Charles D. Brown Movies

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Humphrey Bogart

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henry Fonda

As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are...

Genre: Western

Cast: Errol Flynn

When it rains in the city, a serial killer known as "The Judge" looks for his next strangling victim. For months, the madman has been stalking at...

Genre: Crime

Cast: William Lundigan

Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edward G. Robinson

Head over heels in love with a stern and cold older businessman's young wife, a reporter is seduced into conspiring to murder him so she can inherit...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hugh Beaumont

Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Sidney Toler

A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.

Genre: Crime

Cast: William Gargan

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Edmond O'Brien

A beautician and her crooked boyfriend attempt to rob the bookie operation located in the back room, but when the plan goes wrong, they frame an...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: John Ireland

A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Powell

Teenager Betty Elliott has decided to take over the business and social affairs of her father Doc Elliott. She thinks her father should marry the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marcia Mae Jones

A spoiled boy sent to the country to grow-up. He has to deal with life, friends and crooks.

Genre: Action

Cast: Jackie Moran

In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Lew Ayres

A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Susan Hayward

An innocent dancer is accused of murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene, but his wife follows the trail of clues to find the real...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Don Castle

A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Don 'Red' Barry

Sam Gallagher returns home to Los Angeles as an undercover spy for the Navy, getting a job at the shipyards where his brother, Jeff, is a foreman....

Genre: Action

Cast: Pat O’Brien

A woman plots to steal secrets from her Atomic-expert husband.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Don Porter

A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins. He re-enlists under an assumed name, and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Richard Arlen

A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ginger Rogers

Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Cesar Romero

In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Peter Lorre

A Navy veteran takes up boxing and winds up killing his own friend in the ring during a championship match.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Scott Brady

In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Red Skelton

A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lester Matthews

A cocky new West Point cadet from Cambridge is given the cold shoulder by his classmates because of his rule-breaking antics.

Genre: Action

Cast: Louis Hayward

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

Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain resort on a search for a missing magician.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pat O’Brien

A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy.

Genre: Crime

Cast: J. Edward Bromberg

Maisie Revere, a showgirl stranded in Los Angeles, decides to join the local police department on the persuasion of Lieutenant Paul Scott who wants...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ann Sothern

Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at...

Genre: Music

Cast: Joan Crawford

The Bowery Boys come to the rescue when a corrupt taxi company puts the squeeze on several independent drivers.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leo Gorcey

Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to...

Genre:

Cast: Joel McCrea

Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother.

Genre: Drama

Cast: June Haver

Always the diplomat, Alex Hazen is slow to take sides in Europe of the 1920s and 1930s. Cassie Bowman wants him to be more decisive and leaves him in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Young

A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Glenda Farrell

The Bar Association disbars attorney Tyler Cradon when it appears he was implicated in the murder of a prominent vice crusader. Cradon, not wishing...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Gail Patrick

College students attempt to solve a series of murders on campus while also trying to put together the school's big show.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eddie Bracken

A crusading reporter plans his own arrest and conviction for first degree murder, trying to show that the death sentence should be outlawed when...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Leslie Brooks

A woman who is a member of a gang of con artists impersonates the mother of a wealthy blind man.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Francis

Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from France. Since his escape, Moko has become a resident and leader of the immense Casbah of Algiers....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Boyer

A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Taylor

A good-hearted reporter attempts to find the loneliest woman in New York so he can give her an old-fashioned Christmas on a farm..

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Whalen

Set in New York's Lower East Side during the Gay '90s, this lively low-budget musical follows the exploits of a feisty and talented saloon owner's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gale Storm

A vaudeville comic and a pretty young dancer aren't having much luck in their separate careers, so they decide to combine their acts. In order to...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Hal Skelly

A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Melvyn Douglas

A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Payne

T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ronald Reagan

Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mickey Rooney

A jockey struggles against gamblers with the help of the stable trainer and horse owner's daughter.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Eugene Pallette

On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Spencer Tracy

During WWI Bill Pettigrew, a naive young Texan soldier is sent to New York for basic training. He meets worldly wise actress Daisy Heath when her car...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Margaret Sullavan

Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-blooded murder! Assisted by detective-in-training...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Peter Lorre

In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Cary Grant

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 shifty boxing promoter places an amateur in fixed fights, then hands his contract over to an suspicious female investigative reporter as a raffle...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Arlen

In the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway is summoned to take attend a diabetic, and gives an...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Warner Baxter

Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Clark Gable

Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Danny Kaye

A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected....

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Powell

Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Young

Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tyrone Power

Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lynn Bari

Cricket West is a hopeful actress with a plan and a pair of vocal chords that bring down the house. Along with her eccentric aunt, she plays host to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Judy Garland

Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Wayne

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short tells the fictitious story of a bill counterfeiting ring and explores the government's attempt to curb...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noel Madison

This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with shady companies selling fake merchandise.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Charles Arnt

A gangster is drafted into the Army and, soon realizing how wrong his life of crime has been, agrees to help the FBI break up a black market ring by...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tom Neal

Jackie is the perpetually adolescent mother of two grown children - daughter Lee and son Jeff - who are in their early 20's. In spite of the fact...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lilyan Tashman

The Secret Call is adapted from The Woman, a play by William C. DeMille (brother of Cecil B.) Peggy Shannon plays Wanda Kelly, the daughter of a...

Genre:

Cast: Richard Arlen

A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Arthur

The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dick Powell

Tim Hanley, an American agent, posing as a lawyer with the United States Embassy in London, and Reggie Oliver, a Scotland Yard detective, posing as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Brent

Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Paulette Goddard

A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pat O’Brien

Horse racing provides the framework of this crime drama that centers on an orphan who has been raising a promising horse.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Whalen

Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Edward G. Robinson

Comedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by working on auto assembly line.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joel McCrea

In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claudette Colbert

A silent film comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elaine Hammerstein

A young woman from Kansas (Ann Miller) arrives in Hollywood with hopes of a movie career.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ann Miller

A policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront smuggling racket.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Lynn Bari

Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nancy Kelly

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Louise Platt

A secretary (Gloria Stuart) solves a murder for her boyfriend (Michael Whalen) in the district attorney's office.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Gloria Stuart

A group of prison inmates pass the time playing football and romancing ladies in this prison escape crime musical screwball comedy that was...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Preston Foster

An evil villain steals a newly invented death ray.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Charles Farrell

A baby is passed from hand to hand after her father abandons her.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hugh Herbert

Football coach Dan Curtis is eager for his small college team to win at all costs.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Arlen

Bootleggers on the lam Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught and jailed, but Noll manages to escape and open a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Burt Lancaster

Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ann Sothern

Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid. Maisie soon finds...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ann Sothern

Former child star Jackie Cooper headlines this sentimental behind-the-scenes comedy drama. He plays an ex-child star who now jerks sodas for a living...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jackie Cooper

The brother of a nuclear scientist dies but is reincarnated as a dog so he can return to Earth to protect his brother.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Emery

Capt. Deering, a British war hero whose exploits in the Arabian desert have earned him the nickname "The Man of Stone", returns home to London to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Conway Tearle