The best Jack Overman’s movies

Jack Overman

Jack Overman

26/03/1917- 24/12/1949
Today we present the best Jack Overman’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 Overman’s movies.
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Brute Force

Brute Force
7.6/10
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?

T-Men

T-Men
6.9/10
Two U.S. Treasury ("T-men") agents go undercover in Detroit, and then Los Angeles, in an attempt to break a U.S. currency counterfeiting ring.

The Naughty Nineties

The Naughty Nineties
7/10
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.

Fall Guy

Fall Guy
5.9/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 15/03/1947
  • Character: Mike
A drugged man covered in blood is picked up by police. Before the cops can get answers the man escapes in search of answers to the mystery himself.

The Jungle Captive

The Jungle Captive
5.1/10
Once again Paula the ape woman is brought back to life, this time by a mad doctor and his disfigured assistant, who also kidnaps a nurse in order to have a female blood donor.

The Good Humor Man

The Good Humor Man
6.3/10
Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an insurance investigator. Margie won't marry Biff, though, because she is the sole support of her kid brother, Johnny. Biff gets involved with Bonnie, a young woman he tries to rescue from gangsters. But Biff's attempts to help her only get him accused of murder. When the police refuse to believe his story, it's up to Biff and Johnny to prove Biff's innocence and solve the crime.

Frontier Gal

Frontier Gal
5.8/10
Johnny Hart (Rod Cameron) is on the run from the law after killing one of the men who shot his partner. He passes through a town and stops at a saloon owned by singer Lorena Dumont (Yvonne de Carlo). The two seem a good, albeit tempestuous match, although Johnny has no plans to marry -- Lorena has other ideas and a shotgun wedding ensues.

The Crooked Way

The Crooked Way
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 22/04/1949
  • Character: Hood
A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his criminal past.

Chicago Deadline

Chicago Deadline
6.3/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 17/10/1949
  • Character: Lou Horan (Uncredited)
On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Ames comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.

Secret Agent X-9

Secret Agent X-9
6.6/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 24/07/1945
  • Character: Marker
American, Chinese and Australian agents join forces to stop the Nazis from obtaining the formula for synthetic fuel.

Flaxy Martin

Flaxy Martin
6.5/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 15/02/1949
  • Character: Caesar
Messing with a mobster's girlfriend gets a lawyer framed for murder.

The Brasher Doubloon

The Brasher Doubloon
6.5/10
Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that belonged in her deceased husband's collection. Marlowe begins investigating, but quickly finds himself entangled in a series of unexplained murders.

Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad

Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 07/02/1948
  • Character: Truck Driver
Joe Palooka goes blind during a fight. An operation restores his vision, but he's told not to fight for a year. His trainer Knobby has picked up another fighter, but gangsters are pressing him to fix fights. Joe decides to risk his eyesight to save Knobby's honor.

Assigned to Danger

Assigned to Danger
5.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 19/05/1948
  • Character: Biggie Kritz
A gang of bank robbers is pursued by an insurance investigator.

The Missing Lady

The Missing Lady
5.4/10
  • Release: 17/08/1946
  • Character: Ox
While investigating the theft of a valuable jade statue known as "The Missing Lady" -- and the subsequent murder of an art dealer -- imperceptible sleuth Lamont Cranston aka the Shadow (Kane Richmond) finds himself being blamed for the crime. It doesn't help the Shadow's claims of innocence when more bodies begin piling up. Good thing he knows exactly who's guilty among an increasingly smaller group of suspects.

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