Egon Brecher Movies

Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Edward G. Robinson

After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Boris Karloff

Allen Colby, heir to a huge fortune, is presumed drowned after an ocean liner sinks off the coast of Honolulu. Mysteriously, Colby reappears at his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Warner Oland

Inspector Cassin, a renowned Paris detective, departs to the country for a much-needed break. There he falls in love with the innkeeper’s...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Steven Geray

Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Blondell

A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Donald Woods

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alexander Moissi

Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ann Sheridan

Freewheeling wanderer Jerry Day and his beautiful wife Toni are at odds over their lifestyle. Jerry can't accept responsibility, but Toni yearns for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gary Cooper

Judge Hardy guides Andy through problems with girls, money and an essay contest.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mickey Rooney

A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ann Sheridan

Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sylvia Sidney

A young woman receives an invitation from the Governor of an island prison to spend a week with him. She does so, but conceals the fact that her...

Genre: Romance

Cast: John Howard

A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Francis

A small, independent air delivery service is menaced by a mad scientist with a death ray machine that blows up planes in mid-flight.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ralph Bellamy

Kay Denham is off for a fling in Paris, leaving her suitor Berk behind. There, she meets two new suitors, Gene and George. Gene smooth-talks her into...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claudette Colbert

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

Wrongfully convicted of a robbery and murder, Paul Lavond breaks out of prison with a genius scientist who has devised a way to shrink humans. When...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Lionel Barrymore

Love happens between the son of Polish immigrants settled in Maine and the daughter of a neighboring farm family.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Muir

Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her reclusive, grumpy paternal grandfather, Adolph...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shirley Temple

Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vera Zorina

A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Murphy

Shortly before the start of WW2, renown British big-game hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten,...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Walter Pidgeon

A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them...

Genre: Action

Cast: William Gargan

A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Humphrey Bogart

After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Warner Baxter

We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of fake paintings and other assorted dodges. He and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frank Morgan

Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fred MacMurray

Harvard senior Sam Thatcher and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott", plan to go to Russia after graduation, a decision Sam has...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Maureen O'Sullivan

In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Francis

A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jane Withers

A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Boris Karloff

A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Don Ameche

Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ross Alexander

FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edward G. Robinson

The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Muni

A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Paul Muni

British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anna Neagle

When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joel McCrea

A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Melvyn Douglas

The (O)ffice of (S)trategic (S)ervices' Cmdr. Brady (Patric Knowles) forms Operation "Applejack" (based on a composite of actual incidents during...

Genre: War

Cast: Alan Ladd

A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frankie Darro

An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rosalind Russell

His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pat O’Brien

Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edmund Lowe

Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Hersholt

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Laurence Olivier

True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edward G. Robinson

Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's...

Genre: Crime

Cast: James Stephenson

A dying millionaire marries his nurse for companionship, only to experience a miracle cure.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Dix

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

A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken,...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Jeffrey Lynn

Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nino Martini

Jeffrey Clavering is hired in London by The Great Eastern Oil Corporation to go to Paris to prevent unscrupulous industrialist Nikolai Kamarov from...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Alan Marshal

Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Don Ameche

When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bette Davis

German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edward G. Robinson

The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pat O’Brien

An American vacations in Europe with her husband and watches him turn into a Nazi.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Bennett

Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when one of them is murdered. The other vows to get...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: William Hall

Suspecting that a safari guide is a wanted killer, undercover policeman Geoffrey Bishop (Richard Fraser) joins a safari led by the suspect for a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Richard Fraser

An episode in the "Crime Does Not Pay" series. Dave Miller, an aircraft plant worker, is actually selling secret bomber plans to foreign agents....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Dick Purcell

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Charles Arnt

It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isa Miranda

Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Priscilla Lane

Sir Borotyn, a prominent Prague resident, is discovered murdered in his home, with all indications pointing to a vampire assault. The victim's...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Lionel Barrymore

Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tyrone Power

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

Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Joan Crawford

This Crime Does Not Pay short shows how cooperation among all the nations of the Americas helps the war effort. In this case, a US government agent...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Litel

When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Glenda Farrell

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.

Genre: War

Cast: Walter Huston

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells of the Nazis' efforts to shut down an underground resistance newspaper in occupied Belgium.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Humphrey Bogart

Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tallulah Bankhead

In London, August 1914, Austrian star Elsa Duranyi (Gertrude Michael) and English matinee idol Alan Barclay (Herbert Marshall) are in love and plan...

Genre: War

Cast: Herbert Marshall

Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man, but Mr....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paulette Goddard

Gracie Allen assumes the "management" of the shop owned by her papa Horatio Allen, turning it into a radio station and then an aviary---with the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gracie Allen

A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Henry Hull