The best Arthur Rankin’s action movies

Arthur Rankin

Arthur Rankin

30/08/1895- 23/03/1947
We present our ranking of the best Arthur Rankin’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 Rankin.

20,000 Men a Year

20,000 Men a Year
6.4/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 26/10/1939
  • Character: Reporter
Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year.

Submarine

Submarine
6.3/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 28/08/1928
  • Character: The Boy
Two sailors who are always competing against each other set their sights on the same girl. When she chooses one over the other, their friendship ends acrimoniously. However, things change when one the men is in a submarine trapped beneath the ocean and the other, a diver, is sent down on a rescue mission.

News Is Made at Night

News Is Made at Night
6.3/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 20/07/1939
  • Character: Secretary
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal of a string of murders.

Roaming Lady

Roaming Lady
6.1/10
Joyce Reid (Fay Wray), a wealthy young debutante, stows away on a cargo ship to China, carrying as passengers her dashing aviator sweetheart, Dan Bailey (Ralph Bellamy) and and her munitions-producing father, E. J. Reid (Thurston Hall) and an assortment of the usual south-seas characters along with some orientals with varying agendas...and some plot-lines straight out of "Terry and the Pirates." The cargo included a shipment of bombs and machine guns. She soon finds herself being held hostage by some wily orientals who will free her only if dashing Dan agrees to pilot a bombing plane for some Chinese bandits.

Devil's Squadron

Devil's Squadron
6.4/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 30/04/1936
  • Character: Stenographer
In this action film, a courageous test pilot works with experimental aircraft for the US Armed Forces. When an important airplane manufacturer dies, his daughter is left to run the company. The company seems to be producing dangerous prototypes, so the woman decides to close the company.

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