The best Donald Haines’s 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.
Melody Ranch
6.2/10
His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration.
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.
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.
Never Say Die
6.8/10
Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry her boyfriend Andy Devine, but her father is determined that she marry into royalty. To solve both their problems, Martha Raye and Bob Hope decide to marry, but will they ever find love together?
Boys of the City
5.6/10
Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
Bunker Bean
5.8/10
A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.
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.
The Nitwits
6/10
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
Little Miss Nobody
6.8/10
A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.
Shivering Shakespeare
6.8/10
The gang is participating in a program sponsored by the Golden Age Dramatic League. They present their own fractured version of Quo Vadis. Things go from bad to worse when the neighborhood tough kids disrupt the show. The pie fight is given a new twist by use of some slow motion sequences.
Love Business
7.9/10
Miss Crabtree, the teacher Jackie has a crush on, rents a room at Jackie's house.
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.
Love and Hisses
6.1/10
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.
Spooks Run Wild
5.3/10
A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.
No Greater Glory
6.9/10
A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.
Down on the Farm
5.2/10
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
On Your Toes
5.6/10
A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
