Eddie Gribbon
Actor · 1890 – 1965 · New York City, New York, USA
Movies24
Movie8.3ComedyWarDictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
The Great Dictator
1940 · 3.8K votes
Movie7.1ComedyMysteryNick and Nora Charles are back - and this time, they have a baby, a wealthy new client, and another murder to solve! Retired detective Nick is enjoying family life with Nora and their young son, Nick Jr., when eccentric industrialist Colonel MacFay asks for protection after receiving threatening messages. When MacFay is found dead at his isolated estate, Nick and Nora spring into action, questioning a houseful of suspicious guests and uncovering greed, blackmail, family secrets, and a dangerous inheritance plot. With their trademark wit and sophistication, the glamorous couple balances parenthood, parties, and peril as they race to expose the killer.
Another Thin Man
1939 · 145 votes
Movie6.1ComedyDramaA group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
Idiot's Delight
1939 · 17 votes
Movie6.8HistoryDramaIn flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
Edison, the Man
1940 · 27 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
Movie7.5ComedyDramaJoe is scheduled for the big fight as usual. This one has more fight sequences than plot.
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
1948 · 2 votes
Movie9.0ComedyCrimeJoe Palooka and two friends are taking hostage by three criminals.
Triple Cross
1951 · 1 votes
Movie5.9ComedyA millionaire's son works as a milkman for a month to win a bet with his father. While delivering milk he falls in love with a young debutante whom he mistakes for a maid.
Maid's Night Out
1938 · 5 votes
Movie7.0ComedyRomanceA telephone operator gives up her job to try to be a nightclub singer.
I Like it That Way
1934 · 2 votes
Movie6.6ComedyTwo Army sergeants disrupt a bar, a party and an Army-Navy dance.
About Face
1942 · 5 votes
Movie8.0ComedyDramaJoe Palooka goes blind during a fight. An operation restores his vision, but he's told not to fight for a year. His trainer Knobby has picked up another fighter, but gangsters are pressing him to fix fights. Joe decides to risk his eyesight to save Knobby's honor.
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
1948 · 2 votes
Movie5.6ComedyRomanceA starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love at first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his strange roommate, and the best apartment poverty can buy.
Live, Love and Learn
1937 · 8 votes
Movie9.0ComedyBen Turpin's rival marries his college sweetheart played by Phyllis Haver.
Married Life
1920 · 1 votes
Movie6.0DramaJohn Linden, a victim of wanderlust, jumbles up his life and that of his two daughters. One is a daughter by marriage, the other an offspring of Jessie Walton, a young woman of the village. Noting the resemblance of the two, unscrupulous Mark Lezzard, the sea town's only lawyer, arouses the jealousy of the first daughter's husband Jack Yeulette, the skipper of a fishing smack, hoping to gain her for himself and thereby obtain control over the money John provides for her on a regular basis. After much havoc, happiness is the lot of everyone except Lezzard, whom the crowd "fixes" when they learn of what a wretch he is. A lost film.
Hoodman Blind
1923 · 2 votes
Movie8.0ComedyA young married couple appears before a judge to get a divorce. The wife shows the judge some pictures of her husband with his arms around another woman, as "proof" that he was cheating on her. The husband, for his part, claims that he was just innocently helping the woman and that he was being blackmailed by the photographer who took the picture.
Love, Honor and Behave
1920 · 1 votes
Movie5.8ComedyThe day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more productive work than everyone else combined. But the day changes when Roach's farmhand sees an opportunity to be the knight in shining armor to Louise, Roach's daughter, who he wants to marry.
Down on the Farm
1920 · 8 votes
Movie5.2ComedyCrimeJoel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.
Fast and Furious
1939 · 11 votes
Movie7.0ComedyRomanceAn aspiring theater producer convinces his wealthy uncle to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play’s far-fetched plot: making a cross-country trip with no money.
Love on a Bet
1936 · 4 votes
Movie7.0FamilyComedyA crooked boxing promoter tries to shake down Joe's manager by setting up a rigged fight in Humphrey Pennyworth's hometown.
Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance
1950 · 1 votes
Movie5.7CrimeComedyIn order to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war.
Born Reckless
1930 · 16 votes
Movie6.8DramaAdventureFirst one stranger, then another, arrive at the presidio, each with a government pass and each claiming to have been robbed by the notorious Captain Fly-by-Night and his highwaymen. The soldiers and Señorita Anita believe the first to be Fly-by-Night and the second to be Señor Rocha, Anita's fiancée and emissary of the governor. But the first stranger, to whom Anita is drawn, proves to be on a government mission and exposes the second stranger as Captain Fly-by-Night.
Captain Fly-by-Night
1922 · 3 votes
Movie8.0CrimeJoe Palooka encounters gangsters and tries to alert the law.
Joe Palooka in the Squared Circle
1950 · 1 votes
Movie5.3FamilyComedyNewlyweds Joe and Anne Palooka are delayed in their honeymoon plans by the helpful Humphrey Pennyworth and by considerably-less-helpful manager, Knobby Walsh.
Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey
1950 · 3 votes
Movie8.0WesternGeorge Thorne is a young army lieutenant at a border post. He is in love with Mercedes Castanada who, in the lawless life about the fort, is always in danger of falling into the hands of Snake Landree's bandit gang that is the terror of the region. Into the life of the post comes Dick Gale, a man from the East who is soon engaged in a battle for the heart of the girl, whom he has quickly come to love. He aids her in a battle with the desperados. They escape onto the desert and are lost in a sandstorm. They are rescued by the lieutenant, whom, the young woman confesses to the other man, she loves. The Easterner accepts his defeat in the struggle for her affections. According to silentera.com the film survives while Arne Andersen Lost Film Files has it as a lost film.
Desert Gold
1926 · 1 votes