The best Dora Bryan’s drama movies

Dora Bryan

Dora Bryan

07/02/1923- 23/07/2014
Today we present the best Dora Bryan’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 Dora Bryan’s movies.
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The Blue Lamp

The Blue Lamp
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 19/01/1950
  • Character: Maisie
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.

Odd Man Out

Odd Man Out
7.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 30/01/1947
  • Character: Girl in Telephone Kiosk (uncredited)
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

A Taste of Honey

A Taste of Honey
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/10/1961
  • Character: Helen
A working class girl struggles to create a life for herself with her gay co-worker after becoming pregnant from a one-night stand with a black sailor.

The Fallen Idol

The Fallen Idol
7.6/10
Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes when he accidentally discovers the secret that Baines keeps and witnesses the consequences that adults' lies can cause.

The Young Lovers

The Young Lovers
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/08/1954
  • Character: Switchboard Operator (uncredited)
A young employee of the British State Department falls in love with the daughter of a top Russian diplomat, much to the panic of their respective countries' officials, who suspect espionage. The cast includes David Knight, Odile Versois, Theodore Bikel and David Kossoff.

No Highway

No Highway
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/06/1951
James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies show that the aircraft being manufactured by his employer has a subtle but deadly design flaw that manifests itself only after the aircraft has flown a certain number of hours. En route to a crash site to prove his theory, Honey discovers that he is aboard a plane rapidly approaching his predicted deadline.

Women of Twilight

Women of Twilight
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 29/11/1952
  • Character: Olga
When a nightclub singer is arrested for murder, his pregnant girlfriend moves into a boarding house for women, but the mother-to-be soon discovers that her new lodgings harbors a horrific secret.

Apartment Zero

Apartment Zero
6.8/10
The owner of a failing cinema and his mysterious boarder are caught up in the political intrigue of Argentina.

Street Corner

Street Corner
6.7/10
London policewomen handle rescues and larceny as they go about their work in Chelsea.

No Room at the Inn

No Room at the Inn
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/11/1948
  • Character: The Girl
A group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman.

The Quiet Woman

The Quiet Woman
5.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/03/1951
  • Character: Elsie Tripp
The former wife of a criminal moves to a coastal town and takes over the running of a bar known as The Quiet Woman. She becomes outraged when she discovers the previous owner had allowed local smugglers to use it as a base. She soon has become romantically involved with one of the smugglers, which causes enormous problems when a customs officer turns up, followed closely by her former husband.

Child in the House

Child in the House
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/08/1956
  • Character: Cassie
A lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her estranged father is a fugitive. For love and companionship, the eleven-year old girl becomes friends with the housemaid. When at long last, she meets her dad, she must vow to never reveal his location to the police.

Scarlet Thread

Scarlet Thread
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/05/1951
  • Character: Maggie
Tale of Cambridge college exploits of two smash-and-grab thieves on the run.

No Trace

No Trace
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/09/1950
  • Character: Maisie
A famous mystery writer uses his own plot tricks to murder a blackmailer in this British thriller.

The Fake

The Fake
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 25/09/1953
  • Character: Barmaid
Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries. Leonardo da Vinci's "Madonna and Child" is being shipped to London's Tate Gallery for a special exhibition, and Paul Mitchell is assigned to protect it. Upon the painting's arrival, Paul realizes it has been switched. Eager to collect the museum's $50,000 reward, he teams up with Mary Mason, a Tate employee, to recover the original.

Adam and Evelyne

Adam and Evelyne
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 31/05/1949
  • Character: Blonde Sales Assistant (uncredited)
The father of a girl in an orphanage, who doesn't remember him, has been writing to her with tales of his success in business. Actually, he is impersonating a friend, a handsome gambler. When the father dies, the gambler takes the girl from the orphanage and tells her the truth. But the girl is now a full-grown beauty and complications arise, including those provided by a black-sheep brother.

Gift Horse

Gift Horse
6.3/10
Compton Bennett's war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come together in 1940 until the climactic raid on occupied St Nazaire in 1942. Trevor Howard plays Lt Cmdr Hugh Alginon Fraser, the newly appointed captain, back in service after having left the navy following a court martial.

The Crowded Day

The Crowded Day
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/10/1954
  • Character: Marge
One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.

Mad About Men

Mad About Men
6.4/10
Flirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is well until she falls in love with a human.

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 21/01/1958
  • Character: Telephonist
American scientist Dr. Frank Smith is brought to Britain to help the C.I.A. There is a defecting East block scientist they want him to debrief. The commies are less than amused and set Dr. Smith up for a murder. Zsa Zsa Gabor plays one of the CIA agents.

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