List of the best Sam McDaniel movies: The Ghost and the Guest(1943), The Great Lie(1941), Flamingo Road(1949), Captains Courageous(1937), South of Panama(1941), Sergeant Murphy(1938), Louisiana Purchase(1941), Hearts Divided(1936), Here Comes the Navy(1934), Women Are Like That(1938), High Barbaree(1947), Do You Love Me?(1946) ... ...
Comedy
USA
1943
59 Minutes
Harmony Jones
James Dunn Florence Rice Mabel Todd Robert Dudley Sam McDaniel Jim Toney Eddy Chandler Robert Bice Renee Carson Anthony Warde
A newlywed couple winds up spending their honeymoon night in an old, dark, spooky mansion.
Romance
USA
1941
107 Minutes
Jefferson Washington
Bette Davis George Brent Mary Astor Lucile Watson Hattie McDaniel Grant Mitchell Jerome Cowan Sam McDaniel Thurston Hall Russell Hicks Olin Howland
sweetheart pianist pilot maid mother manager melodramatic cheeky gutsy new york city maryland country house arizona rivalry marriage divorce death adoption deception quest
After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is now pregnant with his child.
Drama
1949
94 Minutes
Boatright
Joan Crawford Zachary Scott Sydney Greenstreet David Brian Gladys George Virginia Huston Fred Clark Gertrude Michael Alice White Sam McDaniel Tito Vuolo
dancer deputy sheriff political boss politician socialite melodramatic dark united states boldon city diner carnival carnivals alcoholism political corruption love triangle suicide revenge sacrifice 1940s
A small-town Florida sheriff (Sydney Greenstreet) frames his political pawn's (Zachary Scott) dancer girlfriend (Joan Crawford) for prostitution.
Adventure
USA
1937
117 Minutes
Spencer Tracy Freddie Bartholomew Lionel Barrymore Melvyn Douglas Charley Grapewin Mickey Rooney John Carradine Oscar O'Shea Jack LaRue Walter Kingsford Sam McDaniel
young boy father fisherman captain friend sailor heartwarming uplifting ship boarding school gloucester, mass. ocean liner troubled youth accident sailors father/son relationship growing up transformation 1890s
A spoiled brat who falls overboard from a steamship gets picked up by a fishing boat, where he's made to earn his keep by joining the crew in their work.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Action
USA
1941
68 Minutes
Roger Pryor Virginia Vale Lionel Royce Lucien Prival Duncan Renaldo Lester Dorr Jack Ingram Hugh Beaumont Warren Jackson Edward Keane Sam McDaniel
Jan Martin, sister of government chemist Paul Martin, realizes she is being followed by enemy agents after her brother. She ignores him at the Panama airport and embraces a stranger, Mike ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1938
57 Minutes
Ronald Reagan Mary Maguire Donald Crisp Ben Hendricks Jr. William B. Davidson Max Hoffman Emmett Vogan Tracy Layne Edmund Cobb Janet Shaw Rosella Towne
A horse is offered for sale to the cavalry but is rejected as unfit for service. A cavalry private buys the horse, and trains it to be a champion racer. When he thinks it's ready, he ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1941
98 Minutes
Bob Hope Vera Zorina Victor Moore Irène Bordoni Dona Drake Raymond Walburn Max Rosenbloom Frank Albertson Phyllis Ruth Donald MacBride Andrew Tombes
senator young woman scapegoat politician investigator republican hilarious creative spirited new orleans government building street festival hotel political corruption blackmail culture clash investigation romance crime
A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.
Romance
USA
1936
70 Minutes
Marion Davies Dick Powell Charles Ruggles Claude Rains Edward Everett Horton Arthur Treacher Henry Stephenson Clara Blandick John Larkin Walter Kingsford Etienne Girardot
napoleon bonaparte brother socialite suitor teacher passionate lighthearted emotional baltimore france louisiana purchase negotiation impersonation arranged marriage teaching politics love sacrifice rivalry quest
Napoleon needs money to fight his wars in Europe so he wants 20 million dollars for the Louisiana Territory in the United States. To help the negotiations, he sends his brother, Jerome, to ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
USA
1934
86 Minutes
James Cagney Pat O'Brien Gloria Stuart Frank McHugh Dorothy Tree Robert Barrat Willard Robertson Guinn "Big Boy" Williams Maude Eburne Martha Merrill Lorena Layson
blue-collar worker sailor naval officer sister love interest marine amusing thrilling patriotic witty battleship san diego dance hall brother/sister relationship grudge new job unlikely romance redemption navy rivalry
A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.
Drama
USA
1938
78 Minutes
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.
Drama
USA
1947
91 Minutes
Van Johnson June Allyson Thomas Mitchell Marilyn Maxwell Henry Hull Claude Jarman Jr. Cameron Mitchell Geraldine Wall Barbara Brown Chill Wills Paul Harvey
Van Johnson is a navy pilot in WWII, who has been shot down in the Pacific on a bombing mission. He and a wounded comrade are the only survivors of the mission and are lost at sea. As they ... See full summary »
Musical, Romance
USA
1946
91 Minutes
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.
Adventure
USA
1934
86 Minutes
Marion Davies Gary Cooper Jean Parker Katharine Alexander Ted Healy Russell Hardie Henry Wadsworth Douglas Dumbrille Willard Robertson Fuzzy Knight Sidney Toler
actress southern belle spy confederate soldier union soldier servant melodramatic thrilling suspenseful american south washington, d.c. farmhouse household assumed identity espionage romantic dilemma american civil war secret mission deception adventure
Union spy Gail Loveless impersonates a black maid in the early days of the Civil War, but complications arise when she falls in love with a Confederate officer.
Drama
USA
1942
107 Minutes
Humphrey Bogart Conrad Veidt Kaaren Verne Jane Darwell Frank McHugh Peter Lorre Judith Anderson William Demarest Jackie Gleason Phil Silvers Wallace Ford
spy gambler nazi singer partner thrilling charming new york city murder espionage nazism gambling mystery adventure 1940s
Runyonesque Broadway gamblers turn patriotic when they stumble onto a cell of Nazi saboteurs.
Drama
USA
1953
88 Minutes
James Cagney Barbara Hale Anne Francis Warner Anderson John McIntire Jeanne Cagney Lon Chaney Frank McHugh Larry Keating Onslow Stevens James Millican
political candidate southerner schoolteacher lawyer farmer gangster melodramatic gutsy powerful american south rural community farm rise to power political corruption exploitation murder mob violence trial rise rivalry
A charismatic peddler from the bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making?