The best Harry Bowen’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Harry Bowen’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 Harry Bowen.
Fury
7.8/10
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
Shall We Dance
7.4/10
Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumour mill and turned into a hot gossip item—that the two celebrities are secretly married.
The Dentist
6.7/10
An unconventional dentist deals with patients in slapstick fashion.
Going Hollywood
6.1/10
The film tells the story of Sylvia, a French teacher at an all-girl school, who wants to find love. When she hears Bill Williams on the radio, she decides to go visit and thank him. However, difficult problems lay ahead when Lili gets in the way.
Something Simple
7/10
Taken to a hospital, after suffering a dizzy spell, Charley is told by a 'nut', posing as a doctor, that he suffers from 'Tetra-Ethyl", and the only remedy is to sit down, relax, clear the mind and recite a nursery rhyme. The fake doctor gives Charley a package to deliver to Mr. Henderson, the "Supreme Crown of the Knights of the Brown Derby." At the hotel, hosting a convention of "Brown Derbies," Charley suffers a dizzy spell and the only place he can find to sit down is in Mr. Henderson's lap, where he recites "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Mr. Henderson, it is revealed, also suffers from "Tetra-Ethyl." Seized by an attack, Henderson sits down and tries to recite "Who Killed Cock Robin," but forgets the lines, which Charley and Henderson's daughter, Betty, sing in a song together. That, coming at the end of the second reel,is all it takes for Charley and Betty to decide to get married.
Missing Girls
5/10
A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by the redoubtable Phil Rosen.
Two in the Dark
6.3/10
Director Benjamin Stoloff's 1936 mystery, set in Boston, stars Walter Abel as an amnesiac and Margot Grahame as an unemployed stage actress who work together to solve the murder of a playwright.
Dummy Ache
5.8/10
1936 short film nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Short Subject, Two Reel.
Hot Tip
5.6/10
An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
Sweepstakes
5.3/10
A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.
Gridiron Flash
4.9/10
A college football team recruits a tough convict.
Slightly Static
6.5/10
Thelma and Patsy get jobs at a radio station.
The Day the Bookies Wept
5.4/10
A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer. Comedy.
Crazy Feet
7.9/10
Charley intervenes in a fight between Eddie and Thelma inside her small car. Cop Kennedy misinterprets things, and Charley hides in the theatre Thelma is rehearsing in. Charley replaces Eddie as Thelma's partner in an artistic dance act, and makes a fiasco of it.
We Who Are About to Die
6.5/10
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
Strike Me Pink
6.4/10
Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
The Big Game
5.4/10
A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.
Chance at Heaven
6/10
A young bride thinks she's landed the perfect husband until he falls for a spoiled-rotten socialite.
The Tip-Off
5.8/10
A young radio repairman becomes involved with gangsters and one of their girlfriends when he repairs their radio.
The Headline Woman
5.8/10
When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first hoping to get an exclusive story, the reporter eventually finds himself falling in love and trying to find the real killer.
