The best Frances Robinson’s movies

Frances Robinson

Frances Robinson

26/04/1916- 16/08/1971
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Frances Robinson’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Frances Robinson.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
6.8/10
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.

The Invisible Man Returns

The Invisible Man Returns
6.5/10
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

Tower of London

Tower of London
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 17/11/1939
  • Character: Duchess Isobel
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.

Backfire

Backfire
6.6/10
When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on the lam from a trumped-up murder rap, and Corey hopes to clear his pal. Tagging along is Army nurse Julie Benson, who has fallen for Corey.

The Rage of Paris

The Rage of Paris
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/06/1938
  • Character: Outside Secretary (Uncredited)
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New York City hotel, the trio plot to have Gloria catch the eye of Bill Duncan, a millionaire staying at the hotel. The plan works and the two quickly become engaged. Nicole's plan may be thwarted by Bill's friend, Jim Trevor, who's met Nicole before and sees through her plot.

I Stole a Million

I Stole a Million
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/08/1939
  • Character: Elsie (uncredited)
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

Double Alibi

Double Alibi
6.2/10
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.

Big Town Czar

Big Town Czar
5.1/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 03/05/1939
  • Character: Florist Shop Employee
When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his sweetheart Susan Warren. His younger brother Danny quits college and forces Phil to make him part of the gang. The overly-ambitious Danny fixes a prize-fight on which rival gang-leader Mike Luger loses heavily and, thinking that Phil has double-crossed him, sends gunmen out to kill Phil. They kill Danny instead and the frightened Phil flees to a country hideout. His chief lieutenant, Sid Travis, sets a trap for Phil when he returns.

Kitten with a Whip

Kitten with a Whip
5.2/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 04/11/1964
  • Character: Martha
Straitlaced senatorial hopeful David Stratton has no idea what he's in for when he arrives home from a trip to find sexy teen Jody curled up asleep in his daughter's bed. Soon, delinquent Jody is holding David -- and his plush suburban home -- hostage while she hides out from the cops and throws wild parties with her beatnik pals. David, terrified of scandal, agrees to drive Jody and her friends to Mexico, a decision he regrets when the ride gets out of control.

Rio

Rio
6.2/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 29/12/1939
  • Character: Renee, the Maid (uncredited)
Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to a penal colony off the coast of South America.

Society Smugglers

Society Smugglers
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/03/1939
  • Character: Mary Larson
The Treasury Department plants a female agent in the office of a luggage company that is suspected of smuggling diamonds.

Personal Secretary

Personal Secretary
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/09/1938
  • Character: June Reese
Two rival newspaper columnists battle over whether or not a woman murdered her playboy husband.

Forbidden Valley

Forbidden Valley
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 13/02/1938
  • Character: Wilda Lanning
In this youth-oriented western, a young man's father is wrongfully accused of murder. Unfortunately, his pa can't prove it and so flees into the rugged mountains. He brings his boy with him. In those lonely hills lives a sad, but wealthy young woman. Love blossoms between the son and the girl as the son struggles to clear his father's name and bring the real villains to justice.

Charlie McCarthy, Detective

Charlie McCarthy, Detective
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/12/1939
  • Character: Court Stenographer
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected.

Riders of Pasco Basin

Riders of Pasco Basin
6/10
  • Genre: MusicWestern
  • Release: 04/04/1940
  • Character: Jean Madison
Kirby and Evans are pulling off an irrigation project swindle and newspaper editor Scott realizes it and sends for Lee. Lee agrees with Scott and forms a vigilante group to fight the Sheriff and his deputies brought in by Kirby. But a dying Uncle Dan sets the Sheriff straight and this brings the two sides together for the big shootout.

I, Jane Doe

I, Jane Doe
6.9/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 25/05/1948
  • Character: Dorothy Winston
While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl but leaves her behind when he returns to the U.S. The French woman follows him to America only to discover he’s already married to a successful lawyer.

Letter of Introduction

Letter of Introduction
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 05/08/1938
  • Character: Hatcheck Girl
An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also trying to make it on Broadway. He tries to re-establish his relationship with her while also trying to hide the fact that she is his daughter from the press.

Smilin' Through

Smilin' Through
6.4/10
John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered. He accepts into his house Kathleen, the 5 year old orphaned niece of Moonyean, and she quickly grows up to look just like her aunt. Kathleen meets and falls in love with a mysterious stranger from America, Kenneth Wayne. When John hears of this he is furious, and we learn that it was Kenneth's father, Jeremy, who had killed Moonyean years before. John carries his grudge against Jeremy to the new generation, and threatens to ruin his niece's happiness, but he softens in the end.

Desperate Trails

Desperate Trails
5.9/10
  • Release: 30/09/1939
  • Character: Judith Lantry
A young boy helps a marshal in his battle against outlaws.

When Tomorrow Comes

When Tomorrow Comes
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 11/08/1939
  • Character: Waitress
Romance and heartbreak walk hand-in-hand when Philip Chagal accidentally meets Helen Lawrence in a restaurant where she is a waitress. Unhappily married to a woman who suffers from mental illness, he is attracted to her and they make a date to go sailing, arriving at Philip's country home just as a storm is breaking. Helen learns who he is for the first time, a celebrated-and-famous concert pianist and, falling in love with him, decides to leave before matters go further. A hurricane hits and their car is crippled by a falling tree. Rising water forces then to seek shelter in the choir loft of a church, where they spend the night.

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