List of the best Alexander Hall movies: Here Comes Mr. Jordan(1941), Up Front(1951), Little Miss Marker(1934), The Pursuit of Happiness(1934), My Sister Eileen(1942), The Doctor Takes a Wife(1940), Exclusive(1937), I Am the Law(1938), Bedtime Story(1941), The Great Lover(1949), This Thing Called Love(1940), Forever Darling(1956) ... ...
Fantasy
USA
1941
93 Minutes
Director
Robert Montgomery Claude Rains Evelyn Keyes Rita Johnson Edward Everett Horton James Gleason John Emery Lloyd Bridges
boxer angel god millionaire girlfriend melodramatic heartwarming offbeat hilarious los angeles boxing ring bank mansion heaven afterlife big business boxing redemption romance metamorphosis
Boxer Joe Pendleton dies 50 years too soon due to a heavenly mistake, and is given a new life as a millionaire playboy.
Comedy
USA
1951
92 Minutes
Director
David Wayne Tom Ewell Marina Berti Jeffrey Lynn Richard Egan
soldier captain woman father police officer moonshiner amusing lighthearted madcap heartwarming naples, italy city battlefield military base world war ii romance friendship military life military occupation adventure
Based on the famed W.W.II cartoons: Lowbrow G.I.s Willie and Joe, on the Italian front, are good soldiers in combat, but meet the antics of gung-ho Captain Johnson and other military snafus... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1934
80 Minutes
Director
Adolphe Menjou Shirley Temple Dorothy Dell Charles Bickford Lynne Overman Frank McGlynn John Sheehan Garry Owen Willie Best Tammany Young
little girl girlfriend gangster gambler bookie father charming heartwarming uplifting playful horse track gambling house new york city chicago hospital party abandoned child starting over gambling suicide
Bookie Sorrowful Jones receives a little girl as an IOU.
Comedy
USA
1934
80 Minutes
Director
Francis Lederer Joan Bennett Charles Ruggles Mary Boland Minor Watson Adrian Morris Barbara Barondess Walter Kingsford Duke York Burr Caruth Jules Cowles
hessian violinist beautiful woman innkeeper daughter father charming amusing witty connecticut barn inn romance culture clash american revolutionary war dessertion romantic dilemma love pursuit american revolution
Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local militiaman jealously makes things hard for him while he's a prisoner of war.
Comedy
USA
1942
96 Minutes
Director
Rosalind Russell Brian Aherne Janet Blair George Tobias Allyn Joslyn Elizabeth Patterson Grant Mitchell Richard Quine June Havoc Donald MacBride Gordon Jones
sister actress writer reporter editor quirky amusing new york city ohio greenwich village theater ambition sister relationship struggle city life rivalry underdog transformation 1940s
Two sisters move from Ohio to New York with hopes of stardom.
Comedy
USA
1940
89 Minutes
Director
Loretta Young Ray Milland Gail Patrick Reginald Gardiner Edmund Gwenn Frank Sully Gordon Jones George Metaxa Charles Halton Joseph Eggenton Chester Clute
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
Drama
USA
1937
85 Minutes
Director
Fred MacMurray Frances Farmer Charles Ruggles Lloyd Nolan Fay Holden Ralph Morgan Edward H. Robins Harlan Briggs Willard Robertson Horace MacMahon
journalist publisher daughter gangster father killer suspenseful rousing newsroom mountain city, tenn. father/daughter relationship love gangs murder journalism racketeering rivalry discovery 1930s
Two newspapers are pitted against each other. One owned by gangster Charles Gillette (Lloyd Nolan), the other by Ralph Houston (Fred MacMurray).
Crime, Drama
USA
1938
83 Minutes
Director
lawyer student mobster femme fatale police officer government official dark gritty raw city hall city crime corruption mafia quest pursuit 1930s
Law professor John Lindsay is asked by a civic leader to become a special prosecutor to go after the racketeers in town.
Romance
USA
1941
85 Minutes
Director
Fredric March Loretta Young Robert Benchley Allyn Joslyn Eve Arden Helen Westley Joyce Compton Tim Ryan Olaf Hytten Dorothy Adams Clarence Kolb
playwright actress banker husband wife bellhop amusing witty endearing new york city broadway theater hotel hotel room reno, nev. divorce remarriage jealousy work-life balance romance love triangle
A playwright attempts to stop his wife from retiring so she can star in his next play.
Comedy
USA
1949
80 Minutes
Director
Bob Hope Rhonda Fleming Roland Young Roland Culver Richard Lyon Gary Gray Jerry Hunter Jackie Jackson Orley Lindgren Karl Wright Esser George Reeves
murderer private investigator con artist scout duchess love interest campy madcap winsome engaging cruise ship murder detective work murder plot teamwork race against time adventure mystery pursuit 1940s
On an ocean liner, an inept scoutmaster pursues a duchess while a killer pursues him.
Comedy
USA
1940
98 Minutes
Director
Rosalind Russell Melvyn Douglas Binnie Barnes Allyn Joslyn Gloria Dickson Lee J. Cobb Gloria Holden Paul McGrath
husband wife business partner madcap playful house bedroom abstinence marriage frustrated desire newlyweds sex quest love 1940s
Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months, just to see if they are truly compatible. The husband tries various tricks to lure his ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1956
96 Minutes
Director
Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz James Mason Louis Calhern John Emery John Hoyt Natalie Schafer Mabel Albertson Ralph Dumke Nancy Kulp Willis Bouchey
chemist wife angel cousin father boss madcap campy playful endearing family home yosemite valley movie theater woods unhappy marriage career vs. love angels reconciliation camping infatuation
Susan and Lorenzo have been married for over five years and they are starting to drift apart. So into her life comes an angel, which only Susan can see, to tell her that there will be ... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1945
87 Minutes
Director
Rosalind Russell Lee Bowman Adele Jergens Charles Winninger Harry Davenport Sara Haden Percy Kilbride
psychiatrist patient cartoonist soldier father lighthearted amusing new york city chicago train office family home unrequited love deception mental illness marriage love triangle sex love quest
Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her practice in Chicago, she spends time back East with war veterans, building their self-esteem,... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1942
85 Minutes
Director
Joan Crawford Melvyn Douglas Roland Young Billie Burke Allen Jenkins Andrew Tombes Helen Parrish Emory Parnell
businesswoman sister reporter executive love interest younger sister charming playful witty church office house wedding independence marriage business love unlikely romance mistaken identity rivalry
Divine Crawford who gives all - in this really funny comedy , she donated all her salary from this movie to the Red Cross after Carole Lombard's plane crashed .
Romance
USA
1932
70 Minutes
Director
Carole Lombard Chester Morris Adrienne Ames Alison Skipworth Walter Byron Reginald Barlow Zita Moulton Cary Grant Luke Cosgrave Ida Lewis Russ Clark
A New York fashion model finds herself being pursued by a poor but honest garage mechanic and a rich philanderer.
Romance
1943
95 Minutes
Director
Hedy Lamarr William Powell James Craig Fay Bainter Henry O'Neill Spring Byington Robert Sully Morris Ankrum
astronomer wife astrologer neighbor maid military officer airy playful cheeky house observatory cabin los angeles california astrology new romance marital problems misunderstanding comet sighting love triangle
An astronomer's (William Powell) neglected wife (Hedy Lamarr) thinks an air-raid warden (James Craig) is the mystery man her astrologer predicted.
Musical, Comedy
1935
74 Minutes
Director
Mae West Paul Cavanagh Ivan Lebedeff Gilbert Emery Marjorie Gateson Tito Coral Fred Kohler Monroe Owsley Grant Withers Luis Alberni
cattle rancher aristocrat husband saloon girl femme fatale british man cheeky melodramatic amusing buenos aires, argentina ranch southampton marriage social climbing money class distinctions love triangle status pursuit quest
A sassy female cattle rancher, Cleo Borden (Mae West), wants nothing more than to sashay her way into the moneyed class.
Romance
1950
90 Minutes
Director
Ronald Reagan Charles Coburn Spring Byington Ruth Hussey Edmund Gwenn Piper Laurie Scotty Beckett Connie Gilchrist Willard Waterman Jimmy Hunt Marjorie Crosland
mother widow grocer teenager boss architect amusing charming madcap family home small town store family generation gap dating old age relationships love triangle love rivalry
A widowed grandmother (Spring Byington) has two suitors: a local grocer and her son's (Ronald Reagan) boss (Charles Coburn).
Musical, Comedy
1952
103 Minutes
Director
Mario Lanza Doretta Morrow James Whitmore Dean Miller Paula Corday Jeff Donnell Spring Byington Curtis Cooksey Don Porter Eduard Franz Bobby Van
A famous opera singer (Mario Lanza) falls for his sergeant's (James Whitmore) sister (Doretta Morrow) at boot camp.