The best Paul Stanton’s drama movies

Paul Stanton

Paul Stanton

21/12/1884- 09/10/1955
Today we present the best Paul Stanton’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 Paul Stanton’s movies.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
8.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/10/1939
  • Character: Flood a Newsman (uncredited)
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.

The Awful Truth

The Awful Truth
7.7/10
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.

Stella Dallas

Stella Dallas
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 06/08/1937
  • Character: Arthur W. Morley (uncredited)
After divorcing a society man, a small-town woman tries to build a better life for their daughter.

A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 27/04/1937
  • Character: Academy Award Presenter (uncredited)
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.

Make Way for Tomorrow

Make Way for Tomorrow
8.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/05/1937
  • Character: Mr. Horton - Hotel Manager (uncredited)
At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with daughter Cora. But the parents are like sand in the gears of their middle-aged children's well regulated households. Can the old folks take matters into their own hands?

The Fountainhead

The Fountainhead
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/06/1949
  • Character: Dean Who Expels Roark (uncredited)
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.

Crash Dive

Crash Dive
6.4/10
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart (Power), has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors (Andrews), for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett (Baxter) and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.

Hollywood Cavalcade

Hollywood Cavalcade
6.5/10
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.

Lady with Red Hair

Lady with Red Hair
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/11/1940
  • Character: Prosecuting Attorney Winter (uncredited)
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.

Across the Pacific

Across the Pacific
6.8/10
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-marshaled out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz? Any motive for getting close to attractive traveller Alberta Marlow would however seem pretty obvious.

Strangers All

Strangers All
5.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/04/1935
  • Character: Prosecuting Attorney
Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.

Black Legion

Black Legion
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 30/01/1937
  • Character: Barham
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.

They Shall Have Music

They Shall Have Music
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaFamilyMusic
  • Release: 18/08/1939
  • Character: Inspector Johnson (uncredited)
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.

Whipsaw

Whipsaw
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 18/12/1935
  • Character: Justice Department Chief Hughes
Vivian is the partner of jewel thieves who have stolen precious pearls in Paris and fled to the United States. In New York undercover government agent McBride latches on to Vivian, who travels cross country with the pearls in her possession.

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 11/01/1940
  • Character: Attorney Cluett
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
7/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 04/04/1939
  • Character: Chauncey Smith
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.

Lucky Jordan

Lucky Jordan
6.4/10
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.

Dimples

Dimples
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 09/10/1936
  • Character: Mr. St. Clair
Dimples Appleby lives with her pick-pocket grandfather in 19th century New York City. She entertains the crowds while he works his racket. A rich lady makes it possible for the girl to go legit.

Shadow of a Woman

Shadow of a Woman
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/09/1946
  • Character: Dr. Nelson Norris
Brooke's marital life with Eric takes a downturn when she starts suspecting that her husband, Eric, is starving his son from a prior marriage to death in order to claim his inheritance.

Paid to Dance

Paid to Dance
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/12/1937
  • Character: Charles Kennedy
Government undercover agents William Dennis and Joan Barclay are working to solve the disappearances of girls working as "taxi-dancers" from dance halls operated by Jack Miranda and his henchman Nifty.

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