Wedgwood Nowell Movies

The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Irene Dunne

The plot, old-hat though it is, does provide an opportunity for that wonderfully seedy villain, David Dirby, to do his dirty work and more...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ralph Lewis

As a result of arresting a nightclub singer, Millie Garland, for speeding, Tim Daley, of the California Highway Patrol, incurs the enmity of the...

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Cast: Tim McCoy

Kitty Kelly (Bessie Barriscale) has just graduated from medical school and she decides to set up business in a Western mining camp. Because she is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bessie Barriscale

When a smart-alec street kid's father, a policeman, is killed in the line of duty, the boy turns over a new leaf and goes to work to support his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Wesley Barry

Miles Machree (J. Warren Kerrigan) meets Irish-American Sheila Lynch (Fritzi Brunette) when she travels through Ireland with her father (James O....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: J. Warren Kerrigan

Robert Castleback is in possession of secret papers which could bring a certain prince to power under conditions which would make Castleback a ruling...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Wedgwood Nowell

A young man in financial difficulties persuades his wife to help him blackmail a supposedly wealthy man.

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Courtleigh

Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evening, the couple marries. Sincerely falling in love,...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Lily Pons

This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sidney Blackmer

The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Groucho Marx

British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash-land in the Himalayas, where they are rescued by the inhabitants of the hidden,...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Ronald Colman

A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected....

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Powell

The story of an egotistical crime writer who gets involved with the case of a notorious art thief (who is believed to be dead) while at the same time...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jean Arthur

A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Francis

Don't Marry for Money is a 1923 silent drama

Genre: Drama

Cast: House Peters

Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Warner Baxter

Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alan Hale

An impertinent son of a wealthy New Yorker, Roger Carr takes the blame for the murder of Norman Evans, whom Roger believes his sister Ethel shot when...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dustin Farnum

The March of Crime (1936) was a series of exploitation stories produced by Dwain Esper of famous gangsters of the 1930s.

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Cast: Wedgwood Nowell

A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Humphrey Bogart

A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Donald Woods

After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rita Hayworth

Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ann Sheridan

A longtime maid for New York socialites watches from afar as the daughter she once gave up is raised by others. Director Arthur Greville Collins'...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Warren Hull

Michael Ramsay only has time for gathering his fortune in wheat. His wife seeks comfort elsewhere and, to avoid a scandal, her daughter Matilda...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Milton Sills

After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jimmy Durante

Frivolous young Marie de Severac is frightened into following a more virtuous path, when her father relates a story in which an equally frivolous...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Cleo Madison

A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Kay Francis

Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bette Davis

A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: James Cagney

A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Dix

After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie...

Genre: Crime

Cast: James Cagney

Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Katharine Hepburn

The renown Hindu scientist, Dr. Chindi Ashutor, who has conquered plague in India, visits Scotland and falls in love with Kate Erskine, whose sister...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Arthur

An heiress takes a road trip in a green van. Unbeknownst to her, she has four pursuers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alma Rubens

Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's...

Genre: Crime

Cast: James Stephenson

Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.

Genre: Action

Cast: Glenda Farrell

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Edward G. Robinson

Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Clark Gable

Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A...

Genre: Western

Cast: Errol Flynn

Jim Houston, the "Shootin' Iron" Parson, comes to Barren Gulch to reform the morals of the frontier community.

Genre: Western

Cast: William S. Hart

As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Errol Flynn

Fred, the wealthy owner of apple groves, has sent his nephew to college, but the only job that his nephew has after graduating is the job of not...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ross Alexander

An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.

Genre: Romance

Cast: James Stewart

Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an experiment goes awry when authorities believe...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Boris Karloff

Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arranges to have a scholarship given to her through...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Olivia de Havilland

Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and marrying Lockwood's daughter Linda. But as the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Young

Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tyrone Power

Adele Bleneau is a young nurse who assists her father, a renowned surgeon/. While in Washington, DC, she meets and falls in love with a British army...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kitty Gordon

Directed by Wallace Worsley.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Clara Kimball Young

A 1922 film directed by Frank Lloyd.

Genre: History

Cast: Norma Talmadge

Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to...

Genre: War

Cast: Claudette Colbert

Isabel Clifford sits to be painted. Her artist is Marion Leslie, a man distracted by matters of the flesh. Not Isabel’s flesh but...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cleo Madison

A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Brent

The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.

Genre: History

Cast: Claudette Colbert

Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wylie family -- if they fund his education, he must...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Helen Hayes

A woman who is presumed dead takes revenge on her unfaithful husband.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claire Du Brey

A doctor's wife is arrested for educating impoverished women about birth control.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Phillips Smalley

On a beach in southern Italy, Gianna Russelli practices her dancing with her devoted brother Russino, looking forward to the day when she will begin...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fritzi Brunette

Lisetta, the daughter of a fisherman, lives with her father and brother on the island of Capri. When Serrani, an Italian who has grown wealthy in New...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gypsy Hart

Genre: Action

Cast: Dustin Farnum

A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dennis O'Keefe

When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dick Powell

A woman abandons her husband and baby to look for a better life in the big city. Years later, as an elderly woman, she finds her son living in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gaston Glass

An adaptation of Balzac's novel set in the roaring twenties, it tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen that fulfills his...

Genre: Horror

Cast: J. Warren Kerrigan

Police headquarters has been plagued by a series of robberies, culminating in the theft of a priceless necklace smuggled from Europe. The detectives...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Ruth Clifford

Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Brent

Jessica leaves her upper class home to assume an anonymous working class identity. She meets a blue collar guy, Chet and falls in love with the poor...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mildred Coles

Parker, an Army lieutenant at a Western outpost, falls in love with Barbara Taylor, daughter of his commanding officer. But when Barbara rejects him,...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Charles Ray

After a demonstration of new PT boats, Navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Montgomery

Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Frank Morgan

The Flower of Doom is a 1917 silent drama film written and directed by Rex Ingram and starring Wedgwood Nowell, Yvette Mitchell, and Nicholas Dunaew....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wedgwood Nowell

Joyce Addison, wife of an American attache in Madrid, looks to her painting as sole entertainment, as her husband neglects her for business. One...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clara Kimball Young

Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Melvyn Douglas

A young woman agrees to marry a man for his money, only to fall in love with another and marry him instead. However, old secrets come to light and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katherine MacDonald

After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth — responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln — Dr. Samuel A....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Warner Baxter

Crime short from Louis Sonney.

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Cast: Wedgwood Nowell

Crime short from Louis Sonney.

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Cast: Wedgwood Nowell

Dr. Robert Lowndes of the British army practices in a small Indian outpost during a cholera epidemic, and to ease his fever, uses morphine. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: H.B. Warner

Hamid-Ali, an Arab chieftain and bandit, captures an English baby during a raid on a caravan and, naming her Sheka, puts her in a harem to be...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bessie Barriscale

Jane Morgan, to avoid marrying family lawyer Richard Van Loytor, takes her maid, Murray, and leaves home to make her own career. Finding it difficult...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Viola Dana

Though loved by many in her Norwegian village home, Thelma herself does not know love until she meets Sir Phillip Errington. They are married and go...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jane Novak

When a man's wife is accused of adultery, her insanely jealous husband gives her young son away to a traveling band of gypsies. Years later, when the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Earle Williams

For advice on making money, down-on-her-luck Margery Smith visits Franklyn Smith, a lawyer who, although he appears prosperous, is equally...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Margarita Fischer

In the African desert, a white man, embittered at an injustice, turns his back on his kind and becomes the leader of a band of outlaws. But a chance...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: H.B. Warner

Author Zane Grey leads a big-game fishing expedition from his home on Santa Catalina Island, off the California coast, to the South Seas.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Zane Grey