the 230 FILMS of PAUL FIX (1901 - 1983)
God was sad this Thursday (10/14) when Paul Fix passed away after a 54 year career in film and TV.
He was a versatile actor appearing in a variety of genres: Crime/Film Noir & mystery(94); westerns(75); dramas(137), romances(71) and comedies(43).
The IMDb rating averages are listed below for Paul Fix:
Mean = 6.2
Median = 6.2
Mode = 6.1, 6.3 (15)
Highest rated movie (8.4) - To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Lowest rated movie (3.3) - The Racing Strain (1932)
Paul is best remembered for his portrayal as Marshal Micah Torrance on the hit TV western - The Rifleman (1958 - 1963).
The vast majority of his film appearances (87%) occur between 1930 and 1959.
He was a versatile actor appearing in a variety of genres: Crime/Film Noir & mystery(94); westerns(75); dramas(137), romances(71) and comedies(43).
The IMDb rating averages are listed below for Paul Fix:
Mean = 6.2
Median = 6.2
Mode = 6.1, 6.3 (15)
Highest rated movie (8.4) - To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Lowest rated movie (3.3) - The Racing Strain (1932)
Paul is best remembered for his portrayal as Marshal Micah Torrance on the hit TV western - The Rifleman (1958 - 1963).
The vast majority of his film appearances (87%) occur between 1930 and 1959.
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- DirectorFred C. NewmeyerStarsLarry SemonKate PriceDorothy DwanA clerk is given $10,000 to deposit at the bank, but the bank is closed for the night so he tries to get to the bank president's house with the money.
- DirectorWilliam BertramStarsBuddy RooseveltDixie LamontNelson McDowellHero defeats the villain in various nefarious schemes, finds the gold, blows up a haunted ranch house and wins the girl.
- DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsFay WrayGary CooperLane ChandlerThe story of a decadent family along Maryland's Chesapeake Bay.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellGuinn 'Big Boy' WilliamsMary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared.
- DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsGeorge BancroftMary AstorFredric MarchJoe Forziati (Bancroft), an Italian immigrant who has battled his way to success as a New York building contractor, decides to embark on a social career.
- DirectorBerthold ViertelStarsMilton SillsDorothy MackaillKenneth MacKennaA hard-boiled nightclub owner saves a beautiful young girl from drowning. He promptly falls in love with her, but she prefers a younger, more-genteel lover.
- DirectorRoy William NeillStarsBuck JonesDorothy RevierOtto HoffmanGoss, Mason, and Kelly force Joaquin Murieta to watch as they hang his brother Juan for a crime he did not commit. To exact his revenge on the three, Joaquin becomes the notorious Black Shadow.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsWarner BaxterJoan BennettVictor VarconiWhen Dr. Penning, a famed doctor, takes a wife, some of her women patients don't get discouraged, and his wife will have to face what being a doctor's wife supposes.
- DirectorSidney LanfieldStarsLoretta YoungLew CodyJohn WayneArchitect Gordon Wales finds fellow apartment house resident Joan Marsh locked out and flirts with her. When she is murdered evidence points to him. He and Joan's roommate Noreen become involved.
- DirectorLouis KingStarsBuck JonesLoretta SayersRobert EllisA dying Jack makes Bob and Flash promise not to tell his sister that he was an outlaw. When Bob confronts Flash with his muffler found at the stage holdup, Flash tells Mary that Bob killed her brother. Believing he can now marry Mary, he plans one more robbery. But the jealous Tiana overhears and runs for the Sheriff.
- DirectorRoy William NeillStarsMae ClarkeJames HallMarie PrevostGangster's moll Marcia Cameron (Mae Clark) quits her racketeering boyfriend Dapper Dan Tyler (Robert Ellis) for a respectable rich man, Bob Henderson (James Hall), but after giving birth to their child, her shady background becomes a liability. Bob is so embarrassed by her former associations that he sues for divorce. But Dapper Dan is gunned down by a detective and picky Bob forgives all.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsWill RogersFifi D'OrsayLucien LittlefieldLemuel Morehouse, the owner of a profitable meatpacking company in Chicago, bemoans the fact that neither of his two sons have the time nor inclination to eat with him. Billy is obsessed with culture, while Tom is a physical fitness nut. At the office, Lemuel is exasperated when Billy arrives for work at four in the afternoon and cannot stay because of a party he is giving that night to unveil a statue he bought for $20,000. Lemuel then finds Tom meeting with his golf committee rather than working. When the boys argue that business is only a means to an end, and that happiness and enjoyment of life are desired goals, Lemuel counters their contentions by declaring that what they really need are wives and tells them that Dorothy and Rose Gregson, the daughters of an old friend, will soon be visiting. During the party, Fleurette, a French singer hired by Billy, goes to Lemuel's bedroom to undress before her performance, and after an embarrassing moment, she and Lemuel become friends. She encourages him to loosen up, and after awhile, he saunters downstairs drunk, just as the statue, supposedly a distinguished work of modern art, is being unveiled. Billy worries that Fleurette may be a blackmailer. Sometime later, Billy, Tom and Lemuel's staid partner, Noah Marley, are concerned because Lemuel has not shown up for an important meeting. Since meeting Fleurette, Lemuel is never at home, and he has been arrested in a speakeasy raid. Lemuel arrives at the office in top hat and tails, and when his sons act indignant at his behavior, he reiterates their own philosophy and leaves skipping with Fleurette to go to the races. Billy and Tom call detectives to follow them. At the track, the detectives spy Fleurette introduce Lemuel to Harry Lamson, an infamous blackmailer, but they conclude that she is worth the money it will cost Lemuel. Fleurette tells Lemuel that Lamson is a friend of the man who sold Billy the statue, Colonel Stanhope, and that Stanhope went to Colorado, where her mother owns some land. Lemuel agrees to go with her to check on the land, and Billy and Tom, believing that they left to get married, follow with Marley, the Gregson sisters, who have just arrived in town, the detectives and a judge. At the Hotel Colorado, a suspicious man watches as Lemuel and Fleurette register. When Stanhope boasts that he sold Fleurette's mother's land for $2,000, Lemuel reveals that he has learned that Stanhope made $40,000 from the deal. Lemuel then asserts that the statue Billy bought was in reality a hunk of granite that a drunkard ordered for a tombstone. By warning Stanhope that, as an ex-convict, he could get a ten-year sentence for fraud, Lemuel induces him to pay $40,000 for a large rock he unveils in a ceremony in the hotel lobby. In her bedroom, as Fleurette embraces Lemuel to thank him, the man who earlier spied upon them bursts in and reveals that he is Fleurette's husband. Lemuel is certain that the couple will blackmail him, but thinks the experience has been worth it and takes out his checkbook. Fleurette, disappointed in Lemuel, explains that she left her husband because of his jealousy, and the husband contends that her mother sent for him to check on the land. Convinced that they are telling the truth, Lemuel says that he and Fleurette are not in love, but just good pals. As they shake hands, Lemuel's sons and their party intrude. Lemuel explains that he wanted to teach his sons a lesson, but that he learned one himself: that anyone is dead who lets life pass him by. He then goes on an ocean liner to Paris with Fleurette and her husband, and brings along Marley, who soon sports a toupee and an entourage of attractive young women. The toupee, however, falls into the water, and everyone laughs.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsJames DunnSally EilersMinna GombellA man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage.
- DirectorAlfred SantellStarsJames DunnLinda WatkinsMinna Gombell
- DirectorLambert HillyerStarsBuck JonesMona MarisPhilo McCulloughAfter being duped by Consuello into losing the family fortune, Carlos' brother Juan commits suicide. When Carlos next meets Consuello, she is the bride to be of his friend Ramon and this means more trouble.
- DirectorDavid BurtonStarsMiriam HopkinsJack OakieWilliam Collier Jr.A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a gangster has designs on her too.
- DirectorHoward HawksRichard RossonStarsPaul MuniAnn DvorakKaren MorleyAn ambitious and nearly insane violent gangster climbs the ladder of success in the mob, but his weaknesses prove to be his downfall.
- DirectorSamuel BischoffStarsHoward PhillipsPreston FosterGeorge E. StoneAn innocent man sentenced to death gets caught up in a prison riot.
- DirectorJohn M. StahlStarsIrene DunneJohn BolesGeorge MeekerA woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.
- DirectorJames FloodElliott NugentStarsLoretta YoungEric LindenAline MacMahonAt a maternity hospital, future fathers pace the corridors while their wives wait for their babies either anxiously or happily. Efficient and compassionate nurse Miss Bowers keeps the ward running smoothly. Things liven up when Grace Sutton is transferred from the prison where she is being held for murder. Most agree that the man she killed deserved to die, and Nurse Bowers sympathetically allows Grace's concerned husband Jed unlimited time with his wife. On the ward, the women have varied feelings about motherhood. Mrs. West, mother of six children, thinks babies are what give meaning to women's lives. In contrast, Florette, a showgirl, just wants to get rid of her twins as soon as possible. Miss Layton has decided opinions about child rearing and has no intention of being a doting mother. While the women debate their various theories, a woman who wants a baby so much that she has become demented wanders in from another ward. An Italian woman quietly sobs when she learns that her newborn has died. After a touching farewell with Jed, Grace, whose health has suffered from prison conditions, is taken into the labor room. While Jed waits anxiously, Florette is appalled by the plans that the prospective adoptive mother of her twins has concocted. She cradles one baby herself and discovers mother love. Miss Layton has also given up on her progressive plans for her baby. Down the hall, things are going badly for Grace. When the doctors ask Jed to choose between saving Grace or the baby, he chooses Grace, but she herself insists that the doctors operate and save the baby. After she dies, Jed refuses to see the baby girl, but wise Nurse Bowers places the child in his arms, and as with the mothers, he cannot resist her charms.
- DirectorStephen RobertsStarsClive BrookFrances DeeCharles RugglesElna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna who suffers from neurasthenia, believes that Trudie is having an affair with her husband, John, and vows revenge on Trudie. John explains to Trudie Elna's condition and plan. Trudie, being good-hearted tells John that she'll move. One evening, John returns late from work to discover Elna dead. John burns Elna's suicide note to protect Trudie. This results in John being charged for murder and put on trial.
- DirectorJerome StormStarsWallace Reid Jr.J. Farrell MacDonaldPaul FixA race-car driver whose career is on the skids because of his drinking falls for a rich society girl. That motivates him to clean up his act and resume his career, but it may be too late for that.lowest rated movie of Fix' career
- DirectorLewis D. CollinsStarsJack HoxieBetty BoydMary CarrAs the Sonora Kid, Blackjack, and Tony Andrews are escaping from the Sheriff, Tony is mortally wounded. Arriving at the Andrews ranch, Tony's blind mother mistakes the Kid for her son. Unable to tell her the truth they stay on. But there is trouble when Nevada Smith and his gang arrive and threaten to expose the hoax unless the Kid lets them rustle the Andrews cattle.
- DirectorMillard WebbStarsClaudia DellMonroe OwsleyLola LaneA young woman inherits a textile plant, and finds that she's expected to pay protection money to gangsters who have their own men among the plant's employees.
- DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsLoretta YoungGene RaymondO.P. HeggieAn orphan girl escapes her caregivers to be with a young man raised at the zoo whose only previous friends are the animals.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsWilliam BoydWynne GibsonWilliam GarganAn expose of the racketeering "accident victims" who extort millions of dollars annually from American automobile owners, insurance companies and property owners by staging fake accident with paid-witnesses standing by to serve in court trials if needed. After a few examples, this one concentrates on the 'gutter-floppers."
- DirectorMack V. WrightStarsJohn WayneDukeHenry B. WalthallJohn Bishop discovers a plot to rob a silver mine belonging to his girlfriend Mary's father and, to foil the evildoers, he joins them.
- DirectorPhil RosenStarsLionel AtwillSheila TerryTheodore NewtonA man known to be a mute is suspected of committing a murder, as he was noticed at the scene. However, witnesses saw and heard him talking as he was leaving the scene of the crime. The police must determine if he is the actual killer or if he is being framed.
- DirectorSam NewfieldStarsNoel FrancisDon DillawayDorothy BurgessA freelance stenographer is hired for a job, but when she arrives at the address she was given, she finds that a murder has taken place there--and she is arrested for it.
- DirectorEdwin L. MarinStarsRalph ForbesAdrienne AmesArthur VintonA disgraced former District Attorney plots his revenge on the members of a criminal gang who had him framed and sent to prison.
- DirectorPhil RosenStarsPeggy ShannonPreston FosterRay WalkerA convicted murderer has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. He decides to spill the name of the man who hired him, but just before he does he's killed by a poison dart. A police detective and a pretty young newspaper reporter team up to find out the identity of the man behind the killings.
- DirectorIrving CummingsStarsSpencer TracyClaire TrevorRalph MorganBootlegger Ed Carson is sent to prison. His old gang turns from liquor (now legal) to kidnapping. When they nab the son and daughter-in-law of the judge who sent Carson to prison, he is paroled to help in the capture.
- DirectorAlan JamesStarsKen MaynardHelen MackRoy StewartWhen Mort loses his and Ken's money at poker, Goss gets him to rob the stage. He is captured, identified by his palomino horse. Ken tries to clear him by robbing a stage while riding a palomino, but he also gets caught.
- DirectorEdwin L. MarinStarsWynne GibsonOnslow StevensRichard 'Skeets' GallagherFormer lovers get together to clear themselves when the police suspect them of murder.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsMargaret SullavanDouglass MontgomeryAlan HaleA young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire married men.
- DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsRobert DonatElissa LandiLouis CalhernAfter greedy men have Edmond Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to get his revenge on them.
- DirectorAlfred RabochStarsBuck JonesSheila TerryStanley FieldsRocky Rhodes returns to find his father dead and his best friend Joe accused of the murder. The culprit is Murtch who now lets Joe break jail and then has him shot escaping. When Rocky starts to interfere with Murtch's plans, he has Rocky framed for murder. Now Rocky must prove that Murtch is guilty while escaping the law.
- DirectorCharles LamontStarsVivian TobinDickie MooreCora Sue CollinsAggravated by the meddling of Lucille Weymouth, her disapproving Park Avenue mother-in-law, Broadway actress Lola Allen quarrels with her weakling husband John. After they reunite, the couple visits a nightclub, where a brawl breaks out and John is killed by "Checkers" Fraley, Lola's former underworld lover. During an acrimonious custody trial, Mrs. Weymouth testifies that John was about to separate from Lola before he was murdered, and this revelation convinces the judge to award Mrs. Weymouth complete custody of Lola's baby boy Tommy. Despondent, Lola, who is unable even to visit Tommy, finds work in a children's day nursery, which is run by kind Mrs. Warren. When Mrs. Weymouth dies five years later, a physician sends Tommy to Mrs. Warren's nursery under a false name. Unaware of his parentage, Tommy forms a close friendship with little Pat Collins, whose father Hugh, a widowed radio announcer, loves Lola but is unable to convince her to marry him. One day, Fraley, who has just escaped from prison, shows up at the nursery and, using threats of blackmail, forces Lola to hide him in the nursery attic. While playing, Tommy and Pat climb up to the attic, and Fraley takes them hostage and makes them stand over a trapdoor to prevent the police from shooting their way into the attic. Eventually, the children escape onto the sloping rooftop, where they are pursued by the gangster. During the chase, Fraley is shot and killed by the police. Tommy's identity is revealed to Lola, and Pat blesses Lola and Hugh's union.
- DirectorDavid SelmanStarsTim McCoyMarion ShillingJoe SawyerTim Addison buys a ranch which is having cattle rustled. Tim suspects Wallace is the culprit, so Wallace frames Tim and has his stooge Sheriff arrest him. Escaping jail, Tim needs proof against Wallace and he and Joe Allen find the answer.
- DirectorThomas AtkinsStarsNeil HamiltonKathleen BurkeLeon AmesA wealthy playboy winds up getting himself involved with mobsters and a search for buried treasure.
- DirectorAlfred RabochStarsBuck JonesPolly Ann YoungWard BondA ranch owner mistakenly believes that a neighboring rancher is involved with cattle thieves.
- DirectorVictor FlemingStarsJean HarlowWilliam PowellFranchot ToneWealthy Bob Harrison buys all the seats in the theatre to watch Mona Leslie's musical by himself. He loves her, her agent Ned Riley loves her. Conflict ensues.
- DirectorLewis D. CollinsStarsJohn WayneMary KornmanPaul FixRodeo star John Scott and his gambler friend Kansas Charlie are wrongly accused of armed robbery. They leave town as fast as they can to go looking for their own suspects in Poker City.
- DirectorSam WoodStarsRichard ArlenVirginia BruceAlice BradyYoung Federal gang-busters in action, with pauses for romance.
- DirectorRalph MurphyStarsFred MacMurrayMadge EvansDavid HoltThis story about the U.S. Department of Justice and its agents begins with a daring mail-truck robbery by a ruthless gang that flees to the western U.S. after the robbery. When money from the robbery shows up in a small Kansas town, the department sends agent Dick Grant to investigate, posing as a businessman. He is hindered in his assignment by local newspaper reporter Helen Sherwood, and when he falls in love with her, he is unable to reveal to her who he really is and why he is there.
- DirectorRobert FloreyStarsWarren WilliamClaire DoddGuy KibbeeAn insurance agent falls for a client's daughter after writing a policy guaranteeing her single status.
- DirectorJohn EnglishStarsKermit MaynardPolly Ann YoungPaul FixA cowboy's brother falls in with a gang of thieves; when he tries to get his brother out of the gang, the gang orders his death--and tells his brother to kill him.
- DirectorRay TaylorStarsBuck JonesMuriel EvansGeorge 'Gabby' HayesWhen Buck is young his cattle stealing father is killed. Now grown Buck returns home still carrying the burden of his father's reputation. When he is framed for rustling, he finds an object that identifies Milt Fergus, the brother of his girl friend, as the rustler. Getting bailed out of jail he and his Uncle Ford have a plan to trap Milt.
- DirectorAlan JamesStarsFrankie DarroLeRoy MasonRussell HoptonThree men escape from prison, go back to their hometown to try to find out who framed them.
- DirectorHoward BrethertonStarsWilliam BoydJames EllisonWilliam FarnumWhen the outlaw El Toro saves Hoppy's life, Hoppy agrees to find his missing grandson.
- DirectorHoward BrethertonStarsWilliam BoydJames EllisonJean RouverolCattle rustler Nevada dreams of living like an emperor in the West. Hoppy and the Bar 20 boys aim to put an end to his dream.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsJoan BlondellGlenda FarrellHugh HerbertTwo broke ex-chorus girls in California hope to get back to Broadway by winning the "Miss Pacific Fleet" popularity contest.
- DirectorRay McCareyStarsJohn HowardWendy BarrieWillie HowardThe daughter of a radio-program sponsor wants to get on the air too, but her father doesn't allow it, so she enters an amateur contest on his radio program under an assumed name.
- DirectorSam NewfieldStarsTim McCoyJoan WoodburyKarl HackettA miner who was swindled out of his mine by a banker turns to robbing stagecoaches. Several years after he is tracked down and killed, his son comes to town to tangle with the banker.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsWarner BaxterGloria StuartClaude GillingwaterThe story of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who was imprisoned after innocently treating President Lincoln's assassin in 1865.
- DirectorPhil RosenStarsOnslow StevensDorothy TreeJack La RueAssistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion Courtney, but he's unaware that Marion is the sister of the innocent man he sent to prison. Marion gets herself committed to a women's prison to get proof from inmate, Evelyn 'Duchess' Thane, that her brother is innocent. Powell learns of Marion's plight and believes she's in love with the man he sent to prison...
- DirectorStephen RobertsStarsWilliam PowellJean ArthurJames GleasonA wealthy mystery writer uses her doctor ex-husband's non-payment of alimony to coerce him into a reconciliation.
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsFredric MarchWarner BaxterLionel BarrymoreThe story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and more somber. His rival for the affection of nurse Monique is Capt. La Roche.
- DirectorNate WattStarsWilliam GarganClaire DoddDouglas FowleyAfter the death of one of their fellow pilots, a squadron of Navy airmen plots to keep his newborn son away from their superiors, who have decreed that the baby should be given up for adoption.
- DirectorEugene FordeStarsBrian DonlevyGloria StuartDouglas FowleyGangster Benson is on a train with G-man Evers and newswoman Marvis. First these two have to get the gangster, then they have to get each other.
- DirectorH. Bruce HumberstoneStarsWarner OlandKeye LukeHelen WoodWhen a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and uncovers an international gambling ring.
- DirectorStuart HeislerStarsRalph BellamyKatherine LockeDavid HoltGail Pyne leaves her grandfather Jedediah's lakeside cabin, where "Jed" manufactures rifles and bullets, to work with commercial artist Curt Hayden, a widower. In the parking garage of their office, Curt and Gail witness a gangland murder and robbery. Curt uses his talent as an artist to draw portraits for the police of the robbers, Baldy, Trim and Trigger Benson. Trigger Benson is arrested, but when Curt arrives at the courthouse to testify, Baldy and Trim shoot him, hoping to eliminate the witness. Curt survives, however, and gives testimony from his hospital bed, after which Gail convinces him to take his young son Johnny, to Jedediah's cabin to recuperate. Curt reluctantly complies, and they all settle into the homey cabin. Johnny, who is jealous of Curt and Gail's growing love for each other, becomes a fast friend of Jed, who promises to make a child-size rifle for him and teach him how to shoot, as he did for Gail. Unknown to Curt, the soap company for whom he is creating an advertisement is a front for Baldy and Trim, who, having knocked-off one of their accomplices, now plan to get rid of Curt. They use his correspondence to locate him. When Curt proposes to Gail, they decide to get married the next day. Jedediah locks up the house, and they all bundle into the car headed for the county seat. Johnny slips out of the car at the last minute unnoticed, unhappy over the prospect of a new mother, and stays behind at the cabin. No one notices his absence until they arrive at the minister's. They decide to return to the cabin after they are married, but in the meantime, Baldy and Trim have infiltrated the house and are keeping a watchful eye on Johnny. When they are asleep, he manages to plug their guns up with bullet lubricant, but does not realize until it is too late that they still have handguns. Curt, Gail and Jedediah arrive in the morning to find Johnny in the grasp of one of the killers. Trim is knocked down by the backfire of his rifle when he tries to shoot, and Gail, an expert marksman, uses a rifle that Jed never got a chance to deliver and shoots Baldy, while Johnny is in his arms. Johnny is unharmed and has gained a new respect for his new mother. With the gangsters finally out of the way, they are now one happy family.
- DirectorArthur LubinStarsHenry HunterJudith BarrettAndy DevineAn ex-con is murdered in Yellowstone National Park while a bank robber's son is searching for the loot his father hid there 20 years before.
- DirectorCharles HutchisonStarsKermit MaynardJoan BarclayHarry WorthA deranged killer escapes into the Canadian woods. He tries to fool the locals by pretending he is a well known mystery writer, but the local Mountie starts to get suspicious.
- DirectorAlfred E. GreenStarsJoan BennettJoel McCreaHenry ArmettaWhen two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that individually grabs each half must come to terms. Actress Julia Wayne needs the whole $1,000, and so does sportsman Larry Stevens. Since compromise will serve neither of their needs, they are stalemated - until complications arise.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsClaire TrevorCesar RomeroDouglas FowleyInsurance investigator Trevor pretends to be a thief to enter a gang of jewel thieves.
- DirectorJames P. HoganStarsPaul KellyMarsha HuntKent TaylorAn attorney is responsible for sending an innocent man to jail for a murder he did not commit. He soon gets a taste of his own medicine when his wife is murdered and no one will believe him when he claims he didn't do it.
- DirectorEdward KillyStarsLee TracyGloria StuartAnn ShepherdPostal Investigators Tom and Doris follow a trail from a mail robbery on the East Coast to Los Angeles using a letter sent by General Delivery to "Jane Turner". When the letter (with loads of cash in it) is picked up by a woman whose name is also Jane Turner, both the cops and the robbers are on her trail.
- DirectorAlfred SantellStarsBurgess MeredithMargoEduardo CiannelliImmigrant radical Bartolomeo Romagna is falsely condemned and executed for a payroll robbery. Years later, his son Mio sets out to find the truth of the crime and to bring to account the gangster Trock Estrella.
- DirectorBen HolmesStarsJames GleasonZasu PittsOwen Davis Jr.A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case.
- DirectorW.S. Van DykeStarsWilliam PowellMyrna LoyJames StewartPrivate detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora are back home at last and hoping for a quiet New Year when there is a murder. The obvious suspect is his wife, Nora's cousin, Selma.
- DirectorLynn ShoresStarsMay RobsonIrene HerveyDean JaggerA painting in the possession of an old lady, Phoebe Tuttle, is rumored to be a genuine Rembrandt, and Fred Stevens, ace reporter of the "Dispatch" newspaper, is sent to cover the story. The painting he sees is genuine enough but it has been stolen and a copy substituted by the time Irene Donovan, Fred's beautiful rival at the competing "Courier" newspaper arrives, with a famous art critic. Mush to his surprise and dismay, Fred is imprisoned for the theft...and startling developments follow.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsGail PatrickRicardo CortezAkim TamiroffHer Husband Lies is a 1937 American drama film directed by Edward Ludwig and written by Wallace Smith and Eve Greene. The film stars Gail Patrick, Ricardo Cortez, Akim Tamiroff, Tom Brown, Louis Calhern and June Martel. The film was released on March 13, 1937, by Paramount Pictures.
- DirectorRobert FloreyStarsClaire TrevorLloyd NolanAkim TamiroffA fast moving and low budget crime drama seasoned with mystery & comedy. SPOILERS: Akim Tamiroff, Paramount's resident crime lord, runs all the illegal gambling activities in a major city. Reporter Lloyd Nolan struggles to get the goods on Tamiroff, but runs up against a stone wall until he meets sexy but tough nightclub singer Claire Trevor (obviously dubbed). Trevor is anxious to avenge the death of her innocent sister (Helen Burgess), who was done in by Tamiroff's henchmen. Though only a "B" picture budget, King of Gamblers was given "A" treatment by director Robert Florey. The film was part of an unofficial Paramount series based on the FBIs J. Edgar Hoover book Persons in Hiding.
- DirectorLewis R. FosterStarsRobert WilcoxJudith BarrettCesar RomeroA detective goes undercover to break up a hijacking ring.
- DirectorLew LandersStarsHarry CareyJohn BealArmidaEasterner Keith Whitney, son of a wealthy Senator, heads west where he ends up a drunk at a border cafe. After losing the money his father sent him to buy a ranch he learns his father is arriving. Rancher Tex now takes him in and tells his father he is part owner. When his father and girlfriend are kidnaped, Tex and a now reformed Keith take out after them.
- DirectorHamilton MacFaddenStarsRalph BellamyBetty FurnessRobert ArmstrongRuss Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's radio-program future-predicting cons gets out of hand.
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsGary CooperGeorge RaftFrances DeeCooper and Raft save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about slave trade on the high seas in 1842.
- DirectorEwald André DupontStarsGrant RichardsKaren MorleyRoscoe KarnsIn Louisiana, gangster Ice Richmond blackmails Nicky Last, who has been trying to go straight, to take the rap for a murder charge by threatening to hurt Nicky's famous actress wife, Gail Stanley. Nicky is convicted and sentenced to execution, but refuses to tell his wife what really happened. She hires attorney Horace Darwin to get an appeal, but Darwin drops the case under pressure from Ice. On the night of the execution, Ice, who has introduced himself to Gail as a friend of Nicky's, Gail and newspaper reporter Joe Flynn, who is on Gail's side, head to the prison but are delayed by massive flooding. They are forced to leave the bus and join thousands of refugees at a Red Cross center. The onslaught of rain and floods causes the prison to delay Nicky's execution and transfer him to another prison, but the car he is traveling in is washed away. His guard, who arrives at the center badly hurt, believes Nicky drowned, and Flynn spreads the news, but Gail finds Nicky unconscious on a nearby cot. She desperately steals a Red Cross armband and impersonates a nurse, then hires a flamboyant magician and his wife, Richard and Mimi Candle, to transport her and Nicky away from the refugee center in their trailer. Gail narrowly avoids the company of Ice on her trip, but he becomes wise to her scheme, and he and Flynn follow in pursuit. The Candles are forced to stop at a mansion, Fentridge Hall, because of severe flooding. Colonel Fentridge and his spinster sister Belinda graciously provide accommodations for the group. Nicky recovers, and seeing his survival as an act of God, is determined finally to fight Ice. After Flynn and Ice arrive, news is heard on the radio that the dam is breaking, and rising waters inside the mansion force the refugees up into the attic. Ice prevents them from signaling a rescue plane, so Nicky bravely swims out the attic window, into which water is rushing, to the estate levee and dynamites it. Everyone is rescued, and Nicky and Gail are permanently reunited after Ice is convicted of murder.
- 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.
- DirectorD. Ross LedermanStarsCharles QuigleyRita HayworthJohn GallaudetTom Ferguson, star left wing of the Indians hockey team, is killed during a game in an "accident" with Dick Adams and Bill Drake, two of his own teammates. His brother, Alec Ferguson, is not convinced it was and accident, and goes to New York to uncover the truth. Posing as a fellow townsman named Steve Moreau who is unable to accept an offer to play with the Indians because of an injury, Alec wins a place with the team. He learns that the team, a member of a nation-wide professional league, has been throwing games on the orders of a gambling ring. He meets Betty Holland, the pretty daughter of team coach Joe Holland and falls in love with her. He plays along with Adams and Drake and learns that the owner, Rudy Maxwell, is the head of the gambling ring and has Coach Holland under control because of bad checks written to pay off gambling losses. Reporter Sam Erskine suspecting that the games are being thrown and talks Betty into accepting a job on the Chronicle to find out what she can to protect her father's name. Maxwell discovers Alec's true identity and orders Betty kidnapped, thus ensuring that Alec's play will lead to an Indians' defeat in an important game.
- DirectorFrank R. StrayerStarsJed ProutyShirley DeaneSpring ByingtonThe Jones family is into politics with father running for mayor. His son prints a newspaper which causes controversy by quoting his dad regarding his crooked opponent.
- DirectorClarence BrownGustav MachatýStarsGreta GarboCharles BoyerReginald OwenA Polish countess becomes Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders who feel she could influence him to make Poland independent.
- DirectorCharles C. ColemanStarsDon TerryJulie BishopRita HayworthGovernment undercover agents William Dennis (Don Terry) and Joan Bradley (Julie Bishop as Jacqueline Wells) are working to solve the disappearances of girls working as "taxi-dancers" from dance halls operated by Jack Miranda (Arthur Loft) and his henchman Nifty (Paul Fix). Dennis sets himself up as a theatrical booking agent, and shows his power by the opening and closing of Miranda's Paradise Club at will.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsJoan CrawfordSpencer TracyAlan CurtisAffluent Hennessey falls for Jessie who is married to good-for-nothing Eddie. To provide a better life for Jessie Hennessey wants to marry her, and Eddie even approves of the plan, hoping to profit from it financially.
- DirectorRobert FloreyStarsAnna May WongCharles BickfordBuster CrabbeA Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal-alien smuggling ring.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsFredric MarchFranciska GaalAkim TamiroffSemi-fictional account of pirate Jean Lafitte's involvement in the War of 1812.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsWalter ConnollyJohn HowardJean ParkerA District Attorney becomes a Prison Warden, and finds himself overseeing the sentence of a meek man who he'd once prosecuted as the D.A.. He discovers his new job is more complex than he'd thought, especially with this meek prisoner.
- DirectorNorman FosterStarsClaire TrevorPhyllis BrooksLeah RayFive closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.
- DirectorCharles C. ColemanStarsDon TerryJulie BishopRobert PaigeFred Garth (Don Terry) owns a printing establishment and poses as a business research expert, but actually runs several white-collar rackets operating by means of high-pressure telephone soliciting. He has sent his younger brother, Bruce Garth (Robert Paige), through law school with the intention of making him his legal watch-dog. But idealist Bruce enrolls as a Department of Justice investigator, and is detailed to track down charity and other phoney rackets. Both brothers are in love with attractive socialite Marjorie Drake (Julie Bishop as Jacqueline Wells), who is unaware of Fred's schemes and he uses her to meet other social leaders with pet charities and his salesmen sell them the program ads at five times the charity rate. Bruce and his partner Neale (Gene Morgan) trace the phone rackets to Bruce and a confrontation looms.
- DirectorJames TinlingStarsPeter LorreKeye LukeDick BaldwinWhen the #1 heavyweight contender is mysteriously poisoned during a bout, Moto knows that identifying the gambler who placed large bets against him is the key to solving the murder.
- DirectorBen HolmesStarsLouis HaywardKay SuttonSig RumanSimon Templar, the Saint, is brought to New York. His search for the identity of "the Big Fellow" takes him through many dangerous situations.
- DirectorLeslie GoodwinsStarsAllan LaneFrances MercerClara BlandickNewspaper reporter Joe Ryan and District Attorney Thomas Redwine strike a deal. In exchange for having access to jailed actress Judy Allen, Joe must help Thomas on a tough racketeering case.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsRobert TaylorEdward ArnoldFrank MorganA young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy does for a living.
- DirectorLew LandersStarsChester MorrisFrances MercerRita JohnsonJim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...
- DirectorRobert FloreyStarsGail PatrickLloyd NolanHarry CareyA convict who has just escaped from Alcatraz Prison takes over a passenger ship. Two of the ship's crew hatch a plot to overpower him and rescue the ship's passengers.
- DirectorSidney SalkowStarsRobert LivingstonJune TravisRobert ArmstrongGangster Charlie McCormick despairs as his young brother Bobby lays near death and vows to break the quarantine of the ocean liner Pacific Queen in order to retrieve the iron lung Bobby needs. Meanwhile, newspaper editor Lonigan searches for reporter Slim Torrence, because Slim is friends with Tom Niles, the customs officer on the verge of cracking a whiskey smuggling case. Lonigan is about to send another reporter to cover the story when Della Parrish, the publisher's daughter, assures him that she can locate Slim. With the help of Slim's young photographer, Willie Sing, Della finds Slim in a waterfront dive, and Willie and Slim sneak aboard the Pacific Queen to find Niles. Niles hints that McCormick is the head of the smuggling ring and promises Slim an exclusive when he breaks the story the next day. Slim and Willie then try to leave, but are held up by the quarantine. They hide in Bobby's iron lung, which McCormick's men Lefty and Spider get past the quarantine. On shore, the iron lung is hijacked and held for ransom by gangster Otto Miller. Although McCormick agrees to pay the $50,000 ransom, Slim and Willie steal the iron lung from Miller's gang and take it to the hospital. There, Slim finds out that Niles was murdered aboard the ocean liner, and he suspects McCormick. The next day, Slim and Willie return to the ship, where they find the knife used in the murder. Slim is attacked by the killer, one of McCormick's men named John Colley, who was posing as a ship's steward. Slim traces Colley to McCormick's nightclub, where he overhears McCormick plan on killing Colley and framing Miller for it. Slim goes to Miller's hideout, and after warning him of the scheme, takes him to Della's house. Della, angry over being stood up by Slim once again, has invited McCormick for dinner. She is unaware of McCormick's true nature and is horrified when the two gangsters have a gun battle, during which Miller is killed. McCormick is freed after pleading self-defense, but tells his gang to abandon the latest shipment of smuggled whiskey as he is under surveillance. Lefty and Spider are dissatisfied with the idea and scheme with boat captain McTeague to double-cross McCormick by transporting the whiskey directly into a warehouse themselves, by means of a pump. Slim and Willie find out about the double-cross and go to the warehouse, where Slim is captured after sending Willie to get the police. Slim is taken aboard the ship, while Lefty goes to McCormick's house. When Bobby overhears Lefty planning to murder Slim, and he calls McCormick's club. McCormick tells Bobby that nothing can be done, but after Bobby reminds his brother that Slim saved his life, McCormick rushes to the ship. McCormick rescues Slim as he is about to be steamed to death in the hold, but he is fatally wounded by Lefty. The police arrive and the gang is apprehended, and later, Willie helps Slim and Della plan their honeymoon.
- DirectorLewis D. CollinsStarsJack HoltMarcia RalstonRussell HoptonFollowing the murder of a policeman and unable to get proof against the real killer, District attorney Walter Forbes takes a novel approach to get there. He induces an ex-convict to stand trial for the killing and gets the set-up conviction he wanted. His purpose is to make the head of the criminal underworld and killer come out into the open, under the impression that because of the conviction of the ex-convict he is no longer in any danger. He then calls the real killer on the telephone, which he has wired to be broadcast over the radio.
- DirectorArthur LubinStarsEdmund LoweHelen MackDick ForanWhen battered prize-fighter Lee Burke is taken to the West Side hospital, nurse Katherine MacDonald leaves her romantically-inclined patient, wealthy attorney John Dodge to take care of Burke. She discovers that Burke was doped by his handler, Churchill, on instructions from gambler Joe Largo so the latter can win a $5000 bet from Burke's manager Slice Cavanaugh. Largo orders henchman Larry Carson to bump off Churchill to keep him from talking. Katherine talks Burke into quitting the ring and Dodge belittles the ex-boxer by getting him a job as a bellhop. Cavanaugh, desperate for money, calls Burke yellow and when Burke happens upon the scene where another Largo henchman, Smiley, has killed the manager, Burke is tried for the murder.
- DirectorRobert FloreyStarsGail PatrickRobert PrestonOtto KrugerThe Bar Association disbars attorney Tyler Cradon when it appears that he was implicated in the murder of a prominent vice crusader. Cradon, not wishing to be without an income and impressed by the way Joan Carroll handled a small-town murder, poses as a real-estate agent and offers to get her into his friend's law firm. Placed in Roberts' office, running a front for Cradon, Joan is taught every trick of the trade. With her cases all prepared for her, she goes from one courtroom victory to another, soon becoming the darling of the underworld and the despair of all law-enforcing authorities. Her performances impress young assistant district attorney Bradley Kent, and romance buds despite Kent criticizing her connections. But when Roberts asks her to defend a notorious racketeer who has murdered a policeman, she realizes that Kent was right and immediately joins the district attorney's office as a deputy. Learning that the authorities are on Roberts' trail, she goes to see Cradon, whom she still believes to be a hard-working, honest real-estate agent, to warn him about the kind of company he is keeping.