Walter Fenner
Actor · 1886 – 1947
Movies24
Movie5.6ActionWarConcentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII.
Guadalcanal Diary
1943 · 22 votes
Movie7.3DramaFamilyThe story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
The Pride of the Yankees
1942 · 148 votes
Movie6.7DramaThe struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the early 19th century.
Rulers of the Sea
1939 · 3 votes
Movie6.5DramaHistoryThe newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
Juarez
1939 · 25 votes
Movie7.1ComedyMysteryNick and Nora Charles are back - and this time, they have a baby, a wealthy new client, and another murder to solve! Retired detective Nick is enjoying family life with Nora and their young son, Nick Jr., when eccentric industrialist Colonel MacFay asks for protection after receiving threatening messages. When MacFay is found dead at his isolated estate, Nick and Nora spring into action, questioning a houseful of suspicious guests and uncovering greed, blackmail, family secrets, and a dangerous inheritance plot. With their trademark wit and sophistication, the glamorous couple balances parenthood, parties, and peril as they race to expose the killer.
Another Thin Man
1939 · 145 votes
Movie6.8HistoryDramaIn flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
Edison, the Man
1940 · 27 votes
Movie6.0FamilyFantasyBroadway producer Jerry Flynn is anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a set of costly flops. Outside his theater one night, Flynn meets a young boy who just might save the day. Inside a small box the boy shows Flynn his pride and joy: a caterpillar named Curly that dances to Yes Sir, That's My Baby. Word quickly spreads about the amazingly talented hoofer, and the caterpillar becomes a symbol of hope for wartime America. Soon, offers are pouring in to capitalize on this sensational insect.
Once Upon a Time
1944 · 17 votes
Movie8.5DramaA student nurse falls in love with a young intern in 1910 Baltimore, but tragedy ensues when he contracts a fatal disease.
Miss Susie Slagle's
1946 · 2 votes
Movie7.0DramaTwenty years earlier, Mary Cabot had lost contact with her infant daughter Justine. Now a grown woman, Justine accidentally shoots a man who'd impugned the reputation of her mother, whom she's never met. As luck would have it, the presiding judge at Justine's trial is none other than Mary Cabot.
A Woman is the Judge
1939 · 1 votes
Movie5.5ComedyLongtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky than idyllic.
You Can't Fool Your Wife
1940 · 6 votes
Movie6.8DramaHistoryThis short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy. His charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War in 1898 is re-created. He becomes vice president in March 1901 and assumes the presidency when William McKinley is assassinated six months later. According to the narrator, Roosevelt refused to be beholden to political bosses, doing what he believed to be right for the American people.
Teddy the Rough Rider
1940 · 13 votes
Movie7.3ComedyBob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry her boyfriend Andy Devine, but her father is determined that she marry into royalty. To solve both their problems, Martha Raye and Bob Hope decide to marry, but will they ever find love together?
Never Say Die
1939 · 7 votes
Movie5.7DramaWarA documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular sequence.
Bombardier
1943 · 21 votes
Movie5.9ActionAdventureTorchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
Torchy Runs for Mayor
1939 · 8 votes
Movie4.2MysteryCrimeA policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
Night in New Orleans
1942 · 6 votes
Movie6.7ActionJapanese spies attempt to subvert America's war effort; G-Men attempt to thwart their plot.
G-men vs. the Black Dragon
1943 · 3 votes
Movie7.0ActionAdventureAn American secret agent travels to Africa to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring.
Secret Service In Darkest Africa
1943 · 3 votes
Movie5.3DramaA race car driver, injured during an accident, opens up a repair shop only to become the target of crooked government agents.
Speed Devils
1935 · 3 votes
Movie7.0DramaActionBetty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake. Slade Wiley, an unscrupulous tunnel builder, finds that his low bid on the Newford Tunnel project is causing him to lose a lot of money, and has underworld leader Nick Burton set off blasts to frighten the stockholders into selling their shares at a low price so he can buy up the stock. Betty is investigating the deal when Wiley and Burton take her on a "tour trip" to the tunnel.
Emergency Squad
1940 · 2 votes
Movie6.7DramaA young man is determined to turn his beloved racehorse, which is blind, into a champion.
Pride of the Blue Grass
1939 · 3 votes
Movie5.5ComedyMusicEllen Saunders is an heiress on a cruise to Europe being pursued by a day laborer mistaken for a prominent mining engineer. During the cruise, he foils two crooks trying to get their hands on her lucrative nickel mine.
The Sap from Syracuse
1930 · 8 votes
Movie6.0MysteryThrillerSomeone is attempting to steal radium stored in a bank. Death by cobra venom connects a number of murders. Charlie Chan investigates.
The Shanghai Cobra
1945 · 21 votes
Movie8.0DramaAlpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest story for his paper. But when his interview prompts Alpha to run away from the institute and ask him to show her some magic, Mike gets more responsibility than he bargained for. Especially since another story of his, one involving gangsters, has also come home to roost.
Lost Angel
1943 · 8 votes
Movie7.5ComedyMysteryWhen the leading lady of a motion picture is murdered in the middle of a scene, Inspector Carr and Dr. Crabtree are called in to investigate.
The Studio Murder Mystery
1932 · 2 votes