Andrew Tombes Movies

Idle chit-chat from some out-of-work actors in a boarding house.

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Cast: Andrew Tombes

Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Lake

Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of Parents and Teachers') pits Charlie Chan against...

Genre: Action

Cast: Warner Oland

In this episode of the Higgins Family series, pandemonium ensues when Ma enters a dog biscuit contest. The prize is a whopping $50,000.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Gleason

Steve Morgan kills a man in a holdup and hitches a ride to Los Angeles with Fergie. At a gas station, they pick up two women. Encountering a...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Lawrence Tierney

Entertainers get stranded in a small boomtown, and open up a restaurant.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Al Ritz

A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Franchot Tone

In this comic western, a Broadway star leaves his musical revue to go West and help out his troubled friend. While there, the performer finds himself...

Genre: Western

Cast: Bob Crosby

After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law...

Genre: Action

Cast: Randolph Scott

Amateur sleuth Ellery Queen learns the truth about a businessman's two long-lost daughters.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: William Gargan

Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edward G. Robinson

With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has...

Genre: Western

Cast: Deanna Durbin

Hoppy, California, and Lucky travel to Mesa City for a short vacation. California buys new clothes and carrying his old ones in a suitcase, bumps...

Genre: Western

Cast: William Boyd

Bill Lawrence wins a bevy or prizes from a radio program, but ends up having to sell them all in order to pay the taxes he's incurred.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Stewart

A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning the would-be surgeon into a murdering ghoul as...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: George Zucco

A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Dennis O'Keefe

Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal burleycue singer who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Warner Baxter

Like 1940's Melody Ranch, the 1941 Gene Autry vehicle Down Mexico Way was designed as a "special", to be promoted separately from Autry's regular...

Genre: Western

Cast: Gene Autry

A young woman, a trio of singers, and a mystery writer are among the guests at a house long-considered to be haunted.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Anne Gwynne

Johnny Hart (Rod Cameron) is on the run from the law after killing one of the men who shot his partner. He passes through a town and stops at a...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yvonne De Carlo

A medicine show man tries to con people into believing he's a legitimate stage actor.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frank Morgan

An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Judy Canova

A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a police inspector.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edmund Lowe

A ranch owner fires his ranch hands and brings in women to replace them. The owner's daughter wants the male hands back and comes up with a plan to...

Genre: Western

Cast: Roy Rogers

In the small town of Crownport local attorney Bill Adams is trying to break up the ring of corrupt town officials by running for mayor. The cards...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Frank Morgan

A famous stage actor hopes to land the lead role in a big new Broadway musical, but he's unaware his teenage son has already been given the part.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald O'Connor

Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kay Kyser

Salesman develops a fake stock plan in new invention before it is finished.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ross Alexander

A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Rogers

A man on his way to closing a million dollar deal has an accident and gets amnesia.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Roger Pryor

Rival reporters compete to sign the Wyatt Quintuplets to be guests on their radio shows.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yvonne Dionne

A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Burns

Period musical about a song plugger who vows to turn an opera composer's music into popular hits.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mark Stevens

Smugglers are using a device for controlling airplanes in flight, and newspaper reporters from Chicago are vying for the story. Reporter Elmer Lane...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joe E. Brown

A heartthrob singer, Tony Paige, also known as "America's Boyfriend" decides to wed a Swedish actress. His manager doesn't want this because he is...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Robert Paige

A spunky storekeeper is determined to clean up corruption in her small town, as well as win the heart of the new sheriff. Comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Judy Canova

A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.

Genre: Family

Cast: Charles Ruggles

The wealthy owner of a Pennsylvania steel business travels to New York to break up his son's romance with a showgirl. Director George Marshall's 1938...

Genre: Action

Cast: Victor McLaglen

Jane's dad (Tombes) is an oil field worker who comes into a fortune and is then pushed into society by his wife.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jane Withers

Constance Shaw, a Broadway dance star, and Joseph Rivington Reynolds, a keen fan of hers, marry after she breaks up with her fiancé. Connie...

Genre: Music

Cast: Red Skelton

War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chaperone" Ivy Hotchkiss. Bob's a cheerful Lothario with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Cummings

Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alice Faye

A (rather shady?) private detective specializing in recovering highly insured items gets involved in recovering a stolen necklace. In the process...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald Woods

A socialite dumps her fiancé on their wedding day and runs off with a saxophone player. Comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dennis O'Keefe

Singer Ann wants back her money that the manager of a big-band has embezzled.

Genre: Music

Cast: Frances Langford

Jackie Cooper stars in this first film in the wholesome "Henry Aldrich" series of teen comedies.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jackie Cooper

After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her...

Genre: Music

Cast: Red Skelton

The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth, but she will be saved if her three...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Raft

A singer marries a famous composer, and after a while she gets the itch to go back on the stage. However, her husband won't let her. When she hears...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Constance Bennett

Sponsored by The Protestant Film Commission, this religiously-affiliated tale centers around citizen Henry Wood (played by Oscar winner James Dunn...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Dunn

A poor boy rises to power in politics.

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Raft

A Canadian Northwest Mounted Policeman suspects his girlfriend's father of theft and murder.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rochelle Hudson

A show troupe is engaged by Judge Culliman, who is running for Governor, to enhance his political campaign. When the inebriated Judge has to be...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dick Powell

A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dick Powell

The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jed Prouty

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Arthur

Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ann Miller

Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: June Lang

Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Holden

Based on Zane Grey's tale of a man who gains an unfair reputation as a gunfighter while out to avenge his father's death.

Genre: Western

Cast: George Montgomery

An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alice Faye

A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Freddie Bartholomew

Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Constance Cummings

Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Walter Pidgeon

A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Nelson Eddy

Dan Martin, an unemployed college graduate, drifts into the town of Lyndale, only to learn that the town and everything in it are dominated by...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Cromwell

In this romantic comedy, a passionate French painter nearly goes berserk when he learns that his well-meaning friends have stolen one of his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ramon Novarro

Film-within-a-film: two men eating lunch at restaurant see another Shell Oil film entitled "The Largest Club in the World" with Lew Lehr and Don...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Andrew Tombes

Donovan unknowingly becomes tangled up with jewel thieves when Evelyn Howard gives him a cigarette lighter containing some hot rocks.

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Cast: Paul Kelly

A Braodway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fredric March

A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Claire Trevor

The Weavers are share-croppers who confront their landlord with their tale of woe only to find he is in money trouble too. He also has a wastrel son...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Leon Weaver

When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.

Genre: Action

Cast: Victor Mature

Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Betty Grable

Wildcat Kelly has been dead and buried for years. Or has he? Dale is a reporter for an Eastern magazine who comes West to find out the true story of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Roy Rogers

US-to-Central-America freight service pilot gets engaged to radio broadcaster and promises to take a desk job but the urge for adventure is too...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Lloyd Nolan

Rival advertising firms compete for a radio show's pickle manufacturing account.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tony Martin

A run-away socialite "Babs" Bradley (Martha O'Driscoll), using an alias, wants to join the WACs, finds romance with a shipyard worker, Johnny Adams...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Martha O'Driscoll

Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a...

Genre: Music

Cast: David Bruce

In this romantic comedy, set during WW II, an newlywed army couple are unable to consummate their marriage, as on their wedding night the husband is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gale Storm

A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mother's 12-year-old daughter.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Diana Barrymore

In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: J. Edward Bromberg

Elmer Whippet inherits the Whippet Pickles company and sets out to meet the two stars, Mary Reynolds and John Stowe, of the radio program sponsored...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Hugh Herbert

Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Myrna Loy

The Go-Getter (1956)

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hank McCune

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 millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Veronica Lake

Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Deanna Durbin

Detectives Dick Williams and Andy McAllister find themselves trying to solve several crimes at an isolated mentally-ill hospital, where the patients...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Arlen

A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Carroll

Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luise Rainer

In this Warner Bros. short film, Alex visits his sister Belinda and her husband Fred. It looks like Alex is going to be around for a while, much to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Catlett

When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Adolphe Menjou

Two vaudevillians on the run from crooks try to pass themselves off as cowboys.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dennis Morgan

The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jed Prouty

Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Red Skelton

Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names...

Genre: Music

Cast: Ole Olsen

Margaret Drew runs her trucking company single-mindedly, if not ruthlessly. The only thorn in her side is writer Michael Holmes who is writing a book...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Crawford

Susan Kent, hoping to establish herself as a song-plugger, tries to obtain a second song from a young songwriter, Johnny Crane, after his first song...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ellen Drew

Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Gloria Jean

Corky is the daughter of an officer in the Naval Air Service who, while putting on musical shows for the troops, uncovers a group of spies.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jane Withers

Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Ole Olsen

Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bing Crosby

General store owners, through a series of contrivances, end up on the better side of a practical joke being played on them.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chester Lauck

Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bud Abbott

Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kathryn Grayson

Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.

Genre: Music

Cast: Robert Alda

A movie-making publicity man screwball comedy about a movie producer who wants to create publicity for his latest project. He decides to have three...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Barrymore

Employees of The Homey Foamy Washing Machine Company decide to put on a musical show. The Board of Directors attempt to get the employees to get back...

Genre: Music

Cast: Kenny Stevens

A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bob Hope

A crooked boxing promoter tries to shake down Joe's manager by setting up a rigged fight in Humphrey Pennyworth's hometown.

Genre: Family

Cast: Leon Errol

Two strippers on the run hide out in a college fraternity. Director Nunnally Johnson's 1955 musical comedy stars Betty Grable, Sheree North, Robert...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Betty Grable

Compassionate small-town lawyer Richard Clarke moves to New York City to seek his fortune, but is unsuccessful until he takes a friend's advice and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Benny

The life and career of famed American composer Stephen Foster.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ray Middleton

An orphan girl becomes adopted by a group of old men and is placed in the home of one of them. She sings and dances and helps out where she can.

Genre: Family

Cast: Jane Withers

A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jane Withers