The best Don Barclay’s drama movies

Don Barclay

Don Barclay

26/12/1892- 16/10/1975
Today we present the best Don Barclay’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 Don Barclay’s movies.
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This Gun for Hire

This Gun for Hire
7.4/10
Sadistic killer-for-hire Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.

Honky Tonk

Honky Tonk
6.6/10
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.

The Big Street

The Big Street
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 13/08/1942
  • Character: Eating Contest Emcee (Uncredited)
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish showgirl who despises and uses him.

The Falcon's Brother

The Falcon's Brother
6.4/10
A gentlemanly detective known as The Falcon calls on his brother to help him stop the Nazis from assassinating a key diplomat.

Man Hunt

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

After Midnight with Boston Blackie

After Midnight with Boston Blackie
6.4/10
Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend.

Fugitive in the Sky

Fugitive in the Sky
6.1/10
Reporter Terry Brewer goes to the Los Angeles airport to say goodbye to his sweetheart, airline hostess Rita Moore. He notices G-Man Mike Phelan among the passengers and assuming Phelan is on the trail of a criminal, decides to go along to get a story.

My Dear Miss Aldrich

My Dear Miss Aldrich
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 17/09/1937
  • Character: Second Drunk at Red Apple Inn (uncredited)
A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.

The Spy Ring

The Spy Ring
5.4/10
Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when one of them is murdered. The other vows to get the spies that are after the invention and avenge his friend's death.

The Flying Irishman

The Flying Irishman
5.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/04/1939
  • Character: Bettor
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.

Accidents Will Happen

Accidents Will Happen
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 09/04/1938
  • Character: Martin Dorsey
A married insurance claims adjuster investigates a gang of accident-fraud racketeers, but they retaliate by targeting his wife.

Navy Spy

Navy Spy
5.2/10
A federal agent and a female reporter team up to catch a criminal gang that has kidnapped a scientist in order to get his formula for a new type of poison gas.

I Cover the War!

I Cover the War!
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 04/07/1937
  • Character: Elmer Davis (as Don Barkley)
Bob Adams, ace newsreel cameraman, is told by his boss, "Get the picture---we can't screen alibis." He heads for Samari, a desert hot-bed of tribal unrest in Africa, to do just that, which includes getting footage of El Kadar, bandit and rebel leader. He gets his pictures but only after a romance with the Colonel's daughter Pamela, saving his wimpy, hacked-off brother Don from being a dupe of the gun-runners, and run-ins with spies and throat-cutting tribesman. For a finale, he saves the British Army.

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