List of the best William Collier Jr. movies: The Phantom Express(1932), The Donovan Affair(1929), Reducing(1931), The Big Gamble(1932), The Story of Temple Drake(1933), Cimarron(1931), Rain or Shine(1930), Free and Easy(1930) ... ...
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1932
66 Minutes
Bruce Harrington
A railway is threatened by mysterious wrecks, which turn out to be caused by criminals using a unique deception.
Crime, Romance, Comedy, Adventure, Action, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
1929
83 Minutes
Cornish
Jack Holt Dorothy Revier William Collier Jr. Agnes Ayres John Roche Fred Kelsey Hank Mann Wheeler Oakman
The lights go out at a high-society dinner party and one of the guests is murdered. The police are summoned and Inspector Killian shows up, with his assistant Carney. In order to get a ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1931
75 Minutes
Johnnie Beasley
Marie Dressler Polly Moran Anita Page William Collier Jr. Lucien Littlefield Sally Eilers William Bakewell Billy Naylor Jay Ward
beautician sister social climber daughter boyfriend husband lighthearted amusing family home spa new york city sauna family feud siblings poverty class conflict love triangle social climbing love transformation
A beauty parlor manager has her sister help her with interesting results.
Comedy
1932
65 Minutes
Johnnie
William Boyd Dorothy Sebastian Warner Oland William Collier Jr. James Gleason ZaSu Pitts
cardsharp gangster young woman thug insurance investigator brother melodramatic gripping amusing office apartment street casino debt gambling insurance fraud faking death arranged marriage escape
Desperate to repay a debt to ruthless gangster Andrew North (Warner Oland), cardsharp Alan Beckwith (Bill Boyd) agrees to write a check in his own blood.
Drama
USA
1933
70 Minutes
Toddy Gowan
Oscar Apfel Clem Beauchamp Arthur Belasco John Carradine William Collier Jr. Frank Darien James Eagles Florence Eldridge William Gargan Henry Hall Miriam Hopkins
A wealthy but neurotic Southern belle finds herself trapped in the hideout of a gang of vicious bootleggers. The gang's leader lusts after her, and is determined not to let anything stand in the way of his having her.
Western
USA
1931
131 Minutes
The Kid
Richard Dix Irene Dunne Estelle Taylor Nance O'Neil William Collier Jr. Roscoe Ates George E. Stone Robert McWade Edna May Oliver Frank Darien Eugene Jackson
editor wife prostitute servant outlaw native american rousing wild oklahoma oil field courtroom gambling house abandonment trial oil newspapers marriage land rush adventure love
A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1930
92 Minutes
Bud Conway
Joe Cook Louise Fazenda Joan Peers Dave Chasen William Collier Jr. Tom Howard
vaudevillian circus owner sidekick stooge fat girl circus performer madcap playful hilarious circus trailer tent mansion circus life inheritance vaudeville small business love triangle financial troubles underdog
Woman inherits a traveling circus which brings financial difficulties.
Comedy
USA
1930
92 Minutes
Buster Keaton Anita Page Trixie Friganza Robert Montgomery Edgar Dearing Gwen Lee John Miljan Lionel Barrymore William Haines William Collier Jr. Dorothy Sebastian
manager beauty queen movie star mother madcap cheery playful kansas hollywood, calif. movie studio grauman's chinese theatre beauty pageant movies ambition acting romance disaster quest discovery rise
A bumbling manager tries to get a small town beauty contest winner into the movies.