The best Jay Adler’s movies

Jay Adler

Jay Adler

26/09/1896- 23/09/1978
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The Killing

The Killing
7.9/10
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.

Crime of Passion

Crime of Passion
6.4/10
Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a dangerous path.

The Big Combo

The Big Combo
7.3/10
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.

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.

99 River Street

99 River Street
7.4/10
A former boxer --now taxi driver-- gets mixed up with jewel thieves.

Assignment: Paris

Assignment: Paris
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 04/09/1952
  • Character: Henry (uncredited)
Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race (Andrews) is sent by his boss (Sanders) behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.

The Family Jewels

The Family Jewels
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/07/1965
  • Character: Attorney
A young heiress must choose between six uncles, one of which is up to no good and out to harm the girl's beloved bodyguard who practically raised her.

Vice Squad

Vice Squad
6.7/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 31/07/1953
  • Character: Frankie Pierce
A Los Angeles police captain (Edward G. Robinson) ties the case of a slain policeman to a bank robbery, all in a day.

The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 20/02/1958
  • Character: Pawnbroker
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father, betrothed to Katya, herself lovely and rich. The other brothers include a sterile aesthete, a factotum who is a bastard, and a monk. Family tensions erupt when Dmitri falls in love with one of his father's mistresses, the coquette Grushenka. Two brothers see Dmitri's jealousy of their father as an opportunity to inherit sooner. Acts of violence lead to the story's conclusion: trials of honor, conscience, forgiveness, and redemption.

Love Me or Leave Me

Love Me or Leave Me
7.1/10
A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom.

Three Secrets

Three Secrets
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/10/1950
  • Character: Editor (uncredited)
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption. As the three await news of his rescue at a mountain cabin, they recall incidents from five years earlier and why they were forced to give up their son.

My Six Convicts

My Six Convicts
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 20/03/1952
  • Character: Steve Kopac
A psychologist takes on the daunting task of getting into the mind of prisoners. He must gain the trust and cooperation from a group of men who have no reason to help him and who might enjoy killing him.

All the Fine Young Cannibals

All the Fine Young Cannibals
6/10
An ambitious farm girl rushes into marriage with a rich man, almost destroying four lives in the process.

Cry Danger

Cry Danger
7.3/10
After serving five years of a life sentence, Rocky Mulloy hopes to clear his friend who's still in prison for the same crime.

Macon County Line

Macon County Line
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 08/08/1974
  • Character: Impound Yard Man
A vengeful Southern sheriff is out for blood after his wife is brutally killed by a pair of drifters. Low-budget film set in Georgia in 1953 and based on fact.

The Long Wait

The Long Wait
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 26/05/1954
  • Character: Joe the Bellhop
The Long Wait is a mystery thriller written by Mickey Spillane. A man gets in a car accident and is badly burned. He also cannot remember his own identity.

The Underworld Story

The Underworld Story
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 26/07/1950
  • Character: Munsey's Assistant (uncredited)
A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.

Down Three Dark Streets

Down Three Dark Streets
6.7/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 02/09/1954
  • Character: Uncle Max - aka Charles Martell
An FBI Agent takes on the three unrelated cases of a dead agent to track down his killer.

Grave of the Vampire

Grave of the Vampire
5/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 23/08/1972
  • Character: Zach
A vampire awakens from a long sleep to attack a couple making love in a graveyard. He then rapes the woman, who later gives birth to his son. The newborn infant will only drink blood from his mother's breast.

The Catered Affair

The Catered Affair
7.4/10
At breakfast, Jane announces that she and Ralph are getting married the next week. All Jane and Ralph want is a small wedding with the immediate family and no reception. This is because Jane's parents are poor and Jane and Ralph can borrow a car for their honeymoon. However, at dinner that night all Ralph's parents talk about are the big weddings they gave their daughters and everything escalates. All of a sudden, it is a big wedding breakfast with hundreds of guests. The problem is that for 12 years, Tom has been saving money to buy his own cab and license, but now that he can, all of his money is going towards a wedding neither he, or Jane or Ralph really want.

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