List of the best Charles Jordan movies: Mary Lou(1948), Escape in the Fog(1945), Edge of the City(1957), Meeting at Midnight(1944), The Scarlet Clue(1945), Shockproof(1949), The Jolson Story(1946) ... ...
Musical, Romance
1948
65 Minutes
Mortimer Cripps
Robert Lowery Joan Barton Glenda Farrell Abigail Adams Frank Jenks Emmett Vogan Thelma White Pierre Watkin Charles Jordan Leslie Turner Chester Clute
A former airline stewardess becomes the new singer for a traveling nightclub band, but problems arise when the group's previous crooner demands her old job back.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1945
65 Minutes
Plainclothesman
Nina Foch William Wright Otto Kruger Konstantin Shayne Ivan Triesault Ernie S. Adams Mary Newton Ralph Dunn John Tyrrell Charles Jordan Noel Cravat
nurse government agent spy shop owner henchman stranger engaging tense san francisco hotel lobby repair shop bridge house espionage secret documents undercover operations world war ii post-traumatic stress disorder nightmares
During WW2, an army nurse on R&R in San Francisco has a premonition about witnessing a murder attempt against a G-man by Nazi agents.
Drama
USA
1957
85 Minutes
John Cassavetes Sidney Poitier Jack Warden Kathleen Maguire Ruby Dee Robert F. Simon Ruth White William A. Lee Val Avery John Kellogg David Clarke
dockworker boss friend wife manager gritty rousing manhattan docks racism labor union self-respect corruption secret awol underdog rivalry transformation 1950s
Two New York City longshoremen Axel Nordmann, an Army deserter and Tommy Tyler, an easy-going freight car loader whose growing friendship is threatened by Charles Malik, a notably repellent punk.
Mystery & Thriller
1944
67 Minutes
Sidney Toler Mantan Moreland Frances Chan Jacqueline de Wit Joseph Crehan Helen Beverley Geraldine Wall Ralph Peters Frank Jaquet Edward Earle Claudia Dell
charlie chan murder victim murder suspect wife daughter police detective campy lighthearted mansion police station investigation murder deception fraud mystery pursuit 1940s
Legendary Hawaiian detective Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) is called in to investigate when a man is shot during a mock seance at his home.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1945
65 Minutes
Sidney Toler Benson Fong Mantan Moreland Helen Devereaux Robert Homans Virginia Brissac I. Stanford Jolley Reid Kilpatrick Jack Norton Charles Sherlock Janet Shaw
charlie chan radio star chauffeur police captain studio head spy gripping shocking tense new york city radio station laboratory street espionage radio performers murder investigation theft government secrets mystery
Charlie discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders.
Crime, Drama
USA
1949
79 Minutes
Cornel Wilde Patricia Knight John Baragrey Esther Minciotti Howard St. John Russell Collins Charles Bates Gilbert Barnett Frank Jaquet Ann Shoemaker King Donovan
convict parole officer ex-convict love interest elderly person dark melodramatic prison bedroom family home parole prison trust second chance murder temptation forbidden love rivalry 1940s
A Parole Officer falls in-love with his client, a ravishing blonde who served time for murder, and he's determined to help her go straight despite her interfering criminal boyfriend.
Biography
USA
1946
128 Minutes
Larry Parks Evelyn Keyes William Demarest Bill Goodwin Ludwig Donath Tamara Shayne John Alexander Jo-Carroll Dennison Ernest Cossart Scotty Beckett William Forrest
cantor singer actor vaudevillian performer entertainer charming endearing playful rousing synagogue theater nightclub movie studio washington, d.c. backstage al jolson father/son relationship show business career vs. family
This movie shows the idealized career of the singer Al Jolson, a little Jewish boy who goes against the will of his father in order to be in showbiz. He becomes a star, falls in love with a... See full summary »