The best DeWitt Jennings’s crime movies

DeWitt Jennings

DeWitt Jennings

21/06/1871- 01/03/1937
Today we present the best DeWitt Jennings’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 DeWitt Jennings’s movies.

The Big House

The Big House
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 14/06/1930
  • Character: Wallace
Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions.

The Criminal Code

The Criminal Code
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 31/12/1930
  • Character: Yard Captain Gleason
After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes the prison warden and offers the beleaguered Robert a job as his chauffeur. Robert cleans up his act, but, on the eve of his pardon, his cellmate drags him back into the world of violence, and he faces a difficult choice that could return him to prison.

The Secret Six

The Secret Six
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 18/04/1931
  • Character: Chief of Police Donlin
Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scorpio eventually takes over Frank's operation, beats a rival gang, becomes wealthy and dominates the city for several years until a secret group of 6 masked businessmen have him prosecuted and sent to the electric chair.

We Who Are About to Die

We Who Are About to Die
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/01/1937
  • Character: Mike Brannigan
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.

The Bat Whispers

The Bat Whispers
6.3/10
Infamous burglar "The Bat" commits a daring jewelry theft despite heavy police presence. Soon after, a bank theft occurs, which may be the work of the criminal as well. Meanwhile, Cornelia Van Gorder has various people arrive at her old mansion, including her niece, Dale, a bank employee, and police detective Anderson. When guests start turning up dead, Cornelia begins to suspect that The Bat may be lurking around the estate.

The Accusing Finger

The Accusing Finger
6.6/10
A district attorney sends a young man to the electric chair, then lands in the death house himself.

By Whose Hand?

By Whose Hand?
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 06/07/1932
  • Character: City Editor (uncredited)
A man tries to hide aboard a moving train after murdering a jewelry magnate.

Police Car 17

Police Car 17
5.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 30/09/1933
  • Character: Captain T. J. Hart
Police Car 17 is one of a handful of non-westerns made for Columbia by cowboy star Tim McCoy. Motor patrolman Tim Conlon (McCoy) and his partner Bumps O'Neill (Ward Bond) vie for the attentions of Helen Regan (Evalyn Knapp), daughter of a fellow cop. Our hero not only wins Helen but also the undying admiration of his fellow lawmen through a series of incredible acts of heroism. All things considered, Police Car 17 is a western in modern dress. All that's missing is the final shootout at High Noon, but this is neatly compensated for by a climactic fistic battle in an abandoned garage.

The President Vanishes

The President Vanishes
6.1/10
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman and produced by Walter Wanger. Starring Edward Arnold and Arthur Byron, the film is an adaptation of Rex Stout's political novel of the same name.

Flesh and Blood

Flesh and Blood
6.2/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 22/08/1922
  • Character: Detective Doyle
A convict hiding in Chinatown assumes the identity of a cripple to track down a businessman who framed him 15 years previously. He discovers that his daughter has fallen in love with the businessman's son.

Reform Girl

Reform Girl
4.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 04/03/1933
  • Character: Capt. Balfour
A young girl just out of prison and desperate for money finds herself involved in a plot to smear a politician by pretending to be his long-lost daughter.

This Is My Affair

This Is My Affair
6.6/10
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Night Court

Night Court
6.9/10
A corrupt night court judge tears an innocent young family apart in his efforts to elude a special prosecutor.

Those Who Dance

Those Who Dance
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 18/04/1930
  • Character: Captain O'Brien
A policeman doubles as a gunman to get in with the mob.

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