The best Donald Curtis’s drama movies

Donald Curtis

Donald Curtis

27/02/1915- 22/05/1997
Today we present the best Donald Curtis’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 Donald Curtis’s movies.
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The Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments
7.9/10
Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people.

They Were Expendable

They Were Expendable
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 07/12/1945
  • Character: Lt. (J.G.) 'Shorty' Long
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, a squadron of PT-boat crews in the Philippines must battle the Navy brass between skirmishes with the Japanese. The title says it all about the Navy's attitude towards the PT-boats and their crews.

All That Heaven Allows

All That Heaven Allows
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/12/1955
  • Character: Howard Hoffer
Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.

Bataan

Bataan
6.9/10
During Japan's invasion of the Philippines in 1942, Capt. Henry Lassiter, Sgt. Bill Dane and a diverse group of American soldiers are ordered to destroy and hold a strategic bridge in order to delay the Japanese forces and allow Gen. MacArthur time to secure Bataan. When the Japanese soldiers begin to rebuild the bridge and advance, the group struggles with not only hunger, sickness and gunfire, but also the knowledge that there is likely no relief on the way.

Son of Lassie

Son of Lassie
6.4/10
Laddie (Son of Lassie) and his master are trapped in Norway during WW2 - has he inherited his mothers famous courage?

North West Mounted Police

North West Mounted Police
6.4/10
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)

Knute Rockne All American

Knute Rockne All American
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/10/1940
  • Character: West Point Football Player (uncredited)
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.

Night Song

Night Song
6.4/10
A socialite pretends to be poor and blind in her plan to help a blinded pianist.

Dangerous Years

Dangerous Years
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/12/1947
  • Character: Jeff Carter
Jeff Carter has put an end to the town's delinquency with a boys' club. Young hoodlum Danny shows up and influences teenagers Doris, Willy and Leo. They hang out at a juke joint where Eve works. When Jeff tries to stop a robbery planned by Danny, he is killed and Danny goes on trial.

I Love Trouble

I Love Trouble
6.7/10
A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife's mysterious past.

Salute to the Marines

Salute to the Marines
6.4/10
It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a Nazi agent, and then dying in his dress blues uniform while blowing up a bridge.

Return from Nowhere

Return from Nowhere
5.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/10/1944
  • Character: Jack Stuart (uncredited)
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, a man recovers his lost memories when he is forced to relive events in his dreams.

Tear Gas Squad

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

Inflation

Inflation
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 01/01/1942
  • Character: Salesman (uncredited)
The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.

Gallant Bess

Gallant Bess
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 05/12/1946
  • Character: Lt. Bridgeman
Marshall Thompson stars in this MGM drama about a young soldier's devotion to a horse he rescues during WWII. (Not to be confused with "Adventures of Gallant Bess", another film released two years later.)

Flame of the Islands

Flame of the Islands
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/12/1955
  • Character: Johnny
A café singer buys a gambling casino and several men fall in love with her.

This Man's Navy

This Man's Navy
6.2/10
During World War II, Chief Aviation Pilot Ned Trumpet is in charge of an airship at Lakehurst, New Jersey naval base. Trumpet orders an unauthorized and premature attack on a German submarine but the bomb misses and the submarine fires back, hitting the airship. Trumpet takes over the controls and sinks the submarine, The pilot faces a court-martial for disobeying orders but the older man takes the blame for his actions. Weaver transfers to the Ferry Command, and while on assignment in Burma, his aircraft crashes in Japanese territory. Trumpet rushes to the scene with a rescue team. Both are successfully brought out and are decorated for their heroism. Afterward, Weaver indicates that he will be returning to the lighter-than-air service in Lakehurst, to reunite with his "father".

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