Ernest Hilliard

Movies24

• Movie7.6

  Drama

  Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.

  The Lost Weekend

  1945 · 685 votes

• Movie7.5

  RomanceDrama

  A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.

  Gilda

  1946 · 677 votes

• Movie5.9

  DramaThriller

  After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael, his mysterious long-lost brother.

  Undercurrent

  1946 · 53 votes

• Movie7.0

  ComedyRomance

  It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.

  The More the Merrier

  1943 · 99 votes

• Movie

  Comedy

  Walter MacIntosh and Abe Salisbury are filmmakers in the process of viewing their swashbuckling romance epic, 'The Loves of LaVorees', starring silent screen idol, Romaine Salisbury, hotly contested within Hollywood and part of an expensive silent film production, only for Bovine Productions to switch to sound production and reveal to them for the first time, Romaine's real all-talking, all-singing voice.

  In Conference

  1931

• 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

• Movie

  Two men quarrel about the design of an aircraft engine and go their separate ways, each attempting to prove the other wrong by winning an aircraft race with his own version of the design. The son of one of the men, who has been serving in the Air Mail Service, goes to work for his father's rival and falls in love with the rival's daughter. The children together design an engine incorporating elements from both of the rival designs and enter it in the air race, easily winning. The children's love and accomplishments reunite their parents.

  Wide Open

• Movie7.1

  ComedyWar

  Wilbert Winkle, a henpecked, mild-mannered, middle-aged bank clerk and handyman finds himself in the midst of battle in the South Pacific.

  Mr. Winkle Goes to War

  1944 · 12 votes

• Movie6.6

  RomanceComedy

  The famous matinee idol and blackface comedian, Don Wilson, heads out of town to escape adulation. There, calling himself Harry Mann, he accidentally joins a traveling acting troupe, and falls in love with Ginger Bolivar, who runs the troupe and stars in their Civil War melodrama. Don's producer sees the play, and thinks it's a comic masterpiece, and just what Don's Broadway show needs. But when Ginger finds out she's been played for a fool, will she forgive Don? Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. in 1997.

  The Matinee Idol

  1928 · 19 votes

• Movie7.5

  DramaRomance

  Young Annabelle succumbs to tuberculosis and dies, leaving her admirer distraught and without an emotional anchor.

  Annabelle Lee

  1921 · 2 votes

• Movie7.5

  A wealthy man's wife becomes bored with him, so his friend decides to trick her into an elopement into the unforgiving wilderness to make her appreciate her life anew.

  Second Honeymoon

  1930 · 2 votes

• Movie6.0

  Comedy

  Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney. They only way that Walter can get Jerry to work for him is to tell Jerry that his life is in danger; the neighbor is trying to take his wife; and that Nazi spies are everywhere. Jerry needs a cook for his 'cover' so he gets his fiancée Susan to work with him. To keep Jerry working, Walter sends the threatening letters to himself and hires actors to play the spies but when a real group of spies disguised as a troupe of radio actors appears on the scene, events quickly spiral out of control.

  Make Your Own Bed

  1944 · 6 votes

• Movie7.0

  ActionAdventure

  Roddy Forrester has formed the White Mice club with a pal. The purpose of the club is to help those in trouble. When Roddy's father sends him to the South American republic of Montebello, he gets his chance to be of service. General Rojas, the former president, is locked away in a prison and slowly dying. Roddy decides to rescue him, especially since he has been inspired by the general's pretty daughter, Inez.

  White Mice

  1926 · 1 votes

• Movie5.7

  DramaRomance

  Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.

  Kitty

  1945 · 13 votes

• Movie8.0

  DramaWestern

  Galloping Hoofs is a 1924 American silent Western film serial directed by George B. Seitz.

  Galloping Hoofs

  1924 · 1 votes

• Movie5.5

  HorrorThriller

  A man recovers on his death bed after his wife makes a mysterious pact with a strange woman. But is he really alive?

  The Soul of a Monster

  1944 · 11 votes

• Movie7.0

  ComedyCrime

  Let-It-Rain Riley (MacLean) is a devil-may-care Marine sergeant who falls in love with a girl (Shirley Mason) who he assumes to be rich. His rival for the girl's affection is his pal, Kelly (Wade Boteler). The guys find out that the object of their affections is but a modest switchboard operator but she proves to be invaluable when she deciphers a code and discovers that a mail train is about to be robbed.

  Let It Rain

  1927 · 1 votes

• Movie5.5

  Music

  Joe Lane, radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that the manager of the studio, Arthur Phillips, has made improper advances to his wife, Katherine. Infuriated, Lane engages him in a fight, and the encounter results in Phillips' accidental death. Joe goes to prison for a few years, and when he is released he visits his son, Little Pal, at school and is begged by him to run away together.

  Say It with Songs

  1929 · 6 votes

• Movie8.0

  Drama

  When Florette, a popular actress, and her friend Edith become rivals for the love of Walter Stanley, a leading man, Florette sacrifices her feelings for the other girl. Three years later, Phillip Rowland, a young aristocrat, falls in love with Florette. When Edith intrudes in her affairs, Florette--although she fears unhappiness will result because of their differing social positions--decides to marry Rowland regardless of the consequences. Rowland stands by his wife, although she is snubbed by his family, but when Edith conspires with Walter Stanley to place Florette in a compromising position, Judge Rowland accepts circumstantial evidence as truth and plans for a divorce. Florette, however, cleverly puts her brother-in-law on the defensive; making amends, he has her reinstated in the family's good graces. A lost film.

  Evidence

  1922 · 1 votes

• Movie10.0

  ComedyRomance

  Charles Cook, a husband with a multi-year itch, decides he will go out and whoop it up with the boys, but tells his wife it is a business meeting. His helpful friend Jack Scott introduces him to a very pretty--and shapely--Miss Scott, whose stock-in-trade is understanding misunderstood husbands, and she is very good at it. Charles enjoys being one of the boys and schedules more business meetings. Meanwhile, his wife Alice is at home wishing her husband didn't have to go to so many business meetings.

  Red Wine

  1928 · 1 votes

• Movie5.0

  RomanceDrama

  Bob Randall, temporarily in command of the Coast Guard vessel Niobe, expects a promotion and the captaincy of his ship. Instead, he is replaced by Lieutenant Mays, son of the area commander. Mays is afflicted with a fear of the sea, although he has served well in Coast Guard aviation. His father, however, thinks Mays can overcome his fear by taking command of the Niobe. When seal poachers kidnap Bob Randall's girlfriend Connie, Bob and Mays disagree about the proper means of rescuing her and capturing the seal poachers. When Mays's inexperience and phobia foil their attempts at rescue, Bob comes up with his own plan.

  Sea Spoilers

  1936 · 5 votes

• Movie6.4

  Drama

  Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will gladly divorce Roger if Cynthia agrees to a financial settlement. But Cynthia's wealth is in jeopardy because her trust fund will expire if she is not married by a certain date. To satisfy that condition, Cynthia arranges to marry Hagon Derk, who is condemned to die for a crime he didn't commit. She pays him so he can provide for his little sister. But at the last minute, Derk is freed when the true criminal is discovered. Expecting to be a rich widow, Cynthia finds herself married to a man she doesn't know and doesn't want to.

  Dynamite

  1929 · 15 votes

• Movie10.0

  Drama

  Alcoholic former artist David Stanley and impoverished violinist Judith Deering appear before Judge Henning. After the kindly judge dismisses the minor charges against the couple, Judith finds a job, after which she secretly sends money to David, using the judge as an intermediary. David soon stops drinking and successfully resumes his career.

  Compassion

  1928 · 1 votes

• Movie9.0

  Comedy

  When a musical star discovers her leading man is married, she quits the show and takes its financial backer with her.

  Let's Have Fun

  1943 · 1 votes