The best Jack Elam’s crime movies

Jack Elam

Jack Elam

13/11/1920- 20/10/2003
Today we present the best Jack Elam’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 Jack Elam’s movies.

Hannie Caulder

Hannie Caulder
6.3/10
Hannie enlists the aid of bounty hunter Tom Price to teach her how to be a gunfighter so she can hunt down the 3 men who killed her husband and raped her.

Kansas City Confidential

Kansas City Confidential
7.3/10
A down-on-his-luck ex-GI finds himself framed for an armored car robbery. When he's finally released for lack of evidence--after having been beaten up and tortured by the police--he sets out to discover who set him up, and why. The trail leads him into Mexico and a web of hired killers and corrupt cops.

Baby Face Nelson

Baby Face Nelson
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 11/12/1957
  • Character: Fatso Nagel
Famed Depression-era gangster “Baby Face Nelson” (Mickey Rooney) robs and kills while accompanied by his beautiful moll (Carolyn Jones).

Edge of Eternity

Edge of Eternity
6.4/10
Helped by socialite Janice Kendon and barkeeper Scott O'Brien, Arizona deputy sheriff Les Martin works to solve three brutal murders in and around the Grand Canyon. His efforts leads to the killer fleeing with Janice as a hostage and a chase by car and helicopter lead to a climax on a miner's bucket on cables a mile above the canyon floor.

Count the Hours!

Count the Hours!
6.2/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 01/04/1953
  • Character: Max Verne
A lawyer defends a migrant worker in a sensational murder trial.

One Way Street

One Way Street
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/04/1950
  • Character: Arnie (uncredited)
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.

Appointment in Honduras

Appointment in Honduras
5.5/10
On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett, an American carrying money for a Honduran counter-revolution. Denied permission to land in Honduras, Corbett releases the prisoners and with their aid hijacks the ship. They land, taking the wealthy Sheppards as hostages, and start the arduous trip upriver to Corbett's rendezvous, meeting jungle hazards

The Gun Runners

The Gun Runners
6.3/10
Remake of "To Have and Have Not" based on Hemingway short story. Plot reset to early days of Cuban revolution. A charter boat skipper gets entangled in gunrunning scheme to get money to pay off debts. Sort of a sea-going film noir with bad girl, smarmy villain, and the "innocent" drawn into wrong side of law by circumstances.

The Girl in Lovers Lane

The Girl in Lovers Lane
3.1/10
Two drifters contend with love and murder in a small town.

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