List of the best Leslie Fenton movies: Pardon My Past(1945), Whispering Smith(1948), Streets of Laredo(1949), Saigon(1948), Tomorrow the World(1945), The House of Secrets(1936), On Our Merry Way(1948), The Shamrock Handicap(1926), Lady Killer(1933), Fugitive Road(1934), F.P.1 Doesn't Answer(1933), Boys Town(1938) ... ...
Comedy
USA
1945
88 Minutes
Director
veteran bookie wealthy man ex-wife uncle friend cheery madcap frenetic wisconsin small town family home mistaken identity family dysfunction debt divorce money discovery escape 1940s
An ex-GI wants to open a mink farm in Wisconsin; but is mistaken for a look-alike, a gambler who owes a lot of money.
Western
USA
1948
88 Minutes
Director
Alan Ladd Robert Preston Donald Crisp Brenda Marshall William Demarest Fay Holden Murvyn Vye Frank Faylen John Eldredge Ward Wood J. Farrell MacDonald
police officer railroad worker friend ex-wife gang leader train robber brash gutsy train railroad tracks wild west friendship work-life balance train robbery romance conflict of interest rivalry forbidden love adventure 19th century
Legendary railroad detective Whispering Smith becomes convinced that old friend and colleague Murray Sinclair has joined a criminal band to loot the railroad.
Western
USA
1949
92 Minutes
Director
William Holden William Bendix Macdonald Carey Mona Freeman Stanley Ridges Alfonso Bedoya Ray Teal Clem Bevans James Bell Dick Foote Joe Dominguez
texas ranger bandit orphan beautiful woman outlaw tense engaging gritty confident texas wild west romantic dilemma rescue redemption old west law and order rescue transformation love rivalry
An outlaw separates from his two partners in crime when they join the Texas Rangers, and he continues to commit daring robberies.
Adventure
USA
1948
94 Minutes
Director
After WW2, two army buddies, one of them terminally-ill, embark on a series of adventures in South-East Asia and run across a dangerous criminal and his pretty secretary.
Drama
USA
1945
86 Minutes
Director
Fredric March Betty Field Skip Homeier Agnes Moorehead Joan Carroll Edit Angold
nephew uncle professor fiancée emotional gripping germany united states household family world war ii nazism judaism propaganda discovery growing up transformation 1940s
German boy Emil comes to live with his American uncle who tries to teach the former Hitler Youth to reject Nazism.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1936
70 Minutes
Barry Wilding
Leslie Fenton Muriel Evans Noel Madison Sidney Blackmer Morgan Wallace Holmes Herbert Ian MacLaren Jameson Thomas Matty Fain Syd Saylor George Rosener
Two men stumble into an old mansion, and get involved with a crazed scientist, torture chambers and sinister medical experiments.
Comedy
1948
107 Minutes
Burgess Meredith Leslie Fenton Paulette Goddard Fred MacMurray Hugh Herbert James Stewart Dorothy Lamour Victor Moore Eilene Janssen Henry Fonda William Demarest
clerk musician actress magician wife editor amusing lighthearted los angeles newsroom household stage studio impersonation repentance deception babies relationships journalism quest
Musicians, Hollywood extras and others tell a reporter (Burgess Meredith) how children affect their lives.
Drama
USA
1926
66 Minutes
Neil Ross
Janet Gaynor Leslie Fenton Willard Louis J. Farrell MacDonald Claire McDowell Louis Payne Georgie Harris
The story of Sir Miles O'Hara and his daughter, who rent out living quarters to a poor family, the O'Sheas, who cannot pay rent on time.
Comedy
USA
1933
76 Minutes
Duke
James Cagney Mae Clarke Leslie Fenton Margaret Lindsay Henry O'Neill Raymond Hatton George Chandler Douglas Dumbrille
usher police detective criminal gangster actor movie star confident charming crafty los angeles hollywood, calif. movie studio crime ring hollywood investigation escape acting adventure escape pursuit
A former gangster makes it big in Hollywood, but his old life catches up with him.
Drama
USA
1934
69 Minutes
Frank Riker
Erich von Stroheim Wera Engels Leslie Fenton George Humbert Harry Holman Hank Mann Michael Visaroff
An Austrian officer must face up to the good and evil aspects of his own personality as he becomes involved in a war.
Drama
1933
109 Minutes
Capt. B.E. Droste
Conrad Veidt Jill Esmond Leslie Fenton George Merritt Donald Calthrop Alexander Field Francis L. Sullivan Warwick Ward Nicholas Hannen William Freshman
An aircraft landing site in the Atlantic is targeted by a rival who wants the floating platform rendered useless.
Drama
USA
1938
96 Minutes
Dan Farrow
Spencer Tracy Mickey Rooney Henry Hull Leslie Fenton Addison Richards Edward Norris Gene Reynolds Minor Watson Jonathan Hale Bobs Watson Martin Spellman
priest juvenile delinquent criminal police officer endearing inspiring boys town, neb. police station prison street crime troubled youth faith growing up transformation 1930s
When a death row prisoner tells him he wouldn't have led a life of crime if only he had had one friend as a child, Father Edward Flanagan decides to start a home for young boys.
Drama, Romance
USA
1929
73 Minutes
Richard Parrish
Ann Harding Fredric March Carmelita Geraghty Leslie Fenton George Irving
Pre-Code early-talkie film version of Philip Barry's Broadway hit chronicles the first five years of marriage between James and Mary Hutton, and the two paramours they deserted who wait patiently - and manipulatively - in the wings.
Crime, Drama
USA
1932
74 Minutes
Harry En Hai
Edward G. Robinson Loretta Young Dudley Digges Leslie Fenton J. Carrol Naish Edmund Breese Tully Marshall Charles Middleton
assassin childhood friend daughter gangster guard fortuneteller melodramatic shocking sad san francisco execution chamber family home chinatown sacramento, calif. california assassination crime syndicate love triangle loyalty infidelity
A hatchet man is ordered to kill his close friend for the sake of Tong.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1931
69 Minutes
Walter Grayson
Aileen Pringle Alice White Hale Hamilton Leslie Fenton Brandon Hurst Kenneth Thomson Clara Blandick William Humphrey
A murder during a game of charades at a society party leads the police to begin the hunt through the guest list for a motive and culprit.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
USA
1936
66 Minutes
Don Gregg
Helen Broderick James Gleason Louise Latimer Owen Davis Jr. John Arledge John Carroll Leslie Fenton Christian Rub Sheila Terry Willie Best John Miltern
After Hildegarde proves that the accidental riding death on a Central Park bridle path is really murder, she's faced with a plethora of red herrings and a real killer.
Drama
USA
1936
50 Minutes
Carl Briggs
Robert Young Florence Rice Ted Healy Julie Haydon Catherine Doucet Janet Beecher Leslie Fenton Sidney Toler Paul Stanton
Kept overnight by police investigating a murder, department store owner Charley Phelps and sales clerk Joan Sutton solve the mystery, defeat a gang of thieves, and fall in love.
Comedy
USA
1929
70 Minutes
Carlo Vesper
Richard Arlen Mary Brian Olga Baclanova Harry Green Jack Oakie Pat O'Malley Leslie Fenton Charles Sullivan Bob Perry Sailor Vincent
An arrogant boxer named Dum-Dum Brooks romances beautiful Celia Fields, but then falls for temptress Sonia Barondoff on the eve of the big fight.