The best Jeff Donnell’s drama movies
We present our ranking of the best Jeff Donnell’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 Jeff Donnell.
Tora! Tora! Tora!
7.5/10
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.
Sweet Smell of Success
8/10
New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas. Hunsecker strongly disapproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the method.
In a Lonely Place
7.9/10
An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.
The Blue Gardenia
6.9/10
Deeply distraught that her GI ex-boyfriend plans to marry another woman, Norah Larkin agrees to go out on a date with lothario Harry Prebble. Norah's drunken night out with Prebble ends in a hazily remembered confrontation and the next day a startling discovery: Harry has been murdered, and the police have found Norah's personal effects at the scene. Tipped off to the breaking news, reporter Casey Mayo invites Norah to tell her side of the story.
The Comic
6.4/10
An account of the rise and fall of a silent film comic, Billy Bright. The movie begins with his funeral, as he speaks from beyond the grave in a bitter tone about his fate, and takes us through his fame, as he ruins it with womanizing and drink, and his fall, as a lonely, bitter old man unable to reconcile his life's disappointments. The movie is based loosely on the life of Buster Keaton.
Easy Living
6.3/10
A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.
Roughshod
6.6/10
Rancher Clay and his brother, Steve, head out across the Sonora mountain pass, followed by Lednov, an ex-con seeking revenge on Clay for putting him behind bars. Clay and Steve unexpectedly cross paths with a group of dance hall girls -- including Mary, Marcia and Helen -- whose stagecoach has broken down, and help them get to the nearest ranch, where Lednov unfortunately catches up to Clay.
Night Editor
6.7/10
"Night Editor" was based on the already existing radio program in which a newspaper editor would recount the 'inside story' of some bit newspaper story, and later became a television series.
Love Hate Love
6.6/10
Ryan O'Neal plays Russ Emery, a glib engineer who steals the heart of a fashion model named Sheila Blunden. She in turn leaves her jet setter fiance who turns out to be a psychotic who will not let go of Sheila that easily.
Walk Softly, Stranger
6.5/10
A petty crook (Joseph Cotten) moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter (Valli).
Flight Nurse
5.3/10
In this war drama, set during the Korean War, an Air Force nurse gets involved in a love triangle on the front lines.
She's a Soldier Too
5.6/10
Wartime workers deal with homefront dramatics.
Magnificent Roughnecks
5.9/10
Two oilmen coax a cook, an oilwoman and a gusher in South America.
Big Timber
5.6/10
Logging-camp drama.
The Phantom Thief
6.4/10
Boston Blackie, in the 11th film of the Columbia series, indulges in some wit-trading with a squirmy spiritualist who deals in blackmail, murder and the occult. "Blackie" out to help his pal, "Runt," recover some jewels, finds himself involved in the homicides, and also finds himself as the prime suspect, and now has to find the real culprit in order to clear himself. So "Blackie,", a man of many talents and already a proved magician from cases past, shows he knows a little bit about dancing skeletons, walking phantoms and spiritualism himself, and holds a séance to unmask the murderer.
Mr. District Attorney
6.4/10
An assistant district attorney gets mixed-up with a woman who is working for the group that he is investigating.
Post Office Investigator
5.8/10
A mailman (Warren Douglas) leads PO-men to a pistol-packing stamp thief (Audrey Long) and her gang.
Stand Up and Be Counted
4.5/10
Sheila is a newspaper reporter who returns to her home town in order to write an article about the progress of the liberation of the women. Arriving at the town she is very surprised to see that her sister and also her mother agree very much with the feministic arguments.
There's Something About a Soldier
5.9/10
Five officer candidates fight to prove their mettle during training.
