List of the best Tom Kennedy movies: Torchy Blane in Chinatown(1939), Big News(1929), Liberty(1929), The Day the Bookies Wept(1939), Adventurous Blonde(1937), Pack Up Your Troubles(1932), Mantrap(1926), Voice of the Whistler(1945), Living on Love(1937), Invasion U.S.A.(1952), Monkey Business(1931), Flowing Gold(1940) ... ...
Crime, Drama
USA
1939
60 Minutes
Glenda Farrell Barton MacLane Tom Kennedy Henry O'Neill Patric Knowles James Stephenson Janet Shaw
reporter police detective senator doctor captain henchman cheeky confident chinatown police station nightclub car apartment submarine protection theft investigation murder impersonation ransom
Torchy Blane has to solve a blackmail case.
Drama
USA
1929
75 Minutes
A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.
Comedy
1929
20 Minutes
Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy Tom Kennedy Sam Lufkin James Finlayson Jack Hill Harry Bernard Jean Harlow
Comedy
USA
1939
53 Minutes
Joe Penner Betty Grable Richard Lane Tom Kennedy Thurston Hall Bernadene Hayes Carol Hughes Jack Arnold
A group of taxi drivers pool their money and buy a beer-loving racehorse.
Crime, Drama
1937
61 Minutes
Glenda Farrell Barton MacLane Anne Nagel Tom Kennedy George E. Stone Natalie Moorhead William Hopper Leland Hodgson
reporter police detective rival actor mistress wife charming witty city apartment newsroom train murder investigation schemes journalism jealousy engagement teamwork mystery adventure
Reporter Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell) solves a homicidal hoax for her policeman fiance (Barton MacLane).
Comedy
USA
1932
68 Minutes
Stan Laurel Ray McCarey Oliver Hardy Don Dillaway Mary Carr Tom Kennedy Grady Sutton Jacquie Lyn Billy Gilbert C. Montague Shaw Muriel Evans
soldier friend father grandfather groom banker campy madcap playful military base jail battlefield small town church bank child custody war friendship abandonment imprisonment
Two war veterans help an orphaned child find her grandfather.
Romance
USA
1926
68 Minutes
Ernest Torrence Clara Bow Percy Marmont Eugene Pallette Tom Kennedy Josephine Crowell William Orlamond Charles Stevens
manicurist husband divorce lawyer outdoorsman neighbor friend witty confident engaging canada woods village minneapolis new york city opposites attract city vs. country love triangle marital problems isolation forbidden love
A sexy young manicurist living with her older backwoodsman husband in a small Canadian town finds herself attracted to a young, rich and famous divorce lawyer who comes to town on vacation.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1945
60 Minutes
Richard Dix Lynn Merrick Rhys Williams James Cardwell Tom Kennedy Gigi Perreau Frank Reicher Martin Garralaga
The 4th film of the Columbia series based on the CBS radio program, "The Whistler", finds wealthy John Sinclair, with no health or friends, being advised by his doctor to take a long ... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1937
60 Minutes
James Dunn Helen Whitney Bourne Joan Woodbury Solly Ward Tom Kennedy Franklin Pangborn
salesgirl manager landlord tenant roommate heiress amusing lighthearted madcap city apartment basement restaurant mistaken identity romance jealousy practical jokes love pursuit rivalry 1930s
Mary, a sometimes employed Midwest transplant living in New York is forced to share an apartment with Jack, a starving artist-night watchman. Both having problems paying their rent, ... See full summary »
Sci-Fi
USA
1952
74 Minutes
Gerald Mohr Peggie Castle Dan O'Herlihy Robert Bice Tom Kennedy Wade Crosby Erik Blythe Phyllis Coates Aram Katcher
A group of people at a bar witness the unfolding events of a Soviet invasion of the USA.
Comedy
USA
1931
78 Minutes
Groucho Marx Harpo Marx Chico Marx Zeppo Marx Thelma Todd Tom Kennedy Ruth Hall Harry Woods Ben Taggart Otto Fries Evelyn Pierce
brother gangster sexy woman bootlegger daughter marx brothers hilarious playful ship new york state journey love song and dance marriage romance adventure love transformation 1930s
On a transatlantic crossing, The Marx Brothers get up to their usual antics and manage to annoy just about everyone on board the ship.
Adventure
USA
1940
82 Minutes
John Garfield Frances Farmer Pat O'Brien Raymond Walburn Cliff Edwards Tom Kennedy
fugitive foreman friend girlfriend enemy police officer uneasy thrilling united states small town oil field household bar oil murder love triangle loyalty running away jealousy escape
In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.
Comedy
USA
1940
67 Minutes
Leon Errol Dennis O'Keefe Adele Pearce Walter Catlett Marjorie Gateson Tom Kennedy Robert Middlemass Effie Anderson Erskine Sanford
In addition to his yearly manifest of six 2-reel comedies, Leon Errol always managed to squeeze a few feature-film appearances into his RKO Radio contractual duties. In Pop Always Pays, ... See full synopsis »
Comedy
USA
1937
63 Minutes
Wallace Ford Ray Mayer Isabel Jewell Mary Treen Cully Richards Tom Kennedy
Husky Stone (Ray Mayer), strongest man in the Navy, and as short on brains as he is as long on muscle, has an urge to get married, as his enlistment is up. The object of his affection is ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
1918
60 Minutes
Mabel Normand George Nichols Wheeler Oakman Minta Durfee Laura La Varnie Tom Kennedy
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
USA
1937
63 Minutes
James Gleason ZaSu Pitts Marjorie Lord George Shelley Joan Woodbury Frank M. Thomas Tom Kennedy Alan Edwards Stephen Chase Eddie Marr Ada Leonard
While Oscar and Hildegarde are attending a Broadway show, a press agent is shot in an actress' dressing room and an actor is murdered onstage in full view of the audience. Oscar and Hildegarde are on the case.
Comedy
USA
1938
60 Minutes
Lee Tracy Joan Woodbury Paul Guilfoyle Lee Patrick Richard Lane Bradley Page Tom Kennedy George Irving Frank M. Thomas Jack Carson Alec Craig
husband wife mobster screenwriter producer actress witty lighthearted train hollywood, calif. movie studio movie set movies organized crime bank robbery show business look-alikes transformation pursuit 1930s
An ex-con, just out of prison, and his wife meet a screen writer on the train and decide that, since he's writing about crime without knowing much about it, collaborating with him would be ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1937
70 Minutes
Robert Young Florence Rice June Clayworth Barnett Parker Warren Hymer Helen Flint Hugh Marlowe Tom Kennedy Edgar Dearing Mary Gordon Harlan Briggs
After a leading razor company pays inventor Tom Wakefield a quarter of a million dollars not to publicize a hair-removing shaving cream that makes razors obsolete, he makes plans to take ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1931
63 Minutes
Norman Foster Carole Lombard Skeets Gallagher Eugene Pallette Lucien Littlefield Judith Wood Louise Brooks Morgan Wallace Tom Kennedy Marcia Manners
To prove his thesis that any product--even one that doesn't exist--can be merchandized if it is advertised properly, a young man gets together with his father's savvy secretary to market a ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1940
69 Minutes
Eddie Albert Wayne Morris Ronald Reagan Rosemary Lane Jane Wyman Ruth Terry John Litel Hobart Cavanaugh Ann Shoemaker Tom Kennedy
aspiring actress boyfriend producer texan wife sweetheart amusing playful rousing texas new york city broadway theater office broadway con game surprise visit stardom deception rise 1940s
Stage struck Lydia Weston leaves her small Texas town for Broadway. Left behind is her steady beau Peter. Lydia sends letters and news clippings back home telling everyone she's now a big ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1944
94 Minutes
Bob Hope Virginia Mayo Walter Brennan Walter Slezak Victor McLaglen Marc Lawrence Hugo Haas Maude Eburne Adia Kuznetzoff Brandon Hurst Tom Kennedy
actor princess pirate tattoo artist governor guard hilarious playful ship cabin palace dinghy rooming house dungeon treasure abduction impersonation cowardice corruption chases
A cowardly actor and a runaway princess are voyaging on a ship that is captured by a notorious pirate who recently buried his treasure on a secretly mapped island.
Comedy
1941
70 Minutes
Lupe Velez Leon Errol Charles Rogers Elisabeth Risdon Lydia Bilbrook ZaSu Pitts Fritz Feld Marion Martin Lloyd Corrigan Vinton Haworth Tom Kennedy
Carmelita (Lupe Velez) and her husband's (Charles "Buddy" Rogers) French war "baby" is a blonde named Fifi.
Comedy
USA
1944
75 Minutes
Jane Frazee Frank Albertson Barbara Jo Allen Frank Jenks Lloyd Corrigan Frank Fenton Maude Eburne Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer Louise Erickson Ellen Lowe Arthur Loft
In wartime 1944 in California,defense plant workers Rosalind "Rosie" Warren and her friend Vera Watson must share, on a rotating schedule, the town's last available rental-room with Charlie... See full summary »
Other, Romance
USA
1940
94 Minutes
Barbara Stanwyck Fred MacMurray Beulah Bondi Elizabeth Patterson Willard Robertson Sterling Holloway Charles Waldron Paul Guilfoyle Charles Arnt John Wray Thomas W. Ross
district attorney shoplifter sheriff mother love interest amusing emotional charming new york city jail court pennsylvania indiana car romance opposites attract christmas family shoplifting redemption
Love blooms between a sympathetic attorney and the comely shoplifter he has taken home for the Christmas holiday.
Action
1942
70 Minutes
Richard Arlen Arline Judge William Frawley Buster Crabbe Arthur Hunnicutt Elisha Cook Jr. Ralph Sanford Alec Craig John Dilson Will Wright Jessica Newcombe
A broke oilman (Richard Arlen) meets a con woman (Arline Judge) and her partner (William Frawley) on his way to hitting a gusher.
Comedy
USA
1959
120 Minutes
Tony Curtis Jack Lemmon Marilyn Monroe George Raft Pat O'Brien Joe E. Brown Nehemiah Persoff Joan Shawlee Billy Gray George E. Stone Dave Barry
musician friend sexy woman millionaire mobster playful hilarious wild chicago train florida beach hotel nightclub deception sex friendship wealth escape love
After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
Comedy
USA
1937
70 Minutes
Miriam Hopkins Ray Milland Walter Abel Henry Stephenson Alec Craig Guinn "Big Boy" Williams Betty Philson Marianna Strebly Margaret Dumont Jean De Briac Ivan Lebedeff
Snooty heiress decides to track down her dead sister's kids, who are living a Bohemian life with their uncle in Greenwich Village. Once she finds them, she discovers that the Bohemian life ... See full summary »
Comedy, Western
USA
1948
91 Minutes
Bob Hope Jane Russell Robert Armstrong Iris Adrian Bobby Watson Jackie Searle Joseph Vitale Charles Trowbridge Clem Bevans Jeff York Stanley Andrews
dentist calamity jane federal agent gunrunner native american partner charming hilarious lighthearted rousing wild west wagon train small town saloon jail california unlikely hero bravery gunfight redemption
Calamity Jane is dispatched to find out who's smuggling rifles to the Indians, and winds up married to a hapless correspondence-school dentist as part of her cover.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1934
71 Minutes
Jimmy Durante Lupe Velez Norman Foster William Gargan Marian Nixon The Mills Brothers Eugene Pallette Minna Gombell Sterling Holloway Leila Bennett Franklin Pangborn
A struggling writer finds success writing scripts for a radio comic at the expense of his high-brow ambitions.
Adventure
1945
100 Minutes
Paul Henreid Maureen O'Hara Walter Slezak Binnie Barnes John Emery Barton MacLane J.M. Kerrigan Fritz Leiber Nancy Gates Jack LaRue Mike Mazurki
pirate countess girlfriend soldier ship captain brash outlandish spirited pirate ship north carolina south carolina prison romance pirates love triangle prison break adventure escape revenge 16th century
Dutch pirates of Tortuga save the Mexican viceroy's daughter (Maureen O'Hara) from marriage to the governor (Walter Slezak).
Comedy
USA
1937
66 Minutes
Mary Boland Frank McHugh Hugh Herbert Carol Hughes Allen Jenkins Mischa Auer Alan Mowbray Hugh O'Connell Teddy Hart Arthur Aylesworth Irving Bacon
The offices of a great newspaper syndicate are presided over by John B. Radway, obviously a nut, and his sister Ollie Radway, obviously the brains in the family. David "Party" Partridge, ... See full summary »