The best Dick Purcell’s drama movies

Dick Purcell

Dick Purcell

06/08/1905- 10/04/1944
We present our ranking of the best Dick Purcell’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 Dick Purcell.
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Flight Command

Flight Command
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 27/12/1940
  • Character: Lieut. 'Stichy' Payne
A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression when he is forced to ditch his airplane and parachute to safety when he arrives at the base but is unable to land due to heavy fog. On his first day on the job, his poor shooting skills results in the Hellcats losing an air combat competition. His fellow pilots accept him anyways but they think he's crossed the line when they erroneously conclude that while their CO Billy Gray is away, Drake has an affair with his wife Lorna. Drake is now an outcast and is prepared to resign from the Navy but his extreme heroism in saving Billy Gray's life turns things around.

Alcatraz Island

Alcatraz Island
5.6/10
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.

Bullets or Ballots

Bullets or Ballots
7/10
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.

Timber Queen

Timber Queen
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/01/1944
  • Character: Milt Holmes
Russ Evans, A WWII veteran army pilot, decides to check up on the widow of an old war buddy of his, Elaine Graham. The logging company she inherited is doing poorly, but Elaine gets an order in for a huge shipment of lumber. Russ and his friend Squirrel volunteer to help her cut the timber for the shipment, along with her friends Smacksie Golden and his girlfriend Lil Boggs, who are not used to doing physical labor. Russ pilots the plane to deliver the lumber before the company falls to a slimy businessman.

The Doorway to Hell

The Doorway to Hell
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 18/10/1930
  • Character: Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and retire to Florida after marrying his moll. Unfortunately, he has no idea that she and the man are lovers.

Drunk Driving

Drunk Driving
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 28/10/1939
  • Character: John Jones
In this Crime Does Not Pay series entry, John Jones is an up and coming businessman who drinks too much but denies he has a problem. One day he mixes drinking and driving, and the tragic consequences hit very close to home.

Broadway Musketeers

Broadway Musketeers
5.9/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 08/10/1938
  • Character: Vince Morrell

Talent Scout

Talent Scout
5.2/10
  • Genre: DramaMusicRomance
  • Release: 24/07/1937
  • Character: Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.

Torpedo Boat

Torpedo Boat
7.3/10
Richard Arlen and Phil Terry star as Skimmer and Tommy, two lifelong buddies who've invented a lightweight, high-speed torpedo boat (hence the title). Their copacetic business relationship is strained when nightclub singer Grace Holman (Jean Parker), having been jilted by Skimmer, marries Tommy on the rebound.

Flying Blind

Flying Blind
4.6/10
A spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner crashes in the wilderness & the survivors are threatened by a raging forest fire.

Man Hunt

Man Hunt
5.5/10
A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.

Arise, My Love

Arise, My Love
6.8/10
In 1939, American Tom Martin, who fought in the Spanish Civil War, awaits execution at the hands of the Fascist victors when reporter Augusta 'Gusto' Nash, for a scoop, aids him in an audacious escape. Of course, Tom tries to romance Gusto; but though she likes him, her career comes first, and Tom himself prefers freedom-fighting to settling down. Comedy becomes drama as their mixed feelings lead them on a circuitous path through the deepening chaos and catastrophe of the early days of World War II.

Aerial Gunner

Aerial Gunner
5.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 20/03/1943
  • Character: Lancelot 'Gadget' Blaine
Old rivals are pitted against each other in basic training and fight for the same woman.

Missing Witnesses

Missing Witnesses
5.4/10
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.

The Law in Her Hands

The Law in Her Hands
5.7/10
A female lawyer (Margaret Lindsay) sets up her own practice but only achieves success as an attorney for the mob.

Blackwell's Island

Blackwell's Island
6/10
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.

Ceiling Zero

Ceiling Zero
6.7/10
War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline. Dizzy is fooling with one of the younger pilot's girl-friend and due to this he changes flights with Texas.

Jailbreak

Jailbreak
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/08/1936
  • Character: Ed Slayden
A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.

Public Enemy's Wife

Public Enemy's Wife
5.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 24/07/1936
  • Character: Louie
Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene, fingered her for. Gene is in prison for life. She claims that she had no knowledge of Gene's criminal activity, but FBI agent Lee Laird doesn't buy it.

Over the Wall

Over the Wall
5.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 02/04/1938
  • Character: Ace Scanlon
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter (Dick Foran) is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend (June Travis) sets out to prove his innocence. Director Frank MacDonald's 1938 crime drama--with songs--also stars John Litel, Dick Purcell, Tommy Bupp, Ward Bond, Veda Ann Borg, George E. Stone, John Hamilton and Jonathan Hale.

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