The best Phillip Reed’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Phillip Reed’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 Phillip Reed.
Sweet Music
6/10
A midwest band leader and his lead singer share a love-hate relationship as they try for success in New York.
Big Town After Dark
5.5/10
A crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.
Jimmy the Gent
6.6/10
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.
Harum Scarum
4.6/10
Johnny Tyronne, action movie star and ladies man, is traveling through the Middle East on a goodwill tour to promote his latest movie, "Sands of the Desert". Once he arrives, however, he is kidnapped by a gang of assassins who were so impressed with his on-screen adventures that they want to hire him to carry out an assassination for them.
Song of the Thin Man
6.9/10
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
6.4/10
Broadway showgirl Evelyn Nesbit (Joan Collins) is the object of affection of two men: playboy architect Stanford White (Ray Milland) and wealthy but unstable Harry Thaw (Farley Granger). She marries Thaw, but White’s continued pursuit puts him in the path of Thaw’s volatile temper. Inspired by true events that occurred at the turn of the 20th century.
The Last of the Mohicans
6.6/10
The story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns—in part—a Huron massacre (with passive French acquiescence) of between 500 to 1,500 Anglo-American troops, who had honorably surrendered at Fort William Henry, plus some women and servants; the kidnapping of two sisters, daughters of the British commander; and their rescue by the last Mohicans.
Old Acquaintance
7.4/10
Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.
Bodyguard
6.5/10
A cop on suspension is framed for murder when he noses in on a murder investigation.
Madame X
7.1/10
An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
Merrily We Live
7.3/10
Society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome tramp who shows up at her doorstep and ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catches the eye of Geraldine.
Davy Crockett, Indian Scout
5.4/10
It's 1848 and a wagon train with an Army escort is heading west through Indian territory, It's scout is Davy Crockett, nephew of his more famous namesake. There is spy amongst them informing the Indians. They survive the first Indian attack and then push on. They have a choice of two passes through the mountains. Learing of the pass to be defended by the Indians, they head for the other. But upon ariving, the Indians attack. Somehow they have been informed.
Fashions of 1934
6.6/10
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
The Woman in Red
6.1/10
A polo player's wife becomes the mystery woman in a Long Island horsy-set murder trial.
Gambling Lady
6.5/10
A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks out," leaving tough-minded daughter Lady Lee to earn a living the only way she knows. She soon becomes a success gambling among the rich, but, falling out with the syndicate, she considers the marriage proposal of blueblood Garry Madison. Can such a match work despite snobbery and old associations?
Tripoli
5.7/10
In 1805, the United States battles the pirates of Tripoli as the Marines fight to raise the American flag.
Dr. Monica
6.1/10
A prominent New York doctor, unable to have a child, discovers her philandering husband has impregnated her best friend.
Manhandled
6.6/10
Merle Kramer works as a stenographer for a psychiatrist. She is casually dating Karl Benson, a private eye and former cop. Merle mentions in passing that one of her boss's patients is an author with recurring dreams of murdering his wife, and she includes the fact that the wife owns valuable jewels. When the wife is found murdered in a manner identical to that of her husband's dream, the husband is naturally the prime suspect. But as the investigation of the police and insurance investigator Joe Cooper proceeds, it turns out that several people in the case, including Merle, are not what they seem.
A Lost Lady
6/10
A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.
Klondike Annie
6.4/10
A San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.
