James Dunn Movies

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dorothy McGuire

Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time. Five years later, Eddie and his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shirley Temple

A con artist attends a reunion in his hometown and discovers that his former classmates are trying to trick an old millionaire into returning to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Dunn

A detective investigating kidnapping case discovers the victim, who may be a zombie.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: James Dunn

An orphaned girl is taken in by a snobbish family at the insistence of their rich, crotchety uncle, even as her devoted aviator godfather fights for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shirley Temple

President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Warner Baxter

Newlyweds Webster and Jackie Frye spend their honeymoon in a sinister old country house. Before long, they are besieged by a gang of crooks,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Dunn

An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Olivia de Havilland

A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their...

Genre: Romance

Cast: James Dunn

An amoral lowlife accidentally stumbles into an acting career that sets him on a trajectory to Hollywood stardom. But everyone on whom he steps on...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stephen Boyd

Tommy McCoy grew up poor and scrappy. As a young man he discovers that he can fight with his powerful right arm. He becomes successful at boxing,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mickey Rooney

Best friends Kenneth Reynolds and Raymond Jordan are U.S. Navy officers, and Kenneth is engaged to Raymond's sister. But the eruption of the Civil...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Dunn

Young and restless Nick Adams, the only son of a domineering mother and a weak but noble doctor father, leaves his rural Michigan home to embark on...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Beymer

The Caribbean Mystery is a remake of Mr. Moto on Danger Island (1939)-which in turn was a remake of Murder in Trinidad. James Dunn stars as Mr....

Genre: Crime

Cast: James Dunn

Mickey, is a prizefighter whose bright career hits the skids when he comes under the guidance of Ginger, a female fight promoter, when he becomes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Dunn

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 team of con men trying to double-cross a woman they are supposedly helping to get some stolen money back wind up getting crossed themselves... by...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Joan Bennett

A musical television special chronicling the early career of playwright George M. Cohan, focusing primarily on his vaudeville years as part of his...

Genre: Music

Cast: Mickey Rooney

A Broadway producer discovers new talent in a small Georgia town and brings them to New York for his new show.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Alice Faye

An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.

Genre: Romance

Cast: James Dunn

A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don't...

Genre: Crime

Cast: James Dunn

Sally (Jean Parker) is engaged to be married, loves dancing and kids. But her life is ruined when an accident cripples her and her betrothed...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Parker

Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hustling men at a young age. She hangs around with a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Dunn

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

Genre: Mystery

Cast: James Dunn

A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sally Eilers

Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Guy Madison

Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Janet Gaynor

Peggy and her friend Millie are strolling down Broadway while Jimmy and Mac are trolling Broadway, and the four get together...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Dunn

Johnny is training for a championship fight. Judy distracts him, so his manager Briscoe walks out on him. Then so does Judy.

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Dunn

In their farm house in a New York village, Ma Shelby prepares breakfast for her four children, Isaac, Tommy, Johnny and Susan, and then awakens them....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mae Marsh

U.S. sailor Jimmy Harrigan, on shore leave in San Pedro, meets and falls for Sally Brent She promises to wait for him when he ships out to San...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Dunn

A pilot carrying a valuable amulet is shot down over China by a ruthless Russian agent, who also wants the amulet.

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Dunn

Down-on-his-luck film director Jimmie Dale takes a job at a fly-by-night acting school. He is drawn into the plans of the school's owner to bilk a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Dunn

An unemployed loafer who spends his time playing pool decides he's ready to look for a job so he can secure his girlfriend's parents' approval for...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Dunn

While crossing on the train ferry to New Orleans, roving reporter Addison Francis Murphy borrows money from singing hillbilly "Carolina," then loses...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: James Dunn

A compilation of Shirley Temple newsreel appearances from the 1930's.

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Cast: Shirley Temple

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 man and woman, who've never met, are forced by circumstances to share the same apartment. A remake of the 1933 film "Rafter Romance".

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Dunn

A corrupt sheriff knows the secrets of everyone in town and uses that information to go unchallenged. But after the arrest of an innocent teenager,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: James Franciscus

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

A disruptive Annapolis naval cadet refuses to tow the line and so gets booted out of the prestigious academy. Later, he takes to designing...

Genre: Action

Cast: James Dunn

"That girl" is newspaper sob-sister Tony Bellamy (Claire Trevor), whose nose for news gets her into one jam after another, especially when she poses...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Dunn

Air-race champions "Speed" Leslie and Branda Fowler combine to open a very profitable airplane service that flies patients to other cities for...

Genre: Action

Cast: James Dunn

Joe Riley is a boxing referee whose life-code is the same as the sporting rules of the prizefight ring. Two Golden Glove (a tournament for amateur...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Dunn

A young doctor returns to his Massachusetts home town at the request of a terminally ill old friend.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Burton

After World War III a small group of people live in the desert. A young man tries to run away, hoping to find other communities of survivors, but is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Kerr

Jimmy Mulligan and Poppy Kirk, both out of work, strike up a conversation outside a radio shop and discover a shared dream of hitting it big dancing...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Dunn

A runaway boy pretends to be the son of a Navy man, only to turn both their lives upside down.

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Cast: Jean Parker

Take a Chance was based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, though only one of the original songs, Eadie Was a Lady, has been retained. The...

Genre: Music

Cast: James Dunn

'Blind Bob' has written a song and the folks at the music publishing company think that Joe Frisco, his old friend from the Bowery is just right for...

Genre: Music

Cast: Joe Frisco

A fast-talking pitchman working the con-games on the streets, works himself up into an executive position of a large department store, with the aide...

Genre: Romance

Cast: James Dunn

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laverne Andrews

Jimmy is a wiseguy press agent whose efforts to promote a meat-packing firm come to naught. Our hero is fired from his job, whereupon his sweetheart...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claire Trevor

A fast-talking, street-wise con-man forsakes the tank-towns of Pennsylvania for the greener pastures in Manhattan, and gains fame-and-fortune as New...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Dunn

A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.

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Cast: Phil Baker

Bill Gordon (James Dunn), whose lot-in-life is rising, falls in love with Helen Barlow (Boots Mallory), who is raising two cute motherless children...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Dunn

A documentary about child actors, since the beginning of motion pictures (narrated by Roddy McDowell).

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Roddy McDowall

Newly married sweethearts Chuck Evans and Molly Roberts work at Blair's Department Store and Molly plans to quit to be a stay-at-home wife and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Dunn

Jane Ray, a very clever reporter of crimes of passion, or "sob sister," for a New York tabloid, begins to feel depressed by the sordidness of her...

Genre: Romance

Cast: James Dunn

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sidney Toler