Sumner Getchell
Actor · 1906 – 1990 · Oakland, California, USA
Movies24
Movie6.9DramaCrimeA penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.
No Man of Her Own
1950 · 48 votes
Movie6.2AdventureDramaA C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastelands of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while awaiting rescue.
Island in the Sky
1953 · 74 votes
Movie6.1ComedyMysteryA daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation.
The Fuller Brush Girl
1950 · 11 votes
Movie6.2DramaRomanceCelestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man, but Mr. Lanlaire is not a right choice: the house is firmly controlled by Madame Lanlaire, helped by the strange valet Joseph. Then she tries the neighbour, former officer Mauger. This seems to work. But soon the son of the Lanlaires comes back. He is young, attractive and does not share his mother's antirepublican opinions. So Celestine's beauty attracts Captain Mauger, young Georges Lanlaire, and Joseph. Three men, from three different social classes, with three different conceptions of life. Will Celestine be able to convince Georges of her sincerity?
The Diary of a Chambermaid
1946 · 39 votes
Movie6.7RomanceComedyWhen a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.
The Lady in Question
1940 · 26 votes
Movie6.8ComedyRomanceA best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940 · 10 votes
Movie6.5ThrillerCrimePolice catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.
Union Station
1950 · 52 votes
Movie5.5CrimeDramaA crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.
Big Town After Dark
1947 · 10 votes
Movie8.0DramaRomanceFeaturing members of the 1931 National Champion football team from the University of Southern California Trojans, with team members Russell Saunders and Oscar "Dutch" Hendrian also cast in roles other than just team members.
That's My Boy
1932 · 1 votes
Movie6.2CrimeDramaA war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his criminal past.
The Crooked Way
1949 · 33 votes
Movie6.2DramaMary Scott learns she only has ten months to live before dying of an incurable disease. She manages to keep the news from her husband, Brad and daughter, Polly. She tries to make every moment of her life count, but her effort is weakened by the discovery that Brad is interested in his assistant, Chris Radner. But when she learns that Brad does indeed love her and not Chris, and that Chris is leaving town, she realizes what she must do to ensure the future happiness of Brad and Polly. She persuades Chris to stay, makes a genuine friend of her and watches Polly grow towards Chris.
No Sad Songs for Me
1950 · 8 votes
Movie6.8DramaA young crusading reporter in a small town tackles civic corruption.
Bannerline
1951 · 4 votes
Movie5.7AdventureA 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father. His adventures involve a mysterious inscription on a ring, buried treasure, kidnaping and Indian raids. He saves his father and returns to school just in time to win a decisive baseball game with his remarkable pitching and hitting.
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
1936 · 3 votes
Movie5.7ThrillerMysterySent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.
Lightning Strikes Twice
1951 · 22 votes
Movie6.2ComedyAfter striking it rich in Alaskan gold, a young man returns to marry his fiancé only to be snubbed. Her sister, however, is worth considering, until he learns about her gold-digging family.
There Goes the Groom
1937 · 4 votes
Movie7.0DramaA childless couple adopts a baby girl, but a crime committed by the husband's secretary could cause them to lose custody of the infant.
Chain of Circumstance
1951 · 1 votes
- Movie
This entry of Universal's Sporting Youth series goes to the racetrack. The father of Cudgie (Sumner Getchell) has a horse entered in the Big Steeplechase. Judy (Ann Christy, Cudgie's girlfriend, learns that the jockey has taken a bride to throw the race, so she replaces him and wins the stock-footage race from a Universal feature film.
Steeplechase
1930
Movie5.1ActionAdventureFort St. David, Cuddalore, southern India, 1748. While colonial empires battle to seize an enormous territory, rich in spices and precious metals beyond the wildest dreams, and try to gain the favor of the local kings, Robert Clive (1725-1774), a frustrated but talented clerk who works for the East Indian Company and struggles to earn his fortune, makes a bold decision that will change his life forever.
Clive of India
1935 · 12 votes
Movie6.0DramaRomanceRomance at a murder trial with a pair of sequestered jurors who are the only ones who think that the woman in the dock is innocent. Separated from their normal lives, jurors Terry Scott and David Campbell start to fall in love.
Perfect Strangers
1950 · 9 votes
Movie9.0Drama1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in this movie is a recent arrival. Tisa has been in America only four months, yet she is holding four jobs to save enough money to pay for her father's boat passage to America. She works in a garment factory in Greenwich Village owned by Mr. Grumbach, who is studying to pass his citizenship test. Denek, a brash young man, tries to help her but gets her into trouble and her deportation is ordered by an immigration judge.
My Girl Tisa
1948 · 1 votes
Movie4.7ActionThrillerHop Harrigan, a top Air Corps pilot, leaves the military and he and his mechanic, Tank Tinker, open up a small charter air service. They are hired to fly an inventor, Dr. Tabor, to his secret laboratory, where he is working on a new and powerful energy machine. However, a mysterious villain named The Chief Pilot is determined to have the new energy machine for his own purposes and kidnaps Dr. Tabor.
Hop Harrigan: America's Ace of the Airways
1946 · 3 votes
Movie5.2RomanceComedyA college flirt lures the nation's best football players to join her school's team.
Maybe It's Love
1930 · 6 votes
Movie7.0DramaTaking place over 24 hours, "New Year's Eve" is the story of Marjorie Ware, broke and unemployed, who despairs as her ailing younger brother languishes at home. She runs into rich gambler Larry Harmon and rejects his overtures. She later finds a wallet with 10 $100 bills belonging to Edward Warren.
New Year's Eve
1929 · 1 votes
- Movie5.2Comedy
In this The Boy Friends series short, college students Mickey and Alabam stay at a city friend's place for what they tell him will be one night - though it stretches into several months.
You're Telling Me
1932 · 4 votes