John T. Murray
Actor · 1886 – 1957 · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
John T. Murray was an Australian film actor.
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Movie7.5ComedyDramaLongfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936 · 417 votes
Movie7.0ThrillerMysteryAmerican crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
Foreign Correspondent
1940 · 465 votes
Movie6.9MusicRomanceJohnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.
Broadway Melody of 1940
1940 · 42 votes
Movie6.9AdventureFantasyBritish diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash-land in the Himalayas, where they are rescued by the inhabitants of the hidden, idyllic valley of Shangri-La. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-La provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.
Lost Horizon
1937 · 254 votes
Movie6.0HorrorMysteryIn 19th century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets failure as the abducted women die.
Murders in the Rue Morgue
1932 · 150 votes
Movie5.8DramaAdventureIn this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, though his rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by his son's Christianity and the eruption of Vesuvius.
The Last Days of Pompeii
1935 · 25 votes
Movie7.0ComedyThe Palmers, an apparently wealthy family, move into the house next door to the Lazarres. However, the Palmers are actually a gang of thieves plotting to rob the Lazarres.
Cheating Cheaters
1934 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyExcitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
Down on the Farm
1938 · 1 votes
Movie7.0AdventureDramaTwo 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 towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.
Boom Town
1940 · 64 votes
Movie7.0ComedyMr. Barry has a huge argument with his wife, and to make her jealous, he asks his valet to set him up with a pretty girl who is stranded in their neighborhood. He takes her out to dinner, but to his disgust he discovers that she lacks even one ounce of class and her table manners are frightening. Soon enough, Barrymore is reunited with his wife.
Wife Tamers
1926 · 2 votes
Movie6.5ComedyCrimeRuss Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's radio-program future-predicting cons gets out of hand.
It Can't Last Forever
1937 · 4 votes
Movie7.0CrimeMysteryCharlie steps in to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel. Settings include London, Nice, San Remo, Honolulu and Hong Kong. Fast-paced with lots of wisecracking. The first film to star Warner Oland as Charlie Chan.
Charlie Chan Carries On
1931 · 4 votes
Movie6.4ComedyRomanceA wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he seems.
The Gay Deception
1935 · 11 votes
Movie6.8ComedyJudge Hardy takes a business trip to Washington, DC, where Andy promptly falls for the French ambassador's daughter.
Judge Hardy's Children
1938 · 8 votes
Movie5.8ComedyRomanceMadge Winton, a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews, accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.
Ever Since Eve
1937 · 13 votes
Movie9.0ComedyRomanceThe publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cinderella and Prince Charming" contest.
Romance in the Rain
1934 · 1 votes
Movie5.2DramaCity girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople.
I Married a Doctor
1936 · 4 votes
Movie4.8ComedyRomanceA notorious womanizer sets his sights on a pretty American tourist, only to be told by his doctor that he must give up all romance for his health.
God's Gift to Women
1931 · 9 votes
Movie7.0ComedyWesternA singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
Cowboy from Brooklyn
1938 · 2 votes
Movie5.7ComedyRomanceYoung Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. When his play is chosen as the school's annual production, Andy seizes the opportunity to spend as much time as possible with his pretty teacher. Meanwhile, Judge Hardy has his own problems when he gets conned into forming a phony aluminum corporation.
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
1939 · 15 votes
Movie6.5ComedySixth 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 Hardys Ride High
1939 · 6 votes
Movie5.5RomanceDramaAn Arab prince born and raised in the desert and a beautiful Frenchwoman from Paris fall in love and marry, but the tremendous differences in their backgrounds and the cultural differences between their two different societies put strains on their marriage that may well prove irreparable.
Fazil
1928 · 8 votes
Movie5.5ComedyA radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals
Here Comes Carter
1936 · 4 votes
Movie6.0DramaFresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert Florey dashed off The Man Called Back at bargain-basement Tiffany Studios. The film is set in the tropics; Conrad Nagel tops the cast as a dissipated, derelict doctor, hopelessly in love with married socialite Doris Kenyon. Doris' insane husband John Halliday commits suicide, but arranges the evidence so that his wife will be charged with murder.
The Man Called Back
1932 · 3 votes