The best Stanley Adams’s drama movies

Stanley Adams

Stanley Adams

07/04/1915- 27/04/1977
Today we present the best Stanley Adams’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 Stanley Adams’s movies.
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Somebody Up There Likes Me

Somebody Up There Likes Me
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/07/1956
  • Character: Romolo's Attorney (uncredited)
The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.

Lilies of the Field

Lilies of the Field
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 04/06/1963
  • Character: Juan
An unemployed construction worker heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict mother superior, who believes the man has been sent by God to build a much needed church in the desert.

Requiem for a Heavyweight

Requiem for a Heavyweight
7.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/10/1962
  • Character: Perelli (as Stan Adams)
Mountain Rivera is at the end of his boxing career after a knockout by Cassius Clay in the seventh round. His left eye is one punch from permanent trauma, his ears turned to cauliflower, his speech slurred from "being hit a million times", and he slings punches anytime he hears a bell His trainer and 'cutman' Army, and Miss Miller, a manipulative social worker, support his illusion that he could be a movie usher, a camp counselor—or a romantic partner for Miller.

Fate Is the Hunter

Fate Is the Hunter
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 08/11/1964
A man refuses to believe that pilot error caused a fatal crash, and persists in looking for another reason. Airliner crashes near Los Angeles due to unusual string of coincidences. Stewardess, who is sole survivor, joins airline executives in discovering the causes of the crash.

Double Trouble

Double Trouble
5.1/10
When singer Guy Lambert goes on tour in Europe, he is pursued by two beautiful women, bumbling jewel thieves, and a mysterious killer.

Hell Bound

Hell Bound
6.3/10
A criminal gang plots the robbery of a ship carrying $2 million worth of surplus narcotics left over from World War II. The plan goes awry when the gang leader's girlfriend falls for an ambulance attendant who is an unsuspecting pawn in the scheme.

13 West Street

13 West Street
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/02/1962
  • Character: Joseph Finney
Walt Sherill is attacked and beat down by a group of juvenile delinquents on his way home from work one night. The boys who attacked him are not previously known by the police and are therefore hard to track down. As Sherill starts getting impatient he begins his own investigation. Meanwhile, Detective Sergeant Koleski does his best to track down the culprits.

Thunder Alley

Thunder Alley
5.3/10
Stock car racer Tommy Callahan is forced to join Pete Madsen's thrill circus after his blackouts cause a fatal accident that gets him thrown off the circuit.

The Rat Race

The Rat Race
6.6/10
An aspiring musician arrives in New York in search of fame and fortune. He soon meets a taxi dancer, moves in with her, and before too long a romance develops.

Act of Vengeance

Act of Vengeance
5.5/10
A group of women who have all been attacked by the same hockey mask wearing rapist, get no help from the police. So they band together to form a vigilante group called "The Rape Squad", and set about going after the local scum.

The Seven Minutes

The Seven Minutes
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/07/1971
  • Character: Irwin Blair
The Seven Minutes is a steamy book written in 1969. To help with an upcoming election, a bookstore clerk is indicted for selling obscene material and most of the film centers about the trial. The defense attorneys need to find the mystery of the original publication of the book.

High School Big Shot

High School Big Shot
3.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/10/1959
  • Character: Harry March
Marv needs money. His unemployed dad is so poor that he makes Marv give up half his last six bucks so they can both go on three-dollar dates; he's just lost his scholarship after getting caught writing a term paper for Betty, the prettiest (and only) girl in his class; and Betty herself has told him he doesn't stand a chance with her unless he can give her what she wants most: money, money, money. But Marv has mob ties and Marv knows where to find a million dollars cash.

Hell on Frisco Bay

Hell on Frisco Bay
6.4/10
A cop framed for a murder he did not commit hunts the San Francisco waterfront for the Mob racketeers who are responsible.

Hell's Horizon

Hell's Horizon
5.2/10
The pilot, co-pilot, and crew of a bomber try to hit a Korean bridge in bad weather.

A House Is Not a Home

A House Is Not a Home
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/08/1964
  • Character: Harry
Story follows the life of Polly Adler, who grew to become one of New York's most successful bordello madams of the 1920s.

The Bold and the Brave

The Bold and the Brave
5.9/10
The film traces the destinies of three American soldiers stationed in Italy during World War II. Fairchild (Corey) is an idealist who doesn't believe in killing. Preacher is a religious zealot, who can't see anything in terms other than Good and Evil. The most intriguing (and entertaining) member of the trio is Dooley (Rooney), an inveterate gambler who runs a floating crap game up and down the Italian front.

Love Hate Love

Love Hate Love
6.6/10
Ryan O'Neal plays Russ Emery, a glib engineer who steals the heart of a fashion model named Sheila Blunden. She in turn leaves her jet setter fiance who turns out to be a psychotic who will not let go of Sheila that easily.

It’s Mental Work

It’s Mental Work
7.4/10
A weary bar owner rails against unexpected forces of mortality and betrayal.

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