The best Leon Alton’s drama movies

Leon Alton

Leon Alton

23/08/1907- 25/08/1995
Today we present the best Leon Alton’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 Leon Alton’s movies.
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Inherit the Wind

Inherit the Wind
8.1/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 07/07/1960
  • Character: Townsman (uncredited)
This gripping adaptation of the Jerome Lawrence-Robert E. Lee play examines an issue that still causes great controversy—the role religion should play in the schools.

Somebody Up There Likes Me

Somebody Up There Likes Me
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/07/1956
  • Character: Fight Spectator (uncredited)
The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.

Days of Wine and Roses

Days of Wine and Roses
7.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 26/12/1962
  • Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaFamily
  • Release: 29/12/1969
  • Character: Collingsgood Associate (uncredited)
Some college students manage to persuade the town's big businessman, A. J. Arno, to donate a computer to their college. When the problem- student, Dexter Riley, tries to fix the computer, he gets an electric shock and his brain turns to a computer; now he remembers everything he reads. Unfortunately, he also remembers information which was in the computer's memory, like Arno's illegal businesses..

Advise & Consent

Advise & Consent
7.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/06/1962
  • Character: Senator (uncredited)
A Senate investigation into the President's newly-nominated Secretary of State gives light to a secret from the past, which may not only ruin the candidate, but the President's character as well.

The Swan

The Swan
6.4/10
Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant cousin when he pays a surprise visit to their palace. Prince Albert has searched all over Europe for a bride and he's bored by the whole courtship routine. He is more interested in the estate's dairy than Alexandra's rose garden. And then he starts playing football with the tutor and Alexandra's brothers. Invite the tutor to the ball that night and watch how gracefully Alexandra dances with him.

New York Confidential

New York Confidential
7.1/10
Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts.

Alias Nick Beal

Alias Nick Beal
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaFantasy
  • Release: 04/03/1949
  • Character: Supporter
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.

Tender Is the Night

Tender Is the Night
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/01/1962
  • Character: Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Against the counsel of his friends, psychiatrist Dick Diver marries Nicole Warren, a beautiful but unstable young woman from a moneyed family. Thoroughly enraptured, he forsakes his career in medicine for life as a playboy, until one day Dick is charmed by Rosemary Hoyt, an American traveling abroad. The thought of Dick possibly being attracted to someone else sends Nicole on an emotional downward spiral that threatens to consume them both.

The Juggler

The Juggler
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 11/05/1953
  • Character: Bus Driver (uncredited)
A Holocaust survivor moves to Israel and experiences difficulty adjusting to life.

The Iron Mistress

The Iron Mistress
6.2/10
In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge Narcisse's murder, but Judalon takes up with another man. Jim eventually has another romantic interlude with Judalon and is forced to kill one of her suitors in self-defense. Jim leaves town, and falls for the daughter of a Texas politician, but his entanglement with Judalon continues to bedevil him.

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