Películas dramáticas de Donald Kerr
Películas de Donald Kerr filtradas por género
🎭 Smitty's Waiter (uncredited)
6.9
1958
A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the chagrin of his social-climbing brother, and becomes close with an easy-going professional gambler ...
🎭 Backstage Card Player (uncredited)
6.7
1958
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning tri ...
🎭 Liveryman (uncredited)
7.6
1958
Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between his future father-in-law, Major Terrill, and the rough and lawless Hannasseys over a va ...
🎭 Billy Goat's Manager (uncredited)
6.6
1956
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but ...
6
1955
Grocery clerk Eddie Quaid, in danger of losing his father to alcoholism and his girl Julie through lack of career prospects, goes into boxing. ...
🎭 Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
6.5
1955
Después de enviar a un hombre inocente a la silla eléctrica, un agresivo abogado deja su trabajo en la fiscalía, vuelve a beber y comienza a ejercer como abogado defensor de una nueva y deshon ...
🎭 Drunk in Speakeasy (uncredited)
6.1
1955
In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection. ...
5.8
1955
Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts. ...
🎭 Hollywood Tour Bus Pitchman
6.4
1953
Harry vive en San Francisco y como representante comercial debe viajar mucho. Está casado con Eve y ambos están intentando adoptar un bebé. Mr. Jordan, director de la agencia de adopción, com ...
🎭 Slawson's Bartender
6.5
1952
Carrie (Jennifer Jones) es una campesina que decide irse a Chicago, donde se convierte en una famosa actriz. Allí vivirá un amor apasionado con un hombre casado (Laurence Olivier), un respetabl ...
🎭 Passerby on Street (uncredited)
6.8
1952
Advertising executive Alan Miller, a recovered alcoholic who now does interventions on behalf of Alcoholics Anonymous, is called to help Broadway actress Jenny Carey whose developing career is th ...
🎭 Taxi Driver (uncredited)
7
1951
Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle ...
🎭 Headwaiter
5.8
1951
A college basketball star collaborrates with organized crime and becomes involved in 'point shaving.' A sportswriter tries to get him back on the right track. ...
🎭 Older Fisherman at Lounge Table (uncredited)
6
1951
A sailor who is a champion boxer in the Navy is forced to leave the service because his family's business, a tuna fishing operation, is in financial trouble. He becomes a prizefighter and one day ...
🎭 Car Driver (uncredited)
5.8
1950
After her father is murdered, a girl joins the police force in an effort to track down the killers. ...
🎭 Newsboy (uncredited)
6.1
1950
Interesante muestra de cine negro, sigue a un fotógrafo sin demasiados escrúpulos, que encandila a un gángster para que le deje tomar determinadas instantáneas que enseguida le sitúan en lo ...
🎭 Reporter (uncredited)
6.4
1950
Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues. ...
🎭 Drunken Conventioneer on Bicycle (uncredited)
6.2
1950
As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if not too well. Having discovered a horrible tru ...
🎭 Spectator (uncredited)
6.9
1949
Willi Stark (Broderick Crawford), un hombre honrado y valiente, sufre una transformación el día que decide entrar en política y descubre que todo es juego sucio. Tras ser elegido gobernador, o ...
🎭 Fish Peddler (uncredited)
7.7
1949
Año 1849, en Nueva York. Catherine Sloper, una rica heredera, tímida, inocente, poco agraciada y no muy joven, es pretendida por un apuesto joven. Ella se enamora de él apasionadamente, pero s ...
🎭 Roulette Croupier (uncredited)
6
1949
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to ...
🎭 Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited)
7.3
1949
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter. ...
🎭 Court Clerk (uncredited)
6.1
1949
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court. ...
🎭 Mailman (uncredited)
6.7
1949
This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop. ...
🎭 Ticket Man (uncredited)
6.5
1947
After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms ...
🎭 Photographer with Reporter (uncredited)
7
1947
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook. ...
🎭 Steve the Bartender (uncredited)
7.8
1946
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to be ...
🎭 Bellboy
6.5
1946
Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell. Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed, Caldwell runs a matrimonial bureau and, with the aid of hi ...
🎭 Gaffer
5.6
1946
Un oficial de policía, Joe Warne, investiga el asesinato de un compositor, Keith Vincent. Las pruebas evidentes conducen a creer que se trata de un suicidio y la policía cierra el caso. Joe, po ...
🎭 Reporter (uncredited)
🎭 Carnival Barker
4.7
1946
A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow. ...
🎭 Reporter (Uncredited)
5.5
1946
A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall. ...
🎭 Newsman (uncredited)
5
1946
Ex-convict Hank Rogers is searching for his brother Jim, a newspaperman, and becomes involved with a group of people trying to conceal the death of the president of a large corporation so they ca ...
🎭 Counterman
0
1946
A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee. ...
🎭 Zilch
5.5
1945
A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding away from her wedding day in her fiance's car. Seeing the soldier, she gives him a ride and ...
🎭 Taxi Driver (uncredited)
7.2
1944
After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit. ...
🎭 First Elevator Operator (uncredited)
7.4
1944
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder. ...
🎭 Member of Horse Act (uncredited)
4.2
1944
The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war. ...
🎭 Cab Driver
4.8
1943
Five officer candidates fight to prove their mettle during training. ...
🎭 Reporter at Winnipeg (uncredited)
5.9
1943
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, be ...
🎭 Mail Boy
5
1943
The management of touring ice show faces mounting debts. ...
🎭 Pete the Passer (Uncredited)
5.9
1942
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish showgirl who despises and uses him. ...
🎭 Photographer (uncredited)
7.3
1942
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig. ...
🎭 'Red' Keane, Photographer
5.6
1941
While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists. ...
🎭 First New York Taxi Driver (uncredited)
6.5
1940
A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval. ...
🎭 Nan's P.R. Man
0
1940
Although she is secretly married to a student, a young girl is forced to give up her baby rather than be thought of as an "unwed mother". ...
🎭 Photographer in Hallway (uncredited)
6.4
1940
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bub ...
🎭 Mechanic (uncredited)
4.6
1940
A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line. ...
🎭 Car Owner
4
1940
The future of a group of strangely connected lives is determined on one crucial night at a dinky motel in the desert. ...
🎭 Prison Library Clerk (uncredited)
6
1940
A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside. ...
🎭 First Photographer (uncredited)
6
1940
A prison chaplain (John Litel) rescues a young convict (Glenn Ford) on a misguided mission of revenge. ...
🎭 Sailor in Bluebell (uncredited)
6.5
1940
Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. ...
🎭 Driver
5.3
1940
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be safer in prison for one year, his wife, Brenda ...
🎭 Cassidy
5
1940
A delivery boy for a flower shop, who thinks of himself as an amateur detective, finds out that his boss is mixed up with a foreign espionage ring. ...
🎭 New Recruit (uncredited)
5.4
1940
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end. ...
🎭 Cabbie (uncredited)
7.5
1939
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 flee ...
🎭 Reporter (uncredited)
7.9
1939
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 sh ...
🎭 Taxi Driver (Uncredited)
🎭 Reporter
5
1939
A San Francisco reporter and a lab assistant foil spies on an East-bound deportation train. ...
🎭 Seller in Play Palace (uncredited)
6.6
1939
Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The two of them embark on a wild night of gamblin ...
🎭 Newspaper Distributor (uncredited)
5.6
1939
Jimmy, an idealistic and hard-working young man, has just arrived in New York City with dreams of making his fortune. Along the way he faces numerous obstacles, opportunities and temptations, but ...
🎭 Ted
5
1939
Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstake contest. ...
🎭 Bystander
6
1939
Saving a dog from the pound gets a man mixed up in murder. ...
🎭 Taxi Driver
7
1939
Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of one of his jockeys. One day he meets Goldie who has run away from home, hoping to find a job arou ...
🎭 Man in Ring After First Fight (uncredited)
6.3
1939
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk. ...
🎭 Barfly
6.5
1939
On parole after three years in prison, a football player (Robert Kent) encounters the man (Sidney Blackmer) who framed him. ...
🎭 Milk Truck Driver
6.1
1939
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman, and his children, who know him for what he is ...
🎭 Joe Armstrong
5.7
1938
A Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out of one town by the authorities immediately sets up shop in another. Unable to get any tangible evidence against Anderson, DA Way ...
🎭 Earl
6.5
1938
Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man for whom she cares. However, the arrival of a ...
🎭 Country Club Cloak Room Attendant
6.5
1938
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home. ...
🎭 Twerp - Writer (uncredited)
6
1937
A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom. ...
🎭 (uncredited)
6.9
1937
Nick Donati, un mánager de boxeo, descubre en un hotel a Ward, un botones que logra noquear a un peso pesado que estaba molestando a Louise, la novia de Nick. Nick le ofrece al chico entrenarlo ...
🎭 Gabby
4
1937
A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival. ...
🎭 Agitated Citizen at Shoeshine Stand (uncredited)
6.8
1937
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and work ...
🎭 The Sportscaster (uncredited)
4.9
1936
A boxer is framed for murder after an opponent dies in the ring. ...
🎭 Reporter
🎭 Drunk shooting Dice
3.9
1934
A young girl gets involved with a crowd that smokes marijuana, drinks and has sex. She winds up an alcoholic, pregnant drug addict and is forced to get an abortion. ...
🎭 Dick
0
1933
When his bank fails, a young man loses not only all his money but his fiancée, deserts him, too. Depressed, he joins a circus. ...
🎭 Party Guest (Uncredited)
🎭 Mike - Man with Colleen (uncredited)
6.8
1933
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist. ...