List of the best DeWitt Jennings movies: The Valiant(1929), Exit Smiling(1926), The Criminal Code(1931), Silver Dollar(1933), Little Man, What Now?(1934), Min and Bill(1930), Two Arabian Knights(1927), Caught Plastered(1931), The Bat Whispers(1930), The Fire Brigade(1926), The Mystic(1925), The Big House(1930) ... ...
Drama
USA
1929
66 Minutes
Warden
Paul Muni Marguerite Churchill DeWitt Jennings Henry Kolker Edith Yorke Richard Carlyle Johnny Mack Brown Clifford Dempsey George C. Pearce Don Terry
After killing an unknown man for an unknown reason, a mysterious drifter turns himself to the law, under a false name intending to protect his own family's honor. But when the news of his ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
USA
1926
74 Minutes
Orlando Wainwright
Beatrice Lillie Jack Pickford Doris Lloyd DeWitt Jennings D'Arcy Corrigan Franklin Pangborn William Gillespie Carl Richards Harry Myers Tenen Holtz
A maid who works for a traveling theatrical troupe wants desperately to be an actress, and manages to get some small roles in the company's productions, but is determined to do anything she... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1931
95 Minutes
Yard Captain Gleason
Walter Huston Phillips Holmes Constance Cummings Boris Karloff DeWitt Jennings Mary Doran Ethel Wales Clark Marshall Arthur Hoyt John St. Polis Paul Porcasi
young man district attorney daughter cellmate guard informant bleak gripping intense club prison car cell murder prison life difficult decision father/daughter relationship solitary confinement romance fall
After a failed attempt at running for governor, D.A. Mark Brady is appointed warden of the state prison where many of the criminals he prosecuted are incarcerated.
Biography
USA
1933
83 Minutes
The Mine Foreman
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 »
Romance
1934
91 Minutes
Emil Kleinholz
Margaret Sullavan Douglass Montgomery Alan Hale Catherine Doucet DeWitt Jennings G.P. Huntley Jr. Muriel Kirkland Fred Kohler Mae Marsh Donald Haines Christian Rub
husband wife stepmother madam rival melodramatic intricate spirited small town berlin household brothel prostitution newlyweds struggle relocation secret life work quest discovery
Two newlyweds struggle to make a life together amid the social and political turmoil of pre-Hitler Germany.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1930
66 Minutes
Marie Dressler Wallace Beery Dorothy Jordan Marjorie Rambeau Don Dillaway DeWitt Jennings Russell Hopton Frank McGlynn Greta Gould Jack Pennick Hank Bell
hotel manager sweetheart daughter mother principal boyfriend bleak melodramatic intense hotel waterfront house boarding school ship adoption poverty mother/child relationship business murder jealousy
Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.
Adventure, Comedy, Romance
USA
1927
92 Minutes
American Consul
William Boyd Mary Astor Louis Wolheim Michael Vavitch Ian Keith DeWitt Jennings Michael Visaroff Boris Karloff
soldier colonel harem girl servant fiancé consul amusing madcap prison camp cargo ship trenches arabia world war i prisoners of war male bonding love triangle military life love rivalry adventure
Two American soldiers are captured by the Germans on the Western Front during World War One and escape a POW camp only to stumble into further life-threatening adventures when they come across an Arabian king's daughter while on the lam.
Comedy
USA
1931
68 Minutes
Police Chief H.A. Morton
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.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
USA
1930
82 Minutes
Police captain
Chester Morris Una Merkel Maude Eburne Chance Ward Richard Tucker Wilson Benge DeWitt Jennings Sidney D'Albrook S.E. Jennings Grayce Hampton Spencer Charters
burglar police detective dowager niece fiancé bank employee eerie dark crafty suspenseful mansion long island, n.y. theft crime spree houseguest murder disguise mystery pursuit 1930s
A master criminal terrorizes the occupants of an isolated country mansion.
Drama
USA
1926
94 Minutes
Fire Chief Wallace
May McAvoy Charles Ray Tom O'Brien Eugenie Besserer Warner Richmond Bert Woodruff Vivia Ogden DeWitt Jennings Dan Mason Erwin Connelly
Terry O'Neill is the youngest of a family of Irish firefighters. He falls in love with Helen Corwin, but complications ensue when Terry learns that her father, a wealthy contractor, has cut... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1925
70 Minutes
Director of Police
Aileen Pringle Conway Tearle Mitchell Lewis Robert Ober Stanton Heck David Torrence Gladys Hulette DeWitt Jennings
An American criminal imports a gang of Hungarian gypsies to gain control over a fortune. The victim, Doris Merrick, is persuaded by fake medium Zara to hand over her jewels to Nash.
Crime, Drama
USA
1930
87 Minutes
Capt. Wallace
Wallace Beery Chester Morris Robert Montgomery Lewis Stone Leila Hyams George F. Marion J.C. Nugent Karl Dane DeWitt Jennings Matthew Betz Claire McDowell
prisoner prison official guard warden criminal gritty thrilling bleak prison prison life prison break drunk driving corruption crime escape revenge 1930s
A convict falls in love with his new cellmate's sister, only to become embroiled in a planned break-out which is certain to have lethal consequences.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
USA
1935
74 Minutes
Captain Beegle
Edna May Oliver James Gleason Lola Lane Chick Chandler George Meeker Dorothy Libaire Harry Ellerbe Spencer Charters DeWitt Jennings Leo G. Carroll Arthur Hoyt
A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a sea-plane gets sick and dies.
War
USA
1917
81 Minutes
English Barrister
Mary Pickford Jack Holt Hobart Bosworth James Neill Guy Oliver Edythe Chapman Lillian Leighton Ben Alexander DeWitt Jennings Walter Long Raymond Hatton
A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand.
Crime, Drama
USA
1931
80 Minutes
Chief Donlin
Wallace Beery Lewis Stone Jean Harlow Johnny Mack Brown Marjorie Rambeau Paul Hurst Clark Gable Ralph Bellamy John Miljan DeWitt Jennings Murray Kinnell
After rising bootlegger Slaughterhouse Scorpio eliminates his gangland competition, two reporters and a cabal of six businessmen work to expose him.
Crime, Drama
USA
1929
90 Minutes
Officer O'Brien
Chester Morris Harry Stubbs Mae Busch Irma Harrison Regis Toomey Al Hill James Bradbury Jr. Elmer Ballard Pat O'Malley DeWitt Jennings
mobster cop daughter detective undercover agent dark gritty melodramatic police station theater warehouse murder mob crime deception pursuit quest mystery 1920s
Chick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he falls under suspicion. The gangster took ... See full summary »
Horror
USA
1933
77 Minutes
Lionel Atwill Fay Wray Glenda Farrell Frank McHugh Gavin Gordon Edwin Maxwell Holmes Herbert Arthur Edmund Carewe Allen Vincent Monica Bannister Matthew Betz
sculptor partner assistant fiancée reporter creepy tense london new york city wax museum obsession art murder love fall revenge 1930s
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
Comedy
USA
1933
67 Minutes
Paul Lukas Loretta Young Frank McHugh Glenda Farrell Helen Vinson Walter Byron Ferdinand Gottschalk Joseph Cawthorn Paul Porcasi Mary Doran Lucien Prival
Because the Stanislavsky method of playing bridge has no rules, it promotes marital harmony for those who stick with it.