The best William Royle’s drama movies

William Royle

William Royle

22/03/1887- 09/08/1940
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Torture Money

Torture Money
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 02/01/1937
  • Character: Chief of Police (uncredited)
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, police go after a fraud operation that stages automobile accidents to collect insurance money.

Tell Your Children

Tell Your Children
3.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 15/06/1938
  • Character: Prosecuting Attorney (uncredited)
High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens. In his story, a drug supplier entices several restless teens, including sister and brother Mary and Jimmy Lane and Mary's boyfriend, Bill, into frequenting a "reefer" house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives and leads to a terrible crime.

The Rains Came

The Rains Came
6.9/10
Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken artist ex-lover Tom Ransome get in the way, but everyone shapes up when faced by earthquake, flooding, and plague.

Let Us Live

Let Us Live
6.7/10
In Springdale, a small town near New York, taxi driver Brick Tennant and his friend Joe Linden are unjustly accused of a hideous crime and blindly convicted by those who are only interested in feeding the voracious machinery of an inhumane justice system.

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

Abe Lincoln in Illinois
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 22/02/1940
  • Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.

The Cross of Lorraine

The Cross of Lorraine
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 12/11/1943
  • Character: Louis
French soldiers (Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly) surrender to lying Nazis and are herded into a barbaric prison camp.

Radio Patrol

Radio Patrol
6.9/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 03/10/1937
  • Character: Inspector Clark
About a young radio cop and a beautiful girl try to stop an international criminal gang from getting their hands on the formula for a new bulletproof steel.

Crash Donovan

Crash Donovan
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/08/1936
  • Character: Patrolman (uncredited)
A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.

Code of the Streets

Code of the Streets
5.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 13/04/1939
  • Character: Club Manager Bert
Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor (Harris Berger), Murph (Hally Chester), Monk (Charles Duncan), Trouble (Billy Benedict) and Yap (David Gorcey). The son of disgraced police officer Lt. Lewis (Harry Carey), Bob vows to clear his dad's name, and also to prove that accused murderer Tommy Shay (Paul Fix) is innocent.

Slaves in Bondage

Slaves in Bondage
4.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 24/07/1937
  • Character: Newspaper City Editor
Mary Lou manages to escape abduction by a prostitution ring. She tells the Chief of Detectives they were planning to take her to the Berrywood road house, a well-known den of iniquity. Jim Murray and beautician Belle Harris are using her beauty shop to recruit floozies for their road house circuit. Dona Lee, who works at the beauty salon, is falling in love with young reporter wanna-be Phillip, but Murray gets jealous and makes life rough for him. Meanwhile Dona begins to figure out the racket, but becomes threatened by Murray's unwanted advances.

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