The best Rex Downing’s movies

Rex Downing

Rex Downing

21/04/1925 (99 años)
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Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 07/04/1939
  • Character: Heathcliff as a Child
The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes companion and soulmate to Hindley's sister, Catherine. After her parents die, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up wild and free on the moors and despite the continued enmity between Hindley and Heathcliff they're happy -- until Cathy meets Edgar Linton, the son of a wealthy neighbor.

Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo
6.4/10
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.

Blood and Sand

Blood and Sand
6.8/10
Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who nevertheless stands by her man as he continues to face real danger in the bullring.

Call Northside 777

Call Northside 777
7.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 13/02/1948
  • Character: Copy Boy (uncredited)
In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.

The Escape

The Escape
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 05/10/1939
  • Character: Tommy Rogers
An embittered Louie Peronni (Edward Norris) returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni (Amanda Duff), is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell (Kane Richmond), and also finds that his secret wife Annie Qualen (June Gale) has placed their baby girl in a foundling home. With his old gang again, Louie plans a robbery of a fur warehouse. Louie shoots down the night watchman and is trailed home where his father Guiseppe Peronni (Henry Armetta) persuades him not to fight it out with the police. Determined to let Louie take the full rap, the gang kidnaps the district attorney's daughter. Annie informs Louie that the kidnapped child is really their own and was adopted from the foundling home.

Nurse Edith Cavell

Nurse Edith Cavell
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 31/08/1939
  • Character: François Rappard
British nurse Edith Cavell (Anna Neagle) is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans

General Spanky

General Spanky
5.9/10
Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After wronging a vicious gambler, Spanky and Buckwheat are forced to jump ship. Finding solace at a nearby house, the two are picked by Marshall Valiant for an important mission. This inspires Spanky to organize the local kids to form a small army of their own.

Mandrake the Magician

Mandrake the Magician
6.3/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 06/05/1939
  • Character: Tommy Houston
Mandrake and his team attempt to prevent "The Wasp" from stealing and using a new Radium invention.

Little Miss Nobody

Little Miss Nobody
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/06/1936
  • Character: Orphan
A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.

The Pinch Singer

The Pinch Singer
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/01/1936
  • Character: Our Gang Member
Alfalfa and our gang try to win fifty dollars on a radio contest.

The Mayor of 44th Street

The Mayor of 44th Street
5.6/10
In this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency and help street kids at the same time by hiring them to help out. Unfortunately, the local gang of hood's leader resists his attempts. More trouble ensues when the dancer helps a convict gain parole by hiring him. It later turns out that the ex-con is only interested in trying to use the agency as a front for extortion. Songs include the Oscar nominated "When There's a Breeze on Lake Louise," "Your Face Looks Familiar," "Heavenly, Isn't He?" "Let's Forget It," "You're Bad For Me," and "A Million Miles From Manhattan."

Teacher's Beau

Teacher's Beau
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 27/04/1935
  • Character: Our Gang Member
The gang tries to dissuade their teacher from geting married.

Branded a Coward

Branded a Coward
5.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/07/1935
  • Character: Young Billy Hume
Safely from behind some shrubbery, Johnny Hume, a boy of 6 or 7, witnesses the slaughter of his mother, father and brother by the guns of a gang led by "the Cat". Twenty years later finds Johnny grown to manhood, an expert bronc rider and target shooter - but paralyzed with fearful memories in an actual gunfight. This is brought home to him when some outlaws stick up the local saloon and Johnny ends up cowering behind the bar.

Mandrake the Magician

Mandrake the Magician
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 01/01/1940
  • Character: Tommy Houston
Feature version of the American serial film, produced for export only, never exhibited in the USA, and believed to be a lost film.

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