Search results for "Wallace Beery"
The Image Book

The Image Book

The Image Book
IMDb: 6.2
88

In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts from books, uses fragments of music. The driving force is poetic rhyme, the…

Genre: Documentary
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
IMDb: 7.1
107

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Big Jack

Big Jack

Big Jack
IMDb: 6.2
85

Wallace Beery, in his final film, plays a bandit in this period drama set in Colonial America.

A Date with Judy

A Date with Judy

A Date with Judy
IMDb: 6.5
113

Best friends Judy and Carol compete for the affection of an older man during their high school dance. As Carol tries to rekindle Judy’s relationship with Carol’s bumbling brother, Oogie,…

Genre: Comedy
The Mighty McGurk

The Mighty McGurk

The Mighty McGurk
IMDb: 6.3
85

A retired prizefighter becomes the unlikely guardian of a young orphan boy recently arrived from England to New York’s Bowery District.

Genre: Adventure, Comedy
This Man’s Navy

This Man’s Navy

This Man’s Navy
IMDb: 6.3
100

During World War II, Chief Aviation Pilot Ned Trumpet is in charge of an airship at Lakehurst, New Jersey naval base. Trumpet orders an unauthorized and premature attack on a…

Genre: Adventure, War
Salute to the Marines

Salute to the Marines

Salute to the Marines
IMDb: 6.4
101

It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a…

Genre: Comedy, War
Jackass Mail

Jackass Mail

Jackass Mail
IMDb: 6.1
79

An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.

Genre: Western
The Bugle Sounds

The Bugle Sounds

The Bugle Sounds
IMDb: 6
102

An old-time cavalry sergeant’s resistance to change could cost him his post.

Genre: War
The Bad Man

The Bad Man

The Bad Man
IMDb: 5.9
70

Lopez is a bandit who has stolen the herd at Gil’s ranch, so Hardy is about to foreclose. But Lucia has come back from New York and Gil is happy…

Genre: Comedy, Western
20 Mule Team

20 Mule Team

20 Mule Team
IMDb: 6.4
84

It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save…

Genre: Western
Stand Up and Fight

Stand Up and Fight

Stand Up and Fight
IMDb: 6.4
97

A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.

Genre: History, Western
Stablemates

Stablemates

Stablemates
IMDb: 6.8
89

A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.

Genre: Uncategorized
The Bad Man of Brimstone

The Bad Man of Brimstone

The Bad Man of Brimstone
IMDb: 6.3
89

A ruthless outlaw becomes very protective of a prizefighter when he learns the young man is his own son.

Genre: Western
Slave Ship

Slave Ship

Slave Ship
IMDb: 6.3
92

Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.

Genre: Adventure
A Message to Garcia

A Message to Garcia

A Message to Garcia
IMDb: 5.9
77

A fiery Cuban woman guides an emissary from the U.S. president through the jungles of war-torn Cuba.

Genre: Uncategorized
China Seas

China Seas

China Seas
IMDb: 6.9
87

Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That’s not the only risky cargo he carries; both…

Genre: Adventure
Ah, Wilderness!

Ah, Wilderness!

Ah, Wilderness!
IMDb: 6.8
98

At the turn of the century, a young man graduates high school and realizes the joys and sorrows of growing up, with some loving help and guidance from his wise…

Genre: Comedy
Treasure Island

Treasure Island

Treasure Island
IMDb: 7.1
103

In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of buccaneer Captain…

Genre: Adventure, Family
Tugboat Annie

Tugboat Annie

Tugboat Annie
IMDb: 6.9
86

Waterfront couple raise their son to be a sea captain. He grows up to be rather snotty and rebels against drunken Beery. Valiant Dressler keeps things moving even as hubby…

Genre: Comedy
Going Hollywood

Going Hollywood

Going Hollywood
IMDb: 6.1
78

The film tells the story of Sylvia, a French teacher at an all-girl school, who wants to find love. When she hears Bill Williams on the radio, she decides to…

Genre: Comedy, Music
Dinner at Eight

Dinner at Eight

Dinner at Eight
IMDb: 7.5
111

An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society…

Genre: Comedy
The Bowery

The Bowery

The Bowery
IMDb: 6.8
92

“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 known as…

Genre: Comedy
Hell Divers

Hell Divers

Hell Divers
IMDb: 6.4
109

The story of two Naval crewmen who work hard at sea and play harder on land.

Genre: Adventure
Grand Hotel

Grand Hotel

Grand Hotel
IMDb: 7.3
112

Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.

Genre: Uncategorized
Flesh

Flesh

Flesh
IMDb: 6.5
96

Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.

Genre: Uncategorized
The Secret Six

The Secret Six

The Secret Six
IMDb: 6.3
83

Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scorpio eventually takes over Frank’s operation, beats a rival gang,…

Genre: Crime
The Champ

The Champ

The Champ
IMDb: 7.3
86

A broken-down alcoholic prizefighter struggles to keep custody of his adoring son.

Genre: Uncategorized
Min and Bill

Min and Bill

Min and Bill
IMDb: 6.7
66

Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.

Genre: Comedy
The Big House

The Big House

The Big House
IMDb: 7.1
87

Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions.

Genre: Crime
Billy the Kid

Billy the Kid

Billy the Kid
IMDb: 6
95

Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan’s henchmen for killing Billy’s boss, is hunted down and captured by his friend, Sheriff Pat Garrett. He escapes and is on his…

Genre: Western
Beggars of Life

Beggars of Life

Beggars of Life
IMDb: 7.4
82

After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of…

Genre: Adventure, Crime
Old Ironsides

Old Ironsides

Old Ironsides
IMDb: 6.9
114

An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution–a.k.a. “Old Ironsides”–against the Barbary pirates then terrorizing American shipping, focusing on the crew and passengers of a fictional…

Genre: History
The Lost World

The Lost World

The Lost World
IMDb: 7
93

The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.

White Tiger

White Tiger

White Tiger
IMDb: 6.1
83

Three crooks pull off a magnificent crime. As they’re forced to hide out together they slowly begin to distrust each other.

Genre: Crime
The Spanish Dancer

The Spanish Dancer

The Spanish Dancer
IMDb: 6.6
95

The Spanish Dancer is the story of Maritana, a Romani girl who dances in courtyards and even tells people’s fortunes. Despite her lowly position, Maritana wishes to be a Countess….

Genre: History
Three Ages

Three Ages

Three Ages
IMDb: 7
64

The rituals of courtship, romantic rivalry, and love play out three times as a man vies with a villain for the girl. In the Stone Age, the rivalry is set…

Genre: Comedy
Drifting

Drifting

Drifting
IMDb: 6.6
71

In Shanghai, an American girl who helps runs an opium ring meets an American agent disguised as a mining engineer. The two fall in love, and she has to determine…

Genre: Uncategorized
Robin Hood

Robin Hood

Robin Hood
IMDb: 7
133

Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince John as regent, who promptly emerges as a cruel, grasping, treacherous tyrant. Apprised of England’s peril…

Genre: Adventure
My Wife’s Relations

My Wife’s Relations

My Wife’s Relations
IMDb: 6.6
27

Buster and a woman are mistakenly married and her initially unfriendly family begins to treat him nicely when they come to believe he has a large inheritance awaiting him.

Genre: Comedy