William Pawley Movies

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henry Fonda

Roy Rogers is a cowboy who joins the Border Patrol, only to have his buddy Tommy get killed at a local saloon. Determined to get revenge at any cost,...

Genre: Western

Cast: Roy Rogers

Adaptation of the play Music at Midnight, set in the Iron Curtain.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Martin Landau

Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Harlow

Granite-jawed Jack Holt performs a dual role in Columbia's Trapped by G-Men.

Genre: Action

Cast: Jack Holt

Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene, fingered her for. Gene is in prison for life. She...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pat O’Brien

The second and final Grand National Pictures film to feature The Shadow, played again by Rod La Rocque. In this version, Lamont Cranston is an...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Rod La Rocque

A naive farmer encounters a beautiful burlesque dancer on the streets of New York and agrees to pose as her husband during her mother's visit.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeanette Loff

Gene takes care of three tough kids sent west from Chicago after their father died and left them a cattle ranch. They help him catch a bunch of...

Genre: Western

Cast: Gene Autry

Racketeer Jim Barnes is trying to force the independent taxicab-drivers to join his "protection service" at the cost of five bucks a day. Champion...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Rochelle Hudson

A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claude Rains

In their farm house in a New York village, Ma Shelby prepares breakfast for her four children, Isaac, Tommy, Johnny and Susan, and then awakens them....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mae Marsh

In the Depression, Pete and Sidney are good kids, working hard, giving money to their parents, and engaged for three years while they save to get...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Farrell

Socialite Letty Lynton is returning to New York, abandoning one-time lover Emile Renaul in South America, when she strikes up a shipboard romance...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Crawford

A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Walter Huston

Two people go to Coney Island to find romance and wind up in jail.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Zasu Pitts

Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Joan Bennett

Innocent Sally Brown thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the wife of an unmarried businessman on a trip to Paris.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Bennett

A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their...

Genre: Romance

Cast: James Dunn

With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.

Genre: War

Cast: Spencer Tracy

On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Mary Ellis

Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray...

Genre: Crime

Cast: George Raft

The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Guy Kibbee

The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Milford, to distract him. When Bronson makes up and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bert Wheeler

World War I drama about a soldier and the wild horse he befriends.

Genre: War

Cast: Walter Huston

A young reporter tries to prove her mettle by exposing a liquor racketeering gang.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Florence Rice

Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ross Alexander

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

Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

Genre: Western

Cast: Randolph Scott

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jane Withers

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

Story of French prisoner in Germany who falls in love with a German general's daughter. From the novel "Axelle" by Pierre Benoit.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Warner Baxter

Frontiersman Tom Garfield and his pals endeavor to save their land from the clutches of slimy easterner Forsyth. The villain hires a bit of local...

Genre: Western

Cast: Charles Starrett

Sgt. Renfrew and Constable Kelly go aloft to search for a plane missing with a shipment of gold from the Yukon Mine Company. Inventor Speavy has...

Genre: Action

Cast: James Newill

When the plane owned by the "Yukon and Columbia Mail Service" crashes, RCMP Sergeant Renfrew (James Newill) and Constable Kelly (Dave O'Brien)...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: James Newill

A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elissa Landi

The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Dunn

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Muni

Air-race champions "Speed" Leslie and Branda Fowler combine to open a very profitable airplane service that flies patients to other cities for...

Genre: Action

Cast: James Dunn

Jim Gladden, a construction site foreman, is partially responsible for the accidental death of one of his workers, Fred Smith, and makes good on...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Warner Baxter

Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.

Genre: Western

Cast: Henry Fonda

A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sylvia Sidney

Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for...

Genre: Action

Cast: Pat O’Brien

Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Garfield

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Barrymore

Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tyrone Power

A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Preston Foster

A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dorothy Lamour

A reporter enlists the help of a gangster's secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to justice.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Wayne Morris

A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Wayne Morris

Running from the law, Jim Hall joins Hays’ gang. Hays is foreman on the Herrick ranch and plans to rustle Herrick’s cattle. Attracted to...

Genre: Action

Cast: George O’Brien

Lloyd Nolan is back as detective Michael Shayne who's in search of a stolen coin.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Lloyd Nolan

A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon is given the choice of jail or going with a rough-and-tumble oil driller's jungle oil-field in order to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Lucille Ball

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a protection racket preying on milk distribution is broken through the persistence of law enforcement...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Richard Alexander

When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Murphy

After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Edward G. Robinson

Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Joan Blondell

Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sylvia Sidney

A professor gets mixed up with chorus girls in a Broadway musical.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Buster Keaton

Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elissa Landi

A district attorney uses psychology to expose a criminal gang by publicizing the prosecution of an innocent man.

Genre: Action

Cast: Jack Holt

Mrs. Doray sits with a Juvenile Court Judge to learn more about problem children and what to do about them. One of the cases involves 13 year old...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Spencer Tracy