The best King Donovan’s drama movies

King Donovan

King Donovan

25/01/1918- 30/06/1987
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Mystery Street

Mystery Street
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/06/1950
  • Character: Reporter at Beach House (uncredited)
When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.

All the King's Men

All the King's Men
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/11/1949
  • Character: Reporter (Uncredited)
All The King's Men is the story of the rise of politician Willie Stark from a rural county seat to the governor's mansion.

The Enforcer

The Enforcer
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 24/02/1951
  • Character: Sergeant Whitlow
After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a solid case against an elusive gangster whose top lieutenant is about to testify.

The Defiant Ones

The Defiant Ones
7.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 14/08/1958
  • Character: Solly
Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
6.6/10
An atomic bomb test in the Arctic Circle unfreezes a hibernating fictional dinosaur, a Rhedosaurus, that begins to wreak havoc in New York City.

Alias Nick Beal

Alias Nick Beal
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaFantasy
  • Release: 04/03/1949
  • Character: Peter Wolfe
After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.

Not as a Stranger

Not as a Stranger
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 01/07/1955
  • Character: Mr. Slocum (uncredited)
Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out of love but because she is highly knowledgeable in the skills of the operating room and because she has frugally put aside her savings through the years. She will be, as he shrewdly knows, a supportive wife in every way. She helps make him the success he wants to be and cheerfully moves with him to the small town in which he starts his practice. But as much as he tries to be a good husband to the undemanding Kristina, Marsh easily falls into the arms of a local siren and the patience of the long-sorrowing Kristina wears thin.

Something to Live For

Something to Live For
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/03/1952
  • Character: Stage Manager
Alcoholic actress aided by a married Alcoholics Anonymous member with whom she has an affair.

The Merry Widow

The Merry Widow
5.7/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 05/09/1952
  • Character: Nitki
Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a Marshovian, can be convinced to part with her money and marry the king's nephew count Danilo. Arriving to Marshovia on a visit, Crystal Radek change places with her secretary Kitty. Following them to Paris, Danilo has a hard time wooing the widow after meeting an attractive young woman at a nightclub, the same Crystal Radek who presents herself as Fifi the chorus girl. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Private Hell 36

Private Hell 36
6.7/10
In New York, a bank robbery of $300,000 goes unsolved for a year, until some of the marked bills are found in a Los Angeles drugstore theft. Police detectives Cal Bruner and Jack Farnham investigate and are led from the drugstore to a nightclub, where singer Lili is another recipient of a stolen bill. With Lili's help, the partners track down the remaining money, but both Lili and Frank are dismayed when Cal decides he wants to keep part of it.

The Seven Little Foys

The Seven Little Foys
6.7/10
Vaudeville entertainer Eddie Foy, who has vowed to forever keep his act a solo, falls in love with and marries Italian ballerina Madeleine. While they continue to tour the circuit, they begin a family and before long have seven little Foys to clutter the wings. After tragedy threatens to stall Eddie's career, he comes to realize that his little terrors are worth their weight in gold. - Chris Stone

One Way Street

One Way Street
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/04/1950
  • Character: Grieder
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.

The Bamboo Prison

The Bamboo Prison
6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 15/06/1954
  • Character: Pop
A communist POW sides with his North Korean guards against his fellow prisoners.

The Scarf

The Scarf
6.7/10
A man believe to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the one to actually kill her using the scarf she was wearing.

Riders to the Stars

Riders to the Stars
5.4/10
Three men gamble their lives in space to change the history of the world

The Sun Sets at Dawn

The Sun Sets at Dawn
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/11/1950
  • Character: Reporter, National News Service
A reporter investigates the story of a young man who may have been wrongly convicted and sentenced to be executed.

The Pilgrimage Play

The Pilgrimage Play
5.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/12/1949
Nelson Leigh assumes the role of Jesus Christ in this drama that depicts such historical events as the Sermon on the Mount and the Last Supper while portraying the period in which Christ roamed the countryside preaching the gospel.

Morning's at Seven

Morning's at Seven
8.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/01/1982
  • Character: Carl Bolton
In a small Midwestern town in the 1920s, four sisters' lives are turned upside down when one sister's son brings his fiancée home to meet his eccentric family for the first time.

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