Jack La Rue Movies

A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Warner Baxter

A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Robert Armstrong

Richard Dix as Dan Taylor and Preston S. Foster as Paxton Bryce are two longtime friends seeking their fortune in Texas after the war. The two men...

Genre: Western

Cast: Richard Dix

A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helen Hayes

Sheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into society in this prison drama. In charge of a new kind of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jack Holt

Johnny McCloud, a tough police inspector given more to fisticuffs than investigating has the hots for torch-singer Lola Parker, but Miss Parker is...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jack Holt

The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Miriam Hopkins

A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Dick Powell

While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Bing Crosby

Filmed in England but set in New York, No Orchids For Miss Blandish tells of a sheltered heiress who is abducted on her wedding night by a trio of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jack La Rue

Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Joan Blondell

A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lee Tracy

A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Errol Flynn

Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sidney Toler

A European Ruler falls in love with an American.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Adolphe Menjou

Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Freddie Bartholomew

Set in Prohibition era Chicago, bootlegger Robbo and his cronies refuse to pay the greedy Guy Gisborne a cut of their profits after Guy shoots mob...

Genre: Music

Cast: Frank Sinatra

Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bob Hope

Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Joan Woodbury

A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Ellery Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: William Gargan

Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Donald Cook

John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Buchanan

Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bette Davis

Tired of the dangerous life as gambling boss, Ace Corbin 'retires' from the racket and travels cross-country by train to begin a new life with a new...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cary Grant

Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose...

Genre: Crime

Cast: William Powell

"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lew Ayres

After a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's host has been murdered in his bed.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edward Arnold

Given a second chance after her arrest for prostitution, Mae decides to go straight. Mae is soon befriended by kindly cab driver Jimmy Doyle who gets...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carole Lombard

Laurent van Horn is the leader of a band of Dutch refugees on a ship seeking freedom in the Carolinas, when the ship is wrecked on the coast of...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Paul Henreid

An angel takes on human form in order to persuade a theatrical couple to finally consummate their child that has been waiting to be born.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clifton Webb

An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: John Halliday

A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sybil Jason

The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried...

Genre: Action

Cast: Lee Tracy

A young millionaire (Richard Carlson) joins the real world and meets a maid (Jane Randolph) and mobsters.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Richard Carlson

Investigators crack down on a gang of nightclub con artists that has been victimizing wealthy bachelors.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jack La Rue

A wealthy young man tries to woo a university student, while her two uncles work to popularize a local club.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Darren

An orchestra leader turns sleuth to clear his ice-skating girlfriend for murder.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Vera Ralston

A prosecutor quits his job and becomes a defense attorney when he finds out that a man he got convicted and executed was actually innocent.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Warren William

Murder results when a group of houseguests converge on a chateau, each plotting to steal a valuable Gutenberg Bible.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Claire Dodd

A disillusioned factory worker is charged with the attempted murder of her mother's lover.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Louise Platt

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Jack Holt

A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a card-game murder.

Genre: Crime

Cast: James Dunn

A London nightclub hostess pretends to fall for the mobster who killed her husband.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jack La Rue

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

Mexican club singer Lita Valdez is amazed to find that her younger brother Alberto is a talented boxer and is even more thrilled by his consistent...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Armida

A detective tries to prove that a woman is killing her spouses with a spiked umbrella.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Robert Lowery

In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison for 15 years for murder. The Haydens head for...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Randolph Scott

Crooks use a man's safe-cracking skills then involve him in more crime after he spends three years in jail. He falls in love with a waitress and they...

Genre:

Cast: Rochelle Hudson

A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: William Gargan

Joe Beck leaves Central America so that he can return to Texas and collect a large inheritance, but he picks a dangerous ship on which to travel.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Lowery

A chorus girl gets stranded in a small midwestern town. Against her better judgement, she hooks up with a smooth-talking con artist who says he can...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sylvia Sidney

Two Americans stranded in Mexico with an elephant try to sell their animal to a traveling carnival. Low-budget comedy with songs and a misleading...

Genre:

Cast: Armida

Cesare Campo is a hard-riding and hard-loving Argentine gaucho. Yvonne LaMarr is a famous Parisian singer on her way to play an engagement in a...

Genre: Western

Cast: Warner Baxter

A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police officer father is killed in the line of duty. Soon his...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Damian O'Flynn

Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfriend and his former gangster buddies.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Franchot Tone

Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad.

Genre: Music

Cast: Dennis Morgan

Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jonathan is shanghaied by a band of zany pirates and...

Genre: Music

Cast: Charles Collins

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

Muggs and Glimpy, two East Side Kids in the army, return to their neighborhood, supposedly on furlough; actually, Muggs has been honorably discharged...

Genre: Action

Cast: Leo Gorcey

A police lieutenant is determined to bust the gang of crooks selling defective automobile tires.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Richard Travis

An investigator looks into the activities of a movie producer he believes is involved in smuggling Asians into the U.S.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Conrad Nagel

An honest boxer refuses to throw a fight for a gambler. They get into a fight and the boxer knocks the gambler out. Thinking he's killed him and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frankie Darro

The reclusive Patricia Douglas comes out of hiding to discuss the 1937 MGM scandal, in which the powerful film studio tricked her and over 100 other...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Patricia Douglas

Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Onslow Stevens

When a play's two producers are murdered, the playwright tries to solve the crime.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Reginald Denny

It opens in 1926 when three bank robbers, Theodore Kedrich, Jan Imarski, and Petra Lonelli, stage a daring daylight bank robbery and get away with a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Donald Cook

Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dorothea Wieck

Nature reporter Orville Shanks retreats to the woods for material for his "Our Wild Friends" column and to volunteer for his favorite cause, the Boy...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Ruggles

A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ronald Sinclair

J. Ward Thomas of Park Avenue leads a double life as an investment broker and as notorious gambler Spade Martin, despite the protests of his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Gail Patrick

Eduardo Belmonte overhears his new step-mother, Maria, and her lover, Don Ricardo Gonzales plotting to take over the Belmonte rancho on the night of...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Gilbert Roland

Director Karl Brown's 1938 circus drama stars Marjorie Main as a tough, fur-coat-wearing circus boss who raises her orphaned niece to be a trapeze...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Marjorie Main

A private eye (James Dunn) investigates the murder of a fur dealer. Monogram.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: James Dunn

Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown...

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Powell

A kooky waiter and sometimes vaudevillian promises to get his employer's daughter into a Broadway show. When he kidnaps the show's star, she gets her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ed Wynn

A wild playboy is framed by crooks for a robbery he didn't commit and eventually lands in prison. There he becomes pals with the prison's most...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Edward Norris

When a meek purchasing agent is told by a quack doctor that he only has three months to live, he gets involved with a bank robbery and kidnapped by...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Edward Everett Horton

Patrolman Jim Trent (Jack La Rue) hears the screams of a woman and rushes to her aid in an upstairs apartment. Inside, he is hit on the head and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jack La Rue

"Spy in the Green Hat, The (1966)" on the other hand, is both exciting AND funny. Especially the scene where Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) hides from...

Genre: Action

Cast: Robert Vaughn

The film depicts what happens when a rich boy accidentally meets a crude girl on New Year's Eve.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gloria Swanson

When a band of American Indians breaks a treaty with the federal government, U.S. Marshals Ken Maynard and Hoot Gibson hit the trail with captured...

Genre: Western

Cast: Ken Maynard

Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eddie Cantor

The Duchess, the aunt of Red Ryder, comes to town to protect her property. Crawford, a town big-shot behind an outlaw gang, tries to prevent her from...

Genre: Western

Cast: Allan Lane

A reporter out to break up a criminal gang finds time to make a play for a mobster's girlfriend.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jack La Rue

To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard escapes from jail. Jacques' problems are...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Victor McLaglen

Two pilots, who happen to be half-brothers, compete for the same girl as well as the same air cargo assignment.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Jack La Rue

A young Iowa woman inherits her late estranged father's New York business, but the dead man's crooked associates think they can outwit the naive heir...

Genre: Music

Cast: Robert Taylor

Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man, Mabel Kane (Thelma Todd) refuses to testify on behalf of her dance partner Jerry...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nancy Carroll

Hilarity ensues when a casino manager spends a day at Disneyland with a cute but troublesome little girl.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tony Curtis

Wellington Pike, author of 'Wild and Bloody Tales of the West', has never been away from the sedate and civilized East, so he takes a vacation to see...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Russell Gleason

A romance develops between a happily married middle-aged British politician and an adventurous young aviatrix.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katharine Hepburn

After Celia's father dies, a war erupts over control of his land.

Genre: Western

Cast: Brian Donlevy

Americans come west to California in the hope of peaceful settlement. Roy and Gabby sing a duet: "We're Not Coming Out Tonight." Other songs include...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Roy Rogers

A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective sets out to find the killers.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jack La Rue

In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a shady nightclub where he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edward Everett Horton

A sultan's lovely daughter finds herself courted by a handsome American.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ann Corio

In 1871, professional gambler John Devlin elopes with Sandra "Sandy" Poli, daughter of Marko Poli, an immigrant who has risen to railroad tycoon....

Genre: Western

Cast: John Wayne

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

New York City fireman Bill O'Connell is assigned to the Arson Sqaud with the job of apprehending the for-profit gang of arsonists who are spreading...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Robert Livingston

Jeffrey and Glenda are two lovers about to embark on a three-day cruise to nowhere. Their plan is to be married on board by the ship's captain. As...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nancy Carroll

Two tuneful gamblers gambol across the country in a struggle for the money they need to run their respective casinos. It all begins when gangsters...

Genre: Music

Cast: Ruth Terry

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

Nightclub gangsters hire a vaudeville act called the Three Funny Bunnies (Ritz Brothers).

Genre: Music

Cast: Al Ritz

A man is framed for being a spy. After he is released, he sets out to find who the real spies are.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Richard Cromwell

Famed striptease artist Ann Corio stars as Annabelle, a cabaret dancer who returns to the Florida bayous whence she came.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ann Corio

A gambler is about to stand trial for a crime he actually didn't commit. In order to brush up his "image", he adopts an orphaned newsboy.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rick Vallin

In this family comedy, the wealthy executive of a steel company must endure life with a strict, teetotaling wife, a wild daughter, and a deadbeat...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Leila Hyams

Dashing Johnny Barrett has a secret identity: Spanish Jack, the masked bandit. Always one step ahead of the law, Barrett effortlessly balances his...

Genre: Western

Cast: Bill Elliott

When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ann Rutherford

Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Errol Flynn

Young undefeated boxer Terry Dolan, who's been lying to his invalid mother about his career, confides to Maisie that he hates and is terrified by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ann Sothern

A man is released from prison after serving time for a murder he didn't commit. He goes to live with his brother and his family on their Louisiana...

Genre: Music

Cast: Jack La Rue

When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Barton MacLane

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

Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film clips, written material and interviews of friends...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stephen H. Bogart

The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Arlen

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Spencer Tracy

A just-married young woman attempts suicide after her husband tells her he really doesn't love her because he has become involved in an extortion...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Betty Burgess

A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bud Abbott

Richard Dix, a displayer in a department store, enters a raffle and wins the so-called 'hoodoo' bad-luck automobile formerly owned by the store...

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Cast: Richard Dix

An American secret agent travels to Africa to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring.

Genre: Action

Cast: Rod Cameron

A 10 chapter cliffhanger serial made by William M. Pizor Productions. 1. Missing Men 2. Tongues of Flame 3. Swirling Waters 4. Out of the Night 5....

Genre: Action

Cast: Pat J. O'Brien

When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Heather Angel

A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bruce Dern