Minor Watson Movies

A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Cagney

Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess'...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Spencer Tracy

Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket. But his agent, apache dancer Nardi is...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Warner Oland

The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sylvia Sidney

Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

A pair of men try to perform the dangerous "triple" in their trapeze act. Problems arise when the duo is made into a trio following the addition of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Burt Lancaster

Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bette Davis

A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Phyllis Thaxter

Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Spencer Tracy

On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Powell

Bill's separated from his litter, making friends with the wild creatures until he's found and adopted by young Kathie. An accident separates him from...

Genre: Family

Cast: Elizabeth Taylor

Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jackie Robinson

Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on...

Genre: Action

Cast: Preston Foster

As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Errol Flynn

After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find...

Genre: Music

Cast: Don Ameche

When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot...

Genre: Western

Cast: Robert Young

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raymond Massey

When a Texas playboy is murdered in a New York City nightclub the Falcon investigates. When he learns that the victim was slipped rattlesnake venom,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tom Conway

Arthur and Ben are friendly rivals for the hand of Celia. Celia, however, prefers Ben and tries to discourage Arthur. Arthur is a little bit peeved...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dolores Cassinelli

Jack has fallen in love with an unknown beauty, and when he and his friend Tom meet her on the street, he is overjoyed to find his friend is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Minor Watson

Day by Day film

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Minor Watson

Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth conviction will mean a life sentence. Finally,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Humphrey Bogart

Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer closes the show prematurely. She meets ranch...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Young

Hoppy and Lucky have been called in to investigate a series of stage holdups. The robbers are taking gold from Colby's mine and Hoppy suspects it may...

Genre: Western

Cast: William Boyd

In this Cold War drama, a woman suspects her son is a Communist spy.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helen Hayes

"You're worth your weight in gold!" This is what Charles Watson, a young spendthrift, told every girl he met. His father threatened to disown him...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Minor Watson

Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ann Sheridan

Actress Margaret Elliot is well past her prime but refuses to retire from the acting business. Despite entreaties from both her daughter, Gretchen,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bette Davis

Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Mickey Rooney

Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shirley Temple

Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Bing Crosby

A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bette Davis

The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Burt Lancaster

An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gary Cooper

A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ann Sheridan

Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Michael Whalen

This is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil War. Ethan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Walter Huston

An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dennis O'Keefe

"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Chester Morris

Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aline MacMahon

A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wallace Beery

Cisco saves a stagecoach from being robbed and takes a shine to one of the passengers whose father is in cahoots with a vicious criminal who plans to...

Genre: Western

Cast: Cesar Romero

A juvenile delinquent is sent to a rehabilitation ranch, but he immediately proves to be a troublemaker.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins

When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jackie Cooper

A love triangle occurs between the publisher's daughter Betty Moody. comic book artist Tim Jones, and the company's wily manipulative manager Hilton...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Arlen

A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert him for a society millionaire, leaving him with...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Paul Lukas

College football player is expelled for ticket scalping, and teams up with reporter to expose his school's hypocrisy.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Van Heflin

Lora Travers is the only person who can identify hold-up artist The Llano Kid and she persuades him to come in on a scheme with her and her husband....

Genre: Western

Cast: Tito Guízar

Red Skelton plays Aubrey Filmore, a feather-brained but lovable bellboy who dreams of becoming an agent for the Union's secret service during the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Red Skelton

Two short films released together under a collective title. The first, "Secret Sharer", directed by John Brahm and starring James Mason, is based on...

Genre: Western

Cast: James Mason

Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes of races and other events through astrology.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joe E. Brown

Comedy about a weak husband, afraid to say "no" to his new wife, who realizes he must assert himself to save his marriage.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Wayne Morris

New York chorus girl Cindy Lou Bethany becomes frustrated when she prepares for an audition for a Broadway musical, but the auditions close and her...

Genre: Music

Cast: Don Ameche

Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Melvyn Douglas

A nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her lover is suspected of the crime.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clive Brook

The story of a young man's discovery of his father.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Greene

This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Douglas Corrigan

In World War I France, a pilot falls in love with the wife of his friend and superior officer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Muni

An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Don Ameche

War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chaperone" Ivy Hotchkiss. Bob's a cheerful Lothario with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Cummings

A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Arthur Kennedy

A 65-year-old printer hatches an elaborate scheme to avoid forced retirement.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Monty Woolley

Lil becomes a dealer in a gambling casino in order to get the information she needs to clear her father of a murder charge. She also falls in love...

Genre: Action

Cast: Irene Hervey

A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: William Henry

Sergeants flirt with a nurse aboard ship and go fishing for a Japanese Sub.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Tracy

A belly dancer causes a scandal with her suggestive dancing at a Worlds Fair exhibition at the turn of the 20th century.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rhonda Fleming

A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Edmund Lowe

It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will...

Genre: Western

Cast: Wallace Beery

A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wallace Beery

Henry and his pal Dizzy become Boy Scout leaders, but a spoiled brat in their troop quickly proves to cause them no end of trouble.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jimmy Lydon

Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Young

Sixth of the Judge Hardy series. Judge James K. Hardy is brought the fabulous news from attorney George Irving, that he could be the heir to 2...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lewis Stone

Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal...

Genre: Action

Cast: Preston Foster

A young femme fatale realizes that the man she married is an incorrigible wastrel.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Deanna Durbin

An US Army misfit and his pals roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they befriend the elderly newspaper editor and his...

Genre: Western

Cast: Fred MacMurray

A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Olivia de Havilland

As he looks over the dusty, deserted remains of the western "boom town" of Panamint, grizzled old prospector Chuckawalla Bill Redfield recalls the...

Genre: Western

Cast: Charles Ruggles

During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Guy Kibbee

A cook in a railroad construction camp inherits $500,000. She pretends to be English royalty and barges into the New York social scene.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alice Brady

While on leave in Paris, a G.I. pursues an ambassador's daughter. Meanwhile she's out to prove to her father that soldiers can be gentlemen, too.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Olivia de Havilland

Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Francis Lederer

Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aline MacMahon

The Denbow family denies access across their land to homesteaders. To evade a murder charge, Glenn Denbow marries Jane, the only witness who's in...

Genre: Western

Cast: Joseph Cotten

This made-for-TV production originally aired on the "Climax!" show and opened up its second season. Huck and his buddy Tom Sawyer become blood...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Robert Hyatt

The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains...

Genre: Western

Cast: Errol Flynn

Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena with his girlfriend, luscious entertainer Zoe. But...

Genre: Western

Cast: Tony Curtis

When his ward seeks protection with rival cattleman John Stewart, embittered, jealous rancher Wick Campbell hires ten outlaws to help him seize power...

Genre: Western

Cast: Randolph Scott

Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Robert Young

It is California in 1852 that only recently being surrendered by Mexico to the United States and admitted into the union. Most of the land-owners of...

Genre: Music

Cast: John Boles

When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Brian Donlevy

Prep football star Jimmy Howal gets a reception far different from what he expected when he enters West Point.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Howard

Commodore Fitzhugh, an old retired naval officer, lives at the Annapolis Naval Academy and, unhappy with the "modern" navy, likes to talk about his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Guy Standing

Chronicle of a spoiled rich boy who joins the Marines with an off-handed attitude and finally becomes a battle-wise soldier.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Payne

After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Ellen Drew

Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as...

Genre: War

Cast: Humphrey Bogart

A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Warner Baxter

A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its...

Genre: War

Cast: Tyrone Power

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.

Genre: War

Cast: Walter Huston

Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: James Stewart

Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without...

Genre: War

Cast: John Hodiak

Robert L. Scott has dreamed his whole life of being a fighter pilot, but when war comes he finds himself flying transport planes over The Hump into...

Genre: Action

Cast: Dennis Morgan

Johnny Tracy, son of veteran race driver Pop Tracy, is working his way up on the racing circuit, but is urged by his sweetheart, Marcy Parker, to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Howard Duff

Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny...

Genre: Music

Cast: Bing Crosby

A cop pretends to be a crook in order to catch a gang of outlaws. The bad guys run a night club as a front. The cop's sister helps him by singing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jane Withers

A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jane Withers