Joan Barclay

Movies24

• Movie7.2

  Drama

  A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.

  Baby Face

  1933 · 161 votes

• Movie7.0

  DramaRomance

  Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.

  Grand Hotel

  1932 · 363 votes

• Movie6.9

  ComedyDrama

  Broadway director Julian Marsh needs just one more hit show so he can retire and recover his health. It looks like he just may pull it off until temperamental star Dorthy Brock breaks her ankle on the eve of the show's premiere and has to be replaced by her understudy Peggy.

  42nd Street

  1933 · 224 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 · 39 votes

• Movie7.2

  ComedyDrama

  When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to bilk a repugnant high society man of his money to keep their show going.

  Gold Diggers of 1933

  1933 · 182 votes

• Movie7.1

  DramaWar

  Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.

  This Land Is Mine

  1943 · 72 votes

• Movie4.6

  ThrillerMystery

  It is prior to the commencement of World War II, and Japan's fiendish Black Dragon Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis. They instruct a brilliant scientist, Dr. Melcher, to travel to Japan on a secret mission. There he operates on six Japanese conspirators, transforming them to resemble six American leaders. The actual leaders are murdered and replaced with their likeness.

  Black Dragons

  1942 · 28 votes

• Movie5.8

  ComedyRomance

  Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.

  Second Chorus

  1941 · 40 votes

• Movie6.7

  ComedyDrama

  Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.

  Hi, Nellie!

  1934 · 11 votes

• Movie6.9

  ComedyCrime

  An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.

  Picture Snatcher

  1933 · 27 votes

• Movie6.4

  HorrorMystery

  After young Mary Gibson discovers that her older sister Jacqueline has disappeared, she leaves her boarding school and heads to New York City to track down her sibling. But Mary gets drawn deeper into the mystery.

  The Seventh Victim

  1943 · 162 votes

• Movie6.2

  DramaRomance

  Virginia, who studies at a boarding school for upper-class girls, falls in love with a medical intern who works as a waiter for a living. Both the director of the school and her mother oppose such a relationship.

  Finishing School

  1934 · 18 votes

• Movie6.2

  DramaRomance

  Champion boxer Jimmy Dolan has cultivated a wholesome image for himself, but he's a boozer and womanizer behind the scenes. Intoxicated at a party, he punches a reporter who threatens to expose his hypocrisy, and accidentally kills him. Dolan panics and skips town, winding up on a farm that serves as a home for disabled children run by kindhearted Peggy. As the cynical Dolan falls for Peggy, he begins to change his ways.

  The Life of Jimmy Dolan

  1933 · 9 votes

• Movie6.6

  Comedy

  Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.

  Strike Me Pink

  1936 · 8 votes

• Movie7.1

  DramaRomance

  Close friends Martha and Karen build a private boarding school together with the aid of the local doctor Joe. The school takes off and many students enroll, one of whom is a trouble-maker who tells a scandalous lie that threatens to destroy the trio's lives.

  These Three

  1936 · 47 votes

• Movie4.3

  Science FictionHorror

  A scientist keeps his wife young by killing, stealing the bodies of, and taking the gland fluid from virgin brides.

  The Corpse Vanishes

  1942 · 77 votes

• Movie5.7

  DramaWar

  A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular sequence.

  Bombardier

  1943 · 21 votes

• Movie6.8

  ComedyRomance

  Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.

  Love Crazy

  1941 · 39 votes

• Movie5.8

  DramaRomance

  Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees

  Colleen

  1936 · 4 votes

• Movie5.8

  Mystery

  A young doctor is determined to expose the killer when a surgeon is found stabbed to death in a hospital elevator.

  The Murder of Dr. Harrigan

  1936 · 6 votes

• Movie6.8

  ComedyMusic

  Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.

  Around the World

  1943 · 4 votes

• Movie5.4

  CrimeMystery

  When a Texas playboy is murdered in a New York City nightclub the Falcon investigates. When he learns that the victim was slipped rattlesnake venom, the trail leads to Texas, his own kidnapping and near death.

  The Falcon Out West

  1944 · 14 votes

• Movie6.3

  Western

  A deranged killer escapes into the Canadian woods. He tries to fool the locals by pretending he is a well known mystery writer, but the local Mountie starts to get suspicious.

  Phantom Patrol

  1936 · 3 votes

• Movie5.0

  ComedyThriller

  Jerry Cummings, a mining engineer, has pledged a large diamond on a short-term note to a pair of crooked loan sharks, Crone and Jan Jaffin, and heads for Mexico. His daughter Betsy, posing as a jewel thief called Mary Layton, is working to keep the crooks from absconding with the jewel, and her efforts are hindered greatly by an artist, Jimmy Baxter, who thinks she is a crook and Crone and Jaffin the good guys.

  Amateur Crook

  1937 · 2 votes