List of the best Jack Pennick movies: Mountain Rhythm(1939), The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms(1953), Lady From Louisiana(1941), Tugboat Annie(1933), Way Out West(1930), Four Sons(1928), Min and Bill(1930), The Virginian(1929), Operation Pacific(1951), The Fighting Kentuckian(1949), Submarine Patrol(1938), Stagecoach(1939) ... ...
Western
USA
1939
61 Minutes
Rocky
Gene Autry Smiley Burnette June Storey Maude Eburne Ferris Taylor Jack Pennick Hooper Atchley Jack Ingram
gene autry sidekick aunt hobo rancher developer lighthearted thrilling campy spirited american west ranch town valley land wars auction robbery teamwork unlikely allies theft
Standard western fare: Gene has to save the ignorant and naive from underhanded land grabs by the baddies.
Sci-Fi
USA
1953
80 Minutes
Jacob Bowman
Paul Hubschmid Paula Raymond Cecil Kellaway Kenneth Tobey Donald Woods Jack Pennick Lee Van Cleef Steve Brodie Ross Elliot Ray Hyke Mary Hill
professor researcher doctor scientist corporal colonel campy outlandish spectacular thrilling arctic canada maine massachusetts new york city coney island nuclear weapons testing dinosaurs uncontrollable experiment radiation
A ferocious dinosaur awakened by an Arctic atomic test terrorizes the North Atlantic and, ultimately, New York City.
Western
USA
1941
82 Minutes
Cuffy Brown
John Wayne Ona Munson Ray Middleton Henry Stephenson Helen Westley Jack Pennick Dorothy Dandridge Shimen Ruskin Jacqueline Dalya Paul Scardon James C. Morton
In the 1890s, a Northern lawyer goes to New Orleans to aid the local reform league in their fight against the crooked lottery run by a Southern ex-general and his beautiful daughter.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1933
87 Minutes
Pete
Marie Dressler Wallace Beery Robert Young Maureen O'Sullivan Willard Robertson Tammany Young Frankie Darro Jack Pennick Paul Hurst Oscar Apfel Robert McWade
ship captain drunk son fiancée boss mother rousing madcap emotional pacific northwest washington state boat boats sea mother/son relationship alcoholism redemption storm wretched excess rise
Annie the tugboat captain tries to help two young lovers come together.
Comedy, Western
USA
1930
71 Minutes
Pete
William Haines Leila Hyams Polly Moran Cliff Edwards Francis X. Bushman Jr. Vera Marsh Charles Middleton Jack Pennick Buddy Roosevelt Jay Wilsey
Wise-guy carnival barker Windy bilks a group of cowboys out of their money, gets caught and is forced into working off the debt on their ranch. He falls in love with Molly, the pretty owner... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1928
100 Minutes
The Iceman
Margaret Mann James Hall Francis X. Bushman Jr. Charles Morton George Meeker June Collyer Earle Foxe Albert Gran Frank Reicher Jack Pennick Ferdinand Schumann-Heink
A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow's sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1930
66 Minutes
Merchant Seaman Checking in at Hotel
Marie Dressler Wallace Beery Dorothy Jordan Marjorie Rambeau Don Dillaway DeWitt Jennings Russell Hopton Frank McGlynn Greta Gould Jack Pennick Hank Bell
hotel manager sweetheart daughter mother principal boyfriend bleak melodramatic intense hotel waterfront house boarding school ship adoption poverty mother/child relationship business murder jealousy
Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.
Western
USA
1929
90 Minutes
Gary Cooper Walter Huston Richard Arlen Mary Brian Helen Ware Chester Conklin Eugene Pallette Victor Potel E.H. Calvert Tex Young Charles Stevens
A good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he discovers his best friend is engaged in cattle rustling.
War
USA
1951
111 Minutes
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.
Adventure
USA
1949
100 Minutes
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.
Adventure
USA
1938
95 Minutes
Richard Greene Nancy Kelly Preston Foster George Bancroft Slim Summerville J. Farrell MacDonald Warren Hymer Douglas Fowley Dick Hogan Elisha Cook Jr. George E. Stone
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser and with a motley crew.
Western
USA
1939
96 Minutes
John Wayne Claire Trevor Andy Devine John Carradine Thomas Mitchell Louise Platt George Bancroft Donald Meek Berton Churchill Tim Holt Tom Tyler
outlaw sheriff prostitute pregnant woman gambler indian spectacular thrilling emotional new mexico small town stagecoach justice journey romance armed conflict adventure rescue discovery 1880s
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.
Western
USA
1960
118 Minutes
Jeffrey Hunter Woody Strode Constance Towers Billie Burke Juano Hernandez Willis Bouchey Carleton Young Judson Pratt William Henry Walter Reed Chuck Hayward
defender defendant prosecutor judge witness wife intense uneasy army outpost fort arizona territory courtroom trial murder rape racial tension military mystery 1880s
Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.
War
USA
1945
135 Minutes
Robert Montgomery John Wayne Donna Reed Jack Holt Ward Bond Marshall Thompson Paul Langton Leon Ames Arthur Walsh Donald Curtis
lieutenant naval officer sailor general gripping spirited rousing boat philippines naval base bataan corregidor world war ii pt boat general douglas macarthur revenge rescue underdog 1940s
A Navy commander fights to prove the battle-worthiness of the PT boat at the start of World War II.
Western
USA
1948
106 Minutes
John Wayne Pedro Armendáriz Harry Carey Jr. Ward Bond Mildred Natwick Charles Halton Jane Darwell Mae Marsh Guy Kibbee Dorothy Ford Ben Johnson
bank robber cattle rustler sheriff mother baby intense passionate rousing desert bank small town arizona redemption morality daunting task robbery american west transformation pursuit 19th century
Three outlaws on the run risk their freedom and their lives to return a newborn to civilization.
Biography
USA
1957
110 Minutes
John Wayne Maureen O'Hara Dan Dailey Ward Bond Ken Curtis Edmund Lowe Kenneth Tobey James Todd Barry Kelley Sig Ruman Henry O'Neill
pilot mechanic wife rival director powerful patriotic confident florida military base hospital hollywood, calif. injury navy aviation filmmaking world war ii family transformation sacrifice
A biography of Navy flier-turned-screenwriter Frank W. "Spig" Wead.
War, Western, Drama, History
USA
1960
192 Minutes
John Wayne Richard Widmark Laurence Harvey Richard Boone Carlos Arruza Frankie Avalon Patrick Wayne Linda Cristal Chill Wills Ken Curtis Hank Worden
davy crockett william b. travis jim bowie texican general soldier spirited gripping patriotic gutsy alamo san antonio, tex. battle of the alamo war freedom bravery revolution siege adventure fall
In 1836, a small band of soldiers sacrifice their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.