Delayed Action (1954)
• July 1st, 1954 • 0h 58min
Crime
Overview
Robert Ayres plays a moody author with a suicide complex. Ayres' melancholia plays right into the hands of a gang of thieves. For a lofty fee, they convince the author to confess to their crimes and then kill himself. Yes, you're way ahead of us: Ayres has a change of heart and decides that he loves life. Delayed Action was produced by Robert Baker and Monty Berman, the men behind the popular 1960s TV adventure series The Saint.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Desperate Measures
Released on: 1998-01-30
Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime
San Francisco police officer Frank Connor is in a frantic search for a compatible bone marrow donor ...
Chopper
Released on: 2000-06-21
Crime, Drama, Thriller
The true and infamous story of Australia's notorious criminal Mark 'Chopper' Read and his years of c...
419
Released on: 2012-06-07
Crime, Drama, Thriller
When a New York City actor loses everything to an internet scam based in South Africa, his two best ...
Dick Tracy
Released on: 1990-04-05
Adventure, Comedy, Crime
The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances t...
Gomorrah
Released on: 2008-05-16
Drama, Crime
An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families, the Camorra in Naples and Caserta. Based on a b...
Jonny's Sweet Revenge
Released on: 2017-04-07
Comedy, Crime
Rick and Reni came to California in search of a new lease on life. Unfortunately, all they found was...
M
Released on: 1931-05-11
Drama, Thriller, Crime
In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the fo...
Tsotsi
Released on: 2005-12-23
Crime, Drama
A young South African boy from the Johannesburg ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster, leaves home a...
Ankle Bone
Released on: 1968-12-19
Crime, Drama
While escaping from prison to be with her lesbian friend, a 19-year-old girl breaks her ankle and is...
Fantomas Unleashed
Released on: 1965-12-08
Comedy, Crime, Adventure, Fantasy
In the second episode of the trilogy Fantômas kidnaps distinguished scientist professor Marchand wit...
Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
Released on: 1967-03-16
Comedy, Crime, Adventure, Fantasy
In the third and final episode of the trilogy, Fantômas imposes a head tax on the rich, threatening ...
Little Man
Released on: 2006-08-31
Comedy, Crime
After leaving the prison, the dwarf criminal Calvin Sims joins to his moron brother Percy to steal a...
Avenger of the Seven Seas
Released on: 1962-03-21
Adventure, Crime, Drama
It's 1790 and British Naval Commander Redway is driven by greed for money and will stop at nothing t...
The Ladykillers
Released on: 1955-12-08
Comedy, Crime
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow...
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
Released on: 1922-04-27
Crime, Thriller
Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a...
The Good Thief
Released on: 2003-04-02
Crime, Drama, Thriller
An aging gambler on a losing streak attempts to rob a casino in Monte Carlo. But someone's already t...
Life
Released on: 1999-04-16
Comedy, Crime
Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a c...
Batman Forever
Released on: 1995-06-16
Action, Crime, Fantasy
Batman faces off against two foes: the schizophrenic, horribly scarred former District Attorney Harv...
21 Grams
Released on: 2003-09-06
Drama, Crime, Thriller
Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upp...
Brute
Released on: 1997-11-07
Drama, Crime
Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but als...