List of the best Ben Alexander movies: Boy of Mine(1923), Dragnet(1954), Legion of Missing Men(1937), The Outer Gate(1937), Man in the Shadow(1957), Western Gold(1937), Tom Brown of Culver(1932), The Fire Trap(1935), Criminals Within(1941), This Day and Age(1933), Hearts of the World(1918), The Little American(1917) ... ...
Drama
USA
1923
60 Minutes
Bill Latimer
Ben Alexander Rockliffe Fellowes Henry B. Walthall Irene Rich Dot Farley Lawrence Licalzi
A wealthy banker is a strict disciplinarian with his nine-year-old son Bill. Finally the day comes when neither Bill nor his mother can put up any more with the father's relentlessness and ... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1954
89 Minutes
Jack Webb Ben Alexander Richard Boone Ann Robinson Stacy Harris Virginia Gregg Victor Perrin Georgia Ellis James Griffith Dick Cathcart Malcolm Atterbury
police detective assistant district attorney mobster killer witness joe friday intense thrilling melodramatic los angeles field restaurant hospital murder police work investigation justice interrogation quest discovery
Two homicide detectives investigate the brutal shotgun murder of a crime syndicate member.
Adventure
1937
63 Minutes
Don Carter
Ralph Forbes Ben Alexander Hala Linda Jimmy Aubrey Paul Hurst Frank Leigh Roy D'Arcy
A Foreign Legionnaire (Ralph Forbes) and his younger brother (Ben Alexander) fall for a cabaret singer (Hala Linda).
Drama
USA
1937
62 Minutes
Bob Terry
Ralph Morgan Kay Linaker Ben Alexander Eddie Acuff Charles Brokaw
boss gangster ex-convict thief cellmate girlfriend brooding crafty prison house restaurant office embezzlement imprisonment theft vengeance wrongfully accused frame-up revenge quest
Bob Terry is in love with Lois Borden the daughter of his employer, John Borden. When some bonds are missing from the office, Bob is accused and because of Borden's strong sense of ... See full summary »
Western
USA
1957
80 Minutes
Ab Begley
Jeff Chandler Orson Welles Colleen Miller Ben Alexander Barbara Lawrence John Larch James Gleason Royal Dano Paul Fix Leo Gordon Martin Garralaga
Virgil Renchler owns most of the town providing a thriving economy. When his men go too far and kill one of his migrant workmen, the sheriff goes after him even if it means his job and everyone else's.
Western
USA
1937
57 Minutes
Bart
Smith Ballew Heather Angel Roy Mason Ben Alexander Otis Harlan Victor Potel Frank McGlynn Howard C. Hickman Alan Bridge Wesley Girard Lew Kelly
union soldier businessman gang leader guard brother abraham lincoln engaging spirited front lines california stagecoach town hotel trail american civil war robbery investigation brother relationship false accusations deception
A Westerner in the Union Army discovers that gold shipments from the West are being captured by Southerners.
Drama
USA
1932
82 Minutes
Tom Brown H.B. Warner Slim Summerville Richard Cromwell Ben Alexander Sidney Toler Russell Hopton Willard Robertson Norman Phillips Jr. Tyrone Power Kit Guard
Boy who thought his father a war hero finds he was really a deserter.
Crime, Drama
1935
63 Minutes
Bob Fender
Norman Foster Evalyn Knapp Sidney Blackmer Oscar Apfel Ben Alexander Herbert Corthell
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1941
67 Minutes
Sgt. Paul
Eric Linden Ann Doran Constance Worth Donald Curtis Weldon Heyburn Ben Alexander Dudley Dickerson Bernie Pilot Ray Erlenborn I. Stanford Jolley Emmett Vogan
A scientist is murdered by foreign agents after having developed a powerful new explosive. The scientist's brother, an army corporal, goes AWOL to discover the identities of the killers. ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1933
85 Minutes
Morry Dover
Charles Bickford Judith Allen Richard Cromwell Harry Green Bradley Page Edward Nugent Ben Alexander Lester Arnold Nestor Aber Oscar Rudolph Mickey Daniels
high-school student gangster civil servant tailor leader young woman disturbing suspenseful melodramatic dump high school courtroom small town justice murder corruption fear vigilantism children vs. adults discovery
High school students band together to dispense vigilante justice against a vicious gangland boss.
War
USA
1918
117 Minutes
The Boy's Littlest Brother
Adolph Lestina Josephine Crowell Lillian Gish Robert Harron Jack Cosgrave Kate Bruce Ben Alexander Marion Emmons Frances Marion Dorothy Gish Robert Anderson
american beautiful girl friend german soldier father mother patriotic melodramatic rousing inspiring france village battlefield inn household world war i duty heroism love triangle german occupation
Young lovers in a French village are torn apart with the coming of the Great War.
War
USA
1917
81 Minutes
Bobby Moore
Mary Pickford Jack Holt Hobart Bosworth James Neill Guy Oliver Edythe Chapman Lillian Leighton Ben Alexander DeWitt Jennings Walter Long Raymond Hatton
A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand.
Romance
USA
1934
83 Minutes
Barry Preston
Ann Harding John Boles Helen Vinson Betty Furness Frank Albertson Lon Chaney Sara Haden Molly O'Day Ben Alexander Donald Crisp Maidel Turner
John Shadwell, a promising politician, is married to Laura but is in love with Vergie Winters, a milliner from his home town. As Shadwell's political career blooms, gossip and rumors begin ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1933
85 Minutes
Francis Nolan
Alice Brady Maureen O'Sullivan Franchot Tone Phillips Holmes Ted Healy Russell Hardie C. Henry Gordon Alan Edwards Ben Alexander
stage mother stage manager lover daughter actress artist melodramatic touching family home broadway theater boston new york city hospital boat mother/daughter relationship family dysfunction ambition deception show business blackmail
A vaudeville star has to leave her daughter with her dead husband's stuffy Boston parents while she makes a living. But when the daughter shows some talent, the mother become a stage mother... See full summary »
War
USA
1930
105 Minutes
Franz Kemmerick
Lew Ayres Louis Wolheim John Wray Raymond Griffith Slim Summerville Russell Gleason William Bakewell Scott Kolk Walter Rogers Ben Alexander Owen Davis Jr.
soldier teacher drillmaster student military officer dark brutal profound germany school boot camp trading post trenches world war i patriotism horrors of war growing up adventure 1910s
A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1937
109 Minutes
Evans
Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers Eric Blore Edward Everett Horton Jerome Cowan Ketti Gallian William Brisbane Ann Shoemaker Ben Alexander Emma Young Sherwood Bailey
dancer fan agent husband wife amusing lighthearted paris new york city ship dance show business love marriage love temptation transformation 1930s
A ballet dancer and a showgirl fake a marriage for publicity purposes, then fall in love.
Drama
USA
1936
72 Minutes
Tom Miller
May Robson Fred MacMurray Mary Carlisle Alan Hale Etienne Girardot William Burress Hale Hamilton Edward Van Sloan Fred Kohler Jr. Ben Alexander George Offerman Jr.
principal superintendent teen girl student political boss corrupt businessman melodramatic small town gambling house club school office gambling love triangle political corruption virtue vice underdog wretched excess 1930s
Miss Bayles (May Robson) has been trying to close down a business operated by Clarence (Alan Hale). Clarence runs a crooked gambling operation in the back room. Miss Bayles uses Clarence's ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1932
120 Minutes
Walter Huston Lewis Stone Dorothy Jordan Neil Hamilton Emma Dunn Frederick Burton Reginald Barlow John Larkin Gertrude Howard Robert Young Jimmy Durante
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family.