The best Nat King Cole’s drama movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Nat King Cole’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 Nat King Cole.
Citizen Kane
8.3/10
Newspaper magnate, Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
The Blue Gardenia
6.9/10
Deeply distraught that her GI ex-boyfriend plans to marry another woman, Norah Larkin agrees to go out on a date with lothario Harry Prebble. Norah's drunken night out with Prebble ends in a hazily remembered confrontation and the next day a startling discovery: Harry has been murdered, and the police have found Norah's personal effects at the scene. Tipped off to the breaking news, reporter Casey Mayo invites Norah to tell her side of the story.
Istanbul
6.1/10
A suspected diamond smuggler returns to Istanbul and finds the lady love he thought was dead...or does he?
Killer Diller
5.6/10
An all-Black comedy and dance revue with stars of stage and screen.
St. Louis Blues
7.1/10
Will Handy grows up in Memphis with his preacher father and his Aunt Hagar. His father intends for him to use his musical gifts only in church, but he can't stay away from the music of the streets and workers. After he writes a theme song for a local politician, Gogo, a speakeasy singer, convinces Will to be her accompanist. Will is estranged from his father for many years while he writes and publishes many blues songs. At last the family is reunited when Gogo brings them to New York to see Will's music played by a symphony orchestra.
Night of the Quarter Moon
6.4/10
A POW marries a woman he meets in Mexico. Controversy erupts when people find out that she's one-quarter black.
