The best Jay Eaton’s crime movies

Jay Eaton

Jay Eaton

17/03/1899- 05/02/1970
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The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep
7.9/10
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.

Whirlpool

Whirlpool
6.7/10
The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.

Manhattan Melodrama

Manhattan Melodrama
7.1/10
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

The Blue Dahlia

The Blue Dahlia
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/04/1946
  • Character: Bar Patron (uncredited)
Soon after a veteran's return from war his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.

Bullets or Ballots

Bullets or Ballots
7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 06/06/1936
  • Character: Man Sitting with Lee (uncredited)
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.

City for Conquest

City for Conquest
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaMusic
  • Release: 21/09/1940
  • Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?

Castle on the Hudson

Castle on the Hudson
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 17/02/1940
  • Character: Dance Partner of 'Sweetheart' in Nightclub (uncredited)
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.

The Unfaithful

The Unfaithful
6.8/10
Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.

The Golden Fleecing

The Golden Fleecing
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 16/08/1940
  • Character: Clerk
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

Champagne Charlie

Champagne Charlie
5.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 06/05/1936
  • Character: Passenger in Corridor
The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.

Convicted Woman

Convicted Woman
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 31/01/1940
  • Character: Floorwalker (uncredited)
A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.

Out of the Fog

Out of the Fog
6.8/10
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.

City of Chance

City of Chance
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 13/01/1940
  • Character: Gambling House Patgron
Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.

The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date

The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
6.1/10
Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana trying to solve the crime and make a profit.

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