Joe Downing Movies

Longshoreman Johnny Barnes is in love with Kitty Tracy, barmaid at her father's waterfront saloon, and he beats up Cassidy, a crooked politician who...

Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie...

A crusading newsman starts up a tabloid with a gangster as his 50-50 partner.

Scientists assembled to prove their methods are effective in criminal investigation try to solve a series of murders.

A rookie assistant DA is assigned to investigate the murder of a longshoreman, killed for exposing gangster involvement on the piers, and meets up...

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

A beautiful woman is forced to help gangsters in a robbery, and is arrested as an accessory.

Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio show. A radio engineer then tries to solve the...

In this musical comedy, a traveling salesman gets mixed up with a bratty heiress after she gets in a car wreck as she heads for her elopement. The...

In this newspaper drama, a female reporter and a newsreel cameraman are both assigned to cover the Sino-Japanese war. They meet on the boat ride over...

The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.

A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin.

An overambitious shutterbug almost gets his lights put out permanently when he decides to snap a picture of a mob boss.

A small town soda jerk discovers a gang of criminals staying at a local hotel. Comedy.

Gangster Charlie McCormick despairs as his young brother Bobby lays near death and vows to break the quarantine of the ocean liner Pacific Queen in...