
Ivan Lebedeff
Actor · 1895 – 1953 · Ushpol, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire [now Užpaliai, Lithuania]
Movies24
Movie6.8Science FictionActionThe residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.
The War of the Worlds
1953 · 731 votes
Movie5.9AdventureRomanceWriter Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1952 · 105 votes
Movie6.7RomanceDramaWhile vacationing without her busy British diplomat husband, a married woman falls for another man.
Angel
1937 · 79 votes
Movie6.3AdventureActionCaptain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard!
China Seas
1935 · 40 votes
Movie6.7RomanceDramaAn American woman seeking divorce from her wealthy, controlling husband falls for a romantic Parisian who saves her from his entrapment.
History Is Made at Night
1937 · 55 votes
Movie5.9MysteryCrimeA fog-shrouded house provides the setting for a weekend party prank gone wrong and the resulting murder being blamed on an innocent man.
Midnight Mystery
1930 · 8 votes
Movie7.1ComedySnooty heiress decides to track down her dead sister's kids, who are living a Bohemian life with their uncle in Greenwich Village. Once she finds them, she discovers that the Bohemian life is fun and free of the constraints her country-club life places on her. But she decides to take the uncle to court anyway to free him from the kids so he can paint.
Wise Girl
1937 · 7 votes
Movie9.0DramaWesternTwo World War I veterans are wrongly accused of killing a rancher and arrested for murder. With the help of the rancher's daughter, they escape and set out to capture the real culprit.
Sin Town
1929 · 1 votes
Movie6.3DramaCrimeA gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.
The Shanghai Gesture
1941 · 76 votes
Movie5.7WarDramaAmbassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
Mission to Moscow
1943 · 21 votes
Movie6.5ComedyRomanceA runaway bride and an undercover reporter get caught up in political intrigue as they lead a merry chase across Europe and uncover a spy plot.
Love on the Run
1936 · 17 votes
Movie5.3ComedyThe wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
She Couldn't Take It
1935 · 3 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
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 · 21 votes
Movie7.2DramaRomanceGeoffrey Tempest is desperately in love with aspiring writer Mavis Claire, a tenant of his boardinghouse. Unable to marry her due to his poverty, in his anger, he curses God for abandoning him. Soon, Geoffrey meets Prince Lucio de Rimanez, a wealthy, urbane gentleman who informs Geoffrey that he's inherited a fortune, but that he must place himself in the Prince's hands in order to enjoy the fruits of his inheritance. What Geoffrey doesn't know is that Prince Lucio is actually Satan.
The Sorrows of Satan
1926 · 13 votes
Movie7.0ComedyMusicThe Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his fiancée.
Straight, Place and Show
1938 · 3 votes
Movie6.5ComedyRomanceA glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
Bombshell
1933 · 58 votes
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A young woman who works in the movie business buys a sweepstakes ticket that turns out to be a winner. Her stroke of luck changes her life around--and not necessarily for the better.
Sweepstake Annie
1935 · 5 votes
Movie5.9MysteryThrillerDetective James Lee Wong must find the "Eye of the Daughter of the Moon," a priceless but cursed sapphire stolen in China and smuggled to America. His search takes him into the heart of Chinatown and to the dreaded "House of Hate" to find the deadly gem before it can kill again.
The Mystery of Mr. Wong
1939 · 24 votes
Movie6.0ComedyAn inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight.
Laugh and Get Rich
1931 · 4 votes
Movie6.4ComedyOklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides the family must go to Paris to get "culture" and meet "the right kind of people." Pike and his grown son and daughter soon have flirtatious French admirers; Idy rents a chateau from an impoverished aristocrat; while Pike responds to each new development with homespun wit. In the inevitable clash, will pretentiousness and sophistication or common sense triumph?
They Had to See Paris
1929 · 8 votes
Movie8.0DramaIn this exciting spy drama, enemy agents endeavor to steal the plans for a top secret silent aircraft. The plane's inventor wants to sell his invention to other countries but his government will only allow it if the test flights fail. The prototype is sabotaged and crashes on the first test, killing the pilot. The commanding officer shoulders the blame and ends up court-martialed. He then goes to the enemy agents and wins their trust.
Trapped in the Sky
1939 · 1 votes
Movie4.9ComedyRomanceRosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who's given her an expensive ring. When she loses the ring, both friends have to flee Dynamite's wrath; their adventures include masquerading as girl scouts and taking an ocean voyage to Paris.
Kansas City Princess
1934 · 7 votes
Movie6.8ComedyMusicBandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
Around the World
1943 · 4 votes
Series1
TV5.0ComedyCrimeMr. & Mrs. North is an American comedy/mystery television series that aired on CBS from October 3, 1952 to May 25, 1954. The series centers on Jerry North, a mystery magazine publisher who thinks he is a good amateur detective, and his wife, Pamela, as they solve crimes in New York City.
Mr. & Mrs. North
1952 · 7 votes