The best Victor McLaglen’s drama movies

Victor McLaglen

Victor McLaglen

09/12/1886- 07/11/1959
Today we present the best Victor McLaglen’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 Victor McLaglen’s movies.
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The Quiet Man

The Quiet Man
7.7/10
An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

Dishonored

Dishonored
7.2/10
The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.

The Informer

The Informer
7.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 09/05/1935
  • Character: Gypo Nolan
Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend. So when British authorities advertise a reward for information about his best friend, current IRA member Frankie, Gypo cooperates. Now Gypo can buy two tickets on a boat bound for the States, but can he escape the overwhelming guilt he feels for betraying his buddy?

Whistle Stop

Whistle Stop
5.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 25/01/1946
  • Character: Gitlo
When beautiful Mary returns to her "whistle stop" home town, long-standing feelings of animosity between two of her old boyfriends leads to robbery and murder.

Lady Godiva of Coventry

Lady Godiva of Coventry
5.5/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 02/11/1955
  • Character: Grimald
Fictionalized account of events leading up the famous nude ride (alas, her hair covers everything) of the militant Saxon lady.

The Unholy Three

The Unholy Three
7.2/10
Three sideshow performers form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" - a ventriloquist, midget, and strongman working together to commit a series of robberies.

Forever and a Day

Forever and a Day
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 21/01/1943
  • Character: Archibald Spavin
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.

China Girl

China Girl
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/12/1942
  • Character: Major Bull Weed
Two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams is stationed in Burma and China in the early stage of WW II. Captured by the Japanese, he escapes from a concentration camp with the aid of beautiful, enigmatic 'China Girl' Miss Young. The two arduously make their way back to friendly lines so that Johnny can deliver the vital military information he's managed to glean from his captors.

The Devil's Party

The Devil's Party
5.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 02/06/1938
  • Character: Marty Malone
Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.

Mother Machree

Mother Machree
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/12/1927
  • Character: The Giant of Kilkenny
Ellen McHugh, a poor Irish immigrant to America, finds work in a carnival and is thus able to send her son Brian to a fine school. But when her position is found out, the school expels Brian. Mrs. McHugh feels compelled to allow the school principal and his wife to adopt Brian. The widow McHugh becomes a housekeeper and raises her employer's daughter Edith, who grows up to fall in love with Brian McHugh.

Let Freedom Ring

Let Freedom Ring
6.3/10
A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.

Under Pressure

Under Pressure
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/02/1935
  • Character: Jumbo Smith
Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs to see who will finish their half of the tunnel first, with the winning team getting more money and guaranteed future work.

Professional Soldier

Professional Soldier
6.4/10
Mercenary Donovan is hired to kidnap King Peter II. He learns that the party in power is evil and that the King is in danger, so kidnaps the King to keep him safe while a revolution is planned.

Tampico

Tampico
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 10/04/1944
  • Character: Fred Adamson
Robinson plays the role of the captain of an oil tanker during World War II, Captain Bart Manson, who rescues Katherine Hall (Bari) when her ship is sunk by a German U-boat.

Powder Town

Powder Town
5.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 07/06/1942
  • Character: Jeems O'Shea
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.

A Girl in Every Port

A Girl in Every Port
6.6/10
Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle down, will this mysterious young women come between them?

The Abductors

The Abductors
5.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/07/1957
  • Character: Tom Muldoon
Two men (Victor McLaglen, George Macready) botch the kidnapping of a warden's daughter (Fay Spain), then plot to ransom Abraham Lincoln's corpse.

Wicked

Wicked
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/10/1931
  • Character: Scott Burrows
Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband.

While Paris Sleeps

While Paris Sleeps
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 08/05/1932
  • Character: Jacques Costaud
To save his daughter Manon (Helen Mack) from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard (Victor McLaglen) escapes from jail. Jacques' problems are twofold: he must keep Manon from being abducted into a life of prostitution, and he must also hide his true identity from the girl, who has been raised to believe that Jacques died a hero in WWI.

Ex-Champ

Ex-Champ
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/05/1939
  • Character: Tom 'Gunner' Grey
A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.

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