The best Wallace Beery’s romance movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Wallace Beery’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 Wallace Beery.
Grand Hotel
7.3/10
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
Flesh
6.5/10
Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.
Robin Hood
7/10
Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince John as regent, who promptly emerges as a cruel, grasping, treacherous tyrant. Apprised of England's peril by message from his lady-love Marian, the dashing Earl of Huntingdon endangers his life and honor by returning to oppose John, but finds himself and his friends outlawed, with Marian apparently dead. Enter Robin Hood, acrobatic champion of the oppressed, laboring to set things right through swashbuckling feats and cliffhanging perils!
Going Hollywood
6.1/10
The film tells the story of Sylvia, a French teacher at an all-girl school, who wants to find love. When she hears Bill Williams on the radio, she decides to go visit and thank him. However, difficult problems lay ahead when Lili gets in the way.
A Date with Judy
6.5/10
Developed from a radio program which began in 1941, hyperactive teenager Judy challenges and is challeged by her overly proper parents, pest of a brother Randolph and boyfriend Oogie.
Stand Up and Fight
6.4/10
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
Johanna Enlists
5.8/10
A young girl, stifling on her father's backwoods farm, is reinvigorated by the arrival of an army regiment, come to train in the area.
Thunder Afloat
6.3/10
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
A Message to Garcia
5.9/10
A fiery Cuban woman guides an emissary from the U.S. president through the jungles of war-torn Cuba.
Hell Divers
6.4/10
Wallace Beery and Clark Gable star as two rowdy Naval crewmen who work hard at sea and play harder on land.
Jackass Mail
6.1/10
An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
Victory
6.4/10
Adaptation of Joseph Conrad novel about lust and violence on a South Seas Island.
Stairs of Sand
6.6/10
Stairs of Sand (1929)
River of Romance
5/10
Mississippi, 1830's. Tom Rumsford comes back to Magnolia Landing, his parents'estate. Having been brought up in the North by Quaker relatives, he just hates violence and accordingly refuses a duel. As this is the only way in the South to settle a dispute between gentlemen, Tom's father is so infuriated by his behavior that Tom has no other choice but leave. Away from Magnolia Landing, Tom learns bravery and returns seven years later as "the notorious Colonel Blake", the terror of the Lower Mississippi.
The Little American
6.3/10
A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand.
Alias a Gentleman
6.1/10
Aging ex-con tries to stop his daughter from getting involved with shady characters.
Way for a Sailor
5.8/10
A devoted sailor jeopardizes his love life for love of the sea.
The Mollycoddle
6.5/10
An American who has lived much of his life outside the country returns to Arizona for the first time in years and encounters villainy.
Partners in Crime
2.5/10
After being dismissed for imitating his boss's voice on radio, former Assistant District Attorney Richard Deming witnesses a store robbery and is taken captive by the criminals. Suspected of the crime, he is sought by the police, but his sweetheart, Marie, convinced of his innocence, enlists the help of two friends, a newspaper reporter and a half-witted detective. Hoping to win the girl's favor, the two go to the gangsters' hideout, encounter a violent gang war, and accidently set off a case of police tear bombs. The police, summoned by Marie, arrive just in time to save the kidnaped attorney.
The Sea Hawk
7.1/10
The adventures of Oliver Tressilian, who goes from English gentry to galley slave to captain of a Moorish fighting ship.
