List of the best Hamilton MacFadden movies: The Black Camel(1931), Escape by Night(1937), Stand Up and Cheer!(1934), Fighting Youth(1935), Inside the Law(1942), Legion of Missing Men(1937), The Sea Racketeers(1937), Charlie Chan in Rio(1941), Dressed to Kill(1941), Five of a Kind(1938) ... ...
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1931
71 Minutes
Director
The unsolved murder of a Hollywood actor several years earlier and an enigmatic psychic are the keys to help Charlie solve the Honolulu stabbing death of a beautiful actress.
Drama
USA
1937
64 Minutes
Director
William Hall Anne Nagel Dean Jagger Steffi Duna Ward Bond Murray Alper Charles Waldron George Meeker Anthony Warde Ralph Sanford Arthur Aylesworth
Runyonesque crooks on the lam hide out on blind man's pastoral farm and decide to go straight.
Musical
USA
1934
69 Minutes
Director
Warner Baxter Madge Evans Shirley Temple Nigel Bruce Stepin Fetchit Frank Melton Lila Lee Ralph Morgan Frank Mitchell Jack Durant Arthur Byron
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President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1935
85 Minutes
Director
Charles Farrell June Martel Andy Devine J. Farrell MacDonald Ann Sheridan Edward Nugent Herman Bing Phyllis Fraser Stephen Chase Glen Boles Charles Wilson
Communist subversives try to take over a college.
Comedy
USA
1942
65 Minutes
Director
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A gang of small-time confidence-type crooks, led by the elderly Pop (Lafe McKee) and Mom Cobb (Rose Plumer), have just completed a small scam when a wallet found on a drunk gives them a ... See full summary »
Adventure
1937
63 Minutes
Director
Ralph Forbes Ben Alexander Hala Linda Jimmy Aubrey Paul Hurst Frank Leigh Roy D'Arcy
A Foreign Legionnaire (Ralph Forbes) and his younger brother (Ben Alexander) fall for a cabaret singer (Hala Linda).
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1941
60 Minutes
Sidney Toler Mary Beth Hughes Victor Sen Yung Cobina Wright Jr. Ted North Victor Jory Harold Huber Richard Derr Jacqueline Dalya Kay Linaker Truman Bradley
On the trail of a singer who killed the man she loved in Honolulu, Charlie finds her stabbed to death when he ultimately catches up to her in Rio.
Crime, Drama
USA
1941
75 Minutes
Lloyd Nolan Mary Beth Hughes Sheila Ryan William Demarest Ben Carter Virginia Brissac Erwin Kalser Henry Daniell Dick Rich Milton Parsons Charles Arnt
Detective Michael Shayne and his girlfriend Joanne are on their way to be married when a scream from a nearby hotel room draws his attention to a pair of theatrical murders.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1938
83 Minutes
Jean Hersholt Claire Trevor Cesar Romero Slim Summerville Henry Wilcoxon Inez Courtney John Qualen Jane Darwell Pauline Moore Andrew Tombes David Torrence
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At age four-and-a-half the Dionne quintuplets in their third movie - singing, dancing, playing with puppies, being charming.