Cast: Joe Downing

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Joe Downing. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Each Dawn I Die

1939 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction William Keighley

Cast James Cagney · George Raft · Jane Bryan · George Bancroft

Synopsis Although innocent, reporter Frank Ross is found guilty of murder and is sent to jail. While his friends at the newspaper try to find out who framed him, Frank gets hardened by prison life and his optimism turns into bitterness....

6.8

301 votes

6.8

301 votes

Slaughter on Tenth Avenue

1957 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Arnold Laven

Cast Richard Egan · Jan Sterling · Dan Duryea · Julie Adams

Synopsis Three men gun down Solly Pitts, 'rebel' against the racket-ridden Longshoremen's Union. Before dying, Pitts tells his wife 'Cockeye' Cook was one of the killers...but won't repeat it to the police, nor will anyone else help them. It seems it's...

6.7

30 votes

6.7

30 votes

Invisible Stripes

1939 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast George Raft · Jane Bryan · William Holden · Humphrey Bogart

Synopsis Cliff Taylor (George Raft) is an ex-con who wants to go straight, but since being released from prison on parole, he finds it hard to find and hold a job because of his criminal past. His brother Tim (William Holden)...

6.7

123 votes

6.7

123 votes

The Big Shot

1942 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Irene Manning · Richard Travis · Susan Peters

Synopsis Three time loser Duke Berne risks life in prison with one more armored car robbery. His attorney's wife Lorna, Berne's old sweetheart, keeps him from it but he goes to jail anyway. Duke and Lorna get some time together again...

6.6

156 votes

6.6

156 votes

A Slight Case of Murder

1938 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Jane Bryan · Allen Jenkins · Ruth Donnelly

Synopsis Remy Marco announces he's going legit with the end of Prohibition. His fortune declines because the beer he makes tastes terrible. His daughter falls in love with a rich man's son who gets a job as a cop.

6.5

75 votes

6.5

75 votes

You Can't Get Away with Murder

1939 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Gale Page · Billy Halop · John Litel

Synopsis Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie...

6.1

94 votes

6.1

94 votes

Dr. Socrates

1935 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Paul Muni · Ann Dvorak · Barton MacLane · Robert Barrat

Synopsis A small-town doctor gets mixed up with gangsters.

5.8

39 votes

5.8

39 votes

Belle Starr

1941 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Irving Cummings

Cast Randolph Scott · Gene Tierney · Dana Andrews · Shepperd Strudwick

Synopsis Biography from outlaw Belle Starr (Gene Tierney). The setting is the Civil War and its aftermath. Belle's family has lost their land to Yankees. She marries Confederate guerilla leader Sam Starr (Randolph Scott) and they continue activities against exploiters.. Highly...

5.6

129 votes

5.6

129 votes

San Francisco Docks

1940 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast Burgess Meredith · Irene Hervey · Barry Fitzgerald · Raymond Walburn

Synopsis Barmaid in seedy docks does better detective work than the police to get her beau off a murder accusation, helped by a good priest who proves to be a good fighter for the truth.

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Smashing the Money Ring

1939 · Movie · 57 min. · United States

Direction Terry O. Morse

Cast Ronald Reagan · Margot Stevenson · Eddie Foy Jr. · Joe Downing

Synopsis T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.

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Direction James Neilson

Cast Alfred Hitchcock · Dennis Morgan · Estelle Winwood · Elizabeth Patterson

Synopsis A handsome homicide detective is befriended by four old ladies who invite him for tea and proceed to play out a variation of Arsenic and Old Lace for his benefit.

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Strange Alibi

1941 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction D. Ross Lederman

Cast Arthur Kennedy · Joan Perry · Jonathan Hale · John Ridgely

Synopsis A gambler comes into town to testify before the grand jury. He is killed by the mob before he can testify. Joe Geary (Kennedy) is fired from the police force for being soft on crime. This is a setup between...

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Missing Evidence

1939 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Phil Rosen

Cast Preston Foster · Irene Hervey · Inez Courtney · Chick Chandler

Synopsis A Government agent finds romance while investigating a fraudulent sweepstakes racket.

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Danger on the Air

1938 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Otis Garrett

Cast Nan Grey · Donald Woods · Jed Prouty · Berton Churchill

Synopsis Caesar Kluck, soft-drink magnate, is found dead in the office of a big radio-broadcasting company. Benjamin Franklin Butts, a sound engineer, discovers that Kluck met his death from cyanogen gas, administered in some mysterious fashion. Harry Jones, head of the...

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Unholy Partners

1941 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Laraine Day · Edward Arnold · Marsha Hunt

Synopsis A tough, ambitious newspaperman starts a new tabloid in 1919 New York, with a crooked big-time gambler as a partner.

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The Devil's Party

1938 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Ray McCarey

Cast Victor McLaglen · William Gargan · Paul Kelly · Beatrice Roberts

Synopsis Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.

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Not rated

Wide Open Faces

1938 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Kurt Neumann

Cast Joe E. Brown · Jane Wyman · Alison Skipworth · Lyda Roberti

Synopsis Criminal from all over the country converge on the Lakeside Inn in Willow Springs where bank robber Duke Temple (Stanley Fields) has stashed $100,000. Wilbur Keeks (Joe E. Brown),soda jerk at the town drugstore, who had aided in the capture...

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Not rated