Biography: Cliff Clark (June 10, 1889 – February 8, 1953) was an American actor. He entered the film business in 1937 after a substantial stage career and appeared in over 200 Hollywood films. In the last years of his life, he also played in a number of television productions. Clark mostly played minor supporting roles. A specialty of his were policemen, inspectors and sheriffs. He appeared in a recurring role as Inspector Donovan in the Falcon film series at RKO Pictures during the 1940s.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 09, 1889
Deathday: February 08, 1953
Popularity:
1940-03-15
Overview: Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-15
Popularity:
1941-08-09
Overview: Hank 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.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-09
Popularity:
1949-07-28
Overview: A Los Angeles fire captain (Roy Roberts) sends an arson-squad rookie (George Cooper) undercover.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-28
Popularity:
1951-05-13
Overview: Kirby Frye, a former Confederate officer but now a Union Cavalry scout, is sent into Montana territory to locate and retrieve three Gatling Guns stolen from the U.S. Arsenal by outlaws believed to have taken them west to sell to the Soiux and Cheyenne. The trail leads him to Red Bluff where, aided by Claire Corville, he and the audience discover together and real quick like that Martin Gavin, a supposedly-honest operator of a freight line, has the guns and intends to exchange them to the Indians for furs.
Genres: Romance Action Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-13
Popularity:
1947-02-06
Overview: In this drama, a trucker's business is nearly destroyed after he is wrongfully accused of killing a policeman with whom he recently quarreled.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-06
Popularity:
1940-08-16
Overview: Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-16
Popularity:
1951-12-01
Overview: Having masterminded the hold up of his company office, a mining engineer is barred from the industry. He then sets up shop as an assayer, scheming to acquire a rich silver mine lease from its operators.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-01
Popularity:
1942-10-03
Overview: In this Cornell Woolrich thriller, a man's memory is recovered after being injured by falling construction material. Discovering a year-long lapse, he returns to his old life and discovers a lot of mysterious happenings.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-03
Popularity:
1942-02-01
Overview: A prisoner about to be pardoned puts it off until he can put on one last variety show for his fellow inmates.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-01
Popularity:
1947-10-18
Overview: A woman watches her own funeral, then sets out with her lawyer to learn who was in the casket.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-18
Popularity:
1949-05-12
Overview: Star major league pitcher Monty Stratton loses a leg in a hunting accident, but becomes determined to leave the game on his own terms.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-12
Popularity:
1948-10-01
Overview: Ted Daniels, a ranch hand working for a rodeo, captures a magnificent wild horse that he tames and trains. As Ted is recovering from an accident that happened during a rodeo, the rodeo owner cheats him out of his horse. Ted must decide whether to pursue him and try to recover the horse, or whether to settle down with the doctor's daughter who is nursing him back to health. Written by Snow Leopard
Genres: Action Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-01
Popularity:
1950-07-07
Overview: In flashback from a 'Rebecca'-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast, meets neighbor Jeff Cohalan and his ultramodern clifftop house. Ellen is strongly attracted to Jeff, who's being plagued by unexplainable accidents, major and minor. Bad luck, persecution...or paranoia? Warned that Jeff could be dangerous, Ellen fears that he's in danger, as the menacing atmosphere darkens.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-07
Popularity:
1950-03-09
Overview: Dagwood enters the Army Reserve and Blondie visits only to discover that he has caused all sorts of problems which lead to numerous conflicts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-09
Popularity:
1952-10-10
Overview: Marshal Landry captures outlaw Girard and bringing him in finds a woman and two children, the only survivors of an Indian attack. Later, transferring the prisoner his brothers free him. Then a stage is robbed of a silver shipment by Girard and his brothers. Examining telegrams gets Landry a confession from Girard's girlfriend. The telegraph line has been tapped and the telegrapher is the supposedly dead husband of the woman he brough in. Now knowing Girard's location he sets out after him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-10
Popularity:
1943-07-17
Overview: Two industrialists disappear from an airplane while the plane is in the air. Also missing is $100,000. The Falcon investigates and discovers a plot against the government.
Genres: Crime Mystery War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-17
Popularity:
1944-03-17
Overview: When a Texas playboy is murdered in a New York City nightclub the Falcon investigates. When he learns that the victim was slipped rattlesnake venom, the trail leads to Texas, his own kidnapping and near death.
Genres: Crime Mystery Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-17
Popularity:
1943-04-01
Overview: The Falcon is framed for the murder of a banker and the theft of war bonds. He makes his escape into the mountains where he hides out in a rustic lodge. From here he uncovers a phony war bond operation.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-01
Popularity:
1942-10-02
Overview: A gentlemanly detective known as The Falcon calls on his brother to help him stop the Nazis from assassinating a key diplomat.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-02
Popularity:
1939-05-19
Overview: Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by the police, tried, convicted and sentenced to jail: Guy for a year with Willie to be executed. On the way to jail, Guy comes across a clue and escapes from the police.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-19
Popularity:
1943-11-10
Overview: The Falcon is called to a young woman's school to investigate a murder. When he arrives, another victim is discovered.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-10
Popularity:
1942-04-22
Overview: In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-22
Popularity:
1942-04-17
Overview: Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by scientifically analyzing evidence.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-17
Popularity:
1941-04-17
Overview: An elderly businessman (Frank Morgan) plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself involved in a showgirl's murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-17
Popularity:
1948-09-10
Overview: A banker is trying to cheat people out of their silver-rich land. Hoppy learns that the banker is in league with an outlaw gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-10
Popularity:
1947-04-12
Overview: Private Detective Philo Vance gets involved with a succession of murders and a mystery concerning the disappearance of an emerald that has been smuggled into the United States.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-12
Popularity:
1941-12-24
Overview: A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-24
Popularity:
1941-04-25
Overview: An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt Varney, a small-town man who suddenly becomes a lion tamer when he manages to subdue the big cat. While acclimating to carnival life, Matt begins a romance with Nick's sister, Mary, causing tension between Matt and Nick. The latter must also juggle his stormy relationship with glamorous circus star Flo Lorraine.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-25
Popularity:
1938-04-07
Overview: Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-blooded murder! Assisted by detective-in-training Lee Chan, Moto sets out to track down the killer based on a single ominous clue: a poisoned boxing glove! But when Moto's hunch points to a corrupt gambling syndicate, he's forced to wager his very life to unmask the culprit—or go down for the count...permanently!
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-07
Popularity:
1942-03-20
Overview: Aloysius 'Butch' Grogan leads a life of criminal activities motivated to provide for a widow and her child. He's on lookout for a gang of safe crackers when he has to also look after the baby of one of the criminals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-20
Popularity:
1938-12-16
Overview: Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-16
Popularity:
1939-12-22
Overview: A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-22
Popularity:
1941-03-21
Overview: Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-21
Popularity:
1951-11-22
Overview: John Vickers has spent eight years hunting for the three men who murdered the woman he loved. He finds one, Woodson, and kills him in a gunfight, but not before learning that the other two men have joined the U.S. Cavalry.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-22
Popularity:
1949-09-01
Overview: A mailman leads PO-men to a pistol-packing stamp thief and her gang.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-01
Popularity:
1948-05-21
Overview: Joe Sullivan (O'Keefe) has taken the rap for Rick (Burr), who double-crosses him with a flawed prison escape plan and other means intended to get rid of him. After seducing a beautiful young case worker, Joe uses her to help him carry out his plot for vengeance, leading him to the crazed Rick who set him up.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-21
Popularity:
1949-01-25
Overview: Jenny Marsh, recently released from prison for killing a man, finds herself under the watchful eye of her parole officer, Griff Marat, who helps her secure a job caring for his ailing mother.
Genres: Romance Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-25
Popularity:
1950-08-01
Overview: A cattleman fights to establish a ranch in the middle of gold country.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-01
Popularity:
1952-06-30
Overview: It's 1893 and gold is being smuggled out of the country. Instead of stealing gold bars, the outlaws are stealing high grade ore, having it smelted, and then having it plated to look like lead. The Government sends agents Bret and Larry who arrive in Cripple Creek posing as Texas gunfighters. Bret finds the smelting operation and Larry learns of the payoff. But the crooked town Marshal is suspicious of the two men and the reply of his inquiry to Texas exposes them putting their lives in danger.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-30
Popularity:
1949-10-20
Overview: A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-20
Popularity:
1939-08-10
Overview: A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-10
Popularity:
1939-02-03
Overview: Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-03
Popularity:
1940-05-18
Overview: A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-18
Popularity:
1951-12-15
Overview: Not to be confused with the 1929 film The Overland Telegraph, this Western from director Lesley Selander stars Tim Holt as a cowboy appropriately named Tim Holt. In order to hinder the construction of a new telegraph line for his own financial gain, scheming shopkeeper Paul Manning (George Nader) enlists the assistance of a gang of outlaws led by Brad Roberts (Hugh Beaumont in one of his many pre-Leave it to Beaver roles). Unfortunately for the bad guys, Holt and his cohort Chito Rafferty (Richard Martin) sense that there's foul play afoot and embark on an investigation.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-15
Popularity:
1940-07-12
Overview: A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-12
Popularity:
1943-04-09
Overview: A top baseball pitcher "loses" his pitching skills whenever he falls in love. After marrying a movie star extreme measures are taken for the benefit of the team.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-09
Popularity:
1939-03-10
Overview: A good-hearted reporter attempts to find the loneliest woman in New York so he can give her an old-fashioned Christmas on a farm..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-10
Popularity:
1941-04-19
Overview: An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true identity.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-19
Popularity:
1942-01-29
Overview: A celebrated New York cabbie is pressed into service for a perilous journey through World War II China.
Genres: Drama War Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-29
Popularity:
1938-01-08
Overview: Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warner Bros.' The Patient in Room 18. Patric Knowles delivers a delightfully comic performance as Lance, an outwardly normal young man obsessed with detective stories. When his obsession threatens to lapse over into lunacy, Lance is sent to the hospital for a nice long rest. It isn't long before he gets mixed up in a genuine murder mystery, using his second-hand knowhow to solve the case. Up-and-coming Ann Sheridan is quite amusing as Lance's nurse and confidante, while the murderer is played by a fellow who is usually cast as the murder victim.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-08
Popularity:
1950-09-15
Overview: A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-15
Popularity:
1948-03-25
Overview: An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-25
Popularity:
1938-05-20
Overview: Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-20
Popularity:
1950-08-06
Overview: Cattle detective, Rocky Lane, arrives in town to investigate cattle disappearances only to realize just three cows owned by eccentric inventor, Nugget Clark, are involved. However, the disappearances lead to a deeper mystery involving dynamite explosions, rampaging cowboys and a water shortage.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-06
Popularity:
1938-03-19
Overview: A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marriage furniture on a statue of a pretty girl, which he refuses to part with at any cost.
Genres: Crime Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-19
Popularity:
1939-01-21
Overview: A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-21
Popularity:
1939-03-17
Overview: A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-17
Popularity:
1939-04-28
Overview: Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in a street clinic, hoping to teach him a lesson. While working there Kildare meets pretty nurse Mary Lamont, and ends up treating a hoodlum with a gunshot wound. He purposely fails to write a report on it, and soon finds himself in a heap of trouble. Who else would come to his rescue but good old Dr. Gillespie?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-28
Popularity:
1950-08-25
Overview: Ken, a WWII GI, returns home after he's paralyzed in battle. Residing in the paraplegic ward of a veteran's hospital and embittered by his condition, he refuses to see his fiancée and sinks into a solitary world of hatred and hostility. Head physician, Dr. Brock cajoles the withdrawn Ken into the life of the ward, where fellow patients Norm, Leo and Angel begin to pull him out of his spiritual dilemma.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-25
Popularity:
1939-06-09
Overview: In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-09
Popularity:
1939-08-10
Overview: Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading trinkets to farmers for chickens which they sell in the cities. Addie and her father love the care-free life, but Mrs. Fippany and Cecile want to settle down in New York City. As soon as the "chicken wagon family" reaches New York, Addie gets into mischief and a policeman, Matt Hibbard, helps her and falls in love with Cecile. He helps the family settle into a deserted firehouse which is up for public sale.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-10
Popularity:
1938-02-12
Overview: To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her rival.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-12
Popularity:
1939-12-22
Overview: Judge Hardy guides Andy through problems with girls, money and an essay contest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-22
Popularity:
1939-12-15
Overview: G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself upon the honest citizenry of the US. The crooks have flooded the market with counterfeit lottery tickets, reducing many an unwary speculator to poverty.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-15
Popularity:
1949-05-12
Overview: A sensitive, educated black man's World War II-time problems. This is essentially the duplicate of his peace-time problems which are pointed up in a flashback of his life, and primarily of his war-time adventures with four white soldiers on a dangerous reconnaissance mission on a Japanese-held island.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-12
Popularity:
1939-09-16
Overview: Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-16
Popularity:
1939-12-08
Overview: A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.
Genres: Drama Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-08
Popularity:
1939-10-06
Overview: Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-06
Popularity:
1938-12-30
Overview: Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-30
Popularity:
1940-01-11
Overview: A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-11
Popularity:
1940-07-26
Overview: The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick buck. The idea of working never enters their minds until Halop is egged on by Grey to show his capabilities. Before long, he and Hall are working on the ranch of Galli, an elderly Italian woman who treats her workers like human beings instead of animals. Galli's son disappeared as an infant, and Halop tries to convince her that he is that long lost son, thus possibly sharing in her wealth. Galli is such a good person that Halop is soon motivated by respect instead of greed, so he devises a plan to help her when truckers and a labor organization band together to keep her crops from making it to market.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-26
Popularity:
1942-04-17
Overview: A girl reporter is trying to tack down the lady-in-the-title, as a key witness in a graft trial, which involves three murder and that many failed attempts. A prosecuting attorney in the district attorneys office is aiding her in solving the mystery of the missing lady.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-17
Popularity:
1942-01-06
Overview: In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-06
Popularity:
1940-05-02
Overview: On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder of a Scotland Yard friend.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-02
Popularity:
1940-02-23
Overview: True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-23
Popularity:
1944-09-22
Overview: A young bride who comes from a rich family has a hard time adjusting to life in a boarding house with other soldiers and their wives. Her spoiled ways cause resentment from the other wives and problems with her husband.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-22
Popularity:
1939-08-12
Overview: Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
Genres: Action Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-12
Popularity:
1943-04-16
Overview: The owner (William Bendix) of a cab company tries to foil a racketeer.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-16
Popularity:
1940-01-13
Overview: Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-13
Popularity:
1948-12-10
Overview: Slip and Sach are in the sidewalk star-gazing business when they see a murder committed in a room at the El Royale Hotel.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-10
Popularity:
1948-06-14
Overview: Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-14
Popularity:
1942-10-02
Overview: A young millionaire (Richard Carlson) joins the real world and meets a maid (Jane Randolph) and mobsters.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-02
Popularity:
1950-06-23
Overview: The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-23
Popularity:
1952-06-09
Overview: Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.
Genres: Western Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-09
Popularity:
1941-10-04
Overview: Jim 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.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-04
Popularity:
1940-09-27
Overview: Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.
Genres: History Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-27
Popularity:
1951-04-07
Overview: A cattle inspector runs a rustling ring on the side.
Genres: Western Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-07
Popularity:
1940-10-04
Overview: In his first starring Western for RKO, young Tim Holt must not only carry on his father's freight business but also hunt down his murderer. A certain Matt Gardner wants to corner the freight business to Pecos and persuades young Zack Sibley's wagon master to switch sides. Zack also earns the enmity of Gardner's son Coe, who takes umbrage to the youngster's flirtation with pretty Helen Lee. It all comes to a head during a food shortage in Pecos, a near-disaster that persuades the wagon master to switch sides once again. When the dust settles, Zack learns that old man Gardner is actually Carl Anderson, the man who murdered his father.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-04
Popularity:
1942-09-01
Overview: Appointed editor of his high school newspaper, hapless Henry becomes intrigued by a series of mysterious fires. A mild, timid little fellow named Nero Smith shows up to tip off Henry as to the time and place of the next conflagration. Henry prints the story-and is immediately accused of being the firebug himself!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-01
Popularity:
1948-07-23
Overview: Finishing a trail drive, Hoppy and the boys head to town and immediately get caught up in the conflict between school teacher Miss Abott and next door saloon owner Mawson. When Miss Abott disappears, Hoppy gets a clue to her location and rescues her from Mawson's cabin. It looks like Mawson is the man he wants, but Hoppy finds an item that indicates otherwise.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-23
Popularity:
1948-06-24
Overview: Sterling, a rookie cop, finds it hard to live up to the reputation his father, who was also a police officer, has.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-24
Popularity:
1940-08-24
Overview: In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-24
Popularity:
1947-12-07
Overview: A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.
Genres: Romance Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-07
Popularity:
1940-02-17
Overview: A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-17
Popularity:
1940-10-19
Overview: German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-19
Popularity:
1940-10-05
Overview: The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-05
Popularity:
1940-06-05
Overview: Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-05
Popularity:
1942-12-11
Overview: Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister. Returning to the US, Bannister becomes suspicious when Joan begins keeping company with known Nazi functionaries, notably the sinister Mr. Peter. Suspecting that his own wife may be the elusive “Madame Spy” wanted by American authorities, Bannister is in for quite a few surprises.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-11
Popularity:
1940-07-19
Overview: A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-19
Popularity:
1940-03-14
Overview: Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the efforts of politically ambitious assistant DA Marlin, Fred awaits his doom on Death Row, while Joyce works overtime on the outside to clear her husband's name
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-14
Popularity:
1942-10-23
Overview: A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.
Genres: Horror Mystery Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-23
Popularity:
1940-07-16
Overview: A reporter on a visit to his hometown hears of dangerous conditions at the local coal mine, and proceeds to investigate.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-16
Popularity:
1948-07-22
Overview: A state welfare agent persuades a Maine lobsterman to take a troubled orphan boy aboard.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-22
Popularity:
1948-05-25
Overview: While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl but leaves her behind when he returns to the U.S. The French woman follows him to America only to discover he’s already married to a successful lawyer.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-25
Popularity:
1950-08-02
Overview: A group of ranchers, led by Colonel Arnold and Ward Gordon, are drilling an oil well but getting fierce opposition from an unknown gang of outlaws. Eastern promoter J.B."Dude" Dawson, is behind the gang as he is out to prevent the co-op members from striking oil before their lease expires, so he can secure the property for his company. When Ward, with the help of Arnold and his daughter Sally, arranges for a new driller to be brought in, the replacement man is killed and one of Dawson's men takes his place.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-02
Popularity:
1951-11-19
Overview: Rocky Lane arrives at the town of Bear Creek to help insure the safe arrival of forty thousand dollars the citizens have raised to build a new hospital. After one of the town's doctors is killed in an ambush, Rocky devises a plan with the remaining doctor and sheriff to smoke out the bad guys.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-19
Popularity:
1942-01-02
Overview: This film was made by the U.S. government during World War II to show its young servicemen the results of "fooling around" with "loose women" overseas. Actual victims of such sexually transmitted diseases as syphilis and gonorrhoea are shown, along with the physical deterioration that accompanies those diseases.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-02
Popularity:
1943-03-01
Overview: A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-01
Popularity:
1942-01-31
Overview: The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-31
Popularity:
1942-01-31
Overview: The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-31
Popularity:
1941-02-21
Overview: When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-21
Popularity:
1941-10-01
Overview: Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
Genres: Western Drama Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-01
Popularity:
1944-09-01
Overview: Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-01
Popularity:
1941-02-14
Overview: A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sold.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-14
Popularity:
1940-03-01
Overview: A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
Genres: Adventure Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-01
Popularity:
1940-02-16
Overview: Edmund Lowe plays an insurance investigator who interrupts his honeymoon to look into the case of a murder, which could also be a suicide, in which case his company won't have to pay the victim's contract. His wife, played by Margaret Lindsay, insists on following him around, not only to help him solve the case, but to make sure he doesn't get too friendly with any members of the opposite sex, either.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-16
Popularity:
1942-04-01
Overview: A newlywed tries to deal with her troubled stepchild.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-01
Popularity:
1943-04-01
Overview: Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-01
Popularity:
1947-06-02
Overview: Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and the box she receives with a dead man inside.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-02
Popularity:
1938-09-25
Overview: A bank runner is accused of killing a woman for whom he deposited a large amount. Reporter and bank official investigate.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-25
Popularity:
1944-11-16
Overview: A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-16
Popularity:
1940-06-15
Overview: Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-15
Popularity:
1943-02-25
Overview: A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-25
Popularity:
1943-08-19
Overview: Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save the ship, and destroy the sub.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-19
Popularity:
1950-02-21
Overview: The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated. Ellen and David travel to the small coastal town where her first wedding allegedly occurred. There, they meet a number of individuals whose stories make Ellen question her own sanity.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-21
Popularity:
1939-12-01
Overview: Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
Popularity:
1944-07-26
Overview: The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose main interest is not money, she changes places with her secretary, Sylvia Lockwood, and assumes the role of a young working woman. However, she then falls for recuperating fighter pilot Anthony Travis, who, in turn, is madly in love with Sylvia -- or, perhaps, with the millions he thinks she has.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-26
Popularity:
1949-04-02
Overview: Michael Landers, a police lieutenant, sets out to investigate an intricate murder case. But, the case is closed after the only witness is found dead. Will Michael be able to fathom the mystery?
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-02
Popularity:
1947-04-04
Overview: Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.
Genres: Comedy Romance Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-04
Popularity:
1941-12-31
Overview: Penny Morris and Tommy Williams are both starstruck young teens but nobody seems to give them any chance to perform. Instead, they decide to put up their own show to collect money for a summer camp for the kids.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-31
Popularity:
1950-12-12
Overview: A family man – desperate for a job – latches onto a friend who encourages him into being a criminal.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-12
Popularity:
1939-12-30
Overview: A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-30
Popularity:
1949-11-25
Overview: Powder River Rustlers is a western film directed by Philip Ford in 1949. The railroad is coming and to get the townspeople's money. Shears Williams brings in a fake Agent who tells them they must raise $50,000 as their share of a railroad bridge. Railroad Agent Rocky Lane arrives and immediately spots the fake. A phony telegram assures Rocky his friend is still alive and he sets out to find him and his abductor.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-25
Popularity:
1941-09-20
Overview: A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-20
Popularity:
1942-02-01
Overview: Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is kidnapped by enemy agents who are determined to get military secrets out of him by any means possible. Will Joe keep quiet or betray his country...
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-01
Popularity:
1951-09-16
Overview: Joe Palooka and two friends are taking hostage by three criminals.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-16
Popularity:
1948-02-20
Overview: Cole Armin comes to Albuquerque to work for his uncle, John Armin, a despotic and hard-hearted czar who operates an ore-hauling freight line, and whose goal is to eliminate a competing line run by Ted Wallace and his sister Celia. Cole tires of his uncle's heavy-handed tactics and switches over to the Wallace side. Lety Tyler, an agent hired by the uncle, also switches over by warning Cole and Ted of a trap set for them by the uncle and his henchman.
Genres: Action Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-20
Popularity:
1937-06-18
Overview: Mary Beamish, a folksy Ozark girl, yearns for the glitter of show business and for a man. She knows she is anything but gorgeous, but figures her enthusiasm offsets that small deficit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-18
Popularity:
1944-08-15
Overview: A Brooklyn showgirl gets mixed up in a divorce between a soldier and his wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-15
Popularity:
1942-09-17
Overview: FBI agents Carl Becker and John Trent raid a New York hotel, sending Nazi spies to an upstate hunting lodge.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-17
Popularity:
1948-12-12
Overview: Maggie is resentful of being pointed out and laughed at in public because she resembles the cartoon character in the George McManus comic strip "Bringing Up Father." She visits McManus in his studio office and tries to persuade him to stop drawing the syndicated comic-strip. He tells her he will...in 1959. Maggie, not getting any younger, retains counsel and takes McManus to court.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-12
Popularity:
1948-08-18
Overview: Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-18
Popularity: