The best William Windom’s drama movies

William Windom

William Windom

28/09/1923- 16/08/2012
Today we present the best William Windom’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 William Windom’s movies.
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To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird
8.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 20/12/1962
  • Character: Mr. Gilmer
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.

Uncle Buck

Uncle Buck
7.1/10
Buck Russell, a lovable but slovenly bachelor, suddenly becomes the temporary caretaker of his nephew and nieces after a family emergency. His freewheeling attitude soon causes tension with his older niece Tia, loyal girlfriend Chanice and just about everyone else who crosses his path.

Sommersby

Sommersby
6.3/10
Set in the south of the United States just after the Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband Jack, believed killed in the Civil War. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant man, thus when he returns, Laurel has mixed emotions. It appears that Jack has changed a great deal, leading some people to believe that this is not actually Jack but an imposter. Laurel herself is unsure, but willing to take the man into her home, and perhaps later into her heart...

True Crime

True Crime
6.6/10
Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner is slated to die at midnight – a man Everett has suddenly realized is innocent.

The Americanization of Emily

The Americanization of Emily
7.3/10
American sailor Charlie Madison falls for a pretty Englishwoman while trying to avoid a senseless and dangerous D-Day mission concocted by a deranged admiral.

She's Having a Baby

She's Having a Baby
5.9/10
Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them. Do they want babies? Their parents certainly want them to. Is married life all that there is? Things certainly aren't helped by Jake's friend Davis, who always seems to turn up just in time to put a spanner in the works.

Desperate Lives

Desperate Lives
5.7/10
A brother and sister get caught up in the drug scene in their local high school, with tragic results.

The Detective

The Detective
6.5/10
Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a gay man.

The Gypsy Moths

The Gypsy Moths
6.3/10
Three skydivers and their travelling thrill show barnstorm through a small midwestern town one Fourth of July weekend.

Grandview, U.S.A.

Grandview, U.S.A.
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/08/1984
  • Character: Bob Cody
Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. He meets Michelle "Mike" Cody and is attracted to her. She runs the local Demolition Derby place. Ernie "Slam" Webster is one of the drivers in the derby who's wife is cheating on him and wants to later on be with Mike. Tim falls for Mike and a big love triangle is about to happen.

Street Justice

Street Justice
5.8/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 01/01/1987
  • Character: Father Burke
A forgotten CIA agent escapes after 12 years and returns to his corrupt New Jersey hometown.

Velvet

Velvet
5.8/10
A female team of government agents, under the guise of owners of a popular worldwide franchise of aerobic centers, matches wits with a group of criminals who have kidnapped a top defense specialist and his ailing son, intending to sell him to the highest bidder.

Pigs vs. Freaks

Pigs vs. Freaks
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 07/06/1984
  • Character: Mayor Malcolm Wallwood
In a small town, the hippie faction often clashes with the mainstream. To settle their differences, the hippie "freaks" take on the town police "pigs" in a football game. On opposing sides of the fence are Frank, the police sergeant, and his son Neal. Also at odds are Neal and one time friend Doug, a returned Vietnam Vet who has joined the police force, who is also protective of his younger sister who prefers the hippie element. To make things even more intense, Mickey South, who has fled to Canada to avoid the war, returns to play for the Freaks football team. Tensions mount and all are challenged as the climax of the film approaches.

Separate Ways

Separate Ways
4.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/05/1981
  • Character: Huey Block
A wife unhappy in her marriage begins an affair with an art student, unaware that her husband, a race driver, is also having an affair.

Prescription: Murder

Prescription: Murder
7.9/10
In Columbo's first outing, a psychiatrist uses a patient he is having an affair with to help him kill his wife, but his perfect alibi may come apart at the hands of a seemingly befuddled LAPD lieutenant.

Fools' Parade

Fools' Parade
6.4/10
When a trio of ex-convicts led by Mattie Appleyard is released from prison, they hope to open a general store using money Mattie has saved during his 40-year sentence. This attempt is met with great resistance from a corrupt prison official and the banker who issued Mattie the check.

The Homecoming: A Christmas Story

The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
8.3/10
The Walton family is preparing for Christmas in the early 1930s. It's Christmas Eve, and they are waiting for Daddy Walton to come home from his job in the city some 50 miles away. Since he is late, everyone is worried and over the radio the mother and grandparents hear about an overturned bus and hurt travelers but keep this news from the rest of the family. The story is really a coming of age story about the oldest son John-Boy who must cut down the tree with his grandfather since his father isn't home and is eventually told about his missing father and sets out to find him. An all round heartwarming story, especially if you are a fan of The Waltons. A simple story about a simple family in simple times. Great family entertainment!

Surviving

Surviving
7.4/10
Lonnie and Rick seem to be complete opposites, at first glance. A survivor of suicide, Lonnie is introverted and ill at ease around her parents, Lois and Harvey. Rick, meanwhile, is sunny and charismatic. But appearances can be deceiving, as their families learn when the teens begin a romance. Upset about Lonnie's influence on Rick, his parents forbid the pair to see each other -- with tragic consequences.

Echoes of a Summer

Echoes of a Summer
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/02/1976
  • Character: Dr. Hallet
A young girl with a terminal heart condition plans to celebrate her 12th birthday on one last summer holiday with her parents in Nova Scotia.

Side Show

Side Show
6.6/10
A teenage boy runs away from home. He joins the circus but finds out that it's not all what it's cracked up to be. But then the boy becomes a witness to a murder, and he must try to stay out of the killer's way.

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