Louise La Planche

Movies13

• Movie7.0

  CrimeThriller

  Sadistic 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 · 198 votes

• Movie6.5

  WarRomance

  Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress.

  For Whom the Bell Tolls

  1943 · 216 votes

• Movie6.5

  RomanceDrama

  In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.

  The Hunchback of Notre Dame

  1923 · 143 votes

• Movie6.6

  DramaMusic

  Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.

  Ziegfeld Girl

  1941 · 40 votes

• Movie6.6

  ComedyMusic

  Jimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest between schools is coming up and they have a hard time raising money to go to Chicago for the contest.

  Strike Up the Band

  1940 · 27 votes

• Movie6.9

  ComedyMusic

  Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.

  Road to Morocco

  1942 · 85 votes

• Movie7.3

  MusicRomance

  Shy 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

• Movie5.8

  RomanceAdventure

  An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet into a world of adventure.

  Frenchman's Creek

  1944 · 23 votes

• Movie6.6

  MysteryRomance

  Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.

  Pacific Blackout

  1941 · 5 votes

• Movie5.4

  MusicComedy

  A soldier stationed on an army base and his fiancé, who runs a women's "fat farm" nearby, want to get married but don't have enough money. Three customers of the "fat farm" scheme to get back at their philandering husbands by hiring the soldier and two of his buddies as "escorts" for the weekend. Complications ensue when the husbands show up unexpectedly.

  Let's Face It

  1943 · 5 votes

• Movie6.7

  ComedyMusic

  A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.

  Louisiana Purchase

  1941 · 12 votes

• Movie4.2

  MysteryCrime

  A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.

  Night in New Orleans

  1942 · 6 votes

• Movie6.5

  Drama

  An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.

  Forty Little Mothers

  1940 · 6 votes