The best Lew Kelly’s crime movies
Today we present the best Lew Kelly’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 Kelly’s movies.
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.
Honky Tonk
6.6/10
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
Bowery at Midnight
5.3/10
Soup kitchen operator and criminologist Bela Lugosi operates a soup kitchen as a front for a criminal gang who commit a series of robberies and murders.
The Spellbinder
6.3/10
Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father’s courtroom performance, but unaware of his back-room tactics, marries the killer her father has just unjustly save from the electric chair. What’s a poor father to do?
Afraid to Talk
7/10
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
The Falcon Takes Over
6.4/10
While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him to be a prime suspect for a number of mishaps.
The Gay Falcon
6.5/10
Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along with sidekick Jonathan "Goldie" Locke, he agrees to look into a series of home party robberies that have victimized socialite Maxine Wood. The duo gets more than they bargained for when a murder is committed at Wood's home, but Lawrence still finds time to romance the damsel.
Parole Girl
6.5/10
A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.
Keep 'em Slugging
6.2/10
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
Star Reporter
5.5/10
An idealistic young newspaper reporter crusades against organized crime.
Virtue
6.9/10
Given a second chance after her arrest for prostitution, Mae decides to go straight. Mae is soon befriended by kindly cab driver Jimmy Doyle who gets her work at a diner, where she meets Gert, another former prostitute. Mae and Jimmy fall in love, marry and save to buy a small business. Gert then pleads for money from Mae, which results in her unwitting involvement in a crime. Believing Mae has lied and cheated him, Jimmy threatens to leave her.
King for a Night
6.8/10
A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.
They Gave Him a Gun
6.3/10
With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.
Vanity Street
6.7/10
A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".
The Woman Racket
6.1/10
During a raid, a cop lets a pretty speakeasy employee escape and later begins dating her. Although she loves him, his salary and dull life leave her wanting.
Laughter in Hell
7.1/10
In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.
