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.
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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