The best Rock Hudson’s drama movies

Rock Hudson

Rock Hudson

17/11/1925- 02/10/1985
Today we present the best Rock Hudson’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 Rock Hudson’s movies.
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Giant

Giant
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 24/11/1956
  • Character: Jordan "Bick" Benedict Jr.
Giant is a movie of huge scale and grandeur in which three generations of land-rich Texans love, swagger, connive and clash in a saga of family strife, racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and newly rich oil tycoons.

Avalanche

Avalanche
3.7/10
A holiday at a winter wonderland turns into a game of survival for a group of vacationers, after an avalanche of snow crashes into their ski resort.

Written on the Wind

Written on the Wind
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 04/10/1956
  • Character: Mitch Wayne
Mitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jared, works hard to establish the family business, his irresponsible son, Kyle, is an alcoholic playboy, and his daughter, Marylee, is the town tramp. Mitch harbors a secret love for Kyle's unsatisfied wife, Lucy -- a fact that leaves him exposed when the jealous Marylee accuses him of murder.

Darling Lili

Darling Lili
6.1/10
World War I. Lili Smith is a beloved British music hall singer, often providing inspiration for the British and French troops and general populace singing rallying patriotic songs. She is also half German and is an undercover German spy, using her feminine wiles to gather information from the high ranking and generally older military officers and diplomats she seduces.

All That Heaven Allows

All That Heaven Allows
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/12/1955
  • Character: Ron Kirby
Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.

Magnificent Obsession

Magnificent Obsession
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 07/08/1954
  • Character: Bob Merrick
When churlish, spoiled rich man Bob Merrick foolishly wrecks his speed boat, the rescue team resuscitates him with equipment that's therefore unavailable to aid a local hero, Dr. Wayne Phillips, who dies as a result. Phillips had helped many people, and when Merrick learns Phillips' secret, to give selflessly and in secret, he tries it in a ham-handed way.

Tobruk

Tobruk
6.4/10
In September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back into Egypt. A counter-attack is planned, for which the fuel dumps at Tobruk are a critical impediment. In order to aid the attack, a group of British commandos and German Jews make their way undercover through 800 miles of desert, to destroy the fuel dumps starving the Germans of fuel.

The Tarnished Angels

The Tarnished Angels
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/11/1957
  • Character: Burke Devlin
In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne, works as a parachutist. When newspaper reporter Burke Devlin arrives to do a story on the Shumanns’ act, he quickly falls in love with the beautiful--and neglected--LaVerne.

Battle Hymn

Battle Hymn
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 14/02/1957
  • Character: Col. Dean E. Hess
Battle Hymn was inspired by the true story of American minister Dean Hess, played here with rare sensitivity by Rock Hudson. A bomber pilot during World War II, Hess inadvertently releases a bomb which destroys a German orphanage. Tortured by guilt, Hess relocates in Korea after the war to offer his services as a missionary. Combining the best elements of Christianity and Eastern spiritualism, Hess establishes a large home for orphans. The preacher's efforts are threatened when the Korean "police action" breaks out in 1950.

Send Me No Flowers

Send Me No Flowers
6.9/10
At one of his many visits to his doctor, hypochondriac George Kimball mistakes a dying man's diagnosis for his own and believes he only has about two more weeks to live. Wanting to take care of his wife Judy, he doesn't tell her and tries to find her a new husband. When he finally does tell her, she quickly finds out he's not dying at all (while he doesn't) and she believes it's just a lame excuse to hide an affair, so she decides to leave him.

The Ambassador

The Ambassador
5.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/05/1984
  • Character: Frank Stevenson
An American ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East conflict through unconventional methods, but his efforts are hampered at every turn and his personal life threatened.

Undertow

Undertow
6.5/10
Undertow stars Scott Brady as a gambler just out of wartime military service. No longer interested in wagers and speculations, Brady wants only to open up a mountain vacation lodge. Before this can take place, Brady is framed for murder, and forced to hide out in the home of Peggy Dow. With the help of Dow and a policeman friend, Brady searches for the real murderer. Watch carefully in Undertow and you'll spot new Universal contractee "Roc" Hudson as a plainclothes detective.

Lover Come Back

Lover Come Back
7.1/10
Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other’s methods. After he steals a client out from under her cute little nose, revenge prompts her to infiltrate his secret "VIP" campaign in order to persuade the mystery product’s scientist to switch to her firm.

Never Say Goodbye

Never Say Goodbye
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 10/03/1956
  • Character: Dr. Michael Parker
In present-day U.S., Dr. Michael Parker, a prominent surgeon, unexpectedly runs into his German-born wife whom he thought was dead. Victor, an artist and his "dead" wife's now boyfriend, berates Dr. Parker for "killing" her. The bulk of the story flashes back to Austria during World War II as we learn how Dr. Parker met and married his wife, and the one mistake that may have cost him his family.

One Desire

One Desire
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/07/1955
  • Character: Clint Saunders
The "one desire" of ex-gambler Clint Saunders and bar woman Tacey Cromwell is to escape their shady former lives and settle down to respectability. With Clint's younger brother and an orphaned girl in tow, the couple moves to a Colorado mining town where their love is tested by Judith Watrous, daughter of the town banker, who has her sights on Clint.

Bright Victory

Bright Victory
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 31/07/1951
  • Character: Dudek
A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life. Director Mark Robson's 1951 drama stars Arthur Kennedy (Academy Award nomination, Best Actor, for his performance), Peggy Dow, James Edwards, Will Geer, Nana Bryant, Julie Adams, Jim Backus, Richard Egan and Murray Hamilton.

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
5.7/10
  • Genre: AdventureDrama
  • Release: 02/12/1953
  • Character: Narrator (uncredited)
Mike and Tony Petrakis are a Greek father and son team who dive for sponges off the coast of Florida. After they are robbed by crooks, Arnold and the Rhys brothers, Mike decides to take his men to the dangerous 12-mile reef to dive for more sponges. Mike suffers a fatal accident when he falls from the reef leaving Tony to carry on the business. But now he has a companion, Gwyneth Rhys.

A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomanceWar
  • Release: 14/12/1957
  • Character: Lieutenant Frédéric Henry
An English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them test their romance to the limit.

Scarlet Angel

Scarlet Angel
6.3/10
After robbing a sea captain in New Orleans, a beautiful saloon girl flees and assumes a dead woman's identity.

A Gathering of Eagles

A Gathering of Eagles
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 21/06/1963
  • Character: Col. Jim Caldwell
Rock Hudson plays an Air Force Colonel who has just been re-assigned as a cold war B-52 commander who must shape up his men to pass a grueling inspection that the previous commander had failed, and had been fired for. He is also recently married, and as a tough commanding officer doing whatever he has to do to shape his men up, his wife sees a side to him that she hadn't seen before.

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