The best Kathleen Burke’s movies

Kathleen Burke

Kathleen Burke

05/09/1913- 09/04/1980
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Kathleen Burke’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 Kathleen Burke.
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Island of Lost Souls

Island of Lost Souls
7.4/10
An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.

The Merry Widow

The Merry Widow
7.2/10
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.

Torch Singer

Torch Singer
6.7/10
When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later, she then searches for the gave up child.

Rascals

Rascals
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/05/1938
  • Character: Dr. Carter's Nurse
A Gypsy band takes lots of stuff but always in a good cause. Led by Jane Withers, they pick up a socialite (Hundson) who has amnesia. She works as a fortune teller and raises enough money for an operation to regain her memory.

Nevada

Nevada
6.1/10
A gambler (Larry "Buster" Crabbe) wins a ranch in a round of poker, then joins his neighbors on a rustler-ridden cattle drive to Texas.

Craig's Wife

Craig's Wife
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/09/1936
  • Character: Adelaide Passmore
Harriet, Walter Craig's wife, is an upper-class woman obsessed with control, material possessions and social status whose behavior makes difficult her relationship with domestic service and family members.

Murders in the Zoo

Murders in the Zoo
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeHorror
  • Release: 31/03/1933
  • Character: Evelyn Gorman
Dr. Gorman is a millionaire adventurer, traveling the world in search of dangerous game. His bored, beautiful, much younger wife entertains herself in the arms of other men. In turn, Gorman uses his animals to kill these men. When a New York City zoo suggests a fundraising gala, Gorman sees a prime opportunity to dispatch the dashing Roger and anyone else who might cross him.

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
7/10
In the Northwest Frontier of India, the 41st Bengal Lancers leaded by the harsh Colonel Tom Stone are having trouble with the rebellious leader Mohammed Khan. After two casualties, the experienced but insubordinate Lieutenant Alan McGregor receives as replacement, the arrogant Lieutenant Forsythe and the immature son of Colonel Stone, Lieutenant Donald Stone. With the intention to prove that he will not have any privilege in the troop, the reception of Colonel Stone to his son is absolutely cold, but he becomes the protégé of McGregor. When Lieutenant Stone is kidnapped by Mohammed Khan, McGregor and Forsythe disobey the direct order of their commander, disguise as Indian peddlers and go to Khan's fortress to attempt to rescue their friend

School for Girls

School for Girls
7.2/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 22/03/1934
  • Character: Gladys Deacon
After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However, one of the board of trustees takes an interest in the new arrival and begins to investigate the management of the institution.

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
6.9/10
Dashing British sleuth Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed. Enlisting the help of his old friend Algy and the beautiful Lola, Drummond uncovers a scheme to ship illegal cargo into the country. He must rely on his cunning to survive when the prince offers a reward for his capture.

The Last Outpost

The Last Outpost
6/10
During WW1, the destinies of British officers Michael Andrews and John Stevenson seem intertwined on the battle front as much as on a more personal level.

Navy Wife

Navy Wife
5.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 17/09/1935
  • Character: Serena Morrison
A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter.

Six of a Kind

Six of a Kind
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/02/1934
  • Character: Woman (uncredited)
The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and their great Dane. A clerk in Whinney's bank has put fifty thousand dollars in a suitcase, hoping to rob Whinney on the road, but instead Whinney takes another road and is himself arrested in Nevada.

Rocky Mountain Mystery

Rocky Mountain Mystery
5.9/10
A mining engineer teams up with a crusty deputy sheriff to solve the mystery killings at an old mine where the owner's family waits for him to die, and where a valuable radium strike may have been made.

Boy of the Streets

Boy of the Streets
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 08/12/1937
  • Character: Julie Stone
Cocky young street kid worships his father, a sleazy political operative.

Good Dame

Good Dame
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/03/1934
  • Character: Zandra
A chorus girl gets stranded in a small midwestern town. Against her better judgement, she hooks up with a smooth-talking con artist who says he can help her get out of town.

The Lion Man

The Lion Man
4.8/10
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Release: 12/08/1936
  • Character: Eulilah
A young British boy whose father was murdered by a treacherous Aran sheik finds himself in a position to exact revenge as an adult.

Mutiny Ahead

Mutiny Ahead
4.8/10
A wealthy playboy winds up getting himself involved with mobsters and a search for buried treasure.

The Mad Game

The Mad Game
5.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 27/10/1933
  • Character: Marilyn Kirk
Bootlegger Ed Carson is sent to prison. His old gang turns from liquor (now legal) to kidnapping. When they nab the son and daughter-in-law of the judge who sent Carson to prison, he is paroled to help in the capture.

The Awakening of Jim Burke

The Awakening of Jim Burke
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/05/1935
  • Character: Laura
After his divorced wife dies, Jim Burke takes their son who she had been raising and he hasn't seen in many years. Jim Burke is a tough, hard-nosed construction boss on engineering projects, and he is looking forward to molding Little Jim into his own image. Jim Burke is more than a little bit dismayed and a whole lot disgusted when Little Jim arrives and it doesn't take Big Jim long to figure out that Little Jim...ain't nothing but a sissy. Little Jim is fond of practicing on his violin and reading and studying. What's a poor father to do?

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