The best Purnell Pratt’s drama movies

Purnell Pratt

Purnell Pratt

20/10/1885- 25/07/1941
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Scarface

Scarface
7.7/10
A murderous thug shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.

Grand Hotel

Grand Hotel
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/05/1932
  • Character: Zinnowitz
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.

The Public Enemy

The Public Enemy
7.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/04/1931
  • Character: Officer Powers (uncredited)
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.

Lazy River

Lazy River
5.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 16/03/1934
  • Character: Mr. Lodge - Attorney
Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.

Diamond Jim

Diamond Jim
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/09/1935
  • Character: Physician
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.

Dance, Fools, Dance

Dance, Fools, Dance
6.3/10
When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring reporter; however, his naive younger brother Rodney takes a twisted path and gets involved with the wrong people.

Five Star Final

Five Star Final
7.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 26/09/1931
  • Character: Robert French
An unscrupulous newspaper editor searches for headlines at any cost.

Headline Shooter

Headline Shooter
6.1/10
  • Genre: AdventureDrama
  • Release: 28/07/1933
  • Character: Eddie Edmunds - City Editor
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.

Rosalie

Rosalie
6/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 24/12/1937
  • Character: Ship Captain (uncredited)
West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom.

Pick Up

Pick Up
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 24/03/1933
  • Character: Prosecuting Attorney
The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison, she tries to put her life back together.

Hollywood Boulevard

Hollywood Boulevard
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/08/1936
  • Character: Mr. Steinman
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.

Magnificent Obsession

Magnificent Obsession
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 30/12/1935
  • Character: Hastings, Merrick's Attorney
A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death.

False Faces

False Faces
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/10/1932
  • Character: Jefferson Howe
Dr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital, primarily for a lack of ethics, and goes to Chicago and sets himself up as a plastic surgeon and seducer of women; his quack methods lead to an operating-room failure that leads to tragedy for many others.

Paid

Paid
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/12/1930
  • Character: Edward Gilder
Mary Turner gets a three years prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plots to get back at the man responsible for her conviction.

The Trespasser

The Trespasser
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/11/1929
  • Character: Hector Ferguson
A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family has the marraige annulled, after which she gives birth to a child. Her former boss helps her out to ensure the child's welfare, which starts gossip that she is a "kept woman."

Up for Murder

Up for Murder
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/05/1931
  • Character: William Winter
Young reporter accidentially kills his newspaper's editor in a fight over the publisher's mistress, who is also the paper's society editor.

A Wicked Woman

A Wicked Woman
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 07/12/1934
  • Character: Prosecuting Attorney (uncredited)
A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed her abusive husband in order to protect her children from him.

The Locked Door

The Locked Door
6/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 16/11/1929
  • Character: Police Officer
On her first anniversary, Ann Reagan finds that her sister-in-law is involved with a shady character that she used to be intimate with, and determines to intervene.

Emma

Emma
7/10
When Fred Smith's wife dies in childbirth, Emma Thatcher, who has been nanny to the couple's three children, cares also for the family's new addition. Fred becomes rich and successful, then he and Emma marry. When Fred dies, his will becomes a source of trouble between the children and Emma.

Beyond Victory

Beyond Victory
5.9/10
Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.

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