List of the best Edmund MacDonald movies: The Lady Confesses(1945), Great Guns(1941), Castle in the Desert(1942), They Made Me a Killer(1946), Black Friday(1940), Flying Tigers(1942), Call of the Canyon(1942), To the Shores of Tripoli(1942) ... ...
Drama
USA
1945
66 Minutes
Lucky Brandon
Mary Beth Hughes Hugh Beaumont Edmund MacDonald Claudia Drake Emmett Vogan Barbara Slater Edward Howard Dewey Robinson Carol Andrews
An estranged wife shows up after a nearly 7 year disappearance to prevent her husband from marrying his new love, and someone kills her.
Comedy
USA
1941
74 Minutes
Hippo
Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy Sheila Ryan Dick Nelson Edmund MacDonald Charles Trowbridge Ludwig Stossel Kane Richmond Mae Marsh Ethel Griffies Paul Harvey
wealthy man gardener chauffeur sergeant photographer aunt madcap cheery mansion training camp photography lab apartment guard house bridge military life wealth servitude impersonation war games romance
Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer will need them now he's drafted.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1942
62 Minutes
Walter Hartford
Sidney Toler Arleen Whelan Douglas Dumbrille Richard Derr Henry Daniell Edmund MacDonald Lenita Lane Ethel Griffies
Charlie Chan investigates apparent poisonings at a mystery mansion in the Mojave Desert.
Crime, Drama
USA
1946
65 Minutes
Jack Conley
Robert Lowery Barbara Britton Frank Albertson Lola Lane James Bush Edmund MacDonald Byron Barr Elisabeth Risdon Ralph Sanford John Harmon Paul Harvey
A young girl tries to prove a man innocent of robbery and murder charges.
Horror
USA
1940
70 Minutes
Frank Miller
Boris Karloff Bela Lugosi Stanley Ridges Anne Nagel Anne Gwynne Virginia Brissac Edmund MacDonald Paul Fix Murray Alper Jack Mulhall Joe King
doctor professor mobster rival wife reporter tense creepy prison office street death row madness brain transplants organized crime murder death sentence mind control revenge pursuit
Dr. Sovac transplants the brain of a gangster into his professor friend's body to save his life, but there is a side effect that causes a dangerous split personality.
War
USA
1942
102 Minutes
"Blackie" Bales
John Wayne John Carroll Anna Lee Paul Kelly Gordon Jones Mae Clarke Addison Richards Edmund MacDonald Bill Shirley Tom Neal Chester Gan
mercenary pilot hero enemy thrilling china military base airplane hangar airplane war battle air raids invasion china quest sacrifice 1930s
Capt. Jim Gordon's command of the famed American mercenary fighter group in China is complicated by the recruitment of an old friend who is a reckless hotshot.
Western
USA
1942
71 Minutes
Thomas McCoy
Smiley Burnette Ruth Terry Thurston Hall Joe Strauch Jr. Cliff Nazarro Dorothea Kent Edmund MacDonald
gene autry cowboy cattle baron cattle rancher radio producer singer rousing spirited positive wild west ranch office business scheme gambling addiction cattle ranchers radio transmissions deception showdown rescue adventure
Gene heads some cattlemen who have been swindled by McCoy. McCoy needed their money to pay off his gambling debt.
Drama
USA
1942
86 Minutes
Butch
John Payne Maureen O'Hara Randolph Scott Minor Watson Nancy Kelly William Tracy Max Rosenbloom Harry Morgan Edmund MacDonald Russell Hicks Margaret Early
rich kid drill instructor nurse father girlfriend general patriotic melodramatic amusing military base mansion road military life legacy father/son relationship respect patriotism class conflict growing up love
Life at the Marine Training Base in San Diego on the eve of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.