The best John Elliott’s drama movies

John Elliott

John Elliott

05/07/1876- 12/12/1956
Today we present the best John Elliott’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 Elliott’s movies.
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Baby Face

Baby Face
7.5/10
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.

Jesse James

Jesse James
7/10
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.

The Lady from Shanghai

The Lady from Shanghai
7.5/10
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.

Kentucky

Kentucky
6.2/10
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.

The Match King

The Match King
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 31/12/1932
  • Character: Banker (uncredited)
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.

The Dark Corner

The Dark Corner
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/05/1946
  • Character: Laundry Proprietor
Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.

Escape in the Fog

Escape in the Fog
5.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 05/04/1945
  • Character: Thomas - the Butler (uncredited)
A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. When she meets a man who is a federal agent at the inn, she is astounded to discover that he is the man in her dream who is the intended murder victim.

Wagon Trail

Wagon Trail
5.8/10
The son of Sheriff Clay Hartley, of the frontier town Elder, has gotten into bad company and hangs out with an outlaw gang in which, Collins, owner of the Golden Rule Saloon, is the secret head. Sheriff Hartley suspects him, but has been unable to gather the needed evidence. Collins instructs his gang, including young Hartley, to hold up the stagecoach on its return trip from Missionary Flats and take the cargo of gold dust it is carrying. Sheriff Hartley is notified of the planned holdup by one of his deputies who has been spying on Collins, and organizes a posse. A deputy-sheriff is killed in the ensuing gunfight between the lawmen and the outlaws, but Deputy Joe Larkin, pursues and captures Clay Hartley Jr. The latter is quickly tried and convicted of the killing of the deputy, and sentenced to be hung. Sheriff Hartley has only a few hours to prove his son was not the killer. He enlists the aid of Collins' step-daughter, Joan, who is in love with Hartley's son.

The Unfaithful

The Unfaithful
6.8/10
Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.

Corvette K-225

Corvette K-225
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 29/09/1943
  • Character: Merchant Captain
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
7/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 04/04/1939
  • Character: Banker at Demo
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.

Call Her Savage

Call Her Savage
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/11/1932
  • Character: Hank (Uncredited)
A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.

Stage Mother

Stage Mother
6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 29/09/1933
  • Character: Politician
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig. But Kitty goes too far when she breaks up her daughter's budding relationship with sweet artist Warren Foster. Heartbroken, Shirley sets off on a series of disastrous but profitable relationships.

I Sell Anything

I Sell Anything
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/10/1934
  • Character: Lawyer
Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?

Prison Shadows

Prison Shadows
4.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 17/07/1936
  • Character: The Police Captain
A boxer is framed for murder after an opponent dies in the ring.

As the Earth Turns

As the Earth Turns
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/02/1934
  • Character: Country Doctor
Love happens between the son of Polish immigrants settled in Maine and the daughter of a neighboring farm family.

Love Is on the Air

Love Is on the Air
5.4/10
A newscaster (Ronald Reagan) gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.

A Lost Lady

A Lost Lady
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/09/1934
  • Character: Bridge Player (uncredited)
A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.

Gentleman from Dixie

Gentleman from Dixie
6.2/10
A man is released from prison after serving time for a murder he didn't commit. He goes to live with his brother and his family on their Louisiana ranch, where they're raising horses to compete in an important race.

Back Pay

Back Pay
5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 01/06/1930
  • Character: Hot Springs Hotel Baggage Clerk
Bored with small town life, a woman leaves for the big city and winds up becoming the mistress of a ruthless businessman.

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