The best Jack Cheatham’s drama movies

Jack Cheatham

Jack Cheatham

28/12/1894- 30/03/1971
Today we present the best Jack Cheatham’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 Jack Cheatham’s movies.
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It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life
8.6/10
  • Genre: DramaFamilyFantasy
  • Release: 20/12/1946
  • Character: Cop Arresting Violet (uncredited)
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.

This Gun for Hire

This Gun for Hire
7.4/10
Sadistic killer-for-hire Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.

They Were Expendable

They Were Expendable
7.2/10
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, a squadron of PT-boat crews in the Philippines must battle the Navy brass between skirmishes with the Japanese. The title says it all about the Navy's attitude towards the PT-boats and their crews.

Crack-Up

Crack-Up
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 06/09/1946
  • Character: Museum Attendant (Uncredited)
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?

The Petrified Forest

The Petrified Forest
7.5/10
Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
7.8/10
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.

Stranger on the Third Floor

Stranger on the Third Floor
6.8/10
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.

You Only Live Once

You Only Live Once
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/01/1937
  • Character: Prison Hospital Guard (uncredited)
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.

Gambling Lady

Gambling Lady
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 08/03/1934
  • Character: Policeman Posing for Picture (uncredited)
A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks out," leaving tough-minded daughter Lady Lee to earn a living the only way she knows. She soon becomes a success gambling among the rich, but, falling out with the syndicate, she considers the marriage proposal of blueblood Garry Madison. Can such a match work despite snobbery and old associations?

Road Gang

Road Gang
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 28/03/1936
  • Character: Guard (uncredited)
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.

Crash Donovan

Crash Donovan
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/08/1936
  • Character: Radio Patrolman (uncredited)
A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.

Exclusive

Exclusive
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/08/1937
  • Character: Rioter
When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government Committee who put him behind bars. Members of the committee include Colonel Bogardus, owner of the World , Horace Mitchell, a candidate for mayor, and Mr. Franklin, a department store owner. First Gillette buys a rival newspaper, the Sentinel , and offers a pricey editorship to World newsman Ralph Houston, who refuses the offer on principle. That evening, Ralph and his partner, Tod Swain, are greeted at home by a creditor, and Vina Swain, Ralph's fiancée, is furious to find out he turned down Gillette's offer. When she learns Ralph went into debt to put her through college, she warns Gillette of a police raid and pays back Ralph's debt with Gillette's renumeration. When Ralph orders Vina not to work for Gillette, she breaks their engagement.

The Hoodlum Saint

The Hoodlum Saint
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 04/04/1946
  • Character: Jailer (uncredited)
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.

Prison Shadows

Prison Shadows
4.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 17/07/1936
  • Character: Cop (uncredited)
A boxer is framed for murder after an opponent dies in the ring.

Quiet Please, Murder

Quiet Please, Murder
6.4/10
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.

Ellery Queen, Master Detective

Ellery Queen, Master Detective
6.1/10
The mysteriously ill John Braun makes a new will, leaving out his daughter Barbara, over the protests of his wife. The trouble began when the daughter wanted to marry Mr. Braun's doctor, James Rogers. Mrs. Braun asks Inspector Queen to help find the long-missing Barbara. The inspector's son, Ellery, works on the case. He goes to a home frequently visited by Dr. Rogers where the bell is answered by Nikki Porter who Ellery mistakes for Barbara and insists she return to the Braun home. Nikki does, to protect Barbara, and a short time later finds herself alone in a room outside Braun's bedroom. She finds him dead - his throat cut. No weapons are found and the door to the room where Nikki had been is locked, and she is suspected. Ellery hides Nikki in his apartment. Braun's body, sent for an autopsy, disappears and in its place is a life-sized statue of the dead man.

Back Door to Heaven

Back Door to Heaven
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 19/04/1939
  • Character: Police Officer (uncredited)
The life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd".

Tomorrow Is Forever

Tomorrow Is Forever
7.3/10
In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.

Roar of the Press

Roar of the Press
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/04/1941
  • Character: Reporter
While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.

Time Out Of Mind

Time Out Of Mind
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/04/1947
The son of a wealthy Maine family shocks his relatives by announcing he wants to pursue a career in music.

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