List of the best Tom Dugan movies: Accomplice(1946), By Whose Hand?(1932), Pennies From Heaven(1936), The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi(1933), They Learned About Women(1930), To Be or Not to Be(1942), Wife vs. Secretary(1936), Take Me Out to the Ball Game(1949), Too Many Husbands(1940), Lights of New York(1928), The Lady and the Mob(1939), Painting the Clouds With Sunshine(1951) ... ...
Crime, Drama
USA
1946
68 Minutes
Eddie Slocum
Private Eye Simon Lash is hired by an old flame to find her missing husband.
Mystery & Thriller
1932
63 Minutes
Drunk
Ben Lyon Barbara Weeks William V. Mong Ethel Kenyon Kenneth Thomson Tom Dugan William Halligan Helene Millard Dwight Frye Tom McGuire Nat Pendleton
Comedy, Drama
USA
1936
80 Minutes
Crowbar Miller
Bing Crosby Edith Fellows Louis Armstrong Madge Evans Donald Meek John Gallaudet Tom Dugan Nana Bryant Charles Wilson Harry Tyler William Stack
ex-convict grandfather child social worker singer uplifting emotional amusing new jersey family home orphanage new york city adoption circus redemption family performance money rescue quest
Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promise an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a young girl, Patsy Smith, and her ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy, Romance, Drama
USA
1933
77 Minutes
Trainer
Mary Carlisle Buster Crabbe Charles Starrett Florence Lake Eddie Tamblyn Sally Starr Tom Dugan Burr McIntosh Grady Sutton Purnell Pratt Franklin Parker
A campus flirt who has been "pinned" by most of the boys of Sigma Chi fraternity falls for a no-nonsense athlete who doesn't have time for such diversions as women.
Musical
USA
1930
81 Minutes
Tim `'Timmy'` O'Connor
Jack Conway Joseph T. Schenck Gus Van Bessie Love Mary Doran J.C. Nugent Benny Rubin Tom Dugan Eddie Gribbon Francis X. Bushman Jr.
baseball player vaudevillian best friend gold digger baseball manager fiancée madcap hilarious playful baseball field stage clubhouse marrying for money loyalty baseball vaudeville friendship the big game temptation love
When Jack and Jerry are not playing professional baseball with the Blue Sox, they are packing them in on the Vaudeville circuit. Jack is engaged to Mary, but a gold digger named Daisy has ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1942
99 Minutes
Bronski
Carole Lombard Jack Benny Robert Stack Felix Bressart Lionel Atwill Stanley Ridges Sig Ruman Tom Dugan Charles Halton Peter Caldwell Helmut Dantine
actor actress lieutenant spy nazi madcap hilarious suspenseful poland warsaw love triangle adolf hitler impersonation resistance world war ii adventure 1940s
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1936
88 Minutes
Finney
Clark Gable Jean Harlow Myrna Loy May Robson George Barbier James Stewart Hobart Cavanaugh Tom Dugan Gilbert Emery Marjorie Gateson Gloria Holden
publisher wife secretary mother fiancé lighthearted charming new york city office family home hotel havana jealousy misunderstanding secret plans love triangle love temptation 1930s
The wife of a publishing executive mistakenly believes that her husband's relationship with his attractive secretary is more than professional.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1949
93 Minutes
Slappy Burke
Gene Kelly Frank Sinatra Esther Williams Betty Garrett Edward Arnold Jules Munshin Richard Lane Tom Dugan Murray Alper Wilton Graff Mack Gray
baseball team owner baseball player entertainer gambler teammate girlfriend cheery madcap rousing baseball field locker room house theater gambling big break baseball love interest vaudeville song and dance rivalry
Two turn-of-the-century baseball players, who work in vaudeville during the off-season, run into trouble with their team's new female owner and a gambler who doesn't want them to win the pennant.
Romance
USA
1940
84 Minutes
Sullivan
Jean Arthur Fred MacMurray Melvyn Douglas Harry Davenport Dorothy Peterson Melville Cooper Edgar Buchanan Tom Dugan
wife husband butler detective lieutenant madcap quirky witty courtroom airport house bigamy marriage love triangle missing persons shipwreck difficult decision love rivalry 1940s
Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.
Crime, Drama
USA
1928
57 Minutes
Sam
Helene Costello Cullen Landis Gladys Brockwell Mary Carr Wheeler Oakman Eugene Pallette Robert Elliott Tom Dugan Tom McGuire Guy D'Ennery Walter Percival
Two men are conned into bootlegging business.
Comedy
USA
1939
66 Minutes
Brains Logan
Fay Bainter Lee Bowman Ida Lupino Henry Armetta Warren Hymer Harold Huber Forbes Murray Joe Sawyer Tom Dugan Joe Caits Jim Toney
dowager son daughter-in-law laundry owner racketeer thief hilarious patriotic heartwarming small town laundromat house mob mother/son relationship vigilantism marriage extortion freedom revenge underdog
Society-woman Hattie Leonard organizes her own band of 'gang-busters' when she discovers a garment she sent to the dry-cleaners had been taxed twenty-five-cents to pay for gang 'protection.... See full summary »
Musical
USA
1951
87 Minutes
Barney
Dennis Morgan Virginia Mayo Gene Nelson Lucille Norman S.Z. Sakall Virginia Gibson Tom Conway Wallace Ford Tom Dugan
Tired of her boyfriend's gambling, a young woman joins two vaudeville performers on a trek to Las Vegas to search for millionaires to marry.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
USA
1940
82 Minutes
Raspy Kelly
Bob Hope Paulette Goddard Richard Carlson Paul Lukas Willie Best Pedro de Cordoba Virginia Brissac Noble Johnson Anthony Quinn Tom Dugan Paul Fix
pretty woman radio host servant adviser gangster mysterious man cheeky creepy playful new york city hotel ocean liner cuba island haunted house ghosts inheritance chance meeting travel voodoo
A radio broadcaster, his quaking manservant and an heiress investigate the mystery of a haunted castle in Cuba.
Comedy
USA
1934
86 Minutes
Whitey
Jimmy Durante Lupe Velez Stuart Erwin Marjorie Rambeau Robert Armstrong Mary Carlisle William Cagney Thelma Todd Franklyn Ardell Tom Dugan Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
Knobby discovers young hunk Palooka and trains him to fight the reigning champ, also drunken sot, Al McSwatt.
Romance
USA
1935
77 Minutes
Prisoner
Barbara Stanwyck Robert Young Hardie Albright Harry Bowen Allan Cavan Eddy Chandler Jack Cheatham Joe Dominguez Ruth Donnelly Tom Dugan Cliff Edwards
The rebellious daughter of an army general becomes involved with a communist agitator, much to the consternation of her father, who instead attempts to pair her with a handsome yet dim-witted soldier.
Comedy
USA
1936
75 Minutes
Jack Haley Betty Furness Arthur Treacher Raymond Walburn Robert McWade Rosina Lawrence Monroe Owsley Kathleen Lockhart Edward Brophy Charlotte Wynters Tom Dugan
Automotive mogul Peter Randolph needs backers for his diesel engine. Eccentric millionaire Aloysius P. Merriweather is invited to dinner, but he sends barber Joe Jenkins in his place.
Horror
USA
1941
63 Minutes
Ellen Drew Robert Paige Paul Lukas Joseph Calleia Onslow Stevens George Zucco Rod Cameron Phillip Terry Marc Lawrence Gerald Mohr Tom Dugan
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.
Crime, Drama
1931
68 Minutes
Walter Huston Charles "Chic" Sale Frances Starr Grant Mitchell Sally Blane Edward Nugent Ralph Ince Dickie Moore George Ernest Russell Hopton Tom Dugan
murderer police officer veteran hostage mother prosecutor engaging tense thrilling family home courtroom family duty law and order hostage situation sacrifice underdog 1930s
An old man's (Charles "Chic" Sale) family is afraid to testify for the district attorney (Walter Huston) about mobsters.
Comedy
USA
1933
67 Minutes
Paul Lukas Loretta Young Frank McHugh Glenda Farrell Helen Vinson Walter Byron Ferdinand Gottschalk Joseph Cawthorn Paul Porcasi Mary Doran Lucien Prival
Because the Stanislavsky method of playing bridge has no rules, it promotes marital harmony for those who stick with it.
War
USA
1943
115 Minutes
Robert Taylor George Murphy Thomas Mitchell Lloyd Nolan Lee Bowman Robert Walker Desi Arnaz Barry Nelson Phillip Terry Roque Espiritu Kenneth Spencer
soldiers captain pilot sargeant enemy gritty powerful philippines bridge bataan horrors of war honor code abandonment world war ii daunting task sacrifice underdog 1940s
In 1942, in the Bataan peninsula of the Philippines, a ragtag American unit commanded by Sergeant Bill Dane attempts to blow-up a bridge in order to slow the Japanese advance.
Musical
USA
1947
88 Minutes
Janet Blair William Lundigan Sara Allgood Arthur Shields James Flavin William Bakewell Dave Willock Bobby Warde Ann Carter Tom Dugan Jackie Searle
musician brother singer pianist father mother uplifting cheery pennsylvania small town radio station casino concert hall jazz sibling rivalry marriage reconciliation tommy dorsey song and dance love
The rise and rise of the Fabulous Dorsey brothers is charted in this whimsical step down memory lane, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey play themselves in this vehicle for their excellent music. From ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1935
70 Minutes
Robert Taylor Jean Parker Ted Healy Una Merkel Nat Pendleton Jean Hersholt Arthur Byron Frank Shields Raymond Hatton Donald Cook Mischa Auer
saboteur girlfriend naval officer businessman dignitary sailor suspenseful cheeky lighthearted naval yard cruiser deck sabotage murder investigation conspiracy military life inventions bribery mystery revenge
Taylor is cast as Lt. Tom Randolph, one of several naval officers confined to his ship when a murder occurs. The victim was in the process of delivering the components for a new electrical ... See full summary »
Action
USA
1949
90 Minutes
Susan Hayward Robert Preston Pedro Armendáriz Harry Shannon Ed Begley Jimmy Conlin Paul E. Burns Lloyd Gough Roland Jack Chief Yowlachie Pierre Watkin
rancher oil baron daughter emotional powerful oklahoma oil field ranch revenge death oil betrayal wealth greed fall rise rivalry 1940s
In Tulsa, after a rancher dies during a feud with a major oil company, his daughter, driven by revenge, starts digging for oil herself.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1943
81 Minutes
Mary Martin Dick Powell Betty Hutton Eddie Bracken Rudy Vallee Mabel Paige Eric Blore Clem Bevans Sir Lancelot Ben Carter Lillian Randolph
cigarette girl american best friend dancer wealthy man voodoo queen lighthearted amusing ship boat sea caribbean hotel deck gold digging impersonation romance deception voodoo drunkenness
A gold-digger hopes to land a rich husband in Trinidad, but gets mixed up with a beach boy and voodoo.
War
1940
90 Minutes
James Cagney Pat O'Brien George Brent Jeffrey Lynn Alan Hale Frank McHugh Dennis Morgan William Lundigan Dick Foran Guinn "Big Boy" Williams Henry O'Neill
private captain lieutenant soldier chaplain brash gripping rousing america germany war bravery fraternity rebellion world war i rise sacrifice growing up 1910s
A Brooklyn brawler (James Cagney) joins Father Duffy (Pat O'Brien) and Col. "Wild Bill" Donovan's (George Brent) Irish-American regiment in World War I.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1951
91 Minutes
Bob Hope Marilyn Maxwell Lloyd Nolan Jane Darwell Andrea King Fred Clark Jay C. Flippen William Frawley Harry Bellaver Sid Melton Ben Welden
A New York City swindler has until Christmas to come up with the $10,000 he owes a gangster, prompting him to go into scamming overdrive.
Comedy
USA
1949
88 Minutes
William Holden Joan Caulfield Edward Arnold Billy De Wolfe Mona Freeman Arleen Whelan Mary Philips Harry von Zell Raymond Roe Elisabeth Fraser Bill Murphy
Thanks to political activist teen Miriam, her brother-in-law and father find themselves rival candidates for state senator.
Adventure
USA
1943
99 Minutes
Rosalind Russell Fred MacMurray Herbert Marshall Edward Ciannelli Walter Kingsford Damian O'Flynn Jack Carr Matt McHugh Richard Loo Charles Lung Bud McTaggart
The life of air pioneer Amelia Earhart is here given a fictionalized treatment, with a speculative conclusion.