The best Pierre Watkin’s movies

Pierre Watkin

Pierre Watkin

29/12/1889- 03/02/1960
Today we present the best Pierre Watkin’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 Pierre Watkin’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: Senator Barnes
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.

Monsieur Verdoux

Monsieur Verdoux
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 26/09/1947
  • Character: Prison Official (uncredited)
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.

You Can't Take It with You

You Can't Take It with You
7.8/10
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.

Meet John Doe

Meet John Doe
7.6/10
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.

The Fountainhead

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

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
7.8/10
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.

The Pride of the Yankees

The Pride of the Yankees
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 14/07/1942
  • Character: Mr. Twitchell
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.

The Bank Dick

The Bank Dick
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/11/1940
  • Character: Mr. Skinner
Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothingham Waterbury about buying shares in a mining company. Egbert persuades teller Og Oggilby to lend him bank money, to be returned when the scheme pays off. Unfortunately, bank inspector Snoopington then makes a surprise appearance.

Marked Woman

Marked Woman
7.1/10
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.

Flamingo Road

Flamingo Road
7.1/10
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.

Stage Door

Stage Door
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 07/10/1937
  • Character: Carmichael
The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel. Centres particularly on the conflict and growing friendship between Terry Randall, a rich girl confident in her talent and ability to make it to the top on the stage, and Jean Maitland, a world weary and cynical trouper who has taken the hard knocks of the ruthless and over-populated world of the Broadway apprentice.

The Stranger Wore a Gun

The Stranger Wore a Gun
5.9/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 30/07/1953
  • Character: Jason Conroy
Having been a spy for Quantrill's raiders during the Civil War, Jeff Travis thinking himself a wanted man, flees to Prescott Arizona where he runs into Jules Mourret who knows of his past. He takes a job on the stage line that Mourret is trying to steal gold from. When Mourret's men kill a friend of his he sets out to get Mourret and his men. When his plan to have another gang get Mourret fails, he has to go after them himself.

Road to Singapore

Road to Singapore
6.6/10
Bing Crosby an Bob Hope star in the first of the 'Road to' movies as two playboys trying to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet Dorothy Lamour...

Dangerous

Dangerous
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/12/1935
  • Character: George Sheffield
Dan Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. Unaware that she is married to Gordon, he asks his fiancée Gail to free him and offers to sponsor Joyce in a play. When Gordon refuses to give Joyce a divorce, she runs the car into a tree crippling him for life. Joyce urges Dan return to Gail, opens her play, and begs Gordon for forgiveness.

Du Barry Was a Lady

Du Barry Was a Lady
6.1/10
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is love with a poor dancer, but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.

The Mad Miss Manton

The Mad Miss Manton
6.7/10
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.

Creature with the Atom Brain

Creature with the Atom Brain
5.5/10
Murders, with victims dying from spines broken by brute strength, erupt in the city and the killers, when encountered, walk away unharmed by police bullets which strike them. A police doctor's investigation of the deaths leads to the discovery of an army of dead criminal musclemen restored to life, remotely controlled by a vengeful former crime boss and a former Nazi scientist, from the latter's laboratory hidden in the suburbs.

Great Guns

Great Guns
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/10/1941
  • Character: Col. Wayburn
Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer, (Dick Nelson) will need them now he's drafted.

Shock

Shock
6.2/10
In this thriller, psychiatrist Dr. Cross (Vincent Price) kills his wife and expects to get away with murder, until he discovers that the slaying was observed by a next-door neighbor, Janet Stewart (Anabel Shaw). As Janet attempts to convince her husband (Frank Latimore) of the doctor's dastardly deed, Cross shows up to advise him that Janet is in dire need of some in-depth counseling.

The Web

The Web
7.1/10
Leopold Kroner, formerly of Colby Enterprises, is released after five years in prison for embezzlement. Andrew Colby, claiming that Kroner has threatened him, hires lawyer Bob Regan as a secret bodyguard. Sure enough, Kroner turns up in Colby's room with a gun, and Regan kills him. Then Regan, who sticks around to romance Colby's secretary Noel, begins to suspect he's been used.

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