List of the best Claude Allister movies: Lady Luck(1936), I Like Your Nerve(1931), Reaching for the Moon(1930), Captain Applejack(1931), The Dark Angel(1935), The Awful Truth(1937), Lillian Russell(1940), Never Give a Sucker an Even Break(1941), Men Are Such Fools(1938), Arrest Bulldog Drummond(1938) ... ...
Drama
1936
62 Minutes
Iris Adrian Claude Allister William Bakewell Joe Barton Patricia Farr Arthur Hoyt Lew Kelly Vivien Oakland Duncan Renaldo Jameson Thomas John Kelly
A manicurist is mistaken for the winner of a large sweepstakes and finds herself pursued by fortune hunters.
Romance
USA
1931
70 Minutes
Archie Lester
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Loretta Young Claude Allister Henry Kolker Edmond Breon Boris Karloff
Young man attempts to break up an engagement between a woman and an older man.
Comedy
USA
1930
74 Minutes
Sir Horace Partington Chelmsford
Douglas Fairbanks Bebe Daniels Edward Everett Horton Jack Mulhall Claude Allister June MacCloy Walter Walker Helen Jerome Eddy Bing Crosby Bill Elliott Bud Geary
Wall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced with a "love potion," work their magic. ... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1931
76 Minutes
John Jason
John Halliday Mary Brian Kay Strozzi Louise Closser Hale Alec B. Francis Claude Allister Julia Swayne Gordon Arthur Edmund Carewe Otto Hoffman William B. Davidson
squire ward frenchwoman stranger jewel thief servant engaging spirited thrilling cornwall, england estate library bedroom strangers strange happenings pirates family history treasure the past transformation
An ordinary man is confronted by gangsters who have reason to believe a treasure is buried somewhere on his property.
Drama
USA
1935
110 Minutes
Lawrence Bidley
Fredric March Merle Oberon Herbert Marshall Janet Beecher John Halliday Henrietta Crosman Frieda Inescort Claude Allister George Breakston Fay Chaldecott Dennis Chaldecott
soldier cousin girl friend engaging emotional passionate london france england countryside cottage devotion pride love war blindness jealousy love transformation
The close relationship between a woman and her two male childhood friends is tested when she accepts a marriage proposal from one of them, while the burgeoning First World War threatens to change their lives forever.
Comedy
USA
1937
92 Minutes
Irene Dunne Cary Grant Ralph Bellamy Alex D'Arcy Cecil Cunningham Molly Lamont Esther Dale Joyce Compton Robert Allen Robert Warwick Mary Forbes
husband wife neighbor heiress music teacher mother amusing charming hilarious madcap new york city apartment marriage reconciliation divorce new love love transformation 1930s
A married couple file an amicable divorce, but find it harder to let go of each other than they initially thought.
Musical
USA
1940
127 Minutes
Alice Faye Don Ameche Henry Fonda Edward Arnold Warren William Leo Carrillo Helen Westley Dorothy Peterson Ernest Truex Nigel Bruce Lynn Bari
opera singer political candidate mother husband composer spirited uplifting melodramatic new york city music hall iowa show business rags to riches love performance romance ambition transformation underdog love
Life story of the musical star from her discovery in 1890 by band leader Tony Pastor till her retirement in 1912 when she married newspaperman Alexander Moore.
Comedy
USA
1941
71 Minutes
W.C. Fields Gloria Jean Margaret Dumont Leon Errol Billy Lenhart Kenneth Brown Anne Nagel Franklin Pangborn Mona Barrie Susan Miller Charles Lang
filmmaker actress producer mother daughter amusing campy madcap hollywood, calif. airplane movie studio movies fantasy hollywood pursuit escape 1940s
A filmmaker attempts to sell a surreal script he has written, which comes to life as he pitches it.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1938
70 Minutes
Wayne Morris Priscilla Lane Humphrey Bogart Hugh Herbert Penny Singleton Johnnie Davis Mona Barrie Marcia Ralston Gene Lockhart Kathleen Lockhart Donald Briggs
secretary advertising executive radio station manager roommate fiancée copywriter amusing melodramatic spirited tender new york city advertising office nightclub ship apartment ambition marriage sexism gender roles jealousy
Linda Lawrence rises from secretary to account executive in an advertising agency. She falls in love with ex-football star Jimmy Hall and marries him. Radio man Harry Galleon will push her ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1938
60 Minutes
John Howard Heather Angel H.B. Warner Reginald Denny E.E. Clive Jean Fenwick Zeffie Tilbury George Zucco Leonard Mudie Evan Thomas Clyde Cook
The invention of a war machine, that brings to explosion everything one wants to, puts Scotland Yard and Captain Drummond into alarm.