List of the best Ben Welden movies: Search for Danger(1949), Prison Nurse(1938), Alcatraz Island(1937), The Saint in New York(1938), Mystery House(1938), Smart Girls Don't Talk(1948), Marked Woman(1937), The Fighting Seabees(1944), Phantom Ship(1935), Maisie Gets Her Man(1942), Sorrowful Jones(1949), That Certain Woman(1937) ... ...
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1949
63 Minutes
John Calvert Albert Van Dekker Myrna Dell Ben Welden Douglas Fowley Michael Mark Anna Cornell James Griffith Mauritz Hugo Peter Brocco Peter Michael
Murders of a rival private eye and a suspected thief draw the attention of The Falcon.
Drama
USA
1938
67 Minutes
Gaffney
Marian Marsh Bernadene Hayes Minerva Urecal Henry Wilcoxon Ben Welden Ray Mayer John Arledge Addison Richards Frank Reicher Selmer Jackson Fred Kohler Jr.
A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick, there are only three nurses to administer... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1937
64 Minutes
"Red" Carroll
Ann Sheridan John Litel Gordon Oliver Mary Maguire Dick Purcell Ben Welden
father racketeer nanny daughter prison official criminal brooding gripping tense prison house cell alcatraz island san francisco prison life crime kidnapping feud family vengeance
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1938
72 Minutes
Boots Papinoff
Louis Hayward Kay Sutton Sig Ruman Jonathan Hale Jack Carson Paul Guilfoyle Frederick Burton Ben Welden
vigilante moll inspector crime boss criminal cool melodramatic gritty new york city south america office house car law enforcement deception impersonation theft murder quest pursuit
Simon Templar, the Saint, is brought to New York. His search for the identity of "the Big Fellow" takes him through many dangerous situations.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1938
56 Minutes
Gerald Frawley
Dick Purcell Ann Sheridan Anne Nagel William Hopper Anthony Averill Dennie Moore Hugh O'Connell Ben Welden Sheila Bromley Elspeth Dudgeon Trevor Bardette
Banker Hubert Kingery invites fellow officers to his hunting lodge only to announce that one of them has forged critical company documents. Later, he is found shot to death, apparently at ... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
1948
81 Minutes
Nelson Clark
Virginia Mayo Herman Brix Robert Hutton Helen Westcott Tom D'Andrea Richard Rober Richard Benedict Ben Welden Richard Walsh Phyllis Coates Creighton Hale
beautiful woman club owner thug brother gambler police officer gritty gutsy suspenseful california gambling house apartment murder undercover operations dangerous romance brother/sister relationship gambling blackmail discovery transformation
The beautiful Linda strikes up a romance with Marty, the seemingly charming owner of a gambling joint. It isn't long before she realizes that he has his hands in more sinister enterprises, including murder.
Crime, Drama
USA
1937
96 Minutes
Charlie Delaney
Bette Davis Humphrey Bogart Lola Lane Jane Bryan Edward Ciannelli Isabel Jewell Allen Jenkins Mayo Methot Ben Welden Henry O'Neill Rosalind Marquis
prostitute mobster sister henchman attorney fiery rousing big city nightclub courtroom injustice abuse shady dealings murder court battles underdog transformation revenge 1930s
A crusading district attorney persuades a clip joint hostess to testify against her mobster boss after her innocent sister is accidentally murdered during one of his unsavory parties.
War
USA
1944
100 Minutes
Yump Lumkin
John Wayne Susan Hayward Dennis O'Keefe William Frawley Leonid Kinskey J.M. Kerrigan Grant Withers Paul Fix Ben Welden William Forrest Addison Richards
construction worker soldier coworker marine enemy doctor heartwarming patriotic japan military base island construction war jealousy instincts invasion love triangle quest rescue rivalry
During WW2, the U.S. Navy implements a new idea of forming construction battalions that also are fighting units, in case of Japanese attack.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1935
80 Minutes
Boas "Sailor" Hoffman
Bela Lugosi Shirley Grey Arthur Margetson Edmund Willard Dennis Hoey George Mozart Johnnie Schofield Gunner Moir Ben Welden Gibson Gowland
During a horrific storm at sea, the crew realizes that there is a murderer among them who is killing them off one by one.
Comedy
1942
85 Minutes
Percy Podd
Ann Sothern Red Skelton Leo Gorcey Allen Jenkins Donald Meek Lloyd Corrigan Fritz Feld Walter Catlett Ben Welden Rags Ragland Frank Jenks
showgirl comedian supervisor building owner con artist fiancée lighthearted amusing cheery chicago apartment building coffee shop nightclub atlanta employment career change mix-up romance unlikely allies scams
Maisie (Ann Sothern) falls on hard times and works at several odd jobs before she meets aspiring comedian Hap (Red Skelton).
Comedy
USA
1949
88 Minutes
Big Steve's Bodyguard
Bob Hope Lucille Ball Mary Jane Saunders William Demarest Bruce Cabot Thomas Gomez Tom Pedi Paul Lees Houseley Stevenson Ben Welden Emmett Vogan
A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1937
93 Minutes
Harry Aqueilli
Bette Davis Henry Fonda Ian Hunter Anita Louise Donald Crisp Hugh O'Connell Katharine Alexander Mary Philips Minor Watson Ben Welden Sidney Toler
bootlegger widow secretary attorney playboy father melodramatic disheartening emotional chicago apartment europe marriage illegitimate child inheritance elopement love custody battle forbidden love sacrifice
Mary Donnell, a young legal secretary with a past, elopes with a client's son, but his father has the marriage annulled without knowing she's pregnant.
Drama
USA
1939
82 Minutes
Henchman Stemmy
Wallace Beery Tom Brown Alan Curtis Laraine Day Fay Holden Marc Lawrence Marion Martin David Gorcey Donald Haines Ben Welden Etta McDaniel
A highly respected Irish cop is pleased when his son follows him onto the force. Unfortunately, the son is more interested in rewards than in upholding the law. When he shoots a child ... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1941
63 Minutes
Moxie Karper
Ronald Reagan Joan Perry James Gleason Peter Whitney Faye Emerson Howard da Silva Edward Brophy Charles Drake Vera Lewis Ben Welden Howard C. Hickman
mistress daughter chauffeur tycoon newspaper reporter editor thrilling witty melodramatic suspenseful newsroom boardinghouse household bedroom murder investigation journalism organized crime media circus schemes embezzlement
An investigative crime reporter helps the cops solve the case of a missing tycoon who's later found dead in a cheap boarding house.
Drama
USA
1937
61 Minutes
"Nicey" Ferguson
Ronald Reagan Eddie Acuff Robert Barrat Raymond Hatton Willard Parker Spec O'Donnell Tommy Bupp Jack Mower June Travis Ben Welden Addison Richards
Andy McCaine is the ace crime reporter for a radio station. However, his exposés of corruption in high places gets him in trouble with the sponsor of his show, E.E. Nichols, who is in ... See full summary »
Sci-Fi
USA
1954
71 Minutes
Pilot
Peter Graves James Seay Steve Pendleton Frank Gerstle John Frederick Barbara Bestar Shepard Menken Jack Daly Ron Kennedy Ben Welden Burt Wenland
An atomic scientist claims he was abducted by aliens after being injured in a plane crash.
Drama
1937
86 Minutes
Defense attorney
Kay Francis Basil Rathbone Ian Hunter Jane Bryan Donald Crisp Mary Maguire Dorothy Peterson Laura Hope Crews Robert Barrat Ben Welden Veda Ann Borg
cabaret performer composer husband girl judge mother intense passionate dark striking warsaw, poland courtroom nightclub house concert hall scandal adultery secret past mother/daughter relationship murder
A cabaret singer (Kay Francis) stands trial in Warsaw for killing a concert pianist (Basil Rathbone) to save her daughter's honor.
Romance
1941
73 Minutes
Dr. Anderson
Robert Sterling Marsha Hunt Virginia Weidler Paul Kelly Fay Holden Henry Travers Don Costello Carol Hughes Reed Hadley Ben Welden Theodore von Eltz
Musical, Comedy
USA
1951
91 Minutes
Bob Hope Marilyn Maxwell Lloyd Nolan Jane Darwell Andrea King Fred Clark Jay C. Flippen William Frawley Harry Bellaver Sid Melton Ben Welden
A New York City swindler has until Christmas to come up with the $10,000 he owes a gangster, prompting him to go into scamming overdrive.
Drama
USA
1941
73 Minutes
Arthur Kennedy Olympe Bradna Anthony Quinn Virginia Field Cliff Edwards Cornel Wilde William Edmunds Richard Ainley John Ridgely Frank Wilcox Ben Welden
boxer promoter wife girlfriend gritty gripping powerful office boxing ring small town farm ambition boxing false accusations marriage infidelity drugs rise fall love
A prize-fighter falls under the nefarious influence of an unscrupulous boxing promoter-manager, to the detriment of his marriage.
Comedy
USA
1948
77 Minutes
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Joseph Calleia Cathy Downs Leon Errol Mike Mazurki Jack Overman Fritz Feld Vera Martin Joe Kirk Matt Willis
Two window washers mistakenly receive, and lose, $50,000 belonging to a shady bookie, and have only forty-eight hours to retrieve the money.
Comedy
USA
1956
94 Minutes
Dean Martin Jerry Lewis Pat Crowley Anita Ekberg Max Rosenbloom Willard Waterman Jack McElroy Michael Ross Frank Wilcox Kathryn Card Richard Karlan
gambler chorus girl dog film fan bookie actress madcap playful lighthearted amusing car new york city chicago las vegas hollywood, calif. casino road trip on the run unlikely allies romance
A singer who can't pay his bookie joins a nerdy, star-struck movie fan and his Great Dane in a cross-country convertible ride to Hollywood.
Crime, Drama
1949
111 Minutes
Brian Donlevy Ella Raines Charles Coburn Helen Walker Anna May Wong Mae Marsh Tony Barrett William Wright Robert Warwick Philip Ahn Art Baker
A declared-dead man (Brian Donlevy) hides out with a widow (Ella Raines) after his wife and her lover botch his murder.
Romance
USA
1937
73 Minutes
Kay Francis Errol Flynn Ian Hunter Frieda Inescort Herbert Mundin Billy Bevan Kenneth Hunter G.P. Huntley Jr. Clyde Cook Dick Powell Charles Irwin
widow love interest colonel captain british officer melodramatic tender thrilling africa desert train england love triangle unrequited love marriage second chance colonialism dangerous mission rivalry forbidden love
Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. There he falls in love with Julia Ashton, who cares deeply for him but ... See full summary »
Western
USA
1956
66 Minutes
Herman Brix Richard Arlen John Carradine Faron Young Lloyd Corrigan Angie Dickinson Damian O'Flynn Irving Bacon Tom Hubbard Ron Kennedy Bill Ward
gambler sheriff son gunslinger saloon owner resident thrilling melodramatic small town courtroom saloon hotel law and order corruption justice masculinity crime father/son relationship rivalry growing up
The outlaw Stragg has the town so intimidated that no one will speak against him no matter what he does. Sheriff Young heads for a nearby town, where there is a witness willing to testify. ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
1946
114 Minutes
Humphrey Bogart Lauren Bacall Martha Vickers John Ridgely Louis Jean Heydt Elisha Cook Jr. Regis Toomey Sonia Darrin Bob Steele Tommy Rafferty Dorothy Malone
philip marlowe father daughter bookseller casino owner dense thrilling intricate gripping los angeles mansion casino bookstore murder mystery love blackmail vice mystery love
Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.
Drama
USA
1941
106 Minutes
Spencer Tracy Mickey Rooney Bobs Watson Larry Nunn Darryl Hickman Henry O'Neill Mary Nash Lee J. Cobb Sidney Miller Addison Richards Lloyd Corrigan
priest paraplegic young man parent delinquent friend intense emotional moving boys town, neb. reform school office household gas station courtroom juvenile crime reform self-sacrifice adoption violence
Mickey Rooney and Spencer Tracy return in this sequel to the original Boys Town. This time the school faces financial trouble as Father Flanagan tries to help every little boy he meets. ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1938
66 Minutes
Harry Ritz Al Ritz Jimmy Ritz Richard Arlen Ethel Merman Phyllis Brooks George Barbier Sidney Blackmer Will Stanton Ivan Lebedeff Gregory Gaye
The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his fiancée.
Fantasy
USA
1946
101 Minutes
Paul Muni Anne Baxter Claude Rains George Cleveland Onslow Stevens Hardie Albright James Flavin Erskine Sanford Marion Martin Jonathan Hale Murray Alper
gangsters devil judge fiancée amusing creepy frightening hell earth courtroom church fantasy death relationships romance revenge metamorphosis rivalry 1940s
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1937
81 Minutes
Dick Powell Priscilla Lane Rosemary Lane Walter Catlett Ted Healy Johnnie Davis Lee Dixon Mabel Todd George MacFarland Halliwell Hobbes Edward Brophy
A former student, who is now a big Broadway show producer with three flops to his reputation, is invited back to direct the College's annual student's stage show.
War
1942
109 Minutes
Robert Taylor Charles Laughton Brian Donlevy Walter Brennan Marilyn Maxwell Henry O'Neill Marta Linden Chill Wills Douglas Dumbrille Richard Quine William Tannen
naval officer playboy veteran lieutenant commander rear admiral rousing gripping witty patriotic battleship pacific ocean world war ii duty class distinctions teamwork patriotism naval warfare rivalry adventure sacrifice
An Ivy League reservist (Robert Taylor) and a bootstrap veteran (Brian Donlevy) save the convoy of an admiral (Charles Laughton) during World War II.
Drama
USA
1942
107 Minutes
Humphrey Bogart Conrad Veidt Kaaren Verne Jane Darwell Frank McHugh Peter Lorre Judith Anderson William Demarest Jackie Gleason Phil Silvers Wallace Ford
spy gambler nazi singer partner thrilling charming new york city murder espionage nazism gambling mystery adventure 1940s
Runyonesque Broadway gamblers turn patriotic when they stumble onto a cell of Nazi saboteurs.
Drama
USA
1946
96 Minutes
Ida Lupino Robert Alda Herman Brix Andrea King Martha Vickers Alan Hale Dolores Moran John Ridgely Don McGuire Warren Douglas Craig Stevens
A homesick, no-nonsense, lounge singer decides to leave New York City to spend some time visiting her two sisters and brother on the West Coast, and eventually falling in love with down-and-out ex-jazz pianist.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1947
104 Minutes
Esther Williams Akim Tamiroff Ricardo Montalban John Carroll Mary Astor Cyd Charisse Fortunio Bonanova Hugo Haas Jean Van Joey Preston Frank Puglia
bullfighter sister brother father mother composer amusing engaging mexico bullring household bullfighting brother/sister relationship deception disguise aspirations family quest transformation 1940s
When a matador leaves town to focus on his music, his twin sister takes on his identity in the bullfighting ring.
Musical
USA
1937
83 Minutes
Walter Winchell Simone Simon Bert Lahr Joan Davis Dick Baldwin Ruth Terry Douglas Fowley Chick Chandler Charles Williams Georges Renavent Charles Judels
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.