the 179 FILMS of REGIS TOOMEY (1898 - 1991)
God was sad last Monday (10/12) when Regis Toomey passed away of natural causes in Woodland Hills, CA. Toomey was the consummate character actor who appeared in 179 films in a career than spanned 50 years.
His most popular genres were: drama, romance, crime/film noir and comedy.
3.5 lowest IMDb rating - Evil Town (1977)
8.1 highest IMDb rating - The Big Sleep (1946)
His appearances in movies obtained these IMDb ratings:
mean - 6.5
median - 6.2
mode - 6.8 (13)
His most productive years were the 30s and 40s when Regis appeared in 69% of his feature films.
I always enjoyed watching him perform
His most popular genres were: drama, romance, crime/film noir and comedy.
3.5 lowest IMDb rating - Evil Town (1977)
8.1 highest IMDb rating - The Big Sleep (1946)
His appearances in movies obtained these IMDb ratings:
mean - 6.5
median - 6.2
mode - 6.8 (13)
His most productive years were the 30s and 40s when Regis appeared in 69% of his feature films.
I always enjoyed watching him perform
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- DirectorRoland WestStarsChester MorrisHarry StubbsMae BuschChick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he falls under suspicion. The gangster took Joan, a policeman's daughter, to the theater, sneaked out during the intermission to commit the crime, then used her to support his alibi. The detective squad employs its most sophisticated and barbaric techniques, including planting an undercover agent in the gang, to bring him to justice.
- DirectorVictor SchertzingerStarsRichard DixEsther RalstonO.P. HeggieCaptain Yeullat, a young British officer, prevents a young woman from drowning herself in the Thames, but she disappears before he learns her identity. Later in India, he meets her as the wife of Colonel Dangan, and they fall in love.
- DirectorLothar MendesStarsCharles 'Buddy' RogersNancy CarrollJune CollyerA vaudeville magician and his lady assistant break up their team, when he becomes infatuated with a socialite, only to get back together when she is almost killed in her new act gone wrong.
- DirectorEdward H. GriffithStarsConstance BennettRegis ToomeyRobert AmesRich People is a 1929 talking picture directed by Edward H. Griffith and starring Constance Bennett. It was produced by Ralph Block and distributed through Pathé Exchange.
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsWilliam PowellJean ArthurKay FrancisA big-time, but honest gambler has to prevent his younger brother from following in his footsteps, and taking up gambling.
- DirectorGeorge ArchainbaudStarsEvelyn BrentRegis ToomeyRalf HaroldeWoman swears revenge against an Inspector who was responsible for her father's death.
- DirectorHamilton MacFaddenStarsKenneth MacKennaJoan BennettRegis ToomeyYoung heiress Ann Jordan and her fiancè Frank Oakes would be happy except for the constant appearance of Robert Metcalf, who follows her or them everywhere. This continues into their time at the country club, even interfering with tennis games. The two boys are constantly arguing, and Ann grows weary of them both, and after a knock down, drag out fight that destroys the Jordan garden, they realize she has fallen for an older man, Jack Gardner, an engineering friend of her father.
- DirectorOtto BrowerEdwin H. KnopfStarsRichard ArlenMary BrianHarry GreenA friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who is in league with the crooked sheriff. Out on a spree Dick swears he will marry the first woman he sees, who happens to be Ruth Hammond, sister of his dead friend, arriving to take charge of the Hammond ranch. Revolted by his rough proposal,she fires him as the Hammond foreman and she proceeds to the ranch. Stack informs her he has purchased the ranch for the payment of the back-due taxes, and she relents and rehires Dick and his friends to aid her in her fight against Stack.
- DirectorLouis J. GasnierStarsWilliam PowellMarion ShillingNatalie MoorheadJohn Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been. The embarrassed Nelson excuses himself and goes to his rooms in the same hotel. The woman rushes into his apartment followed by the man who met her in the hall. The man threatens her with violence and Nelson comes to her defense. In the ensuing fight, the man is knocked out of the window and falls to his death to the pavement many stories down. He is charged with the killing and his only witness that can prove self-defense for him has disappeared, and can not be found.
- DirectorWilliam K. HowardStarsEdmund LoweMarguerite ChurchillRegis ToomeyRacketeer David Cresson's sudden passion for the straight-and-narrow life is thanks to his falling in love with society débutante Helen Rankin. However, his former associate and gang-members are more than slightly irritated, distressed, and downright hostile toward his reformation.
- DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsGary CooperJune CollyerRegis ToomeyWhen World War One pulls the U.S. in, builder Jim Baker goes enthusiastically. The misery of life in the trenches seems to take any romantic edge off, until adventure seeking general's daughter Patricia Hunter is caught foolishly wandering around the front line. At length, they fall in love and marry. When he is reported dead, she becomes irresponsible and turns her family's mansion into a wild party site, one which Jim eventually comes to.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsGrant WithersMary AstorRegis ToomeyEvents take an unhappy turn for two Bill and Jack, two locomotive engineers, after Bill is attracted to his best friend's wife.
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsGeorge BancroftKay FrancisClive BrookScandal Sheet is a 1931 American crime film directed by John Cromwell and written by Oliver H.P. Garrett, Vincent Lawrence and Max Marcin. The film stars George Bancroft, Kay Francis, Clive Brook, Regis Toomey, Lucien Littlefield, Gilbert Emery and Harry Beresford. The film was released on January 31, 1931, by Paramount Pictures.
- DirectorNorman Z. McLeodNorman TaurogStarsLeon ErrolMitzi GreenZasu PittsA child genius has fun getting her cousin into trouble. When she is not bedeviling her cousin, she is helping her father get out of trouble with con artists.
- DirectorJohn Francis DillonStarsRichard BarthelmessFay WrayRegis ToomeyA rookie reporter receives bribes from gangsters to suspend negative press.
- DirectorRichard WallaceStarsClara BowRegis ToomeyWynne GibsonEx-con Chick Hewes (Regis Toomey) tries to go straight with the help of wife Molly (Clara Bow), but circumstances force the couple into involvement in a serious crime.
- DirectorEdward SlomanStarsWilliam 'Stage' BoydLilyan TashmanIrving PichelAn elderly woman installs a horn in her crypt in case she's buried alive.
- DirectorChristy CabanneStarsRegis ToomeySue CarolDorothy RevierCub reporter Dusty investigates the murder of the District Attorney and stumbles into a plot involving a kidnapping and a crooked election.
- DirectorMarion GeringStarsClive BrookKay FrancisMiriam HopkinsA nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her lover is suspected of the crime.
- DirectorNorman Z. McLeodStarsRichard ArlenPeggy ShannonJack OakieFootball coach Dan Curtis is eager for his small college team to win at all costs. However, he has a change of heart when a player is severely injured by playing when he should have been resting. Finally, Dan's school confronts its arch rival and Dan must decide how badly he wants the boys to win.
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsMarian MarshAnita PageRegis ToomeyA poor seamstress girl sours on her engagement to a grocery deliveryman after seeing her sister's abusive marriage. Trying to help her sister pay for a divorce lawyer, she turns to a rich playboy she met at work.
- DirectorNick GrindeStarsBarbara StanwyckRegis ToomeyZasu PittsA poor woman and a man from an upper-class family fall in love, but his mother will go to any lengths to stop their marriage.
- DirectorChristy CabanneStarsRegis ToomeyBetty BronsonEdwina BoothA cub reporter rashly makes a promise to solve a murder mystery within 24 hours, then must make good on his boast.
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsJames CagneyJoan BlondellAnn DvorakRace car driver becomes overprotective of his brother when he decides to become a racer as well.
- DirectorFred C. NewmeyerStarsRegis ToomeyDorothy SebastianEdward WoodsPrizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to his arm. From there, Nolan's path leads downhill. He is drawn into a romance with a nightclub entertainer, then is framed on a theft charge by a jealous suitor. After his prison term, Nolan makes a spectacular comeback in a fight which proves his courage and integrity, while disproving the fallacy about the old sports adage that "they never come back."
- DirectorPhil WhitmanHampton Del RuthStarsRegis ToomeyJune ClydeLucille La VerneA police lieutenant and a female reporter investigate a series of murders comitted by a hooded killer in an old dark house.
- DirectorGeorge MelfordStarsRegis ToomeyHelen CohanPat O'MalleyA young boy in a small town turns to a life of crime. After serving a prison sentence, he returns home determined to go straight but finds himself being blackmailed into a safecracking operation at a bank--organized by his romantic rival, who is planning to set him up to go back to prison again.
- DirectorD. Ross LedermanStarsRegis ToomeyEvalyn KnappBarbara WeeksMike Rolph quits his job, seemingly, as a highway patrolman and takes the position of the Police Chief of W. J. Brady's oil refinery. He is also romantically involved with Brady's daughter, June. It appears that some highly-placed employee has sold out to the opposition refinery people, and much sabotage and havoc is being caused.
- DirectorD. Ross LedermanStarsRegis ToomeyAnita PageBarbara Weeks
- DirectorFord BeebeStarsVictor McLaglenConchita MontenegroWilliam 'Stage' BoydEaster, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe-hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him after his job is done. Here, he also encounters his son, on track to waste his own life in pursuits similar to Easter's.
- DirectorGeorge AmyBusby BerkeleyStarsLoretta YoungWinnie LightnerLyle TalbotIn the depth of the Depression, Sol Glass has the idea that the girls in the stenographic department should be used to entertain the clients. It seems that the clients are tiring of the regular hard-and-fast women, and this would be a change that would allow the girls to go out to dinners and see shows. Tom does not want his fiancée Flo, to go out with clients--until he needs her to close a contract with Daniel. After that, she finds that Tom is two-timing her with Birdie, so she goes out again with Daniel. Everything is going well for a time until Daniel needs her to close a contract with Haines.
- DirectorSam NewfieldStarsRegis ToomeyGloria SheaWalter ByronTwo newly married carnival performers head to New York to make it big on Broadway, but after they get there the wife finds that a wealthy playboy has designs on her.
- DirectorFred GuiolStarsRegis ToomeyNoel FrancisJ. Carrol NaishTwo criminal gangs are at war with each other, and lawmen decided to use that to bring both gangs down.
- DirectorPhil RosenStarsDorothy MackaillRegis ToomeyDorothy LibaireFour "Picture Brides" from New Orleans arrive in the Brazilian jungle on a riverboat, brought there to marry workers at Lottagrasso, a remote mining site of the Standard Diamond Mines. On the same boat with the "mail-order" brides (Americans Mame Smith and Flo Lane, and Gwen from England and Lena from Europe) is Mary Lee, an innocent, frightened girl who has come to see the mine's brutal supervisor, von Luden, about a job. Knowing von Luden's inhuman reputation, Mame transfers the photo assigning her to Dave Hart to Mary's identification card. Castro, the mail-runner, delivers a letter to von Luden informing him that his partner Hart is wanted in the United States on an embezzlement charge. To protect Mary, Mame presents herself as the job applicant while Mary is introduced to Dave and his fellow supervisors--Peter, Joe, and Bill--as a bride applicant. Dave rescues Mary from a lustful, brutish attack by von Luden. Pretty Mataeo Rogers, half-breed daughter of the camp's drunken doctor, is celebrating her 18th birthday and is lured to von Luden's jungle castle. Later, natives find her body in the swamp. Detectives Steve and Al arrive to extradite Dave.
- DirectorGeorge ArchainbaudStarsEdna May OliverJames GleasonBruce CabotA pretty young music teacher is bludgeoned to death in Hildegarde's school, where she's reunited with Oscar, but the autopsy report says she was dying from poison too.
- DirectorRalph CederStarsBuster CrabbeIsabel JewellSally BlaneA young actress hits Hollywood determined to be a movie star and runs into a lot of roadblocks along the way.
- DirectorMelville W. BrownStarsBruce CabotGrace BradleyRegis ToomeyA girl marries a playboy from a rich family, expecting a life of comfort and luxury. However, her new father-in-law turns his ne'er-do-well son out into the street with no money, and promises the girl that if she can make a man out of her new husband, the father will give her $10,000 and see that she gets a quick divorce.
- DirectorWallace FoxStarsSteffi DunaRegis ToomeyRaymond HattonA captain's daughter is marooned on an island after the ship is taken over by a mutinous crew.
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsRicardo CortezVirginia BruceConstance CollierHaworth is a show biz producer who has a number of ex-girlfriends that he has beaten over the years. He is now engaged to two girls- Lisa and Trenna. After drinking and starting a fight with Sim, Haworth is found dead in his apartment. Everyone has a reason to kill him, but most of the blame is falling on Sim and his love Trenna. If they are to be cleared, it is up to Aunt Melissa to find the killer - and she thinks she knows who is was.
- DirectorArthur LubinStarsSidney BlackmerMartha SleeperRegis ToomeyGreed, ambition and hunger-for-power drive John Hart, a New-York-City stock-market broker, into crooked dealings and deception, but he doesn't realize that those he ruined will seek vengeance. He meets his match and downfall when his path crosses with a reporter, Phil Stuart; a girl, Marcia Harper, and a man-with-a-gun from a family he ruined.
- DirectorWilliam KeighleyStarsJames CagneyMargaret LindsayAnn DvorakJames Cagney helped jump-start the gangster genre as The Public Enemy. Outcries against movies that glorified underworld criminals put Cagney on the side of the law in 'G' Men.
- DirectorChristy CabanneStarsCharley GrapewinMary CarlisleArthur HohlAn eccentric millionaire, unable to locate his only granddaughter, decides to divide his estate among a group of people less close to him: his niece and nephew, his attorney, his doctor, and his housekeeper. But complications and murder arise when two different women turn up, claiming to be the granddaughter.
- DirectorStuart WalkerStarsRicardo CortezDorothy PageHenry MollisonNight club owner Dan Moore is trying to collect a debt owed to him by playboy Reggie Van Dorn, but Reggie is a playboy with no money but lots of social connections. In lieu of the cash, Dan gets Reggie to introduce him to the swells of high society. They go to the opera and, after hearing Yvonne Malloy sing, Dan falls in love with her. Reggie introduces them, but the introduction is to Yvonne's double and stand-in, Toots. This leads to many complications for all concerned.
- DirectorBurt P. LynwoodStarsEsther RalstonRegis ToomeyJ. Farrell MacDonaldSmuggling Chinese into the United States from Mexico in car loads, with no regard for human life, smugglers resort to any means to accomplish their selfish ends
- DirectorBurt P. LynwoodStarsJudith AllenRegis ToomeyLloyd HughesAlthough Edith Adams and her mother are seven weeks late with their rent, Mrs. Adams, living in the more prosperous past, is more concerned with her daughter's inability to meet a man of refinement. Edith's brother Wade wastes his days gambling. Edith is courted by newspaper reporter, Speed Demming, but they cannot afford to marry, because the Adamses depend on Edith's earnings. Speed gets Wade a job, but he is promptly fired and later, he drunkenly crashes a stolen automobile. Fortunately for Wade, the car belongs to Amos Truslow, a former suitor of Mrs. Adams, and the charges against him are dropped. Amos, however, demands that Wade pay for the damages and he finds jobs for both Wade and Edith. Amos' nephew, Fred Truslow, falls in love with Edith and she ends her engagement to Speed, but when Fred gets too drunk to drive her home one night, she turns to Speed for help. Tired of paying for Fred's escapades, Amos stops his allowance, and Fred in turn demands that Wade repay a loan. To help Wade, Speed sells his car, but Mrs. Adams accidentally spends the money. Speed then borrows money from the office cleaning women. Wade bets the money on Fred's horse "Berrywine," and is able to pay all his debts with the winnings. Finally cured of gambling, Wade devotes himself to his job, and Edith and Speed look forward to their marriage.
- DirectorAlbert HermanStarsRegis ToomeySheila TerryMolly O'DayTed Clark rescues pickpoket Danny from a mob, and restores Danny's loot, a pocketbook, to its owner Ann Dawson. She is carrying a letter that proves her brother, who is on death row, is innocent and Jim Grant is the guilty party. Ted and Danny help her escape from Grant's henchmen. They have several narrow escapes while on their way to give the proof to the Governor.
- DirectorElmer CliftonStarsRin Tin Tin Jr.Regis ToomeyJack MulhallRin-Tin-Tin brings the killer of his mistress to justice.
- DirectorCharles LamontStarsRay WalkerEvalyn KnappRegis ToomeyTwo rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious gangster inserts himself into the middle of it. Also complicating matters is that one newspaper's editor and circulation director are competing for the affections of a pretty blonde reporter.
- DirectorEugene FordeStarsBrian DonlevyFrances DrakeAlan DinehartA federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.
- DirectorEugene FordeStarsGloria StuartMichael WhalenGeorge SandersA couple who are always quarreling split up temporarily while she goes to France and teams up with a playboy who's being sued for breach of promise.
- DirectorFrank BorzageGeorge B. SeitzStarsSpencer TracyLuise RainerCharley GrapewinTo avoid a taxi war, city officials blame a gang bombing on driver Joe Benton's wife Anna and put her on a ship to deport her. The mayor is speaker at a boxers' banquet where Joe pleads for them to go with him to the wharf and rescue Anna (about to deliver their baby) from the ship.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsPat O'BrienJoan BlondellMargaret LindsayMorning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angles.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsPat O'BrienGeorge BrentWayne MorrisNavy officers fall for Ann. She has her own plans. USS Pensacola is struck during a last dive drill, there is an attempt to rescue. The USS Dolphin (D-1) and her crew depart from Connecticut to San Diego via the Panama Canal. They come into troubles.
- DirectorJohn FarrowStarsBoris KarloffMarie WilsonEddie CravenAn army private and his new bride are trying to honeymoon on an island occupied by the military and a murderer.
- DirectorHerbert I. LeedsStarsGloria StuartMichael WhalenPaul KellyA secretary solves a murder for her boyfriend in the District Attorney's office.
- DirectorLew LandersStarsRichard DixWhitney BourneEduardo CiannelliPaul Dover lives in Paris and works as an artist. He is visited by Julia Fraser an art buyer and critic who irritates Dover with her opinionated attitude. When she finally finds a piece of sculpture that she likes, he quotes a ridiculously high price which she refuses, but she is very intrigued with him and at least she leaves on a friendly note. But Paul's treatment of Julia is not usual for him. Earlier he had received an upsetting visit from his kid sister Ellen. She is married to a very wealthy man who is running for office and who, although he is in love with his wife, will not bear any scandal. Unfortunately, we learn, she is being blackmailed by a man who was her fiancé before she married her husband. She discovered him to be a cad, and she broke off the relationship. But he had saved her love letters to him, and now is demanding two hundred thousand francs from her or else he will publish her letters. She asks Paul to help, and he agrees. The result is that the letters end up packed in a shipment going to the Los Angeles Art Museum. Paul determines to get them, and along the way he ends up on the wrong side of a criminal gang's intentions, and has to pose as being blind. This was RKO's method of introducing Ace, the Wonder Dog, their answer to Rin-Tin-Tin, who becomes Paul's seeing eye dog. Can Paul, with the help of Ace track down the letters, fight off the gang and save his sister's marriage?
- DirectorLouis KingStarsLloyd NolanMary CarlisleLynne OvermanJoe Albany kills James Flowers when he discovers he is embezzling from the club they own.
- DirectorJames TinlingStarsStuart ErwinPauline MooreDouglas FowleyA South American showgirl seeks to avoid deportation by marrying the dimwitted waiter who loves her.
- DirectorLouis KingStarsJ. Carrol NaishMary CarlisleRobert PrestonG-Man Charles Bent Martin is sent out to break up a nationwide racket. A transport company is aiding fugitives making a getaway in exchange for the lion's share of their loot. Through an old friend, whom he once barnstormed in an air circus, Martin joins the gang as a pilot. He becomes interested in Carol Butler, a beautiful girl involved with the gang through the activities of her ne'er-do-well father.
- DirectorGus MeinsStarsCharles RugglesOna MunsonMaxie RosenbloomAdam Tripp (Charles Ruggles), a mild-mannered, timid office clerk, becomes the butt of several practical jokes on his wedding-eve night, and nearly loses his bride-to-be, Anne Baker (Ona Munson).
- DirectorChristy CabanneStarsRalph BellamyFay WrayRegis ToomeyTop U.S. government spy-smasher John Baxter (Ralph Bellamy) does just that as he is aided by Eleanor Dunlap (Fay Wray) and companion federal agent Ted Hall (Regis Toomey) while being highly abetted by top enemy agent Dr. L. B. Carter (Walter Kingsford) and his minions of gang members and henchmen.
- DirectorGus MeinsStarsMichael WhalenLynne RobertsChick ChandlerKeith Neville and Dan Casey, two small-time stage actors, are traveling by bus back to New York City, and have an overnight stay in a small town. They take a room in a local hotel and a murder is committed in an adjoining room to Keith. The latter hears the gunfire, goes to investigate, and is there when the local police arrive. He and Casey are both held on suspicion of murder and jailed. While a local policeman is going through their luggage at the hotel, he discovers a letter of introduction, in Keith's suitcase, that reads: "It is requested that all official courtesy be extended to Mr. Geoffrey Desmond, Chief Inspector of the Criminal Investigation Department of the London Matropolitan Police, during his journey on a dangerous secret mission." The letter is a stage-prop from the play the two actors had just performed in, but the Police Chief thinks it is real and releases them from jail, and Keith decides to stay on and help the local bobbies solve the murder. He has a vested interest in doing so as Julie Graham, a girl he met on the bus-trip, is the daughter of the a man the District Attorney has now charged with the crime, and Keith stays to help her clear her father of the charges.
- DirectorJoseph A. McDonoughStarsKent TaylorRochelle HudsonRegis ToomeyCafe waitress Barbara Whitney refuses to acknowledge her marriage to Air Policeman Nick Conlon until he upgrades his career. He does so by infiltrating a hi-jacking gang posing as passengers who rob airplanes carrying valuable items and money, and parachuting their escape from the scene of the crime.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsGeorge BrentOlivia de HavillandJohn PayneBiplanes flying in formation past the Washington Monument. A flotilla of seaplanes rising majestically off the surface of the Atlantic.
- DirectorJoe MayStarsPreston FosterIrene HerveyWalter Woolf KingThe Treasury Department plants a female agent in the office of a luggage company that is suspected of smuggling diamonds.
- DirectorSidney SalkowStarsCharles BickfordHarry CareyTommy RyanWhen Cash Darwin is released from prison after serving five years for racketeering, he vows revenge on Charles Putnam, the crusading owner of the Clarion , the newspaper that obtained the evidence to convict him. While Cash is traveling to the Clarion building, Putnam is visited by reporter Jim Parker, who is working undercover as a member of Mike Reardon's gang in order to expose Reardon's deals with corrupt city officials. Reardon, who is infuriated by Putnam's campaign against him, orders his men to rough up the Clarion 's street vendors. Cash arrives at the Clarion building as one such raid is occurring and he aides a young boy, Tommy Blake, who is being attacked. Tommy is impressed with Cash's quick fists and thanks him. Cash then goes to Putnam's office and threatens him with a gun, after which Putnam advises him to turn on the radio so that no one will hear the fatal shot. Cash acquiesces to Putnam's request for a last meal, and the pair go to a restaurant with Cash's pal, T-Bone. There, Reardon's henchman, Kinsella, misinterprets Cash's sitting with Putnam and warns him not to take sides in the war by helping out Putnam. Cash is further aggravated by police who question him about carrying a gun, but Putnam alibis him by saying that Cash works for him. Cash's gratitude does not dissuade him from his revenge, however, and he realizes that the best way to ruin Putnam is to destroy his beloved newspaper. Putnam offers Cash the job for real, and he accepts. As time passes, Cash and Tommy become pals, and Cash hires a bunch of toughs to protect the Clarion vendors. The paper pays the men one hundred dollars a week, eighty of which Cash pockets for himself and T-Bone. Cash takes Tommy in after the dog he gave the boy gets him kicked out of his lodgings, and he does his best to become a real father. At the same time, he makes a deal with Reardon to destroy the Clarion from the inside, even though he tells T-Bone that he is going straight. Cash reveals Jim's identity to Reardon, thereby sealing the reporter's fate. When Cash returns home, he discovers that Tommy has found out about his grafting money from the paper, and the boy bitterly denounces him. After Tommy storms out, Cash plants a bomb in the Clarion 's new printing presses, then goes to Putnam's house for dinner. There, Putnam gives him a photo showing him being threatened with a gun by Cash in his office, which was taken when Cash turned on the radio as Putnam suggested. Cash realizes that Putnam is a square shooter, because he could have used the photo to have Cash re-incarcerated, and he rushes to stop the bomb. Reardon's men have arrived first, however, and have wounded Tommy while starting a fire. Cash takes Tommy to the hospital, settles with Reardon and Kinsella in a fistfight, then returns to the Clarion . After learning of Jim's death, Putnam enters the blaze to retrieve the evidence Jim collected, and his life is saved by Cash. Cash then disables the bomb but is caught in the fire. Later, Reardon's gang is arrested, and Putnam assures Tommy that Cash died a true hero.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsBarbara StanwyckJoel McCreaAkim TamiroffIn 1862, Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads compete westward across the wilderness toward California.
- DirectorAnatole LitvakStarsEdward G. RobinsonGeorge SandersFrancis LedererFBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-war espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
- DirectorLewis D. CollinsStarsJack HoltRalph MorganPaul EvertonUpon developing a new type of electronically driven plane, Walter Fielding, an inventor, offers the United States government first option on his creation. However, when William Fornay, a foreign agent, offers him three times the army's price, Fielding decides to insure that the government tests end in failure, thus enabling him to sell his patent to the highest bidder. After the initial flight crashes and kills its pilot, Lieutenant Gray, army flyer Major Roston begins to suspect sabotage. Hoping to flush out the saboteurs, Roston arranges for his own court martial, then feigns resentment towards the army. His ruse works, and Roston is soon contacted by enemy agent Carol Rayder. But Roston's first lead is sidetracked, however, when Carol and her employer, Joseph Dure, are found murdered. While investigating Carol's murder, Roston picks up a clue which leads to Fornay. Upon discovering that Fornay is behind the plane's mysterious failures, Roston deduces that Fielding must also be involved in sabotage. Roston substantiates his theory when he lures Fielding into taking a test flight with him, and by threatening to crash the plane, forces a confession from the inventor.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsAnn SheridanPat O'BrienJohn PayneJoe is the three-time Indy champion who still races to put young Eddie through college. Joe wants a better life for Eddie, and he explodes when he finds out that Eddie quit school for a racing career. Joe tries to teach Eddie the trade, but they separate when Eddie will not drop "bad girl" Frankie. When Joe causes the death of a driver at the next race, he quits racing and wanders around. Joe winds up at Indianapolis where Eddie is driving the Martin Special.
- DirectorLewis D. CollinsStarsJack HoltGertrude MichaelDickie MooreDr. Garfield gets so involved in his research for an antitoxin for severe burns that he completely neglects his wife Virginia and their young son Steve. Virginia divorces him and takes Steve with her. Their paths cross again in a life-or-death situation.
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsWallace BeeryChester MorrisVirginia GreyIn a New England port town, Pop Thorson and Rocky Blake are rival tugboat owners. Thorson's boat has sunk in the shallow water while docked, and he is certain Blake sabotaged it for winning a lucrative contract of military supplies.
- DirectorFord BeebeSaul A. GoodkindStarsBela LugosiRobert KentDorothy ArnoldA military intelligence officer and a pretty reporter try to find a scientist whose inventions can destroy the world.
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsCary GrantRosalind RussellRalph BellamyA newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.
- DirectorKing VidorJack ConwayW.S. Van DykeStarsSpencer TracyRobert YoungWalter BrennanLangdon Towne and Hunk Marriner join Major Rogers' Rangers as they wipe out an Indian village. They set out for Fort Wentworth, but when they arrive they find no soldiers and none of the supplies they expected.
- DirectorEdmund GouldingWilliam K. HowardWilliam KeighleyStarsMerle OberonGeorge BrentPat O'BrienDying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsGary CooperMadeleine CarrollPaulette GoddardIn 1885, a Texas Ranger travels to Canada to arrest a trapper who's wanted for murder and who's stirring up the Natives in a rebellion against the Canadian government.
- DirectorWesley RugglesStarsJean ArthurWilliam HoldenWarren WilliamIn Tucson of the 1860s, a pioneer woman struggles to succeed in the freight and cattle business while at risk at the hands of corrupt and violent local businessmen and rampaging Indians.
- DirectorSidney SalkowStarsWarren WilliamJune StoreyHenry WilcoxonThe Lone Wolf Michael Lanyard takes Inspector Crane's challenge that he can't keep out of trouble for 24 hours. No sooner accepted when Lanyard is sucked into a case of murder and kidnapping in which he is sole suspect. Lanyard pursues the perpetrators, a gang of cunning thieves with engraving plates belonging to the U.S. Treasury, even as he is being hunted by police.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsGary CooperBarbara StanwyckEdward ArnoldA penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.
- DirectorSam WoodStarsJean ArthurRobert CummingsCharles CoburnA tycoon goes undercover to ferret out agitators at a department store, but gets involved in their lives instead.
- DirectorWilliam C. McGannStarsWilliam LundiganNan WynnRicardo CortezHomicide detective Bill Ryder reluctantly teams up with wise-cracking news-hound Peter Kennedy to solve a pair of murders.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsJoel McCreaEllen DrewEddie BrackenA backwoodsman comes to Detroit to get a job and earn money to buy an outboard motor.
- DirectorNoel M. SmithStarsLee PatrickRegis ToomeyJulie BishopMurder mystery with a nurse (Lee Patrick) moving into a mansion after an apparent suicide to care for the old mother. The mother is kind of spooky, but so is the butler, and the girlfriend, and the doctor, and... you get the point. After the insurance policy is found, the plot becomes more interesting.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsErrol FlynnFred MacMurrayRalph BellamyA military surgeon teams with a ranking Navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a steep dive.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsConstance BennettJeffrey LynnRegis ToomeyThe telegram that Jim Comway receives states that the woman he was to marry, Laura, could not move to a country she didn't know, and marry a man she felt she no longer knew
- DirectorCharles VidorStarsFred MacMurrayMary MartinRobert PrestonVictor Ballard is a poor but happy-go-lucky New York sidewalk photographer who shares a studio apartment with a painter from Poland, Stefan Janowski. After Victor shoots a photo of Alexandra Curtis, he realizes she is desperate and in need of a friend who can guide her through the ways and means of surviving in Manhattan with no money.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsErrol FlynnOlivia de HavillandArthur KennedyA highly fictionalized account of the life of George Armstrong Custer from his arrival at West Point in 1857 to his death at the battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876.
- DirectorLewis SeilerStarsJimmy DurantePhil SilversJane WymanVacuum-cleaner salesmen Homer "Jeeper" Smith and "Breezy" Jones are accidentally inducted into the army, and "Jeeper", who can sell anything, immediately begins to try and convince, Colonel Dobson, their cavalry officer of the old school---from the "nothing can replace a horse in a battle" school---that the age of mechanization has arrived and "Jeeper" has a deal for him on some tanks. This also helps further the romance between the colonels' daughter, Bliss (named after the fort in El Paso), and Captain Joe Radcliffe, a mechanical engineer with the tank corps. Along the way, at a USO show (featuring the Navy Blues Sextette from the film "Navy Blues"), "Jeeper" does an Apache Dance, spikes the lemonade with alum, and sings "I'm Glad My Number Was Called."
- DirectorD. Ross LedermanStarsRegis ToomeyAdele LongmireHoward Da SilvaGangster Frank Dillon abducts Dr. Steven Bishop to treat wounded Joe Madison. Dillon also takes Joe's nurse sister. Dillon threatens Bishop's life if Joe dies, but Bishop knows Dillon will kill him anyway.
- DirectorD. Ross LedermanStarsTod AndrewsJulie BishopRegis ToomeyA newspaperman out to get the goods on a crooked politician winds up in jail, framed for a killing he didn't commit. He and another prisoner attempt an escape, but although the newspaperman gets away, his colleague is caught and returned to jail. Years later, the convict gets out of prison and winds up in the same town where his former cellmate is now a respected citizen and attempts to blackmail him.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsFred MacMurrayPaulette GoddardSusan HaywardRanger Don Stuart, pursuing a forest arsonist, finds time to romance a socialite.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsVan HeflinLionel BarrymoreRuth HusseyBiography of Andrew Johnson, who followed Abraham Lincoln into office and became the first President of the United States ever to be impeached.
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterRay EnrightStarsEdward G. RobinsonGlenn FordMarguerite ChapmanA new World War 2 destroyer fails its sea trials so it is assigned to mail runs, but the crew ends up having to engage Japanese planes and a submarine anyway.
- DirectorLewis D. CollinsRay TaylorStarsJohnny DownsBobby JordanWard WoodA group of flying cadets have to clear themselves of a murder charge, while trying to stop a traitorous scientist from selling secrets to the Nazis.
- DirectorAlfred SantellStarsMichael O'SheaSusan HaywardOsa MassenEpisodes in the adventurous life of the American novelist (1876-1916).
- DirectorWilliam BerkeStarsChester MorrisNancy KellyWilliam HenryPete Ramsey (Morris) is a hard-working coal miner who falls in love with and marries scheming showgirl Victory Kane (Kelly). Victory presses Pete to fight for the position of the mine superintendent, which he earns. Unable to bear her poor surroundings and unsatisfied with being a miner's wife, Victory decides to climb the social ladder and have an affair with the wealthy owner of the mine, Gary Linden (Conway), unbeknownst to her faithful husband. Suddenly, a ferocious tornado forms and hits the town and the mine, putting everyone's life in danger. For its time, the film has impressive visual effects for the tornado sequence.
- DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsFranchot ToneElla RainesAlan CurtisA devoted secretary risks her life to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his selfish wife.a film noir classic
- DirectorA. Edward SutherlandJohn RawlinsStarsGeorge RaftVera ZorinaGrace McDonaldDuring World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale-boosters to both the troops overseas and the civilians at home. This was Universal Pictures' effort. It features everyone from Donald O'Connor to the Andrews Sisters to Orson Welles to W.C. Fields to George Raft to Marlene Dietrich, and dozens of other Universal players.
- DirectorS. Sylvan SimonStarsEdgar BergenCharlie McCarthyBonita GranvilleChild film star Jane Powell, fed up with her every move being stage managed by her stage mother, runs away and joins the U.S. Crop Corps, a small army of young folks staying at youth hostels and picking crops while adult farmworkers are at war. Totally clueless about the real world, befuddled Jane is embroiled in teen-romance complications while Mother frantically searches. Will her stardom help or hinder her new friends? W.C. Fields does a short act with Bergen and McCarthy.