List of the best Robert Emmett Keane movies: Fool's Gold(1946), Fear in the Night(1947), The Rookie Cop(1939), I Surrender Dear(1948), Susanna Pass(1949), Men Call It Love(1931), The Strange Mr. Gregory(1946), Laugh and Get Rich(1931), Treasure of Fear(1945), The Border Legion(1940), The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady(1940), Billy the Kid Returns(1938) ... ...
Western
USA
1946
63 Minutes
Professor Dixon
William Boyd Andy Clyde Rand Brooks Robert Emmett Keane Jane Randolph Steve Barclay Harry Cording Earle Hodgins Robert Bentley
The son of an Army friend is about the join an outlaw gang. Hoppy prevents this and brings the gang to justice.
Crime, Drama
USA
1947
72 Minutes
Lewis Belknap, aka Harry Byrd
Paul Kelly DeForest Kelley Ann Doran Kay Scott Robert Emmett Keane Jeff York Charles C. Victor Janet Warren Michael Harvey John Harmon Gladys Blake
bank teller brother-in-law cop wife girlfriend murderer eerie thrilling suspenseful mirrored room mansion bank robbery dreams murder hypnosis dream vs. reality confusion mystery discovery
A man dreams he committed murder, then begins to suspect it was real.
Crime, Drama
USA
1939
60 Minutes
Commissioner Hugh Thomas
Tim Holt Virginia Weidler Janet Shaw Frank M. Thomas Robert Emmett Keane Monte Montague
Using his trained dog, a rookie cop tries to prove his friend innocent of a robbery, despite the police commissioner's objection.
Musical
USA
1948
67 Minutes
Russ Nelson
Gloria Jean David Street Don McGuire Alice Tyrrell Robert Emmett Keane Douglas Wood Regina Wallace Byron Foulger Jack Eigen Dave Garroway Peter Potter
Patty Nelson, using the name of Parry Hart, auditions for and gets the job as a band-singer with Al Tyler's orchestra. Al, of course, falls in love with her and she with him. Back in Los ... See full summary »
Western
USA
1949
67 Minutes
Newspaper Editor Martin Masters
Roy Rogers Dale Evans Estelita Rodriguez Douglas Fowley Lucien Littlefield Robert Emmett Keane
engineer sheriff newspaper owner ichthyologist business owner deputy spirited suspenseful positive lake countryside office animal reserve oil deception land grab murder sabotage pursuit rivalry
The bad guys dynamite a fish hatchery. They're trying to put the hatchery out of business so they can get possession of oil underneath the lake. Roy is a game warden investigating the dynamiting.
Drama
USA
1931
72 Minutes
Joe
Adolphe Menjou Leila Hyams Norman Foster Mary Duncan Hedda Hopper Robert Emmett Keane Harry Northrup
wife husband playboy friend socialite butler melodramatic intricate new york city balcony kitchen party beach car divorce infidelity seduction drinking relationships suspicion
A well-off bachelor finds himself at a loss for what to do when a married woman comes on to him while he's thoroughly involved with someone else's wife.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1946
63 Minutes
District Attorney
Edmund Lowe Jean Rogers Don Douglas Frank Reicher Marjorie Hoshelle Robert Emmett Keane Jonathan Hale Frank Mayo Fred Kelsey Jack Norton
Famed magician Mr. Gregory is visited back stage one night by an amateur magician and his wife. Immediately smitten with Ellen Randall, Gregory plots to win her over. His plot involves ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1931
72 Minutes
Phelps
Hugh Herbert Edna May Oliver Dorothy Lee Russell Gleason John Harron Charles Sellon George Davis Robert Emmett Keane
Man takes his wife's stashed money and is conned into investing it in an oil well.
Comedy
1945
65 Minutes
Prof. Wisner
Jack Haley Ann Savage Barton MacLane Veda Ann Borg Arthur Aylesworth George E. Stone Lucien Littlefield Paul Hurst Robert Emmett Keane Eily Malyon Buddy Swan
A meek reporter (Jack Haley) happens upon murder, an escaped gangster (Barton MacLane) and a stolen jade chess set.
Western
USA
1940
54 Minutes
Officer Willets
Roy Rogers George "Gabby" Hayes Carol Hughes Joe Sawyer Maude Eburne Jay Novello Hal Taliaferro Richard Wessel Paul Porcasi Robert Emmett Keane
An Eastern doctor is on the run from authorities in New York. Out west he comes to the aid of friends besieged by an outlaw gang known as the border legion. In the end, he is cleared of any wrong-doing back east.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1940
70 Minutes
Peter Van Wyck
Warren William Eric Blore Jean Muir Warren Hull Thurston Hall Fred Kelsey Victor Jory Georgia Caine Marla Shelton Robert Emmett Keane William Forrest
A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit. Lanyard, the Lone Wolf, and Jamison set out to find the real killer.
Western
USA
1938
54 Minutes
Mr. Page
Roy Rogers Smiley Burnette Lynne Roberts Morgan Wallace Fred Kohler Wade Boteler Edwin Stanley Horace Murphy Joseph Crehan Robert Emmett Keane
After Pat Garrett kills Billy the Kid, Billy's look-alike Roy Rogers arrives and is mistaken for him. Although a murderer, Billy was on the side of the homesteaders against the large ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1941
106 Minutes
Spencer Tracy Mickey Rooney Bobs Watson Larry Nunn Darryl Hickman Henry O'Neill Mary Nash Lee J. Cobb Sidney Miller Addison Richards Lloyd Corrigan
priest paraplegic young man parent delinquent friend intense emotional moving boys town, neb. reform school office household gas station courtroom juvenile crime reform self-sacrifice adoption violence
Mickey Rooney and Spencer Tracy return in this sequel to the original Boys Town. This time the school faces financial trouble as Father Flanagan tries to help every little boy he meets. ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
USA
1944
91 Minutes
Jean Arthur Lee Bowman Charles Coburn Edgar Buchanan Charley Grapewin Phil Brown Harry Davenport Jane Darwell Grant Mitchell Frank Jenks Frank Orth
husband wife judge father bellhop friend charming heartwarming emotional san francisco courtroom coffee shop hotel reconciliation divorce marriage courtship second chance commitment love
To rekindle their love, a divorce judge orders a couple whose marriage is on the rocks to re-enact their four-day breakneck courtship.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1937
71 Minutes
Guy Kibbee Tom Brown Lucie Kaye Catherine Doucet Edward Brophy Ed Gargan Helen Jerome Eddy Theodore von Eltz Kenneth Thomson Howard C. Hickman Oscar Apfel
Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance company hires him to find a missing emerald so they won't have to pay out the $100,000 for ... See full summary »
Fantasy
USA
1941
107 Minutes
Edward Arnold Walter Huston James Craig Jane Darwell Simone Simon Gene Lockhart John Qualen Frank Conlan Lindy Wade George Cleveland Dawn O'Day
farmer senator devil wife assistant neighbor crafty dark uneasy new hampshire farm town greed corruption debt farming promises friendship temptation pursuit
A nineteenth-century New Hampshire farmer who makes a pact with Satan for economic success enlists Daniel Webster to extract him from his contract.
Sci-Fi
USA
1935
70 Minutes
Peter Lorre Frances Drake Colin Clive Ted Healy Edward Brophy Sara Haden Henry Kolker May Beatty Keye Luke Rollo Lloyd Clarence Wilson
surgeon actress pianist reporter maid lunatic eerie suspenseful quirky paris train household medical experiments obsession framed murder impersonation forbidden love temptation transformation
In Paris, a demented surgeon's obsession with a British actress leads him to secretly replace her concert pianist husband's mangled hands with those of a guillotined murderer with a gift for knife-throwing.
Comedy
USA
1942
78 Minutes
Bob Hope Madeleine Carroll Gale Sondergaard George Zucco Lionel Royce Walter Kingsford Victor Varconi Otto Reichow Charles Cane Crane Whitley Erville Alderson
spy beautiful woman vaudevillian nazi fugitive amusing cheery spirited new york city train chicago california theater show business espionage frame-up mistaken identity secret codes world war ii escape
Karen Bentley, an English secret agent, links up with Larry Haines and his star penguin Percy in an attempt to outwit German spies.