The best Dean Jones’s drama movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Dean Jones’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Dean Jones.
Clear and Present Danger
6.9/10
CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.
That Darn Cat!
6.7/10
A young woman suspects foul play when her cat comes home wearing a wrist watch. Convincing the FBI, though, and catching the bad guys is tougher than she imagined.
The Sugarland Express
6.7/10
Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resolve to do whatever it takes to get him back. Lou-Jean gets Clovis out of jail, and the two steal their son from his foster home, in addition to taking a highway patrolman hostage. As a massive dragnet starts to pursue them across Texas, the couple become unlikely folk heroes and even start to bond with the captive policeman.
Somebody Up There Likes Me
7.5/10
The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
Jailhouse Rock
6.5/10
After serving time for manslaughter, young Vince Everett becomes a teenage rock star.
Torpedo Run
6.4/10
A submarine commander is on a relentless pursuit of a Japanese aircraft carrier in the South Seas during World War II.
Under the Yum-Yum Tree
6/10
A love-struck landlord tries to convince a pretty tanant to dump her fiancé and give him a chance.
The Ugly Dachshund
6.5/10
The Garrisons are the "proud parents" of three adorable dachshund pups - and one overgrown Great Dane named Brutus, who nevertheless thinks of himself as a dainty dachsie. His identity crisis results in an uproarious series of household crises that reduce the Garrisons' house to shambles - and viewers to howls of laughter!
Tea and Sympathy
7.3/10
Tom Lee is more interested in the arts than in sports, something that sits uneasily with both his father and his classmates. Tom's school housemaster Bill Reynolds even gives him a hard time for his "effeminate" interests. However, Bill's wife Laura sympathizes with Tom and tries to help him with her own overtures.
These Wilder Years
6.8/10
A man tries to find a son he gave up for adoption years ago.
Mandie and the Secret Tunnel
5.2/10
In 1899, Mandie's life changes when her Cherokee friends help her escape to a mansion that holds the hidden secrets of her past and the key to her future.
The Long Days of Summer
6.3/10
A sequel to praised T.V. movie 'When Every Day Is The Fourth Of July': A Jewish attorney and his son battle anti-Semitism in pre-war New England. Generally well done.
Handle with Care
6.7/10
A law student working on a class project discovers a real-life crime.
The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit
6.3/10
Frederick Bolton has to solve two problems. First, his boss has instructed him to come up with a reasonable campaign to promote a new product, a stomach pill named "Aspercel" - by tomorrow. The second problem is Fred's daugther, Helen. She is absolutely fond of horses, takes riding classes and has already had decent success in some competitions. Her biggest wish is to own a horse herself, a dream her father cannot afford at all. Now Fred tries to solve both problems at once by simply combining them: A horse named "Aspercel", ridden by his daugther should bring the name of the pill into the papers and make Helen happy, too. But there's still one more obstacle: Helen and Aspercel of course have to win a few prices to make this idea work...
When Every Day Was the Fourth of July
7.3/10
A little girl convinces her attorney father to defend a mute war veteran accused of murdering a store owner.
The Great Man's Whiskers
7.4/10
A young girl writes to President Abraham Lincoln to advise him to grow a beard.
Special Report: Journey to Mars
4.8/10
When the world's first spaceship is close to its goal (Mars), the TV-network GNN begins its live coverage of the last two hours of the mission and then the problems start. The landing-computer malfunctions, the captain Eugene Slader gets very sick and back on Earth it is discovered that big financial corporations have an interest in the failure of the mission - and we, the viewers, can see it all live on television.
Fire and Rain
5.5/10
This movie is based on the actual events on the tragic day of August 2nd, 1985. Delta Airlines flight 191 en route to Los Angeles Via Dallas Ft Worth took off from Ft Lauderdale, Fl. When the plane was landing in Ft Worth wind-shear from a strong thunderstorm caused the plane to crash.
The New Interns
6.2/10
Young doctors mix romance with their careers in a big-city hospital.
Night of the Quarter Moon
6.3/10
A POW marries a woman he meets in Mexico. Controversy erupts when people find out that she's one-quarter black.
