The best Van Johnson’s crime movies

Van Johnson

Van Johnson

25/08/1916- 12/12/2008
Today we present the best Van Johnson’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 Van Johnson’s movies.

23 Paces to Baker Street

23 Paces to Baker Street
6.9/10
Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to find a kidnapped child. When he gets no help from the police, he along with his butler, and his ex fiancée, attempt to track down the crooks.

The Concorde Affair

The Concorde Affair
5.5/10
A reporter tries to stop the crash of an aircraft after uncovering an airline's plot to save their business by sabotaging Concorde flights and have them decommissioned.

Remains to Be Seen

Remains to Be Seen
6.2/10
A singer and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves facing danger at every turn.

Superdome

Superdome
2.9/10
It's Superbowl. And there's a lot of drama, one of the players, Dave Wolecki, has been so preoccupied with the game and if his bum knee will hold out until the game, has been completely ignoring his wife. And McCauley, the team's star quarterback, is being courted by a management firm, and the man the firm has assigned to get him into the firm has been told that if he doesn't get him, he will be out. But that's nothing compared to the real drama. There's a killer running around. It seems that the syndicate doesn't want the highly favored Cougars to win. They tried to get the team's trainer to drug or incapacitate some players, and when he refuses he is killed. So, the team's manager has to try and find out who the killer is, before he does some real damage.

Scene of the Crime

Scene of the Crime
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 28/07/1949
  • Character: Mike Conovan
A cop investigates the shooting of another policeman... that may have been involved in crooked activities.

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
6.1/10
In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate who Dr. Gillespie believes belongs instead in an insane asylum.

From Corleone to Brooklyn

From Corleone to Brooklyn
6.4/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 13/04/1979
  • Character: Lieutenant Sturges
Maurizio Merli takes up a familiar role as Commissioner Berni; a cop who puts his life on the line to transport a witness from Corleone to New York City in order to testify against a mob boss on trial for murder. Along the way, Berni and his prisoner face a series of traps set up by the Mafia.

Taxi Killer

Taxi Killer
5.6/10
Catherine Hickland plays a taxi driver who is robbed and gang raped. She is then stalked by her attackers who also kill her father played by Chuck Connors. She finally snaps and seeks revenge. This film was produced by Fred Williamson and directed by Stelvio Massi but was never officailly finished or released.

Eye of the Spider

Eye of the Spider
4.7/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 01/11/1971
  • Character: Prof. Orson Krüger
A diamond robber, who was left behind in the hands of the police, gets out of prison and teams up with the man who funded the robbery, but who never saw the loot, to get even with the other members of the gang.

When in Rome

When in Rome
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeDrama
  • Release: 11/05/1952
  • Character: Father John X. Halligan
An American fugitive flees to Rome and tries to elude capture by masquerading as a priest.

For the Common Defense!

For the Common Defense!
5.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 20/06/1942
  • Character: Agent Pritchard
This Crime Does Not Pay short shows how cooperation among all the nations of the Americas helps the war effort. In this case, a US government agent travels to Chile and Colombia. He works with local authorities to try to thwart an Axis plan to ship stolen ammunition.

Subway in the Sky

Subway in the Sky
5.7/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 01/11/1959
  • Character: Major Baxter Grant
Berlin provides the backdrop for this crime drama that centers on a military doctor falsely accused of dealing illegal drugs. Determined to prove his innocence, he escapes from the MPs and ends up holing up in the apartment his wife rented. He doesn't know that she has sublet the flat to a nightclub singer. When he finds out, he begs the singer to assist him. She is attracted to him and agrees. The doctor believes that his wife is behind the black-market dealings, but in the end, they find the real culprit.

Murder in the Big House

Murder in the Big House
6.3/10
When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...

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