The best John Carroll’s romance movies

John Carroll

John Carroll

17/07/1906- 24/04/1979
Today we present the best John Carroll’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 John Carroll’s movies.

Fiesta

Fiesta
5.9/10
When a matador leaves town to focus on his music, his twin sister takes on his identity in the bullfighting ring.

Only Angels Have Wings

Only Angels Have Wings
7.6/10
Geoff Carter is the head of a crumbling air freight service in desperate need of a replacement pilot. He is forced to hire a descredited aviator who arrives with his wife, Carter's ex-lover. Meanwhile, traveler Bonnie Lee tries to get close to the emotionally closed-off Carter.

Decision at Sundown

Decision at Sundown
6.8/10
Bart Allison arrives in Sundown after a three year search for Tate Kimbrough. Although it is Kimbrough's wedding day, Allison makes it clear he blames him for the death of his wife and is out to kill him. A shoot-out in the church puts the wedding on hold and Allison and his trail-buddy hole up in the livery stable. But the reasons for his actions become increasingly unclear, while the town starts to wonder about the grip Kimbrough has over them.

Congo Maisie

Congo Maisie
6.2/10
Maisie gets lost in a jungle in Africa and the jungle of romance. The African jungle has snakes, crocodiles and witch doctors. The romantic jungle has a dedicated doctor with an un-dedicated wife and an embittered doctor who is dedicated to no one.

The Accusing Finger

The Accusing Finger
6.6/10
A district attorney sends a young man to the electric chair, then lands in the death house himself.

The Youngest Profession

The Youngest Profession
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 26/02/1943
  • Character: John Carroll
Joan Lyons and her friend Patricia Drew are autograph hounds spending most of their day bumping into, and having tea, with the likes of Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Based on misinformation from a meddling old-maid governess, Miss Featherstone, Joan also devotes some time to working on the no-problem marriage of her parents to the extent of hiring Dr. Hercules, the strong man from a side show to pay attention to her mother in order to make her father jealous, despite the good advice received from Walter Pidgeon.

Lady Be Good

Lady Be Good
6.4/10
Married songwriters almost split up while putting on a big show.

Phantom Raiders

Phantom Raiders
6.1/10
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter and his eccentric associate Bartholomew to investigate. Nick recognizes influential nightclub owner Al Taurez as a shady operator, but getting the goods on him depends on slick diversions involving the heavyweight champ of the Pacific Tuna Fleet, a Panamanian bombshell armed with American slang, a young couple in love and a whole raft of crooks and cutthroats.

This Woman Is Mine

This Woman Is Mine
5.5/10
Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with a female stowaway they discover aboard their ship. Many adventures follow.

Marianne

Marianne
6.1/10
At the conclusion of World War I, a French girl is romanced by an American doughboy even though she is promised to a French soldier who was sent to the front.

Her Favorite Patient

Her Favorite Patient
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 22/06/1945
  • Character: Morgan Hale
A beautiful female doctor visits her small hometown on her way back to Chicago. Her overworked uncle, who is the town's doctor, wants her to stay and help him, and he and a macho test pilot who's fallen for her come up with a plan that involves the pilot faking an illness and being treated by her, with her uncle's "help".

Monte Carlo

Monte Carlo
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusicRomance
  • Release: 27/08/1930
  • Character: Wedding Guest Officer (uncredited)
A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.

Angel in Exile

Angel in Exile
6.2/10
An ex-convict on his way to make his fortune in a gold mine in Arizona has his trip interrupted when the residents of a small Mexican village believe him to be a sacred religious figure.

New Moon

New Moon
5.9/10
New Moon is the name of the ship crossing the Caspian Sea. A young Lt. Petroff meets the Princess Tanya and they have a ship board romance. Upon arriving at the port of Krasnov, Petroff learns that Tanya is engaged to the old Governor Brusiloff. Petroff, disillusioned, crashes the ball to talk with Tanya. Found by Brusiloff, they invent a story about her lost bracelet. To reward him, and remove him, Brusiloff sends Petroff to the remote, and deadly, Fort Darvaz. Soon, the big battle against overwhelming odds will begin.

The Farmer Takes a Wife

The Farmer Takes a Wife
5.3/10
Erie Canal, N.Y., 1850: Molly Larkins, cook on Jotham Klore's canal boat, has a love-hate relationship with her boss. She hires handsome new haul-horse driver Dan Harrow and the inevitable triangle develops (complicated by Dan's desire to farm and Molly's to boat) against a background of the canalmen's fight against the encroaching railroad.

A Letter for Evie

A Letter for Evie
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 28/01/1946
  • Character: Edgar 'Wolf' Larson
Evie's co-workers at the uniform shirt factory, and her almost-fiancée's inability to kiss, inspire her to slip a letter into a size sixteen-and-a-half shirt for some anonymous soldier. It's received by "Wolf" Larson, who immediately throws it away, but his sensitive, dreaming--and short--buddy John McPherson snags it, and begins a correspondence with Evie, pretending to be Wolf. But things get complicated when Evie wants to meet her tall, handsome soldier. And even more complicated when Wolf sees Evie and likes what he sees.

Devil-May-Care

Devil-May-Care
6.1/10
  • Genre: Romance
  • Release: 27/12/1929
  • Character: Bonapartist (uncredited)
A follower of Napoleon escapes the firing squad, flees to a woman's bedroom and winds up butler.

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