The best Fred Essler’s drama movies

Fred Essler

Fred Essler

13/02/1895- 17/01/1973
We present our ranking of the best Fred Essler’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 Fred Essler.

Scarlet Street

Scarlet Street
7.7/10
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.

Mission to Moscow

Mission to Moscow
5.4/10
  • Genre: DramaHistoryWar
  • Release: 29/04/1943
  • Character: Dutch Banker (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.

A Royal Scandal

A Royal Scandal
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 26/03/1945
  • Character: Stooge (uncredited)
Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.

Hot Rod Girl

Hot Rod Girl
5/10
After his kid brother is killed in a street race, a champion drag-racer quits racing. However, a new kid comes to town determined to force him back into racing so he can take his title--and he's already taken his girlfriend.When his younger brother, Steve, is killed racing a hot-rod, Jeff Northup blames himself for the accident since he had built the car for his brother and had encouraged him to race it, with other boys on a special course provided by police detective Ben Merrill, who is working to reduce the city's hot-rod fatalities by providing supervision for the dangerous hobby. Jeff withdraws from participating in races on Merrill's course and, without his leadership, reverts to racing on the streets. "Bronc" Talbott, a newcomer, makes a play for Jeff's girlfriend, Lisa Vernon. Eventually, the taunting-Talbott forces Jeff into a race which results in the death of a bicycling child, and evidence seems to indicate Jeff was at fault.

Temptation

Temptation
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/12/1946
  • Character: Pepito
A Victorian-era drama about a beautiful young woman with a shady past.

Hotel Berlin

Hotel Berlin
6.8/10
An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany.

Captain Eddie

Captain Eddie
5.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/06/1945
  • Character: Prof. Montague
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his plane crashed in the South Pacific in late 1942.

The Money Trap

The Money Trap
6.2/10
A cop turns to crime to keep his spoiled sexy young wife happy. When the money starts coming in his partner was in on the action.

The Benny Goodman Story

The Benny Goodman Story
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 02/02/1956
  • Character: Prof Schoepp
Young Benny Goodman is taught clarinet by a music professor. He is advised to play whichever kind of music he likes best, but to make a living, Benny begins by joining the Ben Pollack traveling band.

Behind the Rising Sun

Behind the Rising Sun
5.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 01/08/1943
  • Character: Takahashi
A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.

Riff-Raff

Riff-Raff
6.8/10
A private detective foils the plans of villains attempting to take over Panamanian oilfields when he hides a valuable map in plain sight.

Address Unknown

Address Unknown
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/06/1944
  • Character: Minister (uncredited)
When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda.

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