Cast: Dwight Frye
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Dwight Frye. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Frankenstein
1931 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction James Whale
Cast Boris Karloff · Colin Clive · Mae Clarke · John Boles
Plot Midnight funeral services are visited by Frankenstein on the lookout for human corpses. But the monster he creates is unwelcome by the real world. Based on the Mary Shelley novel.
7.5
18K votes
7.5
18K votes
The Bride of Frankenstein
1935 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction James Whale
Cast Boris Karloff · Colin Clive · Valerie Hobson · Elsa Lanchester
Plot Owing to the popularity of ‘Frankenstein’, Mary Shelley decides to write a sequel. In her story the Frankenstein monster survives its burning in the mill. It is discovered and taken...
7.2
12K votes
7.2
12K votes
The Invisible Man
1933 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction James Whale
Cast Claude Rains · Gloria Stuart · William Harrigan · Henry Travers
Plot With THE INVISIBLE MAN (the first film in a series), James Whale (FRANKENSTEIN) provides another stylish, blackly comic entry in the popular Universal horror cycle of the 1930s. When a...
7.2
5K votes
7.2
5K votes
Dracula
1931 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Bela Lugosi · Helen Chandler · David Manners · Dwight Frye
Plot After a harrowing ride through the Carpathian mountains in eastern Europe, Renfield enters castle Dracula to finalize the transferral of Carfax Abbey in London to Count Dracula, who is in...
7.1
7K votes
7.1
7K votes
The Maltese Falcon
1931 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Roy Del Ruth
Cast Bebe Daniels · Ricardo Cortez · Dudley Digges · Una Merkel
Plot Sam Spade is quite the womanizer. When his secretary tells him the new customer waiting outside his office is a knockout, he wastes no time before seeing her. It turns...
6.7
251 votes
6.7
251 votes
The Doorway to Hell
1930 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Archie Mayo
Cast Lew Ayres · Dorothy Mathews · Leon Janney · Robert Elliott
Plot Lou Ricarno is a smart guy. His plan is to organize the various gangs in Chicago so that the mugs will not liquidate each other. With the success of his...
6.5
108 votes
6.5
108 votes
The Son of Monte Cristo
1940 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Rowland V. Lee
Cast Louis Hayward · Joan Bennett · George Sanders · Florence Bates
Plot In 1865, General Gurko Lanen is dictator of "Lichtenburg" in the Balkans. Rightful ruler Zona hopes to get aid from Napoleon III of France. The visiting Count of Monte Cristo...
5.7
193 votes
5.7
193 votes
The Man Who Found Himself
1937 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Lew Landers
Cast John Beal · Joan Fontaine · Phillip Huston · Jane Walsh
Plot Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father. When it is discovered that a passenger...
5.6
21 votes
5.6
21 votes
The Vampire Bat
1933 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction Frank R. Strayer
Cast Lionel Atwill · Fay Wray · Melvyn Douglas · Maude Eburne
Plot In a small town in europe, people are dying. The blood is being drained from their bodies, and puncture wounds are found on the throat. The Burgermeister and his council...
5.4
91 votes
5.4
91 votes
The Shadow
1937 · Movie · 59 min. · United States
Direction Charles C. Coleman
Cast Rita Hayworth · Charles Quigley · Marc Lawrence · Arthur Loft
Plot Mary Gillespie is restoring the Col. Gillespie Circus to its former splendor after her father's death. With the help of her publicist boyfriend Jim, the sell-out crowds are returning to...
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Man to Man
1930 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Allan Dwan
Cast Phillips Holmes · Grant Mitchell · Lucille Powers · Otis Harlan
Plot Eighteen years ago, John Bolton found the man who killed his brother Joe and shot it out. The man was killed and John went to prison. His son Mike is...
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Alibi for Murder
1936 · Movie · 61 min. · United States
Direction D. Ross Lederman
Cast William Gargan · Marguerite Churchill · Gene Morgan · Romaine Callender
Plot Perry Travis (William Gargan) is a wise-cracking private detective-cum-amateur radio broadcaster who sets the plot in motion when he witnesses the murder of a scientist, Sir Conrad Stava (Egon Brecher)....
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Gangs of Chicago
1940 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Arthur Lubin
Cast Lloyd Nolan · Barton MacLane · Lola Lane · Ray Middleton
Plot A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.
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Dead Men Walk
1943 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction Sam Newfield
Cast George Zucco · Mary Carlisle · Nedrick Young · Dwight Frye
Plot The twin of a kindly small-town physician returns from the grave for vengeance against his brother, who secretly killed him because the twin served Satan.
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Who Killed Gail Preston?
1938 · Movie · 61 min. · United States
Direction Leon Barsha
Cast Don Terry · Rita Hayworth · Robert Paige · Wyn Cahoon
Plot Tempermental torch singer Gail Preston performs at the Swing Swing Club, a ritzy nightclub decorated in a prison theme, at which patrons have the choice of sitting in cells that...
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Attorney for the Defense
1932 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Irving Cummings
Cast Edmund Lowe · Evelyn Brent · Constance Cummings · Don Dillaway
Plot An ambitious lawyer uses circumstantial evidence to help convict an innocent man then tries to make amends with his family.
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Fast Company
1938 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Edward Buzzell
Cast Melvyn Douglas · Florence Rice · Claire Dodd · Shepperd Strudwick
Plot Joel Sloane is a rare book dealer and part time detective. He finds stolen or lost rare books for the insurance companies and gets a reward for their return. But...
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Mystery Ship
1941 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Lew Landers
Cast Paul Kelly · Lola Lane · Larry Parks · Trevor Bardette
Plot FBI agents Allan Harper and Tommy Baker are in charge of a group of subversives, spies and saboteurs that the US government is deporting to foreign countries aboard a ship....
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Flying Blind
1941 · Movie · 61 min. · United States
Direction Frank McDonald
Cast Richard Arlen · Jean Parker · Nils Asther · Marie Wilson
Plot A spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner crashes in the wilderness & the survivors are threatened by a raging forest fire.
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The Circus Queen Murder
1933 · Movie · 63 min. · United States
Direction Roy William Neill
Cast Adolphe Menjou · Donald Cook · Greta Nissen · Ruthelma Stevens
Plot Suave, lip-reading DA Thatcher Colt plans to get away from the big city for a while. So he and his secretary, Miss Kelly hop on a train for an Upstate...
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