The best Grant Withers’s drama movies

Grant Withers

Grant Withers

17/01/1904- 27/03/1959
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Grant Withers’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Grant Withers.
Available on:
Year:

Other Men's Women

Other Men's Women
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 17/01/1931
  • Character: Bill White
The friendship of two working stiff railroad engineers is put to the test when one falls for the other’s wife.

The Sun Shines Bright

The Sun Shines Bright
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 02/05/1953
  • Character: Buck Ramsey
John Ford weaves three "Judge Priest" stories together to form a good- natured exploration of honour and small-town politics in the South around the turn of the century. Judge William Priest is involved variously in revealing the real identity of Lucy Lake, reliving his Civil War memories, preventing the lynching of a youth and contesting the elections with Yankee Horace K. Maydew.

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

H.M. Pulham, Esq.
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 04/12/1941
  • Character: Sammy Lee, Harvard Football Coach (uncredited)
A man who lived his life as he was told he should, not as he would have chosen to, is brought out of his shell by a beautiful young woman.

The Fighting Seabees

The Fighting Seabees
6.4/10
  • Genre: ActionDramaWar
  • Release: 27/01/1944
  • Character: Whanger Spreckles
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.

Lady Godiva of Coventry

Lady Godiva of Coventry
5.5/10
Fictionalized account of events leading up the famous nude ride (alas, her hair covers everything) of the militant Saxon lady.

Tropic Zone

Tropic Zone
4.8/10
A fugitive from the police helps a beautiful farmer run her struggling banana plantation.

Wake of the Red Witch

Wake of the Red Witch
6.5/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 30/12/1948
  • Character: Capt. Wilde Youngeur
Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.

Border Flight

Border Flight
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/05/1936
  • Character: Lt. Pat Tornell
Frances Farmer's second film is a typical B-programmer from the Paramount lot of 1936--up and coming stars (John Howard, Robert Cummings, Grant Withers, Farmer) in a concerning the Coast Guard and smugglers. The chief points of interest are the truly exceptional aerial sequences and Farmer's early performance.

Tycoon

Tycoon
6.1/10
Engineer Johnny Munroe is enlisted to build a railroad tunnel through a mountain to reach mines. His task is complicated, and his ethics are compromised, when he falls in love with his boss's daughter

No Hands on the Clock

No Hands on the Clock
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/12/1941
  • Character: Harry Belding
A wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case.

Radio Patrol

Radio Patrol
6.9/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 03/10/1937
  • Character: Officer Pat O'Hara
About a young radio cop and a beautiful girl try to stop an international criminal gang from getting their hands on the formula for a new bulletproof steel.

Billy the Kid

Billy the Kid
5.7/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 30/05/1941
  • Character: Ed Shanahan
Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and hired by a peaceful rancher, Eric Keating. When Keating is killed, Billy seeks revenge on the men who killed him, even if it means opposing his friend, Marshal Jim Sherwood.

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
6.1/10
In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate who Dr. Gillespie believes belongs instead in an insane asylum.

Waterfront Lady

Waterfront Lady
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 04/10/1935
  • Character: Tod
When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers up a murder committed by his new partner.

Red Haired Alibi

Red Haired Alibi
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/10/1932
  • Character: Bob Shelton
A young girl new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the man is a notorious gangster.

Back Pay

Back Pay
5/10
Bored with small town life, a woman leaves for the big city and winds up becoming the mistress of a ruthless businessman.

Parachute Battalion

Parachute Battalion
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 12/09/1941
  • Character: Captain
Director Leslie Goodwins' 1941 military drama, about various men who become buddies when they join the paratroopers, stars Robert Preston, Edmond O'Brien and Buddy Ebsen.

Tennessee Johnson

Tennessee Johnson
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 01/12/1942
  • Character: Mordecai Milligan
The tumultuous presidency of 17th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early life. During the Civil War, Johnson stays a staunch Unionist and upon Lincoln's reelection in 1864, becomes his Vice President. After Lincoln's assassination, Johnson becomes the President and became the first U.S. president ever to be impeached.

Scarlet Pages

Scarlet Pages
5.6/10
Nora Mason becomes entangled in a family mix-up of murder and scandal that threatens to ruin her career and entire future; Unless the mother she does not know can find a way to save her.

The Arizona Raiders

The Arizona Raiders
5.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaWestern
  • Release: 27/06/1936
  • Character: Monroe Adams, Harriett's lawyer
After saving himself from hanging, Laramie Nelson saves Tracks Williams from the same fate. They then travel to Lindsay's ranch where they get jobs. There they run into Adams who they learn is planning to rustle Lindsay's horses.

Related actors