List of the best Harlan Briggs movies: Riding on Air(1937), Exclusive(1937), Spoilers of the North(1947), Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise(1940), Among the Living(1941), Live, Love and Learn(1937), Easy Living(1937), My Pal Trigger(1946), Married Before Breakfast(1937), Calling Dr. Kildare(1939), I Love You Again(1940), Dodsworth(1936) ... ...
Comedy
USA
1937
70 Minutes
Mr. Harrison
Joe E. Brown Guy Kibbee Florence Rice Vinton Howarth Anthony Nace Harlan Briggs Andrew Tombes Clem Bevans
Smugglers are using a device for controlling airplanes in flight, and newspaper reporters from Chicago are vying for the story. Reporter Elmer Lane is out to scoop rival reporter Betty Harrison, and capture her heart in the process.
Drama
USA
1937
85 Minutes
Springer
Fred MacMurray Frances Farmer Charles Ruggles Lloyd Nolan Fay Holden Ralph Morgan Edward H. Robins Harlan Briggs Willard Robertson Horace MacMahon
journalist publisher daughter gangster father killer suspenseful rousing newsroom mountain city, tenn. father/daughter relationship love gangs murder journalism racketeering rivalry discovery 1930s
Two newspapers are pitted against each other. One owned by gangster Charles Gillette (Lloyd Nolan), the other by Ralph Houston (Fred MacMurray).
Drama
USA
1947
66 Minutes
Salty
Paul Kelly Adrian Booth Evelyn Ankers James Millican Roy Barcroft Louis Jean Heydt Ted Hecht Harlan Briggs Francis Macdonald Maurice Cass Neyle Morrow
When the Alaska fishing season ends, a crooked cannery owner, who owes a huge delivery of salmon to a Seattle company, manipulates local Natives, who have unlimited fishing rights, into illegally selling their catch to him.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1940
75 Minutes
Coroner
Sidney Toler Victor Sen Yung Marjorie Weaver Lionel Atwill Robert Lowery Don Beddoe Leo G. Carroll Cora Witherspoon Kay Linaker Harlan Briggs Charles Middleton
Charlie tries to discover the identity of a strangler who strikes multiple times on a cruise ship bound from Honolulu to California.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1941
68 Minutes
Judge
Albert Van Dekker Susan Hayward Frances Farmer Harry Carey Gordon Jones Jean Phillips Ernest Whitman Maude Eburne Frank M. Thomas Harlan Briggs Archie Twitchell
A mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble for his identical twin brother.
Romance
USA
1937
78 Minutes
Justice of the Peace
Robert Montgomery Rosalind Russell Robert Benchley Helen Vinson Mickey Rooney Monty Woolley E.E. Clive Charles Judels Maude Eburne Harlan Briggs Al Shean
painter socialite sailor art dealer husband wife amusing madcap outlandish small town new york city central park art gallery poverty art world rags to riches romance alcohol marriage love
Bob is a struggling artist who paints for his own amusement. Julie is a rich society girl. When they meet, it is cute and they are soon married. Living in a small apartment with the ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1937
86 Minutes
Jean Arthur Edward Arnold Ray Milland Luis Alberni Mary Nash Franklin Pangborn Barlowe Borland William Demarest Andrew Tombes Esther Dale Harlan Briggs
office worker wealthy man son wife hotel owner stockbroker cheeky playful frenetic new york city bus office hotel automat chance meeting class distinctions misunderstanding great depression rags to riches romance
A wealthy banker throws his wife's expensive fur coat off the roof of a building; it lands on the head of a stenographer, leading to everyone assuming she is his mistress and has access to his millions.
Western
USA
1946
79 Minutes
Roy Rogers George "Gabby" Hayes Dale Evans Jack Holt Roy Mason Roy Barcroft Sam Flint Kenne Duncan Ralph Sanford Francis Macdonald Harlan Briggs
horse horse trader rancher nightclub owner roy rogers winsome campy ranch prairie wilderness horses framed animals false accusations adventure underdog rivalry 1800s
Gabby refuses to breed his horse the Golden Sovereign with Roy's. When the Sovereign and Roy's horse escape, Skoville shoots the Sovereign by mistake but Roy is blamed and jailed. A year ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1937
70 Minutes
Robert Young Florence Rice June Clayworth Barnett Parker Warren Hymer Helen Flint Hugh Marlowe Tom Kennedy Edgar Dearing Mary Gordon Harlan Briggs
After a leading razor company pays inventor Tom Wakefield a quarter of a million dollars not to publicize a hair-removing shaving cream that makes razors obsolete, he makes plans to take ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1939
86 Minutes
Lew Ayres Lionel Barrymore Laraine Day Lana Turner Nat Pendleton Samuel S. Hinds Lynne Carver Emma Dunn Walter Kingsford Alma Kruger Harlan Briggs
intern physician nurse patient sister criminal melodramatic engaging new york city hospital basement apartment false accusations medical profession injury investigation framed for murder confidence discovery quest
Dr. Gillespie tries to teach Jimmy Kildare a lesson by tossing him into a street clinic. Only Kildare gets called to take a bullet out of a suspected murderer, and when the cops collar him ... See full summary »
Comedy
1940
97 Minutes
William Powell Myrna Loy Frank McHugh Edmund Lowe Don Douglas Nella Walker Pierre Watkin Paul Stanton Morgan Wallace Charles Arnt Harlan Briggs
con artist wife friend lighthearted madcap charming cruise ship new york state con game marriage amnesia mistaken identity transformation love 1940s
A businessman (William Powell) snaps out of 9-year amnesia, reverts to con man and falls in love with his wife (Myrna Loy).
Drama
USA
1936
101 Minutes
Walter Huston Ruth Chatterton David Niven Paul Lukas Mary Astor Gregory Gaye Maria Ouspenskaya Odette Myrtil Kathryn Marlowe John Payne Spring Byington
businessperson husband wife pretty woman emotional moving europe italy ship marriage aging social standing love triangle love discovery 1930s
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
Musical, Romance
USA
1946
91 Minutes
Maureen O'Hara Dick Haymes Harry James Reginald Gardiner Richard Gaines Stanley Prager B.S. Pully Chick Chandler Alma Kruger Almira Sessions Douglas Wood
teacher headmistress singer bandleader musician cheery frenetic winsome confident conservatory train nightclub dance hall big-band music power of music unrequited love change of lifestyle love triangle pursuit transformation
The woman dean of a music school undergoes a glamorous transformation after she meets a swing bandleader.
Drama
USA
1937
72 Minutes
Frank Morgan Florence Rice John Beal Janet Beecher Herman Bing Erik Rhodes George Givot E.E. Clive Tom Rutherfurd Cora Witherspoon Reginald Denny
A con man must pass himself off as the owner of a château on the French Riviera when he is expected to host his estranged daughter's wedding.
Crime, Drama
USA
1947
104 Minutes
Ronald Colman Signe Hasso Shelley Winters Edmond O'Brien Ray Collins Philip Loeb Millard Mitchell Joe Sawyer Charles La Torre Whit Bissell John Drew Colt
actor actress mistress striking dark chilling broadway theater new york city insanity actors murder transformation fall mystery 1940s
A celebrated actor struggles to distinguish his own life from that of his most recent stage role, Othello.
Drama
1952
118 Minutes
Jennifer Jones Laurence Olivier Eddie Albert Miriam Hopkins Basil Ruysdael Ray Teal Barry Kelley Sara Berner William Reynolds Mary Murphy Harry Hayden
kept woman salesman restaurant manager sister brother-in-law wife emotional melodramatic chicago train restaurant apartment love triangle forbidden love adultery forbidden love fall 1890s
A farm girl (Jennifer Jones) goes to Chicago, meets men (Laurence Olivier, Eddie Albert) and becomes a stage star.
Musical
USA
1937
132 Minutes
Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy John Barrymore Herman Bing Tom Brown Lynne Carver Rafaela Ottiano Charles Judels Paul Porcasi Sig Ruman Walter Kingsford
opera singer teacher husband love interest melodramatic emotional passionate paris opera house new york city love triangle jealousy opera marriage infidelity forbidden love rivalry revenge 1930s
An aging opera singer looks back on her long life, including her relationships with her vocal teacher and a student.