The best Tom Wilson’s romance movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Tom Wilson’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Tom Wilson.
Sergeant York
7.7/10
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
Boom Town
7/10
McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.
Mr. Skeffington
7.6/10
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
Stranded
6.5/10
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
Midnight Court
5.9/10
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
Torrid Zone
6.7/10
A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.
Daughters Courageous
6.6/10
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her 1st husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.
King of the Underworld
6.4/10
After the killing of her husband by friendly fire during a police raid, Dr. Carole Nelson tries to find gangster Joe Gurney to clear her name with the medical board.
Over the Wall
5.5/10
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter (Dick Foran) is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend (June Travis) sets out to prove his innocence. Director Frank MacDonald's 1938 crime drama--with songs--also stars John Litel, Dick Purcell, Tommy Bupp, Ward Bond, Veda Ann Borg, George E. Stone, John Hamilton and Jonathan Hale.
The Goose and the Gander
6.5/10
When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back.
When a Man Loves
7/10
A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.
The Go-Getter
6.4/10
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
Sunnyside
6.6/10
An overworked farmhand who works also at the adjacent hotel dreams of marrying the village belle.
The Adventurous Blonde
6.4/10
The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish. The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.
Indianapolis Speedway
5.7/10
This 1939 drama, a reworking of the 1932 James Cagney film "The Crowd Roars", stars Pat O'Brien as a champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother (John Payne) wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
The Personality Kid
5.8/10
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
Mary Jane's Pa
6.4/10
A deserter (Guy Kibbee) saves his wife (Aline MacMahon) from gangsters out to ruin her newspaper.
Angels Wash Their Faces
6/10
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.
An Angel from Texas
5.7/10
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.
Personal Maid's Secret
6.5/10
A longtime maid for New York socialites watches from afar as the daughter she once gave up is raised by others. Director Arthur Greville Collins' 1935 film stars Ruth Donnelly, Anita Louise, Margaret Lindsay, Warren Hull, Frank Albertson, Arthur Treacher, Ronnie Crosby, Henry O'Neill, Lillian Kemble Cooper and Gordon Elliott.
