The best George Brent’s drama movies

George Brent

George Brent

15/03/1904- 26/05/1979
Today we present the best George Brent’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 George Brent’s movies.
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Baby Face

Baby Face
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 13/07/1933
  • Character: Courtland Trenholm
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.

Jezebel

Jezebel
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 26/03/1938
  • Character: Buck Cantrell
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.

The Spiral Staircase

The Spiral Staircase
7.3/10
In 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with "afflictions". One night, during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced.

Dark Victory

Dark Victory
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 20/04/1939
  • Character: Dr. Frederick Steele
A flighty heiress discovers inner strength when she develops a brain tumor.

The Old Maid

The Old Maid
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/08/1939
  • Character: Clem Spender
The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.

In This Our Life

In This Our Life
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 08/05/1942
  • Character: Craig Fleming
A young woman dumps her fiancée and runs off with her sister's husband. They marry, settle in Baltimore, and Stanley ultimately drives Peter to drink and suicide. Stanley returns home to Richmond only to learn that her sister Roy and old flame Craig have fallen in love and plan to marry. The jealous and selfish Stanley attempts to win back Craig's affections, but her true character is revealed when, rather than take the rap herself, she attempts to pin a hit and run accident on the young black clerk who works in Craig's law office.

Housewife

Housewife
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/08/1934
  • Character: William H. Reynolds
Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and neats up their old romance. Wife and girlfriend struggle over Bill.

My Reputation

My Reputation
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/01/1946
  • Character: Major Scott Landis
Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her own children.

The Great Lie

The Great Lie
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/04/1941
  • Character: Peter 'Pete' Van Allen
Days after Sandra and Pete elope, they discover their consummated union isn't valid since, unbeknownst to them, Sandra's divorce isn't yet final. They decide to not stay together, but, by then, Sandra is pregnant. She doesn't learn that fact until after Pete marries his former fiancee Maggie. Pete, unaware of the baby, flies to South America on business. While there, a flight he is on goes missing and all onboard are presumed dead. Maggie persuades Sandra to let her adopt the baby, so she can raise it as Pete's legitimate child. Months later Pete - alive after all - returns. Sandra and Maggie contend for him and the baby.

Tomorrow Is Forever

Tomorrow Is Forever
7.3/10
In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.

The Rains Came

The Rains Came
6.9/10
Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken artist ex-lover Tom Ransome get in the way, but everyone shapes up when faced by earthquake, flooding, and plague.

Temptation

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

Racket Busters

Racket Busters
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/07/1938
  • Character: Denny Jordan
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.

So Big!

So Big!
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 30/04/1932
  • Character: Adult Roelf Pool
A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.

Mountain Justice

Mountain Justice
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 24/04/1937
  • Character: Paul Cameron
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.

FBI Girl

FBI Girl
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 04/11/1951
  • Character: Jeff Donley
G-men grab a gangster and a governor thanks to a clerk in the fingerprints division.

The Fighting 69th

The Fighting 69th
6.6/10
  • Genre: ActionDramaWar
  • Release: 27/01/1940
  • Character: Wild Bill Donovan
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.

Special Agent

Special Agent
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 14/09/1935
  • Character: Bill Bradford
Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. An informer squeals on them. Julie is kidnapped by Carston's henchmen as she is about to testify

The Man Who Talked Too Much

The Man Who Talked Too Much
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/07/1940
  • Character: Stephen Forbes
A young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's clients are mostly mobsters. Director Vincent Sherman's 1940 crime melodrama stars George Brent, William Lundigan, Richard Barthelmess, Virginia Bruce, Brenda Marshall, Marc Lawrence, Henry Armetta, George Tobias, John Litel, Alan Baxter, Louis Jean Heydt, Clarence Kolb, Sam McDaniel and Mary Gordon.

From Headquarters

From Headquarters
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 06/11/1933
  • Character: Lt. Jim Stevens
When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.

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