Robert StevensonFilmography

Good Times: Penny's Christmas

Crew: Teleplay By

Synopsis: Just before purchasing a Christmas present for her foster mother, Willona (Ja'net DuBois), Penny (Janet Jackson) is robbed of her wallet. Desperate to get Willona a gift, Penny resorts to shoplifting -- and ends up in police custody. Will this unpleasant episode lead to Willona losing her Read More

The Shaggy D.A.

Crew: Director

Actors: Dean Jones, Tim Conway, Suzanne Pleshette, Keenan Wynn, Jo Ann Worley

Synopsis: Robert Stevenson, Walt Disney Productions' house director, cobbled together his 19th family film for the organization with this slapstick sequel to the Disney comedy The Shaggy Dog (produced 17 years after the fact). Dean Jones plays Wilby Daniels, a lawyer running against the villainous John Read More

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing

Crew: Director

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Helen Hayes, Clive Revill, Derek Nimmo, Joan Sims

Synopsis: In this comical Disney espionage adventure, a herd of nannies team up with Scotland Yard and set off to find important microfilm that was concealed, by a wicked Chinese spy, within the skeleton of a dinosaur that now sits in the British Natural History Museum ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Island at the Top of the World

Crew: Director

Actors: Niels Hinrichsen, Gunnar Ohlund, Erik Silju, Rolf Soder, David Hartman, Donald Sinden, Jacques Marin, Mako, David Gwillim

Synopsis: This Disney family adventure, directed by Robert Stevenson in his Jules Verne mode, concern a group of explorers who travel to the Arctic Circle in 1908 to explore the uncharted wastes of the North Pole. Sir Anthony Ross (Donald Sinden), a rich Londoner, organizes an Arctic exploration team in Read More

Herbie Rides Again

Crew: Director

Actors: Helen Hayes, Ken Berry, Stefanie Powers, John McIntire, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: Herbie Rides Again is the first sequel to Disney's fabulously successful The Love Bug. The emphasis here is on Mrs. Steinmetz (Helen Hayes), a feisty old San Franciscan who refuses to sell her home to conniving developer Alonzo Hawk (Keenan Wynn). Hawk's nephew, lawyer Willoughby Whitfield (Ken Berry Read More

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Crew: Director

Actors: Ian Weighall, Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall, Sam Jaffe, John Ericson

Synopsis: Bedknobs and Broomsticks was produced several years after Walt Disney's death and released in the fall of 1971. As it turned out, Bedknobs was frequently compared to Mary Poppins -- probably thanks to several striking similarities between the two productions, notably the presence in the cast of David Tomlinson Read More

My Dog, the Thief

Crew: Director

Synopsis: An air-traffic reporter discovers that his partner--a St. Bernard dog--has accidentally swiped a priceless necklace from a jewel-smuggling gang. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Blackbeard's Ghost

Crew: Director

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette, Elsa Lanchester, Joby Baker

Synopsis: Blackbeard's Ghost was one of the first Disney productions released after Walt's death. Peter Ustinov stars as the eponymous wraith, who returns to Earth to come to aid of his descendant, elderly Elsa Lanchester. The villains want to kick Lanchester and her friends out of their group home so that Read More

The Love Bug

Crew: Director

Actors: Dean Jones, Michele Lee, David Tomlinson, Buddy Hackett, Joe Flynn

Synopsis: Those who worried that the Disney studio would collapse without the presence of the late Uncle Walt were put at ease when the profits starting rolling in for The Love Bug. The "star" is Herbie, a lovable little Volkswagen with a personality all its own. Abused by a bad guy race-car driver (David Tomlinson Read More

The Gnome-Mobile

Crew: Director

Actors: Walter Brennan, Tom Lowell, Matthew Garber, Karen Dotrice, Ed Wynn, Richard Deacon

Synopsis: The Gnome-Mobile was Walt Disney's first all-out fantasy since Mary Poppins. Walter Brennan stars in a dual role, as kindly lumber tycoon D. J. Mulrooney and the irascible (and much tinier) 943-year-old gnome Knobby. Mulrooney likes Knobby and his fellow gnomes, but the feeling isn't reciprocal Read More

That Darn Cat

Crew: Director

Actors: Hayley Mills, Dean Jones, Dorothy Provine, Roddy McDowall, Neville Brand

Synopsis: Though overlong even for a Hayley Mills vehicle, That Darn Cat is an expert blend of laughs and suspense. The eponymous feline is D.C., a Siamese belonging to sisters Hayley Mills and Dorothy Provine. One evening, D.C. comes flouncing home with a lady's wristwatch attached to her neck. The watch Read More

The Monkey's Uncle

Crew: Director

Actors: Annette Funicello, Tommy Kirk, Leon Ames, Arthur O'Connell, Frank Faylen

Synopsis: The sequel to 1963's Misadventures of Merlin Jones finds young Mr. Jones (Tommy Kirk) still in college and still going out with Jennifer (Annette Funicello). In this movie, he must help football players pass their tests and invent a flying machine win a contest for the school. Funicello and the Read More

The Misadventures of Merlin Jones

Crew: Director

Actors: Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Leon Ames, Stuart Erwin, Alan Hewitt

Synopsis: In this Disney family film, brainy college student Merlin Jones (Tommy Kirk) invents a mind-reading machine, but the consequences of its use prove to be a lot of trouble. With help from his girlfriend (Annette Funicello), he must set to right all that has gone wrong. The movie spawned the sequel Monkey's Uncle Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Latent Lover

Synopsis: Investment broker Eric Pollard (Lloyd Bochner) seems to have gone off his trolley when he begins suffering from dizzy spells; to begin with, he publicly charges his wife Sybil (Marian Moses) with every crime under the sun--and as a capper, he hires a taxi to rob a bank! Though he is thrown in Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Sweet Lady of the Moon

Synopsis: Though irrefutably guilty of murder, Carl Soddenberg (Crahan Denton) escaped the hangman's noose when he was declared insane. Now "cured", Soddenberg is release from a mental institution in the custody of Dr. Weiser (Richard Shannon). Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired to escort patient and doctor Read More

Son of Flubber

Crew: Director

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk

Synopsis: Son of Flubber represented the first time that Walt Disney ever attempted a theatrical feature sequel: in this case, the earlier film was the 1961 moneyspinner The Absent-Minded Professor. While Flubber is more formula-bound than Professor, it proved an instant audience-pleaser, and a hit to the Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: A Miracle for St. Francis

Synopsis: The statue of St. Francis, standing in the courtyard of California's San Luis Rey mission, has been stolen. Father Clare (David Garner) prevails upon Paladin (Richard Boone) to retrieve the statue with the least possible amount of gunplay--a task that proves easier said than done, thanks to the Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Pandora's Box

Synopsis: In this curiously Brechtian drama, a government official (Lewis Martin) secretly hires Paladin to bring murder suspect Billy Joe (Martin West) to trial. The reason for the secrecy is that Billy Joe is the son of Paladin's client. Upon capturing Billy Joe, Paladin is unable to turn over boy to the Read More

In Search of the Castaways

Crew: Director

Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Hayley Mills, George Sanders, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Michael Anderson, Jr.

Synopsis: Based on Jules Verne's novel Captain Grant's Children, In Search of the Castaways is a roller-coaster of a Disney film, making up in excitement what it lacks in credibility or coherence. Hayley Mills and Keith Hamshere play the children of long-missing ship's captain Jack Gwillim. By chance, a Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Be Not Forgetful to Strangers

Synopsis: Riding into a wild-and-wooly frontier town on Christmas Eve, Paladin (Richard Boone) befriends a young cowboy and pregnant woman who need his help. It seems that the couple cannot find anyone willing or able to provide them lodging for the night; in fact, the only available space is a squalid Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Mystified Miner

Synopsis: Corning Company employee Susan Fisher (Kathie Browne) begins to suspect there's skullduggery afoot involving one of the company's holdings, the supposedly played-out Mojave Monarch Mine. Things get curiouser and curiouser when a woman claiming to be company owner Amelia Corning shows up, grabs two Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Last Judgment

Synopsis: Riding into a dusty Arkansas town, Paladin is greeted with the spectacle of a man chained in the street. The hapless prisoner turns out to be Dr. Simeon Loving (Donald Randolph), accused of murder by self-appointed "hanging judge" Elroy Greenleaf (Harold J. Stone). At the risk of his own neck Read More

Boy Who Caught a Crook

Actors: Wanda Hendrix, Roger Mobley, Johnny Seven, Robert Stevenson

Synopsis: In this children's movie, an adorable newsboy, his dog, and his friend the hobo accidently stumble across a briefcase containing $100,000. It belongs to a desperate thief who definitely wants it back. The honest child, not knowing the loot is stolen, looks for its owner. Fortunately the police Read More

Disneyland: Title Makers and Nature's Half Acre

Crew: Director

Actors: Tommy Sands, Annette Funicello, Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara

Synopsis: The first half of this 1961 Walt Disney Presents episode shows the work that went behind the delightful animated opening titles of the upcoming Disney theatrical feature The Parent Trap. Famed studio artists Bill Justice, X. Attencio, and T. Hee are seen bringing the titles to life, from Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Squatter's Rights

Synopsis: Bound by a debt of honor dating back to the Civil War, Paladin (Richard Boone) offers his gun in service to ruthless land baron Costigan (Warren Stevens). A family of squatters led by a hothead named Clemenceau (Robert Stevenson) has settled on Costigan's land, and refuses to be moved--backing up Read More

The Absent-Minded Professor

Crew: Director

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk, Leon Ames

Synopsis: One of Disney's most entertaining forays into live-action, this hit family comedy stars Fred MacMurray as a college professor so forgetful that he missed his own wedding twice. He creates an extremely resilient flying rubber, dubbed "Flubber," and manages to make his old Model-T bounce all the way Read More

The Untouchables: The Doreen Maney Story

Synopsis: Anne Francis and Christopher Dark guest star as armored-car bandits Doreen Maney and Sheik Humphries in this thinly disguised retelling of the "Bonnie and Clyde" legend. Designed by the newspapers as "The Lovebirds", Doreen and Sheik have masterminded four major heists, the last of which netted Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Night the Town Died

Synopsis: Released from prison after eight years, Aaron Bell (Barry Cahill) heads to the town where his brother was lynched during the Civil War. Fearing that Bell craves revenge, the nervous townsfolk hire Paladin (Richard Boone) for protection. As it turns out, however, Paladin must protect Bell from the Read More

Kidnapped

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Peter Finch, James MacArthur, Bernard Lee, Niall MacGinnis, John Laurie

Synopsis: Disney produced this historical adventure of old Scotland, based on the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. James MacArthur stars as David Balfour, a wealthy lad cheated out of his inheritance and sold into servitude by his duplicitous and greedy uncle, Ebenezer (John Laurie). Aboard the ship Read More

Elfego Baca: Attorney at Law

Synopsis: In the fifth episode of Walt Disney's ten-part miniseries Elfego Baca, gunslinger-turned-lawyer Baca (Robert Loggia) tackles his first big court case. Elfego must defend his old pal, reformed outlaw Fernando Bernal (Edward Colmans), who has been accused of robbing the Santa Fe bank. Former Read More

Disneyland: I Captured the King of the Leprechauns

Crew: Director

Actors: Walt Disney, Pat O'Brien, Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery

Synopsis: In its promotional material for the 1959 theatrical feature Darby O'Gill and the Little People, the Disney studio went into whimsical overdrive, hoping to convince the younger viewers that the leprechauns appearing in the film were not merely normal-sized actors made small via special effects, but Read More

Darby O'Gill and the Little People

Crew: Director

Actors: Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery, Jimmy O'Dea, Kieron Moore

Synopsis: Baby boomers who may not remember the plot particulars of Walt Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little People nonetheless retain fond memories of Disney's publicity campaign, which included an episode of the producer's weekly TV series, wherein the actor playing leprechaun king Brian (Jimmy O'Dea) Read More

Disneyland: The Best Doggoned Dog in the World

Crew: Director

Actors: Dorothy McGuire, Rex Allen

Synopsis: The first half of this live-action Disneyland episode is an entertaining promo for the upcoming Disney theatrical feature Old Yeller. Narrated by Dorothy McGuire, one of the film's stars, this segment features behind-the-scenes footage pertaining to the training of the dogs used in the film, as Read More

Disneyland: The Liberty Story

Crew: Director

Actors: Luana Patten, Jeff York, Rusty Lane, Sterling Holloway

Synopsis: This 1957 Disneyland episode is essentially a promotional film for the upcoming Disney theatrical release Johnny Tremain. An early segment, chronicling man's struggle for liberty as manifested in the Magna Carta and the exploits of Robin Hood, leads smoothly into a lengthy excerpt of the new film Read More

Johnny Tremain

Crew: Director

Actors: Hal Stalmaster, Luana Patten, Jeff York, Sebastian Cabot, Richard Beymer

Synopsis: This Walt Disney filmization of Esther Forbes' Revolutionary-War novel Johnny Tremain was appropriately released on July 4, 1957. New Disney discovery Hal Stalmaster plays the title character, an apprentice silversmith in 1773 Boston. An on-the-job injury prevents Johnny from finding a job, but he Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Colonel and the Lady

Synopsis: Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired by Colonel Lathrop (Robert F. Simon), a wealthy and aristocratic ex-military man who claims to be writing a history of the West. Lathrop wants Paladin to find out what became of a legendary saloon queen who once presided over a now-deserted Nevada mining town. The Read More

Old Yeller

Crew: Director

Actors: Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran, Chuck Connors, Jeff York

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Fred Gipson, Old Yeller is set in Texas in 1869. While his father is away on a cattle drive, 15-year-old Travis Coates (Tommy Kirk) takes over management of the family farm. Adopting a "strictly business" policy, Travis is irritated when younger brother, Arliss (Kevin Corcoran Read More

Gunsmoke: Chester's Mail Order Bride

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Mail-order bride Ann Smithwright (Mary Carver) travels all the way from Philadelphia to Dodge City, whereupon she identifies Matt Dillon (James Arness) as her future husband. Thing of it is, Matt has never heard of Ann: it seems that Chester Goode (Dennis Weaver) had sent a picture of Matt to Ann Read More

Gunsmoke: Cara

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Matt Dillon's former girlfriend Cara (Jorja Curtwright) arrives in Dodge City, apparently hoping to renew their romance. But Matt (James Arness) finds that the intervening years have made Cara too cynical and jaded for his tastes. Then word arrives that notorious bank robber Tolliver (Douglas Read More

Gunsmoke: Cooter

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Crooked gambler Ben Sissle (Vinton Hayworth) intends to get even with Matt Dillon (James Arness) for exposing him as a cheat. To this end, Sissle callously uses feeble-minded Cooter Smith (Strother Martin) as a dupe in a scheme to force Matt into a fatal gunfight. Cooter is persuaded that the Read More

Gunsmoke: The Killer

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Future action-film superstar Charles Bronson is cast against type as Crego, a coward who has built up a reputation as a fast gun by only challenging kids and oldsters who aren't quite as quick on the trigger. Goading his victims into slapping leather, Crego kills every one of them--and Matt (James Read More

Gunsmoke: Dutch George

Crew: Director

Synopsis: If ever Marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness) had an idol, it was fast-talking sharpster Dutch George (Robert Middleton). But times have changed, and now George is on the opposite side of the law as a horse thief. Though Matt has managed to avoid trouble with George and his gang, it looks like he'll Read More

The Hour of Stars: Miracle on 34th Street

Crew: Director

Actors: Thomas Mitchell, Teresa Wright, Sandy Descher

Synopsis: The 20th Century-Fox Hour (later syndicated as The Hour of Stars) ran on CBS just shy of two years, from October 1955 through September 1957. An anthology program, the series typically featured readaptations of 20th Century-Fox feature films for a sixty-minute TV airslot. The 1955 production of Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Long Shot

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Forced to leave New York in a hurry, impoverished gambler Charlie Raymond (Peter Lawford) answers a newspaper ad from a fellow Londoner named Walter Hendricks (John Williams), who wants someone to drive with him to San Francisco and share expenses. En route to the West Coast, Raymond discovers Read More

Fangs of the Wild

Actors: Charles Chaplin, Jr., Onslow Stevens, Margia Dean, Freddy Ridgeway, Phil Tead

Synopsis: Charles Chaplin Jr. makes his film starring debut in the location-filmed meller Fangs of the Wild. It's the old "boy cries wolf" story, featuring a lad named Tad (Freddie Ridgeway) who is inclined to stretch the truth now and then. Thus, when Tad insists that he's witnessed a murder, no one Read More

The Las Vegas Story

Crew: Director

Actors: Jane Russell, Victor Mature, Vincent Price, Hoagy Carmichael, Brad Dexter

Synopsis: The Las Vegas Story features two of Hollywood's most impressive physiques. Victor Mature stars as Dave Andrews, a gambler, while Jane Russell plays Linda, the love of his life. Assuming that Andrews has forgotten her, Linda marries Lloyd Rollins (Vincent Price) on the rebound. All three main Read More

My Forbidden Past

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Lucile Watson, Janis Carter

Synopsis: This period melodrama stars Ava Gardner as Barbara Beaurevel, a woman who inherits a substantial fortune from her grandmother. The source of the Beaurevel estate is a subject much whispered about among polite company, but Barbara hopes to wipe away its stigma by using her money to help others Read More

The Thing

Actors: Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite, Douglas Spencer, Dewey Martin

Synopsis: The scene is a distant Arctic research station, where a UFO has crashed. The investigating scientists discover that the circular craft has melted its way into the ice, which has frozen up again. While attempting to recover the ship, Captain Patrick Hendry (Kenneth Tobey) accidentally explodes the Read More

Walk Softly, Stranger

Crew: Director

Actors: Joseph Cotten, Spring Byington, Paul Stewart

Synopsis: Joseph Cotten stars in Walk Softly, Stranger as Chris Hale, a fugitive criminal who decides to hide out in a small Midwestern town. Here, Hale makes the acquaintance of Elaine Corelli (Alida Valli), who has had a grudge against the world since being crippled in a skiing accident. While endeavoring Read More

Where Danger Lives

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains, Maureen O'Sullivan, Charles Kemper

Synopsis: Faith Domergue, the latest of Howard Hughes' protegees, made her film debut in 1950's Where Danger Lives. Domergue plays Margo Lannington the wife of Frederick Lannington (Claude Rains), an elderly millionaire possessed of a sadistic streak. Robert Mitchum co-stars as Jeff Cameron, a poor soul who Read More

I Was a Male War Bride

Actors: Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Randy Stuart, William Neff

Synopsis: Howard Hawks directed this classic farce about how love attempts to triumph over military red tape after the close of World War II. Capt. Henri Rochard (Cary Grant) is a French officer who is assigned to put a stop to a black market operation in occupied Germany with the help of Lt. Catherine Read More

I Married a Communist

Crew: Director

Actors: Laraine Day, Robert Ryan, John Agar, Thomas Gomez, Janis Carter

Synopsis: There's propaganda aplenty in RKO's I Married a Communist, the first of producer Howard R. Hughes' many anti-Red broadsides. Robert Ryan plays shipping executive Brad Collins, whose youthful flirtations with certain left-wing causes have made him ripe for plucking by Commie cell leader Vanning (Thomas Gomez Read More

To the Ends of the Earth

Crew: Director

Actors: Dick Powell, Signe Hasso, Ludwig Donath, Vladimir Sokoloff

Synopsis: The relatively relaxed movie censorship in the postwar years enabled Columbia to produce To the Ends of the Earth, a film which dealt with the previously taboo subject of drug smuggling. T-man Dick Powell is sent to several foreign locales to track down an Opium ring. The villains are subversives Read More

Dishonored Lady

Crew: Director

Actors: Hedy Lamarr, Dennis O'Keefe, John Loder, Morris Carnovsky, William Lundigan

Synopsis: In this drama, Madeleine Damien (Hedy Lamarr) is a successful magazine editor with a free-spirited private life, but a number of failed relationships and years of burning the candle at both ends have taken their toll and Madeleine is suicidal and on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Her Read More

Jane Eyre

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O'Brien, John Sutton, Peggy Ann Garner, Agnes Moorehead, Henry Daniell

Synopsis: Director Robert Stevenson collaborated with novelist Aldous Huxley and theatrical-producer John Houseman on the screenplay for this 1944 adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's gothic romance Jane Eyre. After several harrowing years in an orphanage, where she was placed by a supercilious relative for Read More

Forever and a Day

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Brian Aherne, Merle Oberon, Ida Lupino, Gladys Cooper, C. Aubrey Smith, Claude Rains, Robert Cummings, Anna Neagle, Roland Young

Synopsis: The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people turned over their salaries to British war relief -- a point driven home during the lengthy opening credits by an unseen narrator. The true star of the film is a stately old Read More

Joan of Paris

Crew: Director

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Paul Henreid, Thomas Mitchell, Laird Cregar, May Robson

Synopsis: At first glance, we seem to be watching the 1934 Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers musical The Gay Divorcee, which opens with a montage of Paris nightspots. Suddenly, however, stock footage from that earlier film is cut short, the screen goes dark, and an offscreen radio voice announces the Nazi invasion Read More

Valley of Hunted Men

Synopsis: Fugitive Nazis threaten to take over the Wyoming range in this Three Mesqueteers outing, which also warns about the danger of blithely assuming that every German-American is a fifth columnist. Which is exactly what rancher Clem Parker (Hal Price) does when learning that a couple of escaped Axis Read More

Back Street

Crew: Director

Actors: Charles Boyer, Margaret Sullavan, Richard Carlson, Frank McHugh, Tim Holt

Synopsis: Charles Boyer and Margaret Sullavan star in this adaptation of Fannie Hurst's tearjerking novel about a woman who chooses to stand beside a man who cannot marry her. Rae (Margaret Sullavan) is a woman from Ohio who meets a dashing gentleman from out of town, Walter (Charles Boyer). They soon fall Read More

Return to Yesterday

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Clive Brook, Anna Lee, Dame May Whitty, Hartley Power, Milton Rosmer

Synopsis: A delightful film that begs to be rediscovered, Return to Yesterday was adapted from Goodness, How Sad, a play by Robert Morley. Clive Brook is ideally cast as Robert Maine, a famous movie star who longs for the simpler days before he became the idol of millions-and before he was trapped into a Read More

Tom Brown's School Days

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Cedric Hardwicke, Freddie Bartholomew, Jimmy Lydon, Josephine Hutchinson, Billy Halop

Synopsis: This Victorian-era drama is based upon the classic novel by Thomas Hughes. It follows the exploits of a young boy forced to attend a rowdy boarding school. There he finds himself surrounded by budding punks and hoods. It is rough at first, but eventually he learns to make friends and handle Read More

Invitation to Happiness

Actors: Irene Dunne, Fred MacMurray, Charlie Ruggles, Billy Cook, William Collier, Sr.

Synopsis: Irene Dunne plays an impulsive society girl; Fred MacMurray plays a no-frills prizefighter. They marry (just like Jack Dempsey and his many trophy wives) in the waning days of the Roaring 20s. MacMurray begins training so diligently for the championship that he neglects his wife and son (Billy Cook Read More

The Case of the Frightened Lady

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Marius Goring, Helen Haye, Patrick Barr, John Warwick, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: A stage play by the astonishingly prolific Edgar Wallace was the source for the British melodrama Case of the Frightened Lady. The story focuses on the aristocratic Lebanon family, with Dowager Lady Lebanon (Helen Hayes) harboring a Deep Dark Secret. It seems that every generation or so, the Read More

Young Man's Fancy

Crew: Director

Actors: Griffith Jones, Anna Lee, Seymour Hicks, Martita Hunt, Edward Rigby

Synopsis: In this gentle comedy, an aristocratic English fellow is not happy to be betrothed to a brewery heiress. One day he goes to a circus and ends up with a lively human cannonball in his life. He immediately falls for the daring young performer and they end up eloping and going to Paris to live out Read More

To the Victor

Crew: Director

Actors: Will Fyffe, John Loder, Margaret Lockwood, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott

Synopsis: Owd Bob is a remake of the silent film of the same name, which in turn was based on a story by Alfred Olivant. Dominating the storyline is crusty Scottish farmer McAdam (Will Fyffe), who carries on several simultaneous feuds with his neighbors. McAdam is particularly antagonistic towards young Read More

The Two of Us

Crew: Director

Actors: Jack Hulbert, Gina Malo, Athole Stewart

Synopsis: In this comedy, an impoverished bumbler becomes a waiter at a fancy party and finds himself mistaken for one of the wealthy guests by another drunken guest. Soon he is mingling with the elite and meets a beautiful girl. He decides to make the illusion real and after the party goes to his banker Read More

The Ware Case

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Clive Brook, Jane Baxter, Barry Barnes, C.V. France, Francis L. Sullivan

Synopsis: In this taut drama, a wealthy financier is tried for the murder of his brother-in-law after the damning corpse is found floating in his garden pond. He is eventually acquitted. Upon his return home, he is angered to find his lawyer has become romantically involved with his wife. An argument Read More

Non-Stop New York

Crew: Director

Actors: Anna Lee, John Loder, Frank Cellier, Desmond Tester, William Dewhurst

Synopsis: While W.C. Fields poked fun at the asinine notion of a high-speed airplane with an open observation deck in Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941), the producers of the futuristic British melodrama Non-Stop New York (1937) take this notion quite seriously. The film's setpiece is a streamlined Read More

The Gaiety Girls

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jack Hulbert, Patricia Ellis, Arthur Riscoe, Googie Withers, Sydney Fairbrother

Synopsis: British musical-comedy star Jack Hulbert and Hollywood ingenue Patricia Ellis share top billing in Gaiety Girls (aka Paradise for Two). Hulbert plays Martin, a straight-laced Parisian millionaire who falls in love with saucy chorus girl Jeannette (Ellis). The plot requires that Martin pose as a Read More

King Solomon's Mines

Crew: Director

Actors: Paul Robeson, Cedric Hardwicke, Roland Young, John Loder, Anna Lee

Synopsis: The first of three talkie versions of H. Rider Haggard's adventure novel King Solomon's Mine was produced by British Gaumont. While Cedric Hardwicke plays the nominal leading role of explorer Alan Quartermaine, top billing goes to African-American singing-star Paul Robeson, who plays dauntless Read More

Jack of All Trades

Crew: Director

Actors: Jack Hulbert, Gina Malo, Athole Stewart, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: Jack Hulbert is Jack Warrender in Jack of All Trades. A spoof of Big Business, 1930s style, the film begins as Jack ends a long spell of unemployment by taking a waiter's job at a fancy society reception. Because he's decked out in a tuxedo, Jack is assumed to be one of the guests, and before Read More

Windbag the Sailor

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Norma Varden, Kenneth Warrington

Synopsis: In this comedy, a blustery sailor loves to tell whoppers about his abilities and adventures. All the wind leaves his sails when he is asked to show off those talents. The trouble begins when a wealthy yachtsman hires him to take charge of his boat. Unbeknownst to the sailor, the boat is slated to Read More

The Man Who Changed His Mind

Crew: Director

Actors: Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, John Loder, Frank Cellier, Donald Calthrop

Synopsis: Attractive scientist Dr. Clare Wyatt (Anna Lee) fondly declines the proposal of journalist Dick Haslewood (John Loder), who loves her, and she goes to work for the reclusive Dr. Laurience (Boris Karloff), whom the scientific world regards as a crackpot. At Laurience's remote estate, she's greeted Read More

Little Friend

Crew: Producer

Actors: Matheson Lang, Nova Pilbeam, Lydia Sherwood, Lewis Casson, Arthur Margetson, Jean Cadell

Synopsis: Fourteen-year-old British actress Nova Pilbeam (best known for her work in Hitchcock's Man Who Knew too Much and Young and Innocent) plays the title role in Little Friend. When her parents (Matheson Lang and Lydia Sherwood) decide to divorce, poor Felicity Hughes (Pilbeam) seeks out a way to bring Read More

Thunder in the East

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Charles Boyer, Merle Oberon, John Loder, Betty Stockfeld, Miles Mander

Synopsis: The Battle is the English-language version of the French La Bataille; both versions starred Charles Boyer in one of his oddest screen roles. Adapted from a novel by Claude Farrere, the film casts Boyer as Marquis Yorisaka, a patriot Japanese nobleman in charge of a vast naval fleet. He strikes up Read More

Nine Days a Queen

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Cedric Hardwicke, John Mills, Felix Aylmer, Leslie Perrins, Frank Cellier, Desmond Tester, Sybil Thorndike, Nova Pilbeam

Synopsis: This lush historical drama chronicles the brief reign of the late Henry VIII's successor, Lady Jane Grey. After only nine days on the throne, she was beheaded at the behest of the treacherous Mary Tudor. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Falling for You

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jack Hulbert, Dame Cicely Courtneidge, Tamara Desni, O.B. Clarence

Synopsis: In this comedy, two rival reporters vie for the scoop on the whereabouts of a missing heiress. They find her in Switzerland. One of the journalists falls in love with her and saves her from marrying an aristocrat. His rival gets to write the story as a consolation prize. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Heart Song

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Lilian Harvey, Charles Boyer, O.B. Clarence, Ernst Thesiger

Synopsis: In this British romance, a German duke falls passionately in love with the owner of a beautiful singing voice, even though he has never seen her. When he first hears it, the duke assumes that it belongs to the empress. The voice actually belongs to her hairdresser. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

F.P.1

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Leslie Fenton, Conrad Veidt, Jill Esmond, George Merritt, Donald Calthrop

Synopsis: This drama is set upon a floating platform, used for oil drilling, located in the Atlantic. The owners of a rival platform are desperate to destroy it. The film was originally made in German and titled F.P.1 Antwortet Nicht. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Faithful Hearts

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Herbert Marshall, Edna Best, Mignon O'Doherty, Lawrence Hanray, Anne Grey

Synopsis: Herbert Marshall and Edna Best, husband and wife in 1933, star in the British drama Faithful Hearts. Best plays the daughter of Marshall, who years earlier had run out on his family. When Edna re-enters Marshall's life, it causes him to reassess his values-and to end his engagement to his Read More

Early to Bed

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: This musical tells the love story of a manicurist and a night waiter who discover that they are sharing the same apartment. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Love on Wheels

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jack Hulbert, Gordon Harker, Edmund Gwenn

Synopsis: In this British musical, a shop assistant attempts to impress a girl by telling her that he is actually the manager. Unfortunately, when he is fired, he is also alone. Later he catches robbers trying to pillage the place. He is then rehired as the store manager for real. The girl comes back and he Read More

The Ringer

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Patric Curwen, Franklin Dyall, Carol Goodner, Gordon Harker, Esmond Knight

Synopsis: In this mystery, a master of disguises commits a series of crimes. He is so good, that no one knows what he really looks like. He even masquerades as a doctor and kills his own partner who has been under police protection because he agreed to lead him to the crook. Later it is revealed the Read More

Happy Ever After

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Lilian Harvey, Jack Hulbert, Dame Cicely Courtneidge, Sonnie Hale

Synopsis: In this musical, a frail artist is victimized by a con artist who cheats her out of her life savings. Two window washers named Willie stop the girl from sinking any lower and simultaneously fall in love with her. They help her become an incredibly popular singer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Michael and Mary

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Frank Lawton, Herbert Marshall, Elizabeth Allan, Edna Best, D.A. Clarke-Smith

Synopsis: This romance, based on a surprisingly sophisticated story by Winnie the Pooh author A.A. Milne, teams up Herbert Marshall with his then-wife Edna Best. Best is Mary Price, deserted by her husband when he leaves England to seek his fortune during the Boer War in 1900. Destitute and desperate, she Read More

Jaws of Hell

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Cyril McLaglen

The Office Girl

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Owen Nares, Renate Muller, Jack Hulbert, Morris Harvey

Synopsis: Released in the U.S. as The Office Girl, Sunshine Susie is the English-language version of the German comedy hit Die Privatsekretarian. The charming Renate Muller repeats her role from the German version as Susie, the perky new stenographer for a stuffy Viennese banking firm. Here she falls in Read More

Balaclava

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The ill-advised battle of Balaclava, immortalized as a moral victory in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem Charge of the Light Brigade, was lavishly re-created in this British historical spectacle. Among those converging in the Crimea in the mid-19th century are "good" British officer Cyril McLaglen and Read More