Jack Rice Movies

Older but no wiser, Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead enter a songwriting contest. It's all part of a plan to cover charity checks that they've signed...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Penny Singleton

Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry in the long-running domestic comedy series. Dagwood...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Penny Singleton

Dagwood gets a raise due to a new contract with a bank manager. Blondie misunderstanding the amount of the raise pledges more than they can afford...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Penny Singleton

Dagwood prepares for a long-delayed vacation with the family. His boss Mr. Radcliffe has promised the Bumsteads that there'll be no more...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Penny Singleton

Daisy, the Bumstead's mischievous mutt, makes the family a little extra cash when she wins a contest to become a model for the Navy. From there she...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Penny Singleton

Mr. Dithers leaves Dagwood in charge of the office for a short period. Poor old Dagwood manages to gum things up when he falls for a confidence scam...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Penny Singleton

An electric shock enables Satch to predict numbers, so the Bowery Boys are off to Las Vegas to win enough money at the roulette wheels to let their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leo Gorcey

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

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

The story of Jerome "Dizzy" Dean, a major-league baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs in the 1930s and 1940s.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dan Dailey

A naïve farm girl is duped by con men who promise her movie stardom in exchange for her savings.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Judy Canova

Gildersleeve has jury duty.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harold Peary

Tim MacGregor, unscrupulous lumber operator, obtains by bribery a contract to cut a vast quantity of timber from land owned by Kay Handley, rich...

Genre: Action

Cast: Richard Arlen

The story, if you want to call it that is about a husband who tells his wife he's going hunting but actually sneaks off to fool around in Atlantic...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bobby Clark

It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dana Andrews

Aspiring Producer Michael McCreigh convinces Uncle Carlton to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play's ridiculous plot. If Michael...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gene Raymond

Edgar thinks he finally has a plan that will force his lazy, mooching brother-in-law to get a job. First, Edgar has some friends help him to stage a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edgar Kennedy

A little entry from the RKO shorts department serving also as an audition-type (stick 'em in one of these and see if they appeal to a real audience,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tony Martin

The second entry in the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the family struggling to keep their copper mine when their elderly business partner...

Genre: Family

Cast: Dorothy Peterson

The first of four films in the "Five Little Peppers" series, based on Margaret Sinclair's popular book, about a widowed mother and her five children....

Genre: Family

Cast: Dorothy Peterson

Dennis Carter, the head of a detective agency, and his secretary, Henrietta Rankin, get involved in the murder of a scandal-peddling, blackmailing...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lynne Roberts

When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

Reverend John Burnside, American missionary in the Far East, prepares to return home after twenty years to take up the fight against Communism. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kent Taylor

An add campaign for stockings embarrasses the girls.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: June Brewster

Stuffy amateur director Eddie Dolan decides to mount a show for the well-connected patrons of a posh country club. Eddie and his girlfriend, actress...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frederick Brady

In Vermont, college student Ives Towner refuses to marry his longtime girlfriend, Julie Weir, until he has a career. Soon after, Julie meets and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Bennett

A strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him home to meet her parents.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gene Raymond

Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maureen O'Sullivan

Lum and Abner go to Washington to aid in the war effort by giving the government what they think is a good substitute for rubber--Abner's homemade...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chester Lauck

Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, getting mixed up with jewel thieves and an ancient...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Woolsey

The story involves a rather odd flashback by Dale who is visiting El Dorado, home of her grandmother. She dreams about her grandmother's adventures...

Genre: Action

Cast: Roy Rogers

On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Young

Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Howard Duff

This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Douglas Corrigan

After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Stewart

While filling up with gas, a carload of passengers notices that the service station is up for sale. They decide to buy the station and try to run it...

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Cast: Edgar Kennedy

Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Penny Singleton

Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Warren William

Radio singing star, Eve Porter, wants a vacation during her show's summer hiatus, but her manager and press have booked her for additional work. She...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ann Miller

A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Dix

A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bill Williams

The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Marjorie Woodworth

The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his...

Genre: Action

Cast: Victor Jory

Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel,...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Jack Carson

A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man's old partner,...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Richard Dix

Edgar's landlord wants to sell the house Edgar is renting. He has to come up with the money in two weeks or the landlord will sell it out from under...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edgar Kennedy

The Blondes and Redheads series: To prove his sophistication, a brutish gangster enlists the girls' help in winning a dancing competition

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dorothy Granger

When a woman goes missing on the eve of her wedding, her fiancee hires a detective to track her down

Genre: Crime

Cast: Michael Duane

A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clark Gable

During a test, a race car using an experimental oil fueled engine blows up, killing the driver. Lucky Taylor, a stunt driver, is initially blamed...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Richard Arlen

American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Joel McCrea

A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ginger Rogers

Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Adolphe Menjou

Edgar's wife, Florence, because of an incident with her brother, her husband, and parts from her brother's photogenic set, mistakenly thinks that she...

Genre:

Cast: Edgar Kennedy

A quiet day at home is interrupted by arguments over Shakespearean speeches.

Genre:

Cast: Edgar Kennedy

Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Allyn Joslyn

Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Loretta Young

When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Brian Aherne

Famed detective and crime novelist Ellery Queen solves a case involving the suspicious death of a rich man whose inheritors fight over his estate.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Ralph Bellamy

Tom and Harry are sailors on a yacht, and go ashore for a few beers and whatever else may come up. What comes up is a brawl between them and the...

Genre:

Cast: Tom Kennedy

Edgar falls in love with another woman.

Genre:

Cast: Edgar Kennedy

Band leader Phil Harris, through a misunderstanding, finds himself with a job as a professional escort, and a date to take a rich young society girl...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Phil Harris

Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner...

Genre: Western

Cast: Bing Crosby

The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Katharine Hepburn

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

The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the...

Genre: Western

Cast: Bert Wheeler

Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jinx Falkenburg

Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fred Astaire

An RKO comedy short featuring Betty Grable who gets secretly married while her family is trying to fix her up with someone wealthy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Betty Grable

The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt...

Genre: Action

Cast: Arleen Whelan

When his wife threatens to leave him because of his notoriously bad temper, Edgar promises that there will be no more tantrums.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edgar Kennedy

Edgar decides to do a home plumbing job himself.

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Cast: Edgar Kennedy

Edgar, his wife and his brother-in-law are riding through the desert in a convertible to see a restaurant that Edgar has purchased sight unseen. They...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edgar Kennedy

Mike Martin becomes a deputy marshal and takes on a gang of cattle rustlers.

Genre: Western

Cast: Wayne Morris

Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fred MacMurray

Spoiled socialite Cynthia Grace is suffering from a blood clot. Not unexpectedly, Tommy Coalt falls in love with Cynthia, much to her parents'...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Lionel Barrymore

Dummy Ache is a 1936 American short comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins. An assuming husband, suspicious of his wife, follows her for the day....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edgar Kennedy

Ray Whitley and his Bar-Six musical cowboys apply for work at the Bar-X ranch. The owner refuses at first but gives in when his niece intercedes....

Genre: Music

Cast: Ray Whitley

A superhero known as The Black Commando battles Nazi agents who use explosive gases and artificial lightning to sabotage the war effort.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Paul Kelly

In a misguided effort to get a raise and promotion from his boss, Edgar Kennedy's wife and her father talk him into leasing a swank house and putting...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edgar Kennedy

Edgar is running for county supervisor against his mother-in-law. Edgar, whose campaign is going nowhere, decides to try some dirty-tricks style...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edgar Kennedy

Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Bendix

Edgar decides the 4th of July fireworks celebration in town is too much for his nerves, and he and his wife Sally and her brother will take a nice...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edgar Kennedy

Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music teacher. They fall in love, despite Constance...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katharine Hepburn

Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at an auction.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chester Morris

When his wife dances with the dancing instructor, Errol gets jealous and decides to take dancing lessons himself.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leon Errol

In this episode of the "Mr. Average Man" series, Edgar Kennedy lays bricks.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edgar Kennedy

A client offers mail-order private detective Edgar $5,000 for finding $50,000 in a kitchen wall of a residence he claims to own.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edgar Kennedy

Edgar mistakenly believes that his family wants to kill him to collect his life insurance.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edgar Kennedy

In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, women battle for bargains in a department store.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pete Smith

Edgar Kennedy, in order to attend a prizefight without his brother-in-law, pretends to be sick with intentions of sneaking off later. As usual, his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edgar Kennedy

Circumstances arise that result in a man impersonating his uncle. As the "uncle", he finds himself pursued by his girlfriend's aunt, who does not...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Billie Burke

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

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

The Lone Wolf goes undercover in Egypt to foil a Nazi plot to bomb and disable the Suez canal, which is vital to England's war effort.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Warren William

Edgar is so anxious to get brother out of the house that when a prospective fiancée arrives on the scene, Edgar reluctantly pays for an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edgar Kennedy

When the family radio goes on the fritz, Edgar, naturally, decides to fix it himself in order to save a few bucks. That Edgar will destroy the house...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edgar Kennedy

A man violates company policy by getting married.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lana Turner

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

In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bud Abbott

Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that...

Genre: Crime

Cast: William Powell

Edgar lets his brother-in-law borrow his car (mistake no.1), and soon gets a call from Brother that the car won't start. Edgar borrow's his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edgar Kennedy

Edgar invites his boss home for a steak dinner, but the steak hasn't arrived. A pushy book salesman does arrives and this causes Edgar a few problems...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edgar Kennedy

An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.

Genre: Action

Cast: Richard Dix

In this romantic comedy, three man-hungry sisters consult a fortune-teller to help them with their romantic futures.

Genre: Music

Cast: Patty Andrews

Edgar learns that an old, rich, oil-man flame (Tom Kennedy) of his mother-in-law (Dot Farley) is coming to claim his bride. Meanwhile, his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edgar Kennedy

The story of how Clara Barton helped found the American Red Cross.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nana Bryant

Dagwood accidentally discovers a non-flammable paint. Bad guys Dillon and Stack steal it before he can give it to his boss Radcliffe. To show off...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Penny Singleton

Not only must Blondie put on a brave face when her husband Dagwood is fired for the umpteenth time by Mr. Dithers, but she must also tolerate the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Penny Singleton

Dagwood Bumstead poses as his boss Mr. Dithers so that a big business deal can be consummated while Dithers avoids nearsighted process server Jim...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Penny Singleton

Blondie finds a valuable watch that has been hidden by hubby Dagwood. She assumes that it's a surprise wedding gift, but the truth is that Dagwood...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Penny Singleton

After bungling a real-estate transaction, Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) is demoted to office boy by his flustered boss Radcliffe (Jerome Cowan). ...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Penny Singleton

Edgar's boss gives him a few days off as a reward for being promoted. His wife, Florence, mother-in-law and brother-in-law, think he has been fired...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edgar Kennedy

An Arizona teacher (Noah Beery Jr.) saves a vaudeville star (Martha O'Driscoll) and her troupe from a bandit (Leo Carrillo).

Genre: Western

Cast: Martha O'Driscoll

The kids go to the hospital to visit Darla, who's recovering from a tonsillectomy. Chaos soon ensues.

Genre: Family

Cast: Darla Hood

Edgar and his family go into business as interior decorators.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edgar Kennedy