The best Jack Rice’s drama movies

Jack Rice

Jack Rice

14/05/1893- 14/12/1968
We present our ranking of the best Jack Rice’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Jack Rice.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
8.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/10/1939
  • Character: Lang (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.

We Who Are Young

We Who Are Young
5.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 19/07/1940
  • Character: Savoy-Carlton Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
A man violates company policy by getting married.

Break of Hearts

Break of Hearts
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 31/05/1935
  • Character: New Year's Eve Celebrant (uncredited)
Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music teacher. They fall in love, despite Constance knowing about Franz's weakness for pretty women.

Dark Delusion

Dark Delusion
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 24/06/1947
  • Character: Floorwalker (uncredited)
Spoiled socialite Cynthia Grace is suffering from a blood clot. Not unexpectedly, Tommy Coalt falls in love with Cynthia, much to her parents' dismay. Soon he's drawing up plans to marry the girl and setting up private practice in a smaller town.

Take One False Step

Take One False Step
6.4/10
Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that he's a prime suspect and should investigate before he's arrested.

Sabotage

Sabotage
5.7/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 13/10/1939
  • Character: (uncredited)
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but the major shoots one of them.....

Woman Wanted

Woman Wanted
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeDrama
  • Release: 02/08/1935
  • Character: Man Walking With Cane in Hotel (uncredited)
Ann Grey is wrongly convicted of murder. On her way to prison a car accident gives her the opportunity to escape. She is helped by young lawyer Tony Baxter. He hides her from the police, as well as his fiancée, with the help of his butler Peedles. Ann is also wanted by the mobsters who really committed the murder as they think she knows where $250,000 worth of bonds are hidden. When the mobsters find and abduct her, Tony enlists the help of the D.A. and the police to try to get her back.

Five Little Peppers And How They Grew

Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
6.6/10
The first of four films in the "Five Little Peppers" series, based on Margaret Sinclair's popular book, about a widowed mother and her five children. In this one the family inherits co-ownership in a copper mine.

The Shadow

The Shadow
6.8/10
The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death ray.

The Flying Irishman

The Flying Irishman
5.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/04/1939
  • Character: Airplane Owner Selling It to Corrigan
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.

Twelve Crowded Hours

Twelve Crowded Hours
5.5/10
An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.

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.

The Flag of Humanity

The Flag of Humanity
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 19/10/1940
  • Character: Dr. Louis Appia (uncredited)
The story of how Clara Barton helped found the American Red Cross.

His Greatest Gamble

His Greatest Gamble
6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 18/07/1934
  • Character: Gambling Casino Patron (uncredited)
American gambler Philip Eden, who has ambushed his young daughter Alice from his estranged wife Florence, loses all of his money playing roulette in a French casino. In spite of Philip's sporadic income, he and Alice pledge to maintain an attitude of "wise foolishness" and to face the future together, one day at a time. Alice and Philip's happy plans are disrupted, however, when Bernice Solon, a jilted lover of Philip's, tracks them to their apartment and reveals that, out of jealousy, she has informed Florence of their whereabouts.

Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion

Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion
6.4/10
Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at an auction.

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