The best Roy Barcroft’s drama movies

Roy Barcroft

Roy Barcroft

07/09/1902- 28/11/1969
Today we present the best Roy Barcroft’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 Roy Barcroft’s movies.

They Died with Their Boots On

They Died with Their Boots On
7.2/10
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.

The Way West

The Way West
6.2/10
In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on himself as he is on those who have joined his wagon train. He clashes with one of the new settlers, Lije Evans, who doesn't quite appreciate Tadlock's ways. Along the way, the families must face death and heartbreak and a sampling of frontier justice when one of them accidentally kills a young Indian boy.

The Reivers

The Reivers
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 25/12/1969
  • Character: Ed (The Judge)
In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a trip to Memphis and a series of adventures.

The Cobweb

The Cobweb
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/06/1955
  • Character: Police Lieutenant Ferguson (Uncredited)
Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes - but drapes are the least of their problems.

The Fighting Seabees

The Fighting Seabees
6.4/10
  • Genre: ActionDramaWar
  • Release: 27/01/1944
  • Character: Seabee Barcroft (uncredited)
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
6.1/10
In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate who Dr. Gillespie believes belongs instead in an insane asylum.

Rosalie

Rosalie
6/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 24/12/1937
  • Character: Conspirator (uncredited)
West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom.

Six Black Horses

Six Black Horses
6.4/10
Audie and Dan Duryea are hired by a mysterious woman to take her across Indian country to her husband. On route, she tries to seduce Audie by offering to give him Duryea's share of the money if he will help her achieve her real goal: kill Duryea for having killed her husband. Audie dreams of a getting enough money to buy a ranch of his own, but his loyalty to his friend prevails. In the end, Duryea is killed anyway by the Indians and gets his wish: a funeral carriage pulled by - you guessed it - six black horses.

Blondes at Work

Blondes at Work
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 05/02/1938
  • Character: Attorney Meadows (uncredited)
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.

East of the River

East of the River
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 09/11/1940
  • Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.

Insurance Investigator

Insurance Investigator
6.3/10
When a businessman who has had a double indemnity policy taken out on him dies mysteriously, his insurance company sends an undercover investigator to town to determine exactly what happened.

Night Train to Memphis

Night Train to Memphis
7.1/10
A mountain community is thrown into turmoil as the townspeople debate the advantages and disadvantages of having a railroad.

The Last Crooked Mile

The Last Crooked Mile
6.2/10
A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.

Freckles

Freckles
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/10/1960
  • Character: John McLean
A young man with only one hand gets a job at a timber camp and falls for his boss's daughter.

Girls of the Big House

Girls of the Big House
5.7/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 02/11/1945
  • Character: Police Dispatcher (voice)
A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the big city. She is not welcomed by the inmates and immediately the prisoners are divided.

A Woman Commands

A Woman Commands
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/02/1932
  • Character: Cossack
In order to keep his lover, Maria Draga, in luxury, Captain Alex Pastitsch contracts huge debts which threaten his military career. To save Alex's career, his superior officer, Colonel Strádimirovitsch has an idea of how to fix it.

Code of the Silver Sage

Code of the Silver Sage
7/10
Arizona Territory is in the grip of outlaw terror and killer outlaws, secretly organized by Hulon Champion, who covers his power ambitions with the guise of a respectable firearms merchant. Hoping to eradicate the lawlessness plaguing the newspaperman Fred Gately prints a letter asking the president to visit the area. But Fred's killed by secret gang leader Champion, who also plans to assassinate the president. Undercover officer Rocky Lane teams with his assistant, Nugget, and Fred's spunky daughter to combat Champion's head gunslinger.

Street Bandits

Street Bandits
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 09/11/1951
  • Character: Monk Walter
A lawyer (Robert Clarke) defends a slot-machine king, and his bride (Penny Edwards) and partner (Ross Ford) don't like it.

The Big Bonanza

The Big Bonanza
6/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 30/12/1944
  • Character: Sheriff Dan Pendleton
Having been falsely court marshaled for cowardice and sentenced to prison by the Army, Jed Kilton escapes and heads to Nevada Springs to see his kid brother. There he meets his old school friend Sam Ballou. But the two old friends soon find themselves on opposite sides and Sam has Jed arrested. Then when Jed's young brother sees one of Sam's men kill another man, the boy becomes Sam's intended victim.

Out of the Storm

Out of the Storm
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 11/09/1948
  • Character: Arty Sorenson
Former "Henry Aldrich" James Lydon acquits himself nicely in a serious role in Republic's Out of the Storm. Lydon plays Donald Lewis, a low-paid clerk in a high-profile shipbuilding firm. When the company is robbed in broad daylight, Lewis gathers up $100,000 on his own and skeedaddles, figuring that the lost funds will be attributed to the holdup. Before his girlfriend Ginny (Lois Collier) can persuade him to go straight, the hapless Lewis finds himself hotly pursued by cops and crooks alike.

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