The best Harry Wilson’s crime movies

Harry Wilson

Harry Wilson

22/11/1897- 06/09/1978
We present our ranking of the best Harry Wilson’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 Harry Wilson.
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Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot
8.2/10
Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings - such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor.

Batman

Batman
6.1/10
Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies. The great crime-fighters Batman and Robin, with the help of their allies, are in pursuit.

Robin and the 7 Hoods

Robin and the 7 Hoods
6.4/10
In prohibition-era Chicago, the corrupt sheriff and Guy Gisborne, a south-side racketeer, knock off the boss Big Jim. Everyone falls in line behind Guy except Robbo, who controls the north side. Although he's out-gunned, Robbo wants to keep his own territory. A pool-playing dude from Indiana and the director of a boys' orphanage join forces with Robbo; and, when he gives some money to the orphanage, he becomes the toast of the town as a hood like Robin Hood. Meanwhile, Guy schemes to get rid of Robbo, and Big Jim's heretofore unknown daughter Marian appears and goes from man to man trying to find an ally in her quest to run the whole show. Can Robbo hold things together?

Honky Tonk

Honky Tonk
6.6/10
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.

The Mayor of Hell

The Mayor of Hell
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 24/06/1933
  • Character: Joe's Henchman (uncredited)
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.

Invisible Stripes

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

Convicted

Convicted
6.8/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 01/08/1950
  • Character: Convict in Prison Yard (uncredited)
A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.

You Only Live Once

You Only Live Once
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/01/1937
  • Character: Convict Watching Baseball Game (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.

Night Court

Night Court
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 04/06/1932
  • Character: Acquitted Truck Driver (uncredited)
A corrupt night court judge tears an innocent young family apart in his efforts to elude a special prosecutor.

The Big House

The Big House
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 14/06/1930
  • Character: Inmate #46375 (uncredited)
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.

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

20,000 Years in Sing Sing
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 24/12/1932
  • Character: Seated Prisoner (uncredited)
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.

Sworn Enemy

Sworn Enemy
6.1/10
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.

Duffy of San Quentin

Duffy of San Quentin
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/03/1954
  • Character: Lou
San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse.

He Couldn't Say No

He Couldn't Say No
5.7/10
A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marriage furniture on a statue of a pretty girl, which he refuses to part with at any cost.

The Tip-Off

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

The Wrong Road

The Wrong Road
5.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 11/10/1937
  • Character: Convict (uncredited)
A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.

A Gun in His Hand

A Gun in His Hand
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 15/09/1945
  • Character: Ex-Con Thug (uncredited)
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young man graduates from the police academy at the top of his class. He then teams up with some local thieves and uses his knowledge of police procedures to pursue a career of undetected crime.

Shadow of the Law

Shadow of the Law
6.3/10
John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been. The embarrassed Nelson excuses himself and goes to his rooms in the same hotel. The woman rushes into his apartment followed by the man who met her in the hall. The man threatens her with violence and Nelson comes to her defense. In the ensuing fight, the man is knocked out of the window and falls to his death to the pavement many stories down. He is charged with the killing and his only witness that can prove self-defense for him has disappeared, and can not be found.

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