Charles Bickford Movies

A young girl, normal in every way, is affected with severe epilepsy.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nancy Reagan

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Judy Garland

Cornell employs clips from 1931's jungle melodrama East of Borneo – more specifically, clips of its lead actress, Rose Hobart – to...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Rose Hobart

The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their beloved adopted daughter was stolen from the Kiowa tribe.

Genre: Western

Cast: Burt Lancaster

Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other...

Genre: Western

Cast: Jennifer Jones

An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Alice Faye

An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jack Lemmon

An undercover cop infiltrates a powerful New York based crime syndicate.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Charles Bickford

Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between his future father-in-law, Major Terrill,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gregory Peck

Immigrant radical Bartolomeo Romagna is falsely condemned and executed for a payroll robbery. Years later, his son Mio sets out to find the truth of...

Genre:

Cast: Martin Balsam

Circus owner Buck Rand kidnaps Boy to perform in his show. He forces a pilot to fly him, Boy and his animal trainer out of the jungle. Tarzan and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Johnny Weissmüller

Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Burt Lancaster

The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Gene Tierney

Old sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Greta Garbo

A sailor suffering from post-traumatic stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Bennett

The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Burt Lancaster

A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose...

Genre: Western

Cast: Henry Fonda

Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shirley Temple

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Bendix

After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Loretta Young

In 1858 Lourdes, France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jennifer Jones

Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.

Genre: Western

Cast: Gary Cooper

A San Francisco hood is rubbed out by rival Bruno Felkin, who himself reports the crime to Homicide Lt. Kelsey in an alibi scheme which fails. To...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shelley Winters

A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jane Wyman

The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Paulette Goddard

Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks about securing a loan that large, McEwen shows him...

Genre: Western

Cast: Joel McCrea

A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Cary Grant

An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of...

Genre: War

Cast: Don Ameche

The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when...

Genre: Music

Cast: Irene Dunne

An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Burgess Meredith

Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Mitchum

A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career.

Genre: Romance

Cast: June Allyson

A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Anna May Wong

A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bing Crosby

A modern-day tale of gangsterism and revenge. After a notorious mobster murders a Jewish tailor and is let off for the crime, a band of outraged...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Charles Bickford

A posse's pursuit of bank robbers ends with loot missing and a sheriff (Broderick Crawford) wounded.

Genre: Western

Cast: Broderick Crawford

Mrs. Linda Randolph treks through darkened jungles to the land of Maradu to find her missing husband Allan, who'd left her years before when he...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Rose Hobart

A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wallace Beery

A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gary Cooper

A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Bickford

An opportunistic young man from the slums gambles his way to wealth, power and high society.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tony Curtis

An engineer makes a thieving entertainer work off her debts as a housekeeper at his jungle mining camp.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helen Twelvetrees

A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as...

Genre: Western

Cast: Alan Ladd

Dot starts out as a bartender in Havana when in walks Dingo Mike (Charles Bickford) and orders up a drink that sounds like something you'd consume on...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Evelyn Brent

Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezzlement actually committed by his cousin Lord...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Warner Baxter

Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits...

Genre: Western

Cast: Charles Bickford

A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his estate in Malaysia, she finds out that he is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carole Lombard

Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Conrad Nagel

A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Janet Gaynor

The sister of a sponge diver killed by a stingray loves an escaped convict posing as a priest.

Genre: Action

Cast: Raquel Torres

A bored society woman invites scandal and heartache when she falls in love with her low-born chauffeur.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Francis

A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mady Christians

A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive everyone else out of business.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Wayne Morris

It's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the hillbilly Romeo and Juliet whose forbidden romance...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Farley Granger

A steelworker and his aspiring wife make millions when they become partners in a dyeworks. Unfortunately, success does not bring happiness.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Irene Dunne

The owner of an Alaskan gambling boat and her business partner help thwart a crooked businessman who attempts to steal claims from local miners.

Genre: Western

Cast: Irene Rich

Della Chappell is a very wealthy and incredibly reclusive woman. When a big company wants to develop some land that Della owns, the town sends out...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Crawford

Two sets of parents frantically race to stop their eloping children's wedding.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clifton Webb

Sgt. Conniston and his alcoholic guide O'Toole are on the trail of an escaped murderer named Keith. When they catch up with him in the farthest...

Genre: Western

Cast: Charles Bickford

A wealthy ex-bootlegger comes to the rescue of a formerly rich society girl after her gold-digging fiancé leaves her stranded when he finds...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lois Moran

A lawyer sets out to commit the perfect murder.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Bickford

Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Bickford

Why are so many B-99 bombers from Hibiscus Air Base crashing or simply disappearing? Colonel Price comes up with a terrifying explanation, but will...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charlton Heston

Story of an unhappy wife of oil rigger who labors in a Central American oil field. The bored Susan falls in love with Walt's good friend Ken but...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tallulah Bankhead

Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edmund Lowe

A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Bickford

The story of Cardinal Josef Mindzhenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary who spoke out against both the Nazi occupation of his country during...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Kelly

A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Bickford

Jim Holden, a young doctor practicing in Alaska, eagerly awaits the arrival of his new nurse, Anne Webster. All of his previous left within a few...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chester Morris

When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn't do it.....

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Barrymore

It is California in 1852 that only recently being surrendered by Mexico to the United States and admitted into the union. Most of the land-owners of...

Genre: Music

Cast: John Boles

Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bob Burns

A wagon train is robbed by a gang of bandits who kill everyone but a pair of young brothers. Years later, the brothers join force to bring the...

Genre: Western

Cast: Gilbert Roland

A truck convoy traveling the Burma Road is menaced by a group of smugglers.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Charles Bickford

An ex-con vows vengeance on the newspaper responsible for putting him behind bars, but has a change of heart when another racketeer threatens to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Bickford

Thou Shalt Not Kill (1939)

Genre: Romance

Cast: Charles Bickford

The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former singing cowboy Dick...

Genre: Action

Cast: Dick Foran

This drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control over the liquor industry. Much of the tale is focused...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Bickford

A French girl raised in the south seas is brought to prim and proper New England by her New England born and bred sea captain husband. She wears...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lenore Ulric

June Martin is a dishwasher in a California logging camp boarding house. Steve Blake fights Jed Malone for her and loses, thus casting suspicion on...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Charles Bickford

During the dark days of the Civil War, a doctor gives President Lincoln a puppy to buoy his spirits.

Genre:

Cast: Robert Ryan

WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fred MacMurray

Prince of Players is a biographical film about the 19th century American actor Edwin Booth.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Burton

High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties...

Genre: War

Cast: Clark Gable

A passenger ship unexpectedly runs into a typhoon.

Genre: Action

Cast: Charles Bickford

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jane Fonda

A Marine sacrifices his adopted son and his girlfriend so that they might find a new and more prosperous life.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Bickford

Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Bickford

Pilot episode, directed by Dick Powell.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Joan Crawford

An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cliff Robertson

Passengers bound to an African copper mine at Karanga to quell a native uprising encounter murder and intrigue on the way.

Genre: Action

Cast: Charles Bickford

Gangsters and police cross each other, including murder, in an attempt to cover up crimes.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Bickford

Young Swedish-American Katrin "Katie" Holstrom leaves her family farm in Minnesota, headed for nursing school. After her tuition money runs out, she...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lee Remick