The best Charles R. Moore’s drama movies

Charles R. Moore

Charles R. Moore

23/04/1893- 20/07/1947
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The Little Foxes

The Little Foxes
7.9/10
The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the deep South at the turn of the 20th century. Regina Giddons née Hubbard has her daughter under her thumb. Mrs. Giddons is estranged from her husband, who is convalescing in Baltimore and suffers from a terminal illness. But she needs him home, and will manipulate her daughter to help bring him back. She has a sneaky business deal that she's cooking up with her two elder brothers, Oscar and Ben. Oscar has a flighty, unhappy wife and a dishonest worm of a son. Will the daughter have to marry this contemptible cousin? Who will she grow up to be - her mother or her aunt? Or can she escape the fate of both?

Manhattan Melodrama

Manhattan Melodrama
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaRomance
  • Release: 04/05/1934
  • Character: Black Man in Speakeasy (uncredited)
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

This Gun for Hire

This Gun for Hire
7.4/10
Sadistic killer-for-hire Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
8.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/10/1939
  • Character: Porter (uncredited)
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.

He Was Her Man

He Was Her Man
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 16/06/1934
  • Character: Manhattan Turkish Bath Attendant
A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals".

Blonde Venus

Blonde Venus
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/09/1932
American chemist Ned Faraday marries a German entertainer and starts a family. However, he becomes poisoned with Radium and needs an expensive treatment in Germany to have any chance at being cured. Wife Helen returns to night club work to attempt to raise the money and becomes popular as the Blonde Venus. In an effort to get enough money sooner, she prostitutes herself to millionaire Nick Townsend.

Sleepers West

Sleepers West
6.6/10
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.

Only Angels Have Wings

Only Angels Have Wings
7.6/10
Geoff Carter is the head of a crumbling air freight service in desperate need of a replacement pilot. He is forced to hire a descredited aviator who arrives with his wife, Carter's ex-lover. Meanwhile, traveler Bonnie Lee tries to get close to the emotionally closed-off Carter.

The Accusing Finger

The Accusing Finger
6.6/10
A district attorney sends a young man to the electric chair, then lands in the death house himself.

Fast Workers

Fast Workers
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/03/1933
  • Character: Liar Fined in Court (Uncredited)
Gunner and Bucker are friends who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she is true or not. So far, Gunner hasn't failed. But one night, while Gunner is in jail, Bucker meets Mary, a tough dame with a line. He falls for her, and she falls for his money. But Mary is already a gal pal of Gunner, and no two know about the third one. The trouble starts when the triangle is revealed too late.

Maryland

Maryland
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/07/1940
A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.

Tin Pan Alley

Tin Pan Alley
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaMusicRomance
  • Release: 29/11/1940
  • Character: Porter at Railroad Station (uncredited)
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.

Diamond Jim

Diamond Jim
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/09/1935
  • Character: Cook
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.

36 Hours to Kill

36 Hours to Kill
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 24/07/1936
  • Character: Red Cap
Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000 if he can cash it in without getting apprehended

Queen of the Mob

Queen of the Mob
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 28/06/1940
  • Character: Cocktail Party Butler
Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.

Kentucky

Kentucky
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 30/12/1938
  • Character: Stable Swipe
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.

Comet Over Broadway

Comet Over Broadway
5.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 03/12/1938
  • Character: Sam - Cleaning Man (uncredited)
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.

The Exile

The Exile
4.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/05/1931
An idealistic young man is torn between a sultry nightclub owner in Chicago and a Scottish farmgirl in South Dakota.

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