The best William Henry’s drama movies

William Henry

William Henry

10/11/1914- 10/08/1982
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best William Henry’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 William Henry.
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The Harder They Fall

The Harder They Fall
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/05/1956
  • Character: Fight Arena Locker Room Guard
Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punch and a glass jaw. Exploiting Willis' reputation for integrity and standing in the boxing community, Benko arranges a series of fixed fights that propel the unsophisticated Moreno to #1 contender for the championship. The reigning champ, the sadistic Buddy Brannen, harbors resentment at the publicity Toro has been receiving and vows to viciously punish him in the ring. Eddie must now decide whether or not to tell the naive Toro the truth.

Mister Roberts

Mister Roberts
7.6/10
Mr. Roberts is as an officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned Navy ship run by the bullying Captain Morton.

China Seas

China Seas
6.9/10
Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard!

Blossoms in the Dust

Blossoms in the Dust
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 15/08/1941
  • Character: Allan Keats
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. She opens a home for foundlings and orphans and begins to place children in good homes, despite the opposition of "conservative" citizens, who would condemn illegitimate children for being born out of wedlock. Eventually Edna leads a fight in the Texas legislature to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from birth records in that state, while continuing to be an advocate for homeless children.

Madame X

Madame X
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/10/1937
  • Character: Hugh Fariman Jr.
An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her in court.

The Adventures of Mark Twain

The Adventures of Mark Twain
7.1/10
  • Genre: AdventureDrama
  • Release: 03/05/1944
  • Character: Charles Langdon
A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.

Yellow Jack

Yellow Jack
6.2/10
A fairly accurate historical account of Walter Reed's search for the cause of "Yellow Jack" or Yellow Fever and those who risked their lives in the pursuit.

Society Doctor

Society Doctor
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/01/1935
  • Character: Frank Snowden
Two surgeons (Chester Morris, Robert Taylor) in love with a nurse (Virginia Bruce) end their rivalry in the operating room.

Alaska Highway

Alaska Highway
5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/06/1943
  • Character: Steve Ormsby (as Bill Henry)
Pop Ormsby wins the contract from the Army Engineer Corps for the construction of the Alaska Highway connecting Alaska to Canada. The elder of his two sons, Woody Ormseby, decides he had rather fight with bullets than bulldozers but is assigned by the Army to work on the project. Woody and his younger brother Steve are both rivals for the affection of Ann Caswell, the daughter of Road Engineer Blair Caswell.

A Life at Stake

A Life at Stake
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/03/1955
  • Character: Myles Norman
An out-of-work architect meets a married woman who has a business proposition for him. The architect begins to suspect the woman's interest in him is not just financial and may actually be deadly.

Uranium Boom

Uranium Boom
5.8/10
Ex-lumberjack Brad Collins (Dennis Morgan) and mining engineer Grady Mathews (William Talman) find uranium in the Colorado badlands. While Grady guards the claim, Brad goes to register it in town, where he meets and marries Jean Williams (Patricia Medina.) Returning to the claim, Brad learns that Jean was once Grady's fiancee. Grady, as one would expect, is somewhat put out and leaves the mine in Brad's hands, while he hooks up with a confidence man and engineers a scheme to break the back of Brad's somewhat rapidly-created mining empire.

Klondike Fury

Klondike Fury
4.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/03/1942
  • Character: Jim Armstrong (as Bill Henry)
In this Alaskan adventure, a surgeon becomes a pilot after he messes up an operation. Unfortunately, he crashes during a storm and finds himself cared for by a lovely woman. He gets a chance to reclaim his self-esteem when her son suddenly needs the same operation the surgeon botched.

Queen of the Mob

Queen of the Mob
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 28/06/1940
  • Character: Bert Webster
Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.

Parole Fixer

Parole Fixer
5.9/10
This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving convicts parole from prisons. The point is made when FBI agents Scott Britton'William Henry (I)') and Ross Waring (Lyle Talbot) are assigned to track down "Big Boy" Bradmore (Anthony Quinn, who after getting an undeserved parole, via the efforts of a shyster lawyer, promptly murders an FBI agent.

A Man to Remember

A Man to Remember
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 14/10/1938
  • Character: Howard Sykes
On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.

Rubber Racketeers

Rubber Racketeers
5.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 26/06/1942
  • Character: Bill Barry (as Bill Henry)
Racketeer Gillin is paroled from prison and immediately goes to work trying to make an illegal buck from America's war effort. With rationing in effect the black market tire business is booming. Gillen's mob sets up car lots around town where they peddle stolen tires and "new" tires milled in the gangster's factories from cheap faulty materials. People begin to die in crashes as the defective tires fail. Bill Barry leads his fellow defense plant workers on a crusade to uncover the source of the black market rubber and bring the guilty to justice. Although clearly intended to warn the public about black market tire smuggling, Rubber Racketeers holds it own as a saga of mobsters versus an irate public.

Women in Bondage

Women in Bondage
5.9/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 16/12/1943
  • Character: Heinz Radtke (as Bill Henry)
Women in Bondage is a 1943 World War II film about conditions for women under Hitler's regime. The plot involves two women imprisoned for speaking out against the government. It was directed by Steve Sekely and starred Gail Patrick and Nancy Kelly.

I Escaped from the Gestapo

I Escaped from the Gestapo
5.5/10
A forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though, and he secretly conspires with the FBI to turn over the gang.

Three Bad Sisters

Three Bad Sisters
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1956
  • Character: Gans, the reporter
Following the death of a wealthy man, his three daughters squabble about who should be the principal heiress.

A Wicked Woman

A Wicked Woman
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 07/12/1934
  • Character: Curtis 'Curt' Stroud. aka Curtis Trice
A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed her abusive husband in order to protect her children from him.

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