List of the best Benjamin Stoloff movies: The Night Mayor(1932), The Lady and the Mob(1939), The Affairs of Annabel(1938), The Hidden Hand(1942), Palooka(1934), Soup to Nuts(1930), Super Sleuth(1937), The Mysterious Doctor(1943), Night of Terror(1933), Take It or Leave It(1944), It's a Joke, Son(1947), By Whose Hand?(1932) ... ...
Drama
USA
1932
65 Minutes
Director
Lee Tracy Evalyn Knapp Eugene Pallette Warren Hymer Don Dillaway Vince Barnett Astrid Allwyn Barbara Weeks Gloria Shea Emmett Corrigan Tom O'Brien
Opportunistic film seeking to capitalize on a scandal in New York mayor Jimmy Walker's office before his name was out of the newspapers. Tracy plays a mayor who has a penchant for the night... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1939
66 Minutes
Director
Fay Bainter Lee Bowman Ida Lupino Henry Armetta Warren Hymer Harold Huber Forbes Murray Joe Sawyer Tom Dugan Joe Caits Jim Toney
dowager son daughter-in-law laundry owner racketeer thief hilarious patriotic heartwarming small town laundromat house mob mother/son relationship vigilantism marriage extortion freedom revenge underdog
Society-woman Hattie Leonard organizes her own band of 'gang-busters' when she discovers a garment she sent to the dry-cleaners had been taxed twenty-five-cents to pay for gang 'protection.... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1938
68 Minutes
Director
Jack Oakie Lucille Ball Ruth Donnelly Bradley Page Fritz Feld Thurston Hall Elisabeth Risdon Granville Bates James Burke Lee Van Atta Anthony Warde
Wonder Pictures' seedy publicity man Lanny Morgan has put the studio's biggest star, Annabel Allison, in one crazy stunt after another. His latest scheme has Annabel pretending to be a maid... See full summary »
Horror
USA
1942
67 Minutes
Director
Craig Stevens Elisabeth Fraser Jacqueline Wells Willie Best Frank Wilcox Cecil Cunningham Ruth Ford Milton Parsons Roland Drew Tom Stevenson Marian Hall
Peter Thorne (Craig Stevens)is a young attorney who works for an eccentric old woman, Lorinda Channing (Cecil Cunningham), who uses her insane brother, John Channing (Milton Parsons), to ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1934
86 Minutes
Director
Jimmy Durante Lupe Velez Stuart Erwin Marjorie Rambeau Robert Armstrong Mary Carlisle William Cagney Thelma Todd Franklyn Ardell Tom Dugan Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
Knobby discovers young hunk Palooka and trains him to fight the reigning champ, also drunken sot, Al McSwatt.
Comedy
USA
1930
65 Minutes
Director
Ted Healy Frances McCoy Stanley Smith Lucile Browne Charles Winninger Hallam Cooley George Bickel William H. Tooker
Mr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions. The creditors send a young manager who falls for Schmidt's niece Louise, but she'll ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1937
75 Minutes
Director
Jack Oakie Ann Sothern Edward Ciannelli Alan Bruce Edgar Kennedy Joan Woodbury Bradley Page Paul Guilfoyle William Corson
amateur sleuth publicist actor criminologist police officer killer lighthearted amusing suspenseful los angeles movie set nightclub hollywood, calif. california murder investigation celebrities fame egoism false accusations acting
An actor who plays a detective in films soon finds himself out of his depth when he tries to investigate a real crime.
Horror
USA
1943
57 Minutes
Director
villager doctor traveler fool niece young woman eerie engaging thrilling moor village england cornwall, england mine world war ii supernatural haunting nazi collaboration murder investigation schemes
The citizens of a tiny Cornish village are tormented during World War II by a headless ghost which is haunting the local tin mine.
Horror
USA
1933
61 Minutes
Director
The heirs to a family fortune are required to attend a seance at the spooky old family mansion. However, throughout the night members of the family are being killed off one by one.
Comedy
USA
1944
70 Minutes
Director
Phil Baker Phil Silvers Edward Ryan
Young sailors Eddie Collins and Herb Gordon eagerly begin their shore leave in New York City, where they are greeted at the dock by Eddie's wife Kate. Kate, who is pregnant for the first ... See full synopsis »
Comedy
1947
63 Minutes
Director
Kenny Delmar Una Merkel June Lockhart Kenneth Farrell Douglas Dumbrille Jimmy Conlin Matt Willis Ralph Sanford Vera Lewis Margaret McWade Ida Moore
Bigwigs want Beauregard Claghorn (Kenny Delmar) to run for state senator against his wife, Magnolia (Una Merkel).
Mystery & Thriller
1932
63 Minutes
Director
Ben Lyon Barbara Weeks William V. Mong Ethel Kenyon Kenneth Thomson Tom Dugan William Halligan Helene Millard Dwight Frye Tom McGuire Nat Pendleton