The best Joe Downing’s movies

Joe Downing

Joe Downing

26/06/1903- 16/10/1975
Today we present the best Joe Downing’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 Joe Downing’s movies.
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Belle Starr

Belle Starr
5.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 12/09/1941
  • Character: Jim Cole
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr (Scott) Belle Shirley (Tierney) vows to take revenge. Breaking Starr out of prison, she joins his small guerrilla group for a series of raids on banks and railroads, carpetbaggers and enemy troops. Belle's bravado during the attacks earns her a reputation amongst the locals as well as the love of Starr himself. The pair get married, but their relationship starts to break down when Sam Starr lets a couple of psychotic rebels into the gang, leaving Belle to wonder if he really cares about the Southern cause.

Another Thin Man

Another Thin Man
7.3/10
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.

Angels with Dirty Faces

Angels with Dirty Faces
7.9/10
In New York, the boys Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly are best friends and small time thieves. After a robbery, Rocky is arrested and sent to a reformatory school, where he begins his criminal career. Jerry escapes and later becomes a priest. After three years in prison, Rocky is released and demands the return of $100,000 deposited with his solicitor - prior to his jail term.

Dr. Socrates

Dr. Socrates
6.5/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 19/10/1935
  • Character: Cinq Laval
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.

Invisible Stripes

Invisible Stripes
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 30/12/1939
  • Character: Johnny
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.

A Slight Case of Murder

A Slight Case of Murder
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 26/02/1938
  • Character: Innocence
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.

Larceny, Inc.

Larceny, Inc.
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 24/04/1942
  • Character: Smitty
Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers...

Each Dawn I Die

Each Dawn I Die
7.2/10
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.

Unholy Partners

Unholy Partners
6.5/10
A crusading newsman starts up a tabloid with a gangster as his 50-50 partner.

Racket Busters

Racket Busters
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/07/1938
  • Character: Joe Pender
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.

The Devil's Party

The Devil's Party
5.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 02/06/1938
  • Character: Frank Diamond
Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.

Lucky Jordan

Lucky Jordan
6.4/10
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.

Slaughter on 10th Avenue

Slaughter on 10th Avenue
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/09/1957
  • Character: Eddie 'Cockeye' Cook
A rookie assistant DA is assigned to investigate the murder of a longshoreman, killed for exposing gangster involvement on the piers, and meets up with a "code of silence" amongst all potential witnesses.

Torchy Runs for Mayor

Torchy Runs for Mayor
6.3/10
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.

Fighting Trouble

Fighting Trouble
5.1/10
An overambitious shutterbug almost gets his lights put out permanently when he decides to snap a picture of a mob boss.

Blood

Blood
4.8/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 01/09/1973
  • Character: The New Realton
A mysterious family moves into their new home, but their secrets are far more sinister than anyone could imagine.

The Lady in the Morgue

The Lady in the Morgue
5.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 22/04/1938
  • Character: Steve Collins
A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.

Strange Alibi

Strange Alibi
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 19/04/1941
  • Character: Benny McKaye
An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true identity.

San Francisco Docks

San Francisco Docks
7/10
Longshoreman Johnny Barnes is in love with Kitty Tracy, barmaid at her father's waterfront saloon, and he beats up Cassidy, a crooked politician who has been annoying her. Cassidy is murdered that night and Johnny is jailed for the crime. Kitty, her father Andy Tracy, and waterfront-priest Father Cameron believe Johnny is innocent but all evidence points to his guilt.

Smashing the Money Ring

Smashing the Money Ring
5.6/10
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.

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