The best Jim Mason’s drama movies

Jim Mason

Jim Mason

03/02/1889- 07/11/1959
Today we present the best Jim Mason’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 Jim Mason’s movies.
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The King of Kings

The King of Kings
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 19/04/1927
  • Character: Gestas - the Unrepentant Thief (as James Mason)
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.

The Penalty

The Penalty
7.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaHorror
  • Release: 15/08/1920
  • Character: Frisco Pete (as James Mason)
Blizzard, deranged from a childhood operation in which both his legs were needlessly amputated after an accident, becomes a vicious criminal, and eventually mob leader of the San Francisco underworld.

What Price Hollywood?

What Price Hollywood?
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/06/1932
  • Character: Attorney Roberts (uncredited)
Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.

Tower of London

Tower of London
6.6/10
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.

Young Mr. Lincoln

Young Mr. Lincoln
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 09/06/1939
  • Character: Juror (uncredited)
In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder.

Let Freedom Ring

Let Freedom Ring
6.3/10
A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.

Midnight Court

Midnight Court
5.9/10
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.

The Story of Temple Drake

The Story of Temple Drake
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 06/05/1933
  • Character: Van
The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.

Dancing Sweeties

Dancing Sweeties
5.4/10
Bill is a hot shot dancer who partners with Jazzbo, until he sees Molly at the dance. He enters the Waltz with Molly and wins first prize - and they wind up being married that same night. Now they are free of their parents nagging and their own bosses. 24 hours - no dancing as in-laws are visiting. 24 days - the Apartment is finished so off to the Hoffman's Parisian Dance Palace. Molly can only dance the Waltz and not the hot new jazz dance so she leaves and Bill follows. They are both unhappy, Bill has two left feet when it comes to romance.

Rugged Water

Rugged Water
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/08/1925
  • Character: Wally Oakes
After years of service, the Captain of the Setuckit Life Saving Station on Cape Cod retires, Calvin Homer, the second in command, Calvin Homer expects to be promoted; but the appointment goes instead to Bartlett, a religious fanatic who has been the recipient of a good deal of favorable newspaper publicity. Calvin hands in his resignation.

Laughing Boy

Laughing Boy
4.7/10
A young Navajo defies tribal custom to marry an outcast.

Across to Singapore

Across to Singapore
6.2/10
While Joel and his older ship's captain brother Mark are at sea, the latter is abandoned in Singapore by devious ship's mate Finch who, upon their return, convinces the townspeople that Joel abandoned his brother. Joel, determined to not only find Mark but to see justice done, returns the ship to Singapore.

Godless Men

Godless Men
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/11/1920
  • Character: 'Red' Pawl
On board his trading schooner in the South Pacific, tough sea captain Black Pawl confronts his own son, who has grown up in his father's shadow and reflects only his dark side.

Music Is Magic

Music Is Magic
6.2/10
An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.

Something to Think About

Something to Think About
5.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/10/1920
  • Character: Country Masher
Wealthy cripple Markley finances the education of blacksmith's daughter Ruth. When she returns to their small town he asks to marry her, but she runs off with city worker Jim Dirk who is then killed in a subway accident. Markley offers to marry her in name only to protect her new son.

Bar 20 Rides Again

Bar 20 Rides Again
6.4/10
Cattle rustler Nevada dreams of living like an emperor in the West. Hoppy and the Bar 20 boys aim to put an end to his dream.

Scandal

Scandal
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/07/1915
The lives of a stenographer and her boss are thrown into turmoil by reckless gossip.

Young Dr. Kildare

Young Dr. Kildare
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/10/1938
  • Character: Lodger Going for Ambulance
A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his knowledge by the hospital's top dog, Dr. Leonard Gillespie.

Old Clothes

Old Clothes
2.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/11/1925
  • Character: Dapper Dan (as James Mason)
Timothy and Max are partners in the junk business. They take poor young Mary in as a boarder. Mary gets a job in Nathan's office and falls in love with him, but his mother feels she is beneath Nathan. Nathan faces disaster unless he can corner a particular stock, with which Timothy and Max's room happens to be entirely papered. —Ed Stephan

The Red Lane

The Red Lane
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/07/1920
After returning home from years spent in a convent, Marie Beaulieu, is shocked to discover that her father, the leader of a band of smugglers, desires she marry Dave Roi, one of the members of the band.

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