The best Leon Ames’s thriller movies
We present our ranking of the best Leon Ames’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 Leon Ames.
The Postman Always Rings Twice
7.4/10
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
Jake Speed
4.9/10
Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford) is the lead character in some of the biggest page-turners of the 1940s. A chiseled, heroic action figure, Speed saves lives on paper, but when a young girl is kidnapped and her sister (Karen Kopins) begs the real-life Speed for help, he must find a way to be as gallant as the book hero whose creation he's inspired. Accompanied by the victim's sibling, Speed flies to Africa to see if he's up to the task.
Angel Face
7.2/10
An ambulance driver gets involved with a rich girl that might have a darker side.
Dial 1119
6.7/10
A killer holds the customers at a bar hostage.
The Thin Man Goes Home
7.3/10
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
Lady in the Lake
6.5/10
Private detective Philip Marlowe is asked by a publishing executive, Adrienne Fromsett, to locate the wife of her boss, publisher Derace Kingsby. Earlier she had sent her husband a telegram saying she was heading to Mexico to marry Chris Lavery. However Kingsby had recently seen Lavery in the neighbouring Bay City. Marlowe pursues his investigation at the Kingsby's lakeside cottage.
Crisis
6.7/10
An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when he's forced to operate on a South American dictator.
Mr. Moto in Danger Island
6.7/10
In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find themselves involved in murders by thrown daggers, the frame-up of an overstressed Army colonel, and a pirate gang led by an unknown boss who has inside knowledge of the ensuing investigation.
Song of the Thin Man
6.9/10
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
Claws
4.1/10
"Claws!' is about a grizzly bear who is wounded by three hunters one year. From then on, the bear goes on a killing spree in the woods, trying to take revenge on humans as a whole for its brush with the hunters. Jason and Chris Monroe, estranged husband and wife, go in search of the bear after it kills their only son, Buck.
Sherlock Holmes in New York
5.8/10
An affectionate bow to the master sleuth in this lavishly produced original that has Holmes rushing to New York City after discovering that his old nemesis, Moriarty, has kidnapped the son of the detective's long-time love, actress Irene Adler.
Mysterious Mr. Moto
6.7/10
The Japanese detective (Peter Lorre) rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.
Charlie Chan on Broadway
7/10
Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to insure her silence.
The Velvet Touch
6.8/10
After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.
East Side Kids
5.5/10
After living all his chilhood in the street, a young boy notices rapidly that crime doesn't pay and that´s why he decides to become a policeman. One day, one of his best friends go in prison for a murder he didn't commit. Immediately the policeman tries his best to release him and prove his innocence.
