John J. Richardson Movies

Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Edward G. Robinson

The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Theodore Roberts

Cyclone Bill is the popular sheriff of Mustang Gulch, where "a gun in the hand is worth two on the hip." Bill keeps the town free of criminals, and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ben Turpin

A salesman tries to sell a tractor to a customer who hates tractors while falling for the girl.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joe E. Brown

A jail break turns into a race.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Billy Bevan

The Cannon Ball Express is a 1924 comedy short.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Billy Bevan

Billy works at a film studio where lots of things keep going wrong. First, while filming, the camera man and director nearly get dropped off a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Billy Bevan

Sneezing Beezers is a silent comedy short.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Billy Bevan

Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Edward G. Robinson

A Sweet Pickle is a 1925 Comedy short.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alice Day

There is no love lost between the Red Dog Garage and the Black Cat Garage, two auto repair shops on opposite sides of the street. A big cross-country...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Billy Bevan

The "Joybell Players" consisting of Jack Cooper, Ethelyn Gibson and Jack Richardson star in this very funny comedy from writer/director Robert...

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Cast: Jack Cooper

Rampaging lions are on the loose in a hunting lodge. Approximately, only eight minutes of the short survives.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Billy Bevan

Andy's wife, seeing others succeed in the stock market, decides to invest their money in it.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Andy Clyde

Beatrice is a maid to a naughty society girl. The latter's lover takes a liking to the maid and a riot follows during a dance. After a free-for-all...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Beatrice La Plante

In this movie, Max Linder parodies the famous novel "The Three Musketeers".

Genre: Romance

Cast: Max Linder

In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled "crates" and the casualty...

Genre: Action

Cast: Errol Flynn

All the qualified men line up to be chosen, as an heiress advertises that she will marry the man with the most interesting mustache, that marriage...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Billy Bevan

Beautiful Belinda is kidnapped by Relentless Rudolph; Hairbreadth Harry must race to her rescue.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Earl McCarthy

Beautiful Belinda is kidnapped by terrible people who want her to sign over a gold mine.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Earl McCarthy

A boat race rivalry erupts into comical danger.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Madeline Hurlock

In this Mack Sennett comedy, a mother and daughter fear foreclosure because their mortgage payment is due and they're unable to pay it. Meanwhile,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sidney Smith

Instead of delivering some fancy dresses to a customer, the girls wear them to a party.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Zasu Pitts

Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warner Bros.' The Patient in Room 18. Patric Knowles...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Patric Knowles

An eccentric inventor has thought of a way that automobiles can run on radio waves, without gasoline. His plans put him in conflict with the owner of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Billy Bevan

Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder. Colonel Rogers of...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Boris Karloff

A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Dick Powell

A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ann Sheridan

Casey and Babe are sisters who work in a department store and each year the store puts on a show. As expected, things are going wrong with every act...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rosetta Duncan

A man with a broken back dies after his wife has an affair with his brother.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Josephine Hutchinson

After a mine cave in, the rescue crew risks their lives to search for two trapped miners.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Muir

Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pat O’Brien

A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ronald Reagan

A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Donald Woods

A singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band.

Genre: Music

Cast: James Melton

Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ronald Reagan

The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake 'public wedding' in the mouth of their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jane Wyman

T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ronald Reagan

A young doctor is determined to expose the killer when a surgeon is found stabbed to death in a hospital elevator.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Ricardo Cortez

The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures during one eventful spring day.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Olivia de Havilland

In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Francis

A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jane Bryan

Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Gloria Stuart

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,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Frank McHugh

Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Humphrey Bogart

A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Garfield

While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bonita Granville

McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money...

Genre: Western

Cast: James Cagney

A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Kay Francis

One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Geraldine Fitzgerald

When a close friend of the Drew family is accused of murder in a rural community, Nancy, aided by boyfriend Ted, helps her lawyer father expose the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bonita Granville

A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.

Genre: Action

Cast: Pat O’Brien

To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her rival.

Genre: Action

Cast: Beverly Roberts

Nancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the murder of their chauffeur complicates matters.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bonita Granville

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Garfield

When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joel McCrea

After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie...

Genre: Crime

Cast: James Cagney

A bumbling bank custodian becomes an unlikely hero when he foils a robbery.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sidney Smith

A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Aline MacMahon

A detective sets out to nab Notorious Nora, the tough female leader of a gang whose headquarters is in a dangerous speakeasy. He decides to...

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Cast: Larry Semon

A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound freighter's cargo.

Genre: Western

Cast: Dick Foran

A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dick Foran

Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.

Genre: War

Cast: Jane Withers

A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.

Genre: Romance

Cast: John Litel

The movie makers are filming the next installment of the western serial "Get Your Man". The movie's leading man wants his stunt double to do the next...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ben Turpin

Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's...

Genre: Crime

Cast: James Stephenson

During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where...

Genre: Action

Cast: Boris Karloff

Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Glenda Farrell

Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector...

Genre: Action

Cast: Glenda Farrell

Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.

Genre: Action

Cast: Jane Wyman

Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new boss's wife.

Genre: Romance

Cast: John Payne

City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pat O’Brien

A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barton MacLane

A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Donald Woods

A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Garfield

A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eddie Albert

Pre-code crime drama directed by E. Mason Hopper starring Lois Wilson, Lawrence Gray, Billy Bevan and Eileen Percy.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lois Wilson

Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joe E. Brown

A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Donald Woods

When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Dick Foran

In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bette Davis

Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year job in Belgium. Ellen and Doug decide to spend...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Priscilla Lane

A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jackie Cooper

Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runner. Harry won't leave his home town without his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bert Wheeler

An oil heir and the daughter of a social climbing family are set to marry.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ben Turpin

George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Barrymore

A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Eddie Albert

A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kay Francis

Vernon Dent out fishing.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vernon Dent

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Roger Pryor

When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Billy Mauch

Billy Davis discovers that his father's bakery business is in serious financial trouble and leaves college in order to help his family.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Billy West

A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stan Laurel

A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marion Davies

In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bette Davis

An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.

Genre: Music

Cast: Al Jolson

In this silent comedy, a pretty department store cashier is charged with a robbery that occurred overnight at the store. However, circumstantial...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ben Turpin

After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harold Lloyd

Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Warren William

Call a Cop is a 1921 comedy short.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marie Prevost

A Hank Mann slapstick comedy where he plays a Junk Dealer's Helper.

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Cast: Hank Mann