List of the best Charles Cane movies: Native Son(1951), The Hairy Ape(1944), Revenge of the Creature(1955), My Favorite Blonde(1942), Ruby Gentry(1952), The Kid From Brooklyn(1946), Hello, Frisco, Hello(1943), Calamity Jane and Sam Bass(1949), Born Yesterday(1950), Crime Wave(1954), The Fighting Kentuckian(1949), Lucky Me(1954) ... ...
Drama
Argentina|USA
1951
91 Minutes
Detective Britten
Richard Wright Jean Wallace Gloria Madison Nicholas Joy Charles Cane Gene Michael Jorge Rigaud Willa Pearl Curtis Don Dean Ruth Robert
In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.
Drama
USA
1944
90 Minutes
Gantry
William Bendix Susan Hayward John Loder Dorothy Comingore Roman Bohnen Tom Fadden Alan Napier Charles Cane
socialite engineer laborer beautiful woman tender uneasy dark ship new york city forbidden love class conflict working class loneliness identity self-esteem forbidden love quest 1940s
During the 1940s, social class conflict is depicted when a spoiled socialite, traveling on a freighter, calls the ship's head stoker a hairy ape, provoking him into stalking the rich woman once ashore in New York.
Horror
USA
1955
82 Minutes
Police Captain
John Agar Lori Nelson John Bromfield Robert Williams Nestor Paiva Grandon Rhodes Dave Willock Charles Cane Ricou Browning Clint Eastwood
Men capture the Creature from the Black Lagoon and make him an aquarium attraction, from which he escapes.
Comedy
USA
1942
78 Minutes
Turk O'Flaherty
Bob Hope Madeleine Carroll Gale Sondergaard George Zucco Lionel Royce Walter Kingsford Victor Varconi Otto Reichow Charles Cane Crane Whitley Erville Alderson
spy beautiful woman vaudevillian nazi fugitive amusing cheery spirited new york city train chicago california theater show business espionage frame-up mistaken identity secret codes world war ii escape
Karen Bentley, an English secret agent, links up with Larry Haines and his star penguin Percy in an attempt to outwit German spies.
Drama
USA
1952
82 Minutes
Jennifer Jones Charlton Heston Karl Malden Tom Tully Barney Phillips James Anderson Josephine Hutchinson Phyllis Avery Herbert Heyes Myra Marsh Charles Cane
widow businessman brother old flame gold digger dark tense melodramatic suspenseful american south country club swamp murder poverty marriage of convenience second chance morality love transformation rise
A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1946
114 Minutes
Danny Kaye Vera-Ellen Virginia Mayo Walter Abel Eve Arden Steve Cochran Lionel Stander Fay Bainter Clarence Kolb Victor Cutler Charles Cane
milkman sister pretty woman boxer coach manager lighthearted playful amusing club alley apartment boxing ring gym warehouse publicity deception boxing brother/sister relationship drugs
After a timid milkman knocks unconscious a boxing champion who was accosting his sister, he decides to take up boxing himself in order to impress a beautiful nightclub singer.
Musical, Romance
USA
1943
98 Minutes
Alice Faye John Payne Jack Oakie Lynn Bari Laird Cregar June Havoc Ward Bond Aubrey Mather John Archer George Barbier Frank Orth
socialite entertainer singer showman saloon owner charming uplifting playful england san francisco saloon theater house fame vaudeville marrying for money comeback love triangle show business transformation
In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his troupe's star singer for a selfish heiress.
Western
USA
1949
85 Minutes
Yvonne De Carlo Howard Duff Dorothy Hart Willard Parker Norman Lloyd Lloyd Bridges Marc Lawrence Houseley Stevenson Milburn Stone Clifton Young John Rodney
calamity jane store owner farmhand sheriff cattleman brother rousing melodramatic engaging south dakota small town farm track overcoming the odds old west myths romantic dilemma bad luck gambling outlaws pursuit
Good luck with horses and women pushes Sam Bass toward outlawry.
Drama, Comedy
USA
1950
103 Minutes
Judy Holliday William Holden Broderick Crawford Howard St. John Frank Otto Larry Oliver Barbara Brown Grandon Rhodes Claire Carleton Smoki Whitfield Helen Eby-Rock
businessperson girlfriend journalist lawyer politician amusing playful lighthearted washington, d.c. hotel office love triangle corruption big business ambition education love transformation 1950s
A tycoon hires a tutor to teach his lover proper etiquette, with unexpected results.
Crime, Drama
USA
1954
74 Minutes
Sterling Hayden Gene Nelson Phyllis Kirk Ted de Corsia Charles Bronson Jay Novello Nedrick Young James Bell Dub Taylor Gayle Kellogg Mack Chandler
Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter.
Adventure
USA
1949
100 Minutes
John Wayne Vera Ralston Oliver Hardy Philip Dorn Marie Windsor John Howard Hugo Haas Grant Withers Odette Myrtil Paul Fix Mae Marsh
soldier daughter immigrant businessman mistress general rousing patriotic kentucky small town cabin field exile love triangle father/daughter relationship battle schemes revenge love underdog
In 1818 Alabama, French settlers are pitted against greedy land-grabber Blake Randolph but Kentucky militiaman John Breen, who's smitten with French gal Fleurette De Marchand, comes to the settlers' aid.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1954
100 Minutes
Doris Day Bob Cummings Phil Silvers Eddie Foy Jr. Nancy Walker Martha Hyer Bill Goodwin Marcel Dalio Hayden Rorke James Burke Herb Vigran
Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a wealthy oilman to finance a musical he is scripting, promising them stardom if it comes to fruition.
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.
Crime, Drama
USA
1933
90 Minutes
James Cagney Madge Evans Allen Jenkins Dudley Digges Frankie Darro Dorothy Peterson John Marston Charles Wilson Hobart Cavanaugh Raymond Borzage Robert Barrat
corrupt businessman reformed criminal nurse boy gangster guard dark gritty shocking reform school court barn redemption reform political corruption new job rebellion juvenile crime transformation sacrifice
Five members of a teen-age gang, including leader Jimmy Smith, are sent to the state reformatory, presided over by the melodramatically callous Thompson. Soon, Patsy Gargan, a former ... See full summary »