The best Roger Pryor’s movies

Roger Pryor

Roger Pryor

27/08/1901- 31/01/1974
Today we present the best Roger Pryor’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 Roger Pryor’s movies.
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The Man They Could Not Hang

The Man They Could Not Hang
6.8/10
  • Genre: Science Fiction
  • Release: 17/08/1939
  • Character: District Attorney Drake
Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to life by his trusted assistant. Re-animated he turns decidedly nasty and sets about murdering the jury that convicted him.

Scared Stiff

Scared Stiff
4.9/10
A meek reporter happens upon a murder, an escaped gangster and a stolen jade chess set.

The Man with Nine Lives

The Man with Nine Lives
6.5/10
Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an experiment goes awry when authorities believe Kravaal has killed a patient. Kravaal freezes the officials, along with himself. Years later, they are discovered and revived in hopes that Kravaal can indeed complete his cure. But human greed and weakness compound to disrupt the project.

A Fugitive from Justice

A Fugitive from Justice
5/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 15/06/1940
  • Character: Dan Miller
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.

Flying Blind

Flying Blind
4.6/10
A spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner crashes in the wilderness & the survivors are threatened by a raging forest fire.

Missing Girls

Missing Girls
5/10
A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by the redoubtable Phil Rosen.

Submarine Alert

Submarine Alert
5.3/10
Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the Government has the West Coast's top radio engineers fired and shadowed to see if the Nazis recruit them to complete work on the prototype radio. Radio engineer Lew Deerhold, a resident alien without a job to pay for his adorable little ward Gina's life-saving operation, falls prey to the spy ring, and is swept up in a maelstrom of deceit and danger.

Identity Unknown

Identity Unknown
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 02/04/1945
  • Character: Rocks Donnelly
A soldier survives a bombing in which his three fellow soldiers were killed. When he recovers he discovers he has amnesia, and since his companions' bodies were burned beyond recognition, the army doesn't know which one of the four he is. He goes AWOL and searches out the families of the three dead soldiers, hoping to find out his own identity.

Dinky

Dinky
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/05/1935
  • Character: Tom Marsden
A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.

Gambling on the High Seas

Gambling on the High Seas
6/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 22/06/1940
  • Character: Max Gates
A reporter enlists the help of a gangster's secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to justice.

High Powered

High Powered
5.4/10
Tim takes a job as a lowly chipper because he has been afraid to go high ever since a bad fall in which he was injured and another workman was killed.

So's Your Aunt Emma!

So's Your Aunt Emma!
5.8/10
  • Release: 17/04/1942
  • Character: Terry Connors
A dizzy old spinster gets involved in the boxing racket and gangland murders.

Belle of the Nineties

Belle of the Nineties
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 21/09/1934
  • Character: Tiger Kid
Cabaret entertainer Ruby Carter shifts her operations to New Orleans and becomes exceedingly popular with the local men.

Thoroughbreds

Thoroughbreds
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 23/12/1944
  • Character: Harold Matthews
Sgt. Rusty Curtis of the U.S. Cavalry is unhappy about the Army's plan to replace horses with tanks so, after a medical discharge, he tries to buy his old military mount Sireson. Unfortunately, the father of wealthy socialite Sally Crandall outbids him with plans to train Sireson for a steeplechase race. Sally and Rusty develop a rivalry because she has a favorite horse of her own, but when her horse is hurt she and Rusty declare a truce and begin a romantic relationship.

Money and the Woman

Money and the Woman
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 17/08/1940
  • Character: Charles Patteson
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.

Lady by Choice

Lady by Choice
6.5/10
To improve her image, a fan dancer "adopts" an old woman to be her mother.

The Kid Sister

The Kid Sister
5.9/10
A madcap comedy about a kid sister who tries to steal her older sister's boyfriend. Her plan involves joining forces with a burglar to rob the unfortunate suitor's home.

Man from Oklahoma

Man from Oklahoma
6.2/10
The feuding Lanes and Whittakers are brought together with the help of Roy Rogers, when a business tycoon tries to play one family against the other.

Bullets for O'Hara

Bullets for O'Hara
5.4/10
A detective courts a gangster's ex-wife to lure him into a trap.

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
6/10
Hedda Hopper plays hostess at a party for her (grown) son William (DeWolfe Jr.). Hopper, attends the dedication of the Motion Picture Relief Fund's country home and goes to the Mocambo. There is also a sequence dedicated to the Milwaukee, Wisconsin world premiere of the first short in this series attended by more that a few film stars.

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