List of the best Frank Craven movies: Our Neighbors, the Carters(1939), Harrigan's Kid(1943), City for Conquest(1940), Our Town(1940), Miracles for Sale(1939), The Jack London Story(1943), Pittsburgh(1942), Son of Dracula(1943), Vagabond Lady(1935), You're Only Young Once(1938), In This Our Life(1942), Dangerous Blondes(1943) ... ...
Comedy
USA
1939
83 Minutes
Ellen Carter
The Carter family falls on hard times when Doc Carter loses his drugstore and has to settle for working in a factory. Their friend Bill Hastings offers to take in one of the Carter children in order to ease the burden.
Drama
USA
1943
80 Minutes
Walter Garnet
William Gargan Frank Craven Bobby Readick J. Carrol Naish Jay Ward Douglas Croft Bill Cartledge Irving Lee Selmer Jackson Allen Wood Jim Toney
jockey trainer bookie rival horse breeder retiree spirited heartwarming new york state racetrack stable office barn horse racing egoism maturing wager responsibility quest rivalry
Tom Harrigan raises orphaned Benny McNeil to be a first-rate jockey, but fails to bridle the lad's healthy ego. When Benny receives too many rebukes for unsportsman-like conduct from the ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1940
101 Minutes
`'Old Timer'`
James Cagney Ann Sheridan Frank Craven Donald Crisp Frank McHugh Arthur Kennedy
boxer dancer girlfriend younger brother truck driver composer uplifting gripping gritty melodramatic new york city lower east side carnegie hall boxing ring apartment boxing self-sacrifice aspirations corruption blindness
Danny is a content truck driver, but his girl Peggy shows potential as a dancer and hopes he too can show ambition. Danny acquiesces and pursues boxing to please her, but the two begin to spend more time working than time together.
Drama
USA
1940
90 Minutes
Writer
William Holden Martha Scott Frank Craven Fay Bainter Beulah Bondi Thomas Mitchell Guy Kibbee Stuart Erwin
milkman editor stage manager professor husband wife emotional sad amusing grover's corners new hampshire garden wedding cemetery small-town life america love transformation growing up love
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1939
71 Minutes
Dad Morgan
Robert Young Florence Rice Frank Craven Henry Hull Lee Bowman Cliff Clark Astrid Allwyn Walter Kingsford Frederick Worlock Gloria Holden William Demarest
Retired performer Mike Morgan sells original illusions to fellow magicians, and although he believes in the supernatural, likes to expose sham psychics. This involves him in some mysterious murders.
Biography
1943
92 Minutes
Old Tom
Michael O'Shea Susan Hayward Frank Craven Osa Massen Harry Davenport Virginia Mayo Ralph Morgan Louise Beavers Jonathan Hale Leonard Strong
author wife prospector sailor hobo publisher engaging fascinating spectacular yukon san francisco alaska new york city japan lifestyle changes marriage social activism war imperialism jack london
The writer (Michael O'Shea) joins the Alaskan gold rush, goes to sea, finds a wife (Susan Hayward) and covers the Russo-Japanese War.
Drama
USA
1942
90 Minutes
J.M. "Doc" Powers
Marlene Dietrich Randolph Scott John Wayne Frank Craven Louise Allbritton Shemp Howard Thomas Gomez Ludwig Stossel Samuel S. Hinds Paul Fix William Haade
coal miner boxer beautiful woman magnate rich girl tailor fiery melodramatic passionate patriotic pittsburgh factory boardroom office ambition ethics greed steel industry military industrial complex redemption
Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham rides roughshod over his friends, his lovers, and his ideals in his trek toward financial success in the Pittsburgh steel industry, only to find himself ... See full summary »
Horror
USA
1943
78 Minutes
Dr. Brewster
Lon Chaney Robert Paige Louise Allbritton Evelyn Ankers Frank Craven J. Edward Bromberg Samuel S. Hinds Adeline de Walt Reynolds Pat Moriarity Etta McDaniel George Irving
When Katherine, a beautiful Southern girl obsessed with thoughts of eternal life, invites Count Alucard to come to her mansion in the U.S., she unleashes a Pandora's box of horror on unsuspecting relatives and neighbors.
Romance
USA
1935
72 Minutes
'Spiggy' Spiggins
Robert Young Evelyn Venable Berton Churchill Reginald Denny Frank Craven Forrester Harvey Dan Crimmins Ferdinand Gottschalk
Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony returns from touring the South Seas in his ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
1938
78 Minutes
Lewis Stone Mickey Rooney Cecilia Parker Fay Holden Frank Craven Ann Rutherford
judge daughter son wife girl lifeguard charming amusing lighthearted small town house santa catalina island california family vacation infidelity father/son relationship swindling maturing pursuit
Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) takes his wife, daughter (Cecilia Parker) and son Andy (Mickey Rooney) to Catalina for a vacation.
Drama
USA
1942
97 Minutes
Asa Timberlake
Bette Davis Olivia de Havilland George Brent Dennis Morgan Charles Coburn Frank Craven Billie Burke Hattie McDaniel Lee Patrick
socialite decorator lawyer doctor melodramatic brash maryland the south racism sibling rivalry infidelity adultery divorce self-destruction rivalry forbidden love fall 1940s
The day before her wedding, a pampered young woman absconds with her sister's husband; in retaliation, her sister begins seeing the woman's former fiancé.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
USA
1943
81 Minutes
Inspector Joseph Clinton
Allyn Joslyn Evelyn Keyes Edmund Lowe John Hubbard Anita Louise Frank Craven Michael Duane Ann Savage William Demarest Hobart Cavanaugh Frank Sully
detective friend writer photographer socialite wife witty cool frenetic photography studio dressing room house murder inheritance deception greed investigation mystery temptation pursuit
A crime fiction writer and his wife investigate murders that are occurring at a fashion photography studio.
Drama
1942
100 Minutes
Doctor Fielding
Spencer Tracy Katharine Hepburn Richard Whorf Margaret Wycherly Forrest Tucker Frank Craven
widow reporter secretary son mother suspenseful tense shocking estate office mansion deception war murder journalism love mystery discovery escape 1940s
A reporter (Spencer Tracy) interviews a patriot's widow (Katharine Hepburn) for a biography, but he makes a startling discovery.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1933
96 Minutes
Storekeeper
Will Rogers Janet Gaynor Lew Ayres Sally Eilers Norman Foster Louise Dresser Frank Craven Victor Jory Frank Melton John Sheehan
An Iowa family finds adventure, love, and heartbreak, when they spend a week at the state fair.