The best Jerome Cowan’s thriller movies

Jerome Cowan

Jerome Cowan

05/10/1897- 24/01/1972
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The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon
8/10
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

High Sierra

High Sierra
7.5/10
Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.

Private Property

Private Property
6.7/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 20/01/1960
  • Character: Ed Hogate
A hoodlum (Corey Allen) plots to seduce a lonely housewife (Kate Manx) and turn her over to his virginal friend (Warren Oates).

Moontide

Moontide
6.8/10
After a drunken night out, a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man.

Riff-Raff

Riff-Raff
6.8/10
A private detective foils the plans of villains attempting to take over Panamanian oilfields when he hides a valuable map in plain sight.

Cry Wolf

Cry Wolf
6.6/10
  • Genre: MysteryThriller
  • Release: 18/07/1947
  • Character: Sen. Charles Caldwell
A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband's family.

Fog Island

Fog Island
5.3/10
Leo, a former convict, is living in seclusion on an island with his step-daughter, the daughter of his late wife. Leo was framed by a group of former business associates, and he also suspects that one of them killed his wife. He has invited the group to his island, tempting them by hinting about a hidden fortune, and he has installed a number of traps and secret passages in his home. He is aided in his efforts by a former cell-mate who holds a grudge against the same persons. When everyone arrives, the atmosphere of mutual suspicion and the thick fog that covers the island promise a tense and hazardous weekend for everyone.

Guest in the House

Guest in the House
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 08/12/1944
  • Character: Ernest Hackett
Evelyn, an emotionally vulnerable and unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan Proctor. There she meets and falls in love with his brother, Douglas, who is happily married to Ann. Evelyn then sets forth to break up the happy marriage and win the love of Douglas.

Night Has a Thousand Eyes

Night Has a Thousand Eyes
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 13/10/1948
  • Character: Whitney Courtland
When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship to John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition. His partner, Whitney Courtland, uses Triton's talent to make money; but Triton's inability to prevent what he foresees, causes him to break up the act and become a hermit. Years later, Triton has new visions and desperately tries to prevent tragedies in the Courtland family. Can his warnings succeed against suspicion, unbelief, and inexorable fate?

Deadline at Dawn

Deadline at Dawn
6.8/10
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.

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