Cast: Charles Lane

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


Ball of Fire

1941 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Gary Cooper · Barbara Stanwyck · Oskar Homolka · Henry Travers

Synopsis In Ball of Fire (1941), a group of professors working on an encyclopedia encounter Sugarpuss O'Shea, a vivacious nightclub singer on the run from the law. She takes refuge with them, bringing chaos and charm into their sheltered academic world....

7.9

6K votes

7.9

6K votes

Sybil (TV)

1976 · Movie · 187 min. · United States

Direction Daniel Petrie

Cast Joanne Woodward · Sally Field · Brad Davis · Martine Bartlett

Synopsis The true story of a young woman named Sybil, whose childhood was so harrowing to her that she developed at least 13 different personalities.

7.3

257 votes

7.3

257 votes

7.2

30 votes

Sadie Thompson

1928 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Gloria Swanson · Lionel Barrymore · Raoul Walsh · Blanche Friderici

Synopsis Sadie Thompson arrives in Pago-Pago to start a new life, but when extremist missionary Davidson lashes out against her lifestyle and tries to force her back to San Francisco, she may lose her second chance.

6.8

162 votes

6.8

162 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

Johnny Apollo

1940 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Tyrone Power · Dorothy Lamour · Edward Arnold · Lloyd Nolan

Synopsis The son of a jailed Wall Street broker turns to crime to pay for his father's release.

6.8

221 votes

6.8

221 votes

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1920 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction John S. Robertson

Cast John Barrymore · Brandon Hurst · Martha Mansfield · Charles Lane

Synopsis Considered by many to be the first great American horror film, John S. Robertson´s Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde allowed stage legend John Barrymore to deliver his first virtuoso performance on film. Blending historic charm with grim naturalism, this version...

6.7

548 votes

6.7

548 votes

I Wake Up Screaming

1941 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast Betty Grable · Victor Mature · Carole Landis · Laird Cregar

Synopsis When chanteuse Vicky Lynn is found murdered the police bring in promoter Frankie Christopher for questioning. Frankie had been organising Vicky's career until she suddenly took a Hollywood offer just before her death, and suspicion increasingly falls on him. Only...

6.6

210 votes

6.6

210 votes

The Music Man

1962 · Movie · 151 min. · United States

Direction Morton da Costa

Cast Robert Preston · Shirley Jones · Buddy Hackett · Hermione Gingold

Synopsis Confidence man Harold Hill arrives at staid River City intending to cheat the community with his standard scam of offering to equip and train a boy's marching band, then skip town with the money since he has no music skill...

6.5

288 votes

6.5

288 votes

The Teacher's Pet

1958 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction George Seaton

Cast Clark Gable · Doris Day · Gig Young · Mamie Van Doren

Synopsis James Gannon (Clark Gable), the hardboiled city editor of a newspaper, believes that the only way to learn the business is by way of the School of Hard Knocks, and has a very low regard for college-taught journalism, so he's...

6.5

367 votes

6.5

367 votes

Internes Can't Take Money

1937 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Santell

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Joel McCrea · Lloyd Nolan · Stanley Ridges

Synopsis In a fantastically art-deco hospital, young Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished Janet Healy, widow of a bank robber, who's been in prison and can't find her baby. Later she helps Kildare sew up gangster Hanlon in a tavern...

6.3

38 votes

6.3

38 votes

The Gnome-Mobile

1967 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Walter Brennan · Matthew Garber · Karen Dotrice · Richard Deacon

Synopsis An eccentric millionaire and his grandchildren are embroiled in the plights of some forest gnomes who are searching for the rest of their tribe. While helping them, the millionaire is suspected of being crazy because he's seeing gnomes! He's committed,...

6.3

951 votes

6.3

951 votes

The Milky Way

1936 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Harold Lloyd · Adolphe Menjou · Helen Mack · Verree Teasdale

Synopsis Director Leo McCarey's charmingly funny THE MILKY WAY stars the fabulous silent-film comedian Harold Lloyd in one of his first talkies. Softie milkman Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd) ducks at just the right moment during a brawl, and the avoided punch knocks...

6.3

649 votes

6.3

649 votes

Good Neighbor Sam

1964 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

6.3

567 votes

6.3

567 votes

Movie Movie

1978 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Donen

Cast George C. Scott · Harry Hamlin · Trish Van Devere · Eli Wallach

Synopsis A double feature spoof of the typical 1930s: "Dynamite Fists" and "Blansky's Beauties of 1933".

6.1

212 votes

6.1

212 votes

The Juggler

1953 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

6.0

155 votes

6.0

155 votes

The Ugly Dachshund

1966 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Norman Tokar

Cast Dean Jones · Suzanne Pleshette · Charles Ruggles · Kelly Thordsen

Synopsis Fran Garrison's all in a tizzy because her prize Dachshund, Danke, is having pups, and she has hopes of one of the pups becoming a champion. But at the vet's, her husband Jim is talked into letting Danke wetnurse a...

6.0

202 votes

6.0

202 votes

Top Secret Affair

1957 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction H.C. Potter

Cast Susan Hayward · Kirk Douglas · Paul Stewart · Jim Backus

Synopsis The head of a large publishing empire is dismayed when a top army general is about to be appointed to an atomic energy committee. She's determined to discredit him prior to the appointment and invites him to spend the weekend...

5.5

86 votes

5.5

86 votes

The Twilight Zone: Mr. Bevis (TV)

1960 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction William Asher

Cast Orson Bean · Henry Jones · Charles Lane · Horace McMahon

Synopsis James B.W. Bevis is, by almost any definition, eccentric. He drives a car that once was Henry Ford's dream, he likes zither music and makes model ships. He's a bookkeeper by profession and his desk at work is always cluttered....

5.4

119 votes

5.4

119 votes