Window is a crime thriller mystery drama film which tells the story of a middle aged professor who finds himself attracted towards a young woman, and they soon enter a relationship. However, he soon finds himself in a nightmarish world, far beyond his expectations.

Infant Moses, set adrift in Nile to escape slaughter of first-born Hebrew males, is raised by Pharaoh Sethi’s sister and is disliked by Prince Ramses II. After discovering his Hebrew origins, he is banished from Egypt. As his divine mission is revealed, Moses returns to Egypt to liberate enslaved Hebrews and leads them to Mount Sinai where he receives God’s Ten Commandments.

Wilson is a member of the War Crimes Commission, who travels to Harper, hoping to find Franz Kindler, whom he believes to the mastermind who planned the Holocaust. However, now he has taken on a new identity.

Caesar Enrico and his friend Joe Massara are two small-time criminals, who move to Chicago to seek a brighter future. While the former joins a gang, the later decides to pursue a career as a dancer.  

Eric Stoner is a young poker player who is also known as the Cincinnati Kid. Since he wants to establish his reputation as the best, he eventually finds himself playing against Lancey Howard, an older player who is considered to be among the best players worldwide.

Ward Guisenberry never aspired to become a boxer, but when he fought Sam McGraw at a party in order to defend the honor of Fluff, he left McGraw unconscious. McGraw is a member of the gang of Turkey Morgan who insists that the two should fight in a fair match at the ring. Ward unanticipatedly wins the match. However, with the growing fame he earns some new rivals.

Soylent Green is a dystopian thriller film which takes us to a future where the world is suffering from the greenhouse effect as well as overpopulation. The story revolves around a detective investigating the murder of the CEO of a big company. 

Jim Ahearn is a bootlegger who decides to change his ways. Therefore in order to elevate his culture, he begins to read books and invest in art. He eventually leaves Chicago, and leaves for Santa Barbara, where he attempts to fit into the upper crust of society.

The biopic features life of Paul Julius Reuter who built famous news service. Initially, his messenger service made use of a flock of carrier pigeons in Europe. After moving his headquarters to London, he launches a news service using wire-system. Overcoming stiff competition he builds his own telegraph line and becomes first to announce President Lincoln’s assassination, which creates quite a stir.

Two power company employees, Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall, following the accidental death of their colleague, meet his daughter Fay, a nightclub hostess. Johnny doesn’t like her, whereas Hank falls for Fay and she marries him though she doesn’t love him. When Johnny has to stay at Hank’s place after an injury Fay gets attracted to him, causing tensions between the men.     

The story focuses on a fake wizard, who earns his living by fortune telling at a nightclub. But trouble begins when he suddenly develops an occult power and all his predictions, especially those involving death, start becoming true.  One of his friends also earns millions by using his tips. But far from being happy, his new-found psychic power frightens him. 

Meek and middle-aged bank employee, Wilbert Winkle, quits his job and opens a repairs-shop, which is disapproved by his domineering wife. Then he is drafted into the army and after clearing the training, is posted in Pacific theater where he befriends Joe Tinker. Repairing a bulldozer he breaks through the enemy line, and receives a hero’s welcome from his wife and locals. 

The movie tells three unrelated supernatural stories. In the first, a girl attains true beauty by giving up her selfish attitude. The second focuses on a palmist who predicts one of his clients is going to murder someone. The third focuses on a high-wire artist who encounters a mysterious woman he has only seen in dreams. 

Infamous crime-lord Joe Krozac’s son is born after he is jailed for 10 years for tax evasion. A kind reporter, Paul North, writes compassionately about Krozac’s harassed wife Talya, and loses his job in the bargain. Shocked by Krozac’s vicious behavior, Talya divorces him and marries North. Released from the jail, Krozac is impatient to avenge his ex-wife, and take back his son.  

Also known as the Grand Slam, the crime thriller follows Professor James Anders who forms a team for a diamond heist during the Rio Carnival in Brazil. Unfortunately, the building’s security, where the diamonds are stored is not the only problem the team faces as double-crosses and betrayals ensure an unhappy ending. 

When the Second World War begins, David Wilton and John Aynesworth join a group of cadets in England for military training. They are eventually sent to America, to be trained in air combat. However, they are soon separated when David is sent to Canada to attend navigator’s school, while John is sent off to Europe for combat.

A US Marshal is kidnapped by a bandit as the latter believes that he knows about the location of a hidden treasure. The US Marshal agrees to lead his gang to the treasure, but things get complicated because other groups are looking for it as well. Meanwhile, the Apache are trying to keep the secret location undisturbed.

A Hollywood prostitute, who goes by the name of Princess, is forced to work undercover for the police and help a detective apprehend a homicidal pimp who will do anything to escape the police.

After finding her fiance dead, Mary Rutledge goes to work at a rowdy gambling house in 1950s San Francisco. She soon falls for another man named Carmichael.

Steve Boleslavski, one of the ship-yard crew that built WWII destroyer S.S. John Paul Jones, re-enlists in the Navy to serve on her. The ship is assigned to carry mail, when it encounters a Japanese sub and the ensuing battle damages the destroyer leading to possibilities of sinking. With Boleslavski’s suggestion of underwater wielding, the destroyer succeeds in wrecking the Japanese sub.

A gangster and a bank robber escape from prison just on the day before execution. They take a few prisoners with them, and plan to grab the loot that got them in prison to begin with. However, the police eventually surround them, and therefore they threaten to kill the hostages one by one.

Don, a writer for a TV show, has been having an affair with Paula Ranier, an actress who acts in the same show. However, Paula eventually starts blackmailing Don that if she doesn’t receive $ 2,500, she will inform his wife about their relationship. Don agrees to give her the money, but he finds her dead, when he goes to deliver it.

Discredited American expatriate professor, Theo Wilkins, calls on his protégé and thief Paul Manson to help him pull off one last heist. The team including Melanie an exotic dancer pulls of the heist but rising tensions and unforeseen circumstances jeopardize their chances of enjoying their loot. 

Hell on Frisco Bay is a crime drama film, which tells the story of a San Francisco police officer who gets out of prison, and starts looking for the mobsters who framed him for manslaughter.

Peaches, orphaned daughter of a horse-trainer father, has inherited his race-horse, Wonder Boy, with whom she shares a special bond. So, her presence is required at races for him to win. But those betting on other horses ensure that the child authorities take her custody. However, Mrs. Van Gordon rescues and takes her to race-track in time, inspiring Wonder Boy to win. 

When hatchet man, Wong, is ordered to kill his childhood friend he has to comply. So when he goes to perform the act, he finds his friend preparing for his own death. He however asks Wong to take care of his daughter and marry her when she grows older.  While Wong swears that she will never know what sorrow is how far is he ready to go to keep his promise? 

Tampico is a war drama film which revolves around the story of Captain Bart Manson, the captain of an oil tanker during the Second World War. He saves the life of a woman named Katherine Hall, whose ship was sunk by a German U-boat. They fall for one another, and soon get married. However, Manson’s ship is eventually sunk as well, and he soon finds himself as a suspect for involvement. He also begins to suspect Katherine, as she was not carrying any identification when she was rescued.

Dark Hazard is a drama film which tells the story of Jim, who is a compulsive gambler.  He gets married to a woman named Marge, but his gambling causes problems in their marriage, and Marge starts to think of leaving him.  

The murder of boss Big Jim Stevens leaves a void at the top. Gisborne - the one who planned Stevens' murder, takes over. But Stevens always treated Robbo like his son and wanted him to succeed him whenever the time was right. This triggers a gangland war. Jim's sophisticated and beautiful daughter, Marian Stevens, intervenes, but she has her own ulterior motives.

Jack Albany, an actor, who mostly plays gangsters on television, is mistaken for a notorious hitman, and he is also hired by a mob boss, Leo, to pull a heist. Albany must now not only find a way out of it, but also foil Leo’s plot. 

Jean Oliver is planning revenge against Mrs Ramsey, for which she is posing as a medium. However, things get complicated when a journalist and another man who is a gangster falls in love with her.

This comedy drama film which tells two different stories, first tells the story of a Broadway actor, whose daughter has become a bigger star than him. The second is about a literary agent, whose newest client is a nine-year-old girl, and she has authored a pornographic book!  

This 1931 short film revolves around the stolen pearls of Norma Shearer. After the theft, a detective is sent to interrogate the party guests, most of which are famous Hollywood stars. 

Ranch hand Pepe’s world is turned upside down when alcoholic Hollywood director Mr.Holt buys his beloved friend, a white stallion from its owner. Pepe then goes on an extraordinary adventure through Hollywood, meeting celebrities like Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Durante, Zsa Zsa Gabór, Bing Crosby, and others before being reunited with his beloved stallion. 

A retired mobster is kidnapped by few other incompetent gangsters who think that he has a lot of money. He turns the tables on them, by persuading them to join him on a multi-million dollar heist. 

Based on the play of the same name, this musical biography tells the story of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg. At an early age, he disappoints his family by getting married to his cousin Nina. Although he was already living in poverty, his life gets even more complicated, after he starts having an affair with a former schoolmate.