The best Ruth Ford’s drama movies

Ruth Ford

Ruth Ford

07/07/1911- 12/08/2009
We present our ranking of the best Ruth Ford’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Ruth Ford.
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Air Force

Air Force
7/10
The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.

The Keys of the Kingdom

The Keys of the Kingdom
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/12/1944
  • Character: Sister Clotilde
A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in a more Christian area of the world, Father Chisholm struggles. He encounters hostility, isolation, disease, poverty and a variety of set backs which humble him, but make him more determined than ever to succeed.

In This Our Life

In This Our Life
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 08/05/1942
  • Character: Mother of Accident Victim (uncredited)
A young woman dumps her fiancée and runs off with her sister's husband. They marry, settle in Baltimore, and Stanley ultimately drives Peter to drink and suicide. Stanley returns home to Richmond only to learn that her sister Roy and old flame Craig have fallen in love and plan to marry. The jealous and selfish Stanley attempts to win back Craig's affections, but her true character is revealed when, rather than take the rap herself, she attempts to pin a hit and run accident on the young black clerk who works in Craig's law office.

Wilson

Wilson
6.4/10
The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to the Presidency of the United States. During his terms in office, Wilson must deal with the death of his first wife, the onslaught of German hostilities leading to American involvement in the Great War, and his own country's reticence to join the League of Nations.

Circumstantial Evidence

Circumstantial Evidence
5.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 20/04/1945
  • Character: Mrs. Simms
A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.

Lady Gangster

Lady Gangster
5.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/04/1942
  • Character: Lucy Fenton
An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, she is thinking to use it as a bargaining chip to be released from prison. However, her former partners don't have the same ideas.

Truck Busters

Truck Busters
5.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/01/1943
  • Character: Pearl Dorgan
An independent truck driver organizes his fellow truckers to resist the efforts of a crooked trucking company exec to bring all drivers under his control. When the trucker's brother dies in an "accident" arranged by the trucking company's henchmen, he takes matters into his own hands

Strange Impersonation

Strange Impersonation
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 16/03/1946
  • Character: Jane Karaski #1
A female research scientist conducting experiments on a new anesthetic has a very bad week. Her scheming assistant intentionally scars her face, her almost-fiancee appears to have deserted her and she finds herself being blackmailed by a women she accidentally knocked down with her car. So what is one to do?

Play It as It Lays

Play It as It Lays
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/10/1972
  • Character: Carlotta
Burned-out B-movie actress Maria, depressed and frustrated with her loveless marriage to an ambitious film director, Carter Lang, who would rather work on his career than on his relationship with her, numbs herself with drugs and sex with strangers. Only her friendship with a sensitive gay movie producer, B.Z., offers a semblance of solace. But even that relationship proves to be fleeting amidst the empty decadence of Hollywood.

Act One

Act One
5.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/12/1963
  • Character: Beatrice Kaufman
This autobiographical story traces the career of playwright Moss Hart. Moss struggles as a dramatic writer until he concentrates his efforts on writing comedy. He suffers through a series of professional and romantic failures before a meeting with George S. Kaufman which changes his fortunes.

Murder in the Big House

Murder in the Big House
6.3/10
When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...

The Hidden Hand

The Hidden Hand
6.1/10
Peter Thorne is a young attorney who works for an eccentric old woman, Lorinda Channing, who uses her insane brother, John Channing, to frighten her other relatives because they are after her money. Further complications arise when another murderer arrives on the scene and plants the blame on John Channing.

Men of the Sky

Men of the Sky
6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 25/07/1942
  • Character: Cadet Gladdens' Sweetheart
A propaganda film, made in the early months of World War II, dramatizing a new group of U.S. Army Air Force pilots receiving their wings from Lt. General H.H. Arnold. An off-screen narrator introduces four of them to us, we see them before the war, during flight training, and in their first assignments as pilots.

Murder on the Waterfront

Murder on the Waterfront
5.1/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 18/09/1943
  • Character: Lana Shane
A sailor and his wife become involved in a murder investigation.

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