Cast: Roscoe Karns

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


His Girl Friday

1940 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Cary Grant · Rosalind Russell · Ralph Bellamy · Gene Lockhart

Synopsis Hildy Johnson has divorced Walter Burns and visits his office to tell him that she is engaged to another man and that they are going to get married the day after. Walter Burns can't let that happen and frames the...

8.0

11K votes

8.0

11K votes

It Happened One Night

1934 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Clark Gable · Claudette Colbert · Walter Connolly · Roscoe Karns

Synopsis When Ellie Andrews, a millionaire's daughter, marries a man her father dislikes, the resulting family squabble sends the beautiful heiress into hiding. She travels across country by bus, a fugitive from high society. En route, she meets the man of...

7.9

16K votes

7.9

16K votes

Man's Favorite Sport?

1964 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Rock Hudson · Paula Prentiss · Maria Perschy · John McGiver

Synopsis Roger Willoughby is considered to be a leading expert on sports fishing. He's written books on the subject and is loved by his customers in the sporting goods department at Abercrombie and Fitch, where he works. There's only one problem...

7.4

4K votes

7.4

4K votes

They Drive by Night

1940 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast George Raft · Ann Sheridan · Ida Lupino · Humphrey Bogart

Synopsis Brothers Paul and Joe Fabrini run a trucking business in California mainly shipping fruit from farms to the markets in Los Angeles. They struggle to make ends meet in the face of corrupt businessmen and intense competition. They are forced...

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7.4

1K votes

7.4

1K votes

Beggars of Life

1928 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Wallace Beery · Louise Brooks · Richard Arlen · Bob Perry

Synopsis After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape...

7.2

145 votes

7.2

145 votes

Woman of the Year

1942 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction George Stevens

Cast Spencer Tracy · Katharine Hepburn · Fay Bainter · Reginald Owen

Synopsis Tess and Sam work on the same newspaper and don't like each other very much. At least the first time, because they eventually fall in love and get married. But, Tess is a very active woman and one of the...

7.0

3K votes

7.0

3K votes

The Inside Story

1948 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Marsha Hunt · William Lundigan · Charles Winninger · Gail Patrick

Synopsis A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the farmer to arrive the money is put in a safe at a hotel for safe keeping. However, it is removed by mistake...

6.9

38 votes

6.9

38 votes

Twentieth Century

1934 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast John Barrymore · Carole Lombard · Walter Connolly · Roscoe Karns

Synopsis Broadway director Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) is a bigger ham than most actors, but through sheer drive and talent he is able to build a successful career. When one of his discoveries, Lily Garland (Carole Lombard), rises to stardom and...

6.8

502 votes

6.8

502 votes

Old Acquaintance

1943 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Bette Davis · Miriam Hopkins · Gig Young · John Loder

Synopsis Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins--a pair of actresses who hated each other--re-mix their chemistry from The Old Maid in Old Acquaintance, an entertaining adaptation of John Van Druten's play. The action begins with Davis, a semi-famous author, returning to her...

6.8

352 votes

6.8

352 votes

If I Had a Million

1932 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch · Norman Taurog · Norman Z. McLeod · William A. Seiter

Cast Gary Cooper · Charles Laughton · George Raft · Jack Oakie

Synopsis Buoyant, star-studded comedy about a dying steel tycoon (Richard Bennett) who randomly selects eight people from a phone book and gives them each a million dollars. Among the lucky recipients are a clumsy china salesman (Charles Ruggles), a working girl...

6.6

856 votes

6.6

856 votes

You and Me

1938 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Sylvia Sidney · George Raft · Robert Cummings · Barton MacLane

Synopsis An altruistic department-store owner hires ex-convicts in order to give them a second chance at life. Unfortunately, one of the convicts he hires recruits two of his fellow ex-convicts in a plan to rob the store.

6.5

241 votes

6.5

241 votes

Night After Night

1932 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

6.5

42 votes

6.5

42 votes

Today We Live

1933 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks · Richard Rosson

Cast Joan Crawford · Gary Cooper · Robert Young · Franchot Tone

Synopsis The two lovers are living together and are not married as they hesitantly explain to her brother. They had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they "didn't wait." It's an important plot point...

6.4

296 votes

6.4

296 votes

Alice in Wonderland

1933 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Charlotte Henry · Leon Errol · Louise Fazenda · Ford Sterling

Synopsis On a boring winter afternoon, Alice dreams, that she's visiting the land behind the mirror. This turns out to be a surrealistic nightmare, with all sorts of strange things happening to her, like changing her size or playing croquet with...

6.4

330 votes

6.4

330 votes

Four Hours to Kill!

1935 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Richard Barthelmess · Joe Morrison · Gertrude Michael · Helen Mack

Synopsis A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing.

6.3

45 votes

6.3

45 votes

That's My Man

1947 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Don Ameche · Catherine McLeod · Roscoe Karns · John Ridgely

Synopsis A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose sight of what mattered to him before.

6.2

44 votes

6.2

44 votes

Front Page Woman

1935 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Bette Davis · George Brent · Roscoe Karns · Wini Shaw

Synopsis Reporter Curt Devlin loves sob sister Ellen Garfield but believes women are "bum newspapermen". When she learns the identity of a murdered arsonist, he calls it luck. When she goes after the murderer he gets enough evidence to have Maitland...

6.2

51 votes

6.2

51 votes

One Sunday Afternoon

1933 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Stephen Roberts

Cast Gary Cooper · Fay Wray · Frances Fuller · Roscoe Karns

Synopsis Hugo and Biff were friends until they met Virginia. Biff could think of no one but Virginia, but she would never be happy with a big slow bully. So she married Hugo and Biff married Amy just because his Virginia...

5.8

56 votes

5.8

56 votes

Dirigible

1931 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Jack Holt · Ralph Graves · Fay Wray · Hobart Bosworth

Synopsis A French explorer enlists the help of the US Navy in an expedition to the South Pole. There is competition between the airship division and fixed wing fliers, resolved in triumph and disasters.

5.6

23 votes

5.6

23 votes

Wings in the Dark

1935 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction James Flood

Cast Myrna Loy · Cary Grant · Roscoe Karns · Hobart Cavanaugh

Synopsis Aeronautical engineer Ken Gordon and his faithful mechanic Mac are devoted to developing technology that will enable pilots to safely fly blind during adverse weather conditions. An irresponsible newsman, Nick Williams, publishes a premature story about a planned long distance...

5.6

49 votes

5.6

49 votes