The best James Best’s crime movies

James Best

James Best

26/07/1926- 06/04/2015
Today we present the best James Best’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 James Best’s movies.

Hot Tamale

Hot Tamale
5.5/10
A road trip to Los Angeles inadvertently leads a young man from Wyoming into a wild maze of psychotic hit-men, racy women, jewel thieves and a salsa band.

Rolling Thunder

Rolling Thunder
6.9/10
A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. When thugs invade his home to steal the silver coins he received for his service, they mangle his hand and leave him and his family for dead. Rane survives and becomes obsessed with getting revenge. Aided by his loyal friend Johnny Vohden, Rane, now wielding a hook for a hand, sets out on his mission of vengeance.

One Way Street

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

Run, Simon, Run

Run, Simon, Run
6.3/10
A Papago Indian returns to his reservation after a prison term and searches for his brother's killer.

Hot Summer Night

Hot Summer Night
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 15/02/1957
  • Character: Kermit
An out-of-work reporter (Leslie Nielsen) seeks out a bank robber, and his bride (Colleen Miller) has to rescue him.

I Was a Shoplifter

I Was a Shoplifter
6.1/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 13/05/1950
  • Character: Police Broadcaster in Surveillance Plane (uncredited)
A police detective uses any means possible to trap a gang of shoplifters.

Calling Homicide

Calling Homicide
6.5/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 30/09/1956
  • Character: Det. Arnie Arnhoff
Cop Andy Doyle investigates a car-bombing murder and the killing of a sleazy modeling agency owner. Are they connected?

Man on the Prowl

Man on the Prowl
5.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/12/1957
  • Character: Doug Gerhardt
A neglected wife (Mala Powers) unknowingly places her family in danger when she becomes friends with a psychologically disturbed deliveryman (James Best).

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