The best Selmer Jackson’s crime movies

Selmer Jackson

Selmer Jackson

07/05/1888- 30/03/1971
Today we present the best Selmer Jackson’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 Selmer Jackson’s movies.
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Doctor X

Doctor X
6.4/10
A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.

Three on a Match

Three on a Match
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 29/10/1932
  • Character: Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Mary, Vivian and Ruth are former schoolmates who do some catching up after a chance meeting. Of the three women, Vivian, who married successful lawyer Robert, seems to have the most glamorous life. Vivian really isn't satisfied though, and soon deserts Robert and her son for Mike, a mobster. Before long, Vivian is hooked on drugs, and Mike needs cash.

The Little Giant

The Little Giant
7/10
Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.

Invisible Stripes

Invisible Stripes
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 30/12/1939
  • Character: Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.

Pitfall

Pitfall
7.1/10
An insurance man's affair with a blonde leads to guilt, murder and a confession to his wife.

Paper Bullets

Paper Bullets
5.4/10
Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local crime organization.

Parole!

Parole!
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 14/06/1936
  • Character: Earl Bigbee
Louis Friedlander-directed film

San Quentin

San Quentin
5.9/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 16/12/1946
  • Character: Rev. Eckles
An ex-con sets up a program to straighten out hard-core prisoners. Things don't go as planned.

Each Dawn I Die

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.

Allotment Wives

Allotment Wives
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/11/1945
  • Character: Deacon Sam
Unscrupulous women marry servicemen for their pay.

City for Conquest

City for Conquest
7.2/10
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?

Undercover Agent

Undercover Agent
5.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 19/04/1939
  • Character: John Graham
A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.

Chinatown Squad

Chinatown Squad
6.2/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 31/05/1935
  • Character: Detective
Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.

Circumstantial Evidence

Circumstantial Evidence
5.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 20/04/1945
  • Character: Warden
A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.

The Fuller Brush Man

The Fuller Brush Man
6.8/10
Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make good when he becomes a Fuller Brush man. His awkward attempts at sales are further complicated when one of his customers is murdered and he becomes the prime suspect.

Public Hero Number 1

Public Hero Number 1
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 31/05/1935
  • Character: Simpson - Prison Board Member (uncredited)
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.

Picture Snatcher

Picture Snatcher
7/10
  • Genre: ActionCrimeDrama
  • Release: 06/05/1933
  • Character: Joe Chase - Record Editor (uncredited)
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.

Scandal Sheet

Scandal Sheet
7.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/10/1939
  • Character: Douglas Haynes
The crimes of a tabloid publisher (Otto Kruger) are exposed by a reporter (Edward Norris), his secret illegitimate son.

Wife Wanted

Wife Wanted
5.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 02/11/1946
  • Character: Lowell Cornell
Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond (Kay Francis) buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell (Paul Cavanagh). Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed (Veda Ann Borg), Caldwell runs a matrimonial bureau and, with the aid of his associate, Lee Kirby (John Gallaudet), they defraud and blackmail a large group of lonely people. Carole, unknowingly, is used as bait for one of their victims, Walter Desmond (Barton Yarborough), who "commits suicide." Reporter William Tyler (Robert Shayne) thinks otherwise.

Millionaires in Prison

Millionaires in Prison
5.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 12/07/1940
  • Character: Dr. Harry Lindsay
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.

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