The best George Magrill’s drama movies on Google Play Movies

George Magrill

George Magrill

05/01/1900- 31/05/1952
Today we present the best George Magrill’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 Magrill’s movies.

Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity
8.3/10
A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners in crime plan the perfect murder to collect the insurance, which pays double if the death is accidental.

Detective Story

Detective Story
7.5/10
Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.

This Gun for Hire

This Gun for Hire
7.4/10
Sadistic killer-for-hire Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.

Adam's Rib

Adam's Rib
7.4/10
When a woman attempts to kill her uncaring husband, prosecutor Adam Bonner gets the case. Unfortunately for him his wife Amanda (who happens to be a lawyer too) decides to defend the woman in court. Amanda uses everything she can to win the case and Adam gets mad about it. As a result, their perfect marriage is disturbed by everyday quarrels.

They Were Expendable

They Were Expendable
7.2/10
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, a squadron of PT-boat crews in the Philippines must battle the Navy brass between skirmishes with the Japanese. The title says it all about the Navy's attitude towards the PT-boats and their crews.

The Big Street

The Big Street
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 13/08/1942
  • Character: Mug at Mindy's (Uncredited)
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish showgirl who despises and uses him.

Dance, Fools, Dance

Dance, Fools, Dance
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaRomance
  • Release: 07/02/1931
  • Character: Luva’s Henchman #2 (uncredited)
When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring reporter; however, his naive younger brother Rodney takes a twisted path and gets involved with the wrong people.

Scarlet Dawn

Scarlet Dawn
5.9/10
During the Russian Revolution, a young nobleman and his peasant maid flee from their homeland to Constantinople where they marry and begin a challenging new life.

Young Tom Edison

Young Tom Edison
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/03/1940
  • Character: Train Passenger
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Toms only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.

711 Ocean Drive

711 Ocean Drive
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/07/1950
  • Character: Boulder Dam Tourist (uncredited)
The Horatio Alger parable gets the film noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmund O’Brien as a whip-smart telephone technician who moves up the ladder of a Syndicate gambling empire in Southern California until distracted by an inconveniently married Joanne Dru and his own greed. Ripped from the headlines of the 1950 Kevaufer Organized Crime Hearings, this fast-moving picture is laden with location sequences shot in Los Angeles, the Hoover Dam and Palm Springs including the famous Doll House watering hole on North Palm Canyon Drive!

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