Search results for "David Butler"
The Girl He Left Behind

The Girl He Left Behind

The Girl He Left Behind
IMDb: 5.2
103

A young man is drafted and goes through the rigors of basic training, ultimately discovering the experience is also character-building. Director David Butler’s 1956 film stars ’50s teen favorites Tab…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
King Richard and the Crusaders

King Richard and the Crusaders

King Richard and the Crusaders
IMDb: 5.5
114

Based on Sir Walter Scott’s The Talisman, this is the story of the romantic adventures of Christians and Muslims during the battle for the Holy Land in the time of…

The Command

The Command

The Command
IMDb: 6.3
94

Once the commanding officer of a cavalry patrol is killed, the ranking officer who must take command is an army doctor.

Genre: Western
Calamity Jane

Calamity Jane

Calamity Jane
IMDb: 7.2
101

Sharpshooter Calamity Jane takes it upon herself to recruit a famous actress and bring her back to the local saloon, but jealousy soon gets in the way.

April in Paris

April in Paris

April in Paris
IMDb: 5.9
100

A series of misunderstandings leads to a chorus girl traveling to Paris to represent the American theater, where she falls in love with a befuddled bureaucrat.

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Lullaby of Broadway

Lullaby of Broadway

Lullaby of Broadway
IMDb: 6.7
92

Pretty Melinda Howard has been abroad singing with a musical troupe. She decides to return home to surprise her mother whom she thinks is a successful Broadway star with a…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Tea for Two

Tea for Two

Tea for Two
IMDb: 6.5
98

In this reworking of “No, No, Nanette,” wealthy heiress Nanette Carter bets her uncle $25,000 that she can say “no” to everything for 48 hours. If she wins, she can…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
The Daughter of Rosie O’Grady

The Daughter of Rosie O’Grady

The Daughter of Rosie O’Grady
IMDb: 6.5
104

An Irish horsecar driver’s daughter meets New York showman Tony Pastor and goes into vaudeville.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Story of Seabiscuit

The Story of Seabiscuit

The Story of Seabiscuit
IMDb: 6.1
93

Horse trainer Shawn O’Hara and his lovely niece, Margaret, come to America to escape the memory of an accident involving Margaret’s brother, Danny. Working with thoroughbreds in Kentucky, Shawn takes…

Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Look for the Silver Lining

Look for the Silver Lining

Look for the Silver Lining
IMDb: 6.3
106

After getting her start in her parents’ vaudeville act, Marilyn Miller is taken under the wing of dance sensation Jack Donahue. He senses the girl’s enormous talent, and before long…

Genre: Drama, Romance
It’s a Great Feeling

It’s a Great Feeling

It’s a Great Feeling
IMDb: 6.4
85

A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to…

Genre: Comedy, Music
John Loves Mary

John Loves Mary

John Loves Mary
IMDb: 6.2
96

After four long years apart, there are so many things returning World War II soldier John Lawrence wants to tell his sweetheart, Mary McKinley. That he loves her. That he’s…

Genre: Comedy
Two Guys from Milwaukee

Two Guys from Milwaukee

Two Guys from Milwaukee
IMDb: 6.4
90

Balkan Prince Henry has two wishes, to meet Lauren Bacall and see the “real” America. He befriends cabbie Buzz Williams and, without knowing the microphone is live, the two stage…

Genre: Comedy
San Antonio

San Antonio

San Antonio
IMDb: 6.3
109

Rancher Clay Hardin arrives in San Antonio to search for and capture Roy Stuart, notorious leader of a gang of cattle rustlers. The vicious outlaw is indeed in the Texan…

Genre: Western
The Princess and the Pirate

The Princess and the Pirate

The Princess and the Pirate
IMDb: 6.8
94

Princess Margaret is travelling incognito to elope with her true love instead of marrying the man her father has betrothed her to. On the high seas, her ship is attacked…

Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Thank Your Lucky Stars

Thank Your Lucky Stars

Thank Your Lucky Stars
IMDb: 6.7
127

An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.

Genre: Comedy, Music
They Got Me Covered

They Got Me Covered

They Got Me Covered
IMDb: 6.5
95

Bumbling reporter Robert Kittredge has been fired after bungling his latest assignment. His career isn’t all he’s botched up: his girlfriend Chris is tired of waiting for him to marry…

Genre: Comedy
Road to Morocco

Road to Morocco

Road to Morocco
IMDb: 7
82

Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.

Playmates

Playmates

Playmates
IMDb: 5.5
96

Lulu Monahan, the press agent for John Barrymore, is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program. To that end, she and the agent for bandleader Kay Kyser, plant…

Genre: Comedy, Music
Caught in the Draft

Caught in the Draft

Caught in the Draft
IMDb: 6.5
82

Don Bolton is a movie star who can’t stand loud noises. To evade the draft, he decides to get married…but falls for a colonel’s daughter. By mistake, he and his…

Genre: Comedy, Romance, War
You’ll Find Out

You’ll Find Out

You’ll Find Out
IMDb: 6.1
97

The manager of Kay Kyser’s band books them for a birthday party bash for an heiress at a spooky mansion, where sinister forces try to kill her.

If I Had My Way

If I Had My Way

If I Had My Way
IMDb: 6
94

Construction worker Buzz Blackwell becomes the guardian of 12-year-old Pat Johnson after one of his buddies, her father, is killed. Buzz and Pat, along with their chum Axel Swensen, head…

Genre: Comedy, Family
East Side of Heaven

East Side of Heaven

East Side of Heaven
IMDb: 6.6
88

A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child’s family.

Genre: Comedy, Family
Kentucky Moonshine

Kentucky Moonshine

Kentucky Moonshine
IMDb: 5.5
87

The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Kentucky

Kentucky

Kentucky
IMDb: 6.2
96

Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Ali Baba Goes to Town

Ali Baba Goes to Town

Ali Baba Goes to Town
IMDb: 6.3
81

While visiting Hollywood a starstruck movie fan (Eddie Cantor) fantasizes about himself cast in an Arabian adventure. Director David Butler’s comedy–with many songs–also features Tony Martin, Roland Young, Gypsy Rose…

White Fang

White Fang

White Fang
IMDb: 6.2
70

A woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accused of murder.

Pigskin Parade

Pigskin Parade

Pigskin Parade
IMDb: 6.1
93

Bessie and Winston “Slug” Winters are married coaches whose mission is to whip their college football team into shape. Just in time, they discover a hillbilly farmhand and his sister….

Genre: Comedy, Music
Captain January

Captain January

Captain January
IMDb: 7
77

A little girl named Star lives with a lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer decides she should go to boarding school but she’s rescued…

Genre: Comedy, Family
The Littlest Rebel

The Littlest Rebel

The Littlest Rebel
IMDb: 6.7
70

Virgie Cary’s father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and sets up an escape….

Doubting Thomas

Doubting Thomas

Doubting Thomas
IMDb: 6.4
73

A husband makes fun of his wife’s theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by also…

Genre: Comedy
Bright Eyes

Bright Eyes

Bright Eyes
IMDb: 7.2
85

An orphaned girl is taken in by a snobbish family at the insistence of their rich, crotchety uncle, even as her devoted aviator godfather fights for custody.

Genre: Drama, Family, Music
The Little Colonel

The Little Colonel

The Little Colonel
IMDb: 7
80

After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to never speak to her again. Several…

Genre: Family, Music