List of the best Richard Gaines movies: The More the Merrier(1943), Five Steps to Danger(1957), Strange Bargain(1949), Do You Love Me?(1946), The Enchanted Cottage(1945), Flight to Mars(1951), Ride the Pink Horse(1947), Love Me or Leave Me(1955), Mr. Winkle Goes to War(1944), Every Girl Should Be Married(1948), Francis in the Haunted House(1956), Double Indemnity(1944) ... ...
Comedy
USA
1943
104 Minutes
Charles J. Pendergast
Jean Arthur Joel McCrea Charles Coburn Richard Gaines Herman Brix Frank Sully Clyde Fillmore Stanley Clements Don Douglas
retiree soldier woman politician witty endearing lighthearted cheery patriotic washington, d.c. apartment roommates romance world war ii matchmaking pursuit love rivalry 1940s
During the World War II housing shortage in Washington, two men and a woman share a single apartment and the older man plays Cupid to the other two.
Mystery & Thriller
1957
80 Minutes
Dean Brant
Ruth Roman Sterling Hayden Werner Klemperer Richard Gaines Jeanne Cooper Peter Hansen John Mitchum John Frederick Karl Lindt
hitchhiker mysterious woman psychiatrist professor nurse spy tense gripping new mexico university country road truck stop santa fe, n.m. car espionage nuclear weapons chase mental illness cold war mystery
Soviet spies follow a stranded motorist (Sterling Hayden) and the code-carrying woman (Ruth Roman) who gives him a ride.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1949
68 Minutes
Malcolm Jarvis
Martha Scott Jeffrey Lynn Harry Morgan Katherine Emery Richard Gaines Henry O'Neill Walter Sande Michael Chapin Arlene Gray Raymond Roe Robert Bray
In order to cash-in a life insurance policy, a failing business owner asks one of his employees, who has financial woes of his own, to aid him in disguising his suicide into a robbery-murder.
Musical, Romance
USA
1946
91 Minutes
Ralph Wainwright
Maureen O'Hara Dick Haymes Harry James Reginald Gardiner Richard Gaines Stanley Prager B.S. Pully Chick Chandler Alma Kruger Almira Sessions Douglas Wood
teacher headmistress singer bandleader musician cheery frenetic winsome confident conservatory train nightclub dance hall big-band music power of music unrequited love change of lifestyle love triangle pursuit transformation
The woman dean of a music school undergoes a glamorous transformation after she meets a swing bandleader.
Romance
USA
1945
91 Minutes
Frederick "Freddy" Price
Robert Young Dorothy McGuire Herbert Marshall Mildred Natwick Spring Byington Richard Gaines Hillary Brooke Alec Englander Mary Worth Josephine Whittell Robert Clarke
pilot maid landlord fiancée mother emotional heartwarming touching cottage family home love loneliness magic love metamorphosis 1940s
A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of ... See full summary »
Sci-Fi
USA
1951
72 Minutes
Prof. Jackson
Marguerite Chapman Cameron Mitchell Arthur Franz Virginia Huston John Litel Richard Gaines
astronaut scientist alien thrilling suspenseful melodramatic spaceship mars underground alien/human relationship space exploration discovery adventure love escape 21st century
Five astronauts successfully fly to Mars where they encounter seemingly friendly and advanced inhabitants who harbor covert plans to use their ship to invade Earth.
Crime, Drama
USA
1947
101 Minutes
Jonathan
Robert Montgomery Wanda Hendrix Thomas Gomez Andrea King Fred Clark Art Smith Richard Gaines Martin Garralaga Rita Conde Iris Flores Edward Earle
young man gangster federal agent teen girl mexican criminal tense raw dark new mexico small town festival hotel carousel crime extortion vengeance investigation murder quest
WW2 veteran Lucky Gagin arrives in a New Mexico border-town intent on revenging against mobster Frank Hugo but FBI agent Bill Retz, who also wants Hugo, tries to keep Gagin out of trouble.
Musical, Music
USA
1955
122 Minutes
Paul Hunter
Doris Day James Cagney Cameron Mitchell Robert Keith Tom Tully Harry Bellaver Richard Gaines Peter Leeds Claude Stroud Audrey Young
singer manager musician agent emotional fiery nightclub chicago theater new york city show business love triangle ruth etting singing abusive marriage transformation rise love 1930s
A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom.
Drama
USA
1944
80 Minutes
Ralph Westcott
Edward G. Robinson Ruth Warrick Ted Donaldson Bob Haymes Richard Lane Robert Armstrong Richard Gaines Walter Baldwin Art Smith Ann Shoemaker Paul Stanton
bank teller army recruit orphan mechanic wife endearing amusing bank japan army camp heroism duty patriotism world war ii marriage underdog adventure rise sacrifice 1940s
Wilbert Winkle, a henpecked, mild-mannered, middle-aged bank clerk and handyman, finds himself in the midst of battle in the South Pacific.
Comedy
USA
1948
85 Minutes
Sam McNutt
Cary Grant Betsy Drake Franchot Tone Diana Lynn Alan Mowbray Elisabeth Risdon Richard Gaines Harry Hayden Chick Chandler Leon Belasco Fred Essler
store clerk doctor wealthy man friend amusing lighthearted san francisco department store household unrequited love obsession deception marriage love pursuit 1940s
A willful woman concocts an elaborate scheme to trap a handsome pediatrician into marriage.
Comedy
USA
1956
80 Minutes
D.A. Reynolds
Mickey Rooney Virginia Welles James Flavin Paul Cavanagh Mary Ellen Kay David Janssen Ralph Dumke Richard Gaines Richard Deacon Dick Winslow Charles Horvath
Francis the Talking Mule witnesses a murder. He takes a bumbling reporter named David Prescott under his wing and the two of them set out to solve the crime.
Crime, Drama
USA
1944
106 Minutes
Mr. Norton
Fred MacMurray Barbara Stanwyck Edward G. Robinson Porter Hall Fortunio Bonanova Jean Heather Tom Powers Byron Barr Richard Gaines John Philliber
insurance salesman femme fatale investigator daughter melodramatic sultry tense america household los angeles train murder deception affair mystery fall 1930s
An insurance representative lets himself be talked by a seductive housewife into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses the suspicion of an insurance investigator.
Western
USA
1954
111 Minutes
Dr. Thomas
Alan Ladd Audrey Dalton Marisa Pavan Robert Keith Rodolfo Acosta Charles Bronson Warner Anderson Elisha Cook Jr. Anthony Caruso Richard Gaines Hayden Rorke
cowboy native american warrior daughter driver ulysses s. grant army officer thrilling gutsy melodramatic california oregon fort mountain river ambush native americans revenge negotiation honor war
In 1872, Indian fighter Johnny MacKay is appointed peace commissioner for the California and Oregon territory but he faces tough opposition from the renegade Modocs led by their chief Captain Jack.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
USA
1942
91 Minutes
Loretta Young Brian Aherne Sidney Toler Jeff Donnell William Wright Gale Sondergaard Donald MacBride Lee Patrick Don Costello Blanche Yurka Richard Gaines
writer wife landlord housekeeper husband amusing engaging suspenseful apartment new york city greenwich village murder blackmail deception mystery discovery 1940s
A mystery writer and his newlywed wife move into a Greenwich Village apartment and find themselves with a corpse and a half dozen red herrings.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1947
98 Minutes
Burt Lancaster Hume Cronyn Charles Bickford Yvonne De Carlo Ann Blyth Ella Raines Anita Colby Sam Levene Howard Duff Art Smith Roman Bohnen
prisoner warden guard wife criminal dark gritty prison doctor's office prison escape illness violence escape quest 1940s
At a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard.
Adventure
USA
1947
146 Minutes
Gary Cooper Paulette Goddard Howard da Silva Boris Karloff Cecil Kellaway Ward Bond Katherine DeMille Henry Wilcoxon C. Aubrey Smith Victor Varconi Virginia Grey
captain slave trader heroine slave native american friend tense spirited confident rousing colony north america pittsburgh fort river conspiracy slave trade colonialism land wars raids
Intrepid frontiersman Chris Holden foils the political and personal ambitions of renegade Martin Garth in the Ohio Valley following the French and Indian War.
Drama
USA
1947
119 Minutes
Spencer Tracy Lana Turner Zachary Scott Tom Drake Mary Astor Albert Van Dekker Margaret Lindsay John Litel Mona Barrie Josephine Hutchinson Rose Hobart
judge wife lawyer emotional somber minnesota small town adultery forbidden love romance judicial system marriage illness rise fall 1940s
Judge Cass Timberlane marries a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Virginia Marshland. A baby is stillborn and she turns more and more to attorney friend of of Cass', Bradd Criley. ... See full summary »