The best Barton MacLane’s crime movies

Barton MacLane

Barton MacLane

25/12/1902- 01/01/1969
Today we present the best Barton MacLane’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 Barton MacLane’s movies.
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The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon
8/10
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

High Sierra

High Sierra
7.5/10
Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.

'G' Men

'G' Men
7.1/10
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.

Dr. Socrates

Dr. Socrates
6.5/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 19/10/1935
  • Character: Red Bastian
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.

The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead
6.6/10
Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.

Manpower

Manpower
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 09/08/1941
  • Character: Smiley Quinn
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.

Smart Blonde

Smart Blonde
6.4/10
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.

Bullets or Ballots

Bullets or Ballots
7/10
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 mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.

You Only Live Once

You Only Live Once
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/01/1937
  • Character: Stephen Whitney
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.

Black Fury

Black Fury
6.5/10
A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management.

Born Reckless

Born Reckless
6/10
Racketeer Jim Barnes is trying to force the independent taxicab-drivers to join his "protection service" at the cost of five bucks a day. Champion race-car driver, Bob Kane, joins with his friends Lee and "Dad" Martin in a fight for the street rights of a big city.

Prison Break

Prison Break
6.1/10
Barton MacLane stars as a tuna fisherman who has been wrongfully convicted of a murder he did not commit. His exemplary behavior in prison ensures that he is up for early parole. He realizes, however, that his movements will be limited, and he will be unable to join and wed his beloved. The only solution is to escape and hunt down the real killer, himself.

San Quentin

San Quentin
5.9/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 16/12/1946
  • Character: Nick Taylor
An ex-con sets up a program to straighten out hard-core prisoners. Things don't go as planned.

You and Me

You and Me
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeRomance
  • Release: 01/06/1938
  • Character: Mickey Bain
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. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.

Wetbacks

Wetbacks
5.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 04/05/1956
  • Character: Karl Shanks
Former Coastguardsmen Jim Benson is about to lose his boat when a couple approaches him for a fishing charter. Jim departs just ahead of the Sherrif with drunken Shanks, and his companion Sally (Gates). Shanks takes off into a small Mexican village after a fight with Jim, stranding both Sally and him with no money. Two local men hear of Jim's plight, and offer him money to smuggle a batch of illegal aliens, called Wetbacks, into the U.S. He agrees but is blackmailed into continuing to run the smuggling operation. Afraid, Jim decides to make a run for it, but someone close to him reveals themselves as a US Immigration agent and asks him to assist them in shutting down the smugglers for good.

Mysterious Intruder

Mysterious Intruder
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 11/04/1946
  • Character: Detective Taggart
Don Gale is a detective hired by Edward Stillwell to find a girl, Elora Lund. Edward doesn't tell him why he wants to find Elora. After a series of events, Gale gets arrested for a thief's murder.

Red Light

Red Light
6.3/10
Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky, who gets out a week before Nick, to murder Jess... who, dying, tells revenge-minded Johnny that he'd written a clue "in the Bible." Frustrated, Johnny obsessively searches for the missing Gideon Bible from Jess's hotel room.

The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case

The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 09/12/1943
  • Character: Detective Rief
The Crime Doctor gets involved in the case of the poisoning of a wealthy industrialist.

Men Without Souls

Men Without Souls
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 20/05/1940
  • Character: Blackie Drew
A prison chaplain (John Litel) rescues a young convict (Glenn Ford) on a misguided mission of revenge.

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 19/08/1950
  • Character: Lieutenant John Reece
Ralph Cotter, a ruthless criminal, escapes violently from a farm prison. Then, he seduces a dead inmate’s sister, gets back quickly into the crime business, faces corrupt local cops who run the city’s underworld and meets a powerful tycoon’s whimsical daughter.

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