Douglass Dumbrille — Actor (29)
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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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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
director: Charles Lamont actor: Bud Abbott / Lou Costello …
other title: Gianni e Pinotto alla legione straniera / Abbott und Costello als Legionäre …
Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion, after which they discover Axmann's collaboration with the nasty Sheik Hamud El Khalid.
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False Colors (1943) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
False Colors
director: George Archainbaud actor: William Boyd / Andy Clyde …
Before he was killed by Mark Foster's men, Bud Lawton willed part ownership in his ranch to Hoppy and his two pals. When the three arrive they find a fake posing as Lawton. When they expose the imposter, Foster gets the Sheriff to jail them for Lawton's murder.
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A Gentleman After Dark (1942) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
A Gentleman After Dark
director: Edwin L. Marin actor: Brian Donlevy / Miriam Hopkins …
other title: Io la difendo
A greedy woman betrays her jewel thief husband to the police, for the reward. Her husband's friend, a detective, adopts the couple's child and raises her as his own. Eighteen years later the husband, still in prison, finds out that his ex-wife is now blackmailing their daughter. He vows to break out and put a stop to her once and for all.
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Fog Over Frisco (1934) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Fog Over Frisco
director: William Dieterle actor: Bette Davis / Donald Woods …
other title: Nebbia a San Francisco / Nebel über Frisco …
Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.
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The Catman of Paris (1946) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Catman of Paris
director: Lesley Selander actor: Carl Esmond / Lenore Aubert …
other title: La bestia de París / L'Homme-chat de Paris
When author Charles Regnier returns to Paris with a best-selling book that criticizes the government, he's tormented by frequent blackouts. After a mysterious cat-like creature slaughters people close to him, Charles is suspected of murder. Charles fears that he is the beast, but his paramour Marie and best friend Henry, believe he's innocent... until the creature begins to stalk Marie.
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Plunder of the Sun (1953) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Plunder of the Sun
director: John Farrow actor: Glenn Ford / Diana Lynn …
other title: I saccheggiatori del sole / Das geheimnisvolle Testament …
An American insurance adjuster, stranded in Havana, becomes involved with an archaeologist and a collector of antiquities in a hunt for treasure in the Mexican ruins of Zapoteca.
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The Secret Bride (1934) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Secret Bride
director: William Dieterle actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Warren William …
other title: La novia secreta / Mariage secret
Before Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can announce their marriage, the governor is accused of bribe-taking. To avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, they decide to keep their marriage secret. The political intrigue becomes more involved, and no one is quite what they seem. Soon Sheldon and Ruth must decide between saving the governor's career and an innocent person's life.
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World for Ransom (1954) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
World for Ransom
director: Robert Aldrich actor: Dan Duryea / Gene Lockhart …
other title: Singapore intrigo internazionale / Menschenraub in Singapur …
In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of selling him to the highest bidder.
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Michael Shayne: Private Detective (1940) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
director: Eugene Forde actor: Lloyd Nolan / Marjorie Weaver …
other title: Michael Shayne: Détective privé
Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.
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Du Barry Was a Lady (1943) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Du Barry Was a Lady
director: Roy Del Ruth actor: Red Skelton / Lucille Ball …
other title: Mademoiselle du Barry / La du Barry était une dame …
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.
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Virginia City (1940) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Virginia City
director: Michael Curtiz actor: Errol Flynn / Miriam Hopkins …
other title: Carovana d'eroi / Uma Cidade Que Surge …
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with their own stake in the loot, stand in his way.
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A Life at Stake (1955) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
A Life at Stake
director: Paul Guilfoyle actor: Angela Lansbury / Keith Andes …
other title: L'ultimo agguato / Key Man
An out-of-work architect meets a married woman who has a business proposition for him. The architect begins to suspect the woman's interest in him is not just financial and may actually be deadly.
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The Frozen Ghost (1945) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Frozen Ghost
director: Harold Young actor: Lon Chaney Jr. / Evelyn Ankers …
other title: El fantasma helado
When a man dies of a heart attack, a stage and radio mentalist believes he has willed him to die because he was angry with the man. Riddled with guilt, the mentalist cancels further shows, breaks off his engagement to his female partner, who can read minds while in a hypnotic trance, and takes refuge in the eerie wax-museum-cum-home of another woman friend.