The best Bill Erwin’s drama movies

Bill Erwin

Bill Erwin

02/12/1914- 29/12/2010
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Inferno

Inferno
5.2/10
Eddie Lomax (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a drifter who has been in a suicidal funk since the death of his close friend Johnny (Danny Trejo). Riding his motorcycle into a small desert town where Johnny once lived, Lomax is confronted by a gang of toughs, who beat him and steal his bike. However, Lomax is not a man to take an injustice lying down, and soon he begins exacting a violent revenge on the men who stole his motorcycle, with local handyman Jubal Early (Pat Morita) lending a hand and several area ladies offering aid and comfort.

Somewhere in Time

Somewhere in Time
7.2/10
Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me". Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early 1900s. Becoming more and more obsessed with her, by self-hypnosis he manages to travel back in time—where he meets her.

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/12/1995
  • Character: 70-Year-Old Man
Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly.

She's Having a Baby

She's Having a Baby
5.9/10
Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them. Do they want babies? Their parents certainly want them to. Is married life all that there is? Things certainly aren't helped by Jake's friend Davis, who always seems to turn up just in time to put a spanner in the works.

Hard Knox

Hard Knox
5.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 04/08/1984
  • Character: Gen. Garfield
A retired fighter pilot becomes the head of his alma matter military high school for two weeks with hilarious consequences. He shapes up the school and raises morale so that they are able to win the "brass-axe" competition versus another local military academy.

Gun Fever

Gun Fever
5.5/10
Luke Ram seeks revenge against the white renegade who lead a Sioux raiding party against his father's stagecoach way station, killing all the inhabitants except himself. He's joined by his mining partner, young Sam Weller, not realizing that they man they seek is Weller's father, in whose gang Sam rode as a young man.

Easy Living

Easy Living
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 08/10/1949
  • Character: Minor Role
A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.

Night of the Warrior

Night of the Warrior
3.6/10
A kickboxer has an accounting problem with the mobster (Anthony Geary) who lent him money for a nightclub.

The Velvet Touch

The Velvet Touch
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 13/07/1948
  • Character: Howard Forman (as William L. Erwin)
After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.

Cahoots

Cahoots
5.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/02/2001
  • Character: Frenchy

Quest

Quest
6.7/10
On a distant planet, descendants of a crashed spaceship are subjected to mysterious forces that cause them to age and die in just eight days. They must also live in caves to escape the bitter cold of night and the killing heat of day. One young boy is determined to find his way back to the ship that brought them there. But how will accomplish this in the short time left to him?

Drop-Out Father

Drop-Out Father
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 26/09/1982
  • Character: Grandpa
Successful advertising executive decides to get out of the rat race but the family rebels at the new lifestyle he outlines. He and his youngest daughter leave the suburbs for a Manhattan loft apartment while the rest of the brood -- wife and three kids -- re-evaluate the situation. For his engaging score, Peter Matz won an Emmy Award nomination.

Sixth and Main

Sixth and Main
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1977
Monica Cord (Beverly Garland) is planning to write a book about the homeless. She observes the men who attend a rescue mission and shelter in downtown Los Angeles. Monica becomes intrigued by one particular derelict, a tall, quiet man known only as John Doe (Leslie Nielsen).

The Christine Jorgensen Story

The Christine Jorgensen Story
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/10/1970
  • Character: Pastor
George Jorgensen goes to 1950s Denmark and makes headlines for having the first sex-change operation.

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