James P. Spencer

Movies13

• Movie6.0

  Western

  When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000.

  Western Union

  1941 · 88 votes

• Movie6.7

  DramaWestern

  One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?

  Union Pacific

  1939 · 82 votes

• Movie6.8

  CrimeDrama

  A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.

  Each Dawn I Die

  1939 · 64 votes

• Movie6.4

  ComedyRomance

  A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.

  Two-Faced Woman

  1941 · 28 votes

• Movie6.5

  Comedy

  A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.

  Pardon My Sarong

  1942 · 30 votes

• Movie5.7

  Comedy

  After a long absense from the island, Chester Tuttle returns to Tahiti to find that little has changed. His large family, particularly his scheming Uncle Jonas, would rather dance and romance than earn a living. When Jonas loses the family plantation in a cockfight, Chester saves the day by towing in a large ship abandoned at sea and claiming the salvage. But opening a joint bank account in the name of the Tuttle clan may not have been a wise decision.

  The Tuttles of Tahiti

  1942 · 7 votes

• Movie7.5

  Drama

  Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.

  East of Java

  1935 · 2 votes

• Movie7.0

  Adventure

  In 1890, two British expatriates, Robert Herrick and Huish, and German Captain Jakob Thorbecke, are commissioned to sail a Yankee schooner called The Golden State , whose captain and crew have died of smallpox. From Tehua in the South Seas to Australia, they are to deliver a cargo of champagne. Thorbecke decides to head for Peru, however, so he can sell the merchandise and pocket the money. While sailing, Faith Wishart, daughter of the deceased captain, comes out of her hiding place on board and, by briefly holding Thorbecke at gunpoint, demands he make the delivery.

  Ebb Tide

  1937 · 2 votes

• Movie5.5

  Adventure

  The Sea God is an early sound melodrama about two men vying for Fay Wray and wealth in the South Pacific.

  The Sea God

  1930 · 4 votes

• Movie9.0

  DramaAdventure

  David Sheldon owns a plantation in the Solomon Islands. Many of his field hands die of blackwater fever, and then he becomes sick himself. Joan Lackland, a female soldier of fortune, arrives by schooner in the islands. With the help of her Kanaka crew, she protects David from an attack by the natives who are led by Googomy. Joan nurses David back to health and becomes his business partner, protecting his mortgaged property from two avaricious moneylenders. Seeking vengeance, the moneylenders incite the natives to revolt.

  Adventure

  1925 · 1 votes

• Movie5.2

  AdventureMusic

  A Royal Canadian Mounted Police sergeant must mediate a land rights dispute between an advancing railroad construction gang and French Canadian trappers in the rugged Northwest Territory of Canada.

  Romance Road

  1938 · 5 votes

• Movie3.7

  Drama

  The picture is based on the 1920 novel, Norden For Lov og Ret, by Ejnar Mikkelsen, set in Nome, Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898 and 1899. Presumed lost.

  Frozen Justice

  1929 · 3 votes

• Movie5.0

  Western

  Bill Sommers returns to find his ranch threatened by a corrupt, water-stealing landowner, John Weston. Weston’s foreman, Ballon, commits murder, frames Bill, and forces him to fight to clear his name.

  Pueblo Terror

  1931 · 2 votes