The best Bruce Bennett’s drama movies

Bruce Bennett

Bruce Bennett

19/05/1906- 24/02/2007
Today we present the best Bruce Bennett’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 Bruce Bennett’s movies.
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
8.2/10
Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to join with him in search of gold in the wilds of central Mexico. Through enormous difficulties, they eventually succeed in finding gold, but bandits, the elements, and most especially greed threaten to turn their success into disaster.

Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce
7.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 20/10/1945
  • Character: Albert 'Bert' Pierce
After her unfaithful husband leaves her, Mildred Pierce proves she can become independent and successful. However winning the approval of her spoiled daughter proves a greater challenge.

Dark Passage

Dark Passage
7.5/10
A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.

Sahara

Sahara
7.5/10
Sergeant Joe Gunn and his tank crew pick up five British soldiers, a Frenchman and a Sudanese man with an Italian prisoner crossing the Libyan Desert to rejoin their command after the fall of Tobruk. Tambul, the Sudanese leads them to an abandoned desert fortress where they hope to find water. Soon a detachment of German soldiers arrives and attempts to barter food for water, but Gunn and his followers refuse. When the Germans attack, Gunn leads his desert-weary men in a desperate battle, hoping that British reinforcements can arrive in time.

Three Violent People

Three Violent People
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 01/12/1956
  • Character: Commissioner Harrison
A rancher (Charlton Heston), his shady bride (Anne Baxter) and his one-armed brother (Tom Tryon) fight amid carpetbaggers in Texas.

Invisible Stripes

Invisible Stripes
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 30/12/1939
  • Character: Rich Man (uncredited)
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.

Silver River

Silver River
6.5/10
Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most powerful silver magnates in the west. His empire begins to fall apart as the other mining combines rise against him and his stubbornness loses him the support of his wife and old friends.

Nora Prentiss

Nora Prentiss
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/02/1947
  • Character: Dr. Joel Merriam
Quiet, organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings they become heavily involved and Talbot finds he is faced with the choice of leaving Nora or divorcing his wife. When a patient expires in his office, a third option seems to present itself.

Sudden Fear

Sudden Fear
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 07/08/1952
  • Character: Steve Kearney
Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson's new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn't look like a romantic leading man. On a train from New York to San Francisco, Blaine sets out to prove Myra wrong...by romancing her. Is he sincere, or does he have a dark ulterior motive?

Riptide

Riptide
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 29/03/1934
  • Character: Man at Cannes Bar (uncredited)
Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow closer over the years. Then, a trip to the Italian Riviera unexpectedly reunites Mary with her former beau, Tommie. After some vicious gossip makes Rexford distrust her, he begins work on a divorce. Mary must now choose between the man she has married and the man she once loved.

Cafe Hostess

Cafe Hostess
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 11/01/1940
  • Character: Budge
A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.

Love Me Tender

Love Me Tender
6.2/10
At the end of the Civil War, a Confederate team is ordered to rob a Union payroll train but the war ends leaving these men with their Union loot, until the Feds come looking for it.

A Stolen Life

A Stolen Life
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/05/1946
  • Character: Jack R. Talbot
A twin takes her deceased sister's place as wife of the man they both love.

Mystery Street

Mystery Street
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/06/1950
  • Character: Dr. McAdoo
When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.

Without Honor

Without Honor
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 26/10/1949
  • Character: Fred Bandle
Jane Bandle has recently married, but Bill, her husband's brother, tries to wreck her marriage because Jane rejected his sexual advances before her marriage.

Submarine Raider

Submarine Raider
4.5/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 04/06/1942
  • Character: 1st Office Russell
On December 6, 1941, Captain Yamanada of the Japanese aircraft carrier "Hiranamu", orders full steam ahead for Pearl Harbor. His ship encounters and sinks an American yacht and the single survivor, Sue Curry, is rescued by an American submarine, the "Sea Serpent", commanded by Commander Chris Warren. He hears her story and attempts to radio a warning to Pearl Harbor. Yamanada, hearing the signals, orders the airlines jammed, and then sends his son into the air to sink the sub. The attack fails, after the sub makes a crash dive, but they fail in their warning attempts. The next morning, December 7th, the men on the sub hear the story of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and devise a desperate plan to sink the Japanese carrier by letting the carrier know their position. The carrier comes in search of the submarine.

Strategic Air Command

Strategic Air Command
6.3/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 12/07/1955
  • Character: Gen. Espy
Air Force reservist Lt. Col. Robert (Dutch) Holland is recalled into active duty at the peak of his baseball career.

The Outsider

The Outsider
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 27/12/1961
  • Character: Gen. Bridges
Ira Hayes, a young Pima Indian, enlists in the Marine Corps. At boot camp, he is shunned and mocked by everyone, aside from a Marine named Sorenson, who he befriends. They happen to be two of the six marines captured in the famous photograph of Marines raising the U.S. flag on Suribachi during the battle of Iwo Jima, but Sorenson is killed soon after. Although he is hailed as a hero, Ira's life begins to spiral out of control after the war.

Island of Doomed Men

Island of Doomed Men
5.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 20/05/1940
  • Character: Hazen - Guard (uncredited)
Undercover agent Mark Sheldon gets paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine manned by slave labor run by sadistic Stephen Danel.

Robbers' Roost

Robbers' Roost
5.9/10
Jim "Tex" Wall (George Montgomery), searching for the last of the three men who raped and killed his wife, joins a gang of cattle rustlers led by Hank Hays (Richard Boone). Both Hays' outlaws and a rival gang headed by Heesman (Peter Graves), have been hired as ranch hands by "Bull" Herrick (Bruce Bennett), a cripple who owns a large cattle ranch and wants to get his large herd to market. He theorizes that the two gangs will be kept busy watching each other and neither will rustle his cattle. Helen (Sylvia Findley) has little faith in her brother's contrived plan, and hates and distrusts both groups. She begins to soften toward Jim, but abruptly changes when she sees a reward poster which says he has killed two men.

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