Thurston Hall — Actor (30)
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Crime and Punishment (1935) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Crime and Punishment
director: Josef von Sternberg actor: Edward Arnold / Peter Lorre …
other title: Ho ucciso! / Schuld und Sühne …
Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.
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Professor Beware (1938) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Professor Beware
director: Elliott Nugent actor: Harold Lloyd / Phyllis Welch …
other title: Il prode faraone / No se duerma, Profesor …
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
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Flight from Destiny (1941) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Flight from Destiny
director: Vincent Sherman actor: Geraldine Fitzgerald / Thomas Mitchell …
After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes nothing but harm to society. When Henry learns that his friend Betty's husband, Michael, has been painting forgeries of ancient paintings for gallery owner Ketti Moret, he investigates the fraudulent dealer's life. Judging that Ketti is truly evil, Henry prepares to murder her.
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One More Tomorrow (1946) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
One More Tomorrow
director: Peter Godfrey actor: Ann Sheridan / Dennis Morgan …
Shiftless playboy Tom Collier lives to jump from party to party — until he meets photographer Christie Sage. Through Christie, Tom takes over the ownership of The Bantam, a liberal magazine that opposes everything his family represents. As Tom and Christie's relationship deepens, love blooms and he proposes to her. Realizing that she could never fit in with Tom's social circle, Christie says no, a decision she later regrets. But Tom isn't left alone for long — scheming gold-digger Cecelia Henry wastes no time in catching Tom on the rebound and forcing him into a disastrous marriage.
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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.
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This Land Is Mine (1943) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
This Land Is Mine
director: Jean Renoir actor: Charles Laughton / Maureen O'Hara …
other title: Questa terra è mia / Dies ist mein Land …
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.
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The Bandit Queen (1950) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Bandit Queen
director: William Berke actor: Barbara Britton / Willard Parker …
other title: La figlia di Zorro / Zorros Tochter …
Zara Montalve, half Spanish and half America, returns to her native California in time to see her parents murdered for their hacienda and gold by Sheriff Jim Harding and his gang. Posing as Lola Belmont, an American visiting from Detroit, teams up with Joaquin Murietta, posing as Carlos Del Rio, to form a Robin-Hood type band that takes vengeance on the gang and restores stolen gold to its rightful owners, aided by militia leader Dan Hinsdale.
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The Great Man's Lady (1941) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Great Man's Lady
director: William A. Wellman actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Joel McCrea …
other title: L'ispiratrice / Una gran señora …
In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.
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I Dood It (1943) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
I Dood It
director: Vincente Minnelli actor: Red Skelton / Eleanor Powell …
other title: Il signore in marsina / Der Tolpatsch und die Schöne …
Constance Shaw, a Broadway dance star, and Joseph Rivington Reynolds, a keen fan of hers, marry after she breaks up with her fiancé. Connie thinks Joseph owns a gold mine, but he actually works as a presser at a hotel valet shop. When everyone learns what he really is, Joseph is banned from the theater. When he sneaks in again, he learns of a plot to set off a bomb in the adjoining munitions warehouse.