Películas sobre crímenes Jack Wise
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🎭 Elevator Operator (uncredited)
6.9
1953
A New York sculptor who opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures runs into trouble with his business partner, who demands that the exhibits become more extreme i ...
6.4
1951
A warden and his assistant clash over prison reform, triggering a violent riot. ...
🎭 Tourist (uncredited)
5.8
1941
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber. ...
6.3
1941
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police. ...
🎭 Seated Bank Customer (uncredited)
4.3
1940
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him. ...
🎭 Reporter at Train Station (uncredited)
3.5
1940
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family. ...
🎭 Jake (uncredited)
6.9
1940
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbekno ...
🎭 1st Photographer (uncredited)
5.8
1940
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before h ...
🎭 Prison Runner
5
1939
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop. ...
🎭 Second Photographer (uncredited)
6.6
1939
Nancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the murder of their chauffeur complicates matters. ...
🎭 Convict (uncredited)
6.7
1939
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school. ...
🎭 Croupier (uncredited)
3.5
1939
Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates. ...
🎭 Ivan's Alien Pal
5.8
1939
Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens. ...
🎭 Newspaper Office Worker (uncredited)
6.2
1939
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. Sh ...
🎭 Party Guest (uncredited)
6
1939
Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and death-threats written in Chinese characters. ...
🎭 Prison Barber (uncredited)
5
1939
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster. ...
🎭 Second Fight Ticket Seller (uncredited)
6.3
1939
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk. ...
🎭 Steward (uncredited)
5.3
1938
A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands. ...
🎭 Cashier (uncredited)
5.1
1938
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket. ...
🎭 Laughing Bystander (uncredited)
5.9
1938
Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal. ...
🎭 $30 Bidder
5.5
1938
A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marriage furniture on a statue of a pretty girl, which he refuses to part with at any cost. ...
🎭 Customer (uncredited)
5.5
1937
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City. ...
🎭 KDTS Employee
5
1937
A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves. ...
🎭 Court Clerk
4.8
1937
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves. ...
🎭 Hymie (uncredited)
6.2
1937
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing. ...
🎭 Pushy Photographer (uncredited)
5.9
1936
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief. ...
🎭 Waiter (uncredited)
6.5
1936
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the ...
🎭 Convict at Farm (uncredited)
6.5
1936
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm. ...
🎭 Telegram Clerk (uncredited)
6.5
1934
A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is a death in the neighborhood. He ...
🎭 Vital Statistics Clerk (uncredited)
6.5
1934
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story ...
🎭 Mr. Engel - Press Agent (uncredited)
5.6
1933
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work... ...
🎭 Tailor (uncredited)
7.8
1932
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work ...
6.5
1931
Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved. ...
🎭 Delivery Waiter (uncredited)
6.1
1930
A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and retire to Florida after marrying his moll. Un ...
🎭 Bugs - Convict (uncredited)
4.6
1930
Prison drama from 1930. Mary Dane and falsely imprisoned Bud Leonard love each other, but Lou Rinaldo, who framed Bud to get Mary, and escape-minded King Callahan, set events in motion to prove t ...