The best Walter Kingsford’s drama movies

Walter Kingsford

Walter Kingsford

20/09/1882- 07/02/1958
Today we present the best Walter Kingsford’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 Walter Kingsford’s movies.
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Captains Courageous

Captains Courageous
7.9/10
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.

The Life of Emile Zola

The Life of Emile Zola
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 02/10/1937
  • Character: Colonel Sandherr
Biopic of the famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair.

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 06/03/1936
  • Character: Joshua Snade
An American boy turns out to be the heir of a wealthy British earl. He is sent to live with the irritable and unsentimental aristocrat, his grandfather.

Mr. Skeffington

Mr. Skeffington
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/05/1944
  • Character: Dr. Melton (uncredited)
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.

Kitty Foyle

Kitty Foyle
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 27/12/1940
  • Character: Uncle Kenneth
Kitty Foyle, a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young socialite Wyn Strafford but his family is against her.

Naughty Marietta

Naughty Marietta
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 29/03/1935
  • Character: Don Carlos
A French princess in Colonial America gets involved with a mercenary.

Algiers

Algiers
6.6/10
Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from France. Since his escape, Moko became a resident and leader of the immense Casbah of Algiers. French officials arrive insisting on Pepe's capture are met with unfazed local detectives, led by Inspector Slimane, who are biding their time. Meanwhile, Pepe meets the beautiful Gaby , which arouses the jealousy of Ines

Juarez

Juarez
6.9/10
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.

Dr. Kildare's Victory

Dr. Kildare's Victory
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 04/02/1942
  • Character: Dr. Walter Carew
Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore) supports Kildare's (Lew Ayres) crusade against their hospital's deal with a rival hospital.

The Corsican Brothers

The Corsican Brothers
6.5/10
Cultured Mario and outlaw Lucien, twins separated at birth, join forces to avenge their parents' death at the hands of evil Colonna. Because each feels all the same sensations experienced by the other, swordplay is difficult for them. Worse yet, raised very differently, they struggle to find common ground between their conflicting personalities. But to defeat their enemy, the two will have to overcome the obstacles and work as a team.

Shanghai

Shanghai
6.1/10
A New York socialite (Loretta Young) travels to Shanghai to visit her ailing aunt (Alison Skipworth) and falls in love with a Russian banker (Charles Boyer), who harbors a family secret. Director James Flood's 1935 melodrama also stars Warner Oland, Libby Taylor, Keye Luke, Charley Grapewin, Walter Kingsford and Fred Keating.

Adventure in Diamonds

Adventure in Diamonds
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/03/1940
  • Character: Wakefield
A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.

Star Dust

Star Dust
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 06/04/1940
  • Character: Studio Actor Playing "Napoleon"
When the studios reject her because she"s too young, a young actress sets out to build a career on her own.

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

The Secret of Dr. Kildare
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/11/1939
  • Character: Dr. S.J. Carew
Intern Kildare (Lew Ayres) heals a millionaire's daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore) into taking a vacation.

Dr. Kildare's Crisis

Dr. Kildare's Crisis
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/11/1940
  • Character: Dr. Walter Carew
Jimmy Kildare's impending nuptials are jeopardized by a diagnosis of possible epilepsy in his fiancee's brother.

Flight for Freedom

Flight for Freedom
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/04/1943
  • Character: Admiral Graves
1943 fictionalised biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, who disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean in 1937. In the film, Rosalind Russell plays the Earhart alter ego, called Tonie Carter, and Fred MacMurray is her love interest and pilot colleague. In the film, the world famous female pilot sacrifices herself over the Pacific during a world flight in 1937, in order to enable the US Navy to fly over and photograph some secret Japanese installations on nearby islands while pretending to search for her plane.

My Forbidden Past

My Forbidden Past
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/04/1951
  • Character: Coroner
An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune.

The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe

The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/08/1942
  • Character: T.W. White
Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.

The Search for Bridey Murphy

The Search for Bridey Murphy
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/10/1956
  • Character: Professor
After being shown what hypnotism can do, a doctor starts to study it in depth. When he experiments on a friend's wife, she regresses into an early life, that of Bridey Murphy.

Calling Dr. Kildare

Calling Dr. Kildare
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/04/1939
  • Character: Dr. Walter Carew
Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in a street clinic, hoping to teach him a lesson. While working there Kildare meets pretty nurse Mary Lamont, and ends up treating a hoodlum with a gunshot wound. He purposely fails to write a report on it, and soon finds himself in a heap of trouble. Who else would come to his rescue but good old Dr. Gillespie?

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