The best John Wray’s crime movies
We present our ranking of the best John Wray’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about John Wray.
You Only Live Once
7.2/10
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
8.2/10
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
Doctor X
6.4/10
A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.
Blackmail
6.7/10
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.
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.
The Defense Rests
6.5/10
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
We Who Are About to Die
6.5/10
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.
Gangs of New York
6.2/10
An undercover cop infiltrates a powerful New York based crime syndicate.
I Am a Thief
6.2/10
A man dodges jewel thieves while carrying a fortune in diamonds on the Orient Express.
Almost a Gentleman
6.3/10
Saving a dog from the pound gets a man mixed up in murder.
Sworn Enemy
6.1/10
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
Men Without Names
6.6/10
A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.
Quick Millions
6.3/10
A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pillar of the community.
The Crosby Case
5.9/10
Former lovers get together to clear themselves when the police suspect them of murder.
The Big Shakedown
6.2/10
Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products.
Silence
6.2/10
A gray-haired convict, within the shadows of the gallows, tells his story to the prison chaplain beginning twenty years earlier when he was sent to prison for a crime he did not commit.
Crime Takes a Holiday
6.6/10
A district attorney uses psychology to expose a criminal gang by publicizing the prosecution of an innocent man.
A Man Betrayed
5.6/10
A businessman during the Great Depression discovers that his partners are crooked con-men, and he tries to make things right for the stockholders, but gets framed.
Know Your Money
6.3/10
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short tells the fictitious story of a bill counterfeiting ring and explores the government's attempt to curb counterfeiting.
What Price Safety!
6.1/10
Racketeers muscle in on construction business, use inferior materials, make big profits and endanger the public safety.
