The best Wedgwood Nowell’s drama movies

Wedgwood Nowell

Wedgwood Nowell

24/01/1878- 17/06/1957
We present our ranking of the best Wedgwood Nowell’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Wedgwood Nowell.
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The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties
7.9/10
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

Gentleman Jim

Gentleman Jim
7.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 14/11/1942
  • Character: Broker (uncredited)
As bareknuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the top of the boxing world.

You Can't Take It with You

You Can't Take It with You
7.8/10
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.

Cleopatra

Cleopatra
6.8/10
The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.

The Woman in the Window

The Woman in the Window
7.6/10
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

They Were Expendable

They Were Expendable
7.2/10
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, a squadron of PT-boat crews in the Philippines must battle the Navy brass between skirmishes with the Japanese. The title says it all about the Navy's attitude towards the PT-boats and their crews.

Dark Victory

Dark Victory
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 20/04/1939
  • Character: Doctor (uncredited)
A flighty heiress discovers inner strength when she develops a brain tumor.

Boom Town

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.

Virginia City

Virginia City
6.8/10
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with their own stake in the loot, stand in his way.

What Every Woman Knows

What Every Woman Knows
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/10/1934
  • Character: Party Supporter (uncredited)
Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wylie family -- if they fund his education, he must marry their daughter, Maggie. Staying true to his word, John weds Maggie and begins a successful career, thanks largely to his savvy wife. The couple's relationship is placed in jeopardy when John faces temptation in the form of the lovely aristocrat Lady Sybil Tenterden.

Each Dawn I Die

Each Dawn I Die
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 22/07/1939
  • Character: Parole Board Member (uncredited)
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.

Racket Busters

Racket Busters
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/07/1938
  • Character: Business Man (uncredited)
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.

To Mary - with Love

To Mary - with Love
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/08/1936
  • Character: Doctor
Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keeping them together.

Reno

Reno
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/12/1939
  • Character: Gambler
A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.

Johnny Apollo

Johnny Apollo
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaRomance
  • Release: 19/04/1940
  • Character: Courthouse Spectator (uncredited)
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.

Homicide Bureau

Homicide Bureau
5.6/10
After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Bureau to clean up all their cases, but without violating the constitutional rights of any suspect. Detective Jim Logan is ordered to meet the incoming new-head of the Police Department lab and internal affairs, J.G. Bliss, and takes an instant dislike to her over her attitude toward criminal's rights.

Stolen Holiday

Stolen Holiday
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 06/02/1937
  • Character: M. Borel
A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.

Gold Is Where You Find It

Gold Is Where You Find It
6.2/10
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.

Personal Maid's Secret

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.

The Chaser

The Chaser
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 29/07/1938
  • Character: Dr. Kahn
A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sure enough, love blossoms between the girl and the shyster.

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