The best Jay Adler’s thriller 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.

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.

99 River Street

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Belle Sommers

Belle Sommers
6.7/10
A woman recording artist with a past tries to shake off a gangster syndicate.

Seven Guns to Mesa

Seven Guns to Mesa
4.4/10
A band of outlaws, led by "Papa" Clellan, hold up in a ghost town as they plan an attack on a wagon train loaded with gold. The unexpected arrival of a stagecoach forces the gang to hold the passengers and driver as hostages. The later arrival of a wanderer, John Trey, sets in motion events not in "Papa" Clellan's original plan.

The Saint in New York

The Saint in New York
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 25/05/1938
  • Character: Eddie (Uncredited)
A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through unorthodox methods. Templar sets his sights on individual crimes bosses, and after bringing down two vicious leaders through disguise and deception, discovers that there is a mastermind behind all the city's crime.

The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go

The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go
3.4/10
An American draft dodger and aspiring writer named Nero Finnigan (Jeff Bridges) becomes involved with the notorious Mr. Go (James Mason), an oriental organized crime mastermind. They conspire to blackmail an American weapons scientist into providing secrets to Mr. Go's organization for resale to the highest bidder. "The Dolphin" then arrives, who is an American CIA agent and James Joyce scholar, and is charged with recovering the scientist and his work by whatever means necessary.[1]

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