The best Richard Dix’s romance movies

Richard Dix

Richard Dix

18/07/1893- 20/09/1949
Today we present the best Richard Dix’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 Richard Dix’s movies.

The Kansan

The Kansan
5.6/10
Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.

Souls for Sale

Souls for Sale
7/10
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.

The Arizonian

The Arizonian
6.8/10
Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore and brow-beaten citizens. He accepts the position of town marshal and, with his brother and a reformed outlaw , Tex Randolph, who comes over to his side, sets out to bring law-and-order where none exists. He also wins the hand of the singer appearing at the Opera House.

Special Investigator

Special Investigator
6/10
A lawyer changes from defending public enemies to bringing them to justice after his brother is killed.

Badlands Of Dakota

Badlands Of Dakota
6/10
  • Genre: RomanceWestern
  • Release: 15/09/1941
  • Character: James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok
Up-and-coming Universal leading man Robert Stack made his western-movie debut in Badlands of Dakota. Set in the Dakotas during the days of the Great Gold Boom, the story finds brothers Jim and Bob Holliday (Stack and Broderick Crawford) dukeing it out over the affections of pretty Anne Grayson (Ann Rutherford). While all this is going on, Wild Bill Hickok (Richard Dix) does his best to neutralize the local criminal element-and to fend off the romantic overtures of boisterous Calamity Jane (Frances Farmer).

Yellow Dust

Yellow Dust
5.6/10
After he's accused of a series of stagecoach robberies, an innocent man has to find the real crooks.

Sporting Goods

Sporting Goods
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 11/02/1928
  • Character: Richard Shelby
Sports-loving inventor Richard Shelby develops an "Elasto-Tweed" golf suit then hits the road in hopes of making a few sales. Along the way, he meets Alice Elliott, who mistakes Shelby for millionaire sportsman Timothy Stanfield (Claude King). Forced to go through with the masquerade, Shelby ends up spending what little money he has, and then some.

Man Power

Man Power
Caterpillar-tractor operator Tom Roberts' mission is to deliver a fragile cargo of dynamite, to be denoted for the purposes of redirecting an anticipated flood.

Devil's Playground

Devil's Playground
6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 24/01/1937
  • Character: Jack Dorgan
A remake of Frank Capra's Submarine (1928), Devil's Playground is a snappy Columbia "B plus" picture starring Richard Dix and Chester Morris. Submarine officers Dorgan (Dix) and Mason (Morris) battle on land for the affections of dance-hall girl Carmen (Dolores del Rio). She marries Dorgan but makes a play for Mason when her husband is on duty. The romantic rivalry is forgotten when Dorgan must rescue Mason and his crew from a sunken sub.

Twelve Crowded Hours

Twelve Crowded Hours
5.5/10
An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.

Icebound

Icebound
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 02/03/1924
  • Character: Ben Jordan
Ben Jordan runs away after accidentally setting fire to a barn in his small New England community. He returns when his mother dies to find that she has left everything to her ward, Jane Crosby.

Roar of the Dragon

Roar of the Dragon
6.2/10
A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area. Seeking refuge in a fortified inn, the group is led by the boat's Captain Carson, who becomes involved with a woman who "belongs" to Voronsky. Carson must contend with the bandits outside and the conflicting personalities of those trapped inside the inn, as well as dealing with spies among the inn's personnel.

Lovin' the Ladies

Lovin' the Ladies
6.2/10
A man who believes that love is more animal and chemical than spiritual, bets that by controlling the circumstances, he can get any man and woman to fall for with each other and get engaged within a month.

Sky Giant

Sky Giant
5.9/10
Given the job of training young pilots for important post-war cargo flights, hard-boiled Col. Stockton forces ex-officer Stag Cahill back into the military to be his aide at the academy. Complications arise when Stockton's son Kenneth arrives for training and Stockton, believing his son to be a slackard, looks for an excuse to drop him from the program. Rivalry develops between Stag and Ken as well, as they fall for the same girl.

Let's Get Married

Let's Get Married
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/03/1926
  • Character: Billy Dexter
College football star Billy Dexter is prone to getting into public fights. His father demands he reform and sends him to mend his ways with a devout old woman who deals in hymnals. She turns out to be devoutly drunk and a saloon brawler, leading to Billy's imprisonment. He tells his fiancée he's doing missionary work on a pacific island. He escapes and persuades her to marry him, all the while dodging the police who pursue him.

Warming Up

Warming Up
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 04/08/1928
  • Character: Bert Tulliver
Bert, a pitcher for a baseball team in a small town, is given the opportunity to try out for a team in the big leagues. Unfortunately, he incurs the enmity of McRae, the league's leading home-run hitter. In addition, he falls for the team owner's daughter, who McRae has designs on.

The Glorious Fool

The Glorious Fool
Billy Grant, a wealthy young playboy, drunkenly crashes his car and appears near death. Afraid that his greedy and unpleasant relatives will get his estate, he convinces his nurse, Jane Brown, to marry him. When Billy regains his health, Jane finds herself in a situation she never imagined nor intended.

His Greatest Gamble

His Greatest Gamble
6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 18/07/1934
  • Character: Phillip
American gambler Philip Eden, who has ambushed his young daughter Alice from his estranged wife Florence, loses all of his money playing roulette in a French casino. In spite of Philip's sporadic income, he and Alice pledge to maintain an attitude of "wise foolishness" and to face the future together, one day at a time. Alice and Philip's happy plans are disrupted, however, when Bernice Solon, a jilted lover of Philip's, tracks them to their apartment and reveals that, out of jealousy, she has informed Florence of their whereabouts.

Sinners in Heaven

Sinners in Heaven
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 09/09/1924
  • Character: Alan Croft
Alan Croft, a young aviator and a girl from a strict English background are stranded on a cannibal island when their plane crashes on the way to Australia. The natives worship them, believing them to be gods, until a native girl discovers that the pilot is mortal. Giving up hope of rescue, they marry in the sight of God, but when they are found by a search plane Alan is wounded and left for dead. Barbara is spurned by her friends and family as having sinned, but Alan returns to claim her legally.

The Great Jasper

The Great Jasper
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 03/03/1933
  • Character: Jasper Horn
Generational saga about a failed streetcar conductor, who finds success as an Atlantic City fortune teller, and his son. Drama.

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