The best Harlan Briggs’s movies

Harlan Briggs

Harlan Briggs

17/08/1879- 26/01/1952
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Dodsworth

Dodsworth
7.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 23/09/1936
  • Character: Tubby Pearson
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.

Conflict

Conflict
7.1/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 15/06/1945
  • Character: Pawnbroker #2 (uncredited)
Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
8.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/10/1939
  • Character: Mr. Edwards (uncredited)
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.

Humoresque

Humoresque
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaMusicRomance
  • Release: 25/01/1947
  • Character: Toy Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.

Stella Dallas

Stella Dallas
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 06/08/1937
  • Character: Mr. Beamer (uncredited)
After divorcing a society man, a small-town woman tries to build a better life for their daughter.

Easy Living

Easy Living
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 16/07/1937
  • Character: Office Manager
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.

The Man They Could Not Hang

The Man They Could Not Hang
6.8/10
  • Genre: Science Fiction
  • Release: 17/08/1939
  • Character: Defense Attorney Parker
Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to life by his trusted assistant. Re-animated he turns decidedly nasty and sets about murdering the jury that convicted him.

Frontier Marshal

Frontier Marshal
6.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 28/07/1939
  • Character: Editor
Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

Canyon Passage

Canyon Passage
6.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 17/07/1946
  • Character: Dr. Balance
Businessman Logan Stuart is torn between his love of two very different women in 1850s Oregon and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.

Marked Woman

Marked Woman
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 10/04/1937
  • Character: Sad Man with Emmy Lou in Nightclub (uncredited)
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.

Cynthia

Cynthia
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 29/08/1947
  • Character: J.M. Dingle, Napoleon Hardware
Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.

Carrie

Carrie
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 17/07/1952
  • Character: Joe Brant
Carrie's dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly paid factory work—that is, until a traveling salesman named Drouet steps into her life and changes her outlook.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
6.8/10
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River.

I Love You Again

I Love You Again
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 09/08/1940
  • Character: Mayor Carver (uncredited)
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.

A Double Life

A Double Life
7/10
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.

Made for Each Other

Made for Each Other
6.3/10
A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.

5th Ave Girl

5th Ave Girl
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 22/09/1939
  • Character: Stanton (uncredited)
A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family.

Tell No Tales

Tell No Tales
6.5/10
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.

Danger Street

Danger Street
5.6/10
Magazine owners (Jane Withers, Robert Lowery) sell a revealing photo, then play detective when the deal leads to murder.

Brother Orchid

Brother Orchid
7/10
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.

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