List of the best Fritz Leiber movies: They Made Her a Spy(1939), Champagne Waltz(1937), The Story of Louis Pasteur(1936), Song of India(1949), Pack Up Your Troubles(1939), Bells of San Angelo(1947), All This and Heaven Too(1940), The Spanish Main(1945), Another Part of the Forest(1948), A Tale of Two Cities(1935), The Hunchback of Notre Dame(1939), A Scandal in Paris(1946) ... ...
Action
USA
1939
69 Minutes
Dr. Krull
Sally Eilers Allan Lane Fritz Leiber Larry J. Blake Charles Halton Theodore von Eltz Pierre Watkin Addison Richards Louis Jean Heydt Spencer Charters Alec Craig
woman reporter brother colonel politician gang leader engaging suspenseful washington, d.c. café washington monument car death espionage teamwork investigation sabotage deception quest revenge
When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to unroot the culprits.
Musical
USA
1937
85 Minutes
Franz Strauss
Gladys Swarthout Fred MacMurray Jack Oakie Fritz Leiber Herman Bing Vivienne Osborne Frank Forest Benny Baker
musician singer grandfather club owner countess charming winsome endearing vienna consulate dance hall jazz club nightclub new york city jazz dance deception family romance business
Champagne Waltz is one of five movies produced by Paramount in the 1930s featuring Gladys Swarthout, a very popular Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano. The studio was attempting to build on ... See full summary »
Biography
USA
1936
85 Minutes
Dr. Charbonnet
Paul Muni Josephine Hutchinson Anita Louise Donald Woods Fritz Leiber Henry O'Neill Porter Hall Akim Tamiroff Walter Kingsford Iphigenie Castiglioni
scientist chemist doctor gutsy rousing endearing french countryside france louis pasteur science cure disease underdog quest rivalry 19th century
Singing star loses his voice, recuperates in the country, meets aspiring playwright and her daughter.
Adventure
USA
1949
77 Minutes
Nanaram
Sabu Gail Russell Turhan Bey Anthony Caruso Aminta Dyne Fritz Leiber Trevor Bardette Robert Barrat David Bond Rodd Redwing Ted Hecht
princess fiancé aunt tribal leader maharajah hunter spirited gutsy engaging thrilling india jungle cliff village royal court hunting human-animal friendship preservation royalty trapping
A young arrogant Indian prince and his girl decide to hunt animals in the forbidden jungle for a zoo. A local boy helps the captured animals and confronts the prince.
Comedy
USA
1939
75 Minutes
Pierre Ferrand
Jane Withers The Ritz Brothers Lynn Bari Joseph Schildkraut Stanley Fields Fritz Leiber
Out of work vaudevillians join the army in WWI and head for France where they encounter an American girl (Withers) whose father (Schildkraut) is a French officer. Lots of slapstick.
Western
USA
1947
71 Minutes
Padre
Roy Rogers Dale Evans Andy Devine John McGuire Olaf Hytten David Sharpe Fritz Leiber Hank Patterson Fred S. Toones Eddie Acuff Sons of the Pioneers
roy rogers sheriff manager author henchman stranger spirited confident mexican-american border town mine hotel hideout investigation mining smuggling writing impersonation kidnapping quest
Along the Mexican border, Roy joins Western novelist Dale in a search for smugglers. They discover a silver mine.
Drama
USA
1940
143 Minutes
Abbe Gallard
Bette Davis Charles Boyer Barbara O'Neil Jeffrey Lynn Virginia Weidler Walter Hampden Harry Davenport Fritz Leiber Montagu Love George Coulouris Ann E. Todd
duchess duke governess child melodramatic touching france school family home royalty love triangle jealousy marital problems forbidden love sacrifice 1840s
A duchess' irrational behavior toward the governess of her children triggers tragic events that will change her family's lives forever.
Adventure
1945
100 Minutes
Bishop
Paul Henreid Maureen O'Hara Walter Slezak Binnie Barnes John Emery Barton MacLane J.M. Kerrigan Fritz Leiber Nancy Gates Jack LaRue Mike Mazurki
pirate countess girlfriend soldier ship captain brash outlandish spirited pirate ship north carolina south carolina prison romance pirates love triangle prison break adventure escape revenge 16th century
Dutch pirates of Tortuga save the Mexican viceroy's daughter (Maureen O'Hara) from marriage to the governor (Walter Slezak).
Drama
USA
1948
107 Minutes
Colonel Isham
Fredric March Dan Duryea Edmond O'Brien Ann Blyth Florence Eldridge John Dall Dona Drake Betsy Blair Fritz Leiber Whit Bissell Don Beddoe
This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.
Drama, History
USA
1935
128 Minutes
Gaspard
Ronald Colman Elizabeth Allan Edna May Oliver Blanche Yurka Reginald Owen Basil Rathbone Henry B. Walthall Donald Woods Walter Catlett Fritz Leiber H.B. Warner
lawyer wealthy man pretty woman emotional melodramatic passionate england london france paris social change love triangle french revolution friendship injustice love forbidden love quest rescue 1780s
A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amongst the turmoil of the French Revolution.
Drama
USA
1939
116 Minutes
Charles Laughton Maureen O'Hara Cedric Hardwicke Thomas Mitchell Edmond O'Brien Alan Marshal Walter Hampden Harry Davenport Katharine Alexander George Zucco Fritz Leiber
gypsy bishop beautiful woman monster hunchback deacon suspenseful passionate heartwarming touching paris church courtroom notre dame cathedral cathedral jail love corruption rescue framed
In 15th-century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
Drama
USA
1946
100 Minutes
George Sanders Signe Hasso Carole Landis Akim Tamiroff Gene Lockhart Jo Ann Marlowe Alma Kruger Alan Napier Vladimir Sokoloff Pedro de Cordoba Leona Maricle
petty criminal friend marquis police officer sweetheart cheeky gripping melodramatic france paris marseilles, france jail bank crime theft blackmail impersonation nobility abandonment quest
Born in a French prison in 1775, François Eugène Vidocq becomes a professional thief and is later appointed chief of Parisian police.
Fantasy
USA
1946
101 Minutes
Paul Muni Anne Baxter Claude Rains George Cleveland Onslow Stevens Hardie Albright James Flavin Erskine Sanford Marion Martin Jonathan Hale Murray Alper
gangsters devil judge fiancée amusing creepy frightening hell earth courtroom church fantasy death relationships romance revenge metamorphosis rivalry 1940s
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
Horror
USA
1943
92 Minutes
Claude Rains Nelson Eddy Susanna Foster Edgar Barrier Jane Farrar Barbara Everest Steven Geray Frank Puglia Hans Herbert Fritz Feld J. Edward Bromberg
disfigured person murderer opera singer suitor stalker violinist suspenseful eerie melodramatic opera house paris france stage catacombs obsessive love rise to stardom opera mysterious deaths dark secrets investigation
The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried as it appeared to be.
War
USA
1943
101 Minutes
Wallace Beery Fay Bainter Reginald Owen Keye Luke Ray Collins Marilyn Maxwell William Lundigan Donald Curtis Noah Beery Dick Curtis Russell Gleason
Wallace Beery stars in this patriotic World War II drama about a tough retired Marine who is caught in the middle of the Philippines campaign, experiencing action, heroics, and tragedy. ... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1936
140 Minutes
Fredric March Olivia de Havilland Gale Sondergaard Edmund Gwenn Claude Rains Anita Louise Louis Hayward Steffi Duna Billy Mauch Donald Woods Akim Tamiroff
hero pretty woman father mother grandfather melodramatic emotional passionate italy europe france africa cuba abandonment illegitimate child expedition romance adventure discovery quest
In 18th-century Italy, an orphan's debt to the man who raised him threatens to separate him forever from the woman he loves.