The best Franchot Tone’s drama movies

Franchot Tone

Franchot Tone

27/02/1905- 18/09/1968
We present our ranking of the best Franchot Tone’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 Franchot Tone.
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Mutiny on the Bounty

Mutiny on the Bounty
7.6/10
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on avenging his captors.

In Harm's Way

In Harm's Way
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 05/04/1965
  • Character: CINCPAC I
A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.

Phantom Lady

Phantom Lady
7.2/10
A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.

Reckless

Reckless
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/04/1935
  • Character: Robert 'Bob' Harrison Jr.
A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.

The Bride Wore Red

The Bride Wore Red
6.3/10
A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.

Advise & Consent

Advise & Consent
7.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/06/1962
  • Character: The President
A Senate investigation into the President's newly-nominated Secretary of State gives light to a secret from the past, which may not only ruin the candidate, but the President's character as well.

Three Comrades

Three Comrades
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 02/06/1938
  • Character: Otto Koster
A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis.

Pilot #5

Pilot #5
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomanceWar
  • Release: 24/06/1943
  • Character: George Braynor Collins
A small group of Allied soldiers and airmen on Java are being bombed by Japanese 'planes daily. With only one working fighter of their own, and five pilots anxious to fly it, the Dutch commander chooses George Collins to fly a mission to drop a 500-lb bomb on the Japanese carrier lying offshore. As the flight progresses, the commander asks the other pilots to tell him about George. They recount his rise from brilliant law student, through the time he became involved in the corrupt machine of his state's Governor, and his attempts to redeem himself, both in his own eyes, and in Fredie, his long-time love.

The Stranger's Return

The Stranger's Return
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 28/07/1933
  • Character: Guy Crane
A divorcée leaves New York to visit her grandfather's farm and recover in the Midwest, where she unexpectedly falls in love with a married farmer.

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
7/10
In the Northwest Frontier of India, the 41st Bengal Lancers leaded by the harsh Colonel Tom Stone are having trouble with the rebellious leader Mohammed Khan. After two casualties, the experienced but insubordinate Lieutenant Alan McGregor receives as replacement, the arrogant Lieutenant Forsythe and the immature son of Colonel Stone, Lieutenant Donald Stone. With the intention to prove that he will not have any privilege in the troop, the reception of Colonel Stone to his son is absolutely cold, but he becomes the protégé of McGregor. When Lieutenant Stone is kidnapped by Mohammed Khan, McGregor and Forsythe disobey the direct order of their commander, disguise as Indian peddlers and go to Khan's fortress to attempt to rescue their friend

Jigsaw

Jigsaw
5.6/10
New York Assistant District Attorney Howard Malloy is working hard on investigation about a series of murders related to an extremist group.

Dangerous

Dangerous
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/12/1935
  • Character: Don Bellows
Dan Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. Unaware that she is married to Gordon, he asks his fiancée Gail to free him and offers to sponsor Joyce in a play. When Gordon refuses to give Joyce a divorce, she runs the car into a tree crippling him for life. Joyce urges Dan return to Gail, opens her play, and begs Gordon for forgiveness.

Without Honor

Without Honor
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 26/10/1949
  • Character: Dennis Williams
Jane Bandle has recently married, but Bill, her husband's brother, tries to wreck her marriage because Jane rejected his sexual advances before her marriage.

Sadie McKee

Sadie McKee
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 09/05/1934
  • Character: Michael Alderson
A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.

Midnight Mary

Midnight Mary
7/10
A young woman is on trial for murder. In flashback, we learn of her struggles to overcome poverty as a teenager -- a mistaken arrest and prison term for shoplifting and lack of employment lead to involvement with gangsters. In a brothel, she meets a young lawyer, scion of a wealthy and prestigious family, who falls for her and helps her turn around her life. But her past catches up with her, and she must face the music rather than cause him scandal.

Twelve Angry Men

Twelve Angry Men
7.5/10
Twelve Angry Men is a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose for the Studio One anthology television series. Initially staged as a CBS live production on 20 September 1954, the drama was later rewritten for the stage in 1955 under the same title and again for a feature film, 12 Angry Men (1957). The episode garnered three Emmy Awards for writer Rose, director Franklin Schaffner and Robert Cummings as Best Actor.

Nobody Runs Forever

Nobody Runs Forever
6.1/10
Detective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a high-level commissioner wanted down under for murder. But when Malone arrives, he finds that the amiable Quentin is not only the key in groundbreaking peace negotiations, but also the target of an assassin himself.

Today We Live

Today We Live
5.9/10
Two lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they "didn't wait."

Suzy

Suzy
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/07/1936
  • Character: Terry
A French air ace discovers that his showgirl wife's first husband is still alive.

Uncle Vanya

Uncle Vanya
5.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/12/1957
  • Character: Dr. Mikhail Lvovich Astroff
A country doctor (Franchot Tone) loves but cannot have a professor's wife (Clarence Derwent) in Chekhov's play set in czarist Russia.

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