The best Basil Ruysdael’s drama movies

Basil Ruysdael

Basil Ruysdael

24/07/1888- 10/10/1960
We present our ranking of the best Basil Ruysdael’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 Basil Ruysdael.
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Blackboard Jungle

Blackboard Jungle
7.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 25/03/1955
  • Character: Prof. A.R. Kraal
Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the students' interest in education, challenging both the school staff and the pupils. He is subjected to violence as well as duplicitous schemes.

People Will Talk

People Will Talk
7.3/10
Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius's unorthodox medical views and also questions his relationship with the mysterious, ever-present Mr. Shunderson.

Pinky

Pinky
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/09/1949
  • Character: Judge Walker
Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, Pinky has fallen in love with a young white doctor, Dr. Thomas Adams, who knows nothing about her black heritage.

The File on Thelma Jordon

The File on Thelma Jordon
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 04/11/1949
  • Character: Judge Jonathan David Hancock
Cleve Marshall is an assistant district attorney who falls for the shadowy Thelma Jordon. With her sordid past -- and her relationship with thief Tony Laredo kept secret from the married attorney, Jordon seduces the easily swayed Marshall, and uses him to cover up her misdeeds. When Jordon becomes the prime suspect for the murder of her wealthy aunt, she turns to Marshall, who goes to great lengths to clear her name.

Carrie

Carrie
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 17/07/1952
  • Character: Mr. Fitzgerald
Carrie's dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly paid factory work—that is, until a traveling salesman named Drouet steps into her life and changes her outlook.

Colorado Territory

Colorado Territory
7.2/10
Western remake of High Sierra with Joel McCrea taking over the Humphrey Bogart role.

The Last Hurrah

The Last Hurrah
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 31/12/1958
  • Character: The Episcopal Bishop
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.

My Forbidden Past

My Forbidden Past
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/04/1951
  • Character: Dean Cazzley
An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune.

Come to the Stable

Come to the Stable
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/01/1949
  • Character: The Bishop
Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children's hospital.

The Scarf

The Scarf
6.7/10
A man believe to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the one to actually kill her using the scarf she was wearing.

One Way Street

One Way Street
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/04/1950
  • Character: Father Moreno
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.

Boots Malone

Boots Malone
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/01/1952
  • Character: Preacher Cole
In this 1952 drama directed by William Dieterle, William Holden stars as an agent for horse jockeys who faces his greatest challenge.

The Shanghai Story

The Shanghai Story
5.8/10
Shanghai, China. The last expatriate Westerners still living in the city are imprisoned in a hotel by the communist authorities in order to find the spy hiding among them.

These Wilder Years

These Wilder Years
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/08/1956
  • Character: Judge
A man tries to find a son he gave up for adoption years ago.

The Doctor and the Girl

The Doctor and the Girl
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 29/09/1949
  • Character: Dr. Francis I. Garard
Dr. Michael Corday, a recent graduate of the Harvard Medical School, is the son of Dr. John Corday, an eminent New York City surgeon who has a tendency to continue to direct the lives of his grown children. The daughter, Fabienne, runs away from home, and Michael, after first following his father's advice of being callous to the point of cruelty toward patients, changes when he falls in love with a patient, marries her and sets up his practice on the lower East Side in New York.

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