The best Dermot Walsh’s drama movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Dermot Walsh’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 Dermot Walsh.
Sea of Sand
6.7/10
A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the North African campaign. Sea of Sand was distributed in the US in a shortened version, Desert Patrol.
The Challenge
6.1/10
Jailed for his role in a gang heist and ditched by its female leader (Jayne Mansfield), a widower (Anthony Quayle) decides to keep the loot.
The Blue Parrot
5.4/10
Suspense and romance meet in this film. A nightclub is the scene of a murder. The club's hostess and her American boyfriend find the killer.
Jassy
6.4/10
In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued by superstitious villagers, she is rescued by the son of the owner of Mordelaine, a vast stately home. Unfortunately, his father's drinking and gambling threaten the very ownership of the house. Despite her humble origins as a servant girl, Jassy must try to use her talents to climb the social ladder and save Mordelaine for the man whom she loves.
Bond of Fear
6/10
An escaped killer hides out by forcing a travelling family to take him with them.
Chain of Events
6.5/10
When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences
Bedelia
6.6/10
Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington (Ian Hunter.) But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney (Barry K. Barnes), begins probing into her past with curious concern. Chaney, who is really a detective, learns that Bedelia's obsession for money has led her, in the past, to husband-poisoning for the insurance money.
To the Public Danger
6.4/10
Four people with very different backgrounds meet by chance at an English pub and gradually become carried away in a bout of thrill-seeking. When their spree gets out of hand, each person faces a moral choice with lasting consequences.
Third Time Lucky
5.6/10
A gambler falls in love with a naive young girl. He thinks she is bringing him good luck. Then his main gambling rival arrives and he desires the girl as well.
The Trunk
6.7/10
An attorney's former mistress and his friend feign her death in order to bilk his new bride of 2,000 pounds.
Counterspy
5.5/10
While perusing the books of an engineering company, fastidious auditor Frank Manning encounters rum goings on when he is approached by a woman who claiming she is being blackmailed. She begs him to find certain letters and he eventually agrees. Having obtained the letters, he takes them to a specified address where, to his horror, he finds a man, fully clothed, dead in the bath.
Hungry Hill
6.1/10
Life becomes a tragedy for the wife (Margaret Lockwood) of an Irish heir (Dennis Price) to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.
