The best David Newell’s movies

David Newell

David Newell

23/01/1905- 25/01/1980
Today we present the best David Newell’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 David Newell’s movies.
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Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind
8.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomanceWar
  • Release: 16/02/1940
  • Character: Cade Calvert (uncredited)
The spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner is forced to use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of poverty, following Maj. Gen. William Sherman's destructive "March to the Sea,” during the American Civil War.

Union Pacific

Union Pacific
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 05/05/1939
  • Character: Reporter (uncredited)
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?

Imitation of Life

Imitation of Life
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 23/11/1934
  • Character: Party Guest Saying Goodbye (uncredited)
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.

Dark Victory

Dark Victory
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 20/04/1939
  • Character: Judith's Friend (uncredited)
A flighty heiress discovers inner strength when she develops a brain tumor.

The Letter

The Letter
7.5/10
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.

A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 27/04/1937
  • Character: Sam (uncredited)
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.

Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo
6.4/10
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.

North West Mounted Police

North West Mounted Police
6.4/10
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)

Hell Below

Hell Below
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomanceWar
  • Release: 08/06/1933
  • Character: Lieut. (JG) Radford
On leave in Italy, Lt. Tommy Knowlton falls in love with Jean Standish, who's not only married, but is the daughter of his submarine's commander. Friction between the two officers becomes intolerable once at sea and after Commander Toler is forced to abandon Tommy's best friend topside while the sub dives to escape enemy planes, Tommy is no longer able to contain his anger.

Artists & Models

Artists & Models
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 04/08/1937
  • Character: Romeo (uncredited)
An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.

The Florentine Dagger

The Florentine Dagger
5.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 30/03/1935
  • Character: Rodrigo (uncredited)
A playwright descended from the Borgias becomes a murder suspect.

Lady with Red Hair

Lady with Red Hair
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/11/1940
  • Character: Man in Chicago Audience (uncredited)
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.

The Duel at Silver Creek

The Duel at Silver Creek
6.3/10
A gang of claim jumpers is infesting the territory, gaining ownership of undermanned mining operations through extortion...and leaving no live witnesses. But one victim, quick-drawing gambler Luke Cromwell, escapes. Meanwhille, Marshal Lightnin' Tyrone is also after the gang; recovering from one raid, he meets femme fatale Opal Lacy, who may not be healthy for him to know. When Luke, now calling himself the Silver Kid, joins forces with Marshal Tyrone, the gang had better watch out ...unless something drives a wedge between the new allies.

Ship Cafe

Ship Cafe
6.2/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 09/11/1935
  • Character: Donald (uncredited)
The singing stoker and the vamp.

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
7.1/10
A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the doctor performs plastic surgery. It is here that an arch fiend takes refuge. The museum also houses a statue of Charlie. Frustrated number-two son kicks statue in rear; oops, number-two son wrong in his assumption

Huddle

Huddle
5.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 14/05/1932
  • Character: Football Player (uncredited)
Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale college. Over the four years of his college career he learns about football, love, and class prejudice.

Du Barry Was a Lady

Du Barry Was a Lady
6.1/10
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is love with a poor dancer, but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.

Footsteps in the Dark

Footsteps in the Dark
6.7/10
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out.

'Til We Meet Again

'Til We Meet Again
6.7/10
  • Genre: Romance
  • Release: 20/04/1940
  • Character: Assistant Purser (uncredited)
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.

Educating Father

Educating Father
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/05/1936
  • Character: Eddie Gordon
Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come in handy.

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