The best Hillary Brooke’s drama movies

Hillary Brooke

Hillary Brooke

08/09/1914- 25/05/1999
Today we present the best Hillary Brooke’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Hillary Brooke’s movies.
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The Man Who Knew Too Much

The Man Who Knew Too Much
7.4/10
A widescreen, Technicolor remake by Hitchcock of his 1934 film of the same title. A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When the child is kidnapped to ensure their silence, they have to take matters into their own hands to save him.

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 24/12/1943
  • Character: Blanche Ingram
After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.

Big Town After Dark

Big Town After Dark
5.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 12/12/1947
  • Character: Lorelei Kilbourne
A crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
6.8/10
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.

The Strange Woman

The Strange Woman
6.5/10
Isaiah, a 19th-century businessman, has his eye on the beautiful and very young Jenny. Finally of age, she accepts his marriage proposal, but their love affair quickly turns sour. Ephraim, Isaiah's college-age son, comes for a visit, immediately striking up a chemistry with Jenny. She promises marriage -- if he murders his father first. But Jenny also swoons for John, the fiancé of her best friend, Meg.

Ministry of Fear

Ministry of Fear
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 19/05/1944
  • Character: Mrs. Bellane #2, spiritualist
Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and doesn't quite know to whom to turn.

Eternally Yours

Eternally Yours
5.7/10
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour. But Anita is annoyed by Arturo's constant flirtations, and his death-defying stunts give her nightmares. And forget her plan to retire to a farmhouse. Eventually, she has had enough and disappears.

Vendetta

Vendetta
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 25/12/1950
  • Character: Lydia Nevil
The daughter of a slain man pushes her brother toward vengeance in 19th-century Corsica.

Alimony

Alimony
5.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 11/06/1949
  • Character: Linda Waring
A promising young composer is tempted away from his devoted wife by a fortune-seeking woman who cares more for his prospects than for him.

The Enchanted Cottage

The Enchanted Cottage
7.5/10
A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of loneliness than love. The romantic spirit of the cottage, however, overtakes them. They soon begin to look beautiful to each other, but no one else.

Big Town

Big Town
5.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/08/1946
  • Character: Lorelei Kilbourne
A newspaper editor goes on an anti-crime crusade, but gets carried away.

Confidence Girl

Confidence Girl
6/10
After successfully swindling thousands of dollars from hapless victims, conflicted con artist Mary (Hillary Brooke) decides to go straight, but her greedy boyfriend and partner, Roger (Tom Conway), convinces her to pull off one final scam before they get married. Written and directed by Andrew L. Stone, this classic crime film finds the police struggling to keep up with the deceptive duo's exceedingly complicated schemes.

Maisie Was a Lady

Maisie Was a Lady
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 10/01/1941
  • Character: House Guest (Uncredited)
Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid. Maisie soon finds herself trying to mend the family's many problems.

The House Across the Lake

The House Across the Lake
6/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 16/04/1954
  • Character: Carol Forrest
Sensuous and desirable, Carol Forrest has always attracted the attention of men. Expert in the art of manipulation and control she married an older man, loving only his vast wealth and continued to amuse herself with indiscreet affairs. But when neighbour Mark Kendrick lets slip that her husband intends cutting her out of his will Carol concentrates all her attentions on the unsuspecting Kendrick, obtaining his help to dispose of this irritating obstacle.

Insurance Investigator

Insurance Investigator
6.2/10
When a businessman who has had a double indemnity policy taken out on him dies mysteriously, his insurance company sends an undercover investigator to town to determine exactly what happened.

Strange Impersonation

Strange Impersonation
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 16/03/1946
  • Character: Arline Cole
A female research scientist conducting experiments on a new anesthetic has a very bad week. Her scheming assistant intentionally scars her face, her almost-fiancee appears to have deserted her and she finds herself being blackmailed by a women she accidentally knocked down with her car. So what is one to do?

Strange Journey

Strange Journey
6.2/10
Reformed racketeer "Lucky" Leeds flees from the police when he thinks they are about to arrest him for a murder he didn't commit. He and his wife Patti fly to his privately-owned remote island and have to crash land. Also on the island is a group of shipwrecked people, including a German professor, his daughter, an English journalist, a wealthy widow, a sailor and a Nazi Agent.

I Cover Big Town

I Cover Big Town
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/02/1947
  • Character: Lorelei Kilbourne
One of the four films in the Pine-Thomas series based on radio's long-running "Big Town." This time out, society editor Lorelei Kilbourne is assigned to the police beat. Her paper, "The Illustrated Press", following its usual policy of socially-correct muckraking by crusading editor Steve Wilson, is putting heat on the chief of police. But Lorelei believes the chief is qualified to do the job. She and managing editor Steve Wilson, who, in the film series, is wrong more often than right, discover a corpse and then proceed to help the police solve the crime.

Bengazi

Bengazi
5/10
An American with a shady past joins with a morally-bankrupt Irishman to find treasure buried by Arabs in a deserted mosque in the Sahara. The situation becomes complicated when they are surrounded by Bedouin bandits.

Florian

Florian
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/06/1940
  • Character: Horsewoman
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.

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