The best DeForest Kelley’s crime movies

DeForest Kelley

DeForest Kelley

20/01/1920- 11/06/1999
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Illegal

Illegal
7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 09/10/1955
  • Character: Edward Clary (as DeForest Kelly)
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.

House of Bamboo

House of Bamboo
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/07/1955
  • Character: Charlie (uncredited)
Eddie Kenner (Robert Stack) is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson (Robert Ryan), a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals.

Fear in the Night

Fear in the Night
6.4/10
The dream is unusually vivid: Bank employee Vince Grayson finds himself murdering a man in a sinister octagonal-shaped room lined with mirrors while a mysterious woman breaks into a safe. It is so vivid that Vince suspects it may have really happened. To get the dream off his mind, he goes on a picnic with some relatives. When a thunderstorm forces his party into a nearby mansion, Vince discovers that the bizarre room does exist, and it means nothing but trouble.

Canon City

Canon City
6.5/10
Prisoners battle each other -- and the police -- when they escape the Colorado State Penitentiary.

Duffy of San Quentin

Duffy of San Quentin
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/03/1954
  • Character: Eddie Lee
San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse.

The Edge of Innocence

The Edge of Innocence
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 31/10/1957
  • Character: Lambert
An unscrupulous criminal lawyer falls in love with a wealthy widow and becomes involved with her brother's disappearance and murder.

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