List of the best John Halliday movies: Captain Applejack(1931), The Witching Hour(1934), Peter Ibbetson(1935), Happiness Ahead(1934), Transatlantic(1931), Bird of Paradise(1932), Men of Chance(1932), Perfect Understanding(1933), The Melody Lingers On(1935), Arsene Lupin Returns(1938), Intermezzo(1939), Smart Woman(1931) ... ...
Crime, Drama
USA
1931
76 Minutes
John Halliday Mary Brian Kay Strozzi Louise Closser Hale Alec B. Francis Claude Allister Julia Swayne Gordon Arthur Edmund Carewe Otto Hoffman William B. Davidson
squire ward frenchwoman stranger jewel thief servant engaging spirited thrilling cornwall, england estate library bedroom strangers strange happenings pirates family history treasure the past transformation
An ordinary man is confronted by gangsters who have reason to believe a treasure is buried somewhere on his property.
Drama
USA
1934
64 Minutes
Guy Standing John Halliday Judith Allen Tom Brown Olive Tell William Frawley
Jack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through his unique gift. But when he inadvertently hypnotizes young Clay Thorne, Thorne kills an ... See full summary »
Fantasy
USA
1935
88 Minutes
The Duke of Towers
Gary Cooper Ann Harding John Halliday Ida Lupino Douglas Dumbrille Virginia Weidler Dickie Moore Doris Lloyd Gilbert Emery Donald Meek Christian Rub
architect duchess duke employee best friend love interest dreamy passionate powerful paris england stable dining room prison romance dreams jealousy death prison second chance
A Victorian-era architect, commissioned by the Duke of Towers to design his stables, falls in love with the Duchess.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1934
86 Minutes
Henry Bradford
Dick Powell Josephine Hutchinson John Halliday Frank McHugh Allen Jenkins Ruth Donnelly Dorothy Dare Marjorie Gateson
Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washer.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1931
78 Minutes
Henry D. Graham
Edmund Lowe Lois Moran John Halliday Greta Nissen Myrna Loy Jean Hersholt Earle Foxe Billy Bevan
A contained cast of characters traveling aboard a transatlantic ocean liner are pushed to dangerous limits though monetary issues that threaten the lives of the people onboard.
Romance
USA
1932
80 Minutes
Mac
Dolores del Río Joel McCrea John Halliday Skeets Gallagher Lon Chaney Bert Roach Napoleon Pukui Sofia Ortega Agostino Borgato
sailor beautiful woman king prince princess handsome man melodramatic sultry passionate polynesia south pacific tropical island volcano hut ship interracial relationship arranged marriage language barrier ritual sacrifice shipwreck
A native girl falls for a visitor to her island, but she's chosen to be sacrificed to the volcano god.
Drama
USA
1932
65 Minutes
Richard Dorval
Mary Astor Ricardo Cortez John Halliday Ralph Ince Kitty Kelly James Donlan George Davis
Hoping to get even with gambler/bookie Johnny Silk, racetrack owners and partners Dorval and Farley convince down-and-out Martha Preston to pose as a rich, single French countess, whom Silk... See full summary »
Comedy, Romance, Drama
UK
1933
81 Minutes
Ronnson
Gloria Swanson Laurence Olivier John Halliday Michael Farmer Genevieve Tobin Nora Swinburne Charles Collum Peter Gawthorne Rosalinde Fuller O.B. Clarence Mary Jerrold
husband wife newlywed mistress lord lady melodramatic emotional engaging passionate amusing witty cannes, france london france newlyweds troubled marriage agreement divorce jealousy
A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds himself attracted to a beautiful young woman.
Musical
USA
1935
68 Minutes
Marco Turina
Josephine Hutchinson George Houston John Halliday Mona Barrie Helen Westley Laura Hope Crewes
A piano virtuoso has a child out of wedlock to her fiance, who is killed trying to save her life. Their son is brought up by foster parents and becomes a musician.
Crime, Drama
USA
1938
81 Minutes
Count de Grissac
Melvyn Douglas Virginia Bruce Warren William John Halliday Nat Pendleton Monty Woolley George Zucco E.E. Clive Rollo Lloyd Vladimir Sokoloff Tully Marshall
A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy and alluring society woman, while one ... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1939
70 Minutes
Thomas
Leslie Howard Ingrid Bergman Edna Best John Halliday Cecil Kellaway Enid Bennett Ann E. Todd Douglas Scott Eleanor Wesselhoeft Marie Flynn
pianist daughter wife son violinist engaging melodramatic stockholm new york city affair music family love triangle forbidden love temptation 1930s
A violinist's piano accompanist retires. He hears his daughter's piano teacher/Ingrid Bergman play and asks her to play on his next int'l tour. They fall in love.
Romance
USA
1931
68 Minutes
Sir Guy Harrington
Mary Astor Robert Ames Edward Everett Horton John Halliday Noel Francis
wife husband gold digger aristocrat bachelor adulterer lighthearted amusing melodramatic paris new york city manor ocean liner infidelity romantic dilemma love triangle schemes jealousy marriage love
A wife turns the tables on her cheating husband.
Drama
USA
1933
67 Minutes
Stephen Paige
Constance Bennett Pert Kelton Joel McCrea John Halliday Samuel S. Hinds Franklin Pangborn
A former prostitute, determined to reform upon leaving prison, falls in love with a cotton barge owner and must choose between him and her banker lover.
Drama
USA
1934
70 Minutes
Paul Duprey
Bette Davis George Brent Ann Dvorak John Halliday Ruth Donnelly Robert Barrat Hobart Cavanaugh Joseph Cawthorn Harry Tyler Leila Bennett Ronnie Cosby
housewife ad copywriter lover husband son old friend witty melodramatic uneasy advertising office house courtroom divorce advertising ambition infidelity poverty marriage love rise
Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1934
68 Minutes
Austin Stevens
Jean Muir George Brent Verree Teasdale John Halliday Charles Starrett Russell Hopton Virginia Hammond Joan Wheeler Catherine Sheldon Harry Tyler Gladys Gale
actress friend daughter fiancé mother young woman spirited endearing moving new york city apartment party estate secret life mother/daughter relationship love triangle fame engagement class distinctions temptation
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
Comedy
USA
1931
82 Minutes
Jeff Hunter
Irene Dunne Pat O'Brien Myrna Loy John Halliday Matt Moore Lester Vail Pauline Stevens
In prohibition-era Manhattan, shopkeeper Mary Brown loses Aubrey, her childhood sweetheart, when he marries a rich woman. Reporter Steve "Rollo" Porter has lost -his- childhood sweetheart, ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1935
110 Minutes
Sir George Barton
Fredric March Merle Oberon Herbert Marshall Janet Beecher John Halliday Henrietta Crosman Frieda Inescort Claude Allister George Breakston Fay Chaldecott Dennis Chaldecott
soldier cousin girl friend engaging emotional passionate london france england countryside cottage devotion pride love war blindness jealousy love transformation
The close relationship between a woman and her two male childhood friends is tested when she accepts a marriage proposal from one of them, while the burgeoning First World War threatens to change their lives forever.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1938
100 Minutes
Gilbert Fullerton
Deanna Durbin Melvyn Douglas Jackie Cooper Irene Rich Nancy Carroll John Halliday Jackie Searle Juanita Quigley Peggy Stewart Charles Coleman Grant Mitchell
teen girl father reporter boyfriend scout actress lighthearted amusing cheery country house office party infatuation adolescence young love newspapers musical performance growing up forbidden love transformation
A teenage girl clashes with her newspaper publisher father's star reporter while he stays in their country guest house, but soon finds herself falling in love with him.
Romance
USA
1940
112 Minutes
Seth Lord
Cary Grant Katharine Hepburn James Stewart Ruth Hussey John Howard Roland Young John Halliday Virginia Weidler Mary Nash Henry Daniell Hillary Brooke
ex-wife ex-husband reporter wealthy man sister father amusing charming engaging philadelphia family home marriage love triangle wedding romance love discovery temptation 1940s
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
Romance
USA
1941
104 Minutes
Fitzpatrick
Merle Oberon Joseph Cotten Alan Marshall Edna May Oliver Hans Jaray George Reeves John Halliday Sara Allgood Billy Ray Frank Conlan
elderly woman lover suitor recluse old flame melodramatic moving tender boston charity event new york city regret memory reunion unrequited love romance the past love mystery discovery
Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy old woman who has never married, is invited by an old beau, Dr. Michael Fitzpatrick, for a reunion with the men who have been in her life to reminisce about the ... See full summary »