The best Al St. John’s drama movies

Al St. John

Al St. John

10/09/1893- 21/01/1963
We present our ranking of the best Al St. John’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 St. John.

The General

The General
8.1/10
During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnnie Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.

From Headquarters

From Headquarters
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 06/11/1933
  • Character: Detainee Touching Cigarette Pack (uncredited)
When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.

Hell Harbor

Hell Harbor
5.4/10
Lovely Anita dreams of escaping the monotony of her island home and sailing to bustling Havana. But when her abusive father promises her to the greasy local merchant, Anita does everything in her power to make her dream a reality.

Tillie's Punctured Romance

Tillie's Punctured Romance
6.3/10
A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country, after a fight with his girlfriend. When he sees that Tillie's father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.

His Private Secretary

His Private Secretary
5.5/10
Dick Wallace wants to marry a minister's grand-daughter but his father, who wants him to get work on his company's business, is opposed. She takes a job with the company to prove she's okay.

Police Court

Police Court
5.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/02/1932
  • Character: Skid
A once great stage and screen actor (Henry B. Walthall) has fallen from fame because of his alcoholism; his young son (Leon Janney) is determined to see his father "make good" again.

American Beauty

American Beauty
7/10
American Beauty (1927)

Bar 20 Rides Again

Bar 20 Rides Again
6.4/10
Cattle rustler Nevada dreams of living like an emperor in the West. Hoppy and the Bar 20 boys aim to put an end to his dream.

My Dog Shep

My Dog Shep
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/11/1946
  • Character: Deputy Sheriff
An orphan boy on his way to live with his uncle picks up a stray dog, and the two become fast friends. However, the uncle doesn't want the dog, and when chickens are found dead, the uncle accuses the dog of killing them. The boy decides that it's time he and the dog hit the road so they run away, and meet up with an elderly man who also ran away from a home where he believed he wasn't wanted either.

He Did and He Didn’t

He Did and He Didn’t
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 29/01/1916
  • Character: The Bounding Burglar
A doctor, very much in love with his beautiful wife, comes to suspect that her visiting childhood friend Jack is more than just a friend. Jack's intentions are honorable, but everything he does tends to show his actions in a suspicious light, especially when burglars invade the house and Jack and the wife are caught together in their nightclothes.

The Dance of Life

The Dance of Life
6.8/10
A vaudeville comic and a pretty young dancer aren't having much luck in their separate careers, so they decide to combine their acts. In order to save money on the road, they get married. Soon their act begins to catch on, and they find themselves booked onto Broadway. They also realize that they actually are in love with each other, but just when things are starting to look up, the comic starts to let success go to his head.

She Goes to War

She Goes to War
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 07/06/1929
  • Character: Bill
A young woman disguises herself as a man and follows her fiancéé into the trenches during World War I to find out what war is really like.

The Garden of Weeds

The Garden of Weeds
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/11/1924
  • Character: Nat Barlow
The title refers to the estate owned by Flagg, a man of great wealth and few morals. He installs chorus girls there until he grows tired of them

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