Robert Florey — Director (16)
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Johnny One-Eye (1950) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Johnny One-Eye
director: Robert Florey actor: Pat O'Brien / Wayne Morris …
other title: Ladrón con alma
Johnny One-Eye was adapted from one of Damon Runyon's lesser-known stories. Martin Martin and Dane Cory were former partners in crime who have long since split up. When a new district attorney puts the heat on, Cory, anxious to save his own hide, accuses Martin of an unsolved murder. Holed up in abandoned house, Martin is befriended by a little girl and her dog. It so happens that the girl is the daughter of the crusading DA, and thereby hangs the rest of this tale.
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The Hole in the Wall (1929) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Hole in the Wall
director: Robert Florey actor: Claudette Colbert / Edward G. Robinson …
other title: Le Trou dans le mur
Mrs. Ramsey sent Jean Oliver to prison on a false charge. To get even, Jean (disguised as Madame Mystera) plans to kidnap her daughter and turn her into a thief. Love entanglements with a gangster known as "The Fox" and newspaperman Grant complicate her plans.
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Lady Gangster (1942) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Lady Gangster
director: Robert Florey actor: Faye Emerson / Julie Bishop …
other title: La dama pistolera
An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 bank robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, thinking to use it as a bargaining chip to be released from prison. However, her former partners have different ideas.
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Ex-Lady (1933) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Ex-Lady
director: Robert Florey actor: Bette Davis / Gene Raymond …
other title: Amante do Seu Marido / Spätere Heirat ausgeschlossen
Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.
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The Woman in Red (1935) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Woman in Red
director: Robert Florey actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Gene Raymond …
other title: La signora in rosso / La Dame en rouge
A professional equestrian marries a polo player from a once-wealthy family, only to face the scorn of his snobbish relatives. When she becomes entangled in a murder trial, she must choose between protecting her reputation and saving the man she loves.
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Women Without Names (1940) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Women Without Names
director: Robert Florey actor: Ellen Drew / Robert Paige …
other title: Femmes sans nom
Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the efforts of politically ambitious assistant DA Marlin, Fred awaits his doom on Death Row, while Joyce works overtime on the outside to clear her husband's name
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Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Roger Touhy, Gangster
director: Robert Florey actor: Preston Foster / Victor McLaglen …
other title: El último gangster
Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by that of Al Capone (who is referred to, but never named in the story). It is his rival who frames Touhy for kidnapping and arranges for him to serve a life-long term in Stateville prison. Determined to be free again, the desperate Touhy and his cellmate Basil "the Owl" Banghart, begin plotting a violent break out.
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Dangerous to Know (1938) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Dangerous to Know
director: Robert Florey actor: Gail Patrick / Akim Tamiroff …
other title: Gefährliche Mitwisser
Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful friend and hostess (read:mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret Van Kase, a socialite not impressed by his power nor his wealth, having no money herself, and Steve makes frantic efforts to win her and turns away from the loyal Lin Yang.
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The Preview Murder Mystery (1936) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Preview Murder Mystery
director: Robert Florey actor: Frances Drake / Reginald Denny …
other title: L'Homme sans visage / L'uomo senza volto
Someone is murdering the cast and crew of a new Hollywood movie, and the leading lady may be next. As a police detective locks down the lot and refuses to let anyone leave, the studio’s publicity head and his secretary attempt to solve the murders themselves.
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Danger Signal (1945) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Danger Signal
director: Robert Florey actor: Faye Emerson / Zachary Scott …
other title: Delitti senza sangue / La señal del peligro
After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los Angeles. Under a new identity and claiming to be a writer, Ronnie finds lodging at the home of Hilda Fenchurch and her mother. He woos Hilda, knowing she has money, but when he discovers that Hilda's sister, Anne, has just inherited $25,000, he switches his attentions to her.
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The Crooked Way (1949) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Crooked Way
director: Robert Florey actor: John Payne / Sonny Tufts …
other title: Incrocio pericoloso / Le passé se venge …
A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his criminal past.