The best John "Skins" Miller’s crime movies

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John "Skins" Miller

06/11/1890- 15/07/1956
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Criss Cross

Criss Cross
7.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 04/02/1949
  • Character: Midget (as John Skins Miller)
Burt Lancaster plays Steve Thompson, a man who seals his dark fate when he returns to Los Angeles to find his ex-wife Anna Dundee (Yvonne DeCarlo) eager to rekindle their love against all better judgement. She encourages their affair but then quickly marries mobster Slim Dundee (Dan Duryea). To deflect suspicion of the affair, Steve Thompson leads Dundee into a daylight armored-truck robbery.

We Who Are About to Die

We Who Are About to Die
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/01/1937
  • Character: Macy
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.

The Jury's Secret

The Jury's Secret
6.4/10
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.

Internes Can't Take Money

Internes Can't Take Money
6.9/10
The young Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished ex-con Janet Healy, widow of a bank robber, who can't find her baby. Later she helps Kildare sew up gangster Hanlon in a tavern back room. Kildare pursues Janet and enlists Hanlon to help her; the gangster's solution, not surprisingly, is violent.

Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite

Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
6.1/10
  • Genre: ActionComedyCrime
  • Release: 12/08/1939
  • Character: San Francisco Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.

Devil Pays Off

Devil Pays Off
5.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaWar
  • Release: 10/11/1941
  • Character: Flop-House Night Clerk
A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy.

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