The best Fred Aldrich’s movies

Fred Aldrich

Fred Aldrich

23/12/1904- 25/01/1979
Today we present the best Fred Aldrich’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 Fred Aldrich’s movies.
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The Great Dictator

The Great Dictator
8.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 23/10/1940
  • Character: Soldier (uncredited)
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

Sunset Boulevard

Sunset Boulevard
8.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/08/1950
  • Character: Cop Who Drags Joe's Body from Pool (uncredited)
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

Kitty Foyle

Kitty Foyle
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 27/12/1940
  • Character: Man at Premiere / Policeman (uncredited)
Kitty Foyle, a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young socialite Wyn Strafford but his family is against her.

Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days
6.7/10
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.

What a Way to Go!

What a Way to Go!
6.9/10
A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Where the Sidewalk Ends
7.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 07/07/1950
  • Character: Detective at Staff Meeting (uncredited)
A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.

Mission to Moscow

Mission to Moscow
5.4/10
  • Genre: DramaHistoryWar
  • Release: 29/04/1943
  • Character: Man at Bar in Montage (uncredited)
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.

Somebody Up There Likes Me

Somebody Up There Likes Me
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/07/1956
  • Character: Ringside Photographer (uncredited)
The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.

Mr. Skeffington

Mr. Skeffington
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/05/1944
  • Character: Speakeasy Bouncer (uncredited)
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.

The Strange Woman

The Strange Woman
6.5/10
Isaiah, a 19th-century businessman, has his eye on the beautiful and very young Jenny. Finally of age, she accepts his marriage proposal, but their love affair quickly turns sour. Ephraim, Isaiah's college-age son, comes for a visit, immediately striking up a chemistry with Jenny. She promises marriage -- if he murders his father first. But Jenny also swoons for John, the fiancé of her best friend, Meg.

Bell, Book and Candle

Bell, Book and Candle
6.8/10
A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancee, so she enchants him to love her instead... only to fall in love with him for real.

Pretty Baby

Pretty Baby
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/09/1950
  • Character: Train Passenger (uncredited)
A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway.

Al Capone

Al Capone
6.7/10
In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed through murder, extortion, and political fraud. He becomes head of Chicago's biggest "business," but moves inexorably toward his downfall and ignominious end.

Crash Dive

Crash Dive
6.4/10
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart (Power), has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors (Andrews), for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett (Baxter) and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.

Wake of the Red Witch

Wake of the Red Witch
6.5/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 30/12/1948
  • Character: Seaman
Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.

Invisible Ghost

Invisible Ghost
5.2/10
The town's leading citizen is a man victim of homicidal impulses beyond his control. He is being controlled by his wife who had left him for another man. She was involved in a car accident that has left her brain damaged and is kept in the basement, in secret, by Kessler's gardener.

House of Strangers

House of Strangers
7.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/07/1949
  • Character: Construction Worker (uncredited)
Gino Monetti is a ruthless Italian-American banker who engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons, refuse to help their father stay out of prison after he's arrested for his questionable business practices. Three of the sons take over the business but kick their father out. Max, a lawyer, is the only son that stays loyal to his father.

Johnny O'Clock

Johnny O'Clock
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/01/1947
  • Character: Hotel Doorman
When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature, Johnny slowly begins to return Nancy's affection and decides to run away with her, but conflict within his business threatens their plans. As Johnny tries to distance himself from the casino, his shady past comes back to haunt him.

Scared Stiff

Scared Stiff
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/04/1953
  • Character: Dockworker (uncredited)
A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated island. The trio hunt for a hidden treasure and encounter a ghost, a zombie, and a mysterious killer...

The Shakiest Gun in the West

The Shakiest Gun in the West
6.3/10
Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope "Bad Penny" Cushing (Barbara Rhoades) is offered a pardon if she will track down a ring of gun smugglers. She tricks Haywood into a sham marriage as a disguise. Haywood inadvertently becomes the legendary "Doc the Haywood" after he guns down "Arnold the Kid".

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