List of the best Frank Strayer movies: The Ghost Walks(1935), Blondie on a Budget(1940), Blondie in Society(1941), Symphony of Living(1935), Fugitive Road(1934), The Vampire Bat(1933), Love in High Gear(1932), Mama Loves Papa(1945), In Love With Life(1934), Murder at Midnight(1931), Death From a Distance(1936), Condemned to Live(1935) ... ...
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1935
69 Minutes
Director
Ed Beaumont is the personal friend, advisor and bodyguard to Paul Madvig, the political boss of a large city. When a mysterious murder is committed---the son of a Madvig political opponent-... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1940
72 Minutes
Director
Penny Singleton Arthur Lake Rita Hayworth Larry Simms Danny Mummert Don Beddoe John Qualen Fay Helm
A salesman convinces Blondie that Baby Dumpling is a budding genius, so the Bumsteads enroll him in a special school from which he disappears.
Comedy
USA
1941
77 Minutes
Director
Penny Singleton Arthur Lake Larry Simms Crooks The Robert Mitchell Boy Choir Jonathan Hale Danny Mummert William Frawley Edgar Kennedy Chick Chandler
Dagwood brings home a pedigreed Great Dane which an important company client wants and which Blondie enters in the big dog show. A highlight of this film is the canine burping display.
Drama
USA
1935
82 Minutes
Director
Evelyn Brent Al Shean Lester Lee
There is this old concertmaster of the Cosmopolitian Orchestra and he is about to realize his life-long ambition of appearing as a soloist with the orchestra, when an accident robs him of ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1934
69 Minutes
Director
Erich von Stroheim Wera Engels Leslie Fenton George Humbert Harry Holman Hank Mann Michael Visaroff
An Austrian officer must face up to the good and evil aspects of his own personality as he becomes involved in a war.
Horror
USA
1933
63 Minutes
Director
Lionel Atwill Melvyn Douglas Fay Wray Dwight Frye Maude Eburne George E. Stone Robert Frazer Rita Carlyle
doctor magistrate village idiot police detective maid girlfriend creepy dark frightening suspenseful village laboratory bedroom cave police station europe vampires vigilantism murder investigation superstition
When corpses drained of blood begin to show up in a European village, vampirism is suspected to be responsible.
Comedy
USA
1932
60 Minutes
Director
A young couple making plans to elope are overheard by a jewel thief, who sees a chance to turn the situation to his advantage.
Comedy
USA
1945
61 Minutes
Director
In 1905, Jessie Todd reads psychologist Basil Pew's book The Woman Behind the Man and becomes inspired to instill the "will to do" in her husband Wilbur. Following a chapter from the book, ... See full synopsis »
Drama
USA
1934
66 Minutes
Director
Professor John Sylvestus Applegate has been dismissed from his college teaching position for objecting too loudly to the predominant part that football and other sports play in the ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1931
69 Minutes
Director
Aileen Pringle Alice White Hale Hamilton Leslie Fenton Brandon Hurst Kenneth Thomson Clara Blandick William Humphrey
A murder during a game of charades at a society party leads the police to begin the hunt through the guest list for a motive and culprit.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1936
73 Minutes
Director
While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience members is found dead. A tough detective and a brassy female reporter lock horns as they both try to break the case.
Horror
USA
1935
67 Minutes
Director
After a series of unsolved murders, a man finds out that his mother was bitten by a vampire bat during her pregnancy, and he believes that he may be the vampire committing the murders.
Horror
USA
1932
63 Minutes
Director
Rex Lease Vera Reynolds Mischa Auer Sheldon Lewis Martha Mattox Sidney Bracey
People in an old dark house on a stormy night are menaced by a killer ape.
Comedy
1942
74 Minutes
Director
Penny Singleton Arthur Lake Larry Simms Janet Blair Jonathan Hale Adele Mara Danny Mummert Larry Parks Lloyd Bridges Esther Dale
Blondie (Penny Singleton) and Dagwood (Arthur Lake) send Baby Dumpling (Larry Simms) to military school, then go back to college.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
1936
64 Minutes
Director
John Miljan Irene Ware Noel Madison Barry Norton Iris Adrian Oscar Apfel Betty Blythe Harry Holman Wilson Benge
Comedy
1940
69 Minutes
Director
Penny Singleton Arthur Lake Larry Simms Danny Mummert Edgar Kennedy Chick Chandler
Mr. Dithers puts Blondie (Penny Singleton) and Dagwood (Arthur Lake) in a mansion to show buyers it's not haunted.
Comedy
1943
75 Minutes
Director
Penny Singleton Arthur Lake Larry Simms Hugh Herbert Jonathan Hale Danny Mummert Alan Dinehart Douglas Leavitt
Comedy
1939
68 Minutes
Director
Penny Singleton Arthur Lake Larry Simms Gene Lockhart Ann Doran Jonathan Hale Gordon Oliver Stanley Andrews
When Dagwood's boss sends him chasing after an important contract, Blondie suspects he is chasing another woman.
Adventure
1936
63 Minutes
Director
John Wayne Nan Grey William Blakewell Fuzzy Knight Russell Hicks George Irving Lotus Long Harry Worth Ernest Hilliard George Humbert Ethan Laidlaw
Comedy
1939
68 Minutes
Director
Penny Singleton Arthur Lake Larry Simms Danny Mummert Donald Meek Elizabeth Dunne Robert Wilcox Irving Bacon
Blondie (Penny Singleton), Dagwood (Arthur Lake), Baby Dumpling (Larry Simms) and Daisy help an elderly couple save their mountain resort.
Comedy
1939
75 Minutes
Director
Penny Singleton Arthur Lake Larry Simms Dorothy Moore Jonathan Hale Stanley Brown Inez Courtney Don Beddoe
Blondie (Penny Singleton) fills in for Dagwood (Arthur Lake) at the office, so he can go on a fishing trip.
Music
1933
74 Minutes
Director
Mae Busch Alan Dinehart Evelyn Knapp Edward Nugent Gloria Shea Theodore von Eltz George Grandee Ada May
Two-bit hoofer Joe hires starry-eyed Sally for his vaudeville act, but the pressures of show business, coupled with Joe's irresponsibility, lead to a breakup.