The best Jan Merlin’s movies

Jan Merlin

Jan Merlin

03/04/1925- 20/09/2019
Today we present the best Jan Merlin’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 Jan Merlin’s movies.
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Buried Alive

Buried Alive
6.4/10
A married woman and her lover plot to kill her husband to make off with the insurance money. However, their attempt to murder him using poisonous fish toxins backfires when he awakens inside his coffin and returns from the grave, hellbent on revenge.

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeHistory
  • Release: 30/06/1967
  • Character: Willie Marks
Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it.

Permanent Record

Permanent Record
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/04/1988
David Sinclair seems to have everything going for him: he's smart, musically talented, and very successful. To top off his senior year in high school, his band is trying to get a recording session. Therefore, David's suicide leaves everyone, especially his best friend and band-mate, Chris, with a lot of questions.

Take the Money and Run

Take the Money and Run
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 18/08/1969
  • Character: Al - Bank Robber
Virgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent.

The Hindenburg

The Hindenburg
6.2/10
In this highly speculative historical thriller, Colonel Franz Ritter (George C. Scott), a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security. As he races against the clock to uncover a possible saboteur aboard the doomed zeppelin he finds that any of the passengers and crew could be the culprit.

Illegal

Illegal
7/10
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.

Guns of Diablo

Guns of Diablo
5.6/10
14-year-old Kurt Russell plays Jamie, an orphaned boy heading westward with a wagon train. Charles Bronson is a wagon scout Linc Murdock, who runs into difficulties when he meets old flame Maria (Susan Oliver), who is now married to corrupt lawman Rance Macklin (Jan Merlin). The jealous Macklin has Murdock arrested, but Maria frees him, permitting Murdock and Jamie to embark on a new adventure involving a "lost" gold mine.

Hell Bent for Leather

Hell Bent for Leather
6.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/02/1960
  • Character: Travers
When Clay Santell stops in the town of Sutterville after having his horse stolen, he is mistaken by townspeople for a murderer named Travers. The townspeople capture Santell, and turn him over to lawman Harry Deckett. Deckett, who is tired of chasing the real Travers, decides to kill Santell and pass him off as Travers. Santell escapes from Deckett, taking lovely Janet Gifford hostage in the process. Janet comes to believe Santell's story, and helps him in his struggle to prove his real identity.

Six Bridges to Cross

Six Bridges to Cross
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 19/01/1955
  • Character: Andy Norris
Follow the evolution of a small time juvenile delinquent hood to a big time racketeer. Based on the famous 1950 Brinks Robbery in Boston that netted the crooks $2.5 million. The story delves into the psychology of the perpetrators, as well as the intricate mechanics of the hold-up.

Screaming Eagles

Screaming Eagles
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 27/05/1956
  • Character: Lt. Pauling
A group of young soldiers parachute into France in preparation for D-Day.

The Slams

The Slams
5.9/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 26/09/1973
  • Character: Saddler
Rival prison factions surround a Los Angeles convict (Jim Brown) who has $1.5 million stashed on the outside.

Gunfight at Comanche Creek

Gunfight at Comanche Creek
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 06/11/1963
  • Character: Nielson
Comanche Creek, Colorado, 1875: Prisoner Jack Mason is broken out of jail by a gang of strangers. They use him in a robbery, then when the dead-or-alive reward is high enough, they shoot him and collect. The National Detective Agency, now knowing the gang's methods, arranges to have agent Bob Gifford jailed in Comanche Creek for train robbery. The gang takes the bait (not before Gifford catches the eye of lovely saloon-keeper Abbie). But how will the bait get off the hook?

I Escaped From Devil's Island

I Escaped From Devil's Island
5.4/10
In 1916, a group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.

Cole Younger, Gunfighter

Cole Younger, Gunfighter
5.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 30/03/1958
  • Character: Frank Wittrock
An outlaw must decide whether to stick his neck out for an innocent man.

A Day of Fury

A Day of Fury
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/05/1956
  • Character: Billy Brand
A Day Of Fury stars Jock Mahoney as town marshal Alan Burnett, whose life is saved by a stranger he meets on the trail. His rescuer turns out to be Jagade (Dale Robertson), a gunslinger just returned after years away, who finds when he gets into town that he can't abide the peace that has been settled between "his" people (i.e. the saloon-keepers, gamblers, etc.) and the righteous, "respectable" folk.

Nowhere to Run

Nowhere to Run
4.8/10
Rural Texas, 1960 -- An age of good times and innocence, when growing up was supposed to be easy. Six high school seniors know the terrible secret that will make the difference in the biggest election in the county's history. Now they must make the most difficult decision of their lives. They must become adults. Written by Concorde - New Horizons

A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story

A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/11/1992
  • Character: Jury Foreman
A teenage mother is forced to give up her baby for adoption and, 19 years later, when she tries to contact her son, she learns that he died, under questionable circumstances when he was three years old.

Silk 2

Silk 2
4.4/10
Silk, the smoothest, toughest, and sexiest cop in Honolulu is hot on the trail of ruthless art smugglers who are after a priceless Asian Scroll. Silk will stop at nothing to get her man, even if it means blowing up an entire building.

Running Wild

Running Wild
6/10
To get evidence against a crooked garage owner, a rookie cop masquerades as a hard case who wants a job as a mechanic.

A Strange Adventure

A Strange Adventure
5.6/10
A trio of thieves make their getaway by kidnapping a young hot-rodder, and take over a mountain cabin for a hideout after overpowering its occupants.

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