Frank O'Connor — Actor (38)
Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Stranger on the Third Floor
director: Boris Ingster actor: Peter Lorre / John McGuire
other title: Lo sconosciuto del terzo piano / L'Inconnu du 3e étage
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
Nightmare Alley (1947) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Nightmare Alley
director: Edmund Goulding actor: Tyrone Power / Helen Walker
other title: La fiera delle illusioni / O Beco das Almas Perdidas
A roustabout joins a traveling carny and schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband.
Secret Beyond the Door... (1947) [Movie] TMDB
Secret Beyond the Door...
director: Fritz Lang actor: Joan Bennett / Michael Redgrave
other title: Dietro la porta chiusa / O Segredo da Porta Fechada
After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.
A Day at the Races (1937) [Movie] TMDB
A Day at the Races
director: Sam Wood actor: Groucho Marx / Chico Marx
other title: Un giorno alle corse / En dag på galopbanen
Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's farm by winning a big race with her horse. There are a few problems. Hackenbush runs a high priced clinic for the wealthy who don't know he has his degree in Veterinary Medicine.
Hollywood Story (1951) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Hollywood Story
director: William Castle actor: Richard Conte / Julie Adams
other title: I misteri di Hollywood / Mord in Hollywood
A producer takes over a small film studio and - sensing that it'll be a good movie- begins investigating an old murder of a silent film director shot in his office years ago. He finds that his life is threatened as he digs deeper into the mystery.
Escape in the Fog (1945) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Escape in the Fog
director: Budd Boetticher actor: Otto Kruger / Nina Foch
other title: Fuga en la niebla / Fuite dans la brume
A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. When she meets a man who is a federal agent at the inn, she is astounded to discover that he is the man in her dream who is the intended murder victim.
The Quiet Man (1952) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
The Quiet Man
director: John Ford actor: John Wayne / Maureen O'Hara
other title: Un uomo tranquillo / Den Tavse Mand
An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.
The Thin Man (1934) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Thin Man
director: W.S. Van Dyke actor: William Powell / Myrna Loy
other title: L'uomo ombra / Den tynde mand
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
All the King's Men (1949) [Movie] TMDB
All the King's Men
director: Robert Rossen actor: John Ireland / Broderick Crawford
other title: Tutti gli uomini del re / Alle kongens mænd
A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore classy society girl, and a too-clever-for-her-own-good political flack.
The Grapes of Wrath (1940) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban
The Grapes of Wrath
director: John Ford actor: Henry Fonda / Jane Darwell
other title: Furore / Vredens druer
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
director: Frank Capra actor: Gary Cooper / Jean Arthur
other title: È arrivata la felicità / En gentleman kommer til byen
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Tell Your Children (1938) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB Douban TMDB
Tell Your Children
director: Louis J. Gasnier actor: Dorothy Short / Kenneth Craig
other title: A Loucura da Ganza / Reefer Madness
High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane, sister and brother, and Bill, Mary's boyfriend, into frequenting a reefer house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives.
Angel Face (1953) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Angel Face
director: Otto Preminger actor: Robert Mitchum / Jean Simmons
other title: Seduzione mortale / Blindt begær
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.
The Invisible Man Returns (1940) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Invisible Man Returns
director: Joe May actor: Cedric Hardwicke / Vincent Price
other title: Il ritorno dell'uomo invisibile / Der Unsichtbare kehrt zurück
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
Don't Be a Sucker! (1943) [Movie]
Don't Be a Sucker!
actor: Lloyd Nolan / Paul Lukas
other title: Nebūk Mulkis
Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is similarly used in the United States. The film was made to make the case for the desegregation of the United States armed forces.
The Blue Gardenia (1953) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Blue Gardenia
director: Fritz Lang actor: Anne Baxter / Richard Conte
other title: Gardenia blu / Gardenia - Eine Frau will vergessen
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.
Fallen Angel (1945) [Movie] TMDB
Fallen Angel
director: Otto Preminger actor: Alice Faye / Dana Andrews
other title: Un angelo è caduto / Mord in der Hochzeitsnacht
An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn't interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle.