Cast: Joe Downing
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Joe Downing. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 28
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
Alfred Hitchcock presents: The big switch (TV)
1956 · Movie · 24 min. · United States
Direction Don Weis
Cast George Mathews · Beverly Michaels · George E. Stone · Joe Downing
6.3
203 votes
6.3
203 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
Alfred Hitchcock presents: Place of shadows (TV)
1956 · Movie · 24 min. · United States
Direction Robert Stevens
Cast Everett Sloane · Sean McClory · Mark Damon · Claude Akins
5.5
178 votes
5.5
178 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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Alfred Hitchcock presents: Bull in a China Shop (TV)
1958 · Movie · 26 min. · United States
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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Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love!
1940 · Movie · 63 min. · United States
Direction Charles Lamont
Cast Tom Brown · Peggy Moran · Allen Jenkins · Isabel Jewell
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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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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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