Charles McAvoy Movies

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

Never-wed, poor, rough around the edges Apple Annie has always written to her daughter, Louise, in Spain that she is married and a member of New...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Warren William

Jackie throws his schoolbook out the window in disgust, but then climbs outside to retrieve it. Finding himself locked out, he tries various means of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norman Chaney

Ellery Queen solves a mystery involving a valuable stamp.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Eddie Quillan

Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Bennett

While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the men who brought her to this current state of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Loretta Young

The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Howard

Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of one of his jockeys. One day he meets Goldie who has...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Adolphe Menjou

A sailor falls for a gangster's moll, leaves his wife and finds himself caught up in a life of crime.

Genre: Action

Cast: Glenn Tryon

When his bank fails, a young man loses not only all his money but his fiancée, deserts him, too. Depressed, he joins a circus.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Boots Mallory

When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nancy Carroll

In this musical short, a man tries to woo the manager of a dance troupe.

Genre: Music

Cast: Mary Howard

The king is a juvenile dolt who tries the patience of the shrewish queen. While she's in the throne room awaiting him, he's outside playing with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harry Langdon

A timid man undergoes a personality change, and turns the tables on the people who've bullied him.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harry Langdon

Revenuers have been chasing a gang of bootleggers for years. They're hot on the trail near a gas station operated by Harry, a seemingly slow witted...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harry Langdon

Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Stewart

Patsy is coerced into faking a broken leg in order to win an insurance settlement after an automobile accident.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Thelma Todd

In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers...

Genre: History

Cast: Joel McCrea

A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jack Holt

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eddie Cantor

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

When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Maureen O'Sullivan

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

Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Boris Karloff

A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure out which one's the killer.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Olivia de Havilland

The gang is participating in a program sponsored by the Golden Age Dramatic League. They present their own fractured version of Quo Vadis. Things go...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norman Chaney

A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Bennett

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

Spanish language version of The Big Kick from Hal Roach.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harry Langdon

As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Ida Lupino

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

After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a train wreck, he gets plastic surgery and returns to...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Cecilia Parker

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

On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Spencer Tracy

Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Judy Garland

Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Brian Donlevy

A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before he can collect, she skips town, with a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Paulette Goddard

A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fates.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Basil Rathbone

Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both writers...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bing Crosby

A rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing some precious jewels.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Ralph Byrd

Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ralph Byrd

A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Billy Halop

Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ellen Drew

Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading...

Genre: Music

Cast: Carl Brisson

Despite his older brother's objections, a young man vows to become a newsreel cameraman.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frankie Darro

A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edward Arnold

Nikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee. Once aboard, she joins an...

Genre: Music

Cast: Lily Pons

Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things...

Genre: Western

Cast: Clark Gable

The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a gang of spies and a beautiful double agent.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leon Ames

Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Robert Preston

A policeman doubles as a gunman to get in with the mob.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lila Lee

An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it...

Genre: Horror

Cast: John Carradine

A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Diana Barrymore

In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help the flagging spirits of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald O'Connor

When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claudette Colbert

Hoping to impress a pretty girl he's after, a playboy poses as a newspaperman and goes after a big story.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Buster Crabbe

The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Widmark

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

An American businessman returns from a hunting trip to find fascists have overrun the country in this propaganda film.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Claude Rains

The story of seedy sideshow barker Nicky, who uses everyone he meets to get ahead. Nicky isn't even above exploiting his singing sweetheart Lily to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Oakie

After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rosalind Russell

Rich kid Wally brings the gang back home to play, along with their mule.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Willie Mae Taylor