List of the best Rochelle Hudson movies: Show Them No Mercy(1935), Way Down East(1935), Queen of Broadway(1942), Life Begins at 40(1935), Meet Boston Blackie(1941), Mr. Moto Takes a Chance(1938), Bachelor Bait(1934), Everybody's Old Man(1936), Island of Doomed Men(1940), Poppy(1936), Mr. Skitch(1933), Wild Boys of the Road(1933) ... ...
Crime, Drama
USA
1935
76 Minutes
The title refers to the government's plan at the time for putting an end to a lucrative racket, kidnapping. When Hudson and Norris enter a country house to get out of the rain it turns out ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1935
80 Minutes
Anna Moore
Rochelle Hudson Henry Fonda Slim Summerville Edward Trevor Margaret Hamilton Andy Devine Russell Simpson Spring Byington Astrid Allwyn Sara Haden Al Lydell
young woman squire wife son neighbor cousin melodramatic intense new england town household street river garden rural life father/son relationship illegitimate child judgment jealousy storm
A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret in her past that she hasn't told them about.
Drama
USA
1942
64 Minutes
Sherry Baker (Rochelle Hudson), owner of a sports service (a bookie)is very successful and is highly respected by gamblers in New York City. Ricky Sloan (Buster Crabbe), owner of the ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
USA
1935
85 Minutes
Adele Anderson
Will Rogers Rochelle Hudson Richard Cromwell George Barbier Jane Darwell Slim Summerville Sterling Holloway Thomas Beck Roger Imhof Charles Sellon John Bradford
In small-town America the easy-going publisher of the local paper finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1941
61 Minutes
Cecelia Bradley
ex-convict police detective sidekick beautiful woman spy suspenseful offbeat new york city coney island apartment murder espionage redemption investigation conspiracy underdog pursuit mystery 1940s
When a murder occurs on an ocean liner docked in New York, the trail leads to Coney Island and a spy ring.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1938
63 Minutes
Peter Lorre Rochelle Hudson Robert Kent J. Edward Bromberg Chick Chandler George Regas
In the jungle near Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Mr. Moto poses as an ineffectual archaeologist and a venerable holy man with mystical powers to help foil two insurgencies against the government.
Romance
USA
1934
80 Minutes
Cynthia Douglas
Stuart Erwin Rochelle Hudson Pert Kelton Skeets Gallagher Berton Churchill Grady Sutton Clarence Wilson Otto Hoffman
secretary businessman wealthy man playboy executive ex-wife lighthearted heartwarming amusing city household boat office matchmaking loss of job business scheme love triangle marriage love rivalry
A well-meaning but bumbling clerk at the Marriage License Bureau winds up getting fired. He decides to open up his own "matchmaking" business and takes a personal interest in his clients, ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1936
82 Minutes
Irvin S. Cobb Rochelle Hudson Johnny Downs Norman Foster Alan Dinehart Sara Haden
First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1940
67 Minutes
slave trader wife secret agent cook prison guard inmate disturbing gripping intense melodramatic penal colony island pacific ocean slave trade forced labor unlikely allies investigation working undercover prison break wretched excess
Undercover agent Mark Sheldon gets paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine manned by slave labor run by sadistic Stephen Danel.
Comedy
1936
75 Minutes
actress adopted daughter love interest con artist impostor carnival worker lighthearted madcap amusing small town carnival household carnivals con game inheritance father/daughter relationship class distinctions romantic dilemma escape sacrifice
A carnival con man (W.C. Fields) plays croquet and promotes his ward (Rochelle Hudson) as a missing heiress.
Comedy
USA
1933
70 Minutes
Emily Skitch
The Missouri Skitches (Will Rogers, ZaSu Pitts, Rochelle Hudson) drive to California via Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon.
Drama
USA
1933
68 Minutes
Grace
Frankie Darro Dorothy Coonan Edwin Phillips Rochelle Hudson Sterling Holloway Arthur Hohl Ann Hovey Minna Gombell
teen boy high-school student police officer teen girl aunt panhandler gritty dark profound train cleveland chicago camp dump new york state great depression unemployment child labor friendship quest
In the depths of the Depression, two teenage boys strike out on their own in order to help their struggling parents and find life on the road tougher than expected.
Drama
USA
1934
106 Minutes
Jessie Pullman
Claudette Colbert Warren William Louise Beavers Rochelle Hudson Ned Sparks Alan Hale Henry Armetta Wyndham Standing
widow daughter housekeeper friend emotional touching atlantic city, n.j. family friendship abandonment race relations business mother/daughter relationship growing up transformation 1930s
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter; the two women start a successful business, but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
Horror
USA
1964
89 Minutes
Emily Cutler
Joan Crawford Diane Baker Leif Erickson Howard St. John John Anthony Hayes Rochelle Hudson George Kennedy Edith Atwater Mitchell Cox Patricia Krest
killer mother daughter psychiatrist fiancé brother campy gory unrestrained farmhouse countryside serial murders mother/daughter relationship violence insanity family history mystery discovery wretched excess 1940s
After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.
Drama
USA
1955
111 Minutes
Judy's Mother
James Dean Natalie Wood Sal Mineo Jim Backus Ann Doran Corey Allen William Hopper Rochelle Hudson Virginia Brissac Nick Adams Jack Simmons
teenager girlfriend friend rival mother father dark emotional los angeles police station household abandoned building observatory teenage rebellion teen angst generation gap alienation family dysfunction accidental death growing up
A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.
Comedy
USA
1933
66 Minutes
Sally
Mae West Cary Grant Owen Moore Gilbert Roland Noah Beery David Landau Rafaela Ottiano Dewey Robinson Rochelle Hudson Tammany Young Fuzzy Knight
singer convict femme fatale agent bar owner ex-boyfriend hedonistic confident cheeky bar prison mission crime love triangle seduction prostitution alcohol jealousy wretched excess temptation
In the Gay Nineties, a seductive nightclub singer contends with several suitors, including a jealous escaped convict and a handsome temperance league member.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
1932
70 Minutes
Parker's Telephone Operator
Edna May Oliver James Gleason Mae Clarke Robert Armstrong Donald Cook Clarence Wilson Edgar Kennedy Mary Mason Rochelle Hudson Guy Usher James Donlan
New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers (Edna May Oliver) assists a detective (James Gleason) with an aquarium corpse.