The best Dorothy Vaughan’s crime movies
We present our ranking of the best Dorothy Vaughan’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 Dorothy Vaughan.
The Lady from Shanghai
7.5/10
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
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.
Black Legion
6.9/10
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
6.5/10
Around Christmas time, a woman tries to prove the innocence of her dancer husband jailed for a crime she just knows he didn't commit.
Within the Law
6.4/10
A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.
Chain Gang
5.4/10
Crusading newspaperman Cliff Roberts masquerades as a prison guard to document inhuman conditions.
Lady Gangster
5.7/10
An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, she is thinking to use it as a bargaining chip to be released from prison. However, her former partners don't have the same ideas.
Keep 'em Slugging
6.2/10
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
They Made Me a Killer
5.9/10
A fugitive receives help from a victim's sister as he tries to clear his name of robbery and murder charges.
A Criminal Is Born
6.1/10
An entry in MGM's Crime Does Not Pay series, this short tells the true story of how a young man, ignored by his parents, gets into a gang and starts a crime spree which leads to murder.
Here's Flash Casey
5.5/10
After graduating college an aspiring photographer lands his first job--with a big city newspaper.
