List of the best Jimmy Lydon movies: Strange Illusion(1945), Henry Aldrich, Editor(1942), Corky of Gasoline Alley(1951), Chain of Evidence(1957), Affairs of Geraldine(1946), The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair(1939), The Town Went Wild(1944), Back Door to Heaven(1939), Little Men(1940), Aerial Gunner(1943), Life With Father(1947), September Affair(1950) ... ...
Drama
USA
1945
87 Minutes
Paul Cartwright (as James Lydon)
Jimmy Lydon Sally Eilers Warren William Regis Toomey Charles Arnt George H. Reed Jayne Hazard
Paul, a young man whose father was once lieutenant Governor of California before his untimely death, has a strange, recurring dream in which his mother falls in love with a dangerous man (... See full summary »
Comedy
1942
72 Minutes
Henry Aldrich
Comedy
USA
1951
80 Minutes
Scotty Beckett Jimmy Lydon Don Beddoe Gordon Jones Patti Brady Susan Morrow Kay Christopher Madelon Mitchel Richard Wessel
Elwood Martin (Gordon Jones), a brash extrovert with an aversion to work come to live with Walt Wallet (Don Beddoe) and his wife, Phyllis (Madelon Baker). He blunders about their house, and... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1957
64 Minutes
A paroled inmate accidentally becomes an amnesiac, aimlessly wanders around and is later used as a patsy by an adulterous wife and her lover after they kill her rich husband.
Comedy
USA
1946
68 Minutes
When the wealthy Mrs. Cooper passes away, she divides her estate between her sons, Henry and Wayne, and her only daughter, the tomboyish Geraldine. She also leaves a recording for Henry and... See full synopsis »
Drama
USA
1939
55 Minutes
Marjorie Lord Jimmy Lydon Ruth Lee Harry Shannon Adora Andrews Douglas Stark
In this lively programmer a con man hires a character actor to masqueraded as the recently assassinated dictator of a tiny Latin American country so he can bilk an arriving American ambassador out of his fortune.
Comedy
USA
1944
77 Minutes
Feuding fathers deal with the shocking news that their sons were switched at birth, meaning that one of their daughters is about to marry her own brother.
Crime, Drama
USA
1939
85 Minutes
Frankie Rogers
Wallace Ford Aline MacMahon Jimmy Lydon Robert Vivian
The life of a young slum kid, who starts out stealing small things in order to fit in with the "crowd", winds up in reform school, and eventually spends much of his life in prison. Upon his... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1940
84 Minutes
Dan
Kay Francis Jack Oakie Jimmy Lydon George Bancroft Ann Gillis Carl Esmond William Demarest Richard Nichols Casey Johnson Francesca Santoro Johnny Burke
headmistress teacher child con artist bank robber cheery spirited boarding school boarding-school life childhood foreclosure sacrifice underdog growing up 1870s
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she ... See full summary »
Adventure
USA
1943
78 Minutes
Pvt. Sanford "Sandy" Lunt
Chester Morris Richard Arlen Lita Ward Jimmy Lydon Keith Richards Dick Purcell
Old rivals are pitted against each other in basic training and fight for the same woman.
Comedy
USA
1947
118 Minutes
Clarence Day, Jr.
William Powell Irene Dunne Elizabeth Taylor Edmund Gwenn ZaSu Pitts Jimmy Lydon Martin Milner
father mother son schoolgirl maid amusing endearing new york city household father/son relationship family marriage parenthood authority transformation love 1890s
A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
Romance
USA
1950
107 Minutes
Johnny Wilson
Joan Fontaine Joseph Cotten Francoise Rosay Jessica Tandy Bob Arthur Jimmy Lydon
An industrialist and a pianist who fall in love in postwar Italy are pronounced dead when they miss their flight home, but the former's wife does not give him up.
Drama
USA
1953
109 Minutes
Murray
John Wayne Lloyd Nolan Walter Abel James Arness Andy Devine Allyn Joslyn Jimmy Lydon Harry Carey Jr. Hal Baylor Sean McClory Wally Cassell
pilot captain colonel airman soldier bleak tense canada lake airplane military base wilderness stranded survival world war ii search military airplane crash rescue quest
A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastes of Quebec, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while waiting for rescue.
Crime, Drama
USA
1949
85 Minutes
Ted Hendry
Lloyd Nolan Jane Wyatt Audie Murphy James Gleason Stanley Clements Martha Vickers Rhys Williams Jimmy Lydon Dickie Moore Selena Royle Tommy Cook
THIS SUMMARY CONTAINS SPOILERS! Danny is a juvenile delinquent sentenced to Variety Club Ranch in lieu of jail. He charms the headmistress and goads everyone else. The marshal sets out to ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
1948
109 Minutes
Dudley Raoul Bostwick
James Cagney William Bendix Wayne Morris Jeanne Cagney Broderick Crawford Ward Bond James Barton Paul Draper Jimmy Lydon Gale Page Richard Erdman
bartender cowboy errand boy armchair philosopher dancer prostitute amusing touching san francisco saloon dreams drinking underdog 1930s
A man in a chair (James Cagney) comments as, one by one, characters enter Nick's (William Bendix) San Francisco bar.
Comedy, Western
USA
1971
114 Minutes
Brian Keith Alfonso Arau Michele Carey Rick Lenz Harry Morgan Simon Oakland Bill Williams Christopher Dark Fran Ryan Bruce Glover Richard Hale
A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way other people--and the law--tell him he has to.