List of the best Ian Hunter movies: 52nd Street(1937), Something Always Happens(1934), I Found Stella Parish(1935), Bedelia(1946), Sally in Our Alley(1931), The Bulldog Breed(1960), The Church Mouse(1934), Call It a Day(1937), Lazybones(1935), The Man From Toronto(1933), The Girl From 10th Avenue(1935), Appointment in London(1953) ... ...
Musical
USA
1937
80 Minutes
Rufus Rondell
Ian Hunter Leo Carrillo Pat Paterson Ella Logan ZaSu Pitts Marla Shelton Collette Lyons Dorothy Peterson
Story of how 52nd Street became New York City's "Nightclub Row" in the 1930s.
Comedy
UK
1934
69 Minutes
Ian Hunter Nancy O'Neil Peter Gawthorne Muriel George Barry Livesey Millicent Wolf Louie Emery Reg Marcus George Zucco
Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol stations more attractive to customers. When ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1935
84 Minutes
Keith Lockridge
Kay Francis Ian Hunter Paul Lukas Sybil Jason Jessie Ralph Joe Sawyer Eddie Acuff Walter Kingsford Robert Strange Ferdinand Munier
actress journalist producer daughter nanny husband melodramatic brooding endearing london theater ship stage secret past fame missing persons tabloid journalism mother/daughter relationship redemption fall
A theatrical star abruptly leaves England to escape her secret past, while a newspaper reporter follows her trail to America to get the scoop.
Drama
UK
1946
92 Minutes
Charlie Carrington
Bedelia, a newly remarried beautiful widow, is on honeymoon in Monte Carlo. A painter approaches her inquiring about her past. When she and her husband go back to England the artist will soon be there. Danger, crime and truth will follow.
Drama
UK
1931
75 Minutes
A British soldier goes off to fight in World War I, with his girlfriend waiting and worried at home. He is soon wounded in battle and crippled. He comes to the conclusion that she would be ... See full summary »
Comedy
UK
1960
100 Minutes
Adm. Sir Bryanston Blyth
englishman naval officer astronaut love interest friend amusing hilarious madcap playful witty england coast seaside cliff rocket space ship rejection unintended consequences love
When he is crossed in love, grocers assistant Norman Puckle joins the Navy, where he is recruited to man the first British rocket.
Romance
UK
1934
76 Minutes
Laura La Plante Ian Hunter Edward Chapman Jane Carr Clifford Heatherley John Batten Gibb McLaughlin Monty Banks
When banker Jonathan Steele fires a flirtatious secretary, efficient unemployed Betty Miller gets a tip to get the job. In becoming indispensable she also falls in love with him, even if he... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1937
89 Minutes
Olivia de Havilland Ian Hunter Anita Louise Alice Brady Roland Young Frieda Inescort Bonita Granville Peggy Wood Marcia Ralston Walter Woolf King Peter Willes
The first day of spring has a profound affect on the Hilton family. The father, an accountant, finds himself unable to work, and when he tries to work, he is wooed by an actress whose taxes... See full summary »
Comedy
UK
1935
65 Minutes
Sir Reginald Ford
Claire Luce Ian Hunter Sara Allgood Bernard Nedell Michael Shepley Bobbie Comber Denys Blakelock Mary Gaskell Pamela Carne Harold Warrender
Lazybones is an idle baronet. He hasn't a care in the world until his father cuts him off without a penny. He then meets an American heiress & marries her but finds she has been ... See full summary »
Comedy
1933
77 Minutes
Jessie Matthews Ian Hunter Frederick Kerr Ben Field Margaret Yarde Kathleen Harrison
A woman poses as a maid in an attempt to get a true picture of the man she must marry to collect her inheritance.
Drama
1935
69 Minutes
Bette Davis Ian Hunter Colin Clive Alison Skipworth John Eldredge Philip Reed Katharine Alexander
young man shopgirl ex-girlfriend friend landlady husband witty melodramatic new york city church café apartment restaurant office class distinctions drunkenness marriage gossip redemption high society
A spurned New York socialite (Ian Hunter) gets drunk and wakes up married to an honest working girl (Bette Davis).
War
1953
96 Minutes
Group Captain Logan
Dirk Bogarde Ian Hunter Dinah Sheridan Bill Kerr Bryan Forbes William Sylvester Charles Victor Anne Leon Walter Fitzgerald Anthony Shaw Carl Jaffe
bomber pilot love interest gripping passionate england cockpit world war ii bombing retirement mission raids quest love 1940s
A grounded British wing commander (Dirk Bogarde) risks court-martial to make his 90th bombing run over Germany.
Comedy
USA
1941
86 Minutes
Barton Kendrick
James Stewart Hedy Lamarr Ian Hunter Verree Teasdale Donald Meek Barton MacLane Edward Ashley Ann Codee King Baggot Adeline de Walt Reynolds Si Jenks
showgirl refugee government official publisher writer grandmother airy witty hedonistic new york city apartment office house love triangle marriage publishing divorce immigration deception rivalry
Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.
Drama
USA
1940
104 Minutes
Smitty
John Wayne Thomas Mitchell Ian Hunter Ward Bond Barry Fitzgerald Wilfrid Lawson Mildred Natwick John Qualen Arthur Shields Joe Sawyer J. Warren Kerrigan
sailor alcoholic nazi irishman englishman swede gritty moving somber west indies baltimore england ship atlantic ocean seafaring loneliness espionage kidnapping military life friendship
A merchant ship's crew tries to survive the loneliness of the sea and the coming of war.
Adventure
USA
1940
113 Minutes
Cambreau
Joan Crawford Clark Gable Ian Hunter Peter Lorre Albert Van Dekker Paul Lukas Edward Ciannelli J. Edward Bromberg John Arledge Frederick Worlock Bernard Nedell
prisoner prostitute killer religious person captor cynic dark eerie profound intense prison island jungle french guiana boat religious conversion prison break death penal system boats
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
Drama
USA
1937
93 Minutes
Lloyd Rogers
Bette Davis Henry Fonda Ian Hunter Anita Louise Donald Crisp Hugh O'Connell Katharine Alexander Mary Philips Minor Watson Ben Welden Sidney Toler
bootlegger widow secretary attorney playboy father melodramatic disheartening emotional chicago apartment europe marriage illegitimate child inheritance elopement love custody battle forbidden love sacrifice
Mary Donnell, a young legal secretary with a past, elopes with a client's son, but his father has the marriage annulled without knowing she's pregnant.
Drama
UK
1932
76 Minutes
Fred Green
Ann Todd Sari Maritza Ian Hunter Peter Hannen
Jane Bell has lived on an old barge moored in the Thames with her feckless father and sister ever since their mother died, but she would prefer her life to be more like the movies -- ... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1938
71 Minutes
Peter Snowden
Kay Francis George Brent Ian Hunter Gloria Dickson Isabel Jeans Penny Singleton Dennie Moore Selmer Jackson Herbert Rawlinson Emmett Vogan James B. Carson
actress architect friend producer estranged wife father touching melodramatic witty new york city apartment bar theater boat love triangle show business divorce friendship big break infidelity
Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.
Romance
USA
1937
73 Minutes
Colonel John Wister
Kay Francis Errol Flynn Ian Hunter Frieda Inescort Herbert Mundin Billy Bevan Kenneth Hunter G.P. Huntley Jr. Clyde Cook Dick Powell Charles Irwin
widow love interest colonel captain british officer melodramatic tender thrilling africa desert train england love triangle unrequited love marriage second chance colonialism dangerous mission rivalry forbidden love
Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. There he falls in love with Julia Ashton, who cares deeply for him but ... See full summary »
Musical
USA
1939
114 Minutes
Larry Bryant
Jeanette MacDonald Lew Ayres Ian Hunter Frank Morgan Wally Vernon Rita Johnson Virginia Grey William Cargan Katharine Alexander Al Shean Esther Dale
Mary Hale (a singer) and Jimmy Seymour (pianist/composer), are a show biz couple working in The Big Apple in small night clubs hoping to hit it big. One night, Larry Bryant (a Broadway ... See full summary »
Drama
1937
86 Minutes
Leonide Kirow
Kay Francis Basil Rathbone Ian Hunter Jane Bryan Donald Crisp Mary Maguire Dorothy Peterson Laura Hope Crews Robert Barrat Ben Welden Veda Ann Borg
cabaret performer composer husband girl judge mother intense passionate dark striking warsaw, poland courtroom nightclub house concert hall scandal adultery secret past mother/daughter relationship murder
A cabaret singer (Kay Francis) stands trial in Warsaw for killing a concert pianist (Basil Rathbone) to save her daughter's honor.
Drama
1936
87 Minutes
Bill Hallam
Newsreel clips punctuate the years in a rich couple's (Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy) marriage, from 1925 to 1935.
Drama
1949
112 Minutes
Doctor Larry Woodhope
Spencer Tracy Deborah Kerr Ian Hunter Leueen MacGrath James Donald Mervyn Johns Felix Aylmer Walter Fitzgerald Tilsa Page Ernest Jay Colin Gordon
father mother son lover doctor dark melodramatic disturbing london family father/son relationship alcoholism self-destruction fall wretched excess forbidden love 1930s
A businessman's desire to protect his corrupt son's fortune leads to tragedy in this adaptation of the British play.
Comedy, Drama
1942
88 Minutes
Roger Carlton
Mickey Rooney Edmund Gwenn Ian Hunter Freddie Bartholomew Marta Linden Juanita Quigley Alan Mowbray Peter Lawford Raymond Severn
teenager sister mother stepfather stepbrother girlfriend spirited amusing england eton college london estate field racetrack americans abroad college athletics family false accusations jealousy education
A rowdy American boy's (Mickey Rooney) British stepfather (Ian Hunter) puts him in a stuffy prep school.
Adventure
USA
1939
90 Minutes
Mr. Austin Lancing
Johnny Weissmuller Maureen O'Sullivan John Sheffield Ian Hunter Henry Stephenson Frieda Inescort Henry Wilcoxon Laraine Day Morton Lowry Gavin Muir
baby tarzan wife ape animal intense emotional melodramatic suspenseful thrilling jungle airplane tree treehouse wildlife tarzan adoption airplane crash adventure discovery
Tarzan finds a boy from a crashed plane and raises him with Jane in the jungle. A search party comes looking for the plane.
War, Adventure
UK
1956
119 Minutes
Captain Woodhouse
John Gregson Emeric Pressburger Anthony Quayle Peter Finch Ian Hunter Bernard Lee Patrick Macnee Christopher Lee
boat captain nazi soldier british officer commandant gory suspenseful thrilling brooding profound intense ship atlantic ocean great britain harbor world war ii battle explosion sinking ship escape
In the first major naval battle of World War II, the British Navy must find and destroy a powerful German warship.
Musical
1940
94 Minutes
Lord Shayne
Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy George Sanders Ian Hunter Felix Bressart Edward Ashley Lynne Carver Diana Lewis Curt Bois Fay Holden Sig Ruman
singer music teacher baron benefactor lord melodramatic tender emotional vienna café opera performance romance arranged marriage love triangle forbidden love sacrifice rivalry 1890s
Songs by Noel Coward highlight this tale of the difficult times faced by a Victorian belle and her husband in Vienna.
Crime, Drama
1953
87 Minutes
Geoffrey Tanner
Richard Attenborough Cathy O'Donnell Derek Farr Ian Hunter Maurice Denham Bruce Seton Harry Welchman Kynaston Reeves
taxi driver wife barrister father judge witness engaging solemn cab street scotland yard jail courtroom london murder trial marriage law father/son relationship false accusations
Only a British cabdriver's (Richard Attenborough) wife (Cathy O'Donnell) and lawyer (Derek Farr) believe him innocent of killing a little girl.
Musical
USA
1940
102 Minutes
Bert C. Matthews
Fred Astaire Eleanor Powell George Murphy Frank Morgan Ian Hunter Florence Rice Lynne Carver Ann Morriss Trixie Firschke Douglas McPhail
dancer partner producer star amusing endearing new york city broadway theater dance hall dance love teamwork friendship love quest rise 1940s
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to gives him the name of his partner.
Drama
USA
1939
91 Minutes
Captain Reginald Crewe
William A. Seiter Shirley Temple Richard Greene Arthur Treacher Anita Louise Ian Hunter Cesar Romero Marcia Mae Jones Sybil Jason Mary Nash
A little girl is left by her father in an exclusive seminary for girls, when her father fights in the Second Boer War. Later, when he is presumed dead she is forced to become a servant.
Mystery & Thriller
UK|USA
1958
95 Minutes
Clive Fisher
Jack Hawkins Arlene Dahl Dennis Price Violet Farebrother Ian Hunter Christopher Lee Bernard Miles Greta Gynt
insurance investigator old flame blackmailer suspenseful passionate uneasy manor fire love mystery love 1950s
An insurance investigator runs into an ex-girlfriend, who is still as beautiful as he remembered her, but is now married. He soon finds himself involved in arson, blackmail, and murder.
Drama
USA
1938
98 Minutes
William Benson
Errol Flynn Bette Davis Anita Louise Jane Bryan Ian Hunter Henry Travers Beulah Bondi Donald Crisp Dick Foran Patric Knowles Alan Hale
secretary sportswriter father sister fiancé millionaire melodramatic intense gripping montana san francisco apartment office ship sister relationship marriage ambition drinking earthquakes reconciliation
Three daughters of a small town pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.
Horror
USA
1941
114 Minutes
Dr. John Lanyon
Spencer Tracy Ingrid Bergman Lana Turner Donald Crisp Ian Hunter Barton MacLane C. Aubrey Smith Sara Allgood Peter Godfrey Frederick Worlock William Tannen
dr. jekyll mr. hyde mistress brooding gripping suspenseful london laboratory split personality human nature experiments evil metamorphosis mystery 1880s
Dr. Jekyll allows his dark side to run wild when he drinks a potion that turns him into the evil Mr. Hyde.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1940
71 Minutes
Harlan Kiefer "Natural" Davis
Jackie Cooper Bonita Granville Gene Reynolds Gail Patrick Ian Hunter June Preisser Leo Gorcey William Tracy Tommy Kelly Edward Ashley El Brendel
Two childhood friends have a falling out because of their fathers' occupations, which lands one father in jail.
Adventure, Drama
1927
80 Minutes
Archie
Ivor Novello Ben Webster Robin Irvine Isabel Jeans Ian Hunter Norman McKinnell
Comedy
USA
1941
101 Minutes
Steven V. Land
Lewis Stone Mickey Rooney Kathryn Grayson Fay Holden Ann Rutherford Sara Haden Ian Hunter Gene Reynolds
teen boy girlfriend secretary mother father lighthearted witty high school family home small town midwest may-december romance first love graduation final exams teen angst love quest growing up 1940s
Andy Hardy is about to graduate from high school and thinks he's pretty big stuff, so he hires a secretary, Kathryn Land. Kathryn and Polly Benedict, Andy's girlfriend, help him pass his ... See full summary »
Action
1959
130 Minutes
Sir John Windham
Kenneth More Lauren Bacall Herbert Lom Wilfrid Hyde-White I.S. Johar Ursula Jeans Ian Hunter Eugene Deckers Jack Gwillim
prince soldier maharajah governess tense thrilling engaging gripping india train rescue journey dangerous assignment political coup adventure pursuit escape 1900s
A British captain (Kenneth More) uses an old train to get a Hindu prince, his governess (Lauren Bacall) and others out of a besieged citadel.
Musical
1941
131 Minutes
Geoffrey Collis
James Stewart Judy Garland Lana Turner Hedy Lamarr Tony Martin Jackie Cooper Ian Hunter Charles Winninger Edward Everett Horton Paul Kelly Eve Arden
girl father boyfriend socialite violinist vaudevillian emotional spirited new york city stage apartment ziegfeld follies vaudeville father/daughter relationship ambition show business career vs. love rise sacrifice love
An elevator operator (Lana Turner), a vaudevillian (Judy Garland) and a violinist's wife cope with sudden fame as chorus girls.
Drama, Romance
UK
1928
79 Minutes
The Plantiff's Counsel
Isabel Jeans Robin Irvine Franklin Dyall Enid Stamp-Taylor Violet Farebrother Frank Elliott Dacia Deane Dorothy Boyd Ian Hunter Eric Bransby Williams Benita Hume
A recently divorced woman hides her scandalous past from her new husband and his family.
Adventure, Action
USA
1938
102 Minutes
Michael Curtiz Errol Flynn Olivia de Havilland Basil Rathbone Claude Rains Patric Knowles Eugene Pallette Alan Hale Herbert Mundin Una O'Connor Melville Cooper
robin hood prince king sheriff of nottingham pretty woman outlaw thrilling cheery rousing forest england castle rebellion corruption royalty wealth quest adventure rescue middle ages
When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a rebel guerrilla army.