The best Bill Edwards’s movies

Bill Edwards

Bill Edwards

14/09/1918- 21/12/1999
We present our ranking of the best Bill Edwards’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 Bill Edwards.
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Now, Voyager

Now, Voyager
7.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 22/10/1942
  • Character: Ship's Passenger (uncredited)
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.

Air Force

Air Force
7/10
The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.

Ladies of the Chorus

Ladies of the Chorus
6.1/10
  • Genre: MusicRomance
  • Release: 30/12/1948
  • Character: Alan Wakely
Former burlesque star May and her daughter Peggy dance in the chorus. When May has a fight with featured dancer Bubbles, Bubbles leaves the show and Peggy takes her place. When Peggy falls in love with wealthy Randy, May fears class differences may lead to misery.

The Virginian

The Virginian
6.4/10
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.

The Hard Way

The Hard Way
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaMusicRomance
  • Release: 13/01/1943
  • Character: Intern at Hospital (Uncredited)
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.

Hail the Conquering Hero

Hail the Conquering Hero
7.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 09/08/1944
  • Character: Forrest Noble
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith (Eddie Bracken) delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.

Daughters Courageous

Daughters Courageous
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 23/06/1939
  • Character: Boy on Beach (uncredited)
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her 1st husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.

Princess O'Rourke

Princess O'Rourke
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 23/10/1943
  • Character: Switchboard Operator (uncredited)
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.

Winning Your Wings

Winning Your Wings
6.2/10
Winning Your Wings is a 1942 short American World War II recruitment film produced by Warner Bros. Studios for the US Army Air Forces, starring Jimmy Stewart. It was aimed at young men who were thinking about joining the Air Force.

You Can't Escape Forever

You Can't Escape Forever
6.1/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 10/10/1942
  • Character: Cassidy (uncredited)
A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin.

Danger Street

Danger Street
5.6/10
Magazine owners (Jane Withers, Robert Lowery) sell a revealing photo, then play detective when the deal leads to murder.

Home in San Antone

Home in San Antone
4.8/10
  • Genre: MusicWestern
  • Release: 14/04/1949
  • Character: Ted Gibson
Posing as unemployed musicians,Roy Acuff (Roy Acuff) and his Smoky Mountain Boys (The Smoky Mountain Boys), are being helped by Ted Gibson (Bill Edwards), owner of the Harmony Inn in San Antonio, Texas. Gibson is impoverished because he keeps buying his kleptomaniac Uncle Zeke (Lloyd Corrigan)out of trouble, supports his Ma (Dorothy Vaughan), and Grandpa ('George Cleveland'). He wants to marry Jean Wallace (Lyn Thomas) , and doesn't know that Acuff and his musicians are traveling incognito for the radio show "Who Am I Helping?" If he guesses their identity, he wins $100,000.

Border Outlaws

Border Outlaws
6.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/11/1950
  • Character: Mike Hoskins
Western tale of a special agent (Bill Edwards) unravelling a series of rustlings on and around Cooley's dude ranch

Murder in the Big House

Murder in the Big House
6.3/10
When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/11/1944
  • Character: Tom Newhall
In 1923, two young ladies depart unescorted for a tour of Europe, meeting two eligible men aboard ship. Their great naivity and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many comic misadventures.

Our Hearts Were Growing Up

Our Hearts Were Growing Up
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/06/1946
  • Character: Tom Newhall
Russell and Lynn are a pair of college students in the 1920s. They get mixed up with kind-hearted bootlegger Donlevy who helps them get their boy friends back.

Miss Susie Slagle's

Miss Susie Slagle's
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/03/1946
  • Character: Elijah Howe, Jr.
A student nurse falls in love with a young intern in 1910 Baltimore, but tragedy ensues when he contracts a fatal disease.

Escape from Crime

Escape from Crime
5.8/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 25/07/1942
  • Character: Reporter
An ex-con becomes a daredevil photojournalist.

Murder on the Waterfront

Murder on the Waterfront
5.1/10
A sailor and his wife become involved in a murder investigation.

Trail of the Yukon

Trail of the Yukon
6/10
When the local Banker jumps the Blaine's claim, they have men rob the bank to retrieve their money. When the men try to double-cross the Blains, a gunfight erupts and Jim Blaine gets away with the money. Mountie Bob McDonald gets Jim Blaine to return the money. Bob thinks the Banker was really behind the robbery and now uses the money to try and lure him into a trap.

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