List of the best Franchot Tone movies: Five Graves to Cairo(1943), Phantom Lady(1944), The Unguarded Hour(1936), Trail of the Vigilantes(1940), Between Two Women(1937), Pilot No. 5(1943), Love Is a Headache(1938), Uncle Vanya(1958), Lost Honeymoon(1947), Dangerous(1935), The Lives of a Bengal Lancer(1935), Because of Him(1946) ... ...
7.3/10
War
USA
1943
96 Minutes
Cpl. John J. Bramble, Paul Davos
Franchot Tone Anne Baxter Erich von Stroheim Akim Tamiroff Peter Van Eyck Fortunio Bonanova Konstantin Shayne Fred Nurney Miles Mander Leslie Denison Ian Keith
soldier innkeeper clerk field marshal erwin rommel tense thrilling engaging hotel desert cairo war espionage dangerous assignment world war ii adventure sacrifice pursuit 1940s
In the North African campaign a British straggler manages to pass himself off as a waiter at the hotel commandeered as Rommel's headquarters. He has thoughts of assassinating Rommel but his cover may have an even better use.
7.2/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1944
87 Minutes
Jack Marlow
Franchot Tone Ella Raines Alan Curtis Aurora Miranda Thomas Gomez Fay Helm Elisha Cook Jr. Andrew Tombes Regis Toomey Joseph Crehan Doris Lloyd
husband friend secretary detective drummer stranger suspenseful gripping tense new york city bar office apartment nightclub murder false accusations investigation devotion mystery pursuit
A devoted secretary risks her life to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his selfish wife.
6.5/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1936
90 Minutes
Sir Alan Dearden
Franchot Tone Loretta Young Roland Young Lewis Stone Dudley Digges Henry Daniell Jessie Ralph Robert Greig E.E. Clive Wallis Clark John Buckler
An ambitious barrister and his wife are targeted by blackmailers. In trying to save her husband, the wife becomes involved in a murder case her husband is trying. For his part, the husband's actions make him a suspect in a related murder.
6.4/10
Comedy, Western
USA
1940
78 Minutes
Franchot Tone Broderick Crawford Warren William Andy Devine Mischa Auer Porter Hall Peggy Moran Samuel S. Hinds Charles Trowbridge Paul Fix Harry Cording
A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang.
6.2/10
Romance
USA
1937
88 Minutes
Allan Meighan
Franchot Tone Maureen O'Sullivan Virginia Bruce Leonard Penn Cliff Edwards Janet Beecher Charley Grapewin Helen Troy Grace Ford June Clayworth Edward Norris
Allen Meighan, an intern, assures himself residency at 'General Hospital', when he saves the life of a man trapped in an explosion. Allen is in love with student nurse, Claire Donahue, and ... See full summary »
6.2/10
Drama
USA
1943
70 Minutes
George Braynor Collins
Franchot Tone Marsha Hunt Gene Kelly Van Johnson Alan Baxter Dick Simmons Steven Geray Howard Freeman Frank Ferguson William Tannen Peter Lawford
In March 1942, on the island of Java, Indonesia, a Dutch major selects a pilot for a dangerous mission from the five U.S. Army airmen under his command. While waiting for word from the pilot, the others tell his life story to the major.
6.2/10
Comedy
USA
1938
68 Minutes
Peter Lawrence
Franchot Tone Gladys George Mickey Rooney Ralph Morgan Jessie Ralph Barnett Parker Ted Healy Frank Jenks Virginia Weidler Fay Holden Julius Tannen
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill, attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans.
6.0/10
Drama
USA
1958
98 Minutes
Director
Franchot Tone George Voskovec Clarence Derwent
A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother still ... See full summary »
5.7/10
Comedy
USA
1947
71 Minutes
Johnny Gray
When an Englishwoman dies, leaving behind two children, her devoted friend decides to take the children to find the woman's husband, an American serviceman who had returned to the USA. But ... See full summary »
6.9/10
Drama
USA
1935
78 Minutes
Bette Davis Franchot Tone Margaret Lindsay Alison Skipworth John Eldredge Dick Foran
actress architect fiancé husband bleak emotional connecticut new york city comeback alcoholism show business love triangle sacrifice transformation love 1930s
An alcoholic actress who is considered a dangerous jinx is rehabilitated, but she then shows that she's as dangerous as ever.
6.8/10
Adventure
USA
1935
109 Minutes
Gary Cooper Franchot Tone Richard Cromwell Guy Standing C. Aubrey Smith Monte Blue Kathleen Burke Colin Tapley Douglas Dumbrille Akim Tamiroff Jameson Thomas
soldier army colonel spy british soldier father son gutsy inspiring thrilling rousing military base india fort desert armed conflict bravery islam war military life father/son relationship
Jack Kells's bandit gang, the Border Legion, is run out of a mining town and regroups in Utah. News of a gold strike in Arizona City leads the gang there, and they execute stagecoach ... See full summary »
6.8/10
Musical
USA
1946
88 Minutes
Paul Taylor
A young woman who wants to break into the theater schemes to become the protege of a famous Broadway star.
6.6/10
Musical, Romance
USA
1934
69 Minutes
Douglas Hall
Constance Bennett Franchot Tone Tullio Carminati Helen Westley Andrew Tombes Russ Brown Hobart Cavanaugh Georges Renavent Fuzzy Knight Russ Columbo Connee Boswell
A singer marries a famous composer, and after a while she gets the itch to go back on the stage. However, her husband won't let her. When she hears that a popular French singer named "... See full summary »
6.5/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1944
90 Minutes
A woman returns to the USA after a German U-boat sank her ship, and finds out that someone wants to kill her for her inheritance.
6.3/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1937
84 Minutes
Katharine Hepburn Franchot Tone Fay Bainter Eric Blore Cora Witherspoon Estelle Winwood
sister doctor neighbor spinster student soldier amusing emotional charming household school ballroom england siblings courtship napoleonic wars homecoming deception disguise love
In the 1810s, an old maid poses as her own niece in order to teach her onetime beau a lesson.
6.3/10
Comedy
USA
1941
85 Minutes
Mark Willows
A chorus girl, Gloria Winters, is overjoyed that wealthy young Randy Bradford is so eager to marry her, he's asked her to elope. Before they can leave, Randy is contacted by Mark Willows, ... See full summary »
6.3/10
Musical, Romance
USA
1936
85 Minutes
emperor princess sister queen father love interest spirited heartwarming royal palace vienna inn love wedding royalty arranged marriage deception family adventure rivalry pursuit
Princess is destined to marry the Emperor, until her sister steps in.
6.2/10
Drama
USA
1937
103 Minutes
Joan Crawford Franchot Tone Robert Young Billie Burke Reginald Owen Lynne Carver George Zucco Mary Philips Paul Porcasi Dickie Moore Frank Puglia
singer count aristocrat fiancée clerk maid striking charming cheeky emotional budapest, hungary trieste, italy ballroom hotel street apartment impersonation wealth aristocracy rags to riches
A lounge singer is sent by a count to pose as a wealthy socialite.
6.1/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1937
74 Minutes
Myrna Loy Franchot Tone Rosalind Russell Walter Pidgeon Nana Bryant Leonard Penn John Miljan William Stack Oscar O'Shea Marie Blake May Beatty
young woman heiress playboy mother illustrator friend airy witty melodramatic mushy new york city wedding office boxing match unrequited love marrying for money love triangle infidelity mother/daughter relationship jealousy
Mimi has tried everything to become the bride to Alan, but he chooses Elizabeth instead. The ironic part is that Mimi's mother writes romance novels and neither one has had any luck with ... See full summary »
6.1/10
Drama
USA
1934
90 Minutes
Richard Griard, 1825, Richard Girard, 1914
Madeleine Carroll Franchot Tone Reginald Denny Sig Ruman Louise Dresser Raul Roulien Stepin Fetchit Lumsden Hare
Richard Girard is part of a New Orleans family working closely with the English Warburtons. When Richard meets Mary Warburton she is engaged to Erik von Gerardt. He does wed Mary but their time in America is financially difficult.
6.0/10
Comedy
USA
1947
82 Minutes
William Weldon
Lucille Ball Franchot Tone Edward Everett Horton Mikhail Rasumny Gene Lockhart Nana Bryant
advertising executive wife mad scientist boss mayor hilarious melodramatic frenetic office travel agency family home baseball field work-life balance marriage battle of sexes technology honeymoon advertising transformation love
A scientist invents a formula that removes old, thinning hair and replaces it with thick, new hair. Complications ensue.
6.0/10
Comedy
USA
1947
74 Minutes
Shirley Temple Franchot Tone Guy Madison Lina Romay Gene Lockhart Corinna Mura Grant Mitchell Julio Villarreal Manuel Arvide Jose R. Goula
teen girl corporal consul fiancée doctor judge lighthearted amusing mexico city consulate hotel dance floor boat swimming pool americans abroad adolescence engagement diplomacy boats jealousy
A prospective bride and groom have misadventures in Mexico City.
5.8/10
Mystery & Thriller
France|USA
1949
82 Minutes
Charles Laughton Franchot Tone Burgess Meredith Robert Hutton Jean Wallace Patricia Roc Wilfrid Hyde-White Belita
inspector student niece suspect suspenseful confident engaging gripping paris police station eiffel tower detective murder contract killing framed for murder pursuit mystery 1920s
French police inspector Maigret investigates the murder of a rich Paris widow and ends up chasing the killer up the Eiffel Tower's girders.
Drama
1937
94 Minutes
Spencer Tracy Franchot Tone Gladys George Edgar Dearing Mary Treen Cliff Edwards Charles Trowbridge Joe Sawyer George Chandler Gavin Gordon Ernest Whitman
clerk friend soldier nurse judge gangster dark gritty emotional carnival battlefield jail courtroom new york city veterans love triangle world war i unlikely criminal prison break transformation
A circus man (Spencer Tracy) tries to save his buddy (Franchot Tone) who turns gangster after fighting in World War I.
Romance
1941
95 Minutes
Richard Calvert
Deanna Durbin Franchot Tone Walter Brennan Robert Stack Robert Benchley Helen Broderick
teen girl teen boy principal older man father businessman melodramatic winsome charming endearing new york state house school office town love triangle scandal parenthood may-december romance young love
A high-school principal's teenage daughter (Deanna Durbin) acts out her crush on an older man (Franchot Tone) in New York.
Drama
1936
99 Minutes
Jean Harlow Franchot Tone Cary Grant Benita Hume Lewis Stone Reginald Mason Inez Courtney Greta Meyer David Clyde Elspeth Dudgeon Tyler Brooke
showgirl inventor aviator businesswoman spy engineer melodramatic emotional thrilling passionate paris london cabaret hospital front lines funeral world war i love triangle class distinctions airplane crash
Thinking a German spy has killed her new husband (Franchot Tone), a chorus girl (Jean Harlow) flees to Paris and marries a pilot (Cary Grant).
7.7/10
Adventure
USA
1935
132 Minutes
Byam
Charles Laughton Clark Gable Franchot Tone Herbert Mundin Eddie Quillan Dudley Digges Donald Crisp Movita Henry Stephenson Spring Byington
fletcher christian sailor native capt. william bligh captain tense engaging spirited hms bounty england tahiti pitcairn island sailors mutiny tyrants rebellion adventure revenge escape 1780s
First mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1788 mutiny.
7.2/10
Romance
USA
1938
98 Minutes
Otto Koster
Robert Taylor Margaret Sullavan Franchot Tone Robert Young Guy Kibbee Lionel Atwill Henry Hull George Zucco Charley Grapewin Monty Woolley Spencer Charters
soldier dying person doctor mistress sad charming emotional germany inn restaurant world war i tuberculosis automotive industry male bonding love sacrifice 1930s
The close friendship of three German soldiers is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman, who is dying of tuberculosis.
7.1/10
Comedy
USA
1933
95 Minutes
Gifford Middleton
Jean Harlow Lee Tracy Franchot Tone Frank Morgan Una Merkel Pat O'Brien C. Aubrey Smith
movie star publicist father brother millionaire emotional amusing hollywood, calif. fame romance exploitation deception acting love transformation 1930s
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
7.0/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1933
71 Minutes
Thomas 'Tom' Mannering Jr.
Loretta Young Ricardo Cortez Franchot Tone Andy Devine Una Merkel Warren Hymer Ivan F. Simpson Harold Huber
young woman criminal lawyer socialite friend clerk melodramatic gutsy gripping tense courtroom reform school jail gambling house law office apartment murder case poverty bad luck crime
An abused orphan sinks into a life of crime.
6.8/10
Drama
USA
1934
95 Minutes
Michael Alderson
Joan Crawford Gene Raymond Franchot Tone Esther Ralston Edward Arnold Earl Oxford Jean Dixon Leo G. Carroll Akim Tamiroff Zelda Sears Helen Ware
A working girl's fortunes improve when she marries into money, but happiness is not so easily won.
6.8/10
Musical
USA
1933
92 Minutes
Tod Newton
Joan Crawford Clark Gable Franchot Tone Nelson Eddy May Robson Winnie Lightner Robert Benchley Ted Healy The Three Stooges Gloria Foy Maynard Holmes
burlesque dancer playboy director assistant grandmother singer heartwarming emotional new york city broadway theater dance love triangle jealousy show business love pursuit 1930s
An attractive dancer is rescued from jail by a rich man, who helps her to have her first big opportunity at a musical play on Broadway.
6.6/10
Comedy
USA
1938
69 Minutes
Robert `'Bob'` Hanson
Janet Gaynor Robert Montgomery Franchot Tone Guy Kibbee Claire Dodd Reginald Owen Cora Witherspoon Emma Dunn Charley Grapewin Lester Matthews
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
6.4/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1951
113 Minutes
Wilbur Stanley
reporter girlfriend fiancé cousin orphan lighthearted amusing paris boston orphanage love triangle adoption marriage love rivalry 1950s
Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.
6.4/10
Comedy
USA
1948
85 Minutes
Roger Sanford
Cary Grant Betsy Drake Franchot Tone Diana Lynn Alan Mowbray Elisabeth Risdon Richard Gaines Harry Hayden Chick Chandler Leon Belasco Fred Essler
store clerk doctor wealthy man friend amusing lighthearted san francisco department store household unrequited love obsession deception marriage love pursuit 1940s
A willful woman concocts an elaborate scheme to trap a handsome pediatrician into marriage.
6.1/10
Drama
USA
1933
85 Minutes
Warren Foster
Alice Brady Maureen O'Sullivan Franchot Tone Phillips Holmes Ted Healy Russell Hardie C. Henry Gordon Alan Edwards Ben Alexander
stage mother stage manager lover daughter actress artist melodramatic touching family home broadway theater boston new york city hospital boat mother/daughter relationship family dysfunction ambition deception show business blackmail
A vaudeville star has to leave her daughter with her dead husband's stuffy Boston parents while she makes a living. But when the daughter shows some talent, the mother become a stage mother... See full summary »
6.0/10
Romance
USA
1935
81 Minutes
Jim
Joan Crawford Robert Montgomery Franchot Tone Edna May Oliver Charles Ruggles Arthur Treacher Gail Patrick Vivienne Osborne Joan Fontaine David Horsley
A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.
5.9/10
War
USA
1933
110 Minutes
Ronnie
Joan Crawford Gary Cooper Franchot Tone Louise Closser Hale Rollo Lloyd Hilda Vaughn Robert Young
aristocrat neighbor brother soldier american pilot powerful moving patriotic tender kent, england estate france military hospital world war i love triangle home front heroism engagement promises
During WWI, two officers, one a pilot and the other in the navy, compete for the same beautiful young woman.
Comedy
1936
80 Minutes
Barnabus Pells
Joan Crawford Clark Gable Franchot Tone Reginald Owen Mona Barrie Ivan Lebedeff Charles Judels William Demarest
heiress prince journalist millionaire wife madcap lighthearted london paris new york city airplane train journalism wedding wealth romance love adventure rivalry 1930s
Rival newsmen (Clark Gable, Franchot Tone) and an American heiress (Joan Crawford) get mixed up with spies in Europe.
Comedy
1934
75 Minutes
T.R. Paige Jr.
Jean Harlow Lionel Barrymore Franchot Tone Lewis Stone Patsy Kelly Alan Mowbray Clara Blandick Russell Hopton Hale Hamilton Henry Kolker Nat Pendleton
chorus girl wealthy man millionaire son best friend married man playful spirited amusing missouri beer hall new york city stage mansion yacht gold digging father/son relationship suicide frame-up seduction
An innkeeper's daughter (Jean Harlow) runs away from home and meets a Palm Beach millionaire (Lionel Barrymore) and his son (Franchot Tone).
6.4/10
Drama
USA
1933
87 Minutes
Hartley "Beek" Beekman
Walter Huston Arthur Byron Karen Morley Franchot Tone Dickie Moore C. Henry Gordon David Landau Samuel S. Hinds William Pawley Jean Parker Claire DuBrey
president chief of staff secret police secretary of state lover gangster creative dark incredible white house washington, d.c. politics dictatorship crime visions divine intervention great depression transformation quest rise
A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.
5.6/10
Drama, History
USA
1936
102 Minutes
John Eaton
Joan Crawford Robert Taylor Lionel Barrymore Franchot Tone Melvyn Douglas James Stewart Alison Skipworth Louis Calhern Beulah Bondi Melville Cooper Sidney Toler
president best friend senator sailor adviser gutsy spirited washington, d.c. inn peggy eaton andrew jackson loyalty politics scandal rivalry sacrifice love 1830s
President Andrew Jackson's friendship with an innkeeper's daughter spells trouble for them both.
Action
1965
100 Minutes
Baron Frood
John Forsythe Senta Berger Jane Wyatt Pamela Franklin Franchot Tone Leslie Nielsen George Kennedy Harlan Warde
A murderer tracks down three orphans who have unwittingly gained possession of incriminating evidence.
7.7/10
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
USA
1962
140 Minutes
The President
Henry Fonda Charles Laughton Don Murray Walter Pidgeon Peter Lawford Gene Tierney Franchot Tone Lew Ayres Burgess Meredith Paul Ford George Grizzard
politician senator president fiery tense washington, d.c. politics political intrigue ambition competition discovery rivalry 1960s
Senate investigation into the President's newly nominated Secretary of State, gives light to a secret from the past, which may not only ruin the candidate, but the President's character as well.
Crime, Drama
1968
101 Minutes
Ambassador Townsend
Rod Taylor Christopher Plummer Lilli Palmer Camilla Sparv Daliah Lavi Clive Revill Franchot Tone
assassin spy police sergeant commissioner thrilling suspenseful sultry engaging confident london australia political intrigue mission murder investigation rivalry quest pursuit 1960s
An Australian policeman (Rod Taylor) faces assassins when sent to London to arrest an official (Christopher Plummer) for murder.
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