The best Arthur Franz’s drama movies

Arthur Franz

Arthur Franz

29/02/1920- 16/06/2006
We present our ranking of the best Arthur Franz’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 Arthur Franz.
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The Young Lions

The Young Lions
7.1/10
The Young Lions follows the lives of three soldiers: one German and two Americans, paralleling their experiences in World War II until they meet up at the end for a confrontation

The Sniper

The Sniper
7.1/10
Eddie Miller struggles with his hatred of women, he's especially bothered by seeing women with their lovers. He starts a killing spree as a sniper by shooting women from far distances. In an attempt to get caught, he writes an anonymous letter to the police begging them to stop him.

The Carpetbaggers

The Carpetbaggers
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 08/04/1964
  • Character: Morrissey
When playboy Jonas inherits his father's industrial empire, he expands it by acquiring an aircraft factory and movie studio. His rise to power is ruthless. He marries and then quickly abandons sweet, bubbly Monica, turns his young, attractive stepmother Rina into a self-destructive actress and manages to disappoint even his closest friend, cowboy movie star Nevada. Is Jonas beyond redemption?

Sands of Iwo Jima

Sands of Iwo Jima
7/10
The relationship between Sergeant Stryker and a group of rebellious recruits is made difficult by the Sergeant's tough training tactics. At Tarawa, the leathernecks have a chance to see Stryker in action, and begin to appreciate him.

Anzio

Anzio
6/10
Allied forces land at Anzio unopposed but instead of moving straight inland their commanding officer decides to dig in. A battle-hardened war correspondent borrows a jeep and drives to Rome and back without meeting any German forces, but his report on this absence of the enemy is discounted. By the time it is finally decided to make a move the Germans have arrived in strength and a prolonged ...

The Amazing Howard Hughes

The Amazing Howard Hughes
6.6/10
The Amazing Howard Hughes is a 1977 television movie about American aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes, based on the book by Hughes' business partner Noah Dietrich. The film starred Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders, and Tovah Feldshuh.

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 13/09/1956
  • Character: Bob Hale
A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.

Submarine Command

Submarine Command
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 01/11/1951
  • Character: Lt. Arnie Carlson
Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II. Subsequent years of meaningless navy ground assignments and the animosity of a former sailor, leave White (now a captain) feeling guilty and empty. His life spirals downward and his wife is about to leave him. Suddenly, he is forced into a dangerous rescue situation at the start of the Koren War.... reassigned to the same submarine where all of his problems began.

Hellcats of the Navy

Hellcats of the Navy
5.6/10
  • Genre: DramaThrillerWar
  • Release: 01/05/1957
  • Character: Lt. Cmdr. Don Landon (XO, USS Starfish)
Future "first couple" Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis made their only joint film appearance in Hellcats of the Navy. Ronnie plays Casey Abbott, commander of a WW2 submarine, while Nancy portrays navy nurse Helen Blair, Abbott's off-and-on girlfriend. During a delicate mission in which his sub is ordered to retrieve a revolutionary new Japanese mine, Abbott is forced to leave frogman Wes Barton (Harry Lauter) behind to save the rest of his crew. But Abbott's second-in-command Don Landon (Eduard Franz) is convincing that Abbott's sacrifice of Barton was due to the fact that the dead man had been amorously pursuing Helen.

Three Secrets

Three Secrets
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/10/1950
  • Character: Paul Radin
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption. As the three await news of his rescue at a mountain cabin, they recall incidents from five years earlier and why they were forced to give up their son.

Flight Nurse

Flight Nurse
5.3/10
In this war drama, set during the Korean War, an Air Force nurse gets involved in a love triangle on the front lines.

That Championship Season

That Championship Season
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/12/1982
  • Character: Macken
It started as a friendly meeting between 4 old buddies with their basketball coach and ended up in revealing the truth about their relationship. The meeting forces the five men to reveal their true identity, to be honest with each other for the first time in their lives. When the night comes to an end they decide to go back to the old glorious days and reunite into the team which won that championship season, back in 1957.

Battle Taxi

Battle Taxi
5.3/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 03/01/1955
  • Character: Lt. Pete Stacey
In the Korean war, the commander of an Air Rescue helicopter team must show a hot-shot former jet pilot how important helicopter rescue work is and turn him into a team player.

Bad for Each Other

Bad for Each Other
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/12/1953
  • Character: Dr. Jim Crowley
A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between joining a glamorous practice and helping the poor.

Red Light

Red Light
6.3/10
Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky, who gets out a week before Nick, to murder Jess... who, dying, tells revenge-minded Johnny that he'd written a clue "in the Bible." Frustrated, Johnny obsessively searches for the missing Gideon Bible from Jess's hotel room.

Roseanna McCoy

Roseanna McCoy
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/10/1949
  • Character: Thad Wilkins
It's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the hillbilly Romeo and Juliet whose forbidden romance rekindles a long-standing feud between their respective families.

The Sweet Ride

The Sweet Ride
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/06/1968
  • Character: Army Psychiatrist
AA tennis bum (Tony Franciosa) and his Malibu Beach buddies hang out with a TV actress (Jacqueline Bisset) headed for trouble.

The Member of the Wedding

The Member of the Wedding
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/12/1952
  • Character: Jarvis Addams
Tomboy Julie Harris dreams of running away with her brother and new fiancée away from the Deep South.

The Wild Party

The Wild Party
5.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 21/12/1956
  • Character: Lt. Arthur Mitchell
An ex-football brute (Anthony Quinn) and his beatnik gang take a rich girl (Carol Ohmart) and her boyfriend hostage (Arthur Franz) at a jazz joint.

The Steel Cage

The Steel Cage
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/12/1954
  • Character: Chaplain Harvey, segment "The Face"
Drama set in San Quentin prison.

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