The best Al Shean’s drama movies

Al Shean

Al Shean

12/05/1868- 12/08/1949
We present our ranking of the best Al Shean’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Al Shean.
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San Francisco

San Francisco
7.2/10
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the big earthquake.

Ziegfeld Girl

Ziegfeld Girl
6.7/10
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.

The Great Waltz

The Great Waltz
6.5/10
Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.

Crime Doctor

Crime Doctor
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 22/06/1943
  • Character: Dave, a Convict
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.

Hitler's Madman

Hitler's Madman
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 10/06/1943
  • Character: Father Cemlanek
Story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi SS commander, by Czech partisans and the reprisals inflicted by the Nazis on the Czechs.

Too Hot to Handle

Too Hot to Handle
6.6/10
Chris Hunter is a sly newsreel reporter. While in Shanghai doing reports on the Chinese-Japanese war, he meets pilot Alma Harding. At first she doesn't trust him, but by a trick he manages to get her hired as his assistant. During an adventurous expedition through the jungles of South America he manages to change her view of him.

Broadway Serenade

Broadway Serenade
5.7/10
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.

The Road Back

The Road Back
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 01/06/1937
  • Character: Markheim
After the First World War a group of German soldiers try to readjust to civilian life. A sequel to 'All Quiet on the Western Front'.

It Could Happen to You

It Could Happen to You
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/06/1937
  • Character: Max 'Pa' Barrett
A politically charged story about a man who dabbles in crime, with disastrous results, to gain the capital he needs to purchase a school where immigrants are prepared for American citizenship. The school's European teacher dreams of a fascist America. Based on a story by Nathanael West and Samuel Ornitz, who was one of the Hollywood Ten blacklisted during the McCarthy Era.

Symphony of Living

Symphony of Living
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/01/1935
  • Character: Adolph Greig
Just before Adolph Greig's solo violin performance at the Cosmopolitan Orchestra, his right hand is injured and his dream, shattered. His flighty children turn their backs on him and he collapses in the street. However, an opportunity arises for him to tutor a young violin prodigy.

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