The best William Newell’s drama movies

William Newell

William Newell

06/01/1894- 21/02/1967
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Fury

Fury
7.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 05/06/1936
  • Character: Service Station Owner (uncredited)
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.

Pollyanna

Pollyanna
7.4/10
A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
8.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/10/1939
  • Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.

The Lost Weekend

The Lost Weekend
7.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/11/1945
  • Character: Liquor Store Proprietor (uncredited)
Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last - one way or another.

City for Conquest

City for Conquest
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaMusic
  • Release: 21/09/1940
  • Character: Max's Lyricist (uncredited)
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?

Make Way for Tomorrow

Make Way for Tomorrow
8.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/05/1937
  • Character: Ticket Seller (uncredited)
At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with daughter Cora. But the parents are like sand in the gears of their middle-aged children's well regulated households. Can the old folks take matters into their own hands?

Keeper of the Flame

Keeper of the Flame
6.7/10
Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.

The Invisible Man Returns

The Invisible Man Returns
6.5/10
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

Young Widow

Young Widow
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/03/1946
  • Character: Charlie (Uncredited)
A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war.

Absolute Quiet

Absolute Quiet
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/04/1936
  • Character: Bill Dahle (Uncredited)
Escaped convicts Jack and Judy stumble upon an airstrip on the Western ranch of arrogant business tycoon Gerald Axton. Taking Axton and his secretary hostage, the convicts inadvertently cause the crash-landing of a small plane ferrying Axton's political adversary, Gov. Sam Pruden, and a nosy reporter. As the long night unfolds, each person's rivalries and weaknesses are prodded by the others.

A Man Betrayed

A Man Betrayed
5.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 27/12/1936
  • Character: Gabby
A businessman during the Great Depression discovers that his partners are crooked con-men, and he tries to make things right for the stockholders, but gets framed.

Adventure

Adventure
6.1/10
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.

Swanee River

Swanee River
6.2/10
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.

Young Man with Ideas

Young Man with Ideas
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 02/05/1952
  • Character: Party Waiter (uncredited)
A Montana lawyer (Glenn Ford) gets distracted after moving to California with his wife (Ruth Roman) and children.

Bulldog Edition

Bulldog Edition
5.6/10
Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious gangster inserts himself into the middle of it. Also complicating matters is that one newspaper's editor and circulation director are competing for the affections of a pretty blonde reporter.

The Ghost Comes Home

The Ghost Comes Home
5.9/10
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive. Director William Thiele's 1940 film stars Frank Morgan, Billie Burke, Ann Rutherford, John Shelton, Harold Huber, Donald Meek, Nat Pendleton, Renie Riano, Frank Albertson, Reginald Owen, Ann Morriss and Richard Carle.

The Voice of Bugle Ann

The Voice of Bugle Ann
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/02/1936
  • Character: Mr. Tanner
A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) of a neighbor who has killed the farmer's foxhound.

Rose of Washington Square

Rose of Washington Square
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 05/05/1939
  • Character: Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.

Inflation

Inflation
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 01/01/1942
  • Character: Jerry the Man Wanting to Buy Car (uncredited)
The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.

Riffraff

Riffraff
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 03/01/1936
  • Character: Pete
Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him and goes to jail. He gets a new job, foils a plot to dynamite the ship, and promises to wait for Hattie.

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