Cast: Purnell Pratt

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Purnell Pratt. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Scarface

1932 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Paul Muni · Ann Dvorak · Karen Morley · Osgood Perkins

Plot Big Louis Costillo, last of the old-style gang leaders is slain, and his former bodyguard Tony Camonte is taken into custody. Since Costillo's body has never been found, the police...

7.9

13K votes

7.9

13K votes

Grand Hotel

1932 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Greta Garbo · John Barrymore · Joan Crawford · Wallace Beery

Plot Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.". The doctor is usually drunk so he missed...

7.1

3K votes

7.1

3K votes

Five Star Final

1931 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Marian Marsh · H.B. Warner · Anthony Bushell

Plot Editor Hinchecliffe wants to boost circulation for his "New York Gazette" and city editor Randall puts his top reporter on a 20-year-old murder case in which Nancy Vorhees shot her...

7.1

153 votes

7.1

153 votes

The Plainsman

1936 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Gary Cooper · Jean Arthur · James Ellison · Charles Bickford

Plot With the end of the North American Civil War, the manufacturers of repeating rifles find a profitable means of making money selling the weapons to the North American Indians, using...

6.6

726 votes

6.6

726 votes

Dance, Fools, Dance

1931 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Harry Beaumont

Cast Joan Crawford · Lester Vail · Cliff Edwards · William Bakewell

Plot After her father Stanley Jordan loses his wealth in market, Bonnie goes to work as a cub reporter. Her brother Rodney is the wheel man in a gangland massacre. Bert,...

6.2

100 votes

6.2

100 votes

The Public Defender

1931 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction J. Walter Ruben

Cast Richard Dix · Shirley Grey · Purnell Pratt · Boris Karloff

Plot Rich playboy Pike Winslow dons the mantle of 'The Reckoner', a mysterious avenger, when he learns that his lady friend Barbara Gerry's father has been framed in a bank embezzlement...

6.0

24 votes

6.0

24 votes

Emma

1932 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Marie Dressler · Richard Cromwell · Jean Hersholt · Myrna Loy

Plot When their mother dies, Frederick Smith hires Emma Thatcher to be a nanny to his 3 children. The children grow up and Frederick becomes rich and successful. He and Emma...

5.9

25 votes

5.9

25 votes

Wedding Present

1936 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Richard Wallace

Cast Joan Bennett · Cary Grant · George Bancroft · Conrad Nagel

Plot Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are great reporters on a Chicgo tabloid and romantically involved as well. Despite their skills in obtaining great scoops, they are often irresponsible and immature...

5.8

58 votes

5.8

58 votes

Paid

1930 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Joan Crawford · Robert Armstrong · Marie Prevost · Douglass Montgomery

Plot Mary Turner goes up for three years on a crime she didn't commit. Once out she and former prison mates plan a scam in which old men can be sued...

5.7

23 votes

5.7

23 votes

I Cover the Waterfront

1933 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction James Cruze

Cast Ben Lyon · Claudette Colbert · Ernest Torrence · Hobart Cavanaugh

Plot Reporter Joe Miller is sure that fisherman Eli Kirk smuggles illegal Chinese immigrants into the country, but can't obtain enough evidence to satisfy his editor. Chance plays into his hands...

5.4

81 votes

5.4

81 votes

The Locked Door

1929 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction George Fitzmaurice

Cast Rod La Rocque · Barbara Stanwyck · William Boyd · Betty Bronson

Plot While Ann and the son of her boss are out on a ship beyond the 12-mile limit, which allows liquor to be consumed, the son, Frank makes unwanted advances towards...

5.1

23 votes

5.1

23 votes

Diamond Jim

1935 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction A. Edward Sutherland

Cast Edward Arnold · Jean Arthur · Binnie Barnes · Cesar Romero

Plot The story of legendary gambler Diamond Jim Brady and his romance with entertainer Lillian Russell.

Not rated

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Red Salute

1935 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Robert Young · Hardie Albright · Cliff Edwards

Plot The rebellious daughter of an army general gets involved with a Communist agitator, mainly to annoy her father. He arranges to have her kidnapped and taken to Mexico--hoping that she...

Not rated

Not rated

Waterfront Lady

1935 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Santley

Cast Ann Rutherford · Frank Albertson · J. Farrell MacDonald · Barbara Pepper

Plot When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers up a...

Not rated

Not rated

Traveling Husbands

1931 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Paul Sloane

Cast Evelyn Brent · Frank Albertson · Constance Cummings · Hugh Herbert

Plot Several traveling salesmen get involved with business, booze, romance, party girls and a lot more while staying at a hotel Detroit.

Not rated

Not rated

Night of Mystery

1937 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Ewald André Dupont

Cast Grant Richards · Roscoe Karns · Helen Burgess · Ruth Coleman

Plot Philo Vance takes a hand when, one evening, a daughter of the Greene family is shot to death and another one is wounded. The family comprises two sons and three...

Not rated

Not rated

The Spider

1931 · Movie · 59 min. · United States

Direction William Cameron Menzies · Kenneth MacKenna

Cast Edmund Lowe · Lois Moran · El Brendel · John Arledge

Plot Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening performance at an upscale theater, a murder occurs. A hand wearing a sinister spider...

Not rated

Not rated

High, Wide, and Handsome

1937 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Irene Dunne · Randolph Scott · Dorothy Lamour · Elizabeth Patterson

Plot The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when their wagon catches fire, they...

Not rated

Not rated

Red-Haired Alibi

1932 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Christy Cabanne

Cast Merna Kennedy · Theodore von Eltz · Grant Withers · Purnell Pratt

Plot A young girl new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the man is a notorious gangster.

Not rated

Not rated

The Secret Witness

1931 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Thornton Freeland

Cast Una Merkel · William Collier Jr. · ZaSu Pitts · Purnell Pratt

Plot A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim's downstairs neighbor believes the man is innocent and sets out...

Not rated

Not rated