The best Billy Wayne’s thriller movies

Billy Wayne

Billy Wayne

12/02/1897- 12/06/1970
We present our ranking of the best Billy Wayne’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Billy Wayne.
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Fury

Fury
7.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 05/06/1936
  • Character: Newsreel Cameraman (uncredited)
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.

The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties
7.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 28/10/1939
  • Character: Cabbie at Grand Central (uncredited)
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

They Drive by Night

They Drive by Night
7.2/10
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.

The Gun Runners

The Gun Runners
6.3/10
Remake of "To Have and Have Not" based on Hemingway short story. Plot reset to early days of Cuban revolution. A charter boat skipper gets entangled in gunrunning scheme to get money to pay off debts. Sort of a sea-going film noir with bad girl, smarmy villain, and the "innocent" drawn into wrong side of law by circumstances.

Undertow

Undertow
6.5/10
Undertow stars Scott Brady as a gambler just out of wartime military service. No longer interested in wagers and speculations, Brady wants only to open up a mountain vacation lodge. Before this can take place, Brady is framed for murder, and forced to hide out in the home of Peggy Dow. With the help of Dow and a policeman friend, Brady searches for the real murderer. Watch carefully in Undertow and you'll spot new Universal contractee "Roc" Hudson as a plainclothes detective.

Deadline at Dawn

Deadline at Dawn
6.8/10
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.

Marked Woman

Marked Woman
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 10/04/1937
  • Character: 2nd Reporter (voice) (uncredited)
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.

Swanee River

Swanee River
6.2/10
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.

Let Us Live

Let Us Live
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 29/03/1939
  • Character: Theatre Hold-Up Witness (uncredited)
In Springdale, a small town near New York, taxi driver Brick Tennant and his friend Joe Linden are unjustly accused of a hideous crime and blindly convicted by those who are only interested in feeding the voracious machinery of an inhumane justice system.

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