The best John Harron’s crime movies

John Harron

John Harron

31/03/1903- 24/11/1939
Today we present the best John Harron’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 John Harron’s movies.
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The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties
7.9/10
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

Marked Woman

Marked Woman
7.1/10
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.

Each Dawn I Die

Each Dawn I Die
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 22/07/1939
  • Character: Jerry - a Reporter (uncredited)
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.

They Made Me a Criminal

They Made Me a Criminal
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 21/01/1939
  • Character: First Fight Radio Announcer (uncredited)
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.

King of the Underworld

King of the Underworld
6.4/10
After the killing of her husband by friendly fire during a police raid, Dr. Carole Nelson tries to find gangster Joe Gurney to clear her name with the medical board.

Secret Service of the Air

Secret Service of the Air
5.7/10
Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.

Racket Busters

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

Calling Philo Vance

Calling Philo Vance
5.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 03/02/1940
  • Character: Third Reporter (uncredited)
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.

Tear Gas Squad

Tear Gas Squad
5.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 04/05/1940
  • Character: Taxi Driver
A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.

A Fugitive from Justice

A Fugitive from Justice
5/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 15/06/1940
  • Character: Cab Driver (uncredited)
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.

Torchy Blane in Panama

Torchy Blane in Panama
5.9/10
Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.

The Daredevil Drivers

The Daredevil Drivers
4.8/10
To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her rival.

Blackwell's Island

Blackwell's Island
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeDrama
  • Release: 24/01/1939
  • Character: Deputy District Attorney (uncredited)
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.

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.

He Couldn't Say No

He Couldn't Say No
5.7/10
A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marriage furniture on a statue of a pretty girl, which he refuses to part with at any cost.

Torchy Blane in Chinatown

Torchy Blane in Chinatown
6.1/10
Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and death-threats written in Chinese characters.

Blondes at Work

Blondes at Work
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 05/02/1938
  • Character: Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.

Code of the Secret Service

Code of the Secret Service
5.2/10
Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.

Torchy Gets Her Man

Torchy Gets Her Man
6.5/10
A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands.

Men In Exile

Men In Exile
5.6/10
An ex-con takes flight after he's framed for a jewelry store robbery and murder.

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