The best Jack Kruschen’s crime movies

Jack Kruschen

Jack Kruschen

20/03/1922- 02/04/2002
We present our ranking of the best Jack Kruschen’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 Jack Kruschen.

No Way Out

No Way Out
7.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 16/08/1950
  • Character: Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited)
The Biddle brothers, shot while robbing a gas station, are taken to the prison ward of the County Hospital; Ray Biddle, a rabid racist, wants no treatment from black resident Dr. Luther Brooks. When brother John dies while Luther tries to save him, Ray is certain it's murder and becomes obsessed with vengeance. But there are black racists around too, and the situation slides rapidly toward violence.

Sunburn

Sunburn
5/10
An enthralling & action-packed comedy-thriller, full of blistering excitement.

Caprice

Caprice
5.5/10
Doris Day stars as Patricia Foster, an industrial designer, when see sells a secret cosmetics formula to a competitor the troubles never stop.

Julie

Julie
6.2/10
A terrified stewardess is stalked by her psychotic estranged husband.

Freebie and the Bean

Freebie and the Bean
6.6/10
Two San Francisco detectives want to bring down a local hijacking boss. But they'll have to get to him before a hitman does.

Cry Terror!

Cry Terror!
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 02/05/1958
  • Character: Agent Charles Pope
A mad bomber holds an innocent family hostage.

Red, Hot and Blue

Red, Hot and Blue
6/10
A Broadway director (Victor Mature) rescues a starlet (Betty Hutton) from mobsters who blame her for a shooting.

The Night Holds Terror

The Night Holds Terror
6.3/10
A group of escaped convicts holds a household prisoner as the police close in.

Hart to Hart: Home Is Where the Hart Is

Hart to Hart: Home Is Where the Hart Is
7/10
When a mentor and friend of Jennifer's dies, she and Jonathan return to the sleepy town where Jennifer once lived and worked as a reporter. Nearly immediately, they discover that all is not right within this picturesque town. The town's economic troubles pale next to the danger the Harts find themselves in as they try to sort out whether their friend's death was murder, and what sinister secrets may lie behind the truth.

Reform School Girl

Reform School Girl
5.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/08/1957
  • Character: Mr. Horvath
A teen girl is thrown into reform school for refusing to squeal on her delinquent boyfriend where she ends up meeting his ex-girlfriend and the jealous tempers fly.

Deadly Intentions

Deadly Intentions
7/10
Katherine married Dr. Charles Raynor. She later discovers that Raynor is a sadist who torments her physically and mentally. She divorces him and take their child away. He then decides to kill her but when his plot is discovered he is charged with attempted murder and brought to trial.

Confidence Girl

Confidence Girl
6/10
After successfully swindling thousands of dollars from hapless victims, conflicted con artist Mary (Hillary Brooke) decides to go straight, but her greedy boyfriend and partner, Roger (Tom Conway), convinces her to pull off one final scam before they get married. Written and directed by Andrew L. Stone, this classic crime film finds the police struggling to keep up with the deceptive duo's exceedingly complicated schemes.

The Decks Ran Red

The Decks Ran Red
6.1/10
A band of dishonest seamen plans a murderous mutiny aboard the S.S. Berwind.

The November Plan

The November Plan
7.2/10
A hard-nosed private detective investigates a suspected overthrow of the U.S. government. Loosely based on The Business Plot of 1933.

Dial Red O

Dial Red O
6.5/10
The first of the five films where Bill Elliott played a detective lieutenant in the L.A Sheriff's department, Dial Red "O" (the correct title with the number 0 (zero), as on a telephone dial, shown in ") opens with war-torn veteran Ralph Wyatt getting word that his wife is divorcing him, and he flees the psychiatric ward of the veteran's hospital, wanting to talk to her. His escape touches off an all-out manhunt, led by Lieutenant Andy Flynn of the sheriff's department.

The Steel Jungle

The Steel Jungle
5.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 10/03/1956
  • Character: Truckdriver Helper
The tale of a young bookie, married to a beautiful woman who goes to jail, and becomes involved with hoodlums.

Women from Headquarters

Women from Headquarters
5.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/05/1950
  • Character: Sam
Joyce Harper is an ex-Army nurse who enters police work with the L.A. Police Department, when her friend Ruby gets involved with a petty crook, Max Taylor refuses to listen to Joyce's warnings, and eventually marries the hoodlum. Joyce gets through the detailed trained required to become an L.A. policewoman, and she and her newly-assigned detective partner, Harvey Gates cleanup up a skid-row Bar-girl scheme.And she and Gates are told to get the goods on a narcotics gang ran by Richard Cott , and Ruby and Max Taylor reappear.

The Great Diamond Robbery

The Great Diamond Robbery
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 29/01/1954
  • Character: Cafe Counterman (uncredited)
Ambrose C. Park, left on a park bench as an infant with an impulsive need to find his parents, is an assistant to a diamond cutter. Shyster lawyer Remlick, in a strategy to get a fabulous uncut diamond through Ambrose, arranges for Emily Drummon, Duke Fargoh and Maggie Drummon to pose as Ambrose's long-lost parents and sister. The diamond, through many comic situations, is acquired and the gang is going to have Ambrose cut the diamond, and relieve him of the two stones and his parental illusions at the same time. But Maggie, who has no taste for the deception, tips Ambrose off and a wild chase ensues. At the end, Ambrose is very happy as he can now marry his "sister."

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