The best Taylor Holmes’s crime movies

Taylor Holmes

Taylor Holmes

16/05/1878- 30/09/1959
Today we present the best Taylor Holmes’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 Taylor Holmes’s movies.
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Nightmare Alley

Nightmare Alley
7.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 09/10/1947
  • Character: Ezra Grindle
Stanton Carlisle joins a seedy carnival, working with "Mademoiselle Zeena" and her alcoholic husband, Pete.

Kiss of Death

Kiss of Death
7.4/10
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.

Boomerang!

Boomerang!
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 28/02/1947
  • Character: T.M. Wade
In a quiet Connecticut town, a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner. The citizens are horrified and demand action from the police. All of the witnesses identify John Waldron, a nervous out-of-towner, as the killer. Although Waldron vehemently denies the crime, no one will believe him. District Attorney Henry Harvey is then put on the case and faces political opposition in his attempt to prove Waldron's innocence. Based on a true story.

Caged

Caged
7.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 19/05/1950
  • Character: Sen. Ted Donnolly (uncredited)
Caged tells the story of a teenage newlywed, who is sent to prison for being an accessory to a robbery. Her experiences while incarcerated, along with the killing of her husband, change her from a very frightened young girl into a hardened convict.

Woman in Hiding

Woman in Hiding
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 22/11/1950
  • Character: Lucius Maury
Deborah Chandler's rejected suitor, Selden Clark, manages the factory of her father, who dies a suspicion death. But charming Clark manages to win her over and marry her. On the honeymoon, Clark's former girl Patricia intervenes and opens Deborah's eyes, alas too late. Now Clark tries to kill Deborah. Believed dead by all but Clark, she flees. But drifter Keith Ramsey recognizes and follows her. Can she trust him? Can he believe her?

Quicksand

Quicksand
6.6/10
Young auto mechanic Dan Brady takes $20 from a cash register at work to go on a date with blonde femme fatale Vera Novak. Brady intends to put the money back before it is missed, but the garage's bookkeeper shows up earlier than scheduled. As Brady scrambles to cover evidence of his petty theft, he fast finds himself drawn into an ever worsening "quicksand" of crime.

Beware, My Lovely

Beware, My Lovely
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 29/08/1952
  • Character: Walter Armstrong
A psychopath on the run takes a job as a handyman at the house of a lonely widow.

Hoodlum Empire

Hoodlum Empire
6/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 15/04/1952
  • Character: Benjamin Lawton
It's a deadly play for power when a Mafia chieftain's top gun goes straight and threatens to testify against the big boss and his cruel, nationwide network of crime. The picture, which was shot in a semi-documentary style, was inspired by the Kefauver investigations of 1950-51.

Before Morning

Before Morning
5.2/10
A night of love, intrigue, death and blackmail leaves stage-star Elise Manning's fate at stake in a conflict with the unscrupulous Doctor Gruell. A rejected lover dies in Miss Manning's apartment, and Gurell implies that the death was murder and attempts to blackmail the actress. The climax brings the actress, her fiancé and the dead-man's wife face-to-face in an emotional denouement.

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