The best Bill Elliott’s drama movies

Bill Elliott

Bill Elliott

16/10/1904- 26/11/1965
Today we present the best Bill Elliott’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 Bill Elliott’s movies.
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Scarface

Scarface
7.7/10
A murderous thug shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.

Gold Diggers of 1933

Gold Diggers of 1933
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 27/05/1933
  • Character: Night Club Patron (uncredited)
Things get tough for Carol and her showgirl pals, Trixie and Polly, when the Great Depression kicks in and all the Broadway shows close down. Wealthy songwriter Brad saves the day by funding a new Depression-themed musical for the girls to star in, but when his stuffy high-society brother finds out and threatens to disown Brad, Carol and her gold-digging friends scheme to keep the show going, hooking a couple of millionaires along the way.

'G' Men

'G' Men
7.1/10
  • Genre: ActionCrimeDrama
  • Release: 04/05/1935
  • Character: Bootlegger Who Gives Eddie the Bottle Outside the Club (uncredited)
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.

The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties
7.9/10
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
7.8/10
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be sent off as a galley slave, his property confiscated and his mother and sister imprisoned. Years later, as a result of his determination to stay alive and his willingness to aid his Roman master, Judah returns to his homeland an exalted and wealthy Roman athlete. Unable to find his mother and sister, and believing them dead, he can think of nothing else than revenge against Messala.

Blonde Crazy

Blonde Crazy
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeDrama
  • Release: 03/12/1931
  • Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.

Midnight Mary

Midnight Mary
7/10
A young woman is on trial for murder. In flashback, we learn of her struggles to overcome poverty as a teenager -- a mistaken arrest and prison term for shoplifting and lack of employment lead to involvement with gangsters. In a brothel, she meets a young lawyer, scion of a wealthy and prestigious family, who falls for her and helps her turn around her life. But her past catches up with her, and she must face the music rather than cause him scandal.

Broadway Hostess

Broadway Hostess
5.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 07/12/1935
  • Character: Playboy in 'Playboy of Paree' Number (uncredited)
Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer.

Midnight Court

Midnight Court
5.9/10
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.

Bullets or Ballots

Bullets or Ballots
7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 06/06/1936
  • Character: Hunter - Bank Worker (uncredited)
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.

Only Yesterday

Only Yesterday
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 01/11/1933
  • Character: New Year's Eve Reveler (Uncredited)
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.

Wonder Bar

Wonder Bar
6.5/10
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.

Merrily We Go to Hell

Merrily We Go to Hell
6.9/10
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.

Children of Divorce

Children of Divorce
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/04/1927
  • Character: Party Guest
A young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, but didn't marry her for fear the marriage would end in divorce, like his parents'. Complications ensue.

Born to Love

Born to Love
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 17/04/1931
  • Character: Hotel Dancer (uncredited)
A pregnant American nurse living in London during WWI, believing her soldier-fiance has been killed in France, marries a wealthy aristocrat so her child will have a father.

The Secret Bride

The Secret Bride
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/12/1934
  • Character: Governor's Secretary (uncredited)
Before Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can announce their marriage, the governor is accused of bribe-taking. To avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, they decide to keep their marriage secret. The political intrigue becomes more involved, and no one is quite what they seem. Soon Sheldon and Ruth must decide between saving the governor's career and an innocent person's life.

China Clipper

China Clipper
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/08/1936
  • Character: Pilot (uncredited)
An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.

Desirable

Desirable
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 08/09/1934
  • Character: Party Guest
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.

Stage Mother

Stage Mother
6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 29/09/1933
  • Character: Audience Member / Dexter's Party Guest
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig. But Kitty goes too far when she breaks up her daughter's budding relationship with sweet artist Warren Foster. Heartbroken, Shirley sets off on a series of disastrous but profitable relationships.

The Goose and the Gander

The Goose and the Gander
6.5/10
When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back.

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