The best Gordon Oliver’s movies

Gordon Oliver

Gordon Oliver

27/04/1910- 26/01/1995
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Jezebel

Jezebel
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 26/03/1938
  • Character: Dick Allen
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.

Expensive Husbands

Expensive Husbands
5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 27/11/1937
  • Character: Ricky Preston
Unable to get work in her home country, Laurine Lynne (Beverly Roberts) travels to Vienna where her press agent, Joe Craig (Allyn Joslyn), convinces her to marry royalty. The lucky fellow is Prince Rupert (Patric Knowles), an impoverished nobleman now working as a waiter. Do the two of them fall in love despite this marriage of convenience?

Alcatraz Island

Alcatraz Island
5.6/10
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.

Since You Went Away

Since You Went Away
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomanceWar
  • Release: 30/06/1944
  • Character: Marine Officer Seeking Room
While husband Tim is away during World War II, Anne Hilton copes with problems on the homefront. Taking in a lodger, Colonel Smollett, to help make ends meet and dealing with shortages and rationing are minor inconveniences compared to the love affair daughter Jane and the Colonel's grandson conduct.

San Quentin

San Quentin
6.5/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 24/05/1937
  • Character: Captain
Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries to separate lawbreakers from hardened criminals, badguy Hansen tries to stir up trouble by telling Joe about Jameson's interest in his sister.

Station West

Station West
6.6/10
When two US cavalrymen transporting a gold shipment get killed, US Army Intelligence investigator John Haven goes undercover to a mining and logging town to find the killers.

Blondie

Blondie
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/11/1938
  • Character: Chester Franey
Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself involved in a scheme that is promising financial ruin for the Bumstead family.

Women Are Like That

Women Are Like That
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/04/1938
  • Character: Howard Johns
Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use her influence to help her husband get ahead, but he will have none of it.

The Las Vegas Story

The Las Vegas Story
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/01/1952
  • Character: Mr. Drucker
When newlyweds visit Las Vegas, the wife's shady past comes to the surface.

My Forbidden Past

My Forbidden Past
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/04/1951
  • Character: Clay Duchesne
An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune.

Brother Rat

Brother Rat
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/10/1938
  • Character: Capt 'Lacedrawers' Rogers
Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married and soon to be a father.

Seven Days Ashore

Seven Days Ashore
5.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 25/04/1944
  • Character: Dan Arland Jr.
Circumstances force a womanizing playboy on leave from the Merchant Marine to ask two shipmates to help him by dating two surplus girlfriends.

Sabotage

Sabotage
5.7/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 13/10/1939
  • Character: Tommy Grayson
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but the major shoots one of them.....

The Go-Getter

The Go-Getter
6.4/10
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.

Sweetheart of the Campus

Sweetheart of the Campus
5.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 26/06/1941
  • Character: Terry Jones
Ruby Keeler teams with the Nelsons (of TV and radio fame) as the singer in Ozzie's band. The setting is a college campus which is suffering from monetary woes, but somehow Ozzie's band manages to attract enough attention to increase the enrollment and keep the school from having to shut down.

Heavenly Days

Heavenly Days
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1944
  • Character: Dick Martin
Fibber McGee and Molly innocently get mixed up with the federal government.

Once a Doctor

Once a Doctor
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/01/1937
  • Character: Jerry Brace
Dr. Frank Brace (Joe King) is an important doctor with son Jerry (Gordon Oliver) as well as foster son Steven (Donald Woods). The sons are both interns at Frank's hospital. Steven is the better doctor who takes blame for Jerry's mistakes.Steven has his license revoked when he is blamed for two deaths. Steven goes through years of hell trying to redeem himself.

Fugitive in the Sky

Fugitive in the Sky
6.1/10
Reporter Terry Brewer goes to the Los Angeles airport to say goodbye to his sweetheart, airline hostess Rita Moore. He notices G-Man Mike Phelan among the passengers and assuming Phelan is on the trail of a criminal, decides to go along to get a story.

Passport to Destiny

Passport to Destiny
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 31/01/1944
  • Character: Capt. Franz von Weber
A British war widow travels to Berlin to assassinate Hitler.

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