Herbert MundinFilmography

Lord Jeff

Actors: Freddie Bartholomew, Mickey Rooney, Charles Coburn, Herbert Mundin, Gale Sondergaard, Terry Kilburn, Peter Lawford

Synopsis: Director Sam Wood always seemed most comfortable with cozy family-oriented films like Lord Jeff. Freddie Bartholomew plays Geoffrey Braemer, a basically good kid who falls in with bad company. The orphaned Geoffrey is being used as part of jewel-theft scheme masterminded by his so-called aunt Read More

Invisible Enemy

Actors: Alan Marshal, Tala Birell, Herbert Mundin

Synopsis: Secret agent Jeff Clavering (Alan Marshal) is in the employ of a group of businessmen dedicated to world peace. In order to get the goods on war profiteer Kamarov (C. Henry Gordon), Clavering is ordered to romance Kamarov's wife Stephanie (Mady Correll). Our hero and heroine experience any number Read More

Exposed

Actors: Glenda Farrell, Otto Kruger, Herbert Mundin, David Oliver, Lorraine Krueger

Synopsis: Glenda Farrell plays still another fast-talking girl reporter in Universal's Exposed. Willing to sell her soul for a story, newspaper sob sister Click Stewart (Farrell) is presently on the trail of DA William Reardon (Otto Kruger), a "Judge Crater" type who disappeared without a trace several Read More

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Actors: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles

Synopsis: In order to avoid the material copyrighted by Douglas Fairbanks Sr. for his 1922 Robin Hood, the scripters of this Flynn version relied on several legendary episodes that had never before been filmed, notably the battle between Robin and Little John (Alan Hale Sr., who played this part three times Read More

Another Dawn

Actors: Kay Francis, Errol Flynn, Ian Hunter, Frieda Inescort, Herbert Mundin

Synopsis: The title of this Errol Flynn vehicle sprang from an "inside" joke at Warner Bros. Whenever the studio depicted a marquee or poster of a fictional film in one of their productions, the film's title was inevitably Another Dawn. When time came to shoot this Flynn epic, the studio, stuck for Read More

You Can't Beat Love

Actors: Preston S. Foster, Joan Fontaine, Herbert Mundin, William Brisbane, Alan Bruce

Synopsis: Hotshot attorney Jimmy Hughes (Preston S. Foster) prides himself on never backing down from a dare. Thus, when he is goaded into running for mayor on the Reform ticket, Jimmy mounts an aggressive campaign. Only one problem: the incumbent mayor (Frank M. Thomas) is the father of Jimmy's sweetheart Read More

Angel

Actors: Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas, Edward Everett Horton, Herbert Mundin

Synopsis: Generally considered one of director Ernst Lubitsch's lesser works, Angel stars Marlene Dietrich as Maria, the neglected wife of Sir Frederick Barker (Herbert Marshall), a British diplomat who travels often and seems little concerned with his spouse. Maria has nearly reached her breaking point Read More

A Message to Garcia

Actors: Wallace Beery, Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Alan Hale, Herbert Mundin

Synopsis: The real "message to Garcia" was delivered by an American lieutenant to Cuban rebel General Garcia, asking for the General's help in the Spanish-American war. The fact that the lieutenant made his way to Garcia in absolute safety was ignored in 20th Century-Fox's Message to Garcia--which is just Read More

Champagne Charlie

Actors: Paul Cavanagh, Helen Wood, Thomas Beck, Minna Gombell, Herbert Mundin

Synopsis: "Champagne" Charlie Courtland (Paul Cavanaugh) is a smooth, sophisticated and highly unethical gambler, plying his trade among the rich and famous. Charlie's backers hope for a huge financial windfall when he begins to court beautiful young heiress Linda Craig (Helen Wood). At the last moment Read More

Under Two Flags

Actors: Ronald Colman, Claudette Colbert, Victor McLaglen, Rosalind Russell, Gregory Ratoff

Synopsis: Two silent film versions preceded this 1936 Hollywood adaptation of the 19th century novel by the writer Ouida Bergere. It is set in Saharan Africa but was filmed in the Arizona desert. Ronald Colman is Corporal Victor, a man who has taken the rap for a crime committed by his younger brother. Read More

King of Burlesque

Actors: Warner Baxter, Alice Faye, Jack Oakie, Arline Judge, Mona Barrie

Synopsis: Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal burleycue singer who helps make Baxter a success. His head turned by sudden fame, Baxter falls under the spell of a society woman (Mona Barrie) who has theatrical Read More

Tarzan Escapes

Actors: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Buckler, Benita Hume, William Henry

Synopsis: Produced under the working title The Capture of Tarzan, Tarzan Escapes was completely refilmed before release, eviscerating several blood-curdling sequences involving killer pygmies, torture murders and vampire bats. Wearing considerably more clothing than in 1934's Tarzan and His Mate Read More

The Widow from Monte Carlo

Actors: Warren William, Dolores Del Rio, Louise Fazenda, Colin Clive, Herbert Mundin

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed duchess and then begins blackmailing her after she steals a scandalous letter. This letter could destroy her upcoming nuptials to a stuffy Englishman. The duchess enlists the Read More

Black Sheep

Actors: Edmund Lowe, Claire Trevor, Tom Brown, Eugene Pallette, Adrienne Ames

Synopsis: The Black Sheep is professional gambler John Dugan (Edmund Lowe), who gets his kicks out of fleecing wealthy suckers during a Transatlantic ocean voyage. But when Dugan sees innocent young Fred Curtis (Tom Brown) being made the fall guy for a jewel robbery, he decides to help the poor boy out. Read More

Ladies Love Danger

Actors: Mona Barrie, Gilbert Roland, Donald Cook, Adrienne Ames, Hardie Albright

Synopsis: Hoping to finish his latest play in peace, writer Ricardo Souchet (Gilbert Roland) loses his train of thought when dizzy blonde reporter Rita (Mona Barrie) invades his apartment. Before long, Rita has gotten Ricardo involved in a series of murders amongst the theater folk. When the police prove Read More

David Copperfield

Actors: W.C. Fields, Lionel Barrymore, Freddie Bartholomew, Maureen O'Sullivan, Madge Evans, Frank Lawton, Edna May Oliver

Synopsis: David Copperfield was MGM's major Christmas release for its 1934-1935 season and also the first of producer David O. Selznick's major "literary" films for that studio. While a great deal of editing and streamlining was necessary to distill Charles Dickens' massive novel into 133 minutes of screen Read More

Mutiny on the Bounty

Actors: Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Dudley Digges, Herbert Mundin, Donald Crisp, Eddie Quillan

Synopsis: The 1932 publication of Charles Nordhoff and James Norton Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty sparked a revival of interest in the titular 1789 ship mutiny, and this 1935 MGM movie version won the Oscar for Best Picture. Clark Gable stars as Fletcher Christian, first mate of the infamous HMS Bounty Read More

Charlie Chan's Secret

Actors: Warner Oland, Rosina Lawrence, Charles Quigley, Henrietta Crosman, Edward Trevor

Synopsis: A serial-like pace and some stylish directorial choices by Gordon Wiles distinguish this "Charlie Chan" entry. The reading of a will is delayed until one of the principal heirs to the fortune, can be located. He shows up at the family mansion, only to be promptly murdered. It is now up to Read More

The Perfect Gentleman

Actors: Frank Morgan, Dame Cicely Courtneidge, Heather Angel, Herbert Mundin, Una O'Connor

Synopsis: Celebrated British musical comedy star Cicely Courtneige was given a chance at American movie stardom in Perfect Gentleman. Courtneige plays an actress whose career has faltered. Frank Morgan portrays a retired military officer and longtime fan of Courtneige, who engineers her comeback. Despite Read More

Such Women Are Dangerous

Actors: Warner Baxter, Rosemary Ames, Rochelle Hudson, Mona Barrie, Herbert Mundin

Synopsis: Playboy novelist Michael Shawn's (Warren William) chickens come home to roost in Such Women are Dangerous. Accused of murder, Shawn desperately searches for character witnesses to help him out in court. Alas, all of his former lovers are in a vindictive mood, and all hope to see Shawn fry for what Read More

Springtime for Henry

Actors: Otto Kruger, Nancy Carroll, Nigel Bruce, Heather Angel, Herbert Mundin

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a rakish fellow involves himself with a married woman. Later his secretary endeavors to win him away with the promise of a more stable relationship. The rake is tempted, but then decides he prefers the married woman, which is fine with her husband who has an eye for the Read More

Love Time

Actors: Pat Paterson, Nils Asther, Herbert Mundin, Harry Green, Henry B. Walthall

Synopsis: Love Time is the story of the unhappy life of composer Franz Schubert, here played by Swedish actor Nils Asther. Too poor even for romance, Schubert feels compelled to give up his sweetheart Valerie (Pat Paterson) never realizing that she's the daughter of the fabulously wealthy Duke von Hatzfeld (Henry B. Walthall Read More

Orient Express

Actors: Heather Angel, Norman Foster, Ralph Morgan, Herbert Mundin, Irene Ware

Synopsis: The 1934 Fox melodrama Orient Express was based on a Graham Greene novel. In true "Grand Hotel" fashion, an awful lot happens during the Constantinople-to-Ostend run of the titular express. The dramatis personae includes covetous dancer Coral Musker (Heather Angel), naïve date merchant Carlton Read More

Bottoms Up

Actors: Spencer Tracy, John Boles, Pat Paterson, Herbert Mundin, Sid Silvers

Synopsis: In his only musical-comedy appearance, Spencer Tracy stars as fast-buck promoter Smoothie King. Our hero's latest scam is to pass off Hollywood extra Wanda Gale (Pat Patterson) and forger Limey Brook (Herbert Mundin) as British nobility, getting both of them prestigious jobs at a movie studio. Read More

Call It Luck

Actors: Pat Paterson, Herbert Mundin, Charles Starrett, Gordon Westcott, Georgia Caine

Synopsis: Before retiring from films to become Mrs. Charles Boyer, actress Pat Paterson was a popular and appealing Fox Studios leading lady. In Call it Luck, Paterson plays Pat Laurie, the daughter of humble London cabbie Herbert Bigglewade (Herbert Mundin). Thanks to a winning sweepstakes ticket, Pat is Read More

All Men Are Enemies

Actors: Hugh Williams, Helen Twelvetrees, Mona Barrie, Herbert Mundin, Henry Stephenson

Synopsis: Before World War I, free-spirited Englishman Tony Clarendon (Hugh Williams) meets Austrian Katha (Helen Twelvetrees) on the island of Capri, and they fall deeply in love. When war breaks out, however, Tony has to return to England, where old friend Margaret Scrope (Mona Barrie) reveals she wants Read More

Ever Since Eve

Synopsis: George O'Brien trades his cowboy garb for a dinner jacket in Fox's Ever Since Eve. Raised by a couple of misogynistic old fogies, young heir Neil Rogers (O'Brien) reaches adulthood totally unschooled in the ways of women. He heads to New York, where he instantly falls in love with gorgeous Read More

Cavalcade

Actors: Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O'Connor, Herbert Mundin, Ursula Jeans, Beryl Mercer

Synopsis: The only Academy Award winning picture for Fox Studios (in its pre-20th Century-Fox era), Cavalcade is a stately film adaptation of the pageant-like stage hit by Noel Coward. The film concentrates on the years 1901 through 1933, as seen through the eyes of an upper-class British family and its Read More

Pleasure Cruise

Actors: Genevieve Tobin, Roland Young, Ralph Forbes, Una O'Connor, Herbert Mundin

Shanghai Madness

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Fay Wray, Ralph Morgan, Eugene Pallette, Herbert Mundin

Synopsis: In this military adventure, a Navy lieutenant is stripped of his rank and booted out after he fires at communist ships in China. These circumstances make it almost impossible for him to find a job. He then ends up saving the life of a beautiful young socialite. The girl immediately likes him and Read More

Adorable

Actors: Janet Gaynor, Henri Garat, C. Aubrey Smith, Herbert Mundin

Synopsis: Frisky princess Marie Christine, known as Mitzi (Janet Gaynor) passes herself off as a manicurist, and falls in love with Karl (Henry Garat), a delicatessen worker, though he's really a lieutenant in Mitzi's army. Back at the palace, the Prime Minister (C. Aubrey Smith) tells Mitzi her betrothal Read More

Arizona to Broadway

Actors: James Dunn, Joan Bennett, Herbert Mundin, Sammy Cohen, Theodore Von Eltz

Synopsis: While travelling through Arizona, carnival huckster Smiley Wells (James Dunn) makes the acquaintance of sweet small-town girl Lynn Martin (Joan Bennett). Upon learning that a gang of slick operators has swindled a huge sum of money from Lynn's mother, Smiley decides that money lost through larceny 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

Hoopla

Actors: Clara Bow, Preston S. Foster, Richard Cromwell, Herbert Mundin, James Gleason

Synopsis: Clara Bow, the saucy "It" girl of the silent screen, made her film farewell in the ragged musical drama Hoopla. Based on the stage play The Barker (previously filmed in 1927), the story takes place during the Chicago World's Fair of 1933. Bow plays Lou, a hootchy-kootchy dancer who is catapulted Read More

It's Great to Be Alive

Actors: Raul Roulien, Gloria Stuart, Edna May Oliver, Herbert Mundin, Joan Marsh

Synopsis: In this musical science fiction adventure a handsome Brazilian playboy finds himself in the enviable position of being the last man on Earth after a pandemic disease destroys the rest of his gender. The playboy is spared because he was marooned upon a lonely island when the rest of the world's men Read More

Dangerously Yours

Actors: Warner Baxter, Miriam Jordan, Herbert Mundin, Florence Eldridge, Florence Roberts

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a dapper thief meets a female detective at a party and fall in love. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Devil's Lottery

Actors: Elissa Landi, Victor McLaglen, Alexander Kirkland, Paul Cavanagh, Ralph Morgan

Synopsis: The Calcutta Sweepstakes is the unifying factor of The Devil's Lottery. Among the winners of the sweepstakes are Evelyn (Elissa Landi), the mistress of suave cardsharp Major Hugo Beresford (Paul Cavanaugh), and roughneck ex-boxer Lem Meech (Victor McLaglen), whose mother (Beryl Mercer) insists Read More

The Trial of Vivienne Ware

Actors: Joan Bennett, Donald Cook, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, ZaSu Pitts, Lillian Bond

Synopsis: Running a swift 55 minutes, Trial of Vivienne Ware packs in more sheer entertainment value than its longer, more prestigious "role model," The Trial of Mary Dugan. Joan Bennett plays the title character, a beleaguered young woman accused of murdering her nasty fiancee (Jameson Thomas). She is Read More

Bachelor's Affairs

Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Minna Gombell, Arthur Pierson, Joan Marsh, Alan Dinehart

Synopsis: Bachelor Andrew Hoyt (Adolphe Menjou), beginning to feel his age, convinces himself that he can become rejuvenated if he takes a young wife. Unfortunately, he chooses dimwitted Eva Mills (Joan Marsh), who lives to party, party, party! Unable to keep up the pace, Andrew finally gives up Eva to the Read More

Chandu the Magician

Actors: Edmund Lowe, Irene Ware, Bela Lugosi, Herbert Mundin, Henry B. Walthall

Synopsis: Based on the radio serial of the same name, Chandu the Magician is a veritable rollercoaster ride of thrills and terror, boasting some of the best special effects of its period. Edmund Lowe stars as suave Frank Chandler, better known to his enemies as Chandu the Magician. Though he tries to keep Read More

Sherlock Holmes

Actors: Clive Brook, Miriam Jordan, Ernest Torrence, Reginald Owen, Howard Leeds

Synopsis: This version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famed tale is set in contemporary London and follows Holmes and Watson as they seek to bring the nefarious Professor Moriarty to justice. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Love Me Tonight

Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Charlie Ruggles, Charles Butterworth, Myrna Loy

Synopsis: One of the most technically accomplished and sophisticated movie musicals of the 1930's, Rouben Mamoulian's Love Me Tonight (1932) had a profound effect on the shape of the musical genre (especially the films of Vincente Minnelli), and remains a candidate for best movie musical ever made, some Read More

One Way Passage

Actors: William Powell, Kay Francis, Frank McHugh, Aline MacMahon, Warren Hymer

Synopsis: William Powell plays a condemned murderer who is being transported from Hong Kong to San Quentin by way of a luxury liner. Also on board is the lovely Kay Francis, who is suffering from a fatal heart condition. The sympathetic detective (Warren Hymer) escorting Powell allows the prisoner to roam Read More

The Silent Witness

Actors: Lionel Atwill, Greta Nissen, Weldon Heyburn, Helen Mack, Bramwell Fletcher

Synopsis: This film version of the Jack DeLeon-Jack Celestin play Silent Witness stars Lionel Atwill in his original stage role of Sir Austin Howard. When his son Anthony (Bramwell Fletcher) strangles his mistress Nora Selmer (Greta Niesen) in a fit of jealous rage, Sir Austin gallantly takes the blame Read More

Almost Married

Actors: Violet Heming, Alexander Kirkland, Alan Dinehart, Eva Dennison

Synopsis: To help her escape from Russia, British diplomat Deene Maxwell (Ralph Bellamy) marries Anita Mellikovna (Violet Heming), planning to annul the marriage later. However, she reveals she's already married -- to the insane Capristi (Alexander Kirkland), who escapes from an English asylum in order to Read More

Life Begins

Actors: Loretta Young, Eric Linden, Aline MacMahon, Glenda Farrell, Dorothy Peterson

Synopsis: Life Begins is an episodic Warner Bros. programmer about one unusually busy night in a maternity ward. Loretta Young is the central character, a convicted murderess who has been impregnated by her gangster boyfriend. She is moved to the hospital to give birth, sharing ward space with hard-boiled Glenda Farrell Read More

East Lynne on the Western Front

Actors: Herbert Mundin, Mark Daly, Wilfred Lawson, Harold French

Synopsis: At the risk of repeating an old cliché, the title tells all in East Lynne of the Western Front. Set during WWI, the story focuses on a group of British "Tommies," bored out of their gourds during a lull in the war. To perk up morale, the soldiers decide to stage a camp production of the Read More