The best Leo Cleary’s movies

Leo Cleary

Leo Cleary

15/06/1894- 11/04/1955
Today we present the best Leo Cleary’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 Leo Cleary’s movies.
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White Heat

White Heat
8.1/10
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.

Love Nest

Love Nest
6.2/10
Jim and Connie's postwar New York building troubles keep Jim from working on his novel. Ex-WAC from Jim's army days Roberta moves in, further upsetting Connie but pleasing Jim's friend Ed. Tenant Charley, who marries tenant Eadie, loans money to Jim to help him keep the building, money which this Casanova obtains from rich widows.

Dance, Girl, Dance

Dance, Girl, Dance
6.8/10
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.

Lightning Strikes Twice

Lightning Strikes Twice
6.5/10
Richard Trevelyan was convicted of murdering his wife, given an 11th-hour Death Row reprieve and freed under unusual circumstances after a retrial. But his past does not matter to Shelley Carnes, an actress visiting the Texas ranch land that Richard calls home; she has fallen in love with him. But after she marries him, Shelley is beset by doubts and fear.

A Date with the Falcon

A Date with the Falcon
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 16/01/1942
  • Character: Detective Brody
In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée, Helen Reed, when a mystery girl, Rita Mara, asks for his aid in disposing of a secret formula for making synthetic diamonds. He deliberately allows himself to be kidnapped by the gang for which Rita works. His aide, "Goldy" Locke, trails the kidnappers and brings the police. But the head of the gang escapes, and the Falcon continues the pursuit.

State Penitentiary

State Penitentiary
6.2/10
A man wrongly accused of a crime must decide between getting involved in a prison break, or remaining in jail until his wife can prove his innocence.

The Great Jewel Robber

The Great Jewel Robber
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 15/07/1950
  • Character: Haley (uncredited)
Director Peter Godfrey's 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the notorious jewel thief known as "The Hollywood Raffles", whose famous robbery victims included such real-life celebrities as Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith and Dennis Morgan. David Brian stars in the title role, and he's supported by John Archer, Marjorie Reynolds, Jacqueline de Wit, Alix Talton, Ned Glass, Perdita Chandler and columnist Sheilah Graham, playing herself.

Millionaires in Prison

Millionaires in Prison
5.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 12/07/1940
  • Character: Deputy Taking Collins to Prison (uncredited)
A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.

You Can't Fool Your Wife

You Can't Fool Your Wife
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/05/1940
  • Character: Mr. Doolittle
Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky than idyllic.

The Human Jungle

The Human Jungle
5.9/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 03/10/1954
  • Character: Karns
Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with juvenile delinquency, petty crimes, graft and also a recent unsolved murder of a strip-tease dancer. Recognizing the laxity of the department he implements many changes and soon finds himself under fire by the newspapers, the attorney of a racket leader and the denizens of this human jungle.

Confidence Girl

Confidence Girl
6/10
After successfully swindling thousands of dollars from hapless victims, conflicted con artist Mary (Hillary Brooke) decides to go straight, but her greedy boyfriend and partner, Roger (Tom Conway), convinces her to pull off one final scam before they get married. Written and directed by Andrew L. Stone, this classic crime film finds the police struggling to keep up with the deceptive duo's exceedingly complicated schemes.

Bells of Coronado

Bells of Coronado
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 08/01/1950
  • Character: Dr. Frank Harding
An insurance investigator must track down thieves before they take off in a plane with stolen uranium ore.

The Red Menace

The Red Menace
4.9/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 01/08/1949
  • Character: Father O'Leary
A couple try to leave the Communist party after a murder by the group they were once loyal to.

Desert of Lost Men

Desert of Lost Men
6.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 19/11/1951
  • Character: Dr. Stephens
Rocky Lane arrives at the town of Bear Creek to help insure the safe arrival of forty thousand dollars the citizens have raised to build a new hospital. After one of the town's doctors is killed in an ambush, Rocky devises a plan with the remaining doctor and sheriff to smoke out the bad guys.

The Pride of St. Louis

The Pride of St. Louis
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1952
  • Character: Houston Mgr. Ed Monroe (as Leo T. Cleary)
The story of Jerome "Dizzy" Dean, a major-league baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs in the 1930s and 1940s.

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