List of the best Alfred E. Green movies: Baby Face(1933), The Jolson Story(1946), Four Faces West(1948), The Dark Horse(1932), Dangerous(1935), Smart Money(1931), Through the Back Door(1921), Ride a Crooked Mile(1938), Ella Cinders(1926), Mr. Winkle Goes to War(1944), Little Lord Fauntleroy(1921), Flowing Gold(1940) ... ...
Drama
USA
1933
71 Minutes
Director
Barbara Stanwyck George Brent Donald Cook Arthur Hohl John Wayne Henry Kolker Margaret Lindsay Douglas Dumbrille Theresa Harris Alphonse Ethier James Murray
beautiful woman businessman father friend banker sultry unrestrained pennsylvania new york city seduction sex betrayal prohibition social standing adventure transformation 1930s
A young woman, sexually exploited all her life, decides to turn the tables and exploit the hapless men at a big city bank - by gleefully sleeping her way to the top.
Biography
USA
1946
128 Minutes
Director
Larry Parks Evelyn Keyes William Demarest Bill Goodwin Ludwig Donath Tamara Shayne John Alexander Jo-Carroll Dennison Ernest Cossart Scotty Beckett William Forrest
cantor singer actor vaudevillian performer entertainer charming endearing playful rousing synagogue theater nightclub movie studio washington, d.c. backstage al jolson father/son relationship show business career vs. family
This movie shows the idealized career of the singer Al Jolson, a little Jewish boy who goes against the will of his father in order to be in showbiz. He becomes a star, falls in love with a... See full summary »
Western
USA
1948
90 Minutes
Director
Joel McCrea Frances Dee Charles Bickford Joseph Calleia William Conrad Martin Garralaga Raymond Largay John Parrish
cowboy sheriff nurse bank robber gambler rancher intense suspenseful new mexico small town bank train saloon wild west bank heist foreclosure romance showdown chase organized crime
In New Mexico, a cowpoke forces a banker at gunpoint to give him a loan without collateral, in exchange for an IOU but the marshal and his posse chase after him.
Comedy
USA
1932
75 Minutes
Director
Warren William Bette Davis Guy Kibbee Vivienne Osborne Frank McHugh Sam Hardy Robert Warwick Harry Holman Charles Sellon Robert E. O'Connor Berton Churchill
political candidate political consultant inmate opponent ex-wife secretary amusing endearing madcap city political rally polling place jail stage office election campaigning romance unlikely allies politics
Jailbird is hired to lead a dimwitted candidate's campaign for governor.
Drama
USA
1935
78 Minutes
Director
Bette Davis Franchot Tone Margaret Lindsay Alison Skipworth John Eldredge Dick Foran
actress architect fiancé husband bleak emotional connecticut new york city comeback alcoholism show business love triangle sacrifice transformation love 1930s
An alcoholic actress who is considered a dangerous jinx is rehabilitated, but she then shows that she's as dangerous as ever.
Drama
USA
1931
90 Minutes
Director
Edward G. Robinson James Cagney Evalyn Knapp Ralf Harolde Noel Francis Margaret Livingston Maurice Black Boris Karloff Morgan Wallace Billy House Paul Porcasi
barber best friend woman district attorney police officer criminal melodramatic gutsy thrilling small town barbershop city gambling house court gambling luck investigation framed accidental death attempted suicide
A Greek barber has uncommon skills in playing poker and soon rises in the seedy world of illegal gambling, but pretty blondes remain his Achilles' heel.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1921
89 Minutes
Director
Mary Pickford Jack Pickford Gertrude Astor Wilfred Lucas Helen Raymond C. Norman Hammond Eleanor Fair Adolphe Menjou Peaches Jackson Doreen Turner
When her mother remarries, a young Belgian girl is left behind with her nurse, but when Germany invades the country, she is sent to America to find her mother.
Drama
USA
1938
78 Minutes
Director
Ride a Crooked Mile is a 1938 American film directed by Alfred E. Green and written by Jack Moffitt and Ferdinand Reyher. The film stars Akim Tamiroff, Leif Erickson, Frances Farmer, Lynne ... See full summary »
Comedy, Romance
USA
1926
67 Minutes
Director
Colleen Moore Lloyd Hughes Vera Lewis Doris Baker Emma Gordes Mike Donlin Jed Prouty Jack Duffy Harry Allen D'Arcy Corrigan Alfred E. Green
Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1944
80 Minutes
Director
Edward G. Robinson Ruth Warrick Ted Donaldson Bob Haymes Richard Lane Robert Armstrong Richard Gaines Walter Baldwin Art Smith Ann Shoemaker Paul Stanton
bank teller army recruit orphan mechanic wife endearing amusing bank japan army camp heroism duty patriotism world war ii marriage underdog adventure rise sacrifice 1940s
Wilbert Winkle, a henpecked, mild-mannered, middle-aged bank clerk and handyman, finds himself in the midst of battle in the South Pacific.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1921
100 Minutes
Director
Mary Pickford Jack Pickford Claude Gillingwater Colin Kenny Joseph J. Dowling James Marcus Kate Price Fred Malatesta Rose Dione Frances Marion Arthur Thalasso
earl lord widow grandfather young boy mother uplifting charming endearing heartwarming new york city england family home inheritance family bloodline friendship fortune hunters royalty new life adventure
An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.
Adventure
USA
1940
82 Minutes
Director
John Garfield Frances Farmer Pat O'Brien Raymond Walburn Cliff Edwards Tom Kennedy
fugitive foreman friend girlfriend enemy police officer uneasy thrilling united states small town oil field household bar oil murder love triangle loyalty running away jealousy escape
In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.
Romance
USA
1931
70 Minutes
Director
Gossip, snobbery, mistrust, divorce and a mail-order engagement dominate the lives of the British upper class living in the plantation colonies of Southeast Asia.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
USA
1939
74 Minutes
Director
The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder. Allen's uncle fixes her up with Bill at a company picnic. When the two go out to a ... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1936
77 Minutes
Director
Jean Arthur George Brent Lionel Stander Dorothea Kent Ruth Donnelly Reginald Denny Charles Halton
secretary editor floozy colleague health nut lighthearted spirited office new york city romance journalism employment working woman love rivalry transformation 1930s
When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant. Drawn to him, she accepts the position.
Drama
USA
1932
73 Minutes
Director
A socialite gets a divorce but can't keep out of her ex-husband's life.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1943
77 Minutes
Director
George Sanders Marguerite Chapman Onslow Stevens Gale Sondergaard Alan Napier Jack Lee H.P. Sanders Don Douglas Alec Craig Leonard Mudie Frederick Worlock
A former RAF officer is enlisted in the British secret service. Germany recruits him for propaganda broadcasts to England. He uses codes in his broadcasts. When his cover is blown, he and his German girlfriend must try to escape.
Adventure
USA
1940
98 Minutes
Director
The son of an island chieftain, young Kehane defiantly opposes the efforts by crooked pearl hunter Bucko Larson to invade his domain. Larson and his minions hope to dissuade our hero by introducing him to seductive Ruby.
Biography
USA
1933
83 Minutes
Director
Edward G. Robinson Bebe Daniels Aline MacMahon Jobyna Howland DeWitt Jennings Robert Warwick Russell Simpson Harry Holman Charles Middleton John Marston Marjorie Gateson
politician chester a. arthur wife mine owner mistress ulysses s. grant engaging spirited denver washington, d.c. mine colorado marriage wealth politics philanthropy affair egoism transformation discovery
Yates and Sarah Martin are barely getting by in a Colorado boom town grocery store. Sudden wealth leads to greater prosperity and political power. In Denver Yates buys a mansion and builds ... See full summary »
Biography
USA
1950
76 Minutes
Director
Ruby Dee Minor Watson Louise Beavers Richard Lane Harry Shannon Ben Lessy Billy Wayne Joel Fluellen Bernie Hamilton Kenny Washington Pat Flaherty
baseball player jackie robinson mother wife coach bigot emotional heartwarming rousing powerful america montreal stadium new york city brooklyn, n.y. baseball american dream race relations family rise
Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.
Comedy
USA
1936
70 Minutes
Director
Bette Davis George Brent Eugene Pallette Dick Foran Carol Hughes Catherine Doucet Craig Reynolds Hobart Cavanaugh Henry O'Neill Ivan Lebedeff
It's the Florida party season for heiresses, with both Oklahoma oil heiress Hortense Burke-Meyers and New York face cream heiress Daisy Appleby in the state. And where the single American ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1938
96 Minutes
Director
An arrogant Cambridge student emigrates to America and enrolls at the West Point.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1937
80 Minutes
Director
Judy Garland Mickey Rooney Sophie Tucker C. Aubrey Smith Frankie Darro Henry Kolker Helen Troy Ronald Sinclair
jockey niece horse owner young boy uncle gambler charming melodramatic positive horse track boarding house house england office horse racing gambling betrayal friendship fixed game horses
A cocky young jockey who gets mixed up with some crooked gamblers befriends an English lad with a fast horse and the niece of a woman who runs a boarding house for jockeys.
Drama
USA
1934
70 Minutes
Director
Bette Davis George Brent Ann Dvorak John Halliday Ruth Donnelly Robert Barrat Hobart Cavanaugh Joseph Cawthorn Harry Tyler Leila Bennett Ronnie Cosby
housewife ad copywriter lover husband son old friend witty melodramatic uneasy advertising office house courtroom divorce advertising ambition infidelity poverty marriage love rise
Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1934
72 Minutes
Director
Edward G. Robinson Genevieve Tobin Glenda Farrell Robert Barrat Gordon Westcott Hobart Cavanaugh George Meeker Henry B. Walthall Sidney Toler Emma Dunn Willard Robertson
Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valerie, Marge leaves him. After a few years ... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1922
60 Minutes
Director
Colleen Moore Ralph Graves J. Farrell MacDonald Kate Price James Marcus Kathleen O'Connor
Shane O'Mealia leaves Ireland, promising to send for his sweetheart, Moyna.In the mean time the son of the old lady she lives with, takes them back to America without telling Shane, who ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1942
73 Minutes
Director
A young newlywed couple learns to make their new marriage work; trying to impress family, stay on budget, and remain as diplomatic towards each other as possible.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1947
92 Minutes
Director
Groucho Marx Carmen Miranda Steve Cochran Andy Russell Gloria Jean Abel Green Louis Sobol Earl Wilson The De Castro Sisters Raul Reyes Eva Reyes
nightclub singer girlfriend producer secretary amusing charming cheery frenetic hedonistic hilarious intricate lighthearted melodramatic spirited winsome new york city show business love disguise schemes
An agent has his only client pose as both a French chanteuse and Brazilian bombshell to fool a nightclub owner.
Drama
USA
1934
73 Minutes
Director
Jean Muir Donald Woods Edith Lowry William Janney David Landau Dorothy Peterson Dorothy Appleby Arthur Hohl
polish man immigrant farmer father young man sweetheart melodramatic passionate touching maine farmhouse rural community party barn family poverty farming romance immigrants city vs. country
Drama following the lives of an immigrant farm family in Maine.
Biography
USA
1929
89 Minutes
Director
George Arliss Joan Bennett Anthony Bushell David Torrence Ivan F. Simpson Doris Lloyd Gwendolyn Logan Charles E. Evans Jack Deery Michael Visaroff Norman Cannon
benjamin disraeli banker spy lord lady charming tense england london parliament egypt mansion political intrigue international conflict love foreign relations government rivalry rise 1870s
Prime Minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli outwits the subterfuge of the Russians and chicanery at home in order to secure the purchase of the Suez Canal.
Drama
USA
1934
61 Minutes
Director
Two days before Marian and Ned are to be married, he is killed by the husband of a woman he was seeing on the side. Marian becomes withdrawn and they send her to the Canadian Rockies for ... See full summary »
Fantasy
USA
1945
93 Minutes
Director
Cornel Wilde Evelyn Keyes Phil Silvers Adele Jergens Dusty Anderson Dennis Hoey Philip Van Zandt Gus Schilling Nestor Paiva Rex Ingram Richard Hale
aladdin genie princess sultan sidekick amusing playful baghdad palace romance magic class distinctions jealousy sabotage adventure pursuit love transformation unknown era
Tongue-in-cheek fantasy film set in Baghdad and loosely based on the One Thousand and One Nights medieval story.
Drama
USA
1933
90 Minutes
Director
Edward G. Robinson Kay Francis Genevieve Tobin Robert Barrat Murray Kinnell Robert McWade J. Farrell MacDonald Henry Kolker
business owner theodore roosevelt mother wife opera singer socialite melodramatic passionate emotional athens, greece stockyard apartment courtroom family home chicago fraud love triangle infidelity family business failing marriage
Art student John Hayden interrupts his studies in Greece to head his father's meat packing business on his father's death. He marries social climber Martha who taunts him for his ideals ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1935
90 Minutes
Director
Rudy Vallee Ann Dvorak Helen Morgan Ned Sparks Alice White Allen Jenkins
College band-leader "Skip" Houston keeps his band together after graduation, they turn professional, and they are a big hit on the radio and in nightclubs. He falls in love with Bonnie ... See full summary »
Western
USA
1941
74 Minutes
Director
Robert Stack Ann Rutherford Frances Farmer Richard Dix Broderick Crawford Hugh Herbert Andy Devine Lon Chaney Fuzzy Knight Addison Richards Bradley Page
sheriff young woman wild bill hickok calamity jane brash amusing confident fiery passionate rousing suspenseful deadwood, s.d. wild west riverboat frontier justice romance robbery pursuit rivalry love
Indian raids are being perpetrated by an outlaw gang in disguise.
Musical, Biography
USA
1953
116 Minutes
Director
Keefe Brasselle Marilyn Erskine Aline MacMahon Arthur Franz Alex Gerry Greta Grandstedt Gerald Mohr Jackie Barnett William Forrest Richard Monda
Eddie Cantor and his wife Ida arrive at Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, California, for a private screening of The Eddie Cantor Story . Just before the film rolls, Cantor whispers, "Ida, ... See full synopsis »
Comedy
USA
1934
67 Minutes
Director
Aline MacMahon Guy Kibbee Hugh Herbert Allen Jenkins Helene Lowell Joan Wheeler Frankie Darro Ivan Lebedeff
An under-appreciated mother inherits a fortune and abandons her family.
Musical
USA
1947
88 Minutes
Director
Janet Blair William Lundigan Sara Allgood Arthur Shields James Flavin William Bakewell Dave Willock Bobby Warde Ann Carter Tom Dugan Jackie Searle
musician brother singer pianist father mother uplifting cheery pennsylvania small town radio station casino concert hall jazz sibling rivalry marriage reconciliation tommy dorsey song and dance love
The rise and rise of the Fabulous Dorsey brothers is charted in this whimsical step down memory lane, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey play themselves in this vehicle for their excellent music. From ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1954
100 Minutes
Director
Phil Silvers Rose Marie Danny Scholl Judy Lynn Jack Albertson Johnny Coy Joey Faye Herbie Faye Brad Hatton
actor salesgirl tv personality personal assistant young man producer amusing lighthearted outlandish television studio department store show business love triangle television egoism publicity love rivalry 1950s
A filmed version of Phil Silvers' hit Broadway show about a television comic who tried to regain his ratings on TV.
Adventure
USA
1930
73 Minutes
Director
George Arliss H.B. Warner Alice Joyce Ralph Forbes David Tearle Reginald Sheffield Nigel de Brulier Ivan F. Simpson
major wife doctor rajah butler melodramatic suspenseful gripping airplane palace office balcony hostage situation airplane crash royalty marriage courage murder escape pursuit
An airplane carrying three Brits--Major Crespin, his wife Lucille, and Dr. Trahern--crash lands in the kingdom of Rukh. The Rajah holds them prisoner because the British are about to ... See full summary »
Musical, Romance
USA
1930
60 Minutes
Director
Claudia Dell Ernest Torrence Walter Pidgeon Perry Askam June Collyer Lionel Belmore Arthur Edmund Carewe Flora Finch Douglas Gerrard Christiane Yves
In 1793, Kitty Bellairs travels to Bath, Somerset for a vacation. She is a famous flirt, with about 40 previous affairs. Her coach wagon is stopped by a highwayman, but the man falls in ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1939
88 Minutes
Director
Adolphe Menjou Dolores Costello Roger Daniel
Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of one of his jockeys. One day he meets Goldie who has run away from home, hoping to find a ... See full summary »
Sci-Fi
USA
1952
74 Minutes
Director
Gerald Mohr Peggie Castle Dan O'Herlihy Robert Bice Tom Kennedy Wade Crosby Erik Blythe Phyllis Coates Aram Katcher
A group of people at a bar witness the unfolding events of a Soviet invasion of the USA.
Comedy
1935
65 Minutes
Director
Kay Francis George Brent Genevieve Tobin John Eldredge Claire Dodd Ralph Forbes Helene Lowell Spencer Charters William Austin
divorcée ex-husband wife lover thief husband cheeky crafty california household mountain cabin gas station car jealousy mistaken identity schemes thievery mix-up romance
A divorcee (Kay Francis) arranges so her ex-husband can catch his second wife (Genevieve Tobin) being unfaithful.
Drama
1935
69 Minutes
Director
Bette Davis Ian Hunter Colin Clive Alison Skipworth John Eldredge Philip Reed Katharine Alexander
young man shopgirl ex-girlfriend friend landlady husband witty melodramatic new york city church café apartment restaurant office class distinctions drunkenness marriage gossip redemption high society
A spurned New York socialite (Ian Hunter) gets drunk and wakes up married to an honest working girl (Bette Davis).
Western
1950
83 Minutes
Director
Wanda Hendrix Audie Murphy Dean Jagger Burl Ives Richard Rober Tony Curtis Houseley Stevenson Elliott Reid Griff Barnett Elisabeth Risdon Roy Roberts
father son murder suspect lawyer engaging gripping spirited suspenseful wild west mountain wrongful conviction innocence murder case outlaws race against time adventure discovery quest unknown era
A tomboy frontier lawyer (Wanda Hendrix) finds an outlaw (Dean Jagger) and his son (Audie Murphy) hiding out from a false charge of murder.
Drama
1943
81 Minutes
Director
Tom Neal Evelyn Keyes Herman Brix John Hubbard Jeff Donnell Frank Sully Lewis Wilson Robert Stanford Jonathan Hale Hugh Beaumont Kane Richmond
cadet secretary soldier tutor sister friend crafty heartwarming brash classroom military academy office wilmington, n.c. love triangle fighting cheating heroism military school military service rivalry
Drama
1932
79 Minutes
Director
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Mary Brian Walter Catlett Oscar Apfel Emma Dunn J. Carrol Naish David Landau Claire MacDowell Louise Beavers Ivan Linow Harold Minjir
naval officer personal assistant wife sailor reporter agent witty emotional amusing submarine parade new york city banquet hall party hero worship celebrity privacy media circus marital problems heroism
A Navy war hero (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) marries his girlfriend (Mary Brian) and tries to avoid publicity.
Comedy, Romance
USA
1926
67 Minutes
Director
Colleen Moore Lloyd Hughes Vera Lewis Doris Baker Emma Gordes Mike Donlin Jed Prouty Jack Duffy Harry Allen D'Arcy Corrigan Alfred E. Green
Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, ... See full summary »