The best Dalton Trumbo’s drama movies

Dalton Trumbo

Dalton Trumbo

09/12/1905- 10/09/1976
We present our ranking of the best Dalton Trumbo’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 Dalton Trumbo.

Papillon

Papillon
8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 13/12/1973
  • Character: Commandant (uncredited)
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.

Trumbo

Trumbo
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/10/2015
  • Character: Himself (archive footage)
The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.

Johnny Got His Gun

Johnny Got His Gun
7.8/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 04/08/1971
  • Character: Orator
Joe, a young American soldier, is hit by a mortar shell on the last day of World War I. He lies in a hospital bed with a fate worse than death as a quadruple amputee who has lost his arms, legs, eyes, ears, mouth and nose. Unbeknown to his doctors, he remains conscious and able to think, thereby reliving his life through strange dreams and memories.

The Prowler

The Prowler
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 25/05/1951
  • Character: John Gilvray's Voice (voice) (uncredited)
Los Angeles, California. A cop who, unhappy with his job, blames others for his work problems, is assigned to investigate the case of a prowler who stalks the home of a married woman.

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