The best Rex Ingram’s drama movies

Rex Ingram

Rex Ingram

20/10/1885- 19/09/1969
Today we present the best Rex Ingram’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 Rex Ingram’s movies.
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Sahara

Sahara
7.5/10
Sergeant Joe Gunn and his tank crew pick up five British soldiers, a Frenchman and a Sudanese man with an Italian prisoner crossing the Libyan Desert to rejoin their command after the fall of Tobruk. Tambul, the Sudanese leads them to an abandoned desert fortress where they hope to find water. Soon a detachment of German soldiers arrives and attempts to barter food for water, but Gunn and his followers refuse. When the Germans attack, Gunn leads his desert-weary men in a desperate battle, hoping that British reinforcements can arrive in time.

Elmer Gantry

Elmer Gantry
7.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/07/1960
  • Character: Preacher of Black Congregation
When hedonistic but charming con man Elmer Gantry meets the beautiful Sister Sharon Falconer, a roadside revivalist, he feigns piousness to join her act as a passionate preacher. The two make a successful onstage pair, and their chemistry extends to romance. Both the show and their relationship are threatened, however, when one of Gantry's ex-lovers decides that she has a score to settle with the charismatic performer.

The Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/11/1923
  • Character: Israelite Slave (uncredited)
The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden calf. The second part shows the efficacy of the commandments in modern life through a story set in San Francisco. Two brothers, rivals for the love of Mary, also come into conflict when John discovers Dan used shoddy materials to construct a cathedral.

Moonrise

Moonrise
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/10/1948
  • Character: Mose
Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor. As the police close in around him, he makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man’s fiancée, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression.

Hurry Sundown

Hurry Sundown
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/02/1967
  • Character: Prof. Thurlow
Following the Second World War, a northern cannery combine negotiates for the purchase of a large tract of uncultivated Georgia farmland. The major portion of the land is owned by Julie Ann Warren and has already been optioned by her unscrupulous, draft dodging husband, Henry. Now the combine must also obtain two smaller plots - one owned by Henry's cousin Rad McDowell, a combat veteran with a wife and family; the other by Reeve Scott, a young black man whose mother had been Julie's childhood Mammy. But neither Rad nor Reeve is interested in selling and they form an unprecedented black and white partnership to improve their land. Although infuriated by the turn of events, Henry remains determined to push through the big land deal. And when Reeve's mother Rose dies, Henry tries to persuade his wife to charge Reeve with illegal ownership of his property, confident the the bigoted Judge Purcell will rule against a Negro.

The King of Kings

The King of Kings
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 19/04/1927
  • Character: (uncredited)
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.

The Talk of the Town

The Talk of the Town
7.5/10
When the Holmes Woolen Mill burns down, political activist Leopold Dilg is jailed for arson and accidental murder. Escaping, Leopold hides out in the home of his childhood sweetheart Nora Shelley... which she has just rented to unsuspecting law professor Michael Lightcap.

Anna Lucasta

Anna Lucasta
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/11/1958
  • Character: Joe Lucasta
Anna Lucasta is a 1959 film directed by Arnold Laven. Based on the 1944 play by Philip Yordan, this drama follows the trials and tribulations of Anna Lucasta (Eartha Kitt), a young black woman who turns to prostitution after her father kicks her out of the house.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
6.8/10
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River.

Adventure

Adventure
6.1/10
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.

The Four Feathers

The Four Feathers
7/10
  • Genre: AdventureDrama
  • Release: 01/06/1929
  • Character: Fuzzy Wuzzy Native
An Englishman (Richard Arlen) fights in the Sudan after receiving white feathers of cowardice from his fiancee (Fay Wray) and friends.

Tarzan's Hidden Jungle

Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
5.4/10
Hunters trespass into Sukulu country, where animals are sacred, posing as photographers.

Your Cheatin' Heart

Your Cheatin' Heart
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 04/11/1964
  • Character: Teetot
The story of the country and western singer Hank Williams.

God's Little Acre

God's Little Acre
6.5/10
In the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the farm by their grandfather but problems related to poverty, marital infidelity, unemployment and booze threaten to destroy their family.

The Green Pastures

The Green Pastures
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/08/1936
  • Character: De Lawd / Adam / Hezdrel
God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.

The Emperor Jones

The Emperor Jones
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 29/09/1933
  • Character: Court Crier
Unscrupulously ambitious, Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado he finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.

Desire in the Dust

Desire in the Dust
6/10
Lonnie Wilson returns to small southern hometown after spending six years on the chain-gang for killing Colonel Ben Marquand's son in an automobile accident. He revives his love affair with Melinda Marquand........

John Henry and the Inky-Poo

John Henry and the Inky-Poo
6.4/10
  • Genre: AnimationDrama
  • Release: 06/09/1946
  • Character: Narrator / John Henry (voice)
In this Puppetoon animated short film (an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee), legendary American folklore figure John Henry (voice of Rex Ingram) goes to work for the C&O Railroad, which shortly thereafter buys an automatic steel-driving engine, The Inky-Poo. John Henry matches his strength against the engine, saying that any man can beat a machine because a man has a mind. Can he prevail? In 2015 this film, deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

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