Frank Sheridan Movies

Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Donald Cook

Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on death row just before a brutal inmate leads the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Preston Foster

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

Upset by discipline at school, a 17-year-old runs away to New York City and learns there are worse problems than going to his little red school house.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frank Coghlan Jr.

After being run out of town after town for trying to sell worthless stock, two con artists breeze into the small town of Chesterville, where they...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ole Olsen

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 diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to...

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Cast: Edmund Lowe

Jack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through his unique gift. But when he inadvertently...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Guy Standing

Head railroad man Dan is as ugly as he is honorable. When he spots a drifter who'd hopped a freight held up by a landslide, Dan offers the man a job;...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Louis Wolheim

Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quickly runs afoul of the powerful Senator Norton...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lee Tracy

When her mother dies, wheel-chair bound Winnie Brady is taken in by shopkeeper and neighbor "Uncle" Joe Carmine. Joe convinces Father Ryan to let him...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edith Fellows

A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Warren William

Family heartbreak: A dedicated New York City policeman raises two sons, one following in his dad's footsteps as a cop while the other turns to crime...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dick Purcell

A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sylvia Sidney

A woman's ceaseless badgering sends her husband on a drinking bender. Along the way, he makes a new female acquaintance.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Ruggles

Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tom Moore

A candidate has laryngitis, so his assistant must make a speech in his place. Both the speaker and his audience are soon befuddled.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Benchley

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Talmadge

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

An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wallace Beery

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Fred MacMurray

A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Richard Dix

A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chester Morris

A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Benchley

O'Brien is "Whispering" Smith, so named because he speaks softly but knows how to fend for himself. The son of a railroad president, Smith is...

Genre: Action

Cast: George O’Brien

His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pat O’Brien

After he stumbles across a murder, a young reporter devises an elaborate scene to keep his newspaper stories about the crime front-page news. Eric...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Dorothy Jordan

An "imaginative biography" of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago who was killed in the line of fire during an assassination attempt on President-elect...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Preston Foster

Director Lewis D. Collins' 1936 whodunit is about the investigation into the death of an elderly tycoon, who is murdered shortly after announcing he...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Donald Cook

A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lionel Barrymore

Pat's ability as a logging/mining camp fighter sets him up to box prizefighter Corrigan. Unknown to his supporters, he's actually in collusion with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Wayne

University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Stanley Ridges

A man is tried and convicted for the murder of a man who flirted with his wife., and sentenced to death However, it turns out that he is innocent of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Eric Linden

Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes women are "bum newspapermen". When a murder...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bette Davis

Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Gary Cooper

A crusader tries to keep a dope dealer from corrupting children.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Richard Dix

A policeman (William Boyd) investigates a woman's (Lilyan Tashman) link to murders that are preceded by a shrilling horn inside a family mausoleum.

Genre: Horror

Cast: William 'Stage' Boyd

The Other Tomorrow, a love-triangle drama, is a lost American Pre-Code film, directed by Lloyd Bacon and produced by First National Pictures, a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Billie Dove

A corrupt night court judge tears an innocent young family apart in his efforts to elude a special prosecutor.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Phillips Holmes

An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

Modest programmer denotes a young man's rise to fame in wrestling matches he doesn't realize have been "fixed", and ensuing romantic turbulence.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leo Carrillo

On the wharfs of San Francisco, saloon girl Toy, also known as Mary, lives over Mother Bright's bar. When Como Murphy, a fugitive from the law, hides...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Victor McLaglen

The story to this comedy-drama is based on the book by Emerson Hough, who was experiencing a surge of popularity because his book The Covered Wagon...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: David Torrence

A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) of a neighbor who has killed the farmer's foxhound.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lionel Barrymore

Biopic of the famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Muni

A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clark Gable

A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lew Ayres

A gambler wins a ranch in a round of poker, then joins his neighbors on a rustler-ridden cattle drive to Texas.

Genre: Action

Cast: Buster Crabbe

Cowboy Tim McCoy becomes an instrument of revenge when he discovers his parents have been killed.

Genre: Western

Cast: Tim McCoy

The Brockton clan considers the mountain Little Smoky their own, but then the government comes in and declares it a forest and game preserve. This...

Genre: Western

Cast: Winifred Westover

After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: James Cagney

A young orphan girl, courted by an unpleasant older suitor who has a hold over her adoptive mother, falls in love with Fairfax, a young stranger at a...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Carol Dempster

A feud between taxicab companies forms the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when the hero is double-crossed and framed for a murder by his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Don Terry

Lillian Stevens was raised without care, attention, or education on the ways of the world. When she becomes pregnant by the reckless Harold Winthrop,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zena Keefe

An ex-gangster tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal activities after he accidentally becomes a movie star.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Cagney

A gray-haired convict, within the shadows of the gallows, tells his story to the prison chaplain beginning twenty years earlier when he was sent to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clive Brook

A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bring him back. They fall in love.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lawrence Tibbett