Dick Powell Movie Rankings
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Dick Powell scores a combined 3.3887 out of 4 stars for Christmas in July
3.3887
Dick Powell (Jimmy MacDonald) is a office clerk who loves to enter contests and hopes for a better life for he and his fiancé Betty (Ellen Dew). ... more about Christmas in July
DVD from $38.39 
(6 sellers)
2
Dick Powell scores a combined 3.0719 out of 4 stars for Bad and the Beautiful
3.0719
Vincente Minnelli directed this scathing study of the movie industry and Hollywood "glamour." An egotistical producer, Jonathan Shields (Douglas), determined to prove himself the finest filmmaker of all, gladly steps all over those who helped him when he was starting out. ... more about Bad and the Beautiful
DVD from $8.49 
(7 sellers)
3
Dick Powell scores a combined 3.0090 out of 4 stars for Murder
3.0090
Director Edward Dmytryk put himself on the map with this impressionistic adaptation of Raymond Chandler's detective novel FAREWELL, MY LOVELY. ... more about Murder
DVD from $9.61 
(8 sellers)
4
Dick Powell scores a combined 3.0086 out of 4 stars for Footlight Parade
3.0086
Chester Kent produces Musical Comedies on the stage. With the beginning of the talkies aera he changes to producing short musical proluges for movies. But this is stressing him, because he always needs new units and his rival is always stealing his ideas. ... more about Footlight Parade
DVD from $37.04 
(7 sellers)
5
Dick Powell scores a combined 2.9816 out of 4 stars for Captains Courageous
2.9816
Harvey Cheyne is a spoiled brat used to having his own way. When a prank goes wrong onboard an ocean liner Harvey ends up overboard and nearly drowns. Fortunately he's picked up by a fishing boat just heading out for the season. ... more about Captains Courageous
DVD from $9.49 
(8 sellers)
6
Dick Powell scores a combined 2.8348 out of 4 stars for Gold Diggers of 1935
2.8348
In a luxury hotel stage director Nicoleff stages a show to get the money to pay his bills. Mrs. Prentiss, who is backing the show wants her daughter Ann to marry the millionaire T. ... more about Gold Diggers of 1935
DVD from $37.04 
(7 sellers)
7
Dick Powell scores a combined 2.7731 out of 4 stars for In the Navy
2.7731
Russ Raymond, America's number one crooner, disappears and joins the Navy under the name Tommy Halstead. ... more about In the Navy
DVD from $13.48 
(1 sellers)
8
Dick Powell scores a combined 2.7609 out of 4 stars for It Happened Tomorrow
2.7609
An ambitious newspaper reporter (Dick Powell), eager to scoop the competition, wishes he could know the news before it happens. A mysterious old man (John Philliber) grants the reporter that power, even as he cautions against using it. ... more about It Happened Tomorrow
DVD from $13.42 
(6 sellers)
9
Dick Powell scores a combined 2.7533 out of 4 stars for Gold Diggers of 1933
2.7533
Barneny Hopkins is producing a new show on Broadway, but the day before it opens, the set and costumes are confiscated due to not paid bills. ... more about Gold Diggers of 1933
DVD from $37.04 
(7 sellers)
10
Dick Powell scores a combined 2.6848 out of 4 stars for Midsummer Night's Dream
2.6848
King Theseus is going to marry Hyppolyta, his officer Demetrius is engaged with Hermia, but Hermina loves Lysander. Helena loves Demetrius. ... more about Midsummer Night's Dream
DVD from $10.39 
(8 sellers)
11
Dick Powell scores a combined 2.6757 out of 4 stars for Cowboy from Brooklyn
2.6757
An actor can only get a radio job if he can prove that he's an authentic cowboy. ... more about Cowboy from Brooklyn
Not Available on DVD
12
Dick Powell scores a combined 2.6391 out of 4 stars for Twenty Million Sweethearts
2.6391
Unscrupulous agent Pat O'Brien makes singing waiter Dick Powell a big radio star while Ginger Rogers, who has lost her own radio show, helps Powell. ... more about Twenty Million Sweethearts
Not Available on DVD
13
Dick Powell scores a combined 2.6026 out of 4 stars for College Coach
2.6026
A ruthless coach (Pat O'Brien) creates turmoil at a college by hiring players (Lyle Talbot) and alienating students (Dick Powell). Along the way, the coach loses his wife (Ann Dvorak) to a grandstanding player. ... more about College Coach
Not Available on DVD
14
Dick Powell scores a combined 2.6026 out of 4 stars for Shipmates Forever
2.6026
Dick is watching the fleet come in when he sees June. Dick has no intention of joining the Navy, which is a family tradition, and June, having lost her father and brother in the Navy, does not want a Navy man. ... more about Shipmates Forever
Not Available on DVD
15
Dick Powell scores a combined 2.5143 out of 4 stars for Cornered
2.5143
On being demobbed at the end of the war, Canadian flyer Laurence Gerard returns to France to discover who ordered the killing of a group of Resistence fighters including his new bride. ... more about Cornered
Not Available on DVD
16
Dick Powell scores a combined 2.4930 out of 4 stars for Varsity Show
2.4930
Winfield College students who are trying to put together the annual varsity show come into conflict with their faculty adviser, a stodgy old professor whose ideas are hopelessly out of date, and who won't even let the new "swing" music be played in the ... more about Varsity Show
Not Available on DVD
18
Dick Powell scores a combined 2.4550 out of 4 stars for Dames
2.4550
Multi millinaire Ezra Ounce wants to start a campain against 'filthy' forms of entertainment, like Broadway-Shows. He comes to his relatives families and makes them members od his morale-boosting campain. ... more about Dames
DVD from $37.04 
(7 sellers)
19
Dick Powell scores a combined 2.3835 out of 4 stars for Singing Marine
2.3835
Bob Brent, a young Marine from Arkansas, impresses his comrades with his singing ability, and they pitch in to send him to New York to compete in an amateur contest. ... more about Singing Marine
Not Available on DVD
20
Dick Powell scores a combined 2.3743 out of 4 stars for To the Ends of the Earth
2.3743
Based on the files of the United States Department of Treasury. Commissioner Michael Barrows is an American Government Agent. On board a Coast Gaurd boat off the California coast he chases a ship. ... more about To the Ends of the Earth
Not Available on DVD
21
Dick Powell scores a combined 2.3652 out of 4 stars for Colleen
2.3652
The Ames Company makes every effort to keep Uncle Cedric away from any decisions or work. This is in the best interests for him and the company. ... more about Colleen
Not Available on DVD
22
Dick Powell scores a combined 2.3561 out of 4 stars for Blessed Event
2.3561
Al Roberts writes a gossip column for the Daily Express. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets into a little difficulty with a hood named Goebel who sends Frankie to talk to Alvin. ... more about Blessed Event
Not Available on DVD
23
Dick Powell scores a combined 2.3039 out of 4 stars for Tall Target
2.3039
The plot to kill Lincoln as he passed through Baltimore on his way to Washngton D.C. to be inaugurated in 1961 is in no way historically doubtful. This incident, called "The Baltimore Plot" by such well-known Lincoln scholars as Mark Neely Jr. ... more about Tall Target
Not Available on DVD
24
Dick Powell scores a combined 2.2830 out of 4 stars for Going Places
2.2830
Mr. Mason is a salesman at Detridge & Frome who wants to advertise their line of riding clothes. Since they have the rights to famous jockey Peter Randall, who is in Australia, Peter will impersonate him at the Steeple Chase. ... more about Going Places
Not Available on DVD
25
Dick Powell scores a combined 2.2446 out of 4 stars for You Never Can Tell
2.2446
An ex-police/army dog (German Shepherd), named Rex inherits a fortune from an eccentric millionaire. ... more about You Never Can Tell
Not Available on DVD
26
Dick Powell scores a combined 2.2373 out of 4 stars for Stage Struck
2.2373
Broadway dance director George Randall (Dick Powell) is stuck with staging a Broadway show starring Peggy Revere (Joan Blondell), a wealthy but untalented performer who is starring only because she is backing the show. ... more about Stage Struck
Not Available on DVD
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Dick Powell scores a combined 2.2191 out of 4 stars for Star Spangled Rhythm
2.2191
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. ... more about Star Spangled Rhythm
DVD from $8.07 
(6 sellers)
29
Dick Powell scores a combined 2.1125 out of 4 stars for Station West
2.1125
Not Available on DVD
30
Dick Powell scores a combined 2.0821 out of 4 stars for Wonder Bar
2.0821
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. ... more about Wonder Bar
Not Available on DVD
31
Dick Powell scores a combined 2.0437 out of 4 stars for Susan Slept Here
2.0437
Comedy about a struggling Hollywood scriptwriter (Dick Powell) who, one Christmas Eve, receives a very unexpected present - juvenile delinquant Debbie Reynolds. ... more about Susan Slept Here
Not Available on DVD
32
Dick Powell scores a combined 1.9816 out of 4 stars for Gold Diggers of 1937
1.9816
Stage-producer J.J. Horbart, is going to put on a new show, but he doesn't know that his two partners lost the money at the stock market. ... more about Gold Diggers of 1937
Not Available on DVD
33
Dick Powell scores a combined 1.8656 out of 4 stars for Cry Danger
1.8656
Rocky Mulloy, back in town after serving 5 years of a life sentence for armed robbery, hopes to clear his friend Danny Morgan who's still in prison for the same crime. It won't be easy. ... more about Cry Danger
Not Available on DVD
34
Dick Powell scores a combined 1.7670 out of 4 stars for Pitfall
1.7670
John Forbes is a family man who's tired of the 9 to 5 humdrum of his job an insurance company executive. Life gets a little more exciting for him when he calls upon femme fatale Mona Stevens. ... more about Pitfall
Not Available on DVD
35
Dick Powell scores a combined 1.5113 out of 4 stars for Flirtation Walk
1.5113
A Musical-romance with Dick Powell as a private stationed in Hawaii who gets involved with Ruby Keeler, the general's engaged daughter. ... more about Flirtation Walk
Not Available on DVD
36
Dick Powell scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for And She Learned About Dames
0.0001
Students at New York's Rovina Finishing School for Girls send their photographs to the makers of Claybury's Beauty Soap, in the hope of being chosen as "Miss Complexion of 1934. ... more about And She Learned About Dames
DVD from $37.04 
(7 sellers)
39
Dick Powell scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Happiness Ahead
0.0001
Joan's parents want her to marry young Travis, but Joan has no interest in him. So on New Years Eve, she goes out to a club where she meets Bob. ... more about Happiness Ahead
Not Available on DVD
40
Dick Powell scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Happy Go Lucky
0.0001
To land a rich husband, golddigger Marjory Stuart goes to Trinidad posing as a debutante. Beach boy Pete promptly unmasks her, but offers to help her catch his enemy, yachtsman Alfred Monroe. ... more about Happy Go Lucky
Not Available on DVD
41
Dick Powell scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Hard to Get
0.0001
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards (Olivia De Havilland) tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis (Dick Powell), he makes her work out her bill by making beds. ... more about Hard to Get
Not Available on DVD
42
Dick Powell scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Hearts Divided
0.0001
Napoleon needs money to fight his wars in Europe so he wants 20 million dollars for the Louisiana Territory in the United States. To help the negotiations, he sends his brother, Jerome, to the U.S. on a goodwill tour. ... more about Hearts Divided
Not Available on DVD
43
Dick Powell scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Hollywood Hobbies
0.0001
Two out-of-towners take an automobile tour of Hollywood to see the private lives of some celebrities. ... more about Hollywood Hobbies
DVD from $3.58 
(8 sellers)
44
Dick Powell scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Hollywood Hotel
0.0001
Ronny Bowers, a saxophonist in Benny Goodman's band has won a talent contest an got a ten week contract with a film studio. On his first evning he is supposed to go with the studio's star Mona Marshal to a movie premiere. ... more about Hollywood Hotel
Not Available on DVD
47
Dick Powell scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Meet the People
0.0001
Shipyard worker Bill Swanson writes a wartime play celebrating the American spirit. He meets theatre actress Julie Hampton, visiting the shipyard on a bond drive, and convinces her to read his patriotic opus. ... more about Meet the People
Not Available on DVD
48
Dick Powell scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Model Wife
0.0001
Not Available on DVD
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Dick Powell scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Mrs. Mike
0.0001
Not Available on DVD
50
Dick Powell scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Naughty But Nice
0.0001
Professor Hardwick teaches at Winfield College and detests the new swing music that is the craze. He has written a rhapsody which he takes to New York to be published. ... more about Naughty But Nice
Not Available on DVD
51
Dick Powell scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for On the Avenue
0.0001
A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, but the courtship is soon for real, to the annoyance of his co-star, hoofing chanteuese Mona Merrick. ... more about On the Avenue
DVD from $21.49 
(6 sellers)
52
Dick Powell scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Reformer and the Redhead
0.0001
Hot-tempered Kathleen Maguire enlists the services of a young attorney to help her zookeeper father get his job back after he is fired for political reasons. ... more about Reformer and the Redhead
Not Available on DVD
53
Dick Powell scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Riding High
0.0001
Not Available on DVD
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Dick Powell scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Right Cross
0.0001
Prizefighter Johnny is in love with his promoter O'Malley's daughter Pat. His best friend, sports reporter Rick, is also in love with her but knows that she loves Johnny. ... more about Right Cross
Not Available on DVD
55
Dick Powell scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Road Is Open Again
0.0001
A Songwriter falls asleep while writing a song about the NRA. He dreams that Washington, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt appear in his room asking him why he wants to write such a song and they're reassuring him that FDR is the right way. ... more about Road Is Open Again
Not Available on DVD
56
Dick Powell scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Rogues' Regiment
0.0001
After World War II, ex-soldiers trickle into French Saigon to join the Foreign Legion, among them American Whit Corbett and German Carl Reicher. ... more about Rogues' Regiment
Not Available on DVD
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Dick Powell scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Thanks a Million
0.0001
Entertainers enter a political rally to get out of the rain and become part of the show. One of them (Powell) gives a speech in place of the besotted candidate (Walburn) and is chosen to be the candidate by backers he later exposes as crooks. ... more about Thanks a Million
Not Available on DVD
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Dick Powell scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for True to Life
0.0001
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. ... more about True to Life
Not Available on DVD
 
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Dick Powell
Birthdate:
November 14, 1904
Death date:
January 2, 1963

Dick Powell

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Career Span:

Decade
# Movies
Movie Score
1930s
34
total ranking of 3.8329  3.8329
1940s
19
total ranking of 2.7966  2.7966
1950s
7
total ranking of 2.5158  2.5158
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score:
2.8179
Dick Powell is ranked overall as 2.8179 of of 4 stars
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