List of the best Halliwell Hobbes movies: Love Affair(1932), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(1931), Fit for a King(1937), Sherlock Holmes Faces Death(1943), I Am Suzanne!(1933), That Hamilton Woman(1941), Canyon Passage(1946), The Earl of Chicago(1940), The Invisible Man's Revenge(1944), The Bachelor Father(1931), Lady for a Day(1933), Give Me Your Heart(1936) ... ...
Romance
USA
1932
68 Minutes
Kibbee
Dorothy Mackaill Humphrey Bogart Hale Hamilton Halliwell Hobbes Astrid Allwyn Jack Kennedy Barbara Leonard Bradley Page
pilot aviatrix heiress financier actress producer tender emotional thrilling airplane hangar airplane office flying love triangle financial troubles deception suicide betrayal love rivalry
A wife is caught between her drunken husband and her love-starved daughter.
Horror
USA
1931
97 Minutes
Brig. Gen. Sir Danvers Carew
Fredric March Miriam Hopkins Rose Hobart Holmes Herbert Halliwell Hobbes Edgar Norton Arnold Lucy Tempe Pigott Eric Wilton Douglas Walton John Rogers
scientist murderer lunatic sexy woman fiancée dark creepy gritty london england laboratory scientific experiments madness violence addiction discovery wretched excess metamorphosis 1880s
Dr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that transforms him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.
Romance
USA
1937
73 Minutes
Count Strunsky
Joe E. Brown Helen Mack Paul Kelly Harry Davenport Halliwell Hobbes John Qualen Donald Briggs Frank Reicher Russell Hicks Charles Trowbridge
A newspaper reporter assigned to do a story on royalty and the antics begin. Some comic relief.
Mystery & Thriller
1943
68 Minutes
Alfred Brunton
Basil Rathbone Nigel Bruce Hillary Brooke Milburn Stone Arthur Margetson Halliwell Hobbes Dennis Hoey Minna Phillips Gavin Muir Gerald Hamer Vernon Downing
sherlock holmes doctor watson inspector sister brother doctor engaging crafty intricate suspenseful estate london england hospital family feud ritual murder detective work land claim world war ii greed
Watson (Nigel Bruce) brings in Holmes (Basil Rathbone) on a case of ritual murder at the old Musgrave estate.
Musical, Romance
USA
1933
98 Minutes
Dr. Lorenzo
Lilian Harvey Gene Raymond Leslie Banks Georgia Caine Murray Kinnell Geneva Mitchell Halliwell Hobbes Edward Keane
Tony Malatini, a puppeteer, at Paris' Theatre des Marionettes notices that his audience consists of only 7 people. He visits his successful competitor on the corner to see why people are ... See full summary »
Drama, History
USA
1941
128 Minutes
Rev. Nelson
Vivien Leigh Laurence Olivier Alan Mowbray Sara Allgood Gladys Cooper Henry Wilcoxon Heather Angel Halliwell Hobbes Gilbert Emery Miles Mander Ronald Sinclair
ambassador lady admiral captain lord king witty sultry touching melodramatic france italy england prison adultery war love loss courage adventure
The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.
Western
USA
1946
92 Minutes
Clenchfield
Dana Andrews Brian Donlevy Susan Hayward Patricia Roc Ward Bond Andy Devine Rose Hobart Halliwell Hobbes Lloyd Bridges Stanley Ridges Dorothy Peterson
shop owner fiancée banker gambler best friend love interest spirited wild powerful oregon saloon frontier general store cabin portland, ore. romantic dilemma love triangle old west frontier life crime
Businessman Logan Stuart is torn between his love of two very different women in 1850's Oregon and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1940
85 Minutes
Lord Chancellor
Robert Montgomery Edward Arnold Reginald Owen Edmund Gwenn E.E. Clive Ronald Sinclair Norma Varden Halliwell Hobbes
bootlegger enemy english gentleman offbeat brooding chicago england mansion court inheritance betrayal rags to riches murder class conflict alcohol revenge rise fall 1930s
Silky has always moved booze. In prohibition, he smuggled it from Canada, but now that it is legal, he produces his own brand. Seven years before, he sent Doc to prison because Doc was an ... See full summary »
Sci-Fi
USA
1944
78 Minutes
Cleghorn
Jon Hall John Carradine Leon Errol Alan Curtis Evelyn Ankers Gale Sondergaard Lester Matthews Halliwell Hobbes
An eccentric scientist helps a fugitive from the law become invisible, unwittingly giving him the power to exact revenge on his former friends.
Comedy
1931
90 Minutes
Larkin
Marion Davies Ralph Forbes C. Aubrey Smith Ray Milland David Torrence Doris Lloyd Edgar Norton Nena Quartero Halliwell Hobbes Elizabeth Murray James Gordon
wealthy man illegitimate daughter illegitimate son attorney detective musician positive heartwarming witty winsome london estate airplane new york city bedroom yard fatherhood reunion family secrets misunderstanding
Crusty Sir Basil invites his illegitimate children, including a daughter who wants to fly across the Atlantic, to visit him at his manor house.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1933
95 Minutes
Rodney Kent's Butler
Warren William May Robson Guy Kibbee Glenda Farrell Ned Sparks Walter Connolly Jean Parker Nat Pendleton Barry Norton Halliwell Hobbes Hobart Bosworth
fruit seller mother daughter fiancé gangster father amusing intricate new york city mother/daughter relationship deception class distinctions social standing family gangsters underdog transformation 1930s
A gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a lady for a day.
Romance
USA
1936
87 Minutes
Oliver Warren
Kay Francis George Brent Patric Knowles Roland Young Henry Stephenson Frieda Inescort Helen Flint Zeffie Tilbury Elspeth Dudgeon Halliwell Hobbes Russ Powell
woman aristocrat author invalid businessman physician melodramatic moving unrestrained england italy new york city house running away adoption marriage affair family competition sacrifice
An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father.
Drama
USA
1934
65 Minutes
Col. Dawson Ames
Kay Francis Ricardo Cortez Lyle Talbot Warner Oland Ruth Donnelly Reginald Owen Hobart Cavanaugh David Torrence Rafaela Ottiano Halliwell Hobbes Etienne Girardot
political refugee surgeon gunrunner pimp prostitute beautiful woman tense melodramatic sultry mandalay, myanmar rangoon, myanmar brothel boat city poverty prostitution organized crime blackmail secret past new life
Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.
Drama
USA
1931
88 Minutes
Hopkins
Marion Davies Leslie Howard Irene Rich Richard Bennett Douglass Montgomery Mary Duncan Lee Beranger Arthur Housman George Irving Halliwell Hobbes Charles Giblyn
After her businessman father moves her family from Kansas City to New York, a woman falls in love with an engaged man.
Comedy
USA
1938
127 Minutes
Jean Arthur Lionel Barrymore James Stewart Edward Arnold Mischa Auer Ann Miller Spring Byington Samuel S. Hinds Donald Meek H.B. Warner Halliwell Hobbes
ingénue boyfriend father mother sister grandfather amusing cheery madcap family home family love meaning of life marriage money love transformation 1930s
A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.
Adventure
USA
1942
98 Minutes
Tyrone Power Gene Tierney Frances Farmer George Sanders Roddy McDowall John Carradine Elsa Lanchester Harry Davenport Kay Johnson Dudley Digges Halliwell Hobbes
knight uncle nephew love interest ship mate ex-girlfriend rousing spirited amusing polynesia ship estate bristol, england inheritance travel love vindication fortune love revenge
Cheated out of his estate by his sadistic uncle, young Benjamin Blake goes to the South Seas to make his fortune so he can return to claim his birthright.
Drama
USA
1931
73 Minutes
Helen Hayes Lewis Stone Neil Hamilton Robert Young Cliff Edwards Jean Hersholt Marie Prevost Karen Morley Charles Winninger Alan Hale Halliwell Hobbes
doctor single mother artist jewel thief prostitute farmer melodramatic bleak profound paris france farm prison apartment city abandonment betrayal motherhood wrongful conviction patriarchy
Out of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school.
Drama
USA
1942
86 Minutes
Edward Arnold Fay Bainter Richard Ney Jean Rogers Sara Allgood Spring Byington Van Johnson Isobel Elsom Frances Rafferty Dorothy Morris Halliwell Hobbes
wealthy woman romantic interest son daughter best friend mother spirited emotional city household office hospital military base home front snobbishness draft family class distinctions world war ii transformation
A Washington official courts a society matron who is trying to ignore the effects of World War II.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1937
81 Minutes
Dick Powell Priscilla Lane Rosemary Lane Walter Catlett Ted Healy Johnnie Davis Lee Dixon Mabel Todd George MacFarland Halliwell Hobbes Edward Brophy
A former student, who is now a big Broadway show producer with three flops to his reputation, is invited back to direct the College's annual student's stage show.
Drama, History
USA
1934
81 Minutes
Kay Francis Leslie Howard William Gargan Philip Reed Irving Pichel Walter Byron Cesar Romero J. Carrol Naish Ivan F. Simpson Gregory Gaye Halliwell Hobbes
It's 1917. In Russia, the Communist revolution is in full swing. Stephen 'Steve' Locke is a British agent in Russia. The main task of Steve is to prevent the Bolsheviks, led by Joseph ... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1940
103 Minutes
Vivien Leigh Robert Taylor Lucile Watson C. Aubrey Smith Maria Ouspenskaya Virginia Field Leo G. Carroll Clara Reid Steffi Duna Leonard Mudie Herbert Evans
officer ballerina prostitute mother friend uncle emotional passionate london estate countryside underground apartment waterloo bridge world war i prostitution deception heartbreak struggle romance
During World War I, believing her fiance to be dead, a young ballerina loses her job and is forced to turn to prostitution.
Drama, History
USA
1939
97 Minutes
Anna Neagle Edna May Oliver George Sanders May Robson ZaSu Pitts H.B. Warner Sophie Stewart Mary Howard Robert Coote Martin Kosleck Gui Ignon
nurse patient soldier prisoner spy engaging disheartening bleak belgium hospital pow camp courtroom prisoners of war bravery world war i imprisonment prison break escape rescue underdog
English nurse Edith Cavell is matron in a small private hospital in German-occupied Brussels during WWI. When the son of a recently deceased patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war ... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1936
70 Minutes
Marion Davies Dick Powell Charles Ruggles Claude Rains Edward Everett Horton Arthur Treacher Henry Stephenson Clara Blandick John Larkin Walter Kingsford Etienne Girardot
napoleon bonaparte brother socialite suitor teacher passionate lighthearted emotional baltimore france louisiana purchase negotiation impersonation arranged marriage teaching politics love sacrifice rivalry quest
Napoleon needs money to fight his wars in Europe so he wants 20 million dollars for the Louisiana Territory in the United States. To help the negotiations, he sends his brother, Jerome, to ... See full summary »
Romance
1948
100 Minutes
James Stewart Joan Fontaine Eddie Albert Roland Young Willard Parker Percy Kilbride Porter Hall Marcy McGuire Arthur Walsh William Bakewell Paul Cavanagh
Experiencing a change of heart on her wedding night, a socialite (Joan Fontaine) decides to find a companion more interesting than her husband.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1937
86 Minutes
Claudette Colbert Fred MacMurray Harvey Stephens Gale Sondergaard Louise Dresser Bennie Bartlett Edward Ellis Beulah Bondi Bonita Granville Virginia Weidler Donald Meek
lover adventurer young woman judge townsperson passionate thrilling emotional salem, mass. courtroom town hall town square puritanism affair repression wrongfully accused witch trials witchcraft love wretched excess
Young lovers fall afoul of repressive society as Salem elders get caught up in the witch hunts and trials of 17th century Massachusetts. One family in particular uses the hysteria to its ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1933
70 Minutes
Reginald Owen Warburton Gamble Anna May Wong June Clyde Alan Dinehart John Warburton J.M. Kerrigan Alan Mowbray Doris Lloyd Billy Bevan Leila Bennett
sherlock holmes doctor watson lawyer widow pretty woman intricate tense london apartment murder greed investigation inheritance aristocracy secret society mystery discovery 19th century
In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining members. Society members start dropping ... See full summary »
Drama
1939
97 Minutes
Ronald Colman Walter Huston Ida Lupino Muriel Angelus Dudley Digges Ernest Cossart Ferike Boros Pedro de Cordoba Colin Tapley Fay Helm Ronald Sinclair
artist painter model friend doctor soldier melodramatic sad sudan port said, egypt london battlefield artist's studio doctor's office art blindness doomed romance friendship suicide painting
Kipling's Dick Heldar (Ronald Colman), wounded in the Sudan, tries to finish a painting before he goes blind.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1939
90 Minutes
Ann Sheridan Dick Powell Gale Page Helen Broderick Allen Jenkins ZaSu Pitts Ronald Reagan Max Rosenbloom Jerry Colonna Vera Lewis Elizabeth Dunne
Professor Hardwick teaches at Winfield College and detests the new swing music that is the craze. He has written a rhapsody which he takes to New York to be published. Staying with his Aunt... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1940
98 Minutes
Myrna Loy Melvyn Douglas Raymond Walburn Lee Bowman Bonita Granville Felix Bressart Donald Meek Sidney Blackmer Ernest Whitman Ann Morriss Edna Holland
editor artist boyfriend father sister law student witty melodramatic new york city niagara falls, n.y. train nightclub mansion opposites attract career vs. love love-hate relationship love triangle romantic dilemma rivalry love
A single magazine editor pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues, but complications ensue when she meets a potential suitor.
Drama, History
USA
1934
79 Minutes
Dolores del Río Reginald Owen Victor Jory Osgood Perkins Verree Teasdale Henry O'Neill Anita Louise Ferdinand Gottschalk Maynard Holmes Dorothy Tree Joan Wheeler
louis xv courtesan king countess adviser marie antoinette cheeky incredible hedonistic emotional versailles, france palace paris abbey madame du barry french history royal life international conflict political intrigue mentorship
Madame DuBarry is a 1934 American historical film directed by William Dieterle and starring Dolores del Rio, Reginald Owen, Victor Jory and Osgood Perkins. The film portrays the life of ... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1948
97 Minutes
Walter Pidgeon Deborah Kerr Angela Lansbury Binnie Barnes Janet Leigh Dame May Whitty Rene Ray Virginia Kelley Reginald Owen John Abbott Rhys Williams
writer wife widow pregnant woman townsperson ex-lover melodramatic powerful touching small town england publishing house front lines house small-town life world war ii scandal rumors suicide false accusations
It's 1939 in the small English town of Penny Green, and events in Poland are about to change lives. Mark Sabre (Walter Pidgeon), a writer of school text books, has married Mabel (Dame ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1942
99 Minutes
Carole Lombard Jack Benny Robert Stack Felix Bressart Lionel Atwill Stanley Ridges Sig Ruman Tom Dugan Charles Halton Peter Caldwell Helmut Dantine
actor actress lieutenant spy nazi madcap hilarious suspenseful poland warsaw love triangle adolf hitler impersonation resistance world war ii adventure 1940s
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
Adventure
USA
1935
119 Minutes
Errol Flynn Olivia de Havilland Basil Rathbone Lionel Atwill Ross Alexander Guy Kibbee Henry Stephenson George Hassell Forrester Harvey Frank McGlynn Robert Barrat
doctor pirate lady governor government official sailor brash confident thrilling england port royal, jamaica ship pirates treason slavery rebellion adventure transformation 17th century
A young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Jamaica where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean.