Cast: William Newell

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


Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Alfred Hitchcock · John Forsythe · Kent Smith · Evans Evans

Synopsis A mystery writer named Michael Barnes is accused of causing a fatal motorcycle accident with his car. The eyewitnesses prove less than reliable, however, when he defends himself in court and shreds their testimony by demonstrating that in each case...

7.2

184 votes

7.2

184 votes

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Claude Rains · Ed Gardner · Percy Helton · William Newell

Synopsis Father Amian's church isn't in very good shape and needs an expensive new roof. At a mid-week service, a stranger leaves a'$10 bill in the collection plate. The stranger becomes a regular attendee and continues to make generous donations. Turns...

6.8

152 votes

6.8

152 votes

Keeper of the Flame

1942 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Spencer Tracy · Katharine Hepburn · Richard Whorf · Margaret Wycherly

Synopsis Journalist Steve O'Malley is writing a biography of a national hero who died when his car ran off a bridge. The man's widow Christine cooperates, and Steve learns that she could have warned him of the bridge but chose not...

6.6

611 votes

6.6

611 votes

The Bride Came C.O.D.

1941 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction William Keighley

Cast James Cagney · Bette Davis · Stuart Erwin · Eugene Pallette

Synopsis Charter pilot Steve Collins is able to stay one step ahead of girlfriends who want to marry him and the bill collector who wants to repossess his plane. His latest charter is Joan Winfield, a madcap heiress who is eloping...

6.3

111 votes

6.3

111 votes

Direction Robert Stevens

Cast Skip Homeier · Joanne Woodward · Ken Christy · Henry Hunter

Synopsis Richard Paine decides to steal money from his boss that he owes him anyway, and it turns to a unnecessary and ironic murder.

6.1

66 votes

6.1

66 votes

Girl from Havana

1940 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Lew Landers

Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Claire Carleton · Victor Jory · Steffi Duna

Synopsis Woody Davis and are Tex Moore ambitious and enterprising friends who decide to become South American oil drillers in hope of becoming wealthy. Woody and Tex set up a site, but unfortunately, must spend their time fending off attacks from...

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Miss Polly

1941 · Movie · 45 min. · United States

Direction Fred Guiol

Cast ZaSu Pitts · Slim Summerville · Kathleen Howard · Brenda Forbes

Synopsis A town's rigid forced morality rules stifle young people so severely that the town has gone two years without a marriage. Miss Polly conspires to help a couple overcome the meddling do-gooders.

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Honeymoon Limited

1935 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast Neil Hamilton · Irene Hervey · Lloyd Hughes · Henry Kolker

Synopsis A publisher bets an author that he won't be able to write a romantic adventure novel while on a walking trip from New York to San Francisco. The author takes the bet, and runs into some adventures of his own...

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The Voice of Bugle Ann

1936 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Lionel Barrymore · Maureen O'Sullivan · Eric Linden · Dudley Digges

Synopsis The countrymen in the hills of Missouri take the hounds on night fox hunts. This goes on until Jacob Terry comes into the county and decides to raise sheep and install a woven wire fence. This upsets the neighbors since...

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A Tragedy at Midnight

1942 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Santley

Cast John Howard · Margaret Lindsay · Roscoe Karns · Mona Barrie

Synopsis A radio detective and his wife solve murder mysteries that baffle the police, but finds the most difficult case is saving their own neck.

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Sensation Hunters

1945 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Christy Cabanne

Cast Robert Lowery · Doris Merrick · Eddie Quillan · Constance Worth

Synopsis A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turns out to be a cad, and leads her down the road to ruin.

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The Mandarin Mystery

1936 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Ralph Staub

Cast Eddie Quillan · Charlotte Henry · Rita La Roy · Wade Boteler

Synopsis Two murders are committed and a $50,000 Chinese Mandarin stamp is stolen, tossed around and eventually recovered as an aggregation of costly-stamp counterfeiters are uncovered through the mastermind investigation by Ellery Queen.

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Mysterious Doctor Satan

1940 · Movie · 267 min. · United States

Direction John English · William Witney

Cast Eduardo Ciannelli · Robert Wilcox · William Newell · C. Montague Shaw

Synopsis A mad scientist plots the domination of America and only the masked hero, The Copperhead, can stop him.

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Riffraff

1936 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction J. Walter Ruben

Cast Jean Harlow · Spencer Tracy · Una Merkel · Joseph Calleia

Synopsis Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him and goes to jail. He gets a new job, foils a plot to...

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Larceny on the Air

1937 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Irving Pichel

Cast Robert Livingston · Grace Bradley · Willard Robertson · Pierre Watkin

Synopsis Dr. Lawrence Baxter, working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose a number of fraudulent patient medicines, with his bitterest attacks being aimed at Kennedy Radium Products the manufacturer of a tonic called 'Radium...

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Beware of Ladies

1936 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Irving Pichel

Cast Donald Cook · Judith Allen · George Meeker · Goodee Montgomery

Synopsis A female reporter with marital problems is sent by her boss to cover the campaign of a young political neophyte who's running against the local crooked political boss.

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