Jack Overman

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• Movie7.3

  CrimeDrama

  Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?

  Brute Force

  1947 · 220 votes

• Movie5.5

  ActionAdventure

  U.S. Air Force aviator Jim Shannon is tasked with escorting a Soviet pilot claiming -- at the height of the Cold War -- that she wants to defect. After falling in love with and marrying her, Shannon learns from his superiors that she's a spy on a mission to extract military secrets. To save his new wife from prison and deportation, Shannon devises a risky plan.

  Jet Pilot

  1957 · 50 votes

• Movie6.8

  CrimeThriller

  Two T-men, U.S. Treasury agents, go undercover in Detroit, and then Los Angeles, in an attempt to break a U.S. currency counterfeiting ring.

  T-Men

  1947 · 98 votes

• Movie5.3

  RomanceWestern

  Johnny Hart is on the run from the law after killing one of the men who shot his partner. He passes through a town and stops at a saloon owned by singer Lorena Dumont. The two seem a good, albeit tempestuous match, although Johnny has no plans to marry -- Lorena has other ideas and a shotgun wedding ensues.

  Frontier Gal

  1945 · 6 votes

• Movie6.0

  MysteryCrime

  Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that belonged in her deceased husband's collection. Marlowe begins investigating, but quickly finds himself entangled in a series of unexplained murders.

  The Brasher Doubloon

  1947 · 39 votes

• Movie6.7

  Comedy

  In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.

  The Naughty Nineties

  1945 · 32 votes

• Movie6.0

  CrimeDrama

  George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death.

  Johnny Angel

  1945 · 30 votes

• Movie6.2

  CrimeDrama

  A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his criminal past.

  The Crooked Way

  1949 · 33 votes

• Movie6.6

  CrimeDrama

  Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.

  Force of Evil

  1950 · 145 votes

• Movie6.2

  Action

  American, Chinese and Australian agents join forces to stop the Nazis from obtaining the formula for synthetic fuel.

  Secret Agent X-9

  1945 · 6 votes

• Movie5.6

  Comedy

  A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.

  Miss Grant Takes Richmond

  1949 · 9 votes

• Movie5.9

  ThrillerCrime

  Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky, who gets out a week before Nick, to murder Jess... who, dying, tells revenge-minded Johnny that he'd written a clue "in the Bible." Frustrated, Johnny obsessively searches for the missing Gideon Bible from Jess's hotel room.

  Red Light

  1949 · 24 votes

• Movie5.6

  CrimeDrama

  Attorney Walter Colby has ties to the mob, but he begins to regret his criminal affiliations. When his girlfriend, showgirl Flaxy Martin, who also has shady connections, becomes a suspect in a murder, Walter takes the fall. However, on his way to prison, he escapes, determined to bring the real killer to justice.

  Flaxy Martin

  1949 · 21 votes

• Movie5.6

  HorrorScience Fiction

  Once again Paula the ape woman is brought back to life, this time by a mad doctor and his disfigured assistant, who also kidnaps a nurse in order to have a female blood donor.

  The Jungle Captive

  1945 · 19 votes

• Movie6.5

  ComedyMystery

  Two private eyes compete to find an heiress and bring her back, unmarried, to New York.

  The Runaround

  1946 · 2 votes

• Movie6.3

  AdventureComedy

  Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an insurance investigator. Margie won't marry Biff, though, because she is the sole support of her kid brother, Johnny. Biff gets involved with Bonnie, a young woman he tries to rescue from gangsters. But Biff's attempts to help her only get him accused of murder. When the police refuse to believe his story, it's up to Biff and Johnny to prove Biff's innocence and solve the crime.

  The Good Humor Man

  1950 · 7 votes

• Movie8.0

  ComedyDrama

  Joe Palooka goes blind during a fight. An operation restores his vision, but he's told not to fight for a year. His trainer Knobby has picked up another fighter, but gangsters are pressing him to fix fights. Joe decides to risk his eyesight to save Knobby's honor.

  Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad

  1948 · 2 votes

• Movie6.0

  Comedy

  At a college, a group of ex-GIs clash with their wives about over playing football.

  Yes Sir, That's My Baby

  1949 · 2 votes

• Movie7.5

  CrimeDrama

  Lloyd Bridges plays a flying ace war hero who gets sucked into a counterfeiting scheme by opposing gangs of crooks.

  Secret Service Investigator

  1948 · 2 votes

• Movie5.2

  Crime

  A drugged man covered in blood is picked up by police. Before the cops can get answers the man escapes in search of answers to the mystery himself.

  Fall Guy

  1947 · 13 votes

• Movie4.7

  CrimeDrama

  A gang of bank robbers is pursued by an insurance investigator.

  Assigned to Danger

  1948 · 7 votes

• Movie4.8

  Science FictionCrime

  While investigating the theft of a valuable jade statue known as "The Missing Lady" -- and the subsequent murder of an art dealer -- imperceptible sleuth Lamont Cranston aka the Shadow finds himself being blamed for the crime. It doesn't help the Shadow's claims of innocence when more bodies begin piling up. Good thing he knows exactly who's guilty among an increasingly smaller group of suspects.

  The Missing Lady

  1946 · 12 votes

• Movie7.0

  Comedy

  When the prison choir loses its leader, the boys try to get him back in.

  Honeymoon Ahead

  1945 · 2 votes