The best Don Keefer’s drama movies

Don Keefer

Don Keefer

18/08/1916- 07/09/2014
We present our ranking of the best Don Keefer’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 Don Keefer.
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
8/10
In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever and talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot 'Sundance Kid'. As the west rapidly becomes civilized, the law finally catches up to Butch, Sundance and their gang. Chased doggedly by a special posse, the two decide to make their way to South America in hopes of evading their pursuers once and for all.

The Way We Were

The Way We Were
7/10
Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.

Torpedo Run

Torpedo Run
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 24/10/1958
  • Character: Ens. Ron Milligan
A submarine commander is on a relentless pursuit of a Japanese aircraft carrier in the South Seas during World War II.

Riot in Cell Block 11

Riot in Cell Block 11
7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 18/02/1954
  • Character: Reporter
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.

Six Bridges to Cross

Six Bridges to Cross
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 19/01/1955
  • Character: Mr. Sherman
Follow the evolution of a small time juvenile delinquent hood to a big time racketeer. Based on the famous 1950 Brinks Robbery in Boston that netted the crooks $2.5 million. The story delves into the psychology of the perpetrators, as well as the intricate mechanics of the hold-up.

The Grissom Gang

The Grissom Gang
6.7/10
The Grissom Gang is a remake of the notorious 1949 British melodrama No Orchids For Miss Blandish. Kim Darby plays a 1920s-era debutante who is kidnapped and held for ransom. Her captors are the Grissoms, a family comprised of sadists and morons, and headed by Ma Barker clone Irene Dailey. One of the Grissoms, played by Scott Wilson, takes a liking to his prisoner, which results in a bloody breakdown of the family unit. Both The Grissom Gang and the original No Orchids For Miss Blandish were inspired by the best-seller by James Hadley Chase, though neither film retains Chase's original ending.

Incident in an Alley

Incident in an Alley
5.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/05/1962
  • Character: Roy Swanson
A policeman is accused of manslaughtering a 14-year-old boy but is acquitted of all charges. Still, he feels a lot of guilt and begins to doubt if he really is innocent after all.

R.P.M.

R.P.M.
5.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/09/1970
  • Character: Dean George Cooper
R.P.M. stands for (political) revolutions per minute. Anthony Quinn plays a liberal college professor at a west coast college during the hedy days of campus activism in the late 1960s. Radical students take over the college, the president resigns, and Quinn's character, who has always been a champion of student activism, is appointed president. As the students continue to push the envelope of revolution, Quinn's character is faced with the challenge of restoring order or abetting the descent into anarchy.

The Young Nurses

The Young Nurses
4.5/10
Sexy young nurses apply special therapy in their daily rounds, as they work against a drug ring operating out of the hospital

The Girl in White

The Girl in White
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 23/05/1952
  • Character: Dr. Williams
The first female doctor in New York City comes up against prejudice from male counterparts who feel threatened by her skills. Eventually, though, they come to respect her and romance blossoms between her and the head doctor.

Hellcats of the Navy

Hellcats of the Navy
5.6/10
Future "first couple" Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis made their only joint film appearance in Hellcats of the Navy. Ronnie plays Casey Abbott, commander of a WW2 submarine, while Nancy portrays navy nurse Helen Blair, Abbott's off-and-on girlfriend. During a delicate mission in which his sub is ordered to retrieve a revolutionary new Japanese mine, Abbott is forced to leave frogman Wes Barton (Harry Lauter) behind to save the rest of his crew. But Abbott's second-in-command Don Landon (Eduard Franz) is convincing that Abbott's sacrifice of Barton was due to the fact that the dead man had been amorously pursuing Helen.

Rabbit, Run

Rabbit, Run
5.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/10/1970
  • Character: Mr. Springer
Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom comes home one day from his dead-end job to find his pregnant wife Janice asleep, splayed in front of the TV, highball glass in hand. After a moment's contemplation, he decides to leave. Taking his coat and car keys, he's off and running on a rambling, aimless journey.

Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter

Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaTV Movie
  • Release: 10/02/1991
  • Character: Grandpa Ball
Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter is described by CBS as "a dramatic love story" about the lives of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.

A Rainy Day

A Rainy Day
8.2/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 06/04/1979
  • Character: Rev. Jewels
A television star goes home to Texas for her father's funeral and spends time with her mother for the first time in five years. Reminiscing about her childhood allows the daughter to work through lifelong resentments and to forgive her mother.

Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies

Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies
4.7/10
The story of Ace Eli Walford, a 1920s stunt flyer who barnstorms around the country, taking his eleven-year-old son Rodger with him as he goes from town to town. The place is rural Kansas, and the time is midsummer in the early nineteen-twenties, not long after World War I. Eli (Cliff Robertson), a barn storming pilot who has the emotional make-up of an 11-year-old, and Rodger (Eric Shea), his 11-year-old son who possesses the wisdom of the ancients, set off to see the world, which means flying all the way to San Willow. To Eli, San Willow seems to be as fabled as Xanadu and quite as remote. In essence, "Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies" is about the adventures of Rodger and Eli getting from nowhere to nowhere. Eli, a killer with the ladies at first, always leaves them unsatisfied. He seems to have a sex problem. Rodger spends a lot of his time getting his dad out of scrapes. He also drinks, smokes and goes to sleep at night crying for his deceased mom.

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaTV Movie
  • Release: 20/02/1975
  • Character: Dr. Wheeler
After three civil-rights workers are murdered in Mississippi in 1964, a team of FBI agents is sent there to find the killers.

Ready for the People

Ready for the People
In a barroom fight over Connie Zelenko, Eddie Dickinson is badly wounded and Connie's boyfriend is killed. Witnesses claim Dickinson is the killer, but he maintains his innocence despite public prosecutor Murray Brock's advice that he plead guilty and take a life-imprisonment sentence rather than risk capital punishment. When Connie comes out of hiding, she confirms the other witnesses' stories, but Brock believes Dickinson is innocent. Dickinson sticks to his story at his trial but receives the death sentence. In the death house, Dickinson continues to maintain his innocence, but after the execution of the sentence, Brock receives a letter from Dickinson confessing to the murder.

The Bait

The Bait
5.7/10
Tracy Fleming is a widowed police officer, with a young son, who has risen to the role of plainclothes operative. After six women have been raped and killed, Fleming agrees to go undercover in an effort to make herself a target for the killer. The climax places her in a life-and-death struggle with the killer.

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