Claud Allister Movies

Humorist Robert Benchley attempts to find Walt Disney to ask him to adapt a short story about a gentle dragon who would rather recite poetry than be...

Genre: Family

Cast: Robert Benchley

Wall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of...

Genre: History

Cast: Charles Laughton

The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.

Genre: Action

Cast: John Howard

Two young women, Zasu and Thelma, complain that all of their dates take them to Coney Island. The next day a car goes by and they are splashed with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Zasu Pitts

Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ronald Colman

An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.

Genre: War

Cast: Tyrone Power

Drummond goes up against foreign agents who are trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.

Genre: Action

Cast: John Lodge

Bulldog Drummond forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis, Carl Peterson.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ralph Richardson

This animated fairy tale for kids tells the classic story of a dapper, automobile loving fellow named Mr. Toad, whose passion becomes a problem when...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Basil Rathbone

A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Buchanan

The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harry Ritz

A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ann Sothern

Romance and political intrigue highlight director William C. McGann's 1931 comedy about a playboy smitten with the stepdaughter of a corrupt...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a stern magistrate (Will Hay) visits a music hall...

Genre: Music

Cast: Will Hay

Three WWI veterans thought long dead turn out to be still alive and return home - much to the consternation of their friends and family.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Arlen

Charming Sinners was a stilted adaptation of Somerset Maugham's play The Constant Wife. Robert Miles (Clive Brook) starts the ball rolling when he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruth Chatterton

New York manicurist Mamie Murphy plans to marry a rich man, so she repeatedly turns down the proposals of honest reporter David Haines. When she is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Patricia Farr

An ordinary man is confronted by gangsters who have reason to believe a treasure is buried somewhere on his property.

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Cast: Mary Brian

Linda works at an advertising agency, but, unlike the other women in the secretarial pool, she hopes to succeed in the business rather than just find...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Wayne Morris

A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold digger.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marion Davies

The Wind in the Willows: Concise version of Kenneth Grahame's story of the same name. J. Thaddeus Toad, owner of Toad Hall, is prone to fads, such as...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Bing Crosby

Kitty Vane, Alan Trent, and Gerald Shannon have been inseparable friends since childhood. Kitty has always known she would marry one of them, but has...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Fredric March

A wealthy bachelor hires a pretty young nanny to look after his adopted daughter. Sparks quickly fly between the two, much to the dismay of the man's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Slim Summerville

Gertrude Lennox, a dominating woman who controls every aspect of her household, is preparing a reception for famous novelist Philip Lord, who is to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claud Allister

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alice Faye

Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Fontaine

Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interferes. Hoping to improve her daughter's social...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Patricia Medina

Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Raft

Anne Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Harlow

In this comedy-mystery, a private detective helps three businessmen get even with the man who misused their investments. The detective plans to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leslie Howard

Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along and organizes a morale-boosting show...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jessie Matthews

The story of a romance between the daughter of the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.

Genre: History

Cast: Jean-Pierre Aumont

A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gloria Holden

A backwoods lawyer's race for the governor's office is thwarted by mainstream opponents who dig up dirt from his past.

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Cast: Herb Shriner

'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frank Pettingell

Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the...

Genre: War

Cast: Don Ameche

Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Irene Dunne

A crooked lawyer trying to cheat a young girl out of her inheritance tries to convince a sea captain to help him. Re-released in 1939 as "Phantom...

Genre: War

Cast: Laura La Plante

The story starts with a prologue set in 1889 in which we see an angry husband murdering his wife's lover. The setting then moves to 1929, just as an...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jack Mulhall

Mrs. Bennet wishes to wed her five unmarried daughters and is overjoyed when a wealthy bachelor begins living nearby, but misunderstandings make...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Greer Garson

A young man impersonates a doctor.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claud Allister

Unbeknown to each other, a husband and wife acquire separate nightclubs in the same London street; however, both clubs are on the brink of bankruptcy.

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Cast: Charles "Buddy" Rogers

This being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed in its entirety in the San Fernando Valley. Within its...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Patric Knowles

An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Brian Aherne

An accountant who has to take a second job working at a racetrack, soon becomes mixed up with a shady crowd.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Anne Crawford

Passing herself off as a countess, glamorous Lucy Stavrin hobnobs with the rich and famous along the French Riviera. Aware that Lucy is a phony,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Evelyn Brent

One of the guests tries to foil a gang of jewel-robbers during a country house weekend party.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Adolphe Menjou

A British crime film directed by Mansfield Markham

Genre: Crime

Cast: George Barraud

A man becomes bored with married life and pretends to have lost his memory so he can pursue other women.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Adolphe Menjou

A barber is mistaken for a rich society woman's new servant.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Herman Bing

In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants, without any knowledge of who their father really...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Tony Curtis

Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."

Genre: Drama

Cast: W. Somerset Maugham

The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Greene

What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

American adventurer Jeff Williams is fleeing the communist advance in China when he becomes entangled with a young Chinese orphan, Wei Lin, and a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ronald Reagan

A French sleeping-car attending with an eye for the ladies hooks up with a wealthy widow and they get married. What he doesn't know is that she...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Madeleine Carroll

Mort Bradley, New York political boss and underworld czar, controls not only the city's most popular nightclub but also much of the press; however,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Wray

Two classic animated shorts from the Disney studios. In 'The Reluctant Dragon' (1941), a young boy and a famous dragon fighter team up to teach a...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Pinto Colvig

A wealthy and powerful industrialist changes his identity to avenge himself on the wife that spurned him on their wedding night.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Warner Baxter

In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Benny

Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America. In England, he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jackie Hunter

A pair of divorced actors are brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a...

Genre: Music

Cast: Kathryn Grayson