The best Gordon Richards’s movies

Gordon Richards

Gordon Richards

27/10/1893- 13/01/1964
We present our ranking of the best Gordon Richards’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 Gordon Richards.
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High Society

High Society
6.9/10
Childhood friends Tracy Lord and C.K. Dexter Haven got married and quickly divorced. Now Tracy is about to marry again, this time to a shrewd social-climbing businessman. C.K. still loves her. Spy magazine blackmails Tracy's family by threatening to reveal her playboy father's exploits if not allowed to cover the wedding.

Undercurrent

Undercurrent
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 11/11/1946
  • Character: Headwaiter (uncredited)
After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael, his mysterious long-lost brother.

The Opposite Sex

The Opposite Sex
6.1/10
Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal. Devastated, Kay tries to ignore the information, but when Crystal performs one of her musical numbers at a charity benefit, she breaks down and goes to Reno to file for divorce. However, when she hears that gold-digging Crystal is making Steve unhappy, Kay resolves to get her husband back.

Slightly Dangerous

Slightly Dangerous
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/04/1943
  • Character: Garrett - butler (uncredited)
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.

Kitty

Kitty
6.9/10
Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.

White Pongo

White Pongo
3/10
Suspecting that a safari guide is a wanted killer, undercover policeman Geoffrey Bishop (Richard Fraser) joins a safari led by the suspect for a scientist that hopes to find and prove that a fabled white gorilla is a missing link.

Merton of the Movies

Merton of the Movies
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 11/10/1947
  • Character: Kristen - Beulah's Butler (uncredited)
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generate another headline; he thinks he'll get a movie contract. Disillusioned, he haunts the casting offices, where he meets and is consoled by Phyllis Montague, bit player and stunt-woman. When Merton finally gets his "break," though, it's not quite what he envisioned.

The Wife Takes a Flyer

The Wife Takes a Flyer
6.3/10
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as the insane husband of the daughter of the house, Anita Wolverman, Reynolds convinces the German officer quartered there, Major Zellfritz, with the necessity for her divorce decree to be granted. After the court-hearing, Anita, goes to manage a home for retired ladies and, persuaded by Reynolds, tries to gain military information from the German Officer. When her former husband escapes from the insane-asylum his exploits are blamed on Reynolds. With the help of the old ladies and Anita, who "remarries" him, Reynolds escapes to England in a stolen German airplane.

The Affairs of Susan

The Affairs of Susan
6.6/10
Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different portrait of Susan: one describes her as a naive country girl who reluctantly becomes an actress, another paints a picture of a gay party girl and and the third describes a serious intellectual.

The Man Who Cheated Himself

The Man Who Cheated Himself
6.8/10
A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.

Frenchman's Creek

Frenchman's Creek
6.1/10
An English lady falls in love with a French Pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and swept off her feet into a world of adventure.

Women in the Night

Women in the Night
4.6/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 02/01/1948
  • Character: Colonel Von Meyer
During WW2 six allied nations women at Shanghai University are arrested by the Germans accused of killing a German officer and forced to entertain the Japanese.

Flight to Nowhere

Flight to Nowhere
4.3/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 30/09/1946
  • Character: Thomas R. Walker
A couple on board a plane find themselves mixed up in a plot to steal atomic secrets.

The Imperfect Lady

The Imperfect Lady
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 29/11/1946
  • Character: Gladstone
A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.

The Big Hangover

The Big Hangover
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/05/1950
  • Character: Williams
A young law school graduate is hired by a prestigious firm, but he neglects to inform them he is allergic to even a single whiff of alcohol.

13 Lead Soldiers

13 Lead Soldiers
5.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 30/04/1948
  • Character: Police Insp. McIver
Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond is called in to solve the murder of a man from whom two lead soldiers were stolen. Drummond learns that the two soldiers were part of a set of thirteen which formed the key to a hidden vault of treasure. Following some clever sleuthing and set-up on Drummond's part, the guilty man is trapped in the vault,which is hidden behind the fireplace.

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