Roland Drew
Actor · 1900 – 1988 · Elmhurst, New York, USA
Movies24
Movie7.2WarDramaAlvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
Sergeant York
1941 · 239 votes
Movie7.0ComedyAn acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941 · 100 votes
Movie6.6AdventureThrillerRick Leland makes no secret of the fact that he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz?
Across the Pacific
1942 · 87 votes
Movie6.5CrimeDramaHank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
Manpower
1941 · 19 votes
Movie5.8Science FictionActionA mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmosphere with dust. Sure enough, Ming the Merciless is up to his old tricks. So it's back to Mongo for Flash, Dale, and Zarkov.
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
1940 · 25 votes
Movie5.4ActionAdventureSteel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.
Steel Against the Sky
1941 · 5 votes
Movie6.3MysteryCrimeA cab driver nearly hits a man with amnesia, then helps him unravel his past, only to discover he's a murder suspect as she falls for him.
Two O'Clock Courage
1945 · 28 votes
Movie6.5DramaHelen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
The Hard Way
1943 · 23 votes
Movie6.8ActionAdventureWhen a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...
Murder in the Big House
1942 · 5 votes
Movie6.4ActionWarInspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined Canadian bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF.
Captains of the Clouds
1942 · 32 votes
Movie7.3RomanceDramaJim Conway, who works on a South American rubber plantation, leaves to meet a girl from the United States whom he is to marry. But he receives a telegram from her telling him she has married someone else. He goes to a waterfront café where he meets a singer, Joan Madison, and tells her his troubles. He asks her to marry him and return to the plantation with him using the name of the girl he was to marry. This strikes her as a great idea as she is a wanted fugitive.
Law of the Tropics
1941 · 3 votes
Movie7.0ComedyStagestruck Sally McAllister can’t get an appointment with famed theatrical producer Eric Byron so Sally responds to an ad for a maid only to discover that she will be working for Byron himself! Falling for him but still burning with ambition she arranges for Lila Leroy, Byron's leading lady, to take a train to Oakland, California instead of New Jersey, then hot foots it to Oakland, New Jersey, where Byron's latest play is taking place, and impersonating Lila by wearing a blonde wig but as dress rehearsal approaches will she get away with the subterfuge?
Broadway Fever
1929 · 1 votes
Movie7.5MysteryA millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancée and her parents, the butler, and a professional mentalist known as The Great Gambini.
The Great Gambini
1937 · 2 votes
Movie6.2CrimeDramaDuke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth conviction will mean a life sentence. Finally, haunted by his past and goaded by his cohorts, he joins in planning an armoured car robbery.
The Big Shot
1942 · 27 votes
Movie9.0CrimeMysteryA doctor and nurse solve an operating-room murder.
Mystery of the White Room
1939 · 1 votes
Movie5.1CrimeDramaA dapper gangster sponsors an alcoholic violinist in order to win the love of a glamorous divorced socialite.
The Racketeer
1929 · 14 votes
Movie6.3RomanceWarA New York City doctor tries to rescue a young woman from Nazi agents.
Dangerously They Live
1941 · 11 votes
Movie7.0MysteryCrimeA detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.
The Lady in the Morgue
1938 · 5 votes
Movie7.0ThrillerA newspaper reporter uncovers a killer when he makes contact with the names listed in a dead man's address book.
Silent Partner
1944 · 1 votes
Movie6.7CrimeMysteryThe Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint" the Robin Hood-inspired crimefighter created by Leslie Charteris. This film focuses on the character of Inspector Henry Farnack. When Farnack is framed by a gang he is investigating, it is up to The Saint to clear his name.
The Saint Takes Over
1940 · 14 votes
Movie5.0RomanceCrimeA detective courts a gangster's ex-wife to lure him into a trap.
Bullets for O'Hara
1941 · 5 votes
Movie6.5ComedyRomanceA down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.
Princess O'Rourke
1943 · 21 votes
Movie5.5CrimeDramaA broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.
Wildcat Bus
1940 · 7 votes
Movie4.7WarDramaHans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime. With the aid of Gustav Schultz, Father Pommer, Anna Wahl and others, he is gleaning accurate information from foreign radio broadcasts and distributing it through Germany with an underground-press operation.
Hitler: Beast of Berlin
1939 · 13 votes