The best Donald Douglas’s drama movies

Donald Douglas

Donald Douglas

24/08/1905- 31/12/1945
We present our ranking of the best Donald Douglas’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 Donald Douglas.
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Gilda

Gilda
7.6/10
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.

Sergeant York

Sergeant York
7.7/10
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.

Jesse James

Jesse James
7/10
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.

Action in the North Atlantic

Action in the North Atlantic
7/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 12/06/1943
  • Character: Lieutenant-Commander (uncredited)
Lieutenant Joe Rossi is 1st Officer on a Liberty Ship in a great convoy bound from Halifax to Murmansk. After German subs crushed the convoy his ship loses the convoy and is heading alone to Murmansk. In spite of attacks by German planes and subs he get the ship safely to Murmansk.

Murder, My Sweet

Murder, My Sweet
7.5/10
Gumshoe Philip Marlowe is hired by the oafish Moose Malloy to track down his former girlfriend. He's also hired to accompany an effeminate playboy buy back some jewels. When the exchange results in the playboy's murder, Marlowe can't leave the case alone, and soon discovers it's related to Malloy's. As he gets drawn deeper into a complex web of intrigue by a mysterious blonde, the detective finds his own life in increasing jeopardy.

Tales of Manhattan

Tales of Manhattan
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 05/08/1942
  • Character: 'Hen 'Henderson (Robinson sequence) (as Don Douglas)
Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video release features a W.C. Fields segment not included in the original theatrical release.

Special Inspector

Special Inspector
4.9/10
U. S. Customs Agent Tom Evans is given the assignment of running down a smuggling ring which hijacks Canadian fur-shipper's trucks and sells the loot in the United States.

Madame X

Madame X
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/10/1937
  • Character: Mr. Edison
An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her in court.

Sleepers West

Sleepers West
6.6/10
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.

Hold Back the Dawn

Hold Back the Dawn
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 26/09/1941
  • Character: Joe (uncredited)
Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.

Flight Command

Flight Command
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 27/12/1940
  • Character: 1st Duty Officer
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.

A Royal Scandal

A Royal Scandal
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 26/03/1945
  • Character: Variatinsky (uncredited)
Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.

Island of Doomed Men

Island of Doomed Men
5.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 20/05/1940
  • Character: Department of Justice Official
Undercover agent Mark Sheldon gets paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine manned by slave labor run by sadistic Stephen Danel.

Navy Blue and Gold

Navy Blue and Gold
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/11/1937
  • Character: Lt. North (uncredited)
Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.

On Dress Parade

On Dress Parade
5.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/11/1939
  • Character: Col. Wm. Duncan
The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.

Club Havana

Club Havana
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 23/11/1945
  • Character: Johnny Norton (as Don Douglas)
A doctor (Tom Neal) answers a suicide call in a Latin nightclub.

Cheers For Miss Bishop

Cheers For Miss Bishop
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 21/02/1941
  • Character: Delbert Thompson
Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only opportunity for true love. Ella's life becomes one of missed chances and wrong choices. As she reaches old age, she reflects back and realizes she allowed the years to go by without achieving what she believes to be her true fulfillment. However, her years have not been without glory, and her moment of triumph arrives when her numerous now-famous students from over the years, return to honor their beloved Miss Bishop.

Fast Company

Fast Company
6.6/10
Married book-dealers Joel and Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.

Smashing the Rackets

Smashing the Rackets
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/08/1938
  • Character: Harry Spaulding
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...

Sabotage

Sabotage
5.7/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 13/10/1939
  • Character: Joe Grayson
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but the major shoots one of them.....

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