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Stagecoach
as Ellsworth H. GatewoodA group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of...
Movie pageI Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
as The JudgeA World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of...
Movie pageThe Rich Are Always with Us
as Judge BradshawA wealthy couple's marriage is falling apart due to the man's infidelity. The wife's male friend...
Movie pageIf I Had a Million
as Warden (uncredited)An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to...
Movie pageTwo Seconds
as The WardenA condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being...
Movie pageEmployees' Entrance
as Bradford (uncredited)Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He...
Movie pageThe Cabin in the Cotton
as Lane NorwoodSharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.
Movie pageThe Cowboy and the Lady
as Oliver Wendell HendersonMary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is...
Movie pageIn Old Chicago
as Senator ColbyThe O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually...
Movie pageDames
as Harold Ellsworthy ToddA reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.
Movie pageJudge Priest
as Senator Horace MaydewJudge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, restores the justice in a small town in the...
Movie pageThe Mouthpiece
as Rocco Trial Judge (Uncredited)A prosecutor quits his job and becomes a defense attorney when he finds out that a man he got...
Movie pageBabbitt
as Judge Virgil 'Verge' ThompsonMiddle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing...
Movie pageTurnabout
as Julian MarloweBickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha...
Movie pageFrontier Marshal
as Hiram MeltonThinly veiled reworking of the Wyatt Earp story with the renamed Michael Wyatt rolling into...
Movie pageAmerican Madness
as O'Brien (uncredited)Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of...
Movie pageDaughters Courageous
as Judge Henry HornsbyNan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam...
Movie pageSecrets of a Secretary
as Mr. MerrittSociety girl becomes a social secretary when her father dies penniless. From a story by Charles...
Movie pageDimples
as Colonel LoringDimples Appleby lives with her pick-pocket grandfather in 19th century New York City. She...
Movie page20 Mule Team
as 'Jackass' BrownIt is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining...
Movie pageYou May Be Next!
as J.J. HeldGangster tries to censor a crusading radio station by jamming its signal.
Movie pageThe Little Giant
as Donald Hadley CassProhibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a...
Movie pageTaxi!
as Judge West (uncredited)Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling...
Movie pageMadame Butterfly
as Mr. SharplessPinkerton marries Cho-Cho San in Japan, whilst on shore leave. When he leaves, she keeps his...
Movie pageSteamboat Round the Bend
as New MosesA Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying...
Movie pageMenace
as Norman BellamyA psychotic man stalks three innocent people whom he believes are responsible for his brother's...
Movie pageHeroes for Sale
as Mr. WinstonTom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I...
Movie pageAngels Wash Their Faces
as Mayor James DooleyA young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister,...
Movie pageThe Dark Hour
as Paul BernardA pair of detectives investigates the murder of an elderly millionaire who was the target of...
Movie pageBachelor Bait
as "Big" Barney NolanAfter being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking.
Movie pageThe Crooked Circle
as Col. WaltersA group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded...
Movie pageAir Eagles
as Windy J. BaileyTwo former WWI aces from opposite sides, Bill Ramsey and Otto Shumann, in the best tradition of...
Movie pageFour Men and a Prayer
as Martin CherringtonThe sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.
Movie pageSweethearts
as SheridanThe team behind a successful Broadway production tries to stop the married stars from...
Movie pageA Fool's Advice
as Mayor Martin SloanAn elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician...
Movie pageAfraid to Talk
as Mayor William 'Billy' ManningCorrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them...
Movie pageBrother Rat and a Baby
as Mr. HarperThree comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as...
Movie pageStrictly Dynamite
as Mr. RiversA failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.
Movie pageHard to Handle
as Col. H.D.X. Wells (uncredited)A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
Movie pageKid Millions
as Harrison LarrabeeA musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but...
Movie pageThe Spanish Cape Mystery
as Judge MacklinEllery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.
Movie pageOnly Yesterday
as Goodheart (Uncredited)On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide....
Movie pageThree of a Kind
as 'Con' CorneliusA truck driver and a gold-digger meet at a swank hotel and both think the other is wealthy. A...
Movie pageCross-Country Romance
as Colonel ConwayA runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.
Movie pageThe Dark Horse
as William A. UnderwoodThe Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark...
Movie pageOn Your Toes
as Donald HendersonA Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
Movie pageThe Avenger
as ForsterA disgraced former District Attorney plots his revenge on the members of a criminal gang who had...
Movie pageSaturday's Children
as Mr. 'B.N.' Norman, Office ManagerAn inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.
Movie pageParnell
as The O'Gorman MahonIrish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but...
Movie pageThe Big Stampede
as Governor Lew WallaceDeputy Sheriff John Steele recruits bandit Sonora Joe to help him find out who's been bumping...
Movie pageCollege Coach
as OtisRuthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students....
Movie pageFriends of Mr. Sweeney
as Franklyn P. BrumbaughAsaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone...
Movie pagePublic Deb No. 1
as JudgeWhen a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her...
Movie pageHalf a Sinner
as Deacon CaswellA con man poses as a hillbilly preacher.
Movie pageThe Way of All Flesh
as Reginald L. MortenPaul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father...
Movie pageGolden Harvest
as Eben MartinA play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest....
Movie pagePublic Wedding
as H. Theodore "Pop" Lane IIIThe operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a...
Movie pageThis Reckless Age
as Banker (uncredited)Donald Ingals and his wife Eunice are conventional and loving parents who are shocked when their...
Movie pageHe Couldn't Say No
as Senator MabbyA lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for...
Movie pageMurder in the Private Car
as Luke CarsonRuth Raymond works on the telephone switchboard of a large NYC office building. One day, a...
Movie pageHelldorado
as 'Clarion' EditorArthur T. Ryan, a hitchhiker, gets a ride from haughty, society girl Glenda Wynant and her...
Movie pageNothing But the Truth
as E.M. BurkeA young man bets $10,000 that for 24 hour he can tell nothing but the truth.
Movie pageThe Wet Parade
as Roger's Uncle Dick (uncredited)The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the...
Movie pageDoctor Bull
as Herbert BanningIn this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers...
Movie pageI Love That Man
as Mordant - Casket BuyerInnocent Nancy Carroll falls in love with con man Edmund Lowe and the pair swindle their way...
Movie pageGoing Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they...
Movie pageSing Sing Nights
as Governor DuaneA respected war correspondent is found murdered, with three bullets--from three different...
Movie pageDown in 'Arkansaw'
as JudgeA government representative travels to the backwoods of Arkansas to convince the people there of...
Movie pagePrivate Jones
as Roger WinthropAfter America enters World War I, young William "Bill" Jones tries to avoid military service by...
Movie pageDizzy Dames
as Dad HackettA musical comedy in a theatrical boarding house.
Movie pagePage Miss Glory
as Mr. YatesA country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant...
Movie pageThe Rainmakers
as Simon ParkerRoscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry...
Movie pageSo This Is Africa
as PresidentBroke lion tamers travel to Africa to make a movie about Amazon women, from a distance.
Movie pageFrom Hell to Heaven
as Toledo JonesThe various residents and occupants of a resort hotel await the outcome of a horse race at a...
Movie pageQuick Money
as Bluford H. SmytheBluford H. Smythe, who has made it big in the big city, has returned to his small hometown of...
Movie pageUnder Your Spell
as JudgeA famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to...
Movie pageElmer, the Great
as Colonel MoffittElmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr....
Movie pageWide Open Faces
as L.D. CrawfordA small town soda jerk discovers a gang of criminals staying at a local hotel. Comedy.
Movie pageThe Singing Marine
as J. Montgomery MadisonBob Brent, a young Marine from Arkansas, impresses his comrades with his singing ability, and...
Movie pageI Live for Love
as FabianA failed actor finds success as a radio singer.
Movie pageRedhead
as Mr. BrownA girl marries a playboy from a rich family, expecting a life of comfort and luxury. However,...
Movie pageHero for a Day
as E.A. DowWhen a night watchman is mistaken for a wealthy college alumnus, his family and friends help him...
Movie pageThe Big Brain
as Col. HigginbothamA small-town barber finds himself short of stature but a giant in the world of stock promotion....
Movie pageWashington Merry-Go-Round
as Speaker of the HouseButton Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He...
Movie page$10 Raise
as Mr. BatesA timid, overworked and underpaid bookkeeper needs a $10 raise to marry his sweetheart...
Movie pageThe County Chairman
as Elias RigbyBased on George Ade's play which, in part, was based on an incident in a 1902 election in...
Movie pageHer First Mate
as DavisA camp butcher on an Albany night boat dreams of the South Seas.
Movie pageWild and Woolly
as Edward RalstonChild star Jane Withers along with fellow kiddie favorites like Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer and...
Movie pageBunker Bean
as Professor Ed BalthazerA shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.
Movie pageI'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now
as Senator Henry LowellIn this low-budget musical, two sets of politically ambitious parents attempt to pair up their...
Movie pageOkay, America!
as Jacob BaronA gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
Movie pageCoronado
as Walter MarvinSouthern California's Hotel Coronado caters to and is frequented by members of the social...
Movie pageBlack Gold
as J.C. AndersonWildcat riggers risk their lives in the pursuit of oil. Their jobs get even more dangerous when...
Movie pageKentucky Moonshine
as J.B.The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.
Movie pageColleen
as LoganMusical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
Movie pageScandal for Sale
as BunnyweatherA man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million.
Movie pageFast Companions
as Committee ChairmanA crooked jockey tries to reform.
Movie pageRacing Lady
as JudgeA shrewd millionaire who owns races horses for publicity for his automobile business, claims...
Movie pageTarnished Lady
as Stock SpeculatorNancy Courtney, a once wealthy socialite, has had to struggle to maintain a facade of prosperity...
Movie pageMy Sin
as Mr. OsgoodA prostitute living in Panama shoots her pimp and is charged with murder. The lawyer who gets...
Movie pageDanger on the Air
as Caesar KluckTrouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio...
Movie pageLaughter in Hell
as Mike SlaneyIn the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.
Movie pageCheaters at Play
as uncreditedModest picture centering on a blunderous jewel heist aboard an ocean liner.
Movie pageLet’s Be Ritzy
as R.M. PembrookComplications ensue when a young married couple pretend to be something they're not.
Movie pageVagabond Lady
as R.D. SpearJosephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department...
Movie pageHi, Nellie!
as GrahamManaging Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield...
Movie pageShould Husbands Work?
as BarnesJoe Higgins' wife gets the job meant for him, so he stays home to do the housework. A Higgins...
Movie pageThe Mysterious Rider
as Mark KingThe ranchers have given money through Benton to the crooked lawyer Harkness to save the titles...
Movie pageTake the Stand
as Mr. Jerome BurbankA radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective...
Movie pageMaster of Men
as Mr. WallingOne of ten films that Fay Wray made in 1993 (including King Kong), Master of Men casts her as...
Movie pageA Night at the Ritz
as Mr. VincentA PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
Movie pageThe Billion Dollar Scandal
as The WardenAn ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes...
Movie pageSing and Be Happy
as John MasonRival advertising firms compete for a radio show's pickle manufacturing account.
Movie pageWeek Ends Only
as A.S. CarrA recently impoverished but formerly wealthy young woman ends up working as a nightclub hostess....
Movie pageSix Cylinder Love
as George StapletonAfter buying a car, Richard Burton finds that his wife and daughter have become unreasonably...
Movie pageThe Washington Masquerade
as Senator Bitler (as Burton Churchill)An honest, talented and well respected attorney defeats a corrupt incumbent U.S. Senator. After...
Movie pageFalse Faces
as Dr. J.B. ParkerThe philandering Dr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital and given 24...
Movie pageLadies in Distress
as Fred MorganAlison Skipworth plays female mayor Josephine Bonney, at present having trouble dealing with her...
Movie pageSo This Is London
as Hiram DraperAmerican (Churchill) in London dislikes England until his daughter (Lehmann) falls for the son...
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