Phil Tead Movies

An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Payne

An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Cagney

The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Zachary Hicks. Kay Russell suggests they hire Hal...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bette Davis

The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edward G. Robinson

A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lionel Barrymore

The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and their great Dane. A clerk in Whinney's bank has put fifty thousand...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Ruggles

In order to show up a rival, a snobbish woman throws a party and hires an actor to pretend to be from British royalty who is an "old friend".

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reginald Denny

A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Walter Pidgeon

A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Paul Lukas

A young boy living at a mountain lodge witnesses a murder, and is then targeted himself by the killer.

Genre:

Cast: Charles Chaplin, Jr.

A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Francis Lederer

A cash-strapped electrical engineer with a criminal past vows to go straight when he marries his longtime girlfriend, but he has second thoughts when...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bill Williams

Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Janet Gaynor

Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maureen O'Sullivan

Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.

Genre: Western

Cast: Edward Arnold

A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Melvyn Douglas

Sylvia is a French teacher at an all-girls school who wants to find love. When she hears Bill Williams on the radio, she decides to go visit and...

Genre: Music

Cast: Marion Davies

An ambitious chorus girl finds fame, marriage, and motherhood with a talented composer, only to leave him for a handsome singer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Lukas

An attorney handling a murder case is unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Virginia Bruce

A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.

Genre: Action

Cast: Fred MacMurray

A white youth raised in the jungle by animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Buster Crabbe

A young reporter tries to prove her mettle by exposing a liquor racketeering gang.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Florence Rice

Sixth of the Judge Hardy series. Judge James K. Hardy is brought the fabulous news from attorney George Irving, that he could be the heir to 2...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lewis Stone

With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Halliday

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Spencer Tracy

U.S. sailor Jimmy Harrigan, on shore leave in San Pedro, meets and falls for Sally Brent She promises to wait for him when he ships out to San...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Dunn

The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Dunn

Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Groucho Marx

Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lew Ayres

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Powell

A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Carole Lombard

Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Alan Ladd

Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it...

Genre: Western

Cast: Gary Cooper

Unknown to Reuben Warren, the foreman of an ironworks, his invention, the volta-dynamo, was stolen years earlier by his employer, Knowlton, and is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: H.B. Warner

A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sylvia Sidney

An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.

Genre: Romance

Cast: James Dunn

A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Crawford

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

A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Pearl

A young Frenchwoman is determined to get into and stay in show business, no matter what. Then she's determined to win a recently divorced man's...

Genre: Music

Cast: Mary Pickford

The Carlton State star quarterback is wrongly thrown in jail, almost guaranteeing a major loss as well as costing the college a donation which would...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: June Travis

The mysterious Mrs. Eleanor Carter moves to Springville with her two teenage children Jimmy and Cathy. Eleanor makes friends with the town's social...

Genre: Family

Cast: Virginia Field

When Marie Callender is left a fortune by a wealthy old admirer on the condition that she marry the man she loves, Marie targets Ernest Lismore but...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Talmadge

"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Lee Tracy

Canadian Mounties Corporal Rod Webb and Constable Mike Kelly, along with Rod's dog Chinook, are sent to the Blackfoot Crossing country to find a...

Genre: Western

Cast: Kirby Grant

Mike Wein, an Alaskan bush pilot operating the the Bering Sea area, makes friends with John W. Wetherby, posing as a wealthy United States...

Genre: Action

Cast: Wayne Morris

Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Constance Bennett

A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

Genre: Crime

Cast: George Raft

A reporter gets the best story of her life when she goes under cover to take down the head of a crime syndicate.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pat O'Brien

Lightnin' and Mary Jones are co-owners of a hotel built right on a state border, used by divorcing wives so they can pretend to be in California...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Rogers

Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tallulah Bankhead

Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Adolphe Menjou

A young sailor saves a woman from drowning. The woman turns out to be a rich heiress; unfortunately for the sailor, she was only pretending to be...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chester Morris

A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marion Davies

A Texas Ranger turns deputy sheriff; a woman wants him to kill her cattle-baron husband.

Genre: Western

Cast: Guy Madison

Agatha has fond memories of her romance with college president Dr. James Merrill, when she was a student and he was her professor, and wants to see...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Crawford

Escaped convicts Jack and Judy stumble upon an airstrip on the Western ranch of arrogant business tycoon Gerald Axton. Taking Axton and his secretary...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lionel Atwill

In the war-like times of Oliver Cromwell, in and around 'olde Oxford towne', Dutchman Karl Van Kerstenbrook, Dutch soldier-of-fortune and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When...

Genre: Western

Cast: Ray Milland

The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents' notoriety.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leo Carrillo

President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Warner Baxter

When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Joel McCrea

Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Spencer Tracy

Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York City political party boss named Gilmurry. Adam's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Powell

In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mary Astor

Secretary Marilyn David falls in love with British aristocrat Charles Gray, to the dismay of her best friend, reporter Peter Dawes, who secretly...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claudette Colbert

A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Van Heflin

Two smart marketing people resurrect some old films starring cowboy Smoky Callaway and put them on television. The films are a big hit and the star...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fred MacMurray

"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Wallace Beery

A flamboyant Broadway impresario who has fallen on hard times tries to get his former lover, now a Hollywood diva, to return and resurrect his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fredric March

Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Joan Bennett

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Cagney

John T. Bromley III is a young man from high society who is physically humiliated by a prizefighter before his socialite sweetheart, Jenny Killian....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Brenda Joyce

A young woman engaged to a millionaire falls for the understudy in a Broadway musical.

Genre: Music

Cast: Tony Martin