The best Harry Hayden’s crime movies

Harry Hayden

Harry Hayden

08/11/1882- 24/07/1955
Today we present the best Harry Hayden’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 Harry Hayden’s movies.
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Out of the Past

Out of the Past
8/10
Jeff Bailey seems to be a mundane gas station owner in remote Bridgeport, CA. He is dating local girl Ann Miller and lives a quiet life. But Jeff has a secret past, and when a mysterious stranger arrives in town, Jeff is forced to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.

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.

Fury

Fury
7.8/10
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.

This Gun for Hire

This Gun for Hire
7.4/10
Sadistic killer-for-hire Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.

The Woman in the Window

The Woman in the Window
7.6/10
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

Gun Crazy

Gun Crazy
7.6/10
Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival. After upsetting the carnival owner who lusts after Starr, they both get fired. Soon, on Starr's behest, they embark on a crime spree for cash.

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.

Black Friday

Black Friday
6.3/10
University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and when Cannon offers him a reward for aiding his recovery, Kovac transplants part of Cannon's brain into the dying Kingsley's skull, creating a dual personality.

The Blue Dahlia

The Blue Dahlia
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/04/1946
  • Character: Mr. Hughes - Assistant Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Soon after a veteran's return from war his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.

Sleepers West

Sleepers West
6.6/10
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.

Marked Woman

Marked Woman
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 10/04/1937
  • Character: Man Bringing Graham Coroner's Report (uncredited)
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.

Black Legion

Black Legion
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 30/01/1937
  • Character: Jones
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.

Intruder in the Dust

Intruder in the Dust
7.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 22/11/1949
  • Character: Mr. Mallison
Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man, holding a pistol that has recently been fired. Quickly arrested for murder and jailed, Beauchamp insists he's innocent and asks the town's most prominent lawyer, Gavin Stevens, to defend him, but Stevens refuses. When a local boy whom Beauchamp has helped in the past and who believes him to be innocent hears talk of a mob taking Beauchamp out of jail and lynching him, he pleads with Stevens to defend Beauchamp at trial and prove his innocence.

A Man Betrayed

A Man Betrayed
5.9/10
Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is actually a crook. The price of integrity is sweet in this instance, since Wayne happens to be in love with the politician's daughter (Frances Dee).

Double Alibi

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

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 11/01/1940
  • Character: Dan
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.

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.

Key Witness

Key Witness
5.8/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 09/10/1947
  • Character: Custer Bidwell
A man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn't commit.

Night in New Orleans

Night in New Orleans
5.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaMystery
  • Release: 01/07/1942
  • Character: Dr. Brady, Coroner's Physician (Uncredited)
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.

They All Come Out

They All Come Out
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 04/08/1939
  • Character: Educational Director (uncredited)
A down on his luck young man stumbles into a gang of robbers who all get landed in prison. Will he be reformed, or is he ensnared into a life of crime?

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