The best Donald Haines’s drama movies
We present our ranking of the best Donald Haines’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 Haines.
Manhattan Melodrama
7.1/10
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
Sergeant Madden
6.1/10
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
Kidnapped
6.6/10
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour (Freddie Bartholomew) joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart (Warner Baxter) in 18th-century Scotland.
Flying Wild
5.4/10
A group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an air ambulance service is secretly a spy transporting secret information from the plant to enemy agents.
Bowery Blitzkrieg
6/10
The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying and school and becoming a boxer, and is getting mixed up with gangsters.
Skippy
6.3/10
Skippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel dogcatcher.
Little Man, What Now?
7.2/10
A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire married men.
No Greater Glory
6.9/10
A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.
Pride of the Bowery
5.9/10
Muggs is tricked into entering a Civilian Conservation Corps camp by Danny in order to get in shape. Muggs resists and battles with the camp captain and with other campers. He also becomes involved in trying to help one of his friends get out of trouble.
When a Feller Needs a Friend
5.4/10
A lame boy's uncle tries to rescue him from his over-protective parents.
That Gang of Mine
5.8/10
A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poor old man who has a championship race horse. The man agrees to let the boy ride his horse in a race, but first the gang must get enough money to pay for the race's entry fees.
East Side Kids
5.5/10
After living all his chilhood in the street, a young boy notices rapidly that crime doesn't pay and that´s why he decides to become a policeman. One day, one of his best friends go in prison for a murder he didn't commit. Immediately the policeman tries his best to release him and prove his innocence.
Little Miss Nobody
6.8/10
A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.
The Boss Didn't Say Good Morning
5.6/10
Carey Wilson narrates this MGM Miniature short in which an average office worker suffers all week-end because his boss, who had a bad case of indigestion, didn't speak to him when he came to work on Friday and is convinced he is going to get fired.
