Oscar Smith
Actor · 1885 – 1956 · Topeka, Kansas, USA
Movies24
Movie8.1CrimeThrillerAn insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.
Double Indemnity
1944 · 2.1K votes
Movie7.0CrimeThrillerSadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
This Gun for Hire
1942 · 197 votes
Movie6.8DramaIn an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as Blonde Venus and catches the eye of a wealthy politician.
Blonde Venus
1932 · 150 votes
Movie7.0ComedyRomanceAn unathletic college freshman ridiculed by his peers for his mannerisms strives to become popular by making the football team.
The Freshman
1925 · 132 votes
Movie7.3MusicRomanceShy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are placed on his prowess with the ladies.
The Fleet's In
1942 · 3 votes
Movie7.3ComedyA stockbroker bets his new partners $10,000 that he can tell the truth, and only the truth, for twenty-four hours.
Nothing but the Truth
1941 · 16 votes
Movie6.0ComedyCrimeA cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.
She Loves Me Not
1934 · 11 votes
Movie5.7CrimeMysteryA beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the Canary". All the suspects knew and were used by her and everyone had a motive to see her dead. The only witness to the crime has also been 'rubbed out'. Only one man, the keen, fascinating, debonair detective Philo Vance, would be able to figure out who is the killer.
The Canary Murder Case
1929 · 28 votes
Movie4.6RomanceCrimePaul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang and Mary Brown, gang accomplice, proves he is. Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and, when he confronts the gang, he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track. He comes to, struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring by. Paul escapes but his watch is found and he is reported as the dead man. But he can't go home again.
The Way of All Flesh
1940 · 8 votes
Movie7.3CrimeDramaA truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pillar of the community.
Quick Millions
1931 · 11 votes
- Movie10.0CrimeDrama
Two milkmen foil a prohibition raid set-up; one finds romance with a society deb in the bargain.
Sheer Luck
1931 · 1 votes
Movie6.8MusicComedyA young pacifist, after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceé's sister and finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him.
Mississippi
1935 · 8 votes
Movie5.5WesternCowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm where he works. He tries to win her heart, but without success, until she is endangered by gangsters
Rhythm on the Range
1936 · 2 votes
Movie4.4ComedyWarThe comic and musical adventures of Charley Chase as he fights in the great war.
High C's
1930 · 4 votes
Movie5.3DramaRomanceCynthia Warren, independently wealthy through her ability as an illustrator and poster artist, rebels against the premise that every woman is destined for matrimony and motherhood and decides she has as much right as a man to play around.
Cocktail Hour
1933 · 9 votes
Movie8.0CrimeBand leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two become a successful dance act. However, when an ex-inmate buddy of Ray's robs the tour bus, Ray is suspected of wrongdoing by Jack and the others in the group. After a gang of thugs hijacks the tour bus, Ray tries to use his street smarts to redeem his reputation.
Stolen Harmony
1935 · 2 votes
Movie6.4DramaMysteryThirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive is not good for any of them.
Thirteen Women
1932 · 36 votes
Movie6.7CrimeDramaJohn Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been. The embarrassed Nelson excuses himself and goes to his rooms in the same hotel. The woman rushes into his apartment followed by the man who met her in the hall. The man threatens her with violence and Nelson comes to her defense. In the ensuing fight, the man is knocked out of the window and falls to his death to the pavement many stories down. He is charged with the killing and his only witness that can prove self-defense for him has disappeared, and can not be found.
Shadow of the Law
1930 · 12 votes
Movie6.9ComedyActionAn irresponsible young millionaire changes his tune when he falls for the daughter of a downtown minister.
For Heaven's Sake
1926 · 45 votes
Movie6.5RomanceDramaAn on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he's a businessman.
No Man of Her Own
1932 · 25 votes
Movie6.7ComedyA young man from Argentina goes to Yale where he plays football and falls in love with a professor's beautiful daughter.
Hold 'Em Yale
1928 · 3 votes
Movie6.6DramaA young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he drinks too much and he's fallen under the spell of a "vamp" who's nothing but trouble for him.
Dangerous Curves
1929 · 7 votes
Movie7.7MusicComedyThe company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.
Let's Go Native
1930 · 3 votes
Movie6.6MysteryPhony spiritualists were given a good going-over in the early talkie melodrama Darkened Rooms. Evelyn Brent stars as Ellen, a fraudulent medium working in cahoots with genuine clairvoyant Emory Jago (Neil Hamilton). The plotline is secondary; the film's main purpose was to emulate the methods of such professional "de-bunkers" as Mrs. Harry Houdini by exposing the various tricks of the spiritualist's trade.
Darkened Rooms
1929 · 8 votes