C. Henry GordonFilmography

You, the People

Synopsis: This episode in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series takes on election fraud. It gives a behind-the-scenes account of how gangsters and crooked politicians conspire to fix elections and install their own candidates instead of the ones who were legally elected and warns that public apathy can lead to Read More

Kit Carson

Actors: Jon Hall, Lynn Bari, Dana Andrews, Harold Huber, Ward Bond

Synopsis: This typically economical Edward Small historical drama stars Jon Hall as legendary frontiersman Kit Carson. Wasting no time, the film gets off to an exciting start as Carson and his two saddle pals (Ward Bond and Harold Huber) are attacked by Indians. They manage to escape unscatched and make Read More

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum

Actors: Sidney Toler, Marc Lawrence, Joan Valerie

Synopsis: Escaped gangster Steve McBirney (Marc Lawrence), vowing to get even with Oriental sleuth Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler), lies in wait at a spooky wax museum run by demented plastic surgeon Dr. Cream (Henry Gordon). Chan is lured to the museum's opening day ceremonies on a ruse, along with a variety Read More

The Return of the Cisco Kid

Actors: Warner Baxter, Lynn Bari, Cesar Romero, Henry Hull, Kane Richmond

Synopsis: In this Mexican version of the popular southwestern series, Cisco barely escapes the deadly bullets of a firing squad. He later meets a lovely señorita and falls in love, but before he can dally romantically, he must first help her and her papa get back the money they were bilked out of. More Read More

Trapped in the Sky

Actors: Jack Holt, Ralph Morgan, Paul Everton, C. Henry Gordon

Synopsis: In this exciting spy drama, enemy agents endeavor to steal the plans for a top secret silent aircraft. The plane's inventor wants to sell his invention to other countries but his government will only allow it if the test flights fail. The prototype is sabotaged and crashes on the first test Read More

Charlie Chan in City of Darkness

Actors: Sidney Toler, Richard Clarke, Harold Huber, Pedro de Cordoba

Synopsis: This timely entry in Fox's Charlie Chan series is set in Paris during the Munich Crisis of 1938. Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) arrives in the City of Light for a reunion with his war buddies, only to find those lights dimmed by a city-wide blackout. The murder victim this time out is munitions Read More

Land of Liberty

Synopsis: Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from past American historical epics. The project was sponsored by the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, Inc. and supervised by Cecil B. DeMille, who also edited Read More

Man of Conquest

Actors: Richard Dix, Gail Patrick, Edward Ellis, Joan Fontaine, Victor Jory

Synopsis: Man of Conquest was the first "super production" from Republic Pictures, a studio not known for its lavish budgets. This time, however, no expense was spared in recreating the career of Texas empire-builder Sam Houston. Richard Dix portrayed Houston, heading a gigantic cast of character players Read More

Sharp Shooters

Actors: Brian Donlevy, Lynn Bari, Wally Vernon, Douglas Dumbrille

Synopsis: Sharpshooters was the initial entry in what was to have been a series of six "Camera Daredevils" adventures. Brian Donlevy and Wally Vernon star as Steve and Waldo, intrepid newsreel cameraman on assignment in the mythical kingdom of Mitovania. It isn't long before our heroes discover that Michael Read More

Tarzan's Revenge

Actors: Glenn Morris, Eleanor Holm, George Barbier, C. Henry Gordon, Hedda Hopper

Synopsis: While the "Tarzan" series was going full blast at MGM, several independent producers managed to secure the screen rights to Edgar Rice Burrough's Lord of the Jungle for their own low-budget adventure films. Taking into consideration the fact that MGM's Tarzan was Olympic swimming star Johnny Read More

Trapped by G-Men

Actors: Jack Holt, Wynne Gibson, C. Henry Gordon, Jack LaRue, Edward S. Brophy

Synopsis: Though not the most versatile of actors, granite-jawed Jack Holt does just fine with a dual role in Columbia's Trapped by G-Men. It all begins when FBI agent Bill Donovan (Holt), a dead ringer for notorious criminal Martin Galloway (also Holt), is sent to prison to gain the confidence of interred Read More

Charlie Chan at the Olympics

Actors: Allan Lane, Warner Oland, Katherine de Mille, Pauline Moore, Keye Luke, C. Henry Gordon

Synopsis: Actual footage of the 1936 Berlin Olympics is rabbeted into the action of this superior Charlie Chan entry. Assigned by the U.S. Navy to track down a gang of international spies, Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) heads to Berlin, where as luck would have it his son Lee (Keye Luke) is representing the Read More

Stand-In

Actors: Leslie Howard, Joan Blondell, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Mowbray, Marla Shelton

Synopsis: Bookish bank employee Atterbury Dodd (Leslie Howard) is ordered to investigate the near-bankrupt Colossal Studios in Hollywood, to see if the firm is any sort of good risk. Dodd's first brush with Tinseltown's cuckoo atmosphere occurs when he takes a room in a boarding house for extras, where all Read More

Trouble in Morocco

Actors: Jack Holt, Mae Clarke, C. Henry Gordon, Harold Huber, Victor Varconi

Synopsis: In this adventure set in Cairo, two foreign correspondents are assigned to investigate a ring of arms smugglers. One of them gets involved with a gangster who mistakes him for another crook and ends up joining the Foreign Legion. As he tries to fulfill his obligation, he finds himself battling Read More

Hollywood Boulevard

Actors: John Halliday, Marsha Hunt, Robert Cummings, C. Henry Gordon, Frieda Inescort

Synopsis: Hollywood Boulevard is a trenchant look at the underside of Tinseltown. Though the nominal hero is a disillusioned screenwriter played by Robert Cummings (whose dialogue anticipates the lines spoken by William Holden in 1950's Sunset Boulevard), the focus of the story is John Halliday as a Read More

Professional Soldier

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Freddie Bartholomew, Gloria Stuart, Michael Whalen

Synopsis: Adventurer-for-hire Victor McLaglen is hired by a political faction in a mythical European kingdom. McLaglen's job is to kidnap the young prince (Freddie Bartholomew) so that his employers can take over the government. The prince enjoys the experience because it releases him from the confines of Read More

Fugitive Lovers

Actors: Robert Montgomery, Madge Evans, Ted Healy, Nat Pendleton, C. Henry Gordon

Synopsis: Though it's also a "bus" picture, MGM's Fugitive Lovers is as different from Columbia's It Happened One Night as oil and water. Escaping from her gangster boyfriend Legs (Nat Pendleton), chorus girl Letty (Madge Evans) boards a Greyhound bus bound for California. Likewise a passenger -- albeit a Read More

Men in White

Actors: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Jean Hersholt, Elizabeth Allan, Otto Kruger

Synopsis: In an unusual move, MGM released its film version of Sidney Kingsley's Pulitzer-Prize winning play Men in White while the play was still running on Broadway. Clark Gable is cast as Dr. George Ferguson, a dynamic young intern whose brilliant future seems assured. In addition to planning to study in Read More

Death on the Diamond

Actors: Robert Young, Madge Evans, Nat Pendleton, Ted Healy, C. Henry Gordon

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Cortland Fitzsimmons, the storyline of this "gimmick" mystery follows the St. Louis Cardinals during a championship season. The arrival of hotshot pitcher Larry Kelly (Robert Young) coincides with an apparent plot to sabotage the Cards' chances of making it to the World Series. Read More

Turn Back the Clock

Actors: Lee Tracy, Mae Clarke, Otto Kruger, George Barbier, Peggy Shannon

Synopsis: Lee Tracy is a middle-aged, middle-class man dissatisfied with his life. If he'd only married the girl he wanted to and had been a smarter businessman (he believes), things would have been better. One morning, Tracy wakes up and discovers he's been transported twenty years in the past. Armed with Read More

Gabriel Over the White House

Actors: Walter Huston, Karen Morley, Franchot Tone, Arthur Byron, Dickie Moore

Synopsis: In 1933, at the height of the bleakness and desperation of the Depression, MGM released this genuine curiosity piece -- directed by comedy (!) director Gregory La Cava -- concerning a Warren G. Harding-like partisan hand-shaker President of the United States who, after seeing a vision, revokes the Read More

Night Flight

Actors: John Barrymore, Helen Hayes, Clark Gable, Lionel Barrymore, Robert Montgomery

Synopsis: This suspense drama was based on a novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Riviere (John Barrymore), who operates an air delivery service, is fanatical in his dedication to service, putting prompt delivery before the safety of his men or his fleet after receiving a contract to help transport the mail. Read More

Clear All Wires

Actors: Lee Tracy, Benita Hume, Una Merkel, James Gleason, Alan Edwards

Synopsis: A splashy journalist finds herself embroiled in international intrigue when she hooks up with a sneaky Russian correspondent who curries favor by saving a Secret Police official. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Broadway Through a Keyhole

Actors: Constance Cummings, Russ Columbo, Paul Kelly, Blossom Seeley, Gregory Ratoff

Synopsis: This drama was written by famed radio announcer Walter Winchell. It chronicles the tragic love between a racketeer and a singer. So smitten is he by the chorus girl's charms that he buys her a nightclub. Unfortunately for him, the club's male crooner/bandleader also loves the girl. Realizing that Read More

The Devil's in Love

Actors: Victor Jory, Loretta Young, Vivienne Osborne, David Manners, C. Henry Gordon

Synopsis: The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a Legion doctor falsely accused of murdering his commander over the love of Loretta Young. Jory escapes prosecution by heading for parts unknown, but when a deadly illness strikes his old fort, he returns Read More

Storm at Daybreak

Actors: Kay Francis, Nils Asther, Walter Huston, Phillips Holmes, Eugene Pallette

Synopsis: A conflict between the Serbs and the Hungarians provides the framework of this drama that centers on a love triangle between a Serbian mayor and his closest friend, a Hungarian officer. The story begins as the Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated at Sarajevo. The trouble between them begins when the Read More

Penthouse

Actors: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Charles Butterworth, Mae Clarke, Phillips Holmes

Synopsis: Society-lawyer Warner Baxter loses his prestige in the legal community when he successfully defends gangster boss Nat Pendleton. Later on, the soft-hearted Pendleton gets the opportunity to "do right" by saving Baxter's life. This redemptive move comes at the end of a complicated plot involving Baxter Read More

Made on Broadway

Actors: Robert Montgomery, Sally Eilers, Madge Evans, Eugene Pallette, C. Henry Gordon

Synopsis: Heroine Mona (Sally Eilers) is "made" in more ways than one in this free-wheeling spoof of the press-agent business. A would-be suicide, Mona is rescued by public-relations whiz Jeff (Robert Montgomery), who decides to turn the girl into a celebrity -- and line his own pockets in the process. But Read More

The Secret of Madame Blanche

Actors: Irene Dunne, Lionel Atwill, Phillips Holmes, Una Merkel, Douglas Walton

Synopsis: Secret of Madame Blanche is one of those "confessional" film dramas which movie fans of the early 1930s ate up like bonbons. Irene Dunne stars as a musical hall entertainer who is impregnated by a wealthy young man (Phillips Holmes). They marry, but the husband kills himself. Under the pressure of Read More

Stage Mother

Actors: Alice Brady, Maureen O'Sullivan, Franchot Tone, Phillips Holmes, Ted Healy

Synopsis: After the death of her circus-aerialist husband, Kitty Lorraine (Alice Brady) dedicates herself to transforming her daughter Shirley (Maureen O'Sullivan) into a celebrity. Kitty is so determined that Shirley will hit the "big time" that she continues to issue instructions to the girl even while Read More

Thirteen Women

Actors: Irene Dunne, Myrna Loy, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond, Florence Eldridge

Synopsis: In this suspenseful drama, an embittered woman exacts revenge upon the 12 women who wronged her in college. The trouble began when the woman, who was of Japanese and Indian heritage, was ejected from a college sorority because she wasn't white. Still angry, the woman hires an astrologer to create Read More

Rasputin and the Empress

Actors: John Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Ralph Morgan, Diana Wynyard

Synopsis: It's hard to separate fact and fancy from the many accounts of what happened on the set when all three of the fabulous Barrymores -- Ethel, John and Lionel -- appeared together for the only time in Rasputin and the Empress. As for the end result, John offers the subtlest (!) performance as Russian Read More

Mata Hari

Actors: Greta Garbo, Ramon Novarro, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, C. Henry Gordon

Synopsis: "So much for Carlotta" muses the head of German Espionage (Lewis Stone), shortly after secret agent Karen Morley is put to death. Morley's successor is exotic dancer Mata Hari (Greta Garbo), an enigmatic woman of Javanese-Dutch ancestry who seldom thinks twice about luring some poor swain to his Read More

Washington Masquerade

Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Karen Morley, Diane Sinclair, Nils Asther, Reginald Barlow

Synopsis: Perhaps most noteworthy for the first onscreen performance by future Academy Award winner Hattie McDaniel, this politcal melodrama from director Charles Brabin stars Lionel Barrymore as Jefferson Keane, a widowed US Senator who suddenly finds himself sought after by Consuela, a beautiful young Read More

Scarface

Actors: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, George Raft, Boris Karloff

Synopsis: Completed in mid-1930, Scarface, based on Armitage Trail's novel of the same name, might have been the first of the great talkie gangster flicks, but it was held up for release until after that honor was jointly usurped by Little Caesar and Public Enemy. Paul Muni stars as prohibition-era mobster Read More

Hell's Highway

Actors: Richard Dix, Tom Brown, Louise Carter, Rochelle Hudson, C. Henry Gordon

Synopsis: Often referred to as an imitation of Warner's legendary prison drama I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932), RKO's stirring Hell's Highway was actually released a few months earlier. The two films were in production at the same time, but RKO was determined to beat the competition (which also Read More

The Gay Caballero

Actors: George O'Brien, Conchita Montenegro, Linda Watkins, C. Henry Gordon

Synopsis: In this western, an eastern football star inherits the cattle ranch that paid his way through college. Unfortunately, he discovers that much of the fortune has been squandered by an avaricious cattle baron attempting to build an empire of his own. He is stopped by the masked outlaw, El Coyote, who Read More

Jewel Robbery

Actors: William Powell, Kay Francis, Helen Vinson, Hardie Albright, Alan Mowbray

Synopsis: This imitation-Lubitsch romantic comedy stars William Powell as an elegant jewel thief plying his trade in Vienna. Powell's latest victim is bored baroness Kay Francis, who is much taken by the gentleman crook's handsomeness and poise. Since Francis is casting about for a new lover and newer Read More

Kongo

Actors: Walter Huston, Lupe Velez, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Bruce, C. Henry Gordon

Synopsis: A remake of West of Zanibar, this strange, gut-wrenching melodrama set in the African jungles, offers a disturbing portrait of a bitter, crippled and insane megalomaniac who vents his rage via mental torture against all those who get too near. Walter Huston plays the madman who lost the use of his Read More

The Strange Love of Molly Louvain

Actors: Ann Dvorak, Lee Tracy, Richard Cromwell, Guy Kibbee, Leslie Fenton

Synopsis: In this strange, convoluted tale, a hotel clerk ends up pregnant and alone after she has a brief fling with a wealthy playboy. Shortly after her daughter's birth, she hooks up with a criminal. She does not realize that the good-hearted bellboy with whom she works secretly loves her. When the Read More

Charlie Chan Carries On

Actors: Warner Oland, John Garrick, Marguerite Churchill, Warren Hymer, Marjorie White

Synopsis: Warner Oland made his first appearance in the role of Earl Derr Biggers' sagacious, aphorism-spouting oriental detective Charlie Chan in the 1931 Fox production Charlie Chan Carries On. It all begins when Chan, on vacation from his job with the Honolulu police, tries to solve the murder of a Read More

Hush Money

Actors: Joan Bennett, Hardie Albright, Owen Moore, Myrna Loy, C. Henry Gordon

Synopsis: A woman trying to live down her past finds it coming back to haunt her in this drama. Steve Pelton (Owen Moore) is the leader of a gang of confidence men and petty criminals who have set up a base of operations in a large house they all share. One of Pelton's roommates is his girlfriend, Janet Read More

State's Attorney

Actors: John Barrymore, Helen Twelvetrees, Jill Esmond, Mary Duncan

Synopsis: John Barrymore is the "State's Attorney" in the RKO picture of the same name. A brilliant criminal lawyer, Barrymore counts on his underworld connections to climb the ladder of success to the Governor's chair. "Humanized" by his girlfriend Helen Twelvetrees, a former streetwalker, Barrymore Read More

The Black Camel

Actors: Warner Oland, Sally Eilers, Bela Lugosi, Dorothy Revier, Victor Varconi, C. Henry Gordon

Synopsis: Actress Shelah Fane (Dorothy Revier) is in Honolulu to shoot a movie, but her chaotic personal life is keeping her from concentrating on work. She's supposed to marry millionaire playboy Alan Jaynes (William Post Jr.), but she's also got an ex lurking around and a possible skeleton in her closet Read More

Once a Sinner

Actors: Dorothy Mackaill, Joel McCrea, John Halliday, C. Henry Gordon, Ilka Chase

Synopsis: In this marital drama, a wife fears that her checkered past will be revealed when she and her husband move to the city to further his career. Soon after their arrival, the husband overhears a conversation about her. Apparently she had been a "kept" woman before she met him, and this causes him to Read More

A Woman of Experience

Actors: Helen Twelvetrees, William Bakewell, Lew Cody, ZaSu Pitts, H.B. Warner

Synopsis: In this dramatic adventure a shady lady becomes a spy for the Austrian intelligence agency and ends up involved with a man suspected of being a German spy. She only pretends to love him to discover the truth. The man she really loves is a young naval officer, but in order to serve her country, she Read More

Renegades

Actors: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Noah Beery, Sr., Gregory Gaye, George Cooper

Synopsis: In this action-adventure opus, Deucalion (Warner Baxter), Machwurth (Noah Beery), Mordiconi (C. Henry Gordon) and Biloxi (George Cooper) are four members of a desert patrol fighting off godless villains amidst the sand dunes. The four soldiers are lured away from their mission by Eleanore (Myrna Read More