List of the best Arthur Hoyt movies: Love in High Gear(1932), The Coming of Amos(1925), Her Private Affair(1929), The Grim Game(1919), Lady Luck(1936), The Great McGinty(1940), Smartest Girl in Town(1936), Red-Haired Alibi(1932), Sing, Sinner, Sing(1933), The Criminal Code(1931), Magnificent Obsession(1935), The Devil and the Deep(1932) ... ...
Comedy
USA
1932
60 Minutes
Thaddeus Heath
A young couple making plans to elope are overheard by a jewel thief, who sees a chance to turn the situation to his advantage.
Romance
USA
1925
71 Minutes
Bendyke Hamilton
Rod La Rocque Jetta Goudal Noah Beery Richard Carle Arthur Hoyt Trixie Friganza Clarence Burton Ruby Lafayette
An Australian sheep rancher fulfills his promise to his dying mother by visiting his uncle on the French Riviera. He meets and falls in love with a Russian princess who was forced into a bad marriage to save her family from the Communists.
Crime, Drama
1929
70 Minutes
Michael Sturm
Ann Harding Harry Bannister John Loder Kay Hammond Arthur Hoyt William Orlamond Lawford Davidson Elmer Ballard Frank Reicher
extortionist husband judge gigolo wife butler tense emotional vienna mansion austria restaurant courtroom blackmail false accusations troubled marriage accidental killing moral dilemma infidelity forbidden love
Police arrest a valet (Elmer Ballard) after the wife (Ann Harding) of a judge (Harry Bannister) shoots a blackmailer.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1919
71 Minutes
Dr. Harvey Tyson
Harry Houdini Thomas Jefferson Ann Forrest Augustus Phillips Tully Marshall Arthur Hoyt Mae Busch Edward Martin Jane Wolfe
Jailed unjustly for a murder he did not commit, a young man uses his amazing powers of escape to free himself and pursue the actual killers, who hold his fiancée captive.
Drama
1936
62 Minutes
Iris Adrian Claude Allister William Bakewell Joe Barton Patricia Farr Arthur Hoyt Lew Kelly Vivien Oakland Duncan Renaldo Jameson Thomas John Kelly
A manicurist is mistaken for the winner of a large sweepstakes and finds herself pursued by fortune hunters.
Comedy
USA
1940
82 Minutes
Mayor Wilfred H. Tillinghast
Brian Donlevy Muriel Angelus Akim Tamiroff Allyn Joslyn William Demarest Louis Jean Heydt Arthur Hoyt Harry Rosenthal Libby Taylor Steffi Duna Esther Howard
bartender political boss secretary man hilarious cheeky outlandish bar city prison police corruption marriage impersonation ambition family transformation rise fall love 1930s
Dan McGinty has great success in his chosen field of crooked politics, but he endangers it all in one crazy moment of honesty.
Comedy
USA
1936
58 Minutes
The Minister
Gene Raymond Ann Sothern Eric Blore Helen Broderick Erik Rhodes Harry Jans Arthur Hoyt Frank Jenks
model wealthy man male model butler sister hilarious madcap heartwarming beach yacht advertising office phone booth hotel gold digging materialism mistaken identity marriage proposal modeling deception love
Modeling furs has given our heroine Cookie a taste for them, so she's determined to marry a rich man. Scheduled to meet a male model aboard a yacht, she meets the yacht's rich owner Dick ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1932
75 Minutes
Henri
Merna Kennedy Theodore von Eltz Grant Withers Purnell Pratt Huntley Gordon Fred Kelsey Arthur Hoyt Paul Porcasi Shirley Temple
A young girl new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the man is a notorious gangster.
Drama, Romance
1933
67 Minutes
Uncle Homer
Paul Lukas Leila Hyams Don Dillaway Ruth Donnelly George E. Stone Joyce Compton Jill Dennett Arthur Hoyt Gladys Blake Arthur Housman
Crime, Drama
USA
1931
95 Minutes
Leonard Nettleford
Walter Huston Phillips Holmes Constance Cummings Boris Karloff DeWitt Jennings Mary Doran Ethel Wales Clark Marshall Arthur Hoyt John St. Polis Paul Porcasi
young man district attorney daughter cellmate guard informant bleak gripping intense club prison car cell murder prison life difficult decision father/daughter relationship solitary confinement romance fall
After a failed attempt at running for governor, D.A. Mark Brady is appointed warden of the state prison where many of the criminals he prosecuted are incarcerated.
Drama
USA
1935
112 Minutes
Perry
Irene Dunne Robert Taylor Charles Butterworth Betty Furness Sara Haden Ralph Morgan Henry Armetta Gilbert Emery Arthur Hoyt
millionaire widow mentor best friend doctor melodramatic heartwarming brightwood hospital house repentance accidental death new love forgiveness sacrifice wretched excess transformation 1930s
The life of spoiled rich Robert Merrick is saved through the use of a hospital's only resuscitator, but because the medical device cannot be in two places at once, it results in the death ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1932
78 Minutes
Mr. Planet
Tallulah Bankhead Gary Cooper Charles Laughton Cary Grant Paul Porcasi Juliette Compton Henry Kolker Dorothy Christy Arthur Hoyt Gordon Westcott
Murder during film shoot sparks search for a killer.
Drama
USA
1937
62 Minutes
Beamish
Richard Cromwell Helen Mack Lionel Atwill Horace MacMahon Russ Powell Billy Bevan Marjorie Main Rex Evans Joseph Crehan Arthur Hoyt Syd Saylor
Bank teller Jimmy Caldwell and his fiance, Ruth Holden, grow weary of struggling to make ends meet and decide to rob Jimmy's bank. The selfish young couple agree that even if they spend ten... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
USA
1935
74 Minutes
Edna May Oliver James Gleason Lola Lane Chick Chandler George Meeker Dorothy Libaire Harry Ellerbe Spencer Charters DeWitt Jennings Leo G. Carroll Arthur Hoyt
A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a sea-plane gets sick and dies.
Comedy
USA
1936
75 Minutes
Mary Boland Charles Ruggles George Barbier Gail Patrick Robert McWade Lucien Littlefield Colin Tapley Helen Flint Rae Daggett Sidney Blackmer Arthur Hoyt
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem.... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1930
68 Minutes
Joe E. Brown Lawrence Gray Laura Lee Walter Pidgeon Ona Munson Frank McHugh May Boley Harvey Clark Anders Randolf Sam Cantor Arthur Hoyt
Rollo and Lane just happen to be tossed off the train at White Beach where Robert Story -Air ace and writer- is supposed to stop. It is a case of mistaken identity as no one knows what ... See full summary »
Musical
USA
1936
72 Minutes
Shirley Temple Alice Faye Jack Haley Gloria Stuart Michael Whalen Sara Haden Jane Darwell Claude Gillingwater Paul Stanton Henry Armetta Charles Coleman
young girl entertainer businessman producer man wife amusing tender city mansion apartment street car radio station father/daughter relationship grief music family city life growing up
The daughter of a wealthy businessman becomes lost in the city while traveling to a new school, and is taken in by a pair of down-on-their-luck performers.
Comedy
USA
1937
79 Minutes
Marion Davies Robert Montgomery Frank McHugh Patsy Kelly Louise Fazenda Barton MacLane Marcia Ralston Carol Hughes Frederick Clark Mary Treen Anderson Lawler
secretary beautiful woman writer roommate girlfriend amusing playful san francisco office deception disguise romance writing beauty employment love transformation discovery 1930s
Lecherous bosses make it difficult for an attractive secretary to keep jobs, so she decides to appear considerably more homely in hopes of holding onto work.
Crime, Drama
USA
1932
80 Minutes
Walter Huston Jean Harlow Wallace Ford Jean Hersholt Dorothy Peterson Tully Marshall John Miljan Emmett Corrigan Warner Richmond Sandy Roth J. Carrol Naish
police chief detective mobster femme fatale wife district attorney brutal gritty wild chicago police station nightclub street organized crime police corruption sibling rivalry deception prohibition violence temptation
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick ruthlessly goes after organized crime and is prepared to use brutal and violent methods to fight it.
Romance
USA
1938
91 Minutes
Gary Cooper Merle Oberon Walter Brennan Patsy Kelly Fuzzy Knight Mabel Todd Henry Kolker Harry Davenport Emma Dunn Walter Walker Berton Churchill
wealthy girl father maid cowboy best friend lighthearted tender charming city household bar palm beach, fla. montana wealth father/daughter relationship impersonation deception elopement romance love
A lonely socialite masquerades as a maid and meets an unpretentious, plain-spoken cowboy who is unaware of her true identity.
Comedy
USA
1936
115 Minutes
Gary Cooper Jean Arthur George Bancroft Lionel Stander Douglas Dumbrille Raymond Walburn Margaret Matzenauer H.B. Warner Warren Hymer Muriel Evans Ruth Donnelly
heir reporter lawyer amusing charming spirited new york city small town vermont fame wealth love small-town life city vs. country love discovery transformation rise 1930s
A simple small-town man inherits a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.
Drama
USA
1933
72 Minutes
Irene Dunne Walter Huston Conrad Nagel Bruce Cabot Edna May Oliver Sam Hardy Mitchell Lewis Helen Eby-Rock Gertrude Michael J. Carrol Naish Sarah Padden
social worker army officer doctor judge suitor engaging moving profound striking prison havana new york state manhattan social activism prison adultery pregnancy blackmail sacrifice forbidden love
A prison reformer and a controversial judge fall in love and have a child out of wedlock.
Drama
USA
1938
98 Minutes
Errol Flynn Bette Davis Anita Louise Jane Bryan Ian Hunter Henry Travers Beulah Bondi Donald Crisp Dick Foran Patric Knowles Alan Hale
secretary sportswriter father sister fiancé millionaire melodramatic intense gripping montana san francisco apartment office ship sister relationship marriage ambition drinking earthquakes reconciliation
Three daughters of a small town pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.
Comedy
USA
1942
90 Minutes
Claudette Colbert Joel McCrea Rudy Vallee Mary Astor Sig Arno Robert Warwick Arthur Stuart Hull Torben Meyer Jimmy Conlin Victor Potel William Demarest
husband wife architect millionaire sister amusing madcap lighthearted palm beach, fla. yacht new york city train mansion deception romance love triangle wealth marriage love pursuit
An inventor needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying a millionaire.
Romance
1938
80 Minutes
Dick Powell Olivia de Havilland Charles Winninger Allen Jenkins Bonita Granville Melville Cooper Isabel Jeans Grady Sutton Thurston Hall John Ridgely Jack Mower
heiress tycoon architect gas station attendant maid valet airy amusing winsome mansion gas station office class distinctions romance father/daughter relationship opposites attract wealth revenge love growing up
An heiress (Olivia De Havilland) gets even with a gas-pumping architect (Dick Powell) by introducing him to her father (Charles Winninger).