The best Douglas Spencer’s drama movies

Douglas Spencer

Douglas Spencer

10/02/1910- 06/10/1960
We present our ranking of the best Douglas Spencer’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 Douglas Spencer.
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Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity
8.3/10
A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners in crime plan the perfect murder to collect the insurance, which pays double if the death is accidental.

Shane

Shane
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 23/04/1953
  • Character: Axel 'Swede' Shipstead
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.

River of No Return

River of No Return
6.6/10
An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.

The Diary of Anne Frank

The Diary of Anne Frank
7.4/10
The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.

The Lost Weekend

The Lost Weekend
7.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/11/1945
  • Character: Hospital Patient Seeing Imaginary Beetles (uncredited)
Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last - one way or another.

The Heiress

The Heiress
8.1/10
Dull and plain Catherine lives with her emotionally distant father, Dr. Sloper, in 1840s New York. Her days are empty -- filled with little more than needlepoint. Enter handsome Morris Townsend, a dashing social climber with his eye on the spinster's heart and substantial inheritance.

The Thing From Another World

The Thing From Another World
7.1/10
Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.

A Place in the Sun

A Place in the Sun
7.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 12/06/1951
  • Character: Boatkeeper (uncredited)
An ambitious young man wins an heiress's heart but has to cope with his former girlfriend's pregnancy.

The Big Clock

The Big Clock
7.6/10
Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss Janoth to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence (albeit wrong) that he is the killer.

The Three Faces of Eve

The Three Faces of Eve
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 23/12/1957
  • Character: Mr. Black
A doctor treats a woman suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder.

Houdini

Houdini
6.8/10
By the early 1900s, the extraordinary Houdini earned an international reputation for his theatrical tricks and daring feats of extrication from shackles, ropes, handcuffs and... Scotland Yard's jails.

Lucky Partners

Lucky Partners
6.5/10
Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.

The Dark Corner

The Dark Corner
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/05/1946
  • Character: Deli Customer
Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.

Union Station

Union Station
6.8/10
Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.

Something to Live For

Something to Live For
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/03/1952
  • Character: Joey
Alcoholic actress aided by a married Alcoholics Anonymous member with whom she has an affair.

Follow Me Quietly

Follow Me Quietly
6.5/10
1949 thriller about the hunt for a serial killer known as "the Judge" who kills his victims on rainy nights.

Alias Nick Beal

Alias Nick Beal
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaFantasy
  • Release: 04/03/1949
  • Character: Henry T. Finch
After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.

Trouble Along the Way

Trouble Along the Way
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 04/04/1953
  • Character: Father Procurator aka George
Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.

Night Has a Thousand Eyes

Night Has a Thousand Eyes
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 13/10/1948
  • Character: Dr. Ramsdell
When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship to John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition. His partner, Whitney Courtland, uses Triton's talent to make money; but Triton's inability to prevent what he foresees, causes him to break up the act and become a hermit. Years later, Triton has new visions and desperately tries to prevent tragedies in the Courtland family. Can his warnings succeed against suspicion, unbelief, and inexorable fate?

The Sins of Rachel Cade

The Sins of Rachel Cade
5.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 02/04/1961
  • Character: Doctor Bikel
A female doctor in the Congo is torn between two loves.

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