The best Dennis Morgan’s drama movies

Dennis Morgan

Dennis Morgan

20/12/1908- 07/09/1994
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Kitty Foyle

Kitty Foyle
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 27/12/1940
  • Character: Wynnewood 'Wyn' Strafford VI
Kitty Foyle, a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young socialite Wyn Strafford but his family is against her.

The Great Ziegfeld

The Great Ziegfeld
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaMusicRomance
  • Release: 08/04/1936
  • Character: Stage Singer in "Pretty Girl" Number
Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker.

In This Our Life

In This Our Life
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 08/05/1942
  • Character: Peter Kingsmill
A young woman dumps her fiancée and runs off with her sister's husband. They marry, settle in Baltimore, and Stanley ultimately drives Peter to drink and suicide. Stanley returns home to Richmond only to learn that her sister Roy and old flame Craig have fallen in love and plan to marry. The jealous and selfish Stanley attempts to win back Craig's affections, but her true character is revealed when, rather than take the rap herself, she attempts to pin a hit and run accident on the young black clerk who works in Craig's law office.

Flight Angels

Flight Angels
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/05/1940
  • Character: Chick Farber
Federal Airlines ace pilot Chick Faber is grounded by Flight Superintendent Bill Graves when a doctor says his eyesight is failing. Aided by Mary Norvell and Nan Hudson, Graves persuades Chick to take a job as teacher in the school for airline hostesses, and Chick and Mary get married. He learns that the Army is going to test a stratosphere plane that he and Artie Dixon designed and feels that he should make the first flight but permission is refused.

The Hard Way

The Hard Way
7.1/10
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.

Captains of the Clouds

Captains of the Clouds
6.4/10
  • Genre: ActionDramaWar
  • Release: 12/02/1942
  • Character: Johnny Dutton (bush pilot)
Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined Canadian bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF.

The Fighting 69th

The Fighting 69th
6.6/10
  • Genre: ActionDramaWar
  • Release: 27/01/1940
  • Character: Lieutenant Ames
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.

Uranium Boom

Uranium Boom
5.8/10
  • Genre: AdventureDrama
  • Release: 02/03/1956
  • Character: Bradford "Brad" E. Collins
Ex-lumberjack Brad Collins (Dennis Morgan) and mining engineer Grady Mathews (William Talman) find uranium in the Colorado badlands. While Grady guards the claim, Brad goes to register it in town, where he meets and marries Jean Williams (Patricia Medina.) Returning to the claim, Brad learns that Jean was once Grady's fiancee. Grady, as one would expect, is somewhat put out and leaves the mine in Brad's hands, while he hooks up with a confidence man and engineers a scheme to break the back of Brad's somewhat rapidly-created mining empire.

Suzy

Suzy
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/07/1936
  • Character: Lieutenant
A French air ace discovers that his showgirl wife's first husband is still alive.

Navy Blue and Gold

Navy Blue and Gold
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/11/1937
  • Character: Marine 2nd Lt.
Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.

The Very Thought of You

The Very Thought of You
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 20/10/1944
  • Character: Sgt. David Stewart
Army sergeants Dave and "Fixit" spend a three-day pass in Pasadena, where they meet Janet and Cora, two young women who work in a parachute factory.

Perfect Strangers

Perfect Strangers
6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 11/03/1950
  • Character: David Campbell
Separated from their normal lives, jurors Terry Scott and David Campbell start to fall in love. Romance at a murder trial with a pair of jurors who are the only ones who think that the woman in the dock is innocent.

This Woman Is Dangerous

This Woman Is Dangerous
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 09/02/1952
  • Character: Dr. Ben Halleck
A crime gang leader is losing her sight, so while her lover go into hiding, she checks in to the hospital for extensive surgery to recover her eyesight. There she is treated by a handsome young doctor, Ben Hellack. As expected not only the doctor successfully open her eyes, he also opened her heart for him.

Illegal Traffic

Illegal Traffic
6.2/10
G-Man Charles Bent Martin is sent out to break up a nationwide racket. A transport company is aiding fugitives making a getaway in exchange for the lion's share of their loot. Through an old friend, whom he once barnstormed in an air circus, Martin joins the gang as a pilot. He becomes interested in Carol Butler, a beautiful girl involved with the gang through the activities of her ne'er-do-well father.

River's End

River's End
6/10
  • Genre: ActionDramaWestern
  • Release: 10/08/1940
  • Character: John Keith / Sgt. Derry Conniston
An escaped criminal pretends to be a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in order to prove his innocence of murder. Star Dennis Morgan plays two roles.

Wings for the Eagle

Wings for the Eagle
5.8/10
Aircraft workers during during World War II become involved in a love triangle.

Tear Gas Squad

Tear Gas Squad
5.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 04/05/1940
  • Character: Tommy McCabe
A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.

One More Tomorrow

One More Tomorrow
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 24/05/1946
  • Character: Thomas Rufus 'Tom' Collier III
Shiftless playboy Tom Collier lives to jump from party to party--until he meets photographer Christie Sage. Through Christie, Tom takes over the ownership of The Bantam, a liberal magazine which opposes everything his family represents. As Tom and Christie's relationship deepens, love blooms and he proposes to her. Realizing that she could never fit in with Tom's social circle, Christie says no, a decision she later regrets. But Tom isn't left alone for long--scheming gold-digger Cecelia Henry wastes no time in catching Tom on the rebound and forcing him into a disastrous marriage. A remake of 1932's The Animal Kingdom.

Waterfront

Waterfront
5.8/10
A hard-living dockworker finds religion until his brother is murdered.

Men with Wings

Men with Wings
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/07/1938
  • Character: Galton
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.

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