John Wald
Actor · 1908 – 1988 · Hastings, Minnesota, USA
Movies24
Movie6.7DramaCharley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, including an unethical promoter named Roberts, who tempt the man with a number of vices. Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.
Body and Soul
1947 · 121 votes
Movie6.8CrimeA former boxer turned taxi driver earns the scorn of his nagging wife and gets mixed up with jewel thieves.
99 River Street
1953 · 81 votes
Movie6.4DramaA nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
1947 · 24 votes
Movie8.0CrimeMysteryMaisie Revere, a showgirl stranded in Los Angeles, decides to join the local police department on the persuasion of Lieutenant Paul Scott who wants to use her as an undercover agent to expose a conman.
Undercover Maisie
1947 · 2 votes
Movie5.9ThrillerCrimeNick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky, who gets out a week before Nick, to murder Jess... who, dying, tells revenge-minded Johnny that he'd written a clue "in the Bible." Frustrated, Johnny obsessively searches for the missing Gideon Bible from Jess's hotel room.
Red Light
1949 · 24 votes
Movie6.2AnimationComedyA series of gags hung on a football game.
Screwball Football
1939 · 5 votes
Movie4.9ComedyWhen a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
Public Deb No. 1
1940 · 5 votes
Movie6.2ComedyA bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary is stolen.
The Senator Was Indiscreet
1947 · 6 votes
Movie7.3RomanceDramaStories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.
Free, Blonde and 21
1940 · 3 votes
Movie6.0ComedyProfessor Brookfield along with daughters Peggy and Susan move to small town Pasadena, California. Their new neighbor Mrs. Fielding helps them move in, and urges the girls to participate in the annual Rose Bowl beauty pageant. Meanwhile Mrs. Fielding's son Tom makes eyes at Peggy but she's smitten with a famous football star so she tries to redirect his interest to Susan.
Peggy
1950 · 4 votes
Movie7.5DramaGang Leader Dutch Malone goes on a hunting trip and is in a car wreck and is confined to the hospital, without the knowledge of any of his gang members. District Attorney Brady induces taxidermist Peter Winkly, who is an exact double for Malone,to impersonate Dutch and assume leadership of the gang. Winkly "takes over" the gang and only Rita, Dutch's girl friend, has any suspicion that he is not really Dutch. But Dutch sees a newspaper showing him out on the town, escapes from the hospital and is on his way to look up the impostor.
Gangs of the Waterfront
1945 · 2 votes
Movie6.6ComedyRomanceAfter discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dance contest to find a new star.
Dancing Co-Ed
1939 · 5 votes
Movie6.5ComedyRomanceA radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.
Hullabaloo
1940 · 2 votes
Movie7.0ComedyMusicA young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own.
Swingin' on a Rainbow
1945 · 1 votes
Movie6.3DramaComedyWhen police officer Moe Finkelstein and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as bodyguards to German consul Karl Baumer by the mayor of New York City, Finkelstein turns in his badge, convinced he has to quit the service because the man is a Nazi.
Margin for Error
1943 · 7 votes
Movie6.1DramaFive defense workers on their way to the munitions factory tell their stories: a refugee from the French Resistance, a frustrated race car driver, a prison warden, a former Miss America, and an intellectual who dropped out of society and saw the country as a bum.
Gangway for Tomorrow
1943 · 6 votes
Movie7.0MusicComedyAn aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes of getting a break. Unfortunately, most of them believe that the waiter lacks the talent to make it big. Only an aspiring songwriter, and a former waitress who has become a famous Hollywood radio star, really believe in him. When the ex-waitress drops by the restaurant to say hello, she and the others decide to play a trick on an arrogant producer by making him believe the waiter has written a sure-fire hit. They succeed and the producer puts on the show. The singer gets to be the star. When the show becomes a smash, everyone is surprised. Songs include: "Hitchhike To Happiness," "For You And Me," "Sentimental," and "My Pushover Heart."
Hitchhike to Happiness
1945 · 2 votes
Movie7.3ActionComedySlammin’ Sammy Menacker is killed in the ring, and Gorgeous George is arrested for murder. Out to clear his name is his manager Lorraine and cop Ron Peterson, who was already on the scene to investigate the Mob’s influence on pro wrestling.
Alias the Champ
1949 · 3 votes
Movie6.5ComedyRoger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast about his new department, the Mobilization of Woman Power for War. He takes a cab driven by Dixie Dugan, who hopes that being a cabbie while the country's men are away fighting will help the war effort. Her incompetent driving, however, results in an accident for which Roger must take responsibility in order to reach the radio station in time. Dixie then returns home, where she lives with her father Timothy, who is constantly practicing his air raid warden duties, her mother Gladys, an aspiring Red Cross worker, and cousin Imogene, who studies incessantly to become a "quiz kid." The Dugans rent out their spare rooms to Dixie's fiancé, Matt Hogan, and to blustering Judge J. J. Lawson. Matt, who works in a munitions factory, wants Dixie to settle down and marry him, but Dixie is determined to help her country.
Dixie Dugan
1943 · 2 votes
Movie5.3WesternOn vacation at his ranch, western actor Roy quickly finds himself involved with a horse rustling operation and a boy ward of one of the rustlers, leading to the kidnapping of Roy's trick horse Trigger by the gang with a demand for ransom.
Under California Stars
1948 · 11 votes
Movie6.7ComedyA boy's tall tale about a gun puts his parents and school principal in jail.
Her Adventurous Night
1946 · 3 votes
Movie6.2AnimationComedyA young working woman lives to shop, particularly for hats. She decides on a unique one.
The Mad Hatter
1940 · 5 votes
- Movie9.0Animation
An exuberant little donkey lives for one thing: the joy of racing at top speed. But his mother, cautions her son to go slow and use care, for misfortune may be just around the corner. When the son tires of his mother's lectures, he leaves from home, dashing off into the desert. Meanwhile, a heinous villain enters the picture, and he uses Mother Donkey as a beast of burden. The little donkey comes back years later to find his mother missing. When the donkey learns what has happened, he dives into action, using his irrational behavior to find his mother. Then, using his superior speed and strength, he gives the miscreant a sound trouncing, thus liberating his beloved mother. The short ends happily with mother and son basking in familial bliss, and Mother Donkey reluctantly acknowledging that extreme caution is not always the only path to righteousness.
The Streamlined Donkey
1941 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0AnimationComedy
A travelogue for some vacation spot, possessed of every natural attraction the tourist seeking peace could wish for.
The Land Of Fun
1941 · 1 votes