List of the best George Waggner movies: The Wolf Man(1941), Operation Pacific(1951), Tangier(1946), The Fighting Kentuckian(1949), Gunfighters(1947), Wolf Call(1939), Horror Island(1941), Stunt Pilot(1939), Drums of the Desert(1940), Mystery Plane(1939), The Climax(1944), Pawnee(1957) ... ...
Horror
USA
1941
70 Minutes
Director
Lon Chaney Claude Rains Ralph Bellamy Evelyn Ankers Warren William Patric Knowles Maria Ouspenskaya Bela Lugosi Fay Helm Forrester Harvey J.M. Kerrigan
heir father shopkeeper sheriff gypsy werewolf chilling dark eerie campy wales woods castle antique shop werewolves murder hunting metamorphosis 1940s
Larry Talbot returns to his father's castle in Wales and meets a beautiful woman. One fateful night, Talbot escorts her to a local carnival where they meet a mysterious gypsy fortune teller.
War
USA
1951
111 Minutes
Director
John Wayne Patricia Neal Ward Bond Scott Forbes Philip Carey Paul Picerni William Campbell Kathryn Givney Vincent Fotre Martin Milner Cliff Clark
submarine officer captain ex-wife pilot commander enemy gripping tense emotional submarine sea pearl harbor hospital naval base world war ii navy brother relationship divorce duty sea rescue
During WWII, a submarine's second in command inherits the problem of torpedoes that don't explode. When on shore, he is eager to win back his ex-wife.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1946
76 Minutes
Director
A war-weary newsman (Robert Paige) joins a Spanish dancer (Maria Montez) hunting down a Nazi puppet in North Africa.
Adventure
USA
1949
100 Minutes
Director
John Wayne Vera Ralston Oliver Hardy Philip Dorn Marie Windsor John Howard Hugo Haas Grant Withers Odette Myrtil Paul Fix Mae Marsh
soldier daughter immigrant businessman mistress general rousing patriotic kentucky small town cabin field exile love triangle father/daughter relationship battle schemes revenge love underdog
In 1818 Alabama, French settlers are pitted against greedy land-grabber Blake Randolph but Kentucky militiaman John Breen, who's smitten with French gal Fleurette De Marchand, comes to the settlers' aid.
Western
USA
1947
87 Minutes
Director
Randolph Scott Barbara Britton Dorothy Hart Bruce Cabot Charley Grapewin Steven Geray Forrest Tucker Charles Kemper Grant Withers John Miles Griff Barnett
gunslinger rancher sheriff daughter sister cowboy gritty engaging texas ranch town jail street corruption mistaken identity false accusations pacifism sister relationship murder quest
Gunfighter Brazos Kane takes a job on a ranch but he is unjustly accused of killing fellow cowhand Bob Tyrell and must clear himself by finding the real killer.
Action
USA
1939
61 Minutes
Director
John Carroll Movita Peter George Lynn Guy Usher Holmes Herbert Polly Ann Young
Playboy Michael "Mike" Vance, Jr.is night-clubbing in New York City with Natalie. Natalie is shallow. Mike doesn't care. Mike and Natalie join a scavenger hunt and break-in a pet shop to ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1941
61 Minutes
Director
A down-on-his-luck businessman organizes an excursion to Sir Henry Morgan's Island for a treasure hunt only to encounter a mysterious phantom and murder.
Action
USA
1939
62 Minutes
Director
John Trent Marjorie Reynolds Milburn Stone Jason Robards Sr. Pat O'Malley
The second of a series of four features Monogram made based on the comic strip by Hal Forrest (Universal also used the strip characters in two serials), finds a movie company shooting a war... See full summary »
Adventure
USA
1940
64 Minutes
Director
On his way to a post as special adviser of the new parachute troops of the French Foreign Legion in Morocco, Paul Dumont meets the beautiful Helene on the ship. A romance ensues, but the ... See full summary »
Action
USA
1939
60 Minutes
Director
A pilot invents a revolutionary new bomb-targeting system. However, just before he is to deliver it to the Army Air Corps, he is kidnapped by a criminal gang who want to give the system to ... See full summary »
Horror
USA
1944
86 Minutes
Director
A demented physician becomes obsessed with a young singer whose voice sounds similar to his late mistress.
Western
USA
1957
80 Minutes
Director
George Montgomery Bill Williams Lola Albright Francis J. McDonald Robert Griffin Dabbs Greer Kathleen Freeman Charlotte Austin Ralph Moody Ann Barton Raymond Hatton
native american warrior native american chief native american woman settler uncle wagon master brash tense melodramatic american west camp wagon train prairie native americans identity crisis love triangle murder death cultural assimilation transformation
Pale Arrow is a white man raised since a boy by the Pawnee Chief. With wagon trains now encroaching on Pawnee land, the Chief sends Pale Arrow to be with the white people. Now known as Paul... See full summary »
Western
USA
1938
58 Minutes
Director
Bob Baker Marjorie Reynolds Carlyle Moore
In a remake of Dawn Trail, Bob Mason is wounded chasing the killers of his father. During his recovery, his nurse is Alice whom his friend Ben plans to marry. He eventually learns the ... See full summary »
Western
USA
1938
56 Minutes
Director
Bob Baker Cecilia Callejo Don Barclay Roy Mason Forrest Taylor Nina Campano Martin Garralaga Carleton Young Carlyle Moore Jack Kirk
cavalry captain sidekick rancher daughter gang leader henchman engaging tense california ranch desert trail land ownership undercover operations murder robbery double-cross pony express rescue discovery
Bradley and sidekick Sharpe are sent west to investigate the murders of pony express riders who are being killed to prevent the Spanish Land Grant papers going to Washington for registration.
Sci-Fi
1941
68 Minutes
Director
Lon Chaney Lionel Atwill Anne Nagel Frank Albertson Samuel S. Hinds William B. Davidson Ben Taggart Connie Bergen
A mad scientist (Lionel Atwill) makes an electric man (Lon Chaney Jr.) who glows and must wear a rubber suit.
Romance
USA
1921
73 Minutes
Yousaef (tribal chieftain)
Rudolph Valentino Agnes Ayres Adolphe Menjou Walter Long Lucien Littlefield George Waggner Patsy Ruth Miller
sheik lady valet guide novelist bandit fascinating sultry melodramatic algeria sahara desert tent stronghold cultural differences abduction disguise attempted rape slavery friendship pursuit
A charming Arabian sheik becomes infatuated with an adventurous, modern-thinking Englishwoman and abducts her to his home in the Saharan desert.
Western
USA
1924
130 Minutes
Buffalo Bill
George O'Brien Madge Bellamy Charles Edward Bull Cyril Chadwick Fred Kohler Gladys Hulette James Marcus Francis Powers J. Farrell MacDonald George Waggner
surveyor contractor engineer renegade landowner fiancée gritty suspenseful gripping springfield, ill. rocky mountains united states union pacific central pacific construction railroad murder bribery quest love
After witnessing the murder of his father by a renegade as a boy, the grown-up Brandon helps to realize his father's dream of a transcontinental railway.