Frank Melton
Actor · 1907 – 1951 · Pine Apple, Alabama, USA
Movies24
Movie7.4CrimeDramaA seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
The Woman in the Window
1944 · 400 votes
Movie6.4WesternFarmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.
The Return of Frank James
1940 · 147 votes
Movie6.4WarHenry Fleming is a young Union soldier in the American Civil War. During his unit's first engagement, Henry flees the battlefield in fear. When he learns that the Union actually won the battle, shame over his cowardice leads him to lie to his friend Tom and the other soldiers, saying that he had been injured in battle. However, when he learns that his unit will be leading a charge against the enemy, Henry takes the opportunity to face his fears and redeem himself.
The Red Badge of Courage
1951 · 72 votes
Movie6.9ComedyHorrorRelatives gather at a haunted mansion for a will reading where the sole heir is threatened by a clause that could disinherit her if she goes mad, all while a homicidal maniac escapes nearby.
The Cat and the Canary
1939 · 87 votes
Movie6.9ComedyMusicAfter retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
Start Cheering
1938 · 8 votes
Movie5.3ComedyMusicPresident Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon runs afoul of political lobbyists out to destroy his department.
Stand Up and Cheer!
1934 · 12 votes
Movie5.9ComedyRomanceA city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.
A Lady Takes a Chance
1943 · 23 votes
Movie7.3RomanceComedyAfter losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew. Comedy, released in 1933.
Mr. Skitch
1933 · 3 votes
Movie6.2ComedyRomanceA farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935 · 10 votes
Movie5.9ComedyDramaA war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding away from her wedding day in her fiance's car. Seeing the soldier, she gives him a ride and explains her predicament. Things get sticky when the cops capture them and accuse the soldier of desertion.
The Man Who Walked Alone
1945 · 5 votes
Movie6.1DramaBiography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
1942 · 7 votes
Movie6.5ActionAdventureTerry O'Rourke, an American operating a small airline in Canada, is having a tough time making a go of it; he has to cope with unfavorable weather conditions, a rocky terrain, and a large Americam company determined to buy him out at their low price. In addition, one of his primary employees is working against him. One of his airplanes is transporting a cargo of gold and the pilot arranges for the gold to be stolen. He planned to parachute to safety, letting the airplane be looted when it crashed, but a co-worker cuts his parachute cord and he is killed. O'Rourke, with the air of one of his best pilots, Kay Cameron, sets out to track down the culprits.
Daredevils of the Clouds
1948 · 2 votes
Movie8.0DramaA playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival of the play he dies contented.
The Night of Nights
1939 · 1 votes
Movie5.8ActionDramaAlthough loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.
The Fighting 69th
1940 · 28 votes
Movie6.9RomanceComedyBiff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nefarious businesses. Hugo appears to have stolen Biff's dreams, and Biff has to deal with the realisation that having what he wants and wanting what another has can be very different things.
The Strawberry Blonde
1941 · 72 votes
Movie7.0ComedyFields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
1939 · 22 votes
Movie10.0ComedyThe 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 his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.
The Daring Young Man
1935 · 1 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
Movie5.9DramaHistoryTwo families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear to stand by each other in a belief that a great business firmly established in four countries will be able to withstand even such another calamity as the Napoleonic Wars from which Europe is slowly recovering. Then many years later, along comes World War One and the years that follow, to test the businesses.
The World Moves On
1934 · 16 votes
Movie6.8ComedyCrimeA cab driver takes in a young woman who claims to be a reluctant bride, and becomes involved in the search for a stolen necklace.
They Met in a Taxi
1936 · 4 votes
Movie6.8AdventureDramaFlagwaving 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 crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save the ship, and destroy the sub.
Destroyer
1943 · 17 votes
Movie7.0ComedyThings get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his boss Mr. Dithers, so that she can afford to hire a maid. But Dithers has no time for any salary disputes: his construction firm is currently stuck with an unsaleable old mansion that is rumored to be haunted. To disprove this theory, Dithers asks the Bumstead family to spend a night in the crumbling old house, throwing a retinue of servants into the bargain.
Blondie Has Servant Trouble
1940 · 7 votes
Movie6.4AdventureFrench pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.
The Buccaneer
1938 · 12 votes
Movie5.8ComedyRomanceDanny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.
Second Chorus
1941 · 41 votes