Frank Meredith
Actor
Movies24
Movie7.3WesternFollowing the Civil War, headstrong rancher Thomas Dunson decides to lead a perilous cattle drive from Texas to Missouri. During the exhausting journey, his persistence becomes tyrannical in the eyes of Matthew Garth, his adopted son and protégé.
Red River
1948 · 619 votes
Movie6.8ComedyFantasyWalter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947 · 143 votes
Movie6.3CrimeDramaA boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
They Made Me a Criminal
1939 · 40 votes
Movie5.2ActionCrimeA mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.
Dick Tracy's G-Men
1939 · 4 votes
Movie8.0DramaFay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean meets Jim Devlin, the labor leader who’s spearheading a tense worker’s strike against the factory. After circumstances force Jean and Jim to spend a night together in his cabin, she begins questioning her family’s ruthless tactics. This hard-to-see Columbia film by British director Roy William Neill not only features Wray as a brunette but also includes an explosive depiction of labor strife. (Block Cinema)
Mills of the Gods
1934 · 1 votes
Movie6.7MysteryThrillerCharlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader.
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
1939 · 30 votes
Movie6.8CrimeDick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
1941 · 4 votes
Movie6.3ComedyMysterySuper-sleuth Philo Vance faces the zaniest case of his career when Gracie Allen "helps" him try to solve the murder of an escaped convict. As she attempts to clear the name of a friend accused of the killing, her wacky, scatterbrained ways constantly impede the investigation.
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
1939 · 7 votes
Movie6.3ActionWesternAfter some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.
Badman's Territory
1946 · 13 votes
Movie5.5CrimeDramaA mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.
The Last Crooked Mile
1946 · 15 votes
Movie6.8DramaSam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
Mary Jane's Pa
1935 · 4 votes
Movie6.2MysteryThrillerA young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
Deadline at Dawn
1946 · 36 votes
Movie4.2CrimeDramaA hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a card-game murder.
The Girl in 419
1933 · 5 votes
Movie7.5ActionCrimeTwo federal agents battle a gang that hijacks trucks carrying materials vital for the security of the country and sells them to foreign powers.
Government Agents vs Phantom Legion
1951 · 2 votes
Movie6.8ComedyCrimeNancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the murder of their chauffeur complicates matters.
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
1939 · 15 votes
Movie5.1AdventureDramaAction-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
Slave Ship
1937 · 8 votes
Movie6.6CrimeDramaA young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
Highway West
1941 · 5 votes
Movie6.5ComedyDramaA serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own very successful advertising agency. Comedy.
The Magnificent Rogue
1946 · 4 votes
Movie6.5WesternA man escapes from prison, then joins up with a gang of stage robbers while at the same time working as a deputy in a distant town, hoping to ultimately find the outlaw who killed his father during a robbery years ago.
The Man from Hell's Edges
1932 · 2 votes
Movie8.0WesternLassiter's sister was killed and her young daughter taken and raised by outlaws. Years later Lassiter arrives at the Withersteen ranch looking for the now grown daughter. He immediately gets caught up in the ranch's struggle against rustlers. Trailing a rustled herd of horses leads him to the rustler's hideout and the missing daughter.
Riders of the Purple Sage
1931 · 1 votes
Movie5.2CrimeDramaWhen a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers up a murder committed by his new partner.
Waterfront Lady
1935 · 4 votes
Movie7.0ComedyThe Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
Safety in Numbers
1938 · 1 votes
Movie7.0CrimeComedyA skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don't pay--repossesses a small radio from a deadbeat who's skipped payments. What he doesn't know is that a gang that has stolen diamonds from a Hollywood movie star has stashed them inside the radio, and they start hunting for him.
Hold That Woman!
1940 · 2 votes
Movie4.2ThrillerMysteryJames Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent anywhere in the world, refuses to sell the process to television companies, who then send agents to acquire the invention any way they can. On the night of his initial broadcast Houghland is mysteriously murdered in the middle of his demonstration and it falls to Police Chief Nelson to determine who the murderer is from the many suspects present.
Murder by Television
1935 · 22 votes