List of the best George Archainbaud movies: The Return of Sophie Lang(1936), Pack Train(1953), Strange Gamble(1948), Texas Masquerade(1944), Mystery Man(1944), Unexpected Guest(1947), Borrowed Trouble(1948), The Devil's Playground(1946), On Top of Old Smoky(1953), Dangerous Venture(1947), Silent Conflict(1948), Thanks for the Memory(1938) ... ...
Drama
USA
1936
65 Minutes
Director
In order to give up her life of crime and go straight, renowned jewel thief Sophie Lang fakes her own death and retires to London. She soon finds a job as a companion to a wealthy old lady ... See full summary »
Western
USA
1953
57 Minutes
Director
Gene Autry Smiley Burnette Gail Davis Kenne Duncan Sheila Ryan Tom London
singing cowboy settler bandit miner gunslinger friend melodramatic rousing suspenseful california valley wild west store homestead old west mining banditry dangerous mission transporting supplies law and order
Baddies McLain and Riker charge settlers what the traffic will bear for supplies. When Autry attempts to help out, the outlaws go after him.
Western
USA
1948
62 Minutes
Director
Hoppy is an agent of the federal government investigating the counterfeiting of both U.S. and Mexican money. His only clues are the name "Mordigan" and a drawing of a comet.
Western
USA
1944
60 Minutes
Director
William Boyd Andy Clyde Jimmy Rogers
A gang of outlaws are using force to become possessors of every ranch in the area. Hoppy, of course, is out to stop them.
Western
USA
1944
58 Minutes
Director
William Boyd Andy Clyde Jimmy Rogers Don Costello Francis Macdonald Forrest Taylor Eleanor Stewart Jack Rockwell Pierce Lyden John Merton Bill Hunter
Hoppy's ranch is threatened by rustlers. Hoppy and the gang oblige as usual.
Western
USA
1947
61 Minutes
Director
At the reading of his late cousin's will, California learns the estate will be divied among whoever remains of the seven relatives. With one already dead, another immediately murdered, and ... See full summary »
Western
USA
1948
61 Minutes
Director
William Boyd Andy Clyde Helen Chapman Rand Brooks Anne O'Neal John Parrish Cliff Clark Earle Hodgins
Teacher Lola Blair is against building the saloon right next to her schoolhouse. When she is kidnapped, Hoppy rescues her and forces the saloon keepers to relocate.
Western
USA
1946
62 Minutes
Director
William Boyd Andy Clyde Rand Brooks Elaine Riley Robert Elliott Joseph J. Greene Francis Macdonald Ned Young
Hoppy, California, and Lucky must rescue Mrs. Evans from the corrupt sheriff and his black-hatted gang of outlaws.
Western
USA
1953
59 Minutes
Director
Gene Autry Smiley Burnette Gail Davis Grandon Rhodes Sheila Ryan Kenne Duncan
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Poachers are harassing toll road owner Jen Larrabee. They want her land because it holds valuable minerals. Autry and the Cass County Boys, mistaken for Texas Rangers, help out.
Western
USA
1947
59 Minutes
Director
Sue Harmon gets Hoppy and his friends to join their expedition looking for Indian artifacts. Expedition leader Atwood makes a deal with nearby cattle rustler Morgan to loot the Indian ... See full summary »
Western
USA
1948
61 Minutes
Director
William Boyd Andy Clyde Rand Brooks Virginia Belmont Earle Hodgins James Harrison Forbes Murray John Butler
One of Hoppy's Bar 20 ranch hands is tricked into participating in nefarious activities after being subjected to hypnosis.
Comedy
USA
1938
75 Minutes
Director
Bob Hope Shirley Ross Charles Butterworth Otto Kruger Hedda Hopper Laura Hope Crews Emma Dunn Roscoe Karns Eddie Anderson
Bob Hope is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Hope's publisher who is still carrying a torch for her.
Western
USA
1943
69 Minutes
Director
William Boyd Andy Clyde Jay Kirby Victor Jory George Reeves Jan Christy Hal Taliaferro Forbes Murray Robert Mitchum Byron Foulger Earle Hodgins
Sheriff Hoppy has to find a way to bring the bad guys, headed by Tom Jordan, to justice in the Lone Star state. The problem is that they are hiding out beyond his jurisdiction, in Oklahoma.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
USA
1934
71 Minutes
Director
Edna May Oliver James Gleason Bruce Cabot Gertrude Michael Regis Toomey Edgar Kennedy Tully Marshall Jackie Searle Frederick Vogeding Gustav von Seyffertitz Jed Prouty
A pretty young music teacher is bludgeoned to death in Hildegarde's school, where she's reunited with Oscar, but the autopsy report says she was dying from poison too.
Adventure
USA
1938
81 Minutes
Director
While searching the South Pacific for a missing aviator, Bob Mitchell and Jimmy Wallace are caught in a typhoon and crack up on an island, escaping unharmed with the aid of Tura, a ... See full summary »
Western
USA
1953
56 Minutes
Director
fur trapper singing cowboy settler henchman native american cowgirl confident spirited thrilling michigan valley house forest american west homestead intimidation fur trade undercover operations old west law and order
Hamilton's Rangers, led by our hero Gene, must keep the Indians in the northern Michigan territory from attacking the settlers.
Drama
USA
1932
80 Minutes
Director
John Barrymore Helen Twelvetrees William "Stage" Boyd Jill Esmond Mary Duncan Albert Conti C. Henry Gordon Paul Hurst Oscar Apfel
attorney governor mobster prostitute client gritty engaging shocking melodramatic gambling house courtroom speakeasy apartment political corruption mobsters redemption alcoholism romance court battles rise
Attorney Tom Cardigan is the discontented "mouthpiece" for Vanny Powers' mob. When Tom takes sweet June Perry as his mistress, she tries in vain to redeem him. But Powers decides Tom would ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1937
66 Minutes
Director
A couple has an ideal marriage until she finds women's lingerie in his coat pocket. An astrologer advises her to make her husband unhappy. Meanwhile their daughter plans to elope in the same hotel her father has unknowingly moved into.
Western
USA
1953
57 Minutes
Director
Gail Davis Kirk Riley Carleton Young
gene autry sidekick defendant love interest villain henchman rousing engaging endearing wild west mine ranch courtroom jail double jeopardy law and order blackmail troubled past attempted murder revenge
Circuit judge Gene must judge a man who claims he's already done time for the killing he's accused of.
Western
USA
1952
62 Minutes
Director
Virginia Huston Robert Randall Thurston Hall Judy Nugent Harry Cording Robert Bice Frank Sully
texas ranger corrupt cop police chief sidekick journalist singing cowboy melodramatic rousing suspenseful texas prairie jail office police corruption power struggle crime investigation law and order journalism rivalry
Texas law officers are so corrupt that Gene decides to put on his old Texas Ranger uniform and set things right.
Western
USA
1946
63 Minutes
Director
William Boyd Andy Clyde Rand Brooks Robert Emmett Keane Jane Randolph Steve Barclay Harry Cording Earle Hodgins Robert Bentley
The son of an Army friend is about the join an outlaw gang. Hoppy prevents this and brings the gang to justice.
Crime, Drama
USA
1950
68 Minutes
Director
Gig Young Lynne Roberts Mary Anderson Willard Parker Carla Balenda Gerald Mohr James Anderson John Kellogg Harry Shannon Cleo Moore
public defender suspect witness woman man brooding intricate suspenseful california bar prison courtroom police station wrongful conviction investigation cold case mystery disappearance media circus discovery
The suspect in a 12-year-old murder case is finally caught and tried, but the witnesses are a bit hard to track down...
Drama
USA
1932
79 Minutes
Director
Richard Dix Mary Astor Erich von Stroheim Robert Armstrong Dorothy Jordan Joel McCrea Hugh Herbert Ralph Ince Marjorie Peterson Ralph Lewis William B. Davidson
flying ace director stunt pilot actress mechanic sister gripping melodramatic hollywood, calif. airplane movie set grauman's chinese theatre filmmaking dangerous assignment love triangle jealousy world war i sabotage rivalry adventure
In hard times just after World War I, three ex-fighter pilots manage to land jobs as Hollywood stunt fliers working for dictatorial director Von Furst.
Western
USA
1952
62 Minutes
Director
Gene Autry Pat Buttram Carolina Cotton Harry Lauter Mary Scott Sydney Mason Francis X. Bushman Gregg Barton Tom London Byron Foulger Frank Matts
sidekick frontier woman outlaw gang leader gene autry native american rousing engaging tense desert house office small town headquarters washington, d.c. undercover operations crime old west banditry law and order
When a white man sets out to keep Indians drunk so they'll do what he wants them to, the US government sends Autry to fix things.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1932
74 Minutes
Director
Irene Dunne Ricardo Cortez Myrna Loy Jill Esmond Florence Eldridge Kay Johnson Julie Haydon Mary Duncan Peg Entwistle Elsie Prescott Wally Albright
young woman leader outcast detective son hypnotist eerie melodramatic suspenseful new york city circus train beverly hills, calif. police station murder racism hypnosis investigation mother/child relationship friendship
Ursula plots to murder 12 women with her supernatural powers.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1939
65 Minutes
Director
Bob Hope Shirley Ross Una Merkel Rufe Davis Bernard Nedell Frank Sully Bernadene Hayes Richard Denning Clarence Wilson Dudley Dickerson Harry Barris
promoter drummer business owner singer writer lighthearted engaging cheeky atlantic city, n.j. boardwalk dance hall nightclub show business partnership gambling song and dance romantic dilemma fall rise rivalry
Gene is the foreman at the ranch owned by wealthy rodeo owner Maureen. She will lose her rodeo contract unless sales improve.
Western
USA
1943
90 Minutes
Director
Albert Van Dekker Claire Trevor Barry Sullivan Henry Hull Marion Martin Porter Hall Percy Kilbride Beryl Wallace
sheriff chorus girl rancher mayor old man fiery tense engaging dodge city, kan. saloon bat masterson old west love triangle law enforcement vengeance rivalry love 1910s
Bat Masterson's girl tries to get him to give up gunfighting and become a respectable journalist, but Bat has other problems - his rival is in town gunning for him.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1937
73 Minutes
Director
Ben Blue Judy Canova Yacht Club Boys
"Howdy" Nelson believes there is no such thing as real love and that romance can be cooked up between any eligible persons (of the opposite sex.) He is so imbued with the idea that he has ... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1933
71 Minutes
Director
Constance Bennett Gilbert Roland Edward Ellis Sam Godfrey Lucien Percival Mischa Auer Ben Hendricks Jr. Leonid Snegoff Evelyn Carter Carrington John Wray
While romancing a beautiful Russian countess, a captain in the Austrian intelligence service is assigned to capture "K-14", a clever spy who has so far managed to remain undetected. What ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1932
65 Minutes
Director
Mary Astor Ricardo Cortez John Halliday Ralph Ince Kitty Kelly James Donlan George Davis
Hoping to get even with gambler/bookie Johnny Silk, racetrack owners and partners Dorval and Farley convince down-and-out Martha Preston to pose as a rich, single French countess, whom Silk... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy, Romance, Drama
USA
1929
73 Minutes
Director
Sally O'Neil Jack Egan Carmel Myers Tom O'Brien J. Barney Sherry John Hyams Charles Wilson Charles Lane Bill Elliott
When the road-show that Ted Howard, a singer, and Mary, a chorus-dancer, goes broke and the company is stranded in the sticks, Ted Uses his own savings to get them all back to New York. Ted... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1930
72 Minutes
Director
Richard Dix Mary Lawlor James Neill Matthew Betz George Cooper William Janney Robert E. O'Connor Clarence Wertz Eddie Sturgis Dick Curtis
Larry Sheldon is a gambler and during an argument he accidentally shoots a man. Fleeing he changes his identity, pretending to be a minister. Things are complicated when he meets a real preacher and falls in love with his daughter Doris.
Western
USA
1952
61 Minutes
Director
Gene Autry Pat Buttram Anne James William Fawcett Leonard Penn Michael Vallon Terry Frost Clayton Moore Ed Parker Sandy Sanders
gene autry real estate agent newspaper reporter homesteader investor rancher spirited rousing engaging kansas texas homestead frontier wild west land grab schemes railroad frontier life cattle drives law and order
When the Texas cattle trails to Kansas are blocked, cattle buyer Gene Autry (Gene Autry) goes to Texas to investigate. There, he finds his friend, land-agent "Buckeye" Buttram (Pat Buttram)... See full summary »
Adventure
USA
1930
76 Minutes
Director
fisherman love interest romantic rival man young woman businesswoman emotional engaging gripping alaska family home small town fishing village romance love triangle class distinctions fishing schemes employment rivalry
A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll.
Western
USA
1943
79 Minutes
Director
Richard Dix Jane Wyatt Albert Van Dekker Victor Jory Eugene Pallette Robert Armstrong Beryl Wallace Clem Bevans
cowboy marshal banker townspeople bank robber bystander brooding intense gritty engaging tense gripping wild west bank robbery tyranny career change shoot-out western films control discovery
Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town ... See full summary »
Western
1943
64 Minutes
Director
Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) and his sidekicks (Andy Clyde, Jimmy Rogers) expose a scheme to replace a ranch heir with an impostor.
Western
1944
70 Minutes
Director
Richard Arlen Robert Randall Jane Frazee Lynne Roberts Bobby Driscoll J.M. Kerrigan Russell Simpson Frank Reicher
An unjustly court-martialed Army officer (Richard Arlen) escapes and finds his buddy (Robert Livingston) is an outlaw.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
1932
70 Minutes
Director
Edna May Oliver James Gleason Mae Clarke Robert Armstrong Donald Cook Clarence Wilson Edgar Kennedy Mary Mason Rochelle Hudson Guy Usher James Donlan
New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers (Edna May Oliver) assists a detective (James Gleason) with an aquarium corpse.
Western
1953
57 Minutes
Director
Gene Autry Smiley Burnette Gail Davis William Forrest Robert Randall Richard Crane Gregg Barton
gene autry publisher printer business owner brother outlaw gripping tense wild west small town plains office corruption sibling rivalry journalism theft protection showdown pursuit quest
Muckraking newspaperman John Randolph (William Forrest) can expose powerful local businessmen Art Selby (Robert Livingston) and Clint Raybold (Gregg Barton) as the brains behind a series of thefts blamed on local Native Americans.
Western
1948
59 Minutes
Director
Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) and his sidekicks (Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks) help a young man framed for murder.
Western
1948
62 Minutes
Director
Drama
1931
70 Minutes
Director
A rich man (Gilbert Emery) hires a woman (Betty Compson) to rescue his son (John Darrow) from a gold digger.
Western
1947
63 Minutes
Director
William Boyd Andy Clyde Rand Brooks Ian Wolfe Dorinda Clifton Mary Newton Harry Cording Earle Hodgins Richard Bailey Richard Alexander Herman Hack
Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) and his friends (Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks) save a town from a deacon after oil.
Western
1953
58 Minutes
Director
Gene Autry Smiley Burnette Kathleen Case Dickie Jones John Downey Howard Wright Arthur Space Gregg Barton Robert "Buzz" Henry Harry Mackin Harry Hines
gene autry sidekick station manager banker outlaw daughter rousing engaging spirited old west mail route town frontier office pony express modernization law and order loyalty schemes crime
A singing cowboy (Gene Autry) and his sidekick (Smiley Burnette) protect a pony express in transition.