The best Jackson Beck’s movies
We present our ranking of the best Jackson Beck’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 Jackson Beck.
Radio Days
7.4/10
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.
Power
5.7/10
Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to quit politics, he is rapidly drafted to help with the campaign of the man destined to succeed him, unknown and mysterious businessman Jerome Cade...
Take the Money and Run
7.2/10
Virgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent.
Cry Uncle!
4.9/10
Private detective Jack Masters takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail.
Superman
7.2/10
After The Daily Planet receives a letter from a mad scientist threatening to wreak destruction with his Electrothanasia Ray, Lois Lane heads out in the hopes of getting more information for a news story.
The Bulleteers
6.9/10
Criminals with rocket powered car loot and extort the city, and only Superman can stop them!
Electric Earthquake
6.8/10
A scientist uses an earthquake machine to threaten the city, and only Superman can stop his extortion plan!
Showdown
6.8/10
Superman's reputation is tarnished when a crook begins committing crimes in a Superman costume.
Jungle Drums
6.3/10
Superman discovers a secret Nazi base in the jungle.
Eleventh Hour
6.1/10
Using Clark Kent as a cover, Superman travels to Japan as a saboteur during the war.
Show-Business at War
7/10
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
Secret Agent
6.4/10
A double agent trying to deliver information to Washington, D.C. is chased by Nazi operatives.
Volcano
6.9/10
Superman comes to the rescue when a volcano erupts.
Destruction, Inc.
6.4/10
Superman has to thwart wartime saboteurs tampering with things at the Metropolis Munitions Plant...who have captured Lois Lane and loaded her into a torpedo!
3-D Rarities
8.1/10
Selections include Kelley's Plasticon Pictures, the earliest extant 3-D demonstration film from 1922 with incredible footage of Washington and New York City; New Dimensions, the first domestic full color 3-D film originally shown at the World’s Fair in 1940; Thrills for You, a promotional film for the Pennsylvania Railroad; Stardust in Your Eyes, a hilarious standup routine by Slick Slavin; trailer for The Maze, with fantastic production design by William Cameron Menzies; Doom Town, a controversial anti-atomic testing film mysteriously pulled from release; puppet cartoon The Adventures of Sam Space, presented in widescreen; I’ll Sell My Shirt, a burlesque comedy unseen in 3-D for over 60 years; Boo Moon, an excellent example of color stereoscopic animation…and more!
Billion Dollar Limited
7/10
Robbers target a special train carrying a billion dollars worth of gold, and the only one who can stop them is Superman!
The Underground World
6.7/10
Superman has to save Lois Lane from a cult of hawk-people in an homage to Edgar Rice Burroughs's "At the Earth's Core".
Japoteurs
6.3/10
Superman vs. Japanese spies hijacking a new super-bomber.
The Mechanical Monsters
7.4/10
Superman battles a criminal mastermind and his robot army.
The Arctic Giant
6.7/10
A frozen Tyrannosaurus rex is found and put on display in a museum, but when he thaws out and revives, Superman has to stop his rampage!
