The best Ruth Roman’s drama movies

Ruth Roman

Ruth Roman

23/12/1922- 09/09/1999
Today we present the best Ruth Roman’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 Ruth Roman’s movies.
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The Big Clock

The Big Clock
7.6/10
Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss Janoth to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence (albeit wrong) that he is the killer.

Champion

Champion
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/04/1949
  • Character: Emma Bryce
An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.

The Far Country

The Far Country
7.1/10
In 1896, Jeff Webster sees the start of the Klondike gold rush as a golden opportunity to make a fortune in beef...and woe betide anyone standing in his way! He drives a cattle herd from Wyoming to Seattle, by ship to Skagway, and (after a delay caused by larcenous town boss Gannon) through the mountains to Dawson. There, he and his partner Ben Tatum get into the gold business themselves. Two lovely women fall for misanthropic Jeff, but he believes in every-man-for-himself, turning his back on growing lawlessness...until it finally strikes home.

Bitter Victory

Bitter Victory
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 28/08/1957
  • Character: Jane Brand
During the second world war, two British officers, Brand and Leith, who have never seen combat are assigned a vital mission. Their relationship and the operation are complicated by the arrival of Brand's wife, who had a tryst with Leith years earlier.

Blowing Wild

Blowing Wild
6.3/10
Wildcatter Jeff Dawson does his best to bring in a gusher in Mexico despite continual bandit raids. He asks for help from his ex-employer Ward Conway, but Conway, now married to Dawson's ex-lover Marina refuses, fearing that his wife will want to renew her romance with the other man.

Since You Went Away

Since You Went Away
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomanceWar
  • Release: 30/06/1944
  • Character: Envious Girl in Train Station (uncredited)
While husband Tim is away during World War II, Anne Hilton copes with problems on the homefront. Taking in a lodger, Colonel Smollett, to help make ends meet and dealing with shortages and rationing are minor inconveniences compared to the love affair daughter Jane and the Colonel's grandson conduct.

Beyond the Forest

Beyond the Forest
6.8/10
Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.

The Window

The Window
7.4/10
An imaginative boy who frequently makes things up witnesses a murder, but can't get his parents or the police to believe him. The only people taking him seriously are the killers - who live upstairs, know that he saw what they did, and are out to permanently silence him.

Mara Maru

Mara Maru
6/10
  • Genre: AdventureDrama
  • Release: 23/04/1952
  • Character: Stella Callahan
An American salvage diver plunges into dangerous intrigue around a sunken treasure in the Philippines.

Go Ask Alice

Go Ask Alice
6/10
  • Genre: DramaTV Movie
  • Release: 24/01/1973
  • Character: Psychiatrist
A 14-year-old girl in late 1960's America is inadvertently sucked into an odyssey of sex and drugs. She eventually seeks help.

Invitation

Invitation
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/01/1952
  • Character: Maud Redwick
A rich man buys a husband for his dying daughter and she finds out.

Three Secrets

Three Secrets
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/10/1950
  • Character: Ann Lawrence
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption. As the three await news of his rescue at a mountain cabin, they recall incidents from five years earlier and why they were forced to give up their son.

Good Sam

Good Sam
6.2/10
Sam Clayton has a good heart and likes to help out people in need. In fact, he likes to help them out so much that he often finds himself broke and unable to help his own family buy the things they need--like a house.

The Affairs of Susan

The Affairs of Susan
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 08/07/1945
  • Character: Girl at Bright Dollar (Uncredited)
Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different portrait of Susan: one describes her as a naive country girl who reluctantly becomes an actress, another paints a picture of a gay party girl and and the third describes a serious intellectual.

Young Man with Ideas

Young Man with Ideas
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 02/05/1952
  • Character: Julie Webster
A Montana lawyer (Glenn Ford) gets distracted after moving to California with his wife (Ruth Roman) and children.

Tanganyika

Tanganyika
5.9/10
A landowner in colonial Africa leads a safari through Nukumbi territory in order to capture an escaped criminal.

Always Leave Them Laughing

Always Leave Them Laughing
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 26/11/1949
  • Character: Fay Washburn
A self-absorbed comedian steps all over his friends and colleagues in order to achieve success.

The Shanghai Story

The Shanghai Story
5.8/10
Shanghai, China. The last expatriate Westerners still living in the city are imprisoned in a hotel by the communist authorities in order to find the spy hiding among them.

Love Has Many Faces

Love Has Many Faces
5.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/02/1965
  • Character: Margot Eliot
A woman (Lana Turner) lives in Acapulco with moochers and a husband (Cliff Robertson) who married her for her money.

Lightning Strikes Twice

Lightning Strikes Twice
6.5/10
Richard Trevelyan was convicted of murdering his wife, given an 11th-hour Death Row reprieve and freed under unusual circumstances after a retrial. But his past does not matter to Shelley Carnes, an actress visiting the Texas ranch land that Richard calls home; she has fallen in love with him. But after she marries him, Shelley is beset by doubts and fear.

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