The best Alan Ladd’s crime movies

Alan Ladd

Alan Ladd

03/09/1913- 29/01/1964
Today we present the best Alan Ladd’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Alan Ladd’s movies.
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This Gun for Hire

This Gun for Hire
7.4/10
Sadistic killer-for-hire Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.

The Glass Key

The Glass Key
7/10
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

The Blue Dahlia

The Blue Dahlia
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/04/1946
  • Character: Johnny Morrison - Lt.Cmdr., ret.
Soon after a veteran's return from war his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.

Appointment with Danger

Appointment with Danger
6.5/10
Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective.

The Green Hornet

The Green Hornet
6.5/10
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.

Calcutta

Calcutta
6.4/10
Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.

Paper Bullets

Paper Bullets
5.4/10
Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local crime organization.

13 West Street

13 West Street
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/02/1962
  • Character: Walt Sherill
Walt Sherill is attacked and beat down by a group of juvenile delinquents on his way home from work one night. The boys who attacked him are not previously known by the police and are therefore hard to track down. As Sherill starts getting impatient he begins his own investigation. Meanwhile, Detective Sergeant Koleski does his best to track down the culprits.

Chicago Deadline

Chicago Deadline
6.3/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 17/10/1949
  • Character: Ed Adams
On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Ames comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.

Lucky Jordan

Lucky Jordan
6.4/10
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.

Ellery Queen, Master Detective

Ellery Queen, Master Detective
6.1/10
The mysteriously ill John Braun makes a new will, leaving out his daughter Barbara, over the protests of his wife. The trouble began when the daughter wanted to marry Mr. Braun's doctor, James Rogers. Mrs. Braun asks Inspector Queen to help find the long-missing Barbara. The inspector's son, Ellery, works on the case. He goes to a home frequently visited by Dr. Rogers where the bell is answered by Nikki Porter who Ellery mistakes for Barbara and insists she return to the Braun home. Nikki does, to protect Barbara, and a short time later finds herself alone in a room outside Braun's bedroom. She finds him dead - his throat cut. No weapons are found and the door to the room where Nikki had been is locked, and she is suspected. Ellery hides Nikki in his apartment. Braun's body, sent for an autopsy, disappears and in its place is a life-sized statue of the dead man.

Hell on Frisco Bay

Hell on Frisco Bay
6.4/10
A cop framed for a murder he did not commit hunts the San Francisco waterfront for the Mob racketeers who are responsible.

Gangs of Chicago

Gangs of Chicago
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 18/05/1940
  • Character: (uncredited)
A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.

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