The best Barbara Stanwyck’s action movies

Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck

16/07/1907- 20/01/1990
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Barbara Stanwyck’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Barbara Stanwyck.

Titanic

Titanic
7/10
Unhappily married, Julia Sturges decides to go to America with her two children on the unsinkable Titanic. Her husband, Richard also arranges passage on the luxury liner so as to have custody of their two children. All this fades to insignificance once the ship hits an iceberg.

Forty Guns

Forty Guns
7/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 01/09/1957
  • Character: Jessica Drummond
An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshall arrives to set things straight, the cattle queen finds herself falling for the avowedly non-violent lawman. Both have itchy-fingered brothers, a female gunman enters the picture, and things go desperately wrong.

Blowing Wild

Blowing Wild
6.4/10
Wildcatter Jeff Dawson does his best to bring in a gusher in Mexico despite continual bandit raids. He asks for help from his ex-employer Ward Conway, but Conway, now married to Dawson's ex-lover Marina refuses, fearing that his wife will want to renew her romance with the other man.

To Please a Lady

To Please a Lady
6.2/10
  • Genre: ActionRomance
  • Release: 13/10/1950
  • Character: Regina Forbes
Mike Brannon is a former war hero turned midget car racer. His ruthless racing tactics have made him successful but the fans consider him a villain and boo him mercilessly. Independent, beautiful reporter Regina Forbes tries to interview him but is put off by his gruff chauvinism, and when Brannon's daredevil tactics cause the death of a fellow driver, he finds himself a pariah in the sport thanks to her articles. When she finds him earning money as a barnstorming daredevil driver hoping for a comeback, they begin to become mutually attracted.

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