The best Barbara Pepper’s drama movies

Barbara Pepper

Barbara Pepper

31/05/1915- 18/07/1969
Today we present the best Barbara Pepper’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Barbara Pepper’s movies.
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Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men
7.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/12/1939
  • Character: Second Girl (uncredited)
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.

The Return of Frank James

The Return of Frank James
6.6/10
Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.

The Women

The Women
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/09/1939
  • Character: Tough Girl (uncredited)
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

Girls in Chains

Girls in Chains
4.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 17/05/1943
  • Character: Barbara Pepper
A fired teacher (Arline Judge) finds work at a girls reform school and helps a detective (Roger Clark) on a case.

A Child Is Waiting

A Child Is Waiting
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/02/1963
  • Character: Miss Brown (uncredited)
Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her life some meaning, joins the staff of the hospital. Jean, who tries to shelter the children with her love, suspiciously regards Dr. Clark's stern training methods. She becomes emotionally involved with 12-year-old Reuben Widdicombe, who has been abandoned by his divorced parents.

Manpower

Manpower
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 09/08/1941
  • Character: Polly
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.

No Way Out

No Way Out
7.4/10
The Biddle brothers, shot while robbing a gas station, are taken to the prison ward of the County Hospital; Ray Biddle, a rabid racist, wants no treatment from black resident Dr. Luther Brooks. When brother John dies while Luther tries to save him, Ray is certain it's murder and becomes obsessed with vengeance. But there are black racists around too, and the situation slides rapidly toward violence.

The Snake Pit

The Snake Pit
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 04/11/1948
  • Character: Asylum Patient
Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions and unable to even recognize her husband, Robert, she is treated by Dr. Mark Kik, who is determined to get to the root of her mental illness. As her treatment progresses, flashbacks depict events in Virginia's life that may have contributed to her instability.

Our Daily Bread

Our Daily Bread
7/10
John and Mary sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community - a socialist mini-society based upon the teachings of Edward Gallafent. The newborn community suffers many hardships - drought, vicious raccoons and the long arm of the law - but ultimately pull together to reach a bread-based Utopia.

They Made Me a Criminal

They Made Me a Criminal
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 21/01/1939
  • Character: Budgie Massey
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.

The Amazing Mr. Williams

The Amazing Mr. Williams
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaMystery
  • Release: 22/11/1939
  • Character: Muriel - Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to duty. Maxine, in desperation, decides to take action and bring Kenny to the altar. Who will win, Maxine's curves or the glorious fight against crime?

Inferno

Inferno
7/10
When selfish and arrogant millionaire Donald Carson fractures his leg during a desert vacation, his wife, Geraldine, leaves with their friend Joseph Duncan to supposedly get help. However, the two of them are really lovers who are leaving Carson to die in the heat. Slowly, Carson realizes he is on his own and vows revenge on the traitorous couple. Having had a privileged life, Carson must now use his wits to stay alive.

Off the Record

Off the Record
5.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/01/1939
  • Character: Flossie - Telephone Operator (uncredited)
After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.

Let 'em Have It

Let 'em Have It
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 15/05/1935
  • Character: Milly Adams
Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces. An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader.

Winterset

Winterset
6.1/10
A man is determined to find the real culprit behind the crime for which his father was wrongly executed.

Out of the Fog

Out of the Fog
6.8/10
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.

The Bramble Bush

The Bramble Bush
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/02/1960
  • Character: Polly Welk
A young doctor returns to his Massachusetts home town at the request of a terminally ill old friend.

You Can't Buy Luck

You Can't Buy Luck
5.4/10
When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.

The Chaser

The Chaser
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 29/07/1938
  • Character: Mabel, Drunken Girl
A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sure enough, love blossoms between the girl and the shyster.

My Blue Heaven

My Blue Heaven
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 15/09/1950
  • Character: Susan (uncredited)
Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For a change, the couple turn their act into a series on early TV and try to adopt a baby. Finally they acquiring a girl in a somewhat back alley manner.

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