The best Emmett Vogan’s action movies

Emmett Vogan

Emmett Vogan

27/09/1893- 13/11/1969
Today we present the best Emmett Vogan’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 Emmett Vogan’s movies.

'G' Men

'G' Men
7.1/10
  • Genre: ActionCrimeDrama
  • Release: 04/05/1935
  • Character: Bill - the Ballistics Expert (uncredited)
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.

Boulder Dam

Boulder Dam
6.2/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 07/03/1936
  • Character: Reporter
Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.

San Quentin

San Quentin
6.5/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 24/05/1937
  • Character: Lieutenant
Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries to separate lawbreakers from hardened criminals, badguy Hansen tries to stir up trouble by telling Joe about Jameson's interest in his sister.

King of the Cowboys

King of the Cowboys
5.9/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 09/04/1943
  • Character: Gang's Audience Plant
Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russell Hicks stop World War II Axis sympathizers from blowing up U.S. warehouses.

Shooting High

Shooting High
5.8/10
A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead.

Thunder Afloat

Thunder Afloat
6.3/10
  • Genre: ActionDramaRomanceWar
  • Release: 15/09/1939
  • Character: Junior Officer Standing by Map (uncredited)
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.

Smuggler's Cove

Smuggler's Cove
6.3/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 10/10/1948
  • Character: T.P. Williams
Slip and Sach are working as cleaners in a high rise building. They enter an office to clean it when a messenger hears them use Slip's given name, Terrance Mahoney. The messenger has a letter for "Terrance Mahonoey, Esq." and mistakenly delivers it to Slip. The letter informs Slip that he has inherited a mansion in Long Island. The boys then make their way to the mansion and find that it is inhabited by diamond smugglers. The real owner of the house shows up and helps save the day and defeat the smugglers and gives the boys the house as a reward.

The Fighting 69th

The Fighting 69th
6.6/10
  • Genre: ActionDramaWar
  • Release: 27/01/1940
  • Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.

The Crimson Ghost

The Crimson Ghost
6.8/10
A criminal mastermind known as The Crimson Ghost is out to steal a device called the Cyclotrode, which can short-circuit all electrical current on the planet.

Scouts to the Rescue

Scouts to the Rescue
5.8/10
  • Genre: ActionAdventure
  • Release: 17/01/1939
  • Character: G-Man Ed Billings [Chs. 1-2]
Filmed in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Sonora, California, this Universal serial is Universal's 40th sound-era serial. Eagle Scout Bruce Scott, leader of Martinsville Troop Number One, and his pack sets off in search of lost treasure and finds adventure

Steel Against the Sky

Steel Against the Sky
5.8/10
Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.

The Purple Monster Strikes

The Purple Monster Strikes
6.3/10
A Martian invader crashes his spaceship conveniently close to the workshop of a scientist who is developing an interplanetary craft. If the extraterrestrial Purple Monster can complete the rocket ship and return to Mars, he will be able to start a full-scale invasion of Earth. Good thing Craig Foster sets out to thwart the Monster's mission!

Raiders of Ghost City

Raiders of Ghost City
6/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 25/07/1944
  • Character: Count Manfried von Rinkton, alias Carl Lawton [Chs. 6-7]
During the latter stages of the Civil War, a gang of supposed Confederates, headed by Alex Morel (Lionel Atwill), raid all gold shipments destined for Washington from Oro Grande, California. Can they be brought to justice?

Arson, Inc.

Arson, Inc.
5.2/10
An arson investigator goes undercover to break up a ring that sets fires in order to collect the insurance.

She Gets Her Man

She Gets Her Man
6/10
The corny daughter (Joan Davis) of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer.

The Oil Raider

The Oil Raider
5.3/10
"Wildcatter" Dave Warren and his crew are trying to bring in a new oil well. Dave gives troublemaker Simmons a good thrashing and orders him off the site. In order to complete drilling Dave borrows $50,000 from investment banker J. T. Varley and also begins a romance with Varley's daughter Alice. Varley suffers market reverses and knowing that Dave is about to strike oil hires Simmons to wreck the rig so he can foreclose and take over.

Two in Revolt

Two in Revolt
6/10
A dog and a horse become unlikely allies when they attempt to thwart a crooked gambler from rigging a race.

Corpus Christi Bandits

Corpus Christi Bandits
6/10
After the Civil War, veteran Jim Christi (Allan Lane) returns to Texas, where he is unjustly accused of murder. In flashback, Mr. Christi relates the story of his father Corpus Christi Jim. After robbing a stage, Jim and partners Rocky and Steve decide to go straight and return the money. But the fourth member of the gang, Spade refuses and leaves. The two former partners soon find themselves on opposite sides of the law.

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