List of the best Rowland V. Lee movies: The Count of Monte Cristo(1934), I Am Suzanne!(1933), Son of Frankenstein(1939), Zoo in Budapest(1933), Captain Kidd(1945), The Toast of New York(1937), One Rainy Afternoon(1936), Paramount on Parade(1930), The Bridge of San Luis Rey(1944), The Son of Monte Cristo(1940), Love From a Stranger(1937), Mother Carey's Chickens(1938) ... ...
Adventure
USA
1934
113 Minutes
Director
Robert Donat Elissa Landi Louis Calhern Sidney Blackmer Raymond Walburn O.P. Heggie Irene Hervey Georgia Caine Walter Walker Lawrence Grant Luis Alberni
prisoner count villain fiancée spirited gutsy rousing gripping paris italy island revenge fortune imprisonment rags to riches adventure revenge rivalry transformation 1810s
After greedy men have Edmound Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to get his revenge on them.
Musical, Romance
USA
1933
98 Minutes
Director
Lilian Harvey Gene Raymond Leslie Banks Georgia Caine Murray Kinnell Geneva Mitchell Halliwell Hobbes Edward Keane
Tony Malatini, a puppeteer, at Paris' Theatre des Marionettes notices that his audience consists of only 7 people. He visits his successful competitor on the corner to see why people are ... See full summary »
Horror
USA
1939
99 Minutes
Director
Basil Rathbone Boris Karloff Bela Lugosi Lionel Atwill Josephine Hutchinson Donnie Dunagan Emma Dunn Edgar Norton Perry Ivins Lawrence Grant Lionel Belmore
frankenstein's monster ygor scientist inspector wife son creepy dark thrilling family home castle frankenstein village laboratory graveyard family honor father/son relationship scientific experiments monsters murder vindication
Returning to the ancestral castle long after the death of the monster, the son of Dr. Frankenstein meets a mad shepherd who is hiding the comatose creature. To clear the family name, he revives the creature and tries to rehabilitate him.
Romance
USA
1933
85 Minutes
Director
Loretta Young Gene Raymond O.P. Heggie Wally Albright Paul Fix Murray Kinnell Ruth Warren Roy Stewart Frances Rich Niles Welch Lucille Ward
An orphan girl escapes her caregivers to be with a young man raised at the zoo whose only previous friends are the animals.
Adventure, Drama, History
USA
1945
89 Minutes
Director
Charles Laughton Randolph Scott Barbara Britton Reginald Owen John Carradine Gilbert Roland John Qualen Sheldon Leonard Abner Biberman William Farnum Ray Teal
pirate henchman admiral king son love interest spirited brutal madagascar coast ship cave london sea ambition greed capt. kidd betrayal execution swordplay
The unhistorical adventures of pirate Captain Kidd revolve around treasure and treachery.
Biography
USA
1937
109 Minutes
Director
Edward Arnold Cary Grant Frances Farmer Jack Oakie Donald Meek Clarence Kolb Billy Gilbert Stanley Fields
financier best friend cornelius vanderbilt actress smuggler victim melodramatic charming new york city office wall street theater stocks finance schemes corruption love triangle quest transformation 1870s
Notorious robber baron financier Jim Fisk, who makes and loses fortunes, tries to corner the gold market as well as the heart of a beautiful actress.
Romance
USA
1936
75 Minutes
Director
Francis Lederer Ida Lupino Hugh Herbert Roland Young Erik Rhodes Joseph Cawthorn Countess Liev de Maigret Donald Meek Georgia Caine Richard Carle Mischa Auer
actor young woman mistress fiancé father husband lighthearted playful paris movie theater courtroom jail ice-skating rink theater reputation romance acting mishaps scandal father/daughter relationship
Actor Philippe Martin and his married date Yvonne plan to neck in a darkened cinema, but he gets the wrong seat and mistakenly kisses lovely Monique, a publisher's daughter. An absurd ... See full summary »
Musical
USA
1930
77 Minutes
Director
Edwin H. Knopf Richard Arlen Ernst Lubitsch Dorothy Arzner Edmund Goulding Victor Schertzinger Jean Arthur
A musical revue that basically has Paramount stars and contract-players doing things some had never done on screen, and wouldn't again; such as Ruth Chatteron , in a French-café setting ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1944
89 Minutes
Director
A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the life of each of the victims.
Adventure
1940
102 Minutes
Director
Louis Hayward Joan Bennett George Sanders Florence Bates Lionel Royce Montagu Love Ian Wolfe Clayton Moore Ralph Byrd Georges Renavent Michael Visaroff
queen general son king guard brash crafty gutsy fictional country royal court royal palace europe royalty power struggle identity schemes adventure rivalry 1860s
A masked swordsman (Louis Hayward) poses as a French banker to save a grand duchess (Joan Bennett) from a dictator (George Sanders).
Mystery & Thriller
1937
87 Minutes
Director
Ann Harding Basil Rathbone Binnie Hale Bruce Seton Jean Cadell Bryan Powley Joan Hickson Donald Calthrop Eugene Leahy
stenographer fiancé serial killer aunt maid doctor dark suspenseful uneasy england apartment ship france country house country fair deception elopement lottery marriage isolation
An English lottery winner (Ann Harding) slowly realizes her suave new husband (Basil Rathbone) plans to kill her.
Drama
1938
82 Minutes
Director
Ruby Keeler Dawn O'Day Fay Bainter Jimmy Ellison Walter Brennan Donnie Dunagan Frank Albertson Alma Kruger
naval officer widow daughter sister son suitor tender emotional winsome positive family home textile factory mansion massachusetts rhode island unexpected death financial troubles romance hoax family
An 1890s widow (Fay Bainter) has two sons, and two daughters (Ruby Keeler, Anne Shirley) in love with the same man.