The best Jerome Cowan’s drama movies on YouTube

Jerome Cowan

Jerome Cowan

05/10/1897- 24/01/1972
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Jerome Cowan’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 Jerome Cowan.

Miracle on 34th Street

Miracle on 34th Street
7.9/10
Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgiving Day parade. His portrayal is so complete that many begin to question if he truly is Santa Claus, while others question his sanity.

High Sierra

High Sierra
7.5/10
Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.

Mr. Skeffington

Mr. Skeffington
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/05/1944
  • Character: Edward Morrison
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.

The Fountainhead

The Fountainhead
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/06/1949
  • Character: Alvah Scarret
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.

The Song of Bernadette

The Song of Bernadette
7.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/12/1943
  • Character: Emperor Louis Napoleon III
In 1858 France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but the townspeople all assume it to be the virgin Mary. The pompous government officials think she is nuts, and do their best to suppress the girl and her followers, and the church wants nothing to do with the whole matter. But as Bernadette attracts wider and wider attention, the phenomenon overtakes everyone in the the town, and transforms their lives.

The Old Maid

The Old Maid
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/08/1939
  • Character: Joe Ralston
The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.

My Reputation

My Reputation
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/01/1946
  • Character: George Van Orman
Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her own children.

The Great Lie

The Great Lie
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/04/1941
  • Character: Jock Thompson
Days after Sandra and Pete elope, they discover their consummated union isn't valid since, unbeknownst to them, Sandra's divorce isn't yet final. They decide to not stay together, but, by then, Sandra is pregnant. She doesn't learn that fact until after Pete marries his former fiancee Maggie. Pete, unaware of the baby, flies to South America on business. While there, a flight he is on goes missing and all onboard are presumed dead. Maggie persuades Sandra to let her adopt the baby, so she can raise it as Pete's legitimate child. Months later Pete - alive after all - returns. Sandra and Maggie contend for him and the baby.

City for Conquest

City for Conquest
7.2/10
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?

The Saint Strikes Back

The Saint Strikes Back
6.2/10
Suave private detective Simon "The Saint" Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a woman whose police inspector father killed himself after being accused of corruption and dismissed from the force. Convinced of the man's innocence, Templar takes it upon himself to vindicate the memory of Val's father. To do so he must take on the city's most dangerous criminal gang, while also battling hostile members of the police department.

Dangerous Years

Dangerous Years
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/12/1947
  • Character: Weston
Jeff Carter has put an end to the town's delinquency with a boys' club. Young hoodlum Danny shows up and influences teenagers Doris, Willy and Leo. They hang out at a juke joint where Eve works. When Jeff tries to stop a robbery planned by Danny, he is killed and Danny goes on trial.

Castle on the Hudson

Castle on the Hudson
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 17/02/1940
  • Character: Ed Crowley
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.

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