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1940s Heist Movies

Public list by WPS with 8 movies or TV shows/series

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Colorado Territory(1949)

3.6/5 (with 23 votes)

In Colorado territory, outlaw Wes McQueen escapes jail to pull a railroad robbery but, upon meeting pretty settler Julie Ann, he wonders about going straight. Western remake of High Sierra with Joel McCrea taking over the Humphrey Bogart role.

Directed by Raoul Walsh, Anthony Veiller - With Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Dorothy Malone, Henry Hull, Jack Archer, James Mitchel, ...

The Window(1949)

1h 13min | Thriller, Crime, Drama
3.5/5 (with 23 votes)

An imaginative boy who frequently makes things up witnesses a murder, but can't get his parents or the police to believe him. The only people taking him seriously are the killers - who live upstairs, know that he saw what they did, and are out to permanently silence him.

Larceny, Inc.(1942)

NR
| 1h 36min | Comedy, Crime
3.5/5 (with 12 votes)

Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers...

Assigned to Danger(1948)

NR
| 1h 6min | Crime, Drama
2.5/5 (with 3 votes)

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

They Met in Bombay(1941)

NR
| 1h 32min | War, Adventure, Crime, Drama
3.8/5 (with 6 votes)

A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable gem as the Japanese army invades China.

Bullets for O'Hara(1941)

2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A detective courts a gangster's ex-wife to lure him into a trap.

The Last Bandit(1949)

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

About to marry Jim Plummer, Kate Foley runs off to Nevada when Ed Bagley convinces her a quick fortune can be made robbing gold shipments that are being transported by the railroad. In Bannock City she meets reformed-bandit Frank Plummer, posing as Frank Norris, brother of Jim Plummer, who has being going straight and working as an express shipment guard. Jim also shows up and plans a robbery by stealing a train and hiding it in an abandoned tunnel. The two brothers are on opposite sides of the law with the now-reformed Kate caught in the middle.

Directed by Joseph Kane - With Wild Bill Elliott

The Great Train Robbery(1941)

1h 2min | Crime, Drama
3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Tom Logan is a railroad detective who takes it upon himself to halt the activities of his crooked brother Duke. Duke and his henchman have stolen an entire gold train, including the passengers......

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