The best James Dunn’s crime movies

James Dunn

James Dunn

02/11/1901- 03/09/1967
We present our ranking of the best James Dunn’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 James Dunn.

Welcome Home

Welcome Home
7.1/10
A con artist attends a reunion in his hometown and discovers that his former classmates are trying to trick an old millionaire into returning to build a factory.

Baby Take a Bow

Baby Take a Bow
6.4/10
Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time. Five years later, Eddie and his ex-convict buddy Larry, have both gone straight, and Eddie and Kay have a beautiful little girl named Shirley. However, Welch has kept a close eye on them for years. He believes in "once a criminal, always a criminal." Then, when Eddie's employer's wife's pearls go missing, it comes out that Eddie and Larry both spent time in prison, and they're fired. Welch suspects that Eddie and Larry have something to do with the theft of the pearls. Will Welch prove that Eddie and Larry had something to do with the theft, or will the truth prevail?

Shadow Over Elveron

Shadow Over Elveron
6.6/10
A corrupt sheriff knows the secrets of everyone in town and uses that information to go unchallenged. But after the arrest of an innocent teenager, the new doctor cannot keep quiet and tries to get the community to stand up for what is right.

The Payoff

The Payoff
5.6/10
An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.

Arizona to Broadway

Arizona to Broadway
5.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeRomance
  • Release: 22/07/1933
  • Character: Smiley Wells
In the small town of Larrup, Arizona, Smiley, a con-artist traveling with cohorts Kingfish, Morris and Ambrose, persuades Lynn Martin, a traveling demonstrator of pancake making, to accompany him to a carnival, where Kingfish sells a large number of bottles of Bambo, an elixir...

The Girl in 419

The Girl in 419
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 26/05/1933
  • Character: Dr. Daniel French
A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a card-game murder.

The Caribbean Mystery

The Caribbean Mystery
5.7/10
The Caribbean Mystery is a remake of Mr. Moto on Danger Island (1939)-which in turn was a remake of Murder in Trinidad. James Dunn stars as Mr. Smith, a Columbo-like Brooklyn detective who pops up on a tropical island to track down some missing geologists.

Handle with Care

Handle with Care
7.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 25/12/1932
  • Character: Bill Gordon
Bill Gordon (James Dunn), whose lot-in-life is rising, falls in love with Helen Barlow (Boots Mallory), who is raising two cute motherless children who nearly wreck her romance when they can't understand why grown-ups kiss...and other complications.

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