Knox Manning Movies

A celebrated New York cabbie is pressed into service for a perilous journey through World War II China.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laraine Day

This short tells the story of archery through the ages, mostly using Warner Brothers archive footage. Noted archer Howard Hill demonstrates his...

Genre: History

Cast: Howard Hill

Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who was flirting with Burleigh's sister. The...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Danny Kaye

Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American...

Genre: Action

Cast: Lewis Wilson

Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Danny Kaye

The third film of Frank Capra's 'Why We Fight" propaganda film series, dealing with the Nazi conquest of Western Europe in 1940.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Knox Manning

Congo Bill is hired to locate an heiress lost somewhere in Africa.

Genre: Action

Cast: Don McGuire

Mandrake and his team attempt to prevent "The Wasp" from stealing and using a new Radium invention.

Genre: Action

Cast: Warren Hull

Sergeant MacLane of the Mounties investigates the disruptive activities of a bunch of troublemakers.

Genre: Action

Cast: Robert Kellard

Documentary-style drama on training of aerial rear gunners in World War II. Private PeeWee Williams, a Kansas farm boy, transforms his home-grown...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Burgess Meredith

This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Douglas Corrigan

Chubby William Tracy starred as Dodo Doubleday, a feckless Army draftee blessed (or cursed) with a photographic memory. Inexplicably promoted to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Tracy

Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.

Genre: Western

Cast: Donald Douglas

The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt...

Genre: Action

Cast: Arleen Whelan

Joe McDoakes thinks he's allergic.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George O'Hanlon

The struggle over the Bellamy estate ends with Michael Bellamy accused of murder and killed on the way to prison, while his brother Abel Bellamy...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Victor Jory

The heirs of Anton Benson are searching Bensonhurst for hidden gold; they are joined by a reporter, a gangster...and a masked fiend known as The Iron...

Genre: Action

Cast: Charles Quigley

This entry in Warner's "Broadway Brevity" series of shorts is based on Damon Runyon's short story, "The Old Doll's House". Racketeer Lance McGowan,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Craig Stevens

A short in the WB Hollywood Novelty series (production number 7301) about the training of polo ponies. Buddy Rogers buys one of the ponies in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joe E. Brown

Kings of the Turf is a 1941 American short documentary film about horse racing, directed by Del Frazier. This entry in The Sports Parade series shows...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Knox Manning

Frank Capra-directed propaganda film produced during World War II depicting the United States' new enemy: Japan.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Beal

Two tour guides take visitors on a promotional tour of Warner Bros.' studios.

Genre: Music

Cast: Robert Arthur

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Howard Hill

Visits to three animal parks in Miami, Florida: the Rare Bird Farm, with it's many chickens, cranes, and other birds; the Monkey Jungle, where the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Knox Manning

Most of the footage is devoted to the annual Passion Play at Lawton, Oklahoma, enacted by volunteers from several nearby communities. This portion of...

Genre: Family

Cast: Ginger Prince

A colorful music and dance tribute to the peasants and workers of Brazil.

Genre: Music

Cast: Katherine Dunham

A young intern is drafted and placed in the Army Medical Corps as a buck private and is none too happy about it. Injured, he is placed in the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: William T. Orr

A superhero known as The Black Commando battles Nazi agents who use explosive gases and artificial lightning to sabotage the war effort.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Paul Kelly

A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play professional football. Instead, he marries his college...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tom Harmon

Smart as a Fox is a 1946 short documentary film supervised by Gordon Hollingshead. In this short film, a fox cub experiences life in the forest. It...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Knox Manning

Warner Bros. short about stuntmen and stuntwomen and how they do their work, featuring real-life stunt artists Harvey Parry, Mary Wiggins, and Allen...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Harvey Parry

A short film that looks at various animal acts training and working in Hollywood.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Knox Manning

This Warner Bros. The Sports Parade series short chronicles the attempt by a group of men to navigate the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Knox Manning

Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Martha Scott

A man tries to redeem himself after ducking out on his comrades before the fatal attack.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Don 'Red' Barry

After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Ellen Drew

This short film showcases the skills of Howard Hill, known as the "World's Greatest Archer".

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Howard Hill

Tom, a young Army Air Forces pilot, begins instruction with his captain on flying the A-20 attack aircraft. The captain demonstrates to Tom the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Don Castle

Janie is a telephone operator who is caught up in the lines of love of three men: car salesman Tom, Chicago millionaire Dick and auto mechanic Harry....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ginger Rogers

Story of a Dog is a 1945 short documentary film under the supervision of Gordon Hollingshead. In the film, a dog trains for the battlefield and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Knox Manning

This short film, produced at the end of WWII, warns that although Adolf Hitler is dead, his ideas live on.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Knox Manning

In this short film, prominent jazz musicians of the 1940s gather for a rare filming of a jam session. This highly stylized chronicle features tenor...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lester Young

This short film focuses on Ontario's fire rangers, who keep watch over Canada's forests.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Knox Manning

It is 1865 and Union prisoners use a military balloon to escape a Southern prison camp near the end of the Civil War. The balloon drifts for days and...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Richard Crane

Two young beautiful starlets use the Griffith Observatory telescope to find stars in Hollywood.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Knox Manning

A team composed of an aerospace scientist, an ex-Air Force general, and an industrialist conceives an ambitious plan to land Americans on the moon....

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: John Archer

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bud Abbott

This short film in support of the war effort focuses on the training and missions of Army Air Corps Captain Hewitt T. Wheless just after the U.S....

Genre: War

Cast: Hewitt T. Wheless

The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Bendix

As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gary Cooper

A chorus girl's career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking marijuana.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lila Leeds

A brief history of Stan Kenton's musical career from taxi-dance gigs to his successful big band orchestra.

Genre: Music

Cast: Stan Kenton

Newlyweds Joe and Anne Palooka are delayed in their honeymoon plans by the helpful Humphrey Pennyworth and by considerably-less-helpful manager,...

Genre: Family

Cast: Leon Errol

A little feature on horse racing.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Knox Manning

Short film in support of the Red Cross showing civilian volunteers'work, radio and movie personalities at a fund-raising gala and encouraging...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Knox Manning

An expedition into the Rockies is chronicled.

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Cast: Knox Manning

Buffalo Bill Cody battles a gang of outlaws secretly headed by an unscrupulous lawyer.

Genre: Action

Cast: Jock Mahoney

Footage from a Nazi propaganda film about the invasion of Poland is translated from German.

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Cast: Knox Manning

Sardonic commentary over an abridged version of DOWN ON THE FARM (1920).

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Knox Manning

The Unwritten Code is an offbeat, better-than-average Columbia wartime "B" picture. Though Ann Savage and Tom Neal are top-billed, the central...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ann Savage

Good Old Corn was released theatrically in 1943 and later as a small 8mm silent film for the home market. Uses clips from silent films.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Knox Manning

Educational short about the status of battle tanks and tankist training in the American Army in pre-War 1941, featuring a comical Army trainee from...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Tobias

This Vitaphone 'Technicolor Special' (production number 8001) portrays the behind-the-scenes story of the building and manning, during World War Two,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Knox Manning

Based on a successful comic book that began in 1941, the Blackhawks were seven flyers who banded together during WW II to fight the Nazis. After the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kirk Alyn