The best Richard Tucker’s drama movies

Richard Tucker

Richard Tucker

04/06/1884- 05/12/1942
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Wings

Wings
7.5/10
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them, pines away. Cinema's first ever gay kiss?

The Jazz Singer

The Jazz Singer
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 06/10/1927
  • Character: Harry Lee
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical.

Midnight Mary

Midnight Mary
7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaRomance
  • Release: 30/06/1933
  • Character: Club Imperial Manager (uncredited)
A young woman is on trial for murder. In flashback, we learn of her struggles to overcome poverty as a teenager -- a mistaken arrest and prison term for shoplifting and lack of employment lead to involvement with gangsters. In a brothel, she meets a young lawyer, scion of a wealthy and prestigious family, who falls for her and helps her turn around her life. But her past catches up with her, and she must face the music rather than cause him scandal.

Beau Brummel

Beau Brummel
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/03/1924
  • Character: Lord Stanhope
George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries Lord Alvanley. Brummel, broken-hearted, embarks upon a life of revelry.

Diamond Jim

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

Peacock Alley

Peacock Alley
4.5/10
Claire Tree is a singer/dancer who goes after what she wants in a straight-forward, no-nonsense manner, so when she finds herself in the New York City hotel-suite, in fashionable Peacock Alley, of Stoddard Channing, she wastes no time.

Hell Bound

Hell Bound
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/05/1931
  • Character: Gilbert
Lane and Diane are a young married couple living in a coastal town whose lives are about to be torn apart by an old book of magic.

Baby Take a Bow

Baby Take a Bow
6.4/10
Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time. Five years later, Eddie and his ex-convict buddy Larry, have both gone straight, and Eddie and Kay have a beautiful little girl named Shirley. However, Welch has kept a close eye on them for years. He believes in "once a criminal, always a criminal." Then, when Eddie's employer's wife's pearls go missing, it comes out that Eddie and Larry both spent time in prison, and they're fired. Welch suspects that Eddie and Larry have something to do with the theft of the pearls. Will Welch prove that Eddie and Larry had something to do with the theft, or will the truth prevail?

Only Yesterday

Only Yesterday
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 01/11/1933
  • Character: One of Jim's Friends (Uncredited)
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.

The Squall

The Squall
4.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/05/1929
  • Character: Josef
A fiesty, sexy and manipulative gypsy disrupts the lives of a conservative farm family.

Sudden Money

Sudden Money
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 31/03/1939
  • Character: Mr. Rodney Hinds
Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstake contest. With their windfall, each member of the family decides to pursue a dream.

Recaptured Love

Recaptured Love
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 07/07/1930
  • Character: Rawlings
In this drama, a 50-year-old married man (played by John Halliday) goes with his wife (Belle Bennett) and son (Junior Durkin) to a nightclub in a fancy hotel in Detroit. He meets a gold-digger (Dorothy Burgess) there, singing the theme song of the picture, and eventually ends up going out with her on a subsequent occasion and falls in love with her. His wife finally finds out and this leads to her leaving him and getting a divorce in Paris. He is married to the gold-digger but finds life with her and her "jazz friends" to be too much for him. He begins to long for his old wife when he finds her in a nightclub with another man and becomes jealous.

Cameo Kirby

Cameo Kirby
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/10/1923
  • Character: Cousin Aaron Randall
Wrongfully blamed for the death of Col. John Randall, Cameo Kirby (Gilbert) must find the true villain and clear his name before he can declare his love for Adele (Olmstead), the dead man's daughter.

We Who Are About to Die

We Who Are About to Die
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/01/1937
  • Character: Defense Attorney (uncredited)
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.

The Bat Whispers

The Bat Whispers
6.3/10
Infamous burglar "The Bat" commits a daring jewelry theft despite heavy police presence. Soon after, a bank theft occurs, which may be the work of the criminal as well. Meanwhile, Cornelia Van Gorder has various people arrive at her old mansion, including her niece, Dale, a bank employee, and police detective Anderson. When guests start turning up dead, Cornelia begins to suspect that The Bat may be lurking around the estate.

Half Marriage

Half Marriage
5.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 12/10/1929
  • Character: Mr. Page
A young couple marries in secret. Judy's afraid her parents won't approve of Dick and she'll lose her generous allowance. Her parents bring her home from the city where she's been studying art and encourage the attentions of Tom, a persistent suitor. Judy and her jealous husband have an argument that leads her back to the city, a drunken, amorous Tom and a tragedy.

Show Folks

Show Folks
5.4/10
Eddie Kehoe is a young vaudeville hoofer who thinks his inability to hit the big time is the fault of stage managers, agents, musicians...everybody but himself. Eddie likes to tell others how good he is, but seldom shows them. Kitty Mayo, an old-time burlesque queen, who is with the McNary Vaudeville Company, advises Eddie to get himself a partner, as his solo abilities can only be stretched so far. He decides to follow her advice and, while in a theatrical supply shop, he sees Rita Carey rehearsing her dancing act that includes a trained duck. Eddie tells Rita he is a good friend of McNary's, and, with him as her partner, her future in show business will be secured. She agrees to join him and Eddie promptly names the act "Eddie Kehoe and Partner". Despite his conceit, Rita likes Eddie, as do others in the troupe, including Cleo a little gold-digger.

Up for Murder

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

The World Gone Mad

The World Gone Mad
4.8/10
A district attorney and a reporter try to find the killer of a D.A. who uncovered a massive stock fraud.

The Working Man

The Working Man
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 20/04/1933
  • Character: Reeves Company Board Member (uncredited)
A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor; they're on the verge of losing the family legacy through their careless behavior. Reeves takes it upon himself to save his rival's company by teaching the heirs a lesson in business.

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