The best Joel Friedkin’s movies

Joel Friedkin

Joel Friedkin

15/05/1885- 19/09/1954
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The Postman Always Rings Twice

The Postman Always Rings Twice
7.4/10
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.

Angel on My Shoulder

Angel on My Shoulder
6.8/10
Gangster Eddie Kagel is killed by a trusted lieutenant and finds himself in Harry Redmond Jr's special effects Hell, where Nick/The Devil sees that he is an-exact double for a judge of whom Nick doesn't approve. Eddie is agreeable to having his soul transferred to the judge's body, as it will give him a chance to avenge himself on his killer. But every action taken by Eddie (as the judge) results in good rather than evil and, to Nick's dismay, the reputation and influence of the judge is enhanced, rather than impaired by Eddie. And Eddie also falls in love with the judge's fiancée, Barbara. Even Eddie's planned revenge fails and Nick is forced to concede defeat. He returns to Hell, taking Eddie with him, after Eddie has extracted his promise that Nick will not molest the judge or Barbara in the future.

Impact

Impact
7/10
After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.

Hollow Triumph

Hollow Triumph
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 18/08/1948
  • Character: William (uncredited)
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.

Bad Men of Missouri

Bad Men of Missouri
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 26/07/1941
  • Character: Sedalia Postmaster
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.

Reunion in France

Reunion in France
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomanceWar
  • Release: 25/12/1942
  • Character: Frenchman (uncredited)
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.

Magic Town

Magic Town
6.4/10
Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country. He and his assistants go there to run polls cheaply and easily, in total secrecy (it would be fatal to let the townsfolk get self-conscious). And of course, civic crusader Mary Peterman must be kept from changing things too much. But romantic involvement with Mary complicates life for Rip; then suddenly everything changes.

Dakota Lil

Dakota Lil
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 17/02/1950
  • Character: Doctor
Female outlaw helps lawmen trap railroad bandits.

Colorado

Colorado
5.9/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 15/09/1940
  • Character: Judge Newton
Trouble in Colorado is tying up Union troops needed back east during the Civil War and Lieut. Burke is sent to investigate. Macklin and his gang are causing the problems and Capt. Mason joins them. When Burke catches up with them he also finds Mason, his brother.

False Paradise

False Paradise
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 10/09/1948
  • Character: Professor Larson
A banker is trying to cheat people out of their silver-rich land. Hoppy learns that the banker is in league with an outlaw gang.

Twice Blessed

Twice Blessed
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 31/05/1945
  • Character: Mr. Winters
Stephanie and Terry are identical twins who have been raised separately since their parents divorced seven years earlier. Each envies the lifestyle of the other; and they decide, without telling Jeff or Mary, to switch families for a day or two. They soon find that it is harder to do what the other person is expected to do, and that looking alike is not enough. When they find that their charade may bring their parents back together, they agree to continue it. A major complication begins when Alice, Jeff's girlfriend and co-worker, finds out the real story.

Gaucho Serenade

Gaucho Serenade
6.3/10
Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene's horse, Champion. They discover that Ronnie Willoughby, a young boy just off the boat from school in England, has hitched a ride, thinking that Gene and Frog were sent by his father to meet him. Ronnie thinks his father is a big rancher in the west and doesn't know that his father, Alfred Willoughby, is serving time in San Quentin prison because of a frame-up by the officials of a packing company. To keep the father from testifying against them, the packing company officials, Carter, Jenkins and Martin, have arranged for the boy to be kidnapped. Along the way a runaway bride, Joyce Halloway, and her young sister Patsy join the troupe.

The Secret Fury

The Secret Fury
6.6/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 21/02/1950
  • Character: Cavendish
The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated. Ellen and David travel to the small coastal town where her first wedding allegedly occurred. There, they meet a number of individuals whose stories make Ellen question her own sanity.

Bad Man of Deadwood

Bad Man of Deadwood
5.7/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 05/09/1941
  • Character: Businessman
Roy and Gabby fight bad guys to save the town of Deadwood.

The Border Legion

The Border Legion
6.1/10
Wanted by the law in New York, Dr. Steve Kells heads west and arrives in an area controlled by an outlaw gang known as the Border Legion. When the gang's boss is wounded, they kidnap Kells and force him to remove the bullet. Not allowed to leave and being a wanted man, he joins the gang. Now wanted as a gang member also, he nevertheless plans a raid that will lead the entire gang into a trap.

Bedtime for Bonzo

Bedtime for Bonzo
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 05/04/1951
  • Character: Mr. DeWitt
College prof Peter Boyd tries to salvage his professional and personal reputation by using a lab chimp to prove that environment trumps heredity in behavioral development.

Murder, He Says

Murder, He Says
6.9/10
Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opinion surveyor who went there goes missing. Visiting the hillbilly family of Mamie Fleagle, Pete begins to suspect that she and her two sons have murdered the surveyor. Pete then believes that Mamie is slowly poisoning wealthy Grandma Fleagle, who has put a vital clue to her fortune in a nonsensical embroidered sampler.

The Chance of a Lifetime

The Chance of a Lifetime
6.1/10
A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant.

Money Madness

Money Madness
5.9/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 15/04/1948
  • Character: Dr. Wagner
A murderous bank robber on the run from the law hides out in a small town.

Strange Bargain

Strange Bargain
6.7/10
Bookkeeper Sam Wilson learns from his boss, Malcolm Jarvis, that he is losing his job because the company is closing down. Jarvis then makes a strange proposition, saying he intends to commit suicide, but wants Sam to make it look like a murder, in order for his wife and son to inherit Jarvis's life insurance. Sam declines, but when he goes to see Jarvis and finds his dead body, he reluctantly goes along with the scheme.

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