List of the best Donald Cook movies: Beware of Ladies(1937), Confidential(1935), The Ninth Guest(1934), The Trial of Vivienne Ware(1932), Safe in Hell(1931), Frisco Jenny(1933), Jennie Gerhardt(1933), Baby Face(1933), Our Very Own(1950), The Mad Genius(1931), Ladies Love Danger(1935), Motive for Revenge(1935) ... ...
Drama
USA
1937
54 Minutes
A female reporter with marital problems is sent by her boss to cover the campaign of a young political neophyte who's running against the local crooked political boss.
Crime, Drama
1935
67 Minutes
Donald Cook Evalyn Knapp Warren Hymer J. Carrol Naish Theodore von Eltz Herbert Rawlinson Morgan Wallace
A Treasury agent (Donald Cook) gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime syndicate.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
1934
65 Minutes
Donald Cook Genevieve Tobin Hardie Albright Edward Ellis Edwin Maxwell Vince Barnett Helen Flint Samuel S. Hinds Nella Walker Sidney Bracey
Eight strangers are invited to spend the night in a penthouse apartment. They are greeted, wined and dined, but a voice on the radio tells them they will be murdered unless they outwit Death.
Crime, Drama
USA
1932
56 Minutes
John Sutherland
Joan Bennett Donald Cook Skeets Gallagher ZaSu Pitts Lilian Bond Alan Dinehart Herbert Mundin Howard Phillips William Pawley
Incredibly fast-moving courtroom yarn in which Bennett is defended by ex-beau Cook when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance, while the trial is broadcast live on the radio.
Drama
USA
1931
65 Minutes
Carl Bergen, aka Carl Erickson
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.
Drama
USA
1933
70 Minutes
Dan Reynolds
Ruth Chatterton Donald Cook James Murray Louis Calhern Helen Jerome Eddy Hallam Cooley Pat O'Malley Harold Huber J. Carrol Naish
young woman son prostitute district attorney lawyer madam incredible melodramatic unrestrained san francisco brothel foster home chinatown ruins prison mother/son relationship prostitution crime poverty murder
Frisco Jenny was orphaned by the 1906 earthquake and fire and has become the madame of a prosperous bawdy house. She puts her son up for adoption and he rises to prominence as district ... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1933
85 Minutes
laundress mother father pregnant woman love interest cousin bleak disheartening emotional cincinnati chicago columbus, ohio europe death class struggle self-sacrifice lost loves accident sacrifice forbidden love
Jennie Gerhardt is a destitute young woman. While working in a hotel in Columbus, Ohio, Jennie meets George Brander, a United State Senator, who becomes infatuated with her. He helps her family and declares his wish to marry her.
Drama
USA
1933
71 Minutes
Ned Stevens
Barbara Stanwyck George Brent Donald Cook Arthur Hohl John Wayne Henry Kolker Margaret Lindsay Douglas Dumbrille Theresa Harris Alphonse Ethier James Murray
beautiful woman businessman father friend banker sultry unrestrained pennsylvania new york city seduction sex betrayal prohibition social standing adventure transformation 1930s
A young woman, sexually exploited all her life, decides to turn the tables and exploit the hapless men at a big city bank - by gleefully sleeping her way to the top.
Drama
USA
1950
93 Minutes
Fred Macaulay
Ann Blyth Jane Wyatt Donald Cook Farley Granger Joan Evans Ann Dvorak Natalie Wood Gus Schilling Phyllis Kirk Jessie Grayson Martin Milner
teen girl adoptive mother adoptive father biological mother sister boyfriend emotional heartwarming los angeles family home long beach, calif. adoption family graduation secret identity crisis discovery growing up transformation 1950s
Gail discovers the shocking news that she is adopted during a heated argument with her sister, Joan. With the reluctant support of her adoptive parents and baby sister, Penny, Gail goes in ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1931
81 Minutes
Fedor Ivanoff
John Barrymore Marian Marsh Donald Cook Charles Butterworth Luis Alberni Carmel Myers Andre Luguet Frankie Darro Boris Karloff Mae Madison
A crippled man finds a boy and vows to make him a great dancer.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1935
69 Minutes
Tom Lennox
A mystery-comedy with multiple backgrounds set in a back-stage and penthouse backgrounds finds actress Rita Witherspoom mistakenly entering the apartment of Ricardo Souchet, a rich bachelor... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1935
60 Minutes
Billy West Edwin Argus Donald Cook Fern Emmett Irene Hervey Doris Lloyd Edwin Maxwell Wheeler Oakman Russell Simpson Dorothea Wolbert Le Strange Millman
Bank teller Barry Webster is driven to stealing bank funds by his mother-in-law who continually nags him about forcing her daughter Muriel to live in poverty. He is caught and sent to ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1933
90 Minutes
Richard Nordholm
Paul Muni Mary Astor Aline MacMahon Donald Cook Alan Dinehart Guy Kibbee Margaret Lindsay Jean Muir Anna Q. Nilsson Patricia Ellis Douglas Dumbrille
An ambitious farmer becomes a pioneer in the meat packing business, finding financial success but private disappointment over the course of many decades.
Drama
USA
1933
69 Minutes
Franklin Deane
Carole Lombard Gene Raymond Monroe Owsley Donald Cook Arthur Hohl Reginald Mason Jameson Thomas Theresa Maxwell Conover Florence Britton Irene Ware Herbert Evans
playboy singer wealthy man father friend wife heartwarming moving engaging nightclub racetrack family home work social standing self-respect marital problems family ties redemption transformation love
A dissolute rich society boy marries a worldly nightclub singer, and she begins to have a wholly unexpected effect on him.
Action
USA
1933
70 Minutes
Corew
Jack Holt Fay Wray Noah Beery Raquel Torres Donald Cook Edwin Maxwell Charles Browne Ferdinand Munier Lee Phelps
A man (Jack Holt) wins his best friend's wife (Fay Wray) and seems to be plotting to ruin the man's oil business.
Drama, History
USA
1934
115 Minutes
Don Felipe de Castillo
Wallace Beery Leo Carrillo Fay Wray Stuart Erwin Donald Cook George E. Stone Joseph Schildkraut Henry B. Walthall Katherine DeMille David Durand Frank Puglia
bandit overseer reporter politician revolutionary sister brutal disheartening mexico mexico city hillside farm fort el paso, texas pancho villa murder betrayal mexican revolution assassination exile
After enacting revenge on the overseer who murdered his father, Pancho Villa becomes a bandit, earning the respect of the poor by brutally attacking the wealthy.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
1932
70 Minutes
Philip Seymour
Edna May Oliver James Gleason Mae Clarke Robert Armstrong Donald Cook Clarence Wilson Edgar Kennedy Mary Mason Rochelle Hudson Guy Usher James Donlan
New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers (Edna May Oliver) assists a detective (James Gleason) with an aquarium corpse.
Crime, Drama
USA
1931
84 Minutes
Mike Powers
James Cagney Jean Harlow Mae Clarke Edward Woods Beryl Mercer Donald Cook Joan Blondell
gangster bootlegger police officer veteran friend melodramatic brash gripping suspenseful prison chicago slum nightclub bar organized crime gangs prohibition great depression family dysfunction growing up
An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.
Musical
USA
1935
82 Minutes
Don Trevor
Ted Lewis Virginia Bruce Ted Healy Nat Pendleton Harry Stockwell Donald Cook George "Spanky" McFarland Addison Richards Robert McWade Robert Gleckler
The songwriter Ollie Watts goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by the unscrupulous music publisher Mr. Simmonds. Ollie brings his girlfriend and singer Margaret ... See full summary »
Western
1932
84 Minutes
Warren
Richard Dix Ann Harding Edna May Oliver Guy Kibbee Julie Haydon Donald Cook Harry Holman Skeets Gallagher Walter Walker Wally Albright Marilyn Knowlden
Newlyweds (Richard Dix, Ann Harding) head for 1870s Nebraska and build a banking empire spanning three generations.
Musical
USA
1936
113 Minutes
Steve
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.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1945
87 Minutes
Dean Larry Benson
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Peggy Ryan Martha O'Driscoll June Vincent Lon Chaney Donald Cook Charles Dingle Richard Lane Joe Kirk Anthony Warde
Two bumblers become caretakers at an all-girls college. During their misadventures, the duo raise money to free the school from its traditionally-minded landlord.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1935
70 Minutes
Lt. Cmdr. David Tucker
Robert Taylor Jean Parker Ted Healy Una Merkel Nat Pendleton Jean Hersholt Arthur Byron Frank Shields Raymond Hatton Donald Cook Mischa Auer
saboteur girlfriend naval officer businessman dignitary sailor suspenseful cheeky lighthearted naval yard cruiser deck sabotage murder investigation conspiracy military life inventions bribery mystery revenge
Taylor is cast as Lt. Tom Randolph, one of several naval officers confined to his ship when a murder occurs. The victim was in the process of delivering the components for a new electrical ... See full summary »