The best Stanley Blystone’s drama movies

Stanley Blystone

Stanley Blystone

01/08/1894- 16/07/1956
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Modern Times

Modern Times
8.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 11/02/1936
  • Character: Gamin's Father
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.

'G' Men

'G' Men
7.1/10
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.

Phantom of the Opera

Phantom of the Opera
6.4/10
Pit violinist Claudin hopelessly loves rising operatic soprano Christine Dubois (as do baritone Anatole and police inspector Raoul) and secretly aids her career. But Claudin loses both his touch and his job, murders a rascally music publisher in a fit of madness, and has his face etched with acid. Soon, mysterious crimes plague the Paris Opera House, blamed on a legendary "phantom".

Action in the North Atlantic

Action in the North Atlantic
7/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 12/06/1943
  • Character: U.S. Commander (uncredited)
Lieutenant Joe Rossi is 1st Officer on a Liberty Ship in a great convoy bound from Halifax to Murmansk. After German subs crushed the convoy his ship loses the convoy and is heading alone to Murmansk. In spite of attacks by German planes and subs he get the ship safely to Murmansk.

Dark Command

Dark Command
6.7/10
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air however. It's just prior to the civil war and there is already a sharp division in the Territory as to whether it will remain slave-free. When he gets the opportunity to run for marshal, Seton finds himself running against the respected local schoolteacher, William Cantrell. Not is what it seems however. While acting as the upstanding citizen in public, Cantrell is dangerously ambitious and is prepared to do anything to make his mark, and his fortune, on the Territory. When he loses the race for marshal, he forms a group of raiders who run guns into the territory and rob and terrorize settlers throughout the territory. Eventually donning Confederate uniforms, it is left to Seton and the good citizens of Lawrence to face Cantrell and his raiders in one final clash.

Manhattan Melodrama

Manhattan Melodrama
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaRomance
  • Release: 04/05/1934
  • Character: Detective in Court (uncredited)
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

The Invisible Man Returns

The Invisible Man Returns
6.5/10
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

I Wake Up Screaming

I Wake Up Screaming
7.2/10
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.

Magnificent Doll

Magnificent Doll
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 08/12/1946
  • Character: Man Outside Courthouse
While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending British invasion of Washington D.C., Dolly Payne Madison thinks back on her childhood, her first marriage, and later romances with two very different politicians, Aaron Burr and his good friend James Madison. She plays each against the other, not only for romantic reasons, but also to influence the shaping of the young country. By manipulating Burr's affections, she helps Thomas Jefferson win the presidency, and eventually she becomes First Lady of the land herself.

Tower of London

Tower of London
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 17/11/1939
  • Character: First Gate Guard Greeting Tom Clink (uncredited)
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.

You Only Live Once

You Only Live Once
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/01/1937
  • Character: Rafferty - Guard (uncredited)
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.

Before Dawn

Before Dawn
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 04/08/1933
  • Character: Police Car Driver (uncredited)
After the death of a gangster, those familiar with his million dollar stash start mysteriously dying. Police detectives with the help of a clairvoyant try to determine who, living or dead, is responsible.

Blackmail

Blackmail
6.7/10
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.

The Underworld Story

The Underworld Story
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 26/07/1950
  • Character: Policeman (uncredited)
A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.

Broadway Bill

Broadway Bill
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 30/11/1934
  • Character: Jailer (uncredited)
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons- in-law, Dan Brooks and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bank- roll is thin and the luck is against him, he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planed fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...

Fast Workers

Fast Workers
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/03/1933
  • Character: Cop in Alley (Uncredited)
Gunner and Bucker are friends who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she is true or not. So far, Gunner hasn't failed. But one night, while Gunner is in jail, Bucker meets Mary, a tough dame with a line. He falls for her, and she falls for his money. But Mary is already a gal pal of Gunner, and no two know about the third one. The trouble starts when the triangle is revealed too late.

Young Tom Edison

Young Tom Edison
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/03/1940
  • Character: Army Officer on Train
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Toms only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.

Blind Alibi

Blind Alibi
5.5/10
A Paris sculptor (Richard Dix) fakes blindness in Los Angeles to recover his blackmailed sister's love letters.

The Nuisance

The Nuisance
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 03/06/1933
  • Character: Policeman at Skating Rink (uncredited)
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized.

Powder Town

Powder Town
5.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 07/06/1942
  • Character: Security Guard Shooting Gun (uncredited)
Director Rowland V. Lee's wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a secret formula at an explosives plant, stars Edmond O'Brien, Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Lovett, June Havoc, Eddie Foy Jr., Marion Martin and Mary Gordon.

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