Minor Watson

Minor Watson

Nascimento : 1889-12-22, Marianna, Arkansas, USA

Morte : 1965-07-28

Perfil

Minor Watson

Filmes

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self (archive footage)
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
A Filha do Embaixador
Gen. Andrew Harvey
While on leave in Paris, a G.I. pursues an ambassador's daughter. Meanwhile she's out to prove to her father that soldiers can be gentlemen, too.
O Vício Singra o Mississipi
Matt Comfort
Ben Matthews desiste da vida de jogador de barco, na esperança de se estabelecer em Galena com sua namorada Zoe. Mas um importante cidadão de Galena é assassinado no barco. Quando chegam Ben encontra um grupo de linchamento querendo o seu pescoço e obviamente foge. Três anos de vida errante mais tarde, as cartas de Zoe param de chegar e Ben volta para encontrá-la e tentar a impossível tarefa de inocentar a si mesmo.
Trapézio
John Ringling North
Mike Ribble já foi uma vez um grande trapezista, e o único a ter completado um Salto Mortal Triplo, antes de seu acidente. Tino se junta ao circo, e consegue convencer Mike para ensinar-lhe o "Triplo". Enquanto isso Lola, uma acrobata, quer fazer parte do novo número.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Judge Thatcher
This made-for-TV production originally aired on the "Climax!" show and opened up its second season. Huck and his buddy Tom Sawyer become blood brothers right before Huck takes off down the Mississippi River to try and get away from his abusive father. Along his journey Huck comes across a wide range of characters including The Duke.
Arizona Violenta
Jason Carr
Randolph Scott, um poderoso rancheiro e criador de gado, está determinado a administrar o seu vasto negócio com mão de ferro e integridade. Porém, tem como seu maior inimigo, um proprietário de terras local (Richard Boone), de caráter duvidoso, que não gosta de resolver seus problemas com base na lei, e sim, prefere usar o persuasivo poder da pistola. Produção primorosa do próprio Scott e Harry J. Brown, seu sócio em vários filmes, que fizeram grande sucesso de bilheteria. Interpretações irrepreensíveis de Richard Boone e Jocelyn Brando (irmã de Marlon Brando), que honrou o nome da família de atores
Roar of the Crowd
Cyrus Mackey
Johnny Tracy, son of veteran race driver Pop Tracy, is working his way up on the racing circuit, but is urged by his sweetheart, Marcy Parker, to give up the track if he wants to marry her. He persuades her to marry him on the promise that he will quit after racing once in the Indianapolis 500, but he is injured in a qualifying race and goes to work as a spark plug salesman for Mackey, an old family friend. He is a failure at selling but Marcy changes her attitude towards his racing, and he qualifies for the 500.
Lágrimas Amargas
Joe Morrison
Uma ex rainha do cinema encontra romance, mas continua a desejar um retorno ao estrelato.
Face to Face
Scratchy Wilson
Two short films released together under a collective title. The first, "Secret Sharer", directed by John Brahm and starring James Mason, is based on a short story by Joseph Conrad. The second tale, "Bride Comes to Yellow Sky", directed by Bretaigne Windust and starring Robert Preston, is adapted from Stephen Crane's short story.
Homens em Revolta
Matt Denbow
The Denbow family denies access across their land to homesteaders. To evade a murder charge, Glenn Denbow marries Jane, the only witness who's in love with him. But the woman favors the settlers...
Não Desonres o Seu Sangue
Dr. Carver
In this Cold War drama, a woman suspects her son is a Communist spy.
Little Egypt
Cyrus Graydon
A belly dancer causes a scandal with her suggestive dancing at a Worlds Fair exhibition at the turn of the 20th century.
Só Resta a Lembrança
Mr. Paterson
A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life.
Sempre Jovem
Harold P. Cleveland
Sixty-five-year-old John Hodges must retire from Acme Printing. He later impersonates the president of the parent company and arrives at his old plant on an inspection tour. Acme president McKinley is so nervous not even his beautiful secretary Harriet can calm him. McKinley's wife Lucille becomes infatuated with Hodges. Many further complications ensue.
Senhor 880
Judge O'Neil
O Skipper é um velho charmoso amado por todos os seus vizinhos. O que eles não sabem é que ele também é o Sr. 880, um falsário amador que surpreendentemente conseguiu escapar do Serviço Secreto por 20 anos. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)
The Jackie Robinson Story
Branch Rickey, President Brooklyn Dodgers
Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.
A Confissão de Thelma
Judge Calvin H. Blackwell
Cleve Marshall is an assistant district attorney who falls for the shadowy Thelma Jordon. With her sordid past -- and her relationship with thief Tony Laredo kept secret from the married attorney, Jordon seduces the easily swayed Marshall, and uses him to cover up her misdeeds. When Jordon becomes the prime suspect for the murder of her wealthy aunt, she turns to Marshall, who goes to great lengths to clear her name.
A Filha de Satanás
Moose
Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.
A Southern Yankee
Gen. Watkins
Red Skelton plays Aubrey Filmore, a feather-brained but lovable bellboy who dreams of becoming an agent for the Union's secret service during the Civil War.
A Coragem de Lassie
Sheriff Ed Grayson
O cão Bill (Pal) perde a memória depois que é atropelado por um carro. Encontrado pelo exército, ele é treinado para a guerra. Retornando para sua casa, ele está traumatizado e atacando a todos os que chegam perto dele. Kathie Merrick (Elizabeth Taylor) lhe dá o carinho que ele necessita e aos poucos Bill se recupera.
Boys' Ranch
Mr. Harper
A juvenile delinquent is sent to a rehabilitation ranch, but he immediately proves to be a troublemaker.
You Came Along
Uncle Jack
War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chaperone" Ivy Hotchkiss. Bob's a cheerful Lothario with several girls in every town on the tour. After some amusing escapades, Bob and Ivy become romantically involved, agreeing it's "just fun up in the air." Then Ivy finds out the real reason why it shouldn't be anything more.
Bewitched
Governor
A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.
A Bell for Adano
Maj. Gen. McKay
Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without interfering with troop movements, all the while dealing with colorful citizens of the town. One of his quests is to replace the bell which orders the town's life.
A Mão que Nos Guia
Col. Caleb V. Haynes
Robert L. Scott sonhou toda a sua vida de ser um piloto de caça, mas quando a guerra chega ele encontra-se voando em aviões de transporte na China. Na China, ele convence general Chennault para deixá-lo voar com os Tigres Voadores, famosos pilotos que estavam lutando contra os japoneses muito antes de Pearl Harbor. Scott consegue a sua chance de lutar, em última análise, enfrentar em combate o piloto japonês conhecido Tokyo Joe.
O Regresso Daquele Homem
Sam Ronson
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
Here Come the Waves
Superior Officer (uncredited)
Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny Cabot.
That's My Baby!
R. P. (Phineas) Moody
A love triangle occurs between the publisher's daughter Betty Moody. comic book artist Tim Jones, and the company's wily manipulative manager Hilton Payne. In addition, Betty's dad, Phineas Moody suffers from severe melancholy; and an emergency cure of laughter is required to save his health.
Shadows in the Night
Frederick Gordon
A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion.
The Falcon Out West
Dave Colby
When a Texas playboy is murdered in a New York City nightclub the Falcon investigates. When he learns that the victim was slipped rattlesnake venom, the trail leads to Texas, his own kidnapping and near death.
Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout
Ramsey Kent
Henry and his pal Dizzy become Boy Scout leaders, but a spoiled brat in their troop quickly proves to cause them no end of trouble.
Happy Land
Judge Colvin
An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he had an opportunity to truly appreciate his existence.
Sua Alteza Quer Casar
Mr. Washburn
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.
Yanks Ahoy
Capt. Scott
Sergeants flirt with a nurse aboard ship and go fishing for a Japanese Sub.
Comboio Para o Leste
Rear Adm. Williams (uncredited)
O tenente Joe Rossi é primeiro oficial num Navio da Liberdade em um grande comboio de Halifax para Murmansk. Depois de submarinos alemães atacarem o comboio seu navio se separa e está indo sozinho para Murmansk. Apesar dos ataques de aviões e submarinos alemães ele luta para levar o navio em segurança para Murmansk.
Missão em Moscou
Loy Henderson
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
Mergulho no Inferno
Adm. Bob Stewart
Um tenente submarino e seu comandante se apaixonam pela mesma garota. Contra sua preferência pessoal, o comandante da embarcação PT Ward Stewart é nomeado diretor executivo do submarino USS Corsair. De licença antes de zarpar, ele conhece a professora Jean Hewlett e fica apaixonado... sem saber que ela é a queridinha de Dewey Connors, seu novo comandante. No mar, os homens criam um relacionamento enquanto lutam contra os navios alemães. Quando eles descobrirão sua rivalidade romântica mútua? Será que isso vai interferir num ataque de comando espetacular à uma base secreta alemã?
Power of the Press
John Cleveland Carter (uncredited)
During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort. His friend, a small town patriotic editor, is brought in to find the culprits.
Guadalcanal Diary
Col Wallace E. Grayson
Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII.
Gentleman Jim
Buck Ware
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
To the Shores of Tripoli
Christopher Winters
Chronicle of a spoiled rich boy who joins the Marines with an off-handed attitude and finally becomes a battle-wise soldier. Academy Award Nominations: Best (Color) Cinematography.
O Manda-Chuva
Warden George Booth
Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth conviction will mean a life sentence. Finally, haunted by his past and goaded by his cohorts, he joins in planning an armoured car robbery.
A Canção da Vitória
Albee
George M. Cohan (James Cagney) conta sua vida em flashback, em um tom modesto, a Franklin Roosevelt (Jack Young). Ele foi um lendário artista da Broadway que viveu a época de ouro do teatro musical nos Estados Unidos, história que é contada através de números de dança e canções. Cohan passou mais de 55 anos nos palcos, estrelou mais de 30 peças e podia dizer por aí que já havia cantado e dançado mais de 500 canções. Por isso tudo, sua história pessoal se confunde com a história americana.
Frisco Lil
Lil becomes a dealer in a gambling casino in order to get the information she needs to clear her father of a murder charge. She also falls in love with lawyer Brewster.
The Remarkable Andrew
District Attorney Orville Beamish
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. In his trouble, the spirit of Andrew Jackson, whom he idolizes, visits him, and in turn, summons much high-powered talent from American history...which only Andrew can see.
A Mulher do Dia
William J. Harding
Tess e Sam trabalham no mesmo jornal e não gostam muito um do outro. Pelo menos na primeira vez, porque eles acabam se apaixonando e se casando. Mas Tess é uma mulher muito ativa e uma das feministas mais famosas do país; ela é ainda eleita como "A Mulher do Ano". Por estar ocupada o tempo todo, ela se esquece de como ser realmente uma mulher e Sam começa a se sentir negligenciado.
Kings Row
Sam Winters
Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.
O Intrépido General Custer
Senator Smith
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
Birth of the Blues
Henri Lambert
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louie to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.
Kiss the Boys Goodbye
Uncle Jefferson Davis Bethany
New York chorus girl Cindy Lou Bethany becomes frustrated when she prepares for an audition for a Broadway musical, but the auditions close and her roommate, Gwen Abbott, is hired to be secretary to Top Rumson, the show's financial backer. Gwen tells Cindy that the director, Lloyd Lloyd, and composer, Dick Rayburn, have been sent to the South on a talent search for a classic Southern belle type to star in the show, although their shows usually feature Myra Stanhope, an actress whose style is hopelessly inappropriate for this show. Desperate for work, Cindy returns to her aunt Lily Lou and uncle Jefferson Davis Bethany's home in the South and schemes to get Lloyd and Rayburn to audition her.
The Parson of Panamint
Sheriff Nickerson
As he looks over the dusty, deserted remains of the western "boom town" of Panamint, grizzled old prospector Chuckawalla Bill Redfield (Ruggles) recalls the town's glory days. Looming large in Chuckawalla's reminiscences is the day that young and apparently mild-mannerd minister Philip Pharo (Phillip Terry) rode into town. In his own gentle but forceful fashion, Pharo managed to bring the town's lawless element into line, mollify the local bluenoses, and win the heart of likeable dance-hall girl Mary Mallory (Ellen Drew).
Moon Over Miami
Mr. Jim Reynolds
After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay (Betty Grable) and Barbara Latimer (Carole Landis), waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich husbands. With the aid of their aunt Susan (Charlotte Greenwood), the sisters take the last of their money and head to a well-known Miami resort where they soon meet two wealthy young men, Phil (Don Ameche) and Jeff (Robert Cummings), who begin a fierce rivalry for Kay, not realizing that Barbara has fallen in love with one of them.
Mr. District Attorney
Arthur Barret
An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.
A Bela e o Monstro
Judge Pulver
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.
Os Conquistadores
Pat Grogan
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.
Gallant Sons
Barton Newbold
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
Rangers of Fortune
Clem Bowdry
Fred MacMurray stars as a US Army misfit who, with pals Albert Dekker and Gilbert Roland, roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they befriend the elderly newspaper editor (Arthur Allen) and his young granddaughter (Betty Brewer). The trio learns that the community is under the thumb of a covetous land baron (Joseph Schildkraut), who is endeavoring to push out the ranch owners and take over the territory.
Mocidade
Dakin
Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the family show their stuff.
Piratas de Estrada
Ed Colby
Hoppy and Lucky have been called in to investigate a series of stage holdups. The robbers are taking gold from Colby's mine and Hoppy suspects it may be ex-outlaw Colby himself. When Speedy strikes gold, Hoppy borrows it and announces a gold shipment hoping to catch the gang and their leader.
20 Mule Team
Marshal
It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save the company is a new deposit of high grade Borax, and Skinner Bill Bragg has a pouch of it that he got from a dead prospector he buried on the road. Stag Roper knows the value of the strike could be worth millions, but he needs Bragg to find the prospector's claim so they can record it and become rich partners. While Roper has no intention of cutting Bragg in on the millions, he also has his eye on young Jean Johnson. Josie Johnson, Jean's mother, sees Roper as the scalawag he is, and that means trouble in Furnace Flat.
Viva Cisco Kid
Jesse Allen
Cisco saves a stagecoach from being robbed and takes a shine to one of the passengers whose father is in cahoots with a vicious criminal who plans to murder him.
O Libertador
Joshua Speed
Filme biográfico sobre a vida de Abraham Lincoln, um dos mais marcantes presidentes dos Estados Unidos. A narrativa mostra desde a juventude de Lincoln, quanto era um advogado, até sua eleição para a Casa Branca.
The Llano Kid
Sheriff Robert McLane
Lora Travers is the only person who can identify hold-up artist The Llano Kid and she persuades him to come in on a scheme with her and her husband. They have been searching for the long-lost son of a rich Mexican widow and they get the Kid to claim it is him. All goes according to plan until greed and jealousy raise their heads.
Television Spy
Burton Lawson
A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it.
Here I Am a Stranger
Evans
The story of a young man's discovery of his father.
Anjos de Cara Limpa
Maloney
Um jovem recém-libertado de um reformatório se muda para um novo bairro com sua irmã, com a intenção de começar uma nova vida. No entanto, ele se envolve com o chefe da máfia local e políticos corruptos e logo se vê sendo enquadrado por um incêndio criminoso e assassinato que ele não cometeu.
News Is Made at Night
Charles Coulton AKA Clifford Mussey
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal of a string of murders.
Maisie
Prosecuting Attorney
Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer closes the show prematurely. She meets ranch foreman Charles "Slim" Martin when he accuses her of lifting his wallet and ends up being hired as a maid for ranch owners Cliff and Sybil, who are attempting to mend their rocky marriage after Sybil's infidelity with a cowboy.
Boy Friend
Capt. Duffy
A cop pretends to be a crook in order to catch a gang of outlaws. The bad guys run a night club as a front. The cop's sister helps him by singing there; otherwise, she's busy making love to a military cadet.
Andy Hardy Milionário
Terry Archer
Sixth of the Judge Hardy series. Judge James K. Hardy is brought the fabulous news from attorney George Irving, that he could be the heir to 2 million dollars. In order to claim the inheritance, he and his family must leave for Detroit. The disinherited heir Philip 'Phil' Westcott, adopted son of the deceased relative, has to leave the fabulous mansion Detroit. But the playboy Phil ain't going down without a fight. He decides on a charm offensive. First with Polly Benedict and foremost Andrew 'Andy' Hardy, the son of Judge Hardy.
The Flying Irishman
Airport Personnel Manager
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.
As Aventuras de Huckleberry Finn
Capt. Brandy
Mais uma das primorosas versões feitas pelo cinema do livro de Mark Twain. Clássico.
Amor de Um Espia
U.S. Marshal Cole
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
While New York Sleeps
Charles MacFarland
Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).
Carne e Unha
Barney Donovan
A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.
Com os Braços Abertos
Bishop
Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded into making themselves better people. But hard-nosed petty thief and pool shark Whitey Marsh, the impulsive and violent younger brother of an imprisoned murderer, might be too much for the good father's tough-love system.
Touchdown, Army
Col. Denby
Prep football star Jimmy Howal gets a reception far different from what he expected when he enters West Point.
Fast Company
Steve Langner
Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.
Love, Honor and Behave
Dr. MacConaghey
Comedy about a weak husband, afraid to say "no" to his new wife, who realizes he must assert himself to save his marriage.
Of Human Hearts
Captain Griggs
This is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil War. Ethan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who ministers to the human soul, while his son Jason yearns to be a doctor, helping people in the earthly realm. It is a rich story about striving for excellence, the tension of father-son rebellion, and the love of a mother that can never die.
Checkers
Dr. Smith
A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm.
Navy Blue and Gold
Lt. Milburn
Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.
Saturday's Heroes
Doc Thomas
College football player is expelled for ticket scalping, and teams up with reporter to expose his school's hypocrisy.
Cinzas do Passado
Clark Tilden
A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.
Beco Sem Saída
Mr. Griswald
O mafioso "Baby Face" Martin volta para casa para visitar o bairro de Nova York onde cresceu, encontrando sua mãe, que o rejeita por causa de seu estilo de vida de gângster, e sua antiga namorada, Francey, agora uma prostituta sifilítica. Martin também cruza o caminho de Dave, um amigo de infância que luta para se tornar um arquiteto, e os Dead End Kids, uma gangue de garotos vagando pelas ruas das favelas do East Side da cidade.
The Woman I Love
Deschamps
In World War I France, a pilot falls in love with the wife of his friend and superior officer.
When's Your Birthday?
Regan
Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes of races and other events through astrology.
The Longest Night
Hardy
Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner.
Rose of the Rancho
Jonathan Hill
It is California in 1852 that only recently being surrendered by Mexico to the United States and admitted into the union. Most of the land-owners of California were the descendants of the Dons who had colonized it a hundred years before and whose title deeds bore the signature and seal of a long-dead Spanish king. But, by a loop-hole in the law, the title-deeds of the Dons could not be recognized, and this opened the door of organized gangs of land-grabbers, such as the one led by Joe Kincaid, to operate with a prime excuse for legitimate plunder and robbery. In most cases the law was unable to cope with the situation. Then Rosita Castro, the daughter of Don Pasqual Castro, masked and disguised as a man, organized a band of vigilantes to fight against the tyranny of the outlaws, aided by an undercover federal agent, Jim Kearney.
Annapolis Farewell
Cmmdre. Briggs
Commodore Fitzhugh, an old retired naval officer, lives at the Annapolis Naval Academy and, unhappy with the "modern" navy, likes to talk about his days in the "old" navy, especially about his part in the Battle of Manila Bay under Adm. Dewey during the Spanish-American War, when he commanded the USS Congress. That ship, now decommissioned and docked in Annapolis harbor, is--unknown to Fitzhugh--about to be towed out to sea to be used for target practice. When Fitzhugh finds this out, he sets out to either save his beloved vessel or "go down with his ship".
Pursuit
Hale
"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine Rush, the secretary of the head of a private-detective agency who has been hired to care for the kid until the suit is over. (Overview written by Les Adams )
Lady Tubbs
Fishbaker
A cook in a railroad construction camp inherits $500,000. She pretends to be English royalty and barges into the New York social scene.
Age of Indiscretion
Mr. Adams
A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert him for a society millionaire, leaving him with their young son. The publisher's fortunes improve dramatically, however, when a best-selling romance novelist decides to publish her new book with his firm. In the meantime, his ex-wife has married the millionaire, and she and her new mother-in-law come up with a plan to sue her ex-husband for custody of the boy.
Mary Jane's Pa
Kenneth Marvin
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
Mister Dynamite
Clark Lewis
A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino.
Charlie Chan em Paris
Insp. Renard
Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket. But his agent, apache dancer Nardi is killed before she can tell him much. The case, complicated by a false murder accusation for banker's daughter Yvette, climaxes with a strange journey through the Paris sewers.
Babbitt
Paul 'Paulivus' F. Reisling
Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George is a large part of that growth as a property developer and realtor. He is lovingly married to his wife Myra, the two who have two children, Ted and Verona who are approaching adulthood. George has always had a fearless attitude, much like that of a naive child, which has led to his business success. He encounters some personal stresses when he faces what he believes is a potential home-wrecking issue, and when his oldest friend Paul and his wife Zilla deal with domestic problems. These stresses make George want to provide even more to his own family, leading to George agreeing to participate in a less than scrupulous but lucrative business dealing. George's bravura gets him into a potential scandal. This situation makes him question his general behavior, especially toward his family.
The Pursuit of Happiness
Colonel Sherwood
Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local militiaman jealously makes things hard for him while he's a prisoner of war.
24 Hours
David Melbourn
A nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her lover is suspected of the crime.
Dollars-Pounds-Sense
Charles Watson
"You're worth your weight in gold!" This is what Charles Watson, a young spendthrift, told every girl he met. His father threatened to disown him unless he would marry a girl and settle down, and if he married inside of thirty days.
Cupid and Three
Ben
Arthur and Ben are friendly rivals for the hand of Celia. Celia, however, prefers Ben and tries to discourage Arthur. Arthur is a little bit peeved when the girl he loves passes him up for Ben, and the soldier of love determines that revenge will be sweet. That afternoon Arthur borrows his sister's dress and makes Ben take him for a ride in his roadster. Of course Celia sees Ben with the supposed lady and proceeds to get jealous. You can imagine the surprise and humiliation Celia suffers when at "Patricola's Tango Tea" she finds a photograph of Ben with the lady of the afternoon.
Day by Day
Frank
Day by Day film
Love Incognito
Jack Fuller
Love Incognito