List of the best Charles Middleton movies: Dick Tracy Returns(1938), The Miracle Rider(1935), Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe(1940), Song of the Saddle(1936), The Peril From Planet Mongo(1940), The Deadly Ray From Mars(1938), The Fixer Uppers(1935), Beau Hunks(1931), Beau Hunks(1931), Welcome Danger(1929), Yodelin' Kid From Pine Ridge(1937), The Miracle Woman(1931) ... ...
Crime, Drama
USA
1938
100 Minutes
Pa Stark
Dick Tracy battles spies and saboteurs in his efforts to bring to justice the Stark gang, a criminal family led by the vicious Pa Stark.
Western, Action
USA
1935
306 Minutes
Zaroff
Tom Mix Joan Gale Charles Middleton Niles Welch Jason Robards Sr. Bob Kortman Edward Earle Edward Hearn Tom London Edmund Cobb
Texas Ranger tries to stop takeover of Indian lands.
Sci-Fi
USA
1940
100 Minutes
Emperor Ming
Buster Crabbe Carol Hughes Charles Middleton Frank Shannon Beatrice Roberts Anne Gwynne John Hamilton Herbert Rawlinson Don Rowan
Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Zarkov return to the planet Mongo for an antidote to the Purple Death, which wreaking destruction on Earth. However, Ming the Merciless has other plans for them.
Western
USA
1936
58 Minutes
Phineas P. Hook
Dick Foran Alma Lloyd Charles Middleton Addison Richards Eddie Shubert George Ernest Monte Montague Victor Potel Kenneth Harlan Pat West Jim Farley
Frank Sr. sells his supplies to Hook, but then Hook has the Bannion Boys bushwhack his wagon to get the money back. Frank is murdered, but Junior gets away. He comes back 10 years later to ... See full summary »
Sci-Fi
USA
1940
91 Minutes
Ming the Merciless
A military intelligence officer and a pretty reporter try to find a scientist whose inventions can destroy the world.
Sci-Fi
1938
99 Minutes
Ming the Merciless
Robert Hill Buster Crabbe Jean Rogers Charles Middleton Frank Shannon Donald Kerr Beatrice Roberts Wheeler Oakman C. Montague Shaw Richard Alexander
scientist partner flash gordon reporter ming the merciless queen confident engaging spirited earth rocket mars cave palace cell death ray mars science war slavery
Flash (Buster Crabbe) catches Ming the Merciless (Charles Middleton) trying to suck Earth's nitrogen.
Comedy
UK
1935
21 Minutes
Pierre Gustave
Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy Mae Busch Charles Middleton Arthur Housman
Jim Bronton is an insurance investigator, but he's unhappy with his work and gets involved with a gang of arsonists. His conscience is troubling him ...
Comedy
1931
40 Minutes
Commandant
Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy James W. Horne Charles Middleton Broderick O'Farrell Harry Schultz Charles Hall
Comedy
1931
40 Minutes
Commandant
Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy James W. Horne Charles Middleton Broderick O'Farrell Harry Schultz Charles Hall
Comedy
USA
1929
112 Minutes
John Thorne
Harold Lloyd Barbara Kent Douglas Haig Noah Young Charles Middleton William Walling Edgar Kennedy
botanist tomboy police chief sergeant drug smuggler leader amusing lighthearted san francisco train station chinatown police station investigation opium police work new love drug smuggling new job mystery pursuit
Harold Bledsoe, a botany student, is called back home to San Francisco, where his late father had been police chief, to help investigate a crime wave in Chinatown.
Western
USA
1937
62 Minutes
Gene Autry Sr.
Gene Autry Smiley Burnette Betty Bronson Roy Mason Charles Middleton Russell Simpson Jack Dougherty Guy Wilkerson Frankie Marvin Henry Hall Fred S. Toones
gene autry rancher father son cattle rustler turpentiner engaging rousing thrilling confident georgia forest ranch jail small town schemes land dispute murder frame-up cattle rustling
The old west range war story transported to Georgia, with Autry as the hero.
Drama
USA
1931
89 Minutes
Simpson
Barbara Stanwyck David Manners Sam Hardy Beryl Mercer Russell Hopton Charles Middleton Eddie Boland Thelma Hill Aileen Carlyle Harry Todd
woman preacher con artist blind person pilot touching uplifting street church apartment radio station faith con game disillusionment redemption religion fall transformation love 1930s
After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind aviator restore her faith and happiness?
Comedy
USA
1939
65 Minutes
Commandant
Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy Jean Parker James Finlayson Reginald Gardiner Charles Middleton Jean Del Val Richard Cramer Michael Visaroff
stan soldier commander dream girl innkeeper ollie amusing madcap paris morocco airplane military base jail inn french foreign legion desertion love triangle execution reincarnation love
Ollie has fallen in love with the innkeeper's daughter in Paris. The only problem - she's very much in love with her husband. To forget her he joins the Foreign Legion with Stan. Bad idea.
Drama
USA
1931
96 Minutes
Jephson
Phillips Holmes Sylvia Sidney Frances Dee Irving Pichel Emmett Corrigan Charles Middleton
A poor factory worker, employed by a wealthy uncle, falls in love with a beautiful heiress but his happiness and promising future are jeopardized by a previous affair with a coworker he impregnated.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1934
80 Minutes
Mr. Bagby
Pauline Lord W.C. Fields ZaSu Pitts Evelyn Venable Kent Taylor Charles Middleton Donald Meek Jimmy Butler George Breakston Edith Fellows Virginia Weidler
The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never been heard from. Do-gooder Miss Lucy ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1943
62 Minutes
Sheriff
George Zucco Wanda McKay Noel Madison Robert Randall Byron Foulger Charles Middleton Robert Middlemass Glenn Strange I. Stanford Jolley
innkeeper father gangster sheriff bank teller lover dark creepy suspenseful hotel lobby road murder heist stranded strange happenings secret past deception mystery escape
A group of strangers are brought together in an old, dark house and must contend with two murders and $50,000 in stolen money.
Comedy
USA
1931
68 Minutes
Sheriff Flint
Bert Wheeler Robert Woolsey Dorothy Lee Lucy Beaumont Jason Robards Sr. DeWitt Jennings Charles Middleton William Scott
Wheeler and Woolsey play two unemployed vaudevillians who get involved in helping an old lady save her moribund drug store. Problems and laughs begin when the villain spikes the Lemon Sodas they are selling.
Western
USA
1939
85 Minutes
Alec Martin
James Cagney Humphrey Bogart Rosemary Lane Donald Crisp Harvey Stephens Hugh Sothern Charles Middleton Ward Bond Edward Pawley Lew Harvey Trevor Bardette
son outlaw judge brother rousing cheery wild oklahoma saloon the cherokee strip land rush father/son relationship framed for murder vigilantism old west transformation adventure 1890s
During the Oklahoma Land Rush, the lawlessness is exacerbated by the McCord gang's feud with the Kincaids, who are trying to bring law and justice to the region.
Comedy, Western
USA
1930
71 Minutes
Buck Rankin
William Haines Leila Hyams Polly Moran Cliff Edwards Francis X. Bushman Jr. Vera Marsh Charles Middleton Jack Pennick Buddy Roosevelt Jay Wilsey
Wise-guy carnival barker Windy bilks a group of cowboys out of their money, gets caught and is forced into working off the debt on their ranch. He falls in love with Molly, the pretty owner... See full summary »
Western
1935
60 Minutes
Buck Peters
William Boyd Jimmy Ellison Paula Stone George "Gabby" Hayes Kenneth Thomson Frank McGlynn Jr. Charles Middleton Robert Warwick
A ranch foreman tries to provoke a range war by playing two cattleman against each other. With help from a cowboy hero (William Boyd), the warring ranchers join forces to stop the fighting.
Crime, Drama
USA
1932
74 Minutes
Lip Hop Fat
Edward G. Robinson Loretta Young Dudley Digges Leslie Fenton J. Carrol Naish Edmund Breese Tully Marshall Charles Middleton
assassin childhood friend daughter gangster guard fortuneteller melodramatic shocking sad san francisco execution chamber family home chinatown sacramento, calif. california assassination crime syndicate love triangle loyalty infidelity
A hatchet man is ordered to kill his close friend for the sake of Tong.
Comedy
USA
1933
70 Minutes
Prosecutor (as Charles B. Middleton)
Groucho Marx Harpo Marx Chico Marx Zeppo Marx Margaret Dumont Raquel Torres Louis Calhern Leonid Kinskey Charles Middleton Edgar Kennedy
marx brothers widow wealthy woman leader ambassador amusing hilarious wild freedonia war espionage infatuation transformation quest 1930s
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
Crime, Drama
USA
1930
75 Minutes
Dr. Fredericks
Lupe Velez Lew Ayres Edward G. Robinson E. Alyn Warren Tetsu Komai Henry Kolker Mary Forbes Edgar Norton Charles Middleton Jean Hersholt
Ming Toy is on the auction block in China. She is saved by Billy and taken to San Francisco by Lo Sang Kee. To save her from deportation she is sold to Charlie Yong, the Chop Suey King. Billy kidnaps her with plans of marriage.
Biography
USA
1933
83 Minutes
Jenkins
Edward G. Robinson Bebe Daniels Aline MacMahon Jobyna Howland DeWitt Jennings Robert Warwick Russell Simpson Harry Holman Charles Middleton John Marston Marjorie Gateson
politician chester a. arthur wife mine owner mistress ulysses s. grant engaging spirited denver washington, d.c. mine colorado marriage wealth politics philanthropy affair egoism transformation discovery
Yates and Sarah Martin are barely getting by in a Colorado boom town grocery store. Sudden wealth leads to greater prosperity and political power. In Denver Yates buys a mansion and builds ... See full summary »
Western
USA
1945
66 Minutes
Pierre
Bob Steele John Litel Joan Woodbury Madge Bellamy George Meeker Ian Keith Raymond Hatton Poodles Hanneford John Hamilton Charles Middleton Bill Hammond
Mountie Matt O'Brien is assigned to escort Miss Owens to a remote outpost. But when he finds an illegal mining operation there that is smuggling gold across the border, his superior Sgt. Means orders him to leave.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1940
75 Minutes
Sidney Toler Victor Sen Yung Marjorie Weaver Lionel Atwill Robert Lowery Don Beddoe Leo G. Carroll Cora Witherspoon Kay Linaker Harlan Briggs Charles Middleton
Charlie tries to discover the identity of a strangler who strikes multiple times on a cruise ship bound from Honolulu to California.
Drama
USA
1931
65 Minutes
Dorothy Mackaill Donald Cook Ralf Harolde Morgan Wallace Victor Varconi Ivan F. Simpson John Wray Nina Mae McKinney Gustav von Seyffertitz Cecil Cunningham Charles Middleton
After accidentally killing the man who raped her and forced her into prostitution, a New Orleans woman flees to a Caribbean island. While she awaits her fiancé, the vicious local police chief sets his sights on her.
Musical
USA
1936
113 Minutes
Irene Dunne Allan Jones Charles Winninger Helen Westley Paul Robeson Helen Morgan Donald Cook Sammy White Queenie Smith J. Farrell MacDonald Arthur Hohl
singer gambler actress actor father daughter spectacular emotional melodramatic river boat chicago nightclub theater mississippi show business interracial romance racism love marriage
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
Drama
USA
1937
138 Minutes
Paul Muni Luise Rainer Walter Connolly Tilly Losch Charley Grapewin Jessie Ralph Soo Yong Keye Luke Roland Lui Ching Wah Lee Harold Huber
farmer wife pretty woman son emotional melodramatic china farm farming family poverty aspirations marriage love triangle transformation love sacrifice 1930s
Although married Chinese farmers Wang and O-Lan initially experience success, their lives are complicated by declining fortunes and lean times, as well as the arrival of the beautiful young Lotus.
Western
USA
1948
92 Minutes
Dick Powell Jane Greer Agnes Moorehead Burl Ives Tom Powers Gordon Oliver Steve Brodie Guinn "Big Boy" Williams Raymond Burr Regis Toomey Olin Howland
secret agent captain mine owner financier lawyer partner gritty dark saloon outpost mine hotel stagecoach mill undercover operations theft gold murder business romance
When two US cavalrymen transporting a gold shipment get killed, US Army Intelligence investigator John Haven goes undercover to a mining and logging town to find the killers.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1947
107 Minutes
Bing Crosby Joan Caulfield Barry Fitzgerald Frank Faylen Elizabeth Patterson Robert Shayne Larry Young Percy Kilbride Charles Dingle Don Beddoe Thurston Hall
physician doctor schoolteacher pharmacist father schoolboy airy cheery charming train maine small town hospital office dance hall medical profession small-town life rivalry alcoholism vacation
Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine hires a replacement for his vacation sight unseen. Alas, he and young singing doctor Jim Pearson don't hit it off; but Pearson is delighted to stay, ... See full summary »
Western
USA
1940
121 Minutes
Errol Flynn Miriam Hopkins Randolph Scott Humphrey Bogart Frank McHugh Alan Hale Guinn "Big Boy" Williams John Litel Moroni Olsen Russell Hicks Douglas Dumbrille
southerner commander intelligence officer bandit friend engaging gripping rousing prison wagon train virginia city, nev. trail american civil war theft escape prisoners of war robbery pursuit escape sacrifice
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from Confederate Prison and is set to Virginia City in Nevada. Once there he finds that the former commander of his prison Vance Irby is planning to send $5 million in gold to save the Confederacy.
Adventure
USA
1941
98 Minutes
John Wayne Betty Field Harry Carey James Barton Beulah Bondi Samuel S. Hinds Marjorie Main Ward Bond Marc Lawrence John Qualen Fuzzy Knight
stranger moonshiner daughter son uncle aunt bleak melodramatic fascinating ozark mountains small town forest cabin family helping others rural life superstition suicide father/son relationship revenge
A mysterious but pleasant stranger arrives in the Missouri hills and befriends a young backwoods girl, which doesn't sit well with her moonshiner fiancé who has vowed to find and kill his own father.
Drama
USA
1940
129 Minutes
Henry Fonda Jane Darwell John Carradine Charley Grapewin Dorris Bowdon Russell Simpson O.Z. Whitehead John Qualen Eddie Quillan Zeffie Tilbury Frank Sully
ex-convict sharecropper priest uncle grandfather grandmother bleak disheartening emotional oklahoma california family historical events american dream farming poverty labor strike pursuit escape quest
A poor Midwest family is forced off their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.