The best Kenneth Harlan’s drama movies

Kenneth Harlan

Kenneth Harlan

26/07/1895- 06/03/1967
We present our ranking of the best Kenneth Harlan’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Kenneth Harlan.
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San Francisco

San Francisco
7.2/10
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the big earthquake.

Marked Woman

Marked Woman
7.1/10
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.

The Penalty

The Penalty
7.3/10
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.

Paper Bullets

Paper Bullets
5.4/10
Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local crime organization.

The Toll of the Sea

The Toll of the Sea
6.6/10
An American sailor marries then deserts the Chinese beauty who had saved his life.

Millionaires in Prison

Millionaires in Prison
5.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 12/07/1940
  • Character: Jerry Connell (uncredited)
A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.

Man Hunt

Man Hunt
5.5/10
A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.

Klondike Fury

Klondike Fury
4.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/03/1942
  • Character: Flight Dispatcher
In this Alaskan adventure, a surgeon becomes a pilot after he messes up an operation. Unfortunately, he crashes during a storm and finds himself cared for by a lovely woman. He gets a chance to reclaim his self-esteem when her son suddenly needs the same operation the surgeon botched.

Penrod and Sam

Penrod and Sam
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/02/1937
  • Character: Real G-Man
A boy (Billy Mauch) and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.

Smashing the Rackets

Smashing the Rackets
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/08/1938
  • Character: Angry Businessman
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...

The Duke of West Point

The Duke of West Point
6.4/10
A cocky new West Point cadet from Cambridge is given the cold shoulder by his classmates because of his rule-breaking antics.

A Million to One

A Million to One
5.6/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 03/03/1937
  • Character: William Stevens
The son of a disgraced Olympic decathlete prepares to become a star in his own right. His quest is complicated by a beautiful girl and a bitter rival.

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.

You Can't Beat the Law

You Can't Beat the Law
5.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 29/01/1943
  • Character: First Warden
A wild playboy is framed by crooks for a robbery he didn't commit and eventually lands in prison. There he becomes pals with the prison's most hardened criminal, who plans a daring escape.

China Clipper

China Clipper
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/08/1936
  • Character: Department of Commerce Inspector
An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.

East Side - West Side

East Side - West Side
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/06/1923
  • Character: Duncan Van Norman
Poor, decent young woman Lory (Percy) avoids moral pratfalls after she is employed by a rich family. She falls in love with the son (Harlan) but the couple is separated by his cruel, class-conscious mother. Lory stays true to her spirit and does not compromise her integrity when the mother attempts to pay her off. Later, a tragedy might open the door the broken hearted young woman to find happiness.

Poisoned Paradise

Poisoned Paradise
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/02/1924
  • Character: Hugh Kildair / Gilbert Kildair
Margot Le Blanc loses her small fortune at Monte Carlo and makes the acquaintance of Hugh Kildair, an artist, who hires her as a housekeeper. A gang of thieves set a trap for Kildair when they find that he knows a mathematical system guaranteed to win at the gambling table.

Public Enemy's Wife

Public Enemy's Wife
5.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 24/07/1936
  • Character: G-Man
Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene, fingered her for. Gene is in prison for life. She claims that she had no knowledge of Gene's criminal activity, but FBI agent Lee Laird doesn't buy it.

The Flying Irishman

The Flying Irishman
5.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/04/1939
  • Character: Man at New York Airport
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.

Accidents Will Happen

Accidents Will Happen
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 09/04/1938
  • Character: Elmer Ross
A married insurance claims adjuster investigates a gang of accident-fraud racketeers, but they retaliate by targeting his wife.

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