List of the best Melville Cooper movies: Women Are Like That(1938), The Great Garrick(1937), The Dawn Patrol(1938), Tovarich(1937), Blind Alley(1939), Murder Over New York(1940), Too Many Husbands(1940), You Belong to Me(1941), The Immortal Sergeant(1943), 13 rue Madeleine(1946), Hard to Get(1938), The Lady Eve(1941) ... ...
5.8/10
Drama
USA
1938
78 Minutes
Leslie Mainwaring
Kay Francis Pat O'Brien Ralph Forbes Melville Cooper Thurston Hall Grant Mitchell Gordon Oliver John Eldredge Herbert Rawlinson Hugh Compton Sarah Edwards
advertiser father daughter company president fiancé husband cheeky tense engaging melodramatic new york city church office judge's chambers advertising business embezzlement drinking romance competition
Domestic strife results when a man refuses to involve his wife in his struggling business.
Comedy
1937
91 Minutes
M. Picard
Brian Aherne Olivia de Havilland Edward Everett Horton Melville Cooper Luis Alberni Lionel Atwill Marie Wilson Lana Turner Linda Perry Craig Reynolds Dorothy Tree
actor countess love interest fan servant amusing outlandish witty paris inn england stage impersonation performance romance misunderstanding theater david garrick rivalry transformation
French actors stage a hoax to deflate the ego of the famed 18th-century British actor (Brian Aherne).
7.5/10
War, Drama
USA
1938
103 Minutes
Sergeant Watkins
Errol Flynn David Niven Basil Rathbone Donald Crisp Melville Cooper Barry Fitzgerald Carl Esmond Peter Willes Morton Lowater Michael Brooke James Burke
commander military officer pilot brutal rousing france military base horrors of war dangerous job air force friendship death world war i sacrifice transformation rivalry 1910s
British flying aces in World War I contend with the harsh realities of war.
7.0/10
Romance
USA
1937
98 Minutes
Charles Dupont
Claudette Colbert Charles Boyer Basil Rathbone Anita Louise Melville Cooper Isabel Jeans Maurice Murphy Morris Carnovsky Gregory Gaye Montagu Love Renie Riano
duchess prince banker wife daughter government official charming hilarious paris household assumed identity russian revolution domestic work aristocracy money exile sacrifice discovery transformation 1930s
After the Russian revolution, a married Russian couple of nobility must take up jobs in Paris in order to survive.
6.3/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1939
71 Minutes
George Curtis
Chester Morris Ralph Bellamy Ann Dvorak Joan Perry Melville Cooper Rose Stradner John Eldredge Ann Doran Marc Lawrence Stanley Brown Scotty Beckett
murderer henchman psychologist student wife son brooding intense frightening prison house basement pier hostage situation fugitives psychology paralysis murder abuse quest
Gangster Hal Wilson takes psychiatrist Dr. Shelby hostage. While captive, the doctor analyzes Wilson as though he were a patient.
7.1/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1940
65 Minutes
Herbert Fenton
Sidney Toler Marjorie Weaver Robert Lowery Ricardo Cortez Donald MacBride Melville Cooper Joan Valerie Kane Richmond
When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.
6.5/10
Romance
USA
1940
84 Minutes
Peter
Jean Arthur Fred MacMurray Melvyn Douglas Harry Davenport Dorothy Peterson Melville Cooper Edgar Buchanan Tom Dugan
wife husband butler detective lieutenant madcap quirky witty courtroom airport house bigamy marriage love triangle missing persons shipwreck difficult decision love rivalry 1940s
Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.
6.0/10
Comedy
USA
1941
94 Minutes
Moody
Barbara Stanwyck Henry Fonda Edgar Buchanan Roger Clark Ruth Donnelly Melville Cooper Ralph Peters Maude Eburne Renie Riano Ellen Lowe Mary Treen
doctor playboy attorney patient gardener airy hilarious playful california ski resort hospital los angeles mansion department store romance jealousy career wealth medical profession marriage
A jealous and insecure newlywed man interferes with his wife's medical work in order to prevent her from seeing attractive male patients.
War
1943
91 Minutes
Pilcher
Henry Fonda Thomas Mitchell Maureen O'Hara Allyn Joslyn Reginald Gardiner Melville Cooper Bramwell Fletcher Morton Lowry
sergeant corporal soldier girlfriend german soldier patriotic thrilling inspiring emotional libyan desert cairo oasis world war ii leadership responsibility confidence brotherhood travel transformation underdog
His tough old sergeant's (Thomas Mitchell) death inspires a World War II corporal (Henry Fonda) to bravery in the Libyan desert.
Mystery & Thriller
1946
95 Minutes
Pappy Simpson
James Cagney Annabella Richard Conte Frank Latimore Walter Abel Melville Cooper Sam Jaffe Marcel Rousseau E.G. Marshall Blanche Yurka Peter von Zerneck
military officer secret agent spy soldier tense thrilling paris germany military base world war ii espionage murder pursuit mystery 1940s
A U.S. spy chief (James Cagney) spots a double agent (Richard Conte) and tracks him to Gestapo headquarters in France.
Romance
1938
80 Minutes
John Case
Dick Powell Olivia de Havilland Charles Winninger Allen Jenkins Bonita Granville Melville Cooper Isabel Jeans Grady Sutton Thurston Hall John Ridgely Jack Mower
heiress tycoon architect gas station attendant maid valet airy amusing winsome mansion gas station office class distinctions romance father/daughter relationship opposites attract wealth revenge love growing up
An heiress (Olivia De Havilland) gets even with a gas-pumping architect (Dick Powell) by introducing him to her father (Charles Winninger).
7.8/10
Romance
USA
1941
97 Minutes
Gerald
Barbara Stanwyck Henry Fonda Charles Coburn Eugene Pallette William Demarest Eric Blore Melville Cooper Martha O'Driscoll Janet Beecher Robert Greig Dora Clement
con artist father heir cardsharp amusing charming winsome witty ship train new york city household love deception romance crime father/daughter relationship love rivalry revenge
A trio of classy card sharks targets the socially awkward heir to brewery millions for his money, until one of them falls in love with him.
6.2/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1956
98 Minutes
Adams
Eddie Fisher Debbie Reynolds Adolphe Menjou Tommy Noonan Nita Talbot Una Merkel Melville Cooper Bill Goodwin Howard McNear Robert H. Harris Mary Treen
salesgirl business owner son baby coworker landlady hilarious frenetic heartwarming new york city department store apartment restaurant office family home maternity single mothers mistaken identity unusual romance gossip
After finding a baby outside an orphanage, a salesgirl receives sympathy from those around her, including her boss' son, as they all assume the baby is hers.
5.8/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1938
95 Minutes
Pierre LeBrec
Rudy Vallee The Schnickelfritz Band Rosemary Lane Hugh Herbert Allen Jenkins Gloria Dickson Melville Cooper Mabel Todd Fritz Feld Edward Brophy Curt Bois
club owner ballet instructor ballerina ex-wife gangster thug madcap lighthearted nightclub theater paris new york city mistaken identity ballet performance con game pursuit quest 1930s
Owners and show girls of the bankrupt Club Ballé are mistaken for the Academy Ballet of America and are off to Paris to compete in an International Dance Exposition.
Action
1955
89 Minutes
Felix Ratsey
Stewart Granger George Sanders Joan Greenwood Viveca Lindfors Jon Whiteley Liliane Montevecchi Melville Cooper Sean McClory Alan Napier John Hoyt Donna Corcoran
buccaneer smuggler orphan nobleman pirate rousing england port village graveyard boat treasure hunting unlikely allies inheritance bootlegging secret identity father figure adventure growing up rivalry
In the 18th century, British youngster John Mohune is shipped off to live with Jeremy Fox, a gentleman who moonlights as a bootlegger, after his mother's death.
7.4/10
Adventure
UK
1935
95 Minutes
Romney
Leslie Howard Merle Oberon Raymond Massey Nigel Bruce Bramwell Fletcher Anthony Bushell Joan Gardner Melville Cooper
nobleman wife agent ambassador gripping melodramatic paris revolution espionage romance adventure rescue mystery 18th century
A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.
7.2/10
Comedy
USA
1950
93 Minutes
Mr. Tringle
Spencer Tracy Elizabeth Taylor Joan Bennett Don Taylor Billie Burke Leo G. Carroll Moroni Olsen Melville Cooper Taylor Holmes Paul Harvey Frank Orth
father bride daughter mother groom amusing playful endearing america household church wedding marriage family aging parenthood love growing up 1950s
The father of a young woman deals with the emotional pain of her getting married, along with the financial and organizational trouble of arranging the wedding.
6.9/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1950
89 Minutes
Major Redford
Dan Duryea Herbert Marshall Gale Storm Howard da Silva Michael O'Shea Mary Anderson Gar Moore Melville Cooper Frieda Inescort
journalist publisher newspaper owner gangster daughter-in-law murderer brooding intense uneasy intricate small town new england office suburbia city city hall journalism ethics gangsters murder
The story of the fight of a small-town newspaper to free an innocent girl of a murder charge, with the publisher of a metropolitan city newspaper heading, by forced circumstances, the opposing forces.
6.6/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1935
87 Minutes
Collins
Maureen O'Sullivan Edmund Gwenn Lucile Watson Reginald Owen Dudley Digges Norman Foster Lilian Bond Melville Cooper Charles McNaughton Etienne Girardot
On a walking tour of English cathedrals, Donald Meadows meets Hester Granthem in church. Hearing he is from that hot-bed of crime, Chicago, Hester asks Donald to help her in a robbery she ... See full summary »
6.4/10
Romance
USA
1949
119 Minutes
Private David Moonlight
Walter Pidgeon Ethel Barrymore Peter Lawford Angela Lansbury Janet Leigh Louis Calhern Francis L. Sullivan Melville Cooper Robert Coote Alan Napier Roman Toporow
colonel mother superior major aide ballerina private tense emotional vienna convent train station rome repatriation communism faith romance duty suicide quest escape
Shortly after the end of World War II, British Colonel Michael S. "Hooky" Nicobar (Walter Pidgeon) is assigned to a unit in the British Zone of Vienna. His duty is to aid the Soviet ... See full summary »
6.4/10
Comedy
USA
1937
98 Minutes
William "Bill"
Joan Crawford Richard Boleslawski William Powell Robert Montgomery Frank Morgan Nigel Bruce Jessie Ralph Benita Hume Melville Cooper Ralph Forbes Colleen Clare
socialite butler wealthy man lord duchess detective witty emotional amusing london estate new york city ship jewelry theft secret identity deception love triangle swindling partnership discovery
Two English aristocrats pursue a rich American widow who may not be quite the person she claims to be.
Sci-Fi
1958
100 Minutes
Bancroft
Joseph Cotten George Sanders Debra Paget Don Dubbins Patric Knowles Carl Esmond Henry Daniell Melville Cooper Ludwig Stossel Morris Ankrum
tycoon inventor rival scientist assistant daughter thrilling gutsy wild spaceship office mountain washington, d.c. munitions space travel moon forbidden love technology exploration rivalry
Industrial rivals (Joseph Cotten, George Sanders), a crewman and a stowaway girl (Debra Paget) ride a rocket launched by cannon in 1868 Florida.
5.8/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1949
91 Minutes
Throckmorton
Groucho Marx Harpo Marx Chico Marx Ilona Massey Vera-Ellen Marion Hutton Raymond Burr Bruce Gordon Melville Cooper Leon Belasco Paul Valentine
The Marx Brothers help young Broadway hopefuls while thwarting diamond thieves.
7.9/10
Adventure, Action
USA
1938
102 Minutes
High Sheriff of Nottingham
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.
5.6/10
Drama, History
USA
1936
102 Minutes
Cuthbert
Joan Crawford Robert Taylor Lionel Barrymore Franchot Tone Melvyn Douglas James Stewart Alison Skipworth Louis Calhern Beulah Bondi Melville Cooper Sidney Toler
president best friend senator sailor adviser gutsy spirited washington, d.c. inn peggy eaton andrew jackson loyalty politics scandal rivalry sacrifice love 1830s
President Andrew Jackson's friendship with an innkeeper's daughter spells trouble for them both.
6.8/10
War
USA
1942
110 Minutes
Tyrone Power Joan Fontaine Thomas Mitchell Henry Stephenson Nigel Bruce Gladys Cooper Philip Merivale Sara Allgood Alexander Knox Queenie Leonard Melville Cooper
aristocratic lady soldier aunt best friend hotel owner father intense patriotic moving england manor military base village dover hotel desertion patriotism class distinctions english society romance
Although she comes from an aristocratic family, beautiful Prudence Cathaway defies convention by joining the WAAFs and becoming romantically involved with an AWOL soldier.
6.8/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1956
170 Minutes
David Niven Cantinflas Shirley MacLaine Robert Newton Charles Boyer Joe E. Brown Martine Carol John Carradine Charles Coburn Ronald Colman Melville Cooper
explorer servant police officer princess airy charming playful london spain paris india japan san francisco expedition class distinctions culture clash theft adventure pursuit quest
A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.
Mystery & Thriller
1940
130 Minutes
Laurence Olivier Joan Fontaine Judith Anderson George Sanders Nigel Bruce Reginald Denny C. Aubrey Smith Gladys Cooper Florence Bates Leo G. Carroll Melville Cooper
widower housekeeper husband wife bride dark suspenseful emotional mansion england cabin death fire obsession betrayal deception suicide transformation mystery 1940s
A British gentleman's (Laurence Olivier) innocent bride (Joan Fontaine) grapples with intrusive reminders of his deceased wife.
8.0/10
Drama
USA
1942
124 Minutes
Ronald Colman Greer Garson Philip Dorn Susan Peters Reginald Owen Henry Travers Margaret Wycherly Bramwell Fletcher Arthur Margetson Jill Esmond Marta Linden
veteran showgirl fiancée sibling doctor government official emotional passionate england mental institution music hall household small town amnesia world war i car crash inheritance election relationships love
An amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life.
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