Tom BrownFilmography

The Untouchables: A Fist of Five

Synopsis: In his final Untouchables appearance, Lee Marvin is cast as Chicago cop Mike Brannon, a veteran of fifteen years on the force. Alas, Brannon's experience means very little when he is suspended after mobster Tony Lamberto (Frank DeKova) complains that Mike has roughed up one of his "boys". Outraged Read More

The Choppers

Synopsis: A young speed demon drives himself down the road to ruin in this crime drama. The trouble starts because the teen is so desperate to get a special set of hub caps for his dragster that he steals them off another car. It was easy and a car theft ring is born when he enlists the aid of pals to help Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom

Synopsis: Perry (Raymond Burr) is startled late one evening to find a beautiful young woman (Joan Tabor) climbing into his office window. She identifies herself as Virginia Colfax, the secretary of Ed Garvin, and insists that she was escaping from Garvin's jealous wife. Investigating, Perry finds that Mr. Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Something to Live For

Synopsis: En route to the Evans ranch, where he hopes to help Hugh Evans (Malcolm Atterbury) and his daughter Elaine (Nancy Hadley) resolve a bitter land dispute, Paladin (Richard Boone) comes across wealthy young Harleigh Preston (Rayford Barnes), a dissolute alcoholic who has been robbed and abandoned by Read More

The Notorious Mr. Monks

Synopsis: In this dark drama a hapless hitchhiker takes a ride with a drunk driver who takes him to his house. There he meets the driver's wife and murder ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Quiet Gun

Actors: Forrest Tucker, Mara Corday, Jim Davis, Kathleen Crowley, Lee Van Cleef

Synopsis: In this western, the town sheriff must look into a scandal involving his friend who is reportedly having an affair with a Native American girl while his wife is on a trip. The friend is enraged at the accusations and kills the town attorney. He is then lynched by the angry town folk. The sheriff Read More

I Killed Wild Bill Hickok

Actors: Helen Westcott, Tom Brown, Virginia Gibson, Denver Pyle

Synopsis: The redoubtable John Carpenter strikes again with the ultra-low-budget I Killed Wild Bill Hickok. Carpenter serves as the film's producer and screenwriter, and also heads the cast, pseudonymously billed as John Forbes. Everybody knows that Wild Bill Hickok (here played by Tom Brown) was shot in Read More

The Naked Gun

Synopsis: Not to be confused with the popular David Zuckor comedy from the late '80s that starred Leslie Nielson, 1956's Naked Gun chronicles the adventures of a bored insurance salesman who spices up his drab life by heading to the Mexican jungle to search for an ancient Aztec treasure and return it to its Read More

Dragnet: The Big Search

Synopsis: Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are summoned to the home of wealthy Mr. and Mrs. Moran (Tom Brown, Virginia Carroll), whose 13-year-old daughter Bunny (Frances Karath) has disappeared. All evidence suggests that the girl has been kidnapped, especially since her dog has been found Read More

Playhouse 90: Heritage of Anger

Synopsis: The seventh live presentation of the CBS drama anthology Playhouse 90 was "Heritage of Anger", written especially for television by Harold Jack Bloom. Ralph Bellamy heads the cast, as ruthless millionaire industrialist Eddie Hannemann. Naturally expecting his two sons to follow in his footsteps Read More

Gunsmoke: Season 01

Actors: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Dennis Weaver

Synopsis: The original radio version of Gunsmoke was in its third year on the air when the TV version made its CBS network bow on September 10, 1955. Replacing radio's William Conrad as Matt Dillon was tall-in-the-saddle James Arness, whose chief claim to fame at that time was his portrayal of the title Read More

Fireman Save My Child

Actors: Spike Jones and His City Slickers, Buddy Hackett, Hugh O'Brian, Tom Brown

Synopsis: Fireman Save My Child started out as an Abbott and Costello picture, but then Lou Costello became ill with rheumatic fever. Or Costello turned down the script. Or the team decided to film Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde instead. Whatever the reason, when the film was finally Read More

Operation Haylift

Actors: Bill Williams, Ann Rutherford, Tom Brown, Jane Nigh, Joe Sawyer

Synopsis: Veteran character actor Joe Sawyer produced, co-wrote and co-starred in the diverting docudrama Operation Haylift. Based on an actual incident that took place in 1949, the film recounts the efforts of the U.S. Air Force to rescue stranded cattle during a devastating series of blizzards. Sawyer's Read More

Ringside

Actors: Tom Brown, Sheila Ryan, Margia Dean

Synopsis: Just before its matriculation into Lippert Pictures, Screen Guild produced the fast-based boxing drama Ringside. Bantam-weight Don Barry stars as Mike, who forsakes a musical career for the boxing ring when his pugilist brother (Tom Brown) is blinded in a bout. Mike intends to confront the fighter Read More

Duke of Chicago

Actors: Tom Brown, Audrey Long, Grant Withers, Paul Harvey

Synopsis: In this boxing drama, Jimmy Brody, a retired middle-weight champion turned publisher, must return to the ring when his company encounters financial difficulties. He is set up by some bad-news bookies who try to convince Brody to take a dive. The ex-champ refuses and triumphs even though his hand Read More

Slippy McGee

Actors: Don "Red" Barry, Dale Evans, Tom Brown, Harry V. Cheshire, James Seay

Synopsis: A safecracker risks his own life to save an endangered child from an oncoming truck and finds his life changes forever in this drama. During the rapid rescue, the crook breaks his leg and while he heals, he is befriended by a good-hearted priest who guides him toward the straight and narrow. Now Read More

Buck Privates Come Home

Actors: Bud Abbott, George Beban, Jr., Lou Costello, Nat Pendleton, Don Beddoe, Lennie Bremen, Tom Brown, Joan Fulton

Synopsis: After serving with a notable lack of distinction in WW2, Corporal Slicker Smith (Bud Abbott) and Private Herbie Brown (Lou Costello) return to the US. Unbeknownst to their sourpussed sergeant Collins (Nat Pendleton), Slicker and Herbie have smuggled cute little war orphan Evie (Beverly Simmons) Read More

The House on 92nd Street

Actors: William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart, Leo G. Carroll

Synopsis: Filmed in semi-documentary fashion, House on 92nd Street is a "now it can be told" drama about the smashing of a Nazi spy ring operating the U.S. Thanks to covert surveillance, the FBI learns of the presence of several suspicious persons in NYC. William Eythe is a German-American college student Read More

Adventures of Smilin' Jack [Serial]

Synopsis: The 12-episode Universal serial The Adventures of Smilin' Jack is based on the Zack Mosely comic strip of the same name. The title character-minus his trademarked pencil moustache-is played by Tom Brown. Departing radically from the characters and situations of the original funny-paper version Read More

The Payoff

Actors: Lee Tracy, Tom Brown, Tina Thayer, Evelyn Brent, Jack LaRue

Synopsis: Lee Tracy once more plays a fast-talking, slightly amoral newspaper reporter in PRC's The Payoff. Tracy is cast as Brad McKay, who at present is investigating the murder of a special prosecutor. The dead man was on the verge of delivering damning evidence against racket boss John Angus (Jack Read More

Let's Get Tough!

Synopsis: Set soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Let's Get Tough! opens with the East Side Kids -- Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, David Gorcey, Sammy "Sunshine" Morrison, and Bobby Stone -- trying to enlist in the armed forces and getting turned down because they're not yet 18 years old. Read More

There's One Born Every Minute

Synopsis: A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-brat daughter of a pudding manufacturer who has been entered into the town's mayoral race by some of the local businessmen. They have chosen him because they think he is easy to manipulate. As a sales Read More

Hello Annapolis

Synopsis: Tom Brown, an actor who "borrowed" his professional name from 1932's Tom Brown of Culver, finds himself back in the collegiate pool in 1942's Hello Annapolis. Brown and up-and-coming Larry Parks sign up at the titular Naval academy, battling both in and out of uniform over the affections of Jean Parker Read More

Sleepytime Gal

Synopsis: Judy Canova plays Bessie Cobb, a kitchen worker at a Miami hotel who happens to have a crackerjack singing voice. The bell captain, Chick Patterson, learns that band leader Danny Marlowe is looking for a new girl singer, and a contest will be held at the hotel to choose one. Chick sees this as a Read More

Three Sons O'Guns

Actors: Wayne Morris, Marjorie Rambeau, Irene Rich, Tom Brown, William Orr

Synopsis: This Buck Privates knockoff concerns the misadventures of the three Patterson brothers: Charley (Wayne Morris), Eddie (Tom Brown) and Kenneth (William T. Orr). Pampered by their pacifistic mother Margaret (Irene Rich), the Patterson boys do everything they can to avoid being drafted into the Army. Read More

Hello Sucker

Actors: Hugh Herbert, Tom Brown, Peggy Moran, Lewis Howard, June Storey

Synopsis: The comic effusions of Hugh "woo woo" Herbert helps to keep this otherwise forgettable farce afloat. It all begins when Bob Wade (Tom Brown) and Rosalie Brown (Peggy Moran), are conned into buying a run-down vaudeville agency. Upon taking charge of the failing enterprise, they find they have a Read More

Niagara Falls

Actors: Marjorie Woodworth, Tom Brown, ZaSu Pitts, George "Slim" Summerville, Chester Clute

Synopsis: The second of Hal Roach's "streamliners" (feature films running 45 minutes or so), Niagara Falls serves as a showcase for Roach protegee Marjorie Woodworth. The action takes place at a honeymoon hotel in-where else?--Niagara Falls. Gangly Sam Sawyer (Slim Summerville), newly married to matronly Read More

Margie

Actors: Tom Brown, Nan Grey, Mischa Auer, Edgar Kennedy, Allen Jenkins

Synopsis: Margie is one of the fast and funniest of Universal's pocket musicals, though its two-director dichotomy hardly seems necessary. Newlyweds Bret (Tom Brown) and Margie (Nan Grey) both aspire to show-biz careers: he wants to be a songwriter, while she is desirous of becoming a radio scripter. Read More

Oh Johnny, How You Can Love!

Actors: Tom Brown, Peggy Moran, Allen Jenkins, Donald Meek, Juanita Quigley

Synopsis: In this musical comedy, a traveling salesman gets mixed up with a bratty heiress after she gets in a car wreck as she heads for her elopement. The two begin traveling together and get further mixed up with a fleeing bank robber, a crazy tourist camp, and other troubles. Songs include: "Oh Johnny Read More

Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me

Actors: Tom Brown, Constance Moore, Richard Carle, Anne Nagel, Jerome Cowan

Synopsis: In this musical, a sharp witted press agent teams up with an unemployed chorine and dubs her "Miss Manhattan" to promote a cheap line of clothing. To escort her about town, the agent invents a "Mr. Manhattan." He then has them fake a marriage. When he realizes that he is in love with his creation Read More

Sandy Is a Lady

Actors: Baby Sandy, Butch and Buddy, Eugene Pallette, Nan Grey, Tom Brown

Synopsis: The mystery surrounding the gender of infant film star Baby Sandy was finally solved in her penultimate vehicle, Sandy is a Lady. The plot involves the efforts of Sandy's parents Mary and Joe Phillips (Nan Grey and Tom Brown) to improve their financial status, which are alternately aided and Read More

Big Town Czar

Actors: Barton MacLane, Tom Brown, Eve Arden, Jack LaRue, Frank Jenks

Synopsis: It was once said of actor Barton MacLane that he never spoke when shouting would do. Cast as the title character in Big Town Czar, MacLane is afforded plenty of opportunity for shouting, which he seizes with a vengeance. Working his way up from the tenements, Phil Carey (MacLane) is truly king of Read More

These Glamour Girls

Actors: Lew Ayres, Lana Turner, Richard Carlson, Jane Bryan

Synopsis: In this comedy/drama, a feisty taxi-dancer (Lana Turner in her first starring role) takes on a sorority full of snooty debutantes after an equally snobbish Ivy Leaguer (Lew Ayres) who goes on a bender, meets her and invites her to his school's annual weekend bash. The next day, the fellow forgets Read More

Ex-Champ

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Tom Brown, Nan Grey, William Frawley, Constance Moore

Synopsis: In this boxing drama, an ex-champ finds himself working as a doorman at a nightclub. His son aspires to a high caliber career on Wall Street; he is getting ready to marry a banker's daughter. When not working at the club, the boxer trains a welterweight with championship potential. Later the son Read More

Sergeant Madden

Actors: Wallace Beery, Tom Brown, Alan Curtis, Laraine Day, Fay Holden

Synopsis: In this interesting drama, a highly respected straight-arrow Irish cop is pleased when his son follows him onto the force. Unfortunately, the son is more interested in promotions than in upholding the law and he makes few friends among his peers. When he shoots a child caught stealing, the others Read More

Swing That Cheer

Actors: Tom Brown, Robert Wilcox, Andy Devine, Constance Moore, Ernest Truex

Synopsis: Ever youthful Tom Brown once more plays a campus football hero in Swing That Cheer. Undeniably talented on the gridiron, Bob Potter (Brown) is equally undeniably an arrogant pain in the posterior. So swell-headed does Potter become that he can never admit to himself that his blocking-back teammate Read More

Merrily We Live

Actors: Constance Bennett, Brian Aherne, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray, Patsy Kelly

Synopsis: Merrily We Live is a blatant imitation of My Man Godfrey, courtesy of producer Hal Roach. This time Brian Aherne is the gentleman vagabond whom flighty society matron Billie Burke hires as a butler. Aherne's down-to-earth attitude jars against the high-toned phoniness of Burke's wealthy household Read More

The Storm

Actors: Charles Bickford, Barton MacLane, Preston S. Foster, Tom Brown

Synopsis: The Storm is standard hard-guy stuff starring three of Hollywood's hardest: Charles Bickford, Barton MacLaine and Preston S. Foster. The film is set aboard a ship, where hostilities run high between two radio operators who happen to be brothers. During the climactic storm at sea, however, everyone Read More

Goodbye Broadway

Actors: Alice Brady, Charles Winninger, Tom Brown, Dorothea Kent, Frank Jenks

Synopsis: Goddbye Broadway is wrapped up by two stage & screen veterans, Alice Brady and Charles Winninger. The stars play vaudevillians Molly and Pat Malloy, who are suckered into investing $4000 in a ramschackle New England hotel. After a variety of predictable but amusing complications, the Malloys turn Read More

In Old Chicago

Actors: Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Alice Brady, Andy Devine, Brian Donlevy

Synopsis: In Old Chicago was 20th Century-Fox's spin on MGM's San Francisco--a personal saga played out against the backdrop of a famous 19th Century disaster. Alice Brady plays Mrs. O'Leary, a widow who brings her two young boys to the sleepy village of Chicago. As the city grows in prominence and Read More

The Duke of West Point

Actors: Louis Hayward, Joan Fontaine, Tom Brown, Richard Carlson, Alan Curtis

Synopsis: Louis Hayward plays an arrogant Cambridge student who emigrates to America and enrolls at the West Point. Hayward's superior attitude earns him the enmity of his fellow students and the derisive nickname "the Duke". Those viewers familiar with college pictures will know as early as the opening Read More

Maytime

Actors: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, John Barrymore, Herman Bing, Tom Brown

Synopsis: The third of MGM's profitable Jeanette MacDonald/Nelson Eddy songfests, Maytime opens in the early 20th century, with a young girl arguing with her boyfriend over her wishes to become an opera singer. The girl's neighbor, a lonely old woman whom we gradually recognize as a convincingly "aged" Read More

Her Husband Lies

Actors: Gail Patrick, Ricardo Cortez, Akim Tamiroff, Tom Brown, Louis Calhern

Synopsis: Two brothers exchange lifestyles in this drama. The older brother, a gambler, wants to lead a clean, crime-free life while his wiseacre younger brother wants to become a professional gambler. With great hesitation, the older teaches the younger all he knows. The younger brother is a quick study Read More

The Man Who Cried Wolf

Actors: Tom Brown, Robert Gleckler, Forrester Harvey, Billy Wayne

Synopsis: An actor creates a devious murder plot in this suspenseful, ironic drama. For many years, the aging thespian has been confessing to homicides he never committed. Naturally the cops think he is bonkers so that when he really does kill his victim, no one believes he did it. Unfortunately, his lies Read More

Jim Hanvey, Detective

Actors: Guy Kibbee, Tom Brown, Catherine Doucet, Edward S. Brophy

Synopsis: In this detective story, a super sleuth is hired by an insurance company to find a stolen emerald belonging to a rich man's daughter. He soon discovers that the theft was a hoax precipitated by the girl's boyfriend, an aspiring novelist doing research for his forthcoming novel. Real trouble ensues Read More

That Man's Here Again

Actors: Hugh Herbert, Mary Maguire, Tom Brown, Joseph King, Teddy Hart

Synopsis: "That Man" is Hugh (woo-woo) Herbert, here cast as lovable eccentric Thomas J. Jesse. Befriending apartment-house elevator operator Jimmy Whalen (Tom Brown), Jesse makes it his mission in life to smooth the course of true love for Jimmy and pretty Australian lass Nancy Lee (Mary Maguire). The plot Read More

Navy Blue and Gold

Actors: Robert Young, James Stewart, Florence Rice, Billie Burke, Lionel Barrymore

Synopsis: MGM's Navy Blue and Gold prettily dresses up some of the oldest cliches in the "military cadet" movie genre. The film charts the progress of three Annapolis "plebes," all played by actors in the age range of 24 to 30. Wisecracking Roger Ash (Robert Young) is a cynic, wide-eyed Richard Gates Jr. (Tom Brown Read More

I'd Give My Life

Actors: Guy Standing, Frances Drake, Tom Brown, Janet Beecher, Robert Gleckler

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1928, the old Willard Mack stage melodrama The Noose was updated and streamlined in 1936 as I'd Give My Life. Hoping that his son Nick (Tom Brown) will follow in his footsteps, jaded gangster-gambler Buck Gordon (Robert Gleckler) arranges to have the boy thrown into reform Read More

And Sudden Death

Actors: Randolph Scott, Frances Drake, Tom Brown, Billy Lee, Fuzzy Knight

Synopsis: And Sudden Death was inspired by a Reader's Digest article by Theodore Reeves, which later became one of the magazine's most oft-reprinted essays. The original was a Grand Guignol affair, cataloguing in grisly detail the consequences of reckless driving. The film version avoids this approach Read More

Gentle Julia

Actors: Jane Withers, Tom Brown, Marsha Hunt, Jackie Searl, Francis Ford

Synopsis: After several appearances as a "good girl," little Jane Withers returns to her patented screen brattiness in Gentle Julia. Based on a novel by Booth Tarkington, the film stars Withers as Florence Atwater, precocious kid-sister of flirtatious Julia Atwater (Marsha Hunt). After spending most of the Read More

Rose Bowl

Actors: Eleanore Whitney, Tom Brown, Larry "Buster" Crabbe, William Frawley, Ben Baker

Synopsis: Actual footage of the 1936 Rose Bowl game is cleverly (if not seamlessly) integrated into the action of this sports-oriented comedy. Longtime chums Paddy O'Reilly (Tom Brown) and Dutch Schultz (Benny Baker) may be heroes of the high-school gridiron, but they're persona non grata with the girls Read More

Sweepstake Annie

Actors: Tom Brown, Marian Nixon, Wera Engels, Inez Courtney, Ivan Lebedeff

Synopsis: In this drama, a studio script girl works very hard to support her no-account family. One day she wins a lottery, gives her family some of the winnings and moves in with her best friend. She had a boy friend, but he became disgusted with her loyalty to her lazy family and abandoned her. Soon after Read More

Mary Jane's Pa

Actors: Aline MacMahon, Guy Kibbee, Tom Brown, Robert McWade, Minor Watson

Synopsis: In this drama, a hard working printer gets wanderlust, leaves his wife and family, and hits the road. Ten years pass. His wife has become a prominent citizen and runs a big newspaper. He returns, impoverished, and though bitter, she gives him a job as her house servant so he can be near his 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

Freckles

Actors: Tom Brown, Lumsden Hare, James Bush

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1917 and 1928, the beloved Gene Stratton-Porter novel Freckles again went before the cameras in 1935. Tom Brown plays the title character, a gangly orphan who takes a watchman's job at a rugged lumber camp. Soon proving himself worthy of his responsibilities, Freckles turns Read More

Annapolis Farewell

Actors: Guy Standing, Rosalind Keith, Tom Brown, Richard Cromwell, John Howard

Synopsis: Tom Brown and Richard Cromwell, who'd previously played military-academy classmates in Tom Brown of Culver (1932), were reunited in Paramount's Annapolis Farewell. Brown plays Click Haley, a wise-guy naval cadet who learns the hard way to tow the line and honor the traditions of the academy. Cromwell Read More

Bachelor of Arts

Actors: Tom Brown, Anita Louise, Henry B. Walthall, Mae Marsh

Synopsis: This tuneful melodrama is set upon a college campus and follows the attempts of a pretty young woman who slyly helps her wealthy, free-wheeling freshman boy friend learn about responsibility. She contacts his father and together they convince the boy that his inheritance has been lost. Now he must Read More

Two Alone

Actors: Jean Parker, Tom Brown, ZaSu Pitts, Beulah Bondi

Synopsis: In this drama, an impoverished orphan girl finds herself acting as a slave to a cruel old farmer. She is soon joined by a reform-school runaway whom the farmer also captures and enslaves. The two youngsters soon fall in love. In the end they are saved by the orphan's long lost father who Read More

The Witching Hour

Actors: Guy Standing, Judith Allen, Tom Brown, Olive Tell

Synopsis: In this courtroom thriller, a hypnotic psychic uses his gift for dubious ends by running a gambling den. The trouble begins when he accidentally hypnotizes his daughter's beau while threatening to kill a corrupt politician. The mesmerized lad actually commits the crime. He is later defended by a Read More

This Side of Heaven

Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Fay Bainter, Mae Clarke, Tom Brown, Una Merkel

Synopsis: This Side of Heaven is an early, muted example of what would refine itself into the "screwball comedy" genre. Lionel Barrymore plays an accountant, who's also the head of a large family consisting principally of dizzy buffoons. Not only that, but the Barrymore clan is selfish, totally Read More

Judge Priest

Actors: Will Rogers, Tom Brown, Anita Louise, Henry B. Walthall, Rochelle Hudson, David Landau

Synopsis: Will Rogers stars as Judge William "Billy" Priest, the common-sense Kentucky jurist created by humorist Irvin S. Cobb. The Judge's easygoing manner bothers many of the self-righteous good citizens of his small 19th-century hometown, imperiling his chances for re-election. The anecdotal plot boils Read More

Anne of Green Gables

Actors: Anne Shirley, Tom Brown, O.P. Heggie, Helen Westley, Sara Haden

Synopsis: Former child actress Dawn O'Day changed her professional name for Anne of Green Gables, assuming the moniker of her character in the film, Anne Shirley. This first of three RKO films based on the novels of L. M. Montgomery finds young, orphaned, hoydenish Anne arriving at a Canadian household. Read More

Destination Unknown

Actors: Pat O'Brien, Ralph Bellamy, Alan Hale, Russell Hopton, Tom Brown

Synopsis: This film offers melodrama on the high-seas as it follows the miraculous salvation of a becalmed ship filled with bootleg liquor. To make matters worse, they are out of fresh water, the captain and mate drowned during a storm, and the boat is sinking. The bo'sun has taken charge, and the crew is Read More

Central Airport

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Sally Eilers, Tom Brown, Grant Mitchell

Synopsis: Aerial footage distinguishes this romantic-triangle melodrama set among pilots in a flying circus. Jill (Sally Eilers) loves Jim (Richard Barthelmess), but he insists that fliers shouldn't marry, so the disappointed Jill marries his younger brother Neil (Tom Brown) instead. The resulting tensions Read More

Three-Cornered Moon

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Richard Arlen, Mary Boland, Wallace Ford, Tom Brown

Synopsis: Three-Cornered Moon is regarded by many film buffs as the first of the genuine "screwball comedies." Claudette Colbert stars as the only level-headed member of a wacky Brooklyn family. Her mother (Mary Boland) loses the family fortune in the stock market, forcing Colbert's knuckleheaded brothers Read More

Laughter in Hell

Actors: Pat O'Brien, Tommy Conlon, Merna Kennedy, Gloria Stuart

The Famous Ferguson Case

Actors: Joan Blondell, Tom Brown, Adrienne Dore, Walter Miller, Leslie Fenton

Synopsis: Inspired in part by the sensational Snyder-Gray murder case (which was also the source of The Postman Always Rings Twice), The Famous Ferguson Case casts an unflattering light on the journalist "feeding frenzy" attending such crimes. A wealthy banker named Ferguson is found murdered, and his 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

Tom Brown of Culver

Actors: Tom Brown, H.B. Warner, George "Slim" Summerville, Richard Cromwell, Ben Alexander

Synopsis: William Wyler directed this melodramatic story about a boy who, after growing up in the shadow of his father, learns the old man wasn't all he claimed to be. Tom Brown (played, as coincidence would have it, by an actor named Tom Brown) is a boy who has been struggling to help his mother keep body Read More

Fast Companions

Actors: Tom Brown, James Gleason, Maureen O'Sullivan, Andy Devine, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: In this comedy, a shady jockey, Marty Black, teams up with Silk Henley to con the punters at little racetracks. Marty goes straight after he meets the feisty orphan, Midge. He then falls in love with Sally who runs a boarding house. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Queen High

Actors: Stanley Smith, Ginger Rogers, Charlie Ruggles, Helen Carrington

Synopsis: In this musical comedy, two partners in the garter business fight for control and decide to play a round of poker to settle their differences. The winner will get to run the company for a year while the loser will serve as his butler. Meanwhile a pretty girl falls in love with one of their sons. Read More

The Lady Lies

Actors: Walter Huston, Claudette Colbert, Charlie Ruggles, Patricia Deering, Tom Brown

Synopsis: When blue-blooded widower Robert Rossiter (Walter Huston) announces his plans to marry salesgirl Joyce Roamer (Claudette Colbert), his family goes out of their way to stop the engagement. Despite their original suspicion that Joyce (Colbert) was only involved with their father for his money Read More

Hoosier Schoolmaster

Actors: Henry Hull, Jane Thomas, Frank Dane, Mary Foy

Synopsis: The year is 1853 and Ralph Hartsook (Henry Hull) arrives in the Indiana town of Flat Creek to teach school. He boards with the Means family and becomes fast friends with Bud Means (Nat Pendleton). He also falls in love with Hannah Thompson (Jane Thomas), an orphan who is "bound out" (basically Read More