List of the best Fern Emmett movies: Terror of the Plains(1934), Motive for Revenge(1935), Dead Men Walk(1943), Assassin of Youth(1937), The Devil Diamond(1936), Texas Terror(1935), Saga of Death Valley(1939), Overland Stage Raiders(1938), Riders of Destiny(1933), The Oregon Trail(1936), Desperate Trails(1939), Love Crazy(1941) ... ...
Western
USA
1934
57 Minutes
Rose
Tom Tyler Roberta Gale Fern Emmett Nelson McDowell Frank Rice Ralph Lewis Robert Walker
The man that framed Tom Lansing's father for murder is at a ghost town where no one is allowed in or out. Tom gets in by posing as an escaping outlaw with his sidekick Banty posing as the ... 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 »
Horror
USA
1943
67 Minutes
Kate
George Zucco Mary Carlisle Nedrick Young Dwight Frye Fern Emmett Hal Price Sam Flint Robert Strange Al St. John Forrest Taylor
The twin of a kindly small-town physician returns from the grave for vengeance against his brother, who secretly killed him because the twin served Satan.
Drama
USA
1937
80 Minutes
Henrietta Frisbee
Luana Walters Arthur Gardner Dorothy Short Earle Dwire Fern Emmett
A high-school girl gets involved with a ring of teenage marijuana smokers and starts down the road to ruin. A reporter poses as a soda jerk to infiltrate the gang of teen dope fiends.
Crime, Drama
USA
1936
120 Minutes
Miss Wallace
Frankie Darro Kane Richmond June Gale Robert Fiske Charles Prince Edward Earle Fern Emmett Byron Foulger George Cleveland Burr Caruth Jack Ingram
A group of thugs tries to steal the cursed title gem from a jeweler who has been hired to cut it into small, saleable pieces.
Western
USA
1935
58 Minutes
Aunt Martha Hubbard
John Wayne Lucile Browne Roy Mason George "Gabby" Hayes Jay Wilsey Bert Dillard Bobby Nelson Fern Emmett John Ince Henry Roquemore Jack Duffy
foreman daughter sheriff outlaw native american best friend gutsy engaging ranch town sheriff's office house dance hall texas false accusations redemption theft gunfight cattle rustling friendship
Sheriff John Higgins quits and goes into prospecting after he thinks he has killed his best friend in shooting it out with robbers. He encounters his dead buddy's daughter, who has come ... See full summary »
Western
USA
1939
55 Minutes
Miss Minnie
Roy Rogers George "Gabby" Hayes Don "Red" Barry Doris Day Frank M. Thomas Jack Ingram Hal Taliaferro Lew Kelly Fern Emmett
In the opening scene Roy as a boy philosophizes about marriage to his girl friend then sees his dad gunned down by bad guys who want to drive out the ranchers by cutting off their water.
Western
USA
1938
55 Minutes
Ma Hawkins
John Wayne Ray Corrigan Max Terhune Louise Brooks Anthony Marsh John Archer Gordon Hart Olin Francis Fern Emmett Henry Otho George Sherwood
cowboy gunslinger pilot miner gangster capitalist rousing spirited engaging mining town bus airplane american west frontier theft law and order banditry air travel gold protection
After gold shipments from a mining town have been hijacked, the three Mesquiteers buy a plane to fly the gold out. The owner of the shipping line brings in Eastern gangsters to thwart them.
Western
USA
1933
56 Minutes
Bather's Wife
John Wayne Cecilia Parker George "Gabby" Hayes Forrest Taylor Al St. John Heinie Conklin Earle Dwire Lafe McKee Fern Emmett Yakima Canutt Hal Price
government agent young woman father stagecoach driver mastermind henchman melodramatic rousing gutsy thrilling stagecoach american west valley ranch misunderstanding robbery gunfight land grab frontier life ranchers
Bad guy Kincaid controls the local water supply and plans to do in the other ranchers. Government agent Saunders shows up undercover to do in Kincaid and win the heart of one of his victims Fay Denton.
Western
USA
1936
59 Minutes
Minnie
John Wayne Ann Rutherford Joe Girard Yakima Canutt Frank Rice E.H. Calvert Ben Hendricks Jr. Harry Harvey Fern Emmett
U.S. Army Captain John Delmont takes a leave of absence to find out what happened to his missing father. Later he leads a wagon train to California and goes after the bad guys involved in his father's disappearance.
Western
USA
1939
58 Minutes
Mrs. Plunkett
Johnny Mack Brown Bob Baker Fuzzy Knight Frances Robinson Russell Simpson Clarence Wilson Charles Stevens Ralph Dunn Horace Murphy Fern Emmett Ed Cassidy
A young boy helps a marshal in his battle against outlaws.
Romance
USA
1941
97 Minutes
William Powell Myrna Loy Gail Patrick Jack Carson Florence Bates Sidney Blackmer Vladimir Sokoloff Kathleen Lockhart Sig Ruman Donald MacBride Sara Haden
architect wife mother-in-law artist lawyer wild playful apartment insane asylum love triangle misunderstanding divorce jealousy feigned insanity love 1940s
A wife suspecting infidelity starts divorce proceedings, so the husband pretends to be insane in order to delay the divorce and clear up the misunderstanding.
Biography
USA
1945
113 Minutes
Paul Muni Merle Oberon Cornel Wilde Stephen Bekassy Nina Foch George Coulouris Sig Arno Howard Freeman George Macready Claire DuBrey Frank Puglia
composer soldier musician doctor writer creative bleak fascinating poland paris war illness music political repression frédéric chopin affair love rise 1840s
Biography of Frederic Chopin.
Comedy
USA
1944
81 Minutes
Jon Hall Louise Allbritton Edward Everett Horton Eric Blore Buster Keaton Irene Ryan Rudy Wissler Gerald Perreau Charles Bates Don Davis Florence Lake
inventor daughter millionaire butler bus driver lighthearted endearing san diego household opposites attract money culture clash family inventions love pursuit quest 1940s
A harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father's latest invention, a collapsible life raft.
Adventure
USA
1941
98 Minutes
John Wayne Betty Field Harry Carey James Barton Beulah Bondi Samuel S. Hinds Marjorie Main Ward Bond Marc Lawrence John Qualen Fuzzy Knight
stranger moonshiner daughter son uncle aunt bleak melodramatic fascinating ozark mountains small town forest cabin family helping others rural life superstition suicide father/son relationship revenge
A mysterious but pleasant stranger arrives in the Missouri hills and befriends a young backwoods girl, which doesn't sit well with her moonshiner fiancé who has vowed to find and kill his own father.
Fantasy
USA
1941
107 Minutes
Edward Arnold Walter Huston James Craig Jane Darwell Simone Simon Gene Lockhart John Qualen Frank Conlan Lindy Wade George Cleveland Dawn O'Day
farmer senator devil wife assistant neighbor crafty dark uneasy new hampshire farm town greed corruption debt farming promises friendship temptation pursuit
A nineteenth-century New Hampshire farmer who makes a pact with Satan for economic success enlists Daniel Webster to extract him from his contract.
Comedy
USA
1936
70 Minutes
Roger Pryor Wendy Barrie Claude Gillingwater Andrew Tombes Luis Alberni E.E. Clive John Sheehan Russell Hicks Theodore von Eltz Harry Woods Herbert Rawlinson
Janes Forbes (Barrie) decides to help amnesiac Jack Doe (Pryor) to find the details of his true identity. She doesn't tell anyone she is leaving, which causes her worried father to hire a ... See full summary »
Western
USA
1939
71 Minutes
Randolph Scott Nancy Kelly Cesar Romero Binnie Barnes John Carradine Edward Norris Eddie Foy Jr. Ward Bond Lon Chaney Chris-Pin Martin Joe Sawyer
cowboy wyatt earp criminal gunslinger thrilling intense tombstone, ariz. wild west o.k. corral frontier life law and order old west myths gunfight sacrifice rivalry pursuit 1870s
Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.