List of the best Charles Barton movies: The Time of Their Lives(1946), Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein(1948), Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff(1949), Toby Tyler(1960), Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair(1952), Buck Privates Come Home(1947), The Milkman(1951), The Noose Hangs High(1948), The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap(1947), Hey, Rookie(1944), Car 99(1935), Reveille With Beverly(1943) ... ...
Comedy
USA
1946
82 Minutes
Director
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Marjorie Reynolds Binnie Barnes John Shelton Jess Barker Gale Sondergaard Robert Barrat Donald MacBride Ann Gillis Lynne Baggett
A psychiatrist stays in a mansion haunted by prankish ghosts from the Revolutionary War.
Comedy
USA
1948
83 Minutes
Director
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Bela Lugosi Lenore Aubert Jane Randolph Glenn Strange Frank Ferguson Lon Chaney Charles Bradstreet Howard Negley
director railway inspector clerk insurance investigator passenger campy madcap haunted house florida dangerous job monsters friendship weird science discovery adventure escape 1940s
The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.
Comedy
USA
1949
84 Minutes
Director
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Boris Karloff Lenore Aubert Gar Moore Donna Martell Alan Mowbray James Flavin Roland Winters Nicholas Joy
The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.
Kids & Family, Adventure
USA
1960
96 Minutes
Director
Kevin Corcoran Henry Calvin Gene Sheldon Barbara Beaird James Drury Richard Eastham Edith Evanson Tom Fadden Dennis Olivieri Bob Sweeney Ollie Wallace
chimpanzee circus performer orphan man foster father foster mother charming madcap touching circus family home jail running away deception friendship animal taming coming of age family adventure escape
Taken in by distant members of his family after being orphaned, Toby Tyler runs away to join the circus.
Comedy
USA
1952
78 Minutes
Director
Marjorie Main Percy Kilbride James Best Lori Nelson Esther Dale
country girl family patriarch mother nemesis daughter hilarious cheery lighthearted fair farm church small town washington state contest horse racing cooking young love education husband/wife relationship adventure
Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter in a horse race, while Rosie takes up with handsome young Marvin Johnson.
Comedy
USA
1947
77 Minutes
Director
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Tom Brown Nat Pendleton Joan Shawlee Beverly Simmons Don Beddoe Don Porter Donald MacBride Lane Watson William Ching
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates ... See full summary »
Comedy
UK
1951
87 Minutes
Director
Donald O'Connor Jimmy Durante Piper Laurie Joyce Holden William Conrad Henry O'Neill Paul Harvey Jess Barker Elisabeth Risdon Frank Nelson Charles Flynn
A boy steals a powerful magnet from a younger boy and gets him into all sorts of trouble.
Comedy
USA
1948
77 Minutes
Director
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
1947
78 Minutes
Director
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Marjorie Main George Cleveland Audrey Young Gordon Jones William Ching Peter Thompson Olin Howland Bill Clauson Billy O'Leary
Chester Wooley (Lou Costello) and Duke Egan (Bud Abbott) are traveling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana en route to California. During the stopover, notorious criminal ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1944
77 Minutes
Director
Musical comedy star Jimmy Leighter wants to get away from show biz and his leading lady Winnie Clark, so he joins the Army. There he gets the order to put on a show, Winnie Clark appears in... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1935
68 Minutes
Director
A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men. It follows the career of a newly-inducted rookie, Ross Martin, who has joined the force... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1943
78 Minutes
Director
Ann Miller William Wright Dick Purcell Franklin Pangborn Larry Parks
disc jockey switchboard operator millionaire chauffeur station manager soldier charming witty radio station military base party office car jazz military life deception new love world war ii switched identities transformation
Beverly Ross moderates an 5:30 am radio show with swing music, dedicated to the local servicemen. Two buddies of her brother have a chance to meet her and both fall in love. One of them is ... See full summary »
Musical
USA
1944
77 Minutes
Director
Ann Miller Jess Barker Charles D. Brown Eddie Kane Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington Glen Gray Band Teddy Powell Band Charlie Barnet Orchestra Nan Wynn The Pied Pipers
dancer screenwriter executive secretary movie producer bandleader amusing charming lighthearted hollywood, calif. movie set office boardinghouse park prison show business film industry deception bad luck unusual romance
Terry Baxter is a never-say-die Hollywood newcomer from Waterfall Kansas, determined to make it big. And does she have talent. Filled, of course, with lots of musical numbers that showcase her many talents.
Western
USA
1937
58 Minutes
Director
Gilbert Roland Marsha Hunt Charles Bickford J. Carrol Naish James Craig Monte Blue Barlowe Borland
gunslinger brother father figure outlaw melodramatic engaging wagon train wild west wilderness vengeance siblings murder reunion revenge quest discovery 19th century
A wagon train is robbed by a gang of bandits who kill everyone but a pair of young brothers. Years later, the brothers join force to bring the bandits' leader to justice.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1937
60 Minutes
Director
Three play-authors, Horace Dryden, Nick Milburn and "Babe" Lawton, are in an apartment seeking a plot for a new play. They are still on Page 1 when an intoxicated man wanders into their ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1949
79 Minutes
Director
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Hillary Brooke Max Baer Shemp Howard Joe Besser
hunter friend explorer pretty woman man madcap playful thrilling africa jungle new york city mine deception expedition treasure hunting friendship wild animals assumed identity adventure quest
Two booksellers search for diamonds in Africa, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals.
Adventure
USA
1935
70 Minutes
Director
Cary Grant Louis J. Gasnier Claude Rains Gertrude Michael Kathleen Burke Colin Tapley Akim Tamiroff Billy Bevan Georges Renavent Margaret Swope Jameson Thomas
british soldier officer kurd nurse tribesman secret agent tense powerful africa mountain cairo sudan armenia hospital romantic dilemma friendship world war i espionage capture injury
During WW1, the destinies of British officers Michael Andrews and John Stevenson seem intertwined on the battle front as much as on a more personal level.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1951
75 Minutes
Director
Donald O'Connor Helena Carter Will Geer John Emery Stanley Logan Kathryn Givney Hayden Rorke Morgan Farley Louis Bacigalupi
After being falsely accused of dishonesty, a young man decides to become a pirate.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1940
67 Minutes
Director
slave trader wife secret agent cook prison guard inmate disturbing gripping intense melodramatic penal colony island pacific ocean slave trade forced labor unlikely allies investigation working undercover prison break wretched excess
Undercover agent Mark Sheldon gets paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine manned by slave labor run by sadistic Stephen Danel.
Comedy
USA
1956
80 Minutes
Director
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Gigi Perreau Rusty Hamer Mary Wickes Ted de Corsia Ron Hargrave Sherry Alberoni Frank Wilcox Richard Reeves Paul Sorensen
Two goofballs try to run a beaten-down old amusement park.
Western
USA
1934
56 Minutes
Director
Randolph Scott Gail Patrick Monte Blue Billy Lee Raymond Hatton Jan Duggan Leila Bennett Olin Howland
cowboy scout fur trapper widow son older woman engaging striking wagon plains missouri oregon rocky mountains westward expansion fresh start trapping travel mother/son relationship romance adventure
In 1844 scout Clint Belmet and his two sidekicks guide a wagon train to the newly opened Oregon territory despite hardships and Indian attack.
Western
1938
59 Minutes
Director
John Wayne Marsha Hunt Johnny Mack Brown John Patterson Monte Blue Syd Saylor Lucien Littlefield
girlfriend gambler friend cousin saloon owner rancher melodramatic thrilling suspenseful montana wyoming saloon ranch prairie love triangle responsibility scam cattle gambling old west
A rancher (John Mack Brown) makes his cousin (John Wayne) trail boss on a cattle drive headed for trouble.
Western
1935
63 Minutes
Director
Randolph Scott Ann Sheridan Charles "Chic" Sale George F. Marion Mrs. Leslie Carter Willie Fung Kathleen Burke James Eagles Florence Roberts Howard Wilson
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A cowboy (Randolph Scott) and a comical deputy (Charles "Chic" Sale) solve a series of murders at a radium mine.
Comedy, Kids & Family
1959
104 Minutes
Director
Fred MacMurray Jean Hagen Tommy Kirk Annette Funicello Tim Considine Kevin Corcoran Cecil Kellaway Alexander Scourby Roberta Shore James Westerfield Jacques Aubuchon
son father brother mother dog foreign exchange student amusing lighthearted united states household curse childhood dogs espionage magic unlikely hero metamorphosis adventure discovery 1950s
An old ring turns a couple's (Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen) son (Tommy Kirk) into a sheep dog; he must perform an act of heroism to turn back.
Comedy
1948
77 Minutes
Director
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Virginia Grey John Hubbard Luba Malina Pedro de Cordoba Fritz Feld Tom Powers Pat Costello Frank Fenton Chris-Pin Martin
Adventure
USA
1939
114 Minutes
Buddy McMonigal
Gary Cooper Ray Milland Robert Preston Brian Donlevy Susan Hayward J. Carrol Naish Albert Van Dekker Broderick Crawford Charles Barton James Stephenson Heather Thatcher
brother soldier sergeant mercenary suspenseful inspiring england desert robbery war escape mutiny money escape adventure rise fall rivalry 1930s
Three adopted English brothers join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa, after one of them steals their adoptive family's famous heirloom sapphire.