The best Nigel Bruce’s drama movies

Nigel Bruce

Nigel Bruce

04/02/1895- 08/10/1953
Today we present the best Nigel Bruce’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 Nigel Bruce’s movies.
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Rebecca

Rebecca
8.1/10
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.

Limelight

Limelight
8/10
A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

Lassie Come Home

Lassie Come Home
7.1/10
Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling to remain apart from young Carraclough son Joe and sets out on a long and dangerous journey to rejoin him.

The Charge of the Light Brigade

The Charge of the Light Brigade
7/10
In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances whose greatest prize is the domination of India and the border territories, Major Geoffrey Vickers must endure several betrayals and misfortunes before he can achieve his revenge at the Balaclava Heights, on October 25, 1854, the most glorious day of the Crimean War.

Suez

Suez
6.6/10
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.

Becky Sharp

Becky Sharp
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 28/06/1935
  • Character: Joseph Sedley
The first feature length film to use three-strip Technicolor film. Adapted from a play that was adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's book "Vanity Fair", the film looks at the English class system during the Napoleonic Wars era.

The Two Mrs. Carrolls

The Two Mrs. Carrolls
6.8/10
Struggling artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally while on holiday in the country. A romance develops, but he doesn't tell her he's already married. Suffering from mental illness, Geoffrey returns home where he paints an impression of his wife as the angel of death and then promptly poisons her. He marries Sally but after a while he finds a strange urge to paint her as the angel of death too and history seems about to repeat itself.

The Corn Is Green

The Corn Is Green
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/03/1945
  • Character: The Squire
When a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and believes that Morgan is smart enough to attend Oxford.

Son of Lassie

Son of Lassie
6.4/10
Laddie (Son of Lassie) and his master are trapped in Norway during WW2 - has he inherited his mothers famous courage?

The Rains Came

The Rains Came
6.8/10
Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken artist ex-lover Tom Ransome get in the way, but everyone shapes up when faced by earthquake, flooding, and plague.

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
6.8/10
A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.

The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Scarlet Pimpernel
7.3/10
  • Genre: AdventureDrama
  • Release: 20/12/1934
  • Character: The Prince of Wales
18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror.

This Above All

This Above All
6.6/10
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.

Hong Kong

Hong Kong
5.3/10
American adventurer Jeff Williams is fleeing the communist advance in China when he becomes entangled with a young Chinese orphan, Wei Lin, and a beautiful Red Cross volunteer, who arranges for their harrowing escape to Hong Kong.

Forever and a Day

Forever and a Day
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 21/01/1943
  • Character: Major Garrow
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.

Vendetta

Vendetta
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 25/12/1950
  • Character: Sir Thomas Nevil
The daughter of a slain man pushes her brother toward vengeance in 19th-century Corsica.

Kidnapped

Kidnapped
6.6/10
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour (Freddie Bartholomew) joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart (Warner Baxter) in 18th-century Scotland.

Lillian Russell

Lillian Russell
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 24/05/1940
  • Character: William Gilbert
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

A Dispatch from Reuters

A Dispatch from Reuters
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 19/10/1940
  • Character: Sir Randolph Persham
German Julius Reuter (Edward G. Robinson) sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.

World for Ransom

World for Ransom
5.8/10
In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of selling him to the highest bidder.

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