The best Lew Ayres’s crime movies

Lew Ayres

Lew Ayres

28/12/1908- 30/12/1996
Today we present the best Lew Ayres’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 Lew Ayres’s movies.

The Unfaithful

The Unfaithful
6.8/10
Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.

Murder with Pictures

Murder with Pictures
5.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 24/09/1936
  • Character: Kent Murdock
Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for the news men where Murdock romances a mystery woman who confronted Girard in front of him, but Murdock's fiancée Hester shows up. After they return to his apartment, have a fight, and she leaves, the mystery woman slips in and begs for his help. Police Inspector Bacon and the cops show up, looking for the mystery woman; Murdock hides her. Murdock goes with the cops to discuss the murder the woman is suspected of. Bacon explains (in flashback) how some photogs were setting up a shot with Girard and Redfield. When the flashbulbs popped, Redfield keeled over dead and the woman, Meg Archer, fled while the newsmen ran out to phone their papers. The newsmen (who were rounded up later as thoroly as possible) are taken into police custody, except for Murdock (who wasn't at the scene), who is given a cap on the sly by rival McGoogin. Altho ...

The Doorway to Hell

The Doorway to Hell
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 18/10/1930
  • Character: Louie Ricarno
A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and retire to Florida after marrying his moll. Unfortunately, he has no idea that she and the man are lovers.

No Escape

No Escape
5.5/10
A woman and a songwriter suspected of murder join forces to crack the case.

Big News

Big News
5.4/10
A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.

The Golden Fleecing

The Golden Fleecing
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 16/08/1940
  • Character: Henry Twinkle
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

Dr. Kildare's Victory

Dr. Kildare's Victory
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 04/02/1942
  • Character: Dr. James Kildare
Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore) supports Kildare's (Lew Ayres) crusade against their hospital's deal with a rival hospital.

Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart

Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart
6.5/10
In their very last adventure, Jonathan and Jennifer Hart travel to The Big Apple, where a play she wrote in college is being produced on Broadway. But there's sabotage going on, and when a stagehand is murdered, everyone's a suspect - even Jonathan!

East Is West

East Is West
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/10/1930
  • Character: Billy Benson
Ming Toy is on the auction block in China. She is saved by Billy and taken to San Francisco by Lo Sang Kee. To save her from deportation she is sold to Charlie Yong, the Chop Suey King. Billy kidnaps her with plans of marriage.

Silk Hat Kid

Silk Hat Kid
6.6/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 19/07/1935
  • Character: Eddie Howard
Eddie Howard, a fast-thinking, two-fisted bodyguard, is hired by nightclub-owner Tim Martin to protect him from chiseling gangsters operating an extortion-racket. But Eddie meets and falls in love with Laura Grant, Tim's sweetheart, and complications quickly arise.

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