List of the best Donald Woods movies: Heritage of the Desert(1939), Romance on the Run(1938), Danger on the Air(1938), Road Gang(1936), The Return of Rin Tin Tin(1947), Sky Raiders(1941), Bells of San Fernando(1947), Barbary Pirate(1949), Merry Wives of Reno(1934), Once a Doctor(1937), As the Earth Turns(1934), Born to the Saddle(1953) ... ...
Western
USA
1939
74 Minutes
Donald Woods Evelyn Venable Russell Hayden Robert Barrat Sidney Toler C. Henry Gordon
gunslinger rancher son daughter outlaw scientist suspenseful wild melodramatic wild west desert ranch wilderness abduction hired killers love triangle family ties unlikely allies real estate rescue
John Abbott returns to the desert land he owns, and after being wounded by hired gunman Chick Chance, he is befriended by rancher Andrew Naab and his son, Marvin. Naab's daughter, Marian, ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1938
68 Minutes
Barry Drake
Donald Woods Patricia Ellis Grace Bradley Edward Brophy William Demarest Craig Reynolds Andrew Tombes Bert Roach Leon Weaver Edwin Maxwell Granville Bates
A man has the knack for finding stolen items. Then returns them to the insurance company. Finds some fake jewels and turns them in. Antics ensue.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1938
70 Minutes
Benjamin Franklin Butts
Donald Woods Nan Grey Berton Churchill
Caesar Kluck, soft-drink magnate, is found dead in the office of a big radio-broadcasting company. Benjamin Franklin Butts, a sound engineer, discovers that Kluck met his death from ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1936
65 Minutes
James `'Jim'` Larrabie
Jim Larrabie and Bob Gordon, two reporters, are sent to prison on bogus charges after exposing the corrupt practices of J.W. Moett and Dudley. The two suffer extreme cruelty due to the sadistic behavior of the warden and guards.
Adventure
USA
1947
67 Minutes
Father Matthew
The bond between the boy and his dog is the only thing that could bring the boy out of his shell. The plot moves along as Villains plan to steal the dog.
Adventure
USA
1941
227 Minutes
Captain Bob Dayton, John Kane
Donald Woods Ray Taylor Robert Armstrong Billy Halop Edward Ciannelli Kathryn Adams Jacqueline Dalya
Enemy spies try to steal a new fighter plane.
Drama
USA
1947
74 Minutes
Donald Woods Gloria Warren Shirley O'Hara Byron Foulger Paul Newlan Anthony Warde Monte Blue Claire DuBrey David Leonard Gordon Clark Gilbert Galvan
crime boss governor girlfriend father priest frontiersman melodramatic suspenseful thrilling small town house wagon mine paradise valley crime forced marriage gold old west law and order escape
Mendoza ruthlessly controls the valley of San Fernando and his men guard the only entrance. When Mendoza announces he will marry Michael's girl friend Maria, Michael plans an escape. He ... See full summary »
Adventure
1949
65 Minutes
Maj. Tom Blake
An American major (Donald Woods) goes to Tripoli, where well-informed pirates have been raiding merchant ships.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1934
64 Minutes
Margaret Lindsay Donald Woods Guy Kibbee Glenda Farrell Hugh Herbert Frank McHugh Roscoe Ates Ruth Donnelly Hobart Cavanaugh
Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.
Drama
USA
1937
59 Minutes
Dr. Steven Brace
Jean Muir Donald Woods Gordon Oliver Joe King Henry Kolker Gordon Hart Joseph Crehan Louise Stanley Robert Paige Cyrus W. Kendall
Steven and Jerry are both young doctors, rivals professionally and for Paula Norland. Jerry lets Steven take the blame for a mistake he made and sending him to prison. Steven gets redemption, after release, during a storm at sea.
Drama
USA
1934
73 Minutes
Jean Muir Donald Woods Edith Lowry William Janney David Landau Dorothy Peterson Dorothy Appleby Arthur Hohl
polish man immigrant farmer father young man sweetheart melodramatic passionate touching maine farmhouse rural community party barn family poverty farming romance immigrants city vs. country
Drama following the lives of an immigrant farm family in Maine.
Western
USA
1953
77 Minutes
Matt Daggett
Chuck Courtney Donald Woods Bobbie Anderson Boyd Davis Leif Erickson Milton Kibbee Fred Kohler Jr. Dolores Prest Glenn Strange Lucille Thompson Dan White
When a young man agrees to race a wonderful quarter horse, a crooked, wife abusing, gambler has plans to sabotage the contest.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1937
66 Minutes
Claire Trevor Donald Woods Alan Dinehart Alan Baxter Murray Alper Spencer Charters Maurice Cass Irving Bacon George Chandler
When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Masked Countess", because he estranged husband is a crook.
Musical
USA
1935
87 Minutes
Sid Barnett
Irene Dunne Donald Woods Hugh Herbert Ned Sparks Joseph Cawthorn Louis Calhern Winifred Shaw
In 1898, composer Sid Barnett manages to get his sweetheart, Adeline the beer-garden singer, to sing the lead in his new Broadway operetta; this infuriates Elysia, the erstwhile star. But ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
1961
80 Minutes
Johnny Cash Donald Woods Cay Forester Pamela Mason Midge Ware Vic Tayback Ron Howard Merle Travis
bank robber criminal police officer banker hostage wife raw tense melodramatic bank family home yard office crime scene kidnapping bank robbery partnership crime police work hostage situation
A murderous thug and his cohorts take a bank executive's wife hostage after their robbery plans go awry.
Comedy
USA
1939
71 Minutes
Dennis "Denny" Lindsay
Lupe Velez Leon Errol Donald Woods Linda Hayes Donald MacBride Edward Raquello Elisabeth Risdon Ward Bond
advertising executive singer uncle fiancée wealthy man wrestler spirited playful mexico new york city baseball field wrestling ring radio station nightclub singing culture clash advertising radio jealousy engagement
An advertising executive goes to Mexico looking for talent and finds a hot-tempered singer, who goes to New York to stay with him, his aunt and uncle, and decides to steal him from his fiancée.
Drama
USA
1939
68 Minutes
Jeffrey Martin
Lucille Ball Patric Knowles Donald Woods Frieda Inescort Inez Courtney Leona Maricle Frances Mercer Helen Whitney Bourne George Andre Beranger Kay Sutton Ann Evers
Denny drops fiancée Jean and marries Flora who is worth ten million dollars. When Jean is fired from her job she decides to market the face cream she invented. She goes to Jeffrey and he ... See full summary »
Adventure
USA
1936
60 Minutes
Eric Blake
Humphrey Bogart Margaret Lindsay Donald Woods Paul Graetz E.E. Clive Gordon Hart George Regas Sidney Bracey Tetsu Komai Miki Morita Houseley Stevenson
husband wife detective fugitive doctor ship captain shocking spectacular moving tropical island ship underwater beach pacific ocean friendship marriage love triangle fugitives mysterious strangers shipwreck
In the South Seas, Val Stevens and Lucille Gordon are getting married when a ship goes down offshore. Val rescues Captain Deever and passenger Eric Blacke. Later Eric saves Val from an ... See full summary »
Biography
USA
1944
86 Minutes
Dr. Hans Traeger, MD
Claudia Drake Paul Andor Donald Woods H.B. Warner Gloria Stuart Beryl Wallace Sigrid Gurie Ralph Morgan
nazi actress wife father-in-law landlord doctor patriotic melodramatic striking nazi germany berlin vienna theater house joseph goebbels nazism propaganda loneliness power blackmail
Young Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, an unsuccessful playwright, is forced, in order to support himself, to take a position as tutor in the household of Herr Quandt. His first attempt to force ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1943
73 Minutes
Dr. Michael
A doctor and his staff in a hospital on the Philippine island of Corregidor shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor try to treat the sick, injured and wounded as American and Filipino troops desperately try to beat back a ferocious Japanese attack.
Comedy
1940
76 Minutes
Dennis `'Denny'` Lindsay
Lupe Velez Leon Errol Donald Woods Elisabeth Risdon Cecil Kellaway Linda Hayes Lydia Bilbrook
Carmelita (Lupe Velez) heads for Reno, followed by her husband (Donald Woods) and Uncle Matt/Lord Epping (Leon Errol).
Biography
USA
1936
85 Minutes
Dr. Jean Martel
Paul Muni Josephine Hutchinson Anita Louise Donald Woods Fritz Leiber Henry O'Neill Porter Hall Akim Tamiroff Walter Kingsford Iphigenie Castiglioni
scientist chemist doctor gutsy rousing endearing french countryside france louis pasteur science cure disease underdog quest rivalry 19th century
Singing star loses his voice, recuperates in the country, meets aspiring playwright and her daughter.
Horror
USA
1960
88 Minutes
Cyrus Zorba
Charles Herbert Jo Morrow Martin Milner Donald Woods Rosemary DeCamp Margaret Hamilton John Van Dreelen
ghost witch father mother daughter son frightful creative eerie thrilling mansion haunted house ghosts witchcraft haunting hidden treasure inheritance fear adventure discovery
A family inherits what proves to be a haunted house, but a special pair of goggles allows them to see their ghostly tormentors.
Musical, Comedy
1945
98 Minutes
Monte Rossen
Danny Kaye Virginia Mayo Vera-Ellen Donald Woods S.Z. Sakall Allen Jenkins Edward Brophy Steve Cochran Otto Kruger Natalie Schafer
librarian entertainer gangster girlfriend dancer thug witty madcap nightclub backstage city ghosts possession siblings murder performance investigation revenge love transformation
When a brash young nightclub entertainer is murdered, his ghost urges his studious twin brother to seek revenge.
Sci-Fi
USA
1953
80 Minutes
Capt. Phil Jackson
Paul Hubschmid Paula Raymond Cecil Kellaway Kenneth Tobey Donald Woods Jack Pennick Lee Van Cleef Steve Brodie Ross Elliot Ray Hyke Mary Hill
professor researcher doctor scientist corporal colonel campy outlandish spectacular thrilling arctic canada maine massachusetts new york city coney island nuclear weapons testing dinosaurs uncontrollable experiment radiation
A ferocious dinosaur awakened by an Arctic atomic test terrorizes the North Atlantic and, ultimately, New York City.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1935
68 Minutes
Carl
Warren William Margaret Lindsay Errol Flynn Claire Dodd Donald Woods Allen Jenkins Philip Reed Winifred Shaw Warren Hymer Olin Howland Henry Kolker
perry mason friend ex-husband husband detective attorney engaging suspenseful law office mortuary apartment police station dinner party house law bigamy blackmail murder investigation accidental death
Perry interrupts his vacation plans when an ex-girlfriend, now newly married, asks him to help her with murder and bigamy charges.
Drama
USA
1943
114 Minutes
David Farrelly
Bette Davis Paul Lukas Geraldine Fitzgerald Lucile Watson Beulah Bondi George Coulouris Donald Woods Henry Daniell Donald Buka Eric Roberts Janis Wilson
engineer wife count son daughter mother tense melodramatic washington, d.c. family home blackmail rebellion nazism rivalry discovery sacrifice 1940s
A German-born engineer, his American wife and their children travel from Mexico to the United States to visit her family but their plans are complicated by a Romanian count.
Crime, Drama
USA
1949
94 Minutes
Bob Herkimer
Van Johnson Arlene Dahl Gloria DeHaven Tom Drake Leon Ames John McIntire Donald Woods Norman Lloyd
police detective wife killer stripper captain dark suspenseful tense los angeles police station household nightclub crime ring murder case investigation marital problems deception mystery pursuit revenge
While his wife is urging him to quit the force, a Los Angeles homicide detective hunts for the killer responsible for the murder of his ex-partner, who might have been on the take with local bookies.
Adventure
USA
1935
77 Minutes
Charles Ford
James Cagney Margaret Lindsay Ricardo Cortez Lili Damita Fred Kohler George E. Stone Donald Woods
sailor saloon owner newspaper owner editor politician kidnapper brash melodramatic fiery ship san francisco saloon newsroom street ambition city life power struggle reform murder adventure
After a roustabout sailer avoids being shanghaied in 1852 San Francisco, his audacity helps him to arise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
Drama, History
USA
1935
128 Minutes
Charles Darnay
Ronald Colman Elizabeth Allan Edna May Oliver Blanche Yurka Reginald Owen Basil Rathbone Henry B. Walthall Donald Woods Walter Catlett Fritz Leiber H.B. Warner
lawyer wealthy man pretty woman emotional melodramatic passionate england london france paris social change love triangle french revolution friendship injustice love forbidden love quest rescue 1780s
A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amongst the turmoil of the French Revolution.
Biography
USA
1945
90 Minutes
Dennis Morgan Dane Clark Raymond Massey Andrea King Alan Hale John Ridgely Stanley Ridges Donald Woods Craig Stevens Warren Douglas Mark Stevens
general pilot colonel airman engaging spectacular thrilling texas india china china air force world war ii flying determination training adventure pursuit underdog 1940s
During WW2, American volunteer pilots are stationed in China where, as part of the Flying Tigers unit, they dog-fight against Japanese warplanes.
Drama
USA
1942
108 Minutes
Penn Sutherland Gaylord
Barbara Stanwyck George Brent Geraldine Fitzgerald Donald Crisp Byron Barr Nancy Coleman Gene Lockhart Larry Simms Donald Woods Grant Mitchell
soldier father daughter sister real estate developer husband emotional powerful spirited mansion courtroom vermont father/daughter relationship marriage of convenience world war i orphans land ownership nobility growing up rivalry
Three wealthy orphans attempt to defend their ownership of their family's property, but financial and romantic problems set in.
Musical
USA
1940
94 Minutes
Fred Johnson
Bing Crosby Gloria Jean El Brendel Charles Winninger Allyn Joslyn Claire Dodd Moroni Olsen Nana Bryant Donald Woods Kathryn Adams
When a fellow bridge builder is killed in an accident, two of his co-workers bring his now orphaned daughter to New York to be adopted by relatives.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1950
113 Minutes
Tippy Carpenter
Bing Crosby Nancy Olson Charles Coburn Robert Stack Tom Ewell Ruth Hussey Ida Moore Charles Kemper Donald Woods Richard Haydn
A golf-crazy songwriter tries to avoid the long, solitary hours of concentration needed to produce a hit musical. His producer and his secretary conspire to get him back on track.
Romance
USA
1936
140 Minutes
Vincent Nolte
Fredric March Olivia de Havilland Gale Sondergaard Edmund Gwenn Claude Rains Anita Louise Louis Hayward Steffi Duna Billy Mauch Donald Woods Akim Tamiroff
hero pretty woman father mother grandfather melodramatic emotional passionate italy europe france africa cuba abandonment illegitimate child expedition romance adventure discovery quest
In 18th-century Italy, an orphan's debt to the man who raised him threatens to separate him forever from the woman he loves.
Western
USA
1969
128 Minutes
John Wayne Glen Campbell Kim Darby Jeremy Slate Robert Duvall Dennis Hopper Alfred Ryder Strother Martin Jeff Corey Ron Soble John Fiedler
marshal tomboy texas ranger criminal doctor attorney amusing thrilling fort smith, ark. indian territory wilderness cabin store murder law enforcement teamwork reward revenge pursuit quest
A drunken, hard-nosed U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger help a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer in Indian Territory.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1945
117 Minutes
Rosalind Russell Jack Carson Robert Hutton Ray Collins Kathleen Lockhart Cora Sue Collins Ann Todd Andy Clyde Arthur Shields Helene Thimig Greta Grandstedt
businesswoman banker son husband father mother melodramatic emotional family home college office new england marriage self-respect infidelity business mother/child relationship growing up love quest
In the early 1900's (not the 1920s)