Billy Watson

Movies15

• Movie7.8

  ComedyDrama

  After 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

• Movie7.2

  DramaHistory

  In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder.

  Young Mr. Lincoln

  1939 · 195 votes

• Movie6.7

  DramaHistory

  The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.

  In Old Chicago

  1938 · 50 votes

• Movie6.7

  AdventureDrama

  Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River.

  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  1939 · 21 votes

• Movie6.0

  RomanceDrama

  A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage.

  Bad Girl

  1931 · 41 votes

• Movie6.7

  MusicRomance

  Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.

  Show Boat

  1936 · 50 votes

• Movie6.4

  AdventureHistory

  When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.

  Stanley and Livingstone

  1939 · 24 votes

• Movie10.0

  Comedy

  A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank.

  Life Begins at Forty

  1935 · 1 votes

• Movie4.2

  Comedy

  A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.

  The Winning Ticket

  1935 · 4 votes

• Movie6.0

  AdventureDrama

  Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.

  Kidnapped

  1938 · 4 votes

• Movie5.8

  DramaRomance

  The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Thrums, finds himself unexpectedly falling for one of his parishioners, the hot-blooded Gypsy girl Babbie. A village-wide scandal soon erupts over the minister's relationship with this feisty, passionate young woman, who holds a secret about the village's nobleman, Lord Milford Rintoul, and his role in an increasingly fractious labor dispute.

  The Little Minister

  1934 · 16 votes

• Movie10.0

  ActionAdventure

  Jack Logan loses all his money in a loaded-dice craps game with a couple of strangers, who turn out to be hold-up men. In order to get his money back he sets up a deal where they can rob the "Cannonball Express," an express train on which his father, John, is the engineer.

  Cannonball Express

  1932 · 1 votes

• Movie6.7

  ComedyDrama

  In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly regarded small-town physician who often prescribes a healthy dose of common sense! But when Bull begins dating a widow (Vera Allen), the local gossips misconstrue the story. To make matters worse, Bull's plainspoken manner earns him an enemy in the wealthy owner of a nearby construction camp. But once it's learned that the camp has caused illness by polluting the local water supply, the good doctor steps in to try to restore the town's health - and his reputation!

  Doctor Bull

  1933 · 12 votes

• Movie6.5

  Comedy

  The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.

  Hot Water

  1937 · 2 votes

• Movie4.3

  RomanceComedy

  A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble. Comedy.

  Too Many Cooks

  1931 · 3 votes