Leila Bennett
Actor · 1892 – 1965 · Newark, New Jersey, USA
Leila Bennett (November 17, 1892 – January 5, 1965) was an American film actress who primarily appeared in supporting roles as either slapstick sidekicks, mousy maids, and scatterbrains.
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Movie7.5CrimeDramaJoe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
Fury
1936 · 262 votes
Movie6.2MysteryHorrorSir Borotyn, a prominent Prague resident, is discovered murdered in his home, with all indications pointing to a vampire assault. The victim's friend, Baron Otto, and the physician who analyzes the body, are certain that the vampire is the mysterious Count Mora or his daughter. Receiving little help from the law, Professor Zelen, an expert in the occult, is called in to assist with their investigation.
Mark of the Vampire
1935 · 148 votes
Movie6.0HorrorThrillerA wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.
Doctor X
1932 · 85 votes
Movie6.5RomanceMusicA reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.
Dames
1934 · 43 votes
Movie7.2DramaNan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own advertising agency and helps him land his first client. Bill's former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and heats up their old romance. Wife and girlfriend struggle over Bill.
Housewife
1934 · 13 votes
Movie5.6CrimeMysteryIn London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining members. Society members start dropping like flies. Sherlock Holmes is approached by member James Murphy's widow, who is miffed at being left penniless by her husband. When Captain Pyke is shot, Holmes keys in on his mysterious Chinese widow as well as the shady Merrydew. Other members keep dying: Malcom Dearing first, then Mr. Baker. There is also an attempt on the life of young Eileen Forrester, who became a reluctant society member upon the death of her father. Holmes' uncanny observations and insights are put to the test.
A Study in Scarlet
1933 · 32 votes
Movie7.5ComedyMysteryFoxhall Ridgeway, arriving in New York City from the West, stumbles onto a murder in the hotel room next to his. He gets tangled up into the affair, and with the aid of Phoebe, the hotel telephone operator who takes a liking to him, and also Countess Louise Browssiloff, who innocently had left some personal belongings in the murdered man's room and is most anxious to recover the incriminating evidence, Foxhall solves the murder mystery.
One New York Night
1935 · 2 votes
Movie6.8CrimeDramaAmidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the streets, even if it means losing the woman he loves.
Taxi!
1932 · 35 votes
Movie6.5DramaRomanceNightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a struggling North Dakota farmer. Their relationship has a rocky start, but just as Joan realizes she's developing feelings for her husband, her old boyfriend arrives to win her back.
The Purchase Price
1932 · 28 votes
Movie3.3DramaAn unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds that he's framing his own daughter.
Unknown Blonde
1934 · 4 votes
Movie6.5DramaRomanceA Portuguese tuna fisherman catches his bride with his first mate.
Tiger Shark
1932 · 17 votes
Movie6.6DramaComedyAfter decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father.
Emma
1932 · 15 votes
Movie6.1DramaCrimeA bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him.
Gentleman's Fate
1931 · 7 votes
Movie6.1DramaAn able nurse clashes with a new doctor at her hospital.
Once to Every Woman
1934 · 9 votes
Movie6.5ComedyMusicA failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.
Strictly Dynamite
1934 · 4 votes
Movie8.0AdventureWesternA US marshal goes undercover to bust up a bunch of rustlers.
Sunset Pass
1933 · 2 votes
Movie5.1RomanceComedyCarol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. She sees the family physician, Dr. Swope, first and then hires a private detective. Her own sleuthing is more effective and she devises a plan; having long been pursued by Eric, she apparently accedes and accompanies him to an apartment and, per her plan, enter the wrong one. There, they find Carol's best friend, Charlotte, and John hiding in a closet. The latter, showing more nerve than good sense, goes into a rage and berates Carol for her apparent philandering. The battle continues at home, where their daughter Janet informs them that because of them, she and Paul have given up on the idea of marriage, but are going away together, anyway. Carol and John trail them to a hotel and find them in twin beds, whereupon John, armed with a fire-ax, summons a justice of the peace and demands a fire-ax version of a shotgun wedding.
Easy to Love
1934 · 10 votes
Movie5.1ActionAdventureA wagon train heads west from Independence, Mo., along the Oregon Trail, led by proud cowboy Clint Belmet. On board are feisty young widow Nancy Wellington and her toddler, Sonny, as well as the older Abby Masters, who begins a romance with scout Jim Burch. Along the way, the wagon train battles Indians led by Kenneth Murdock, a trapper who doesn't welcome competition for Oregon's lucrative fur trade. Wagon Wheels is a 1934 remake of 1931's Fighting Caravans, using stock footage from the original.
Wagon Wheels
1934 · 10 votes
Movie5.1DramaA steelworker and his aspiring wife make millions when they become partners in a dyeworks. Unfortunately, success does not bring happiness.
No Other Woman
1933 · 10 votes
Movie10.0DramaComedyGrace Livingston is leading a happy life in her small town, with her mother and father, being courted by two men, the steady but predictable Tommy Tucker and the more ambitious, flashy, and worldly Dick Loring, who seems closer to Grace in his desire for travel and adventure.
The First Year
1932 · 1 votes
Movie6.7MysteryHorrorAn ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened.
Terror Aboard
1933 · 7 votes