The best Ethan Laidlaw’s crime movies

Ethan Laidlaw

Ethan Laidlaw

25/11/1899- 25/05/1963
Today we present the best Ethan Laidlaw’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 Ethan Laidlaw’s movies.
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To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird
8.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 20/12/1962
  • Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.

The Killers

The Killers
7.7/10
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

The Stranger

The Stranger
7.3/10
A man working for the War Crimes Commission suspects that an important Nazi official has folded himself into a quaint Connecticut town.

Jesse James

Jesse James
7/10
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.

Invisible Stripes

Invisible Stripes
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 30/12/1939
  • Character: Cop Outside Police Station (uncredited)
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.

Union Station

Union Station
6.8/10
Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.

Racket Busters

Racket Busters
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/07/1938
  • Character: Martin's Henchman (uncredited)
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.

You Only Live Once

You Only Live Once
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/01/1937
  • Character: Tommy, a Prison Guard (uncredited)
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.

Slaughter on 10th Avenue

Slaughter on 10th Avenue
6.7/10
A rookie assistant DA is assigned to investigate the murder of a longshoreman, killed for exposing gangster involvement on the piers, and meets up with a "code of silence" amongst all potential witnesses.

Blackmail

Blackmail
6.7/10
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.

Lucky Legs

Lucky Legs
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 01/10/1942
  • Character: Duke
Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the money on a production called "Lucky Legs" that will star her. Unfortunately, the money has "made the rounds" prior to reaching Gloria and several less-than-scrupulous characters set out to separate Gloria from her inheritance.

Double Alibi

Double Alibi
6.2/10
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.

Juvenile Court

Juvenile Court
5.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 10/09/1938
  • Character: Police Car Driver (uncredited)
Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the cause of Dutch's crimes, enlists the aid of Dutch's sister, Marcia Adams, to get the slum dwellers at appeal for public monies to provide recreational places for the slum kids.

Murders in the Zoo

Murders in the Zoo
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeHorror
  • Release: 31/03/1933
  • Character: Policeman Reardon (Uncredited)
Dr. Gorman is a millionaire adventurer, traveling the world in search of dangerous game. His bored, beautiful, much younger wife entertains herself in the arms of other men. In turn, Gorman uses his animals to kill these men. When a New York City zoo suggests a fundraising gala, Gorman sees a prime opportunity to dispatch the dashing Roger and anyone else who might cross him.

Special Investigator

Special Investigator
6/10
A lawyer changes from defending public enemies to bringing them to justice after his brother is killed.

Dust Be My Destiny

Dust Be My Destiny
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/09/1939
  • Character: Cop in Montage (uncredited)
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.

A Fugitive from Justice

A Fugitive from Justice
5/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 15/06/1940
  • Character: Policeman in First Montage (uncredited)
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.

Parole Girl

Parole Girl
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 04/03/1933
  • Character: Guard
A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.

Gun Smoke

Gun Smoke
6/10
Following a killing and robbery in a big city back east, gang leader Kedge Darvas and some of his henchies take a train to a small western town in Idaho, with intentions of hiding out there until things cool down back in Chi or NYC, or wherever they lammed from.They are welcomed with open arms by the citizens under the impression they are there as capital investors with money to spend. Before long, Darvas figures the town is ripe for the taking and sends word for reinforcements, and each arriving train unloads a few suits and snappy-brim hats.Then they get rough, kill Sheriff Posey Meed and rile up the citizens, led by cowhand Brad Farley, who had Darvas spotted for a wrong number just by the way he made moves on Sue Vancey.

The Tip-Off

The Tip-Off
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 16/10/1931
  • Character: Henchman
A young radio repairman becomes involved with gangsters and one of their girlfriends when he repairs their radio.

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