Wright Kramer
Actor · 1870 – 1941 · Somerville, Massachusetts, USA
Movies14
Movie7.8ComedyDramaAfter the death of a United States Senator, the idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. The naive and earnest new senator soon finds himself battling political corruption.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939 · 1.2K votes
Movie6.1HorrorScience FictionMad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.
Man-Made Monster
1941 · 43 votes
Movie7.2ComedyJenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.
Good Girls Go to Paris
1939 · 12 votes
Movie6.3CrimeHorrorDr. John Garth conducting an innovative medical experiment aimed at prolonging life and combating aging. The experiment takes an unexpected turn, placing the doctor in a confrontation with the ethics of his work and the consequences of his research.
Before I Hang
1940 · 35 votes
Movie7.5AdventureMysteryA rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing some precious jewels.
Dark Streets of Cairo
1940 · 2 votes
Movie4.6ComedyA mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
The Housekeeper's Daughter
1939 · 5 votes
Movie6.8CrimeDramaWhen a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
Let Us Live
1939 · 13 votes
Movie7.0DramaMusicSwanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
Swanee River
1939 · 4 votes
Movie6.0ComedyFantasyBickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants their wish and they wind up living each other's life.
Turnabout
1940 · 14 votes
Movie6.0ComedyEgyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
Professor Beware
1938 · 7 votes
Movie5.1ComedyMusicEdna's grandfather is a conductor of a small orchestra that gives concerts in the park every Sunday. Because of lack of audience the city officials want to cancel these concerts. To stop this from happening, Judy and Edna gather a crowd the following Sunday; and to keep its attention, they themselves perform with the orchestra. Edna sings an aria and Judy sings 'Americana'.
Every Sunday
1936 · 10 votes
Movie1.0DramaJohn Glayde is a stone-hearted man intent on wealth to elevate his family, losing his wife to another man in the process.
John Glayde's Honor
1915 · 2 votes
MovieComedyEdward Swinger contrives to win the hand of the lovely Caroline Pickering by selling her father his business - a business that doesn't actually exist.
Movie6.0WesternEuropean bad guy Baron Bendor leads some local townsmen in a plot to obtain horses through theft. Hoppy and his sidekicks Lucky and Speedy must find and expose the horse thieves.
The Showdown
1940 · 4 votes