Pierre Watkin — Actor (23)
Murder Is My Business (1946) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Murder Is My Business
director: Sam Newfield actor: Hugh Beaumont / Cheryl Walker
Michael Shayne is a private detective who is disliked greatly by Pete Rafferty, local chief of police detectives. Rafferty notifies the newspaper press that he is going to close Shayne's agency, just as Michael is about to be hired by the wealthy Eleanor Ramsey, who is being blackmailed. She is the stepmother of what she considers to be two grown-up brats, Dorothy and Ernest, and she considers their father to be of little value to the world himself. They all conspire to get their hands on her money, even to the extent of attempting to hire Shayne to frame an insurance robbery. Mrs. Ramsey is murdered, and Rafferty is trying to pin the killing on Shayne, despite the fact that suspicion points to Buell Renslow, brother of the slain woman. Shayne's secretary, the fetching Phyllis Hamilton, decides to do a little detective work to help her boss.
The Great Victor Herbert (1939) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Great Victor Herbert
director: Andrew L. Stone actor: Allan Jones / Mary Martin
other title: Dreivierteltakt am Broadway / Celos de gloria
In his last film assignment, portly Walter Connolly fills the title role (in more ways than one) in The Great Victor Herbert. Very little of Herbert's life story is incorporated in the screenplay (a closing title actually apologizes for the film's paucity of cold hard facts); instead, the writers allow the famed composer's works to speak for themselves. In the tradition of one of his own operettas, Herbert spends most of his time patching up the shaky marriage between tenor John Ramsey (Allan Jones) and Louise Hall (Mary Martin). Many of Herbert's most famous compositions are well in evidence, including "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life", "March of the Toys" and "Kiss Me Again", the latter performed con brio by teenaged coloratura Susanna Foster. Evidently, the producers were able to secure the film rights for the Herbert songs, but not for the stage productions in which they appeared, which may explain such bizarre interpolations as having a song from Naughty Marietta.
She Knew All the Answers (1941) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
She Knew All the Answers
director: Richard Wallace actor: Joan Bennett / Franchot Tone
A rich playboy wants to marry a chorus girl, but he'll lose his fortune if his trustee doesn't approve of his sweetheart. She decides to work in the trustee's brokerage firm under an assumed name to get on his good side, but complications ensue.
End of the Road (1944) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
End of the Road
director: George Blair actor: Edward Norris / John Abbott
other title: El motín de los presos
A crime writer believes that a man imprisoned for committing the notorious "Flower Shop Murder" is innocent of the crime. He believes he knows who the actual culprit is, and sets out to befriend the man and get enough evidence to prove that he is the real killer.
The Madonna's Secret (1946) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Madonna's Secret
This drama is an updated version of Ulmer's 1944 film Bluebeard. It is set in New York and follows the exploits of an eccentric Parisian painter who has come to New York to escape a controversy surrounding his work. The trouble stems when the model he has used in all his work is found floating dead in the Seine.
Internes Can't Take Money (1937) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Internes Can't Take Money
other title: La figlia perduta / La Loi du milieu
Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished ex-con Janet Haley, widow of a bank robber, who can't find her baby. Later she helps Kildare sew up gangster Hanlon in a tavern back room. Kildare pursues Janet and enlists Hanlon to help her; the gangster's solution, not surprisingly, is violent.
Apology for Murder (1945) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Apology for Murder
director: Sam Newfield actor: Hugh Beaumont / Ann Savage
Head over heels in love with a stern and cold older businessman's young wife, a reporter is seduced into conspiring to murder him so she can inherit his estate, while pinning the murder on another businessman.
Dangerous (1935) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Dangerous
director: Alfred E. Green actor: Bette Davis / Franchot Tone
other title: Paura d'amare / Perigosa
Don Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. He asks his fiancée Gail to free him and offers to sponsor Joyce in a play.
Dead Man's Eyes (1944) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Dead Man's Eyes
other title: Los ojos del muerto / Dead Man’s Eyes
Artist David Stuart is blinded by a jealous model whose portrait he is painting. His fiance's father generously offers his eyes for a sight restoring operation. There's only one hitch: Stuart has to wait until after the man dies. Not surprisingly, when the benefactor dies a very premature death, suspicion falls on the artist.
An Innocent Affair (1948) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
An Innocent Affair
other title: Non fidarti di tuo marito / No te fíes de tu marido
Vincent Doane is in the precarious position of trying to close an advertising account with his rich ex-fiancée. Unfortunately she is more interested in him than in business. Vincent's wife Paula gets suspicious and finally decides to do some flirting of her own to make him jealous. Unknown to her, she chooses cigarette tychoon Claude Kimball. In fact, Kimball hits it off well with both of the Doanes. The question is whether or not their marriage can survive all the shenanigans.