The best Frank Melton’s drama movies

Frank Melton

Frank Melton

06/12/1907- 19/03/1951
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Judge Priest

Judge Priest
6.2/10
Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, restores the justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky using his common sense and his great sense of humanity.

The Return of Frank James

The Return of Frank James
6.6/10
Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.

The Woman in the Window

The Woman in the Window
7.6/10
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

State Fair

State Fair
6.7/10
The Frakes attend the Iowa State Fair where Father Abel enters his Hampshire boar, Blue Boy, in a hog content while Mother Melissa enters the mincemeat competition. And their children, Margy and Wayne, find love with newspaper reporter Pat Gilbert and trapeze artist Emily Joyce. But will everyone return home safe and happy or will hearts be broken?

The Buccaneer

The Buccaneer
6.6/10
French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.

The Fighting 69th

The Fighting 69th
6.6/10
  • Genre: ActionDramaWar
  • Release: 27/01/1940
  • Character: Alabama Man #3 (uncredited)
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.

Destroyer

Destroyer
6.3/10
Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save the ship, and destroy the sub.

The World Moves On

The World Moves On
5.9/10
Two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear to stand by each other in a belief that a great business firmly established in four countries will be able to withstand even such another calamity as the Napoleonic Wars from which Europe is slowly recovering. Then many years later, along comes World War One and the years that follow, to test the businesses.

Dangerous to Know

Dangerous to Know
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 11/03/1938
  • Character: Man at Racetrack
Racketeer Steve Recka (Akim Tamiroff), art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying (Anna May Wong), his beautiful Oriental friend and hostess (read:mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret Van Kase (Gail Patrick), a socialite not impressed by his power nor his wealth, having no money herself, and Steve makes frantic efforts to win her and turns away from the loyal Lin Yang.

Wings Over Honolulu

Wings Over Honolulu
5.4/10
A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.

Ace of Aces

Ace of Aces
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 20/10/1933
  • Character: Phil 'Pee Wee' Parker (uncredited)
A sculptor who doesn't want to have any part of World War I is shamed by his girlfriend into joining the army. He becomes a fighter pilot, and undergoes a complete personality change.

Wrecking Crew

Wrecking Crew
5.9/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 07/11/1942
  • Character: Pete
Follows a crew as they work under a deadline set by their boss to complete the demolition of a building. Touches on the lives of several of the crew in their lives away from the job and shows rhe comraderie of the crew in their work and even away from work.

River of Romance

River of Romance
5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 28/06/1929
  • Character: One of Elvira's Admirers
Mississippi, 1830's. Tom Rumsford comes back to Magnolia Landing, his parents'estate. Having been brought up in the North by Quaker relatives, he just hates violence and accordingly refuses a duel. As this is the only way in the South to settle a dispute between gentlemen, Tom's father is so infuriated by his behavior that Tom has no other choice but leave. Away from Magnolia Landing, Tom learns bravery and returns seven years later as "the notorious Colonel Blake", the terror of the Lower Mississippi.

Remember the Day

Remember the Day
7.2/10
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.

The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe

The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/08/1942
  • Character: Turner Dixon
Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.

The Man Who Walked Alone

The Man Who Walked Alone
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 15/03/1945
  • Character: Glem
A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding away from her wedding day in her fiance's car. Seeing the soldier, she gives him a ride and explains her predicament. Things get sticky when the cops capture them and accuse the soldier of desertion.

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