Alan Mowbray — Actor (48)
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Topper Takes a Trip (1938) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Topper Takes a Trip
director: Norman Z. McLeod actor: Constance Bennett / Roland Young …
other title: Viaggio nell'impossibile / Topper ta'r på tur …
Mrs. Topper's friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost Marion Kirby. Marion comes back from heaven's door to help Cosmo again, this time only with dog Mr. Atlas. Due to a strange behavior of Cosmo, the judge refuses to divorce them, so Mrs. Parkhurst takes Mrs. Topper on a trip to France where she tries to arrange the final reasons for the divorce. With help of a gold-digging French baron, Marion takes Cosmo to the same hotel to bring them back together and to get her own final ticket to heaven, but the whole thing turns out to be not too easy.
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A Study in Scarlet (1933) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
A Study in Scarlet
director: Edwin L. Marin actor: Reginald Owen / June Clyde …
other title: Sherlock Holmes - Une étude en rouge / Estudio en rojo
In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining members. Society members start dropping like flies. Sherlock Holmes is approached by member James Murphy's widow, who is miffed at being left penniless by her husband. When Captain Pyke is shot, Holmes keys in on his mysterious Chinese widow as well as the shady Merrydew. Other members keep dying: Malcom Dearing first, then Mr. Baker. There is also an attempt on the life of young Eileen Forrester, who became a reluctant society member upon the death of her father. Holmes' uncanny observations and insights are put to the test.
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Becky Sharp (1935) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Becky Sharp
director: Rouben Mamoulian actor: Miriam Hopkins / Frances Dee …
other title: A Feira da Vaidade / La feria de la vanidad …
In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society. The first feature length film to use three-strip Technicolor.
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Androcles and the Lion (1952) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Androcles and the Lion
director: Chester Erskine actor: Victor Mature / Jean Simmons …
other title: Androclo e il leone / Androkles und der Löwe …
George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind act—was written as a meditation on modern Christian values. Pascal’s final Shaw production is played broadly, with comic character actor Alan Young as the titular naïf. He’s ably supported by Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Robert Newton, and Elsa Lanchester.
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Terror by Night (1946) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Terror by Night
director: Roy William Neill actor: Basil Rathbone / Nigel Bruce …
other title: Sherlock Holmes - Terrore nella notte / Sherlock Holmes: Juvelkuppet …
Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging to an elderly woman of wealth; but within the first hour of the trip, the woman's son is murdered and the diamond stolen and any of the passengers in their car could be the killer thief.
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
director: Charles Barton actor: Bud Abbott / Lou Costello …
other title: Gianni e Pinotto e l'assassino misterioso / Deux nigauds chez les tueurs …
Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer (and it isn't the Swami).
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The World Changes (1933) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The World Changes
director: Mervyn LeRoy actor: Paul Muni / Aline MacMahon …
other title: Il mondo cambia / El mundo cambia …
Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr., who ages from a youth to an elderly grandfather.
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Berkeley Square (1933) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Berkeley Square
director: Frank Lloyd actor: Leslie Howard / Heather Angel …
other title: La plaza de Berkeley / Gengangeren på Berkeley Square …
A young American man is transported back to London in the time shortly after the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.
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Roman Scandals (1933) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Roman Scandals
director: Frank Tuttle actor: Eddie Cantor / Ruth Etting …
other title: Il museo degli scandali / Skandal in Rom …
A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Emperor.
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Yokel Boy (1942) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Yokel Boy
director: Joseph Santley actor: Albert Dekker / Joan Davis …
other title: El mentiroso audaz
A film company hires a gangster to mock himself holding up a bank, but he succeeds too well and makes off with the money. But all ends well.
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Crosswinds (1951) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Crosswinds
director: Lewis R. Foster actor: John Payne / Rhonda Fleming …
other title: Gold in Neuguinea / L'or De La Nouvelle-Guinée …
A sailor gets his boat stolen from him after he's set up for a crime.
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Night Life of the Gods (1935) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Night Life of the Gods
director: Lowell Sherman actor: Alan Mowbray / Florine McKinney …
A scientist named Hunter Hawk invents a device that can turn flesh to stone. While celebrating his discovery he becomes involved with a half naked leprechaun. On a trip to New York, Hunter and Meg (the leprechaun) decide to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and turn all of the Statues of Greek Gods into people. What follows in a drunken romp around New York with Medusa's severed head still in Perseus' hand.
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On the Avenue (1937) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
On the Avenue
director: Roy Del Ruth actor: Dick Powell / Madeleine Carroll …
other title: Avenida dos Milhões / La avenida de los millones …
A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, but the courtship is soon for real, to the annoyance of his co-star, hoofing chanteuese Mona Merrick.
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Topper (1937) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Topper
director: Norman Z. McLeod actor: Constance Bennett / Cary Grant …
other title: La via dell'impossibile / O Par Invisível …
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
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The Villain Still Pursued Her (1940) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Villain Still Pursued Her
director: Edward F. Cline actor: Hugh Herbert / Anita Louise …
other title: Boire et Déboires / Die Unschuld und der Bösewicht
Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved." Dastardly villain Silas Cribbs schemes to get his lusty clutches on the virtuous heroine by driving her naïve husband to alcoholic ruin. Luckily, a temperance lecturer is on hand to set things straight, as is Buster Keaton as William Dalton, the drunkard's friend.
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Once Upon a Honeymoon (1956) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Once Upon a Honeymoon
director: Gower Champion / Robert Scrivner actor: Russell Hicks / Chick Chandler …
Thanks to the collaboration between American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) and Angels from Heaven a song writing working on his latest musical can finally go on his delayed honeymoon. The Angel Chief sends down Wilbur the Angel along with a wireless phone, from the 1950s, to help Jeff's muse , his wife Mary, inspire Jeff to complete the needed song. This while at the same time displaying and utilizing the latest and greatest telephone equipment. This includes color phones to match every decor. Be sure to note the matching wall cords that connect the phone to the wall.
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My Man Godfrey (1936) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
My Man Godfrey
director: Gregory La Cava actor: William Powell / Carole Lombard …
other title: L'impareggiabile Godfrey / Godfrey ordner alt …
Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.