The best Benny Baker’s drama movies

Benny Baker

Benny Baker

05/05/1907- 20/09/1994
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Benny Baker’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 Benny Baker.

Paint Your Wagon

Paint Your Wagon
6.6/10
A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnapping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boom town. Along the way there is plenty of drinking, gambling, and singing. They even find time to do some creative gold mining.

Young Man with Ideas

Young Man with Ideas
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 02/05/1952
  • Character: Bill Collector (uncredited)
A Montana lawyer (Glenn Ford) gets distracted after moving to California with his wife (Ruth Roman) and children.

Annapolis Farewell

Annapolis Farewell
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/08/1935
  • Character: Zimmer
Commodore Fitzhugh, an old retired naval officer, lives at the Annapolis Naval Academy and, unhappy with the "modern" navy, likes to talk about his days in the "old" navy, especially about his part in the Battle of Manila Bay under Adm. Dewey during the Spanish-American War, when he commanded the USS Congress. That ship, now decommissioned and docked in Annapolis harbor, is--unknown to Fitzhugh--about to be towed out to sea to be used for target practice. When Fitzhugh finds this out, he sets out to either save his beloved vessel or "go down with his ship".

Up in Arms

Up in Arms
6.2/10
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.

Loan Shark

Loan Shark
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/05/1952
  • Character: Tubby
A vicious loan shark ring has been preying on factory workers. When several workers at a tire factory suffer violence at the hands of the loan sharkers, a union leader and the factory owner try to recruit ex-con Joe Gargan to infiltrate to the gang. At first Joe does not want to get involved, but changes his mind when his brother-in-law dies at the hands of a savage loan shark hood. Joe works his way into the mob, but in order to keep his cover, Joe can't tell anyone what he is up to. This results in him being disowned by his sister and girl friend.

A Wicked Woman

A Wicked Woman
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 07/12/1934
  • Character: (uncredited)
A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed her abusive husband in order to protect her children from him.

Belle of the Nineties

Belle of the Nineties
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 21/09/1934
  • Character: Blackie
Cabaret entertainer Ruby Carter shifts her operations to New Orleans and becomes exceedingly popular with the local men.

Thunderbirds

Thunderbirds
5.8/10
An Oklahoma National Guard unit, comprised mainly of Native Americans, is called up for duty at the start of World War II.

Hold 'Em Navy

Hold 'Em Navy
5.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/11/1937
  • Character: Stuffy Miller
Two football players fight over the same girl.

Panic on the Air

Panic on the Air
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/04/1936
  • Character: Andy
A sports announcer and a friend investigate after a pitcher misses a series. When they discover that gangsters are trying to find a hidden fortune, they use the radio show to foil the plan.

Joe Palooka in the Big Fight

Joe Palooka in the Big Fight
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 06/03/1949
  • Character: Fight Secretary
Gangsters frame Joe on a drunk charge and a murder rap so they can put their own fighter into a big event. Joe investigates in an attempt to prove his innocence.

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