Frank Sheridan
Actor · 1869 – 1943 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Movies24
Movie6.7DramaHistoryA fictionalized account of famous French writer Émile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair. After struggling to establish himself, Zola wins success documenting the unsavory side of Paris and settles into a comfortable upper-class life. However, his complacency is shaken when Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus is imprisoned for espionage. Realizing that Dreyfus is an innocent victim of anti-Semitism, Zola boldly pens an exposé, only to be charged with libel and now he must defend himself in a dramatic courtroom testimony.
The Life of Emile Zola
1937 · 161 votes
Movie6.6DramaRomanceA beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
San Francisco
1936 · 89 votes
Movie5.3ComedyMusicPresident Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon runs afoul of political lobbyists out to destroy his department.
Stand Up and Cheer!
1934 · 12 votes
Movie6.9DramaOfficer James O'Malley, a true believer in law and order, treats even the smallest offenses with the utmost seriousness. But O'Malley brings bad publicity to the force when his pigheaded ethics become the subject of a scathing news story, and he's subsequently relegated to traffic cop. While on the beat, he tickets impoverished family man John Phillips, unaware that his stubbornness will set off a series of devastating events for Phillips.
The Great O'Malley
1937 · 11 votes
Movie4.6DramaHistoryIrish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.
Parnell
1937 · 9 votes
Movie6.3ComedyNaive Ezekial Cobb, brought up by his missionary father in China returns to America to seek a wife. Corrupt politicians enlist him to run for mayor as a dummy candidate with no chance of winning. Their plan backfires as he wins and embarks upon a reform crusade.
The Cat's-Paw
1934 · 20 votes
Movie7.0AdventureRomanceAfter a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
Frisco Kid
1935 · 10 votes
Movie5.9ComedyRomanceAce reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes women are "bum newspapermen". When a murder investigation ensues, the two compete every step of the way, determined to not be scooped by the other.
Front Page Woman
1935 · 17 votes
Movie5.5DramaA Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) of a neighbor who has killed the farmer's foxhound.
The Voice of Bugle Ann
1936 · 6 votes
Movie7.2CrimeA cocky prizefighter on his way to the bigtime in New York comes crashing down when his sister is involved in a murder and he takes the blame.
King for a Night
1933 · 3 votes
Movie7.0DramaAn army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer.
West Point of the Air
1935 · 4 votes
Movie6.0DramaA woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit.
Ladies of the Big House
1931 · 3 votes
Movie5.6MysteryEllery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.
The Spanish Cape Mystery
1935 · 11 votes
Movie6.6A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost treasures. Meanwhile his friend, who has since become a policeman, finds himself assigned to break up the crook's operation and bring in his gang--including the man who saved his life.
The Best Man Wins
1935 · 5 votes
Movie6.7DramaUpset by discipline at school, a 17-year-old runs away to New York City and learns there are worse problems than going to his little red school house.
The Little Red Schoolhouse
1936 · 3 votes
Movie7.5DramaAn "imaginative biography" of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago who was killed in the line of fire during an assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami on February 15, 1933.
The Man Who Dared
1933 · 2 votes
Movie7.0ComedyThe story to this comedy-drama is based on the book by Emerson Hough, who was experiencing a surge of popularity because his book The Covered Wagon had recently been made into a hit film. Ranchman Colonel Wright sends his daughter Bonnie to an Eastern college to receive an education. She decides to stay in the city and sends for her father, who arrives with his foreman Curly. Even though they live in the midst of society, they are snubbed by the Easterners as uncouth.
The Man Next Door
1923 · 1 votes
Movie6.4MysteryCrimeA mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.
The Public Defender
1931 · 5 votes
Movie4.5DramaA feud between taxicab companies forms the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when the hero is double-crossed and framed for a murder by his rival with whom he was competing for the position of fleet superintendent in the city's biggest cab company.
A Fight to the Finish
1937 · 2 votes
Movie6.9ComedyCrimeAn ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.
Lady Killer
1933 · 37 votes
Movie6.0Science FictionCrimeUniversity professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and when Cannon offers him a reward for aiding his recovery, Kovac transplants part of Cannon's brain into the dying Kingsley's skull, creating a dual personality.
Black Friday
1940 · 61 votes
Movie5.9DramaJeffrey and Glenda are two lovers about to embark on a three-day cruise to nowhere. Their plan is to be married on board by the ship's captain. As Glenda is packing to leave, she receives a threatening phone call from her obsessed, former lover Leo. Glenda confronts Leo and tells him that it's over. Leo, a high-powered attorney calls a hit man to have Jeffrey eliminated. Glenda knocks Leo over the head before he can give the hit man a name. Leo is dead. Glenda sneaks back into her apartment, goes off on the cruise with Jeffrey and pretends that all is swell. Leo's partner, Stephen Bessemer, suspects Glenda and follows her to the ship. Bessemer stages a mock trial aboard the ship and cleverly draws a confession from Glenda. Jeffrey, also an attorney, represents Glenda when she is arrested upon arriving on shore. A skeptical district attorney, and the fact that Jeffrey horsewhips the star witness (the hit man), combine to get Glenda completely off the hook.
The Woman Accused
1933 · 11 votes
Movie10.0CrimeDramaA crusader tries to keep a dope dealer from corrupting children.
Young Donovan's Kid
1931 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaRomanceThe story centers on a sordid love triangle involving a woman and two men. Their personal tensions and romantic complications reach a breaking point just as the local infrastructure fails. The climax of the film occurs when a massive dam bursts, unleashing a catastrophic flood. This disaster serves as the ultimate resolution for the characters' interpersonal struggles, forcing a conclusion to their conflicting relationships through the life-and-death stakes of the inundation.
The Flood
1931 · 1 votes