Cast: Isabel Jewell

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


High Sierra

1941 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Ida Lupino · Alan Curtis · Arthur Kennedy

Synopsis Roy 'Mad Dog' Earle is broken out of prison by an old associate who wants him to help with an upcoming robbery. When the robbery goes wrong and a man is shot and killed Earle is forced to go on...

7.7

5K votes

7.7

5K votes

Lost Horizon

1937 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Ronald Colman · Jane Wyatt · John Howard · Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis On 1935, the pacifist British diplomat and future Foreign Secretary Robert Conway helps a group of ninety Westerns white people to escape from the Chinese city of Baskul after the beginning of a revolution. He leaves the airport in the...

7.5

3K votes

7.5

3K votes

Design for Living

1933 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Fredric March · Gary Cooper · Miriam Hopkins · Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis Painter George Curtis and playwright Tom Chambers, flatmates in a Paris apartment, meet fellow American and commercial artist Gilda Farrell on a train bound for the French capital. While both men are immediately smitten by the girl, she can't make...

7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

A Tale of Two Cities

1935 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction Jack Conway

Cast Ronald Colman · Elizabeth Allan · Edna May Oliver · Reginald Owen

Synopsis An elaborate adaptation of Dickens' classic tale of the French Revolution. Dissipated lawyer Sydney Carton defends emigre Charles Darnay from charges of spying against England. He becomes enamored of Darnay's fiancée, Lucie Manette, and agrees to help her save Darnay...

7.1

630 votes

7.1

630 votes

Counsellor at Law

1933 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast John Barrymore · Bebe Daniels · Doris Kenyon · Isabel Jewell

Synopsis A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past. At the bustling Manhattan law offices of Simon and Tedesco, highly successful Jewish attorney George Simon, who has risen from the slums of New York,...

6.9

40 votes

6.9

40 votes

Marked Woman

1937 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Bette Davis · Humphrey Bogart · Lola Lane · Isabel Jewell

Synopsis Set in the underworld of Manhattan, Marked Woman tells the story of a woman who dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters. The women of the story are "hostesses". What is implied, but not stated...

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6.8

881 votes

6.8

881 votes

Ceiling Zero

1936 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast James Cagney · Pat O'Brien · June Travis · Stuart Erwin

Synopsis Old pals Jake Lee, Tex Clarke and Dizzy Davis flew together in the Army during World War I. Almost twenty years later, Jake is the manager of the Newark, New Jersey branch of Federal Airlines, a New York based airline...

6.7

112 votes

6.7

112 votes

The Leopard Man

1943 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Margo · Jean Brooks · Isabel Jewell

Synopsis At the encouragement of her manager, a nightclub performer in New Mexico (Kiki Walker) takes a leashed leopard into the club as a publicity gimmick. But her rival, angered by the attempt to upstage, scares the animal and it bolts....

6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes

Born to Kill

1947 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Claire Trevor · Lawrence Tierney · Walter Slezak · Phillip Terry

Synopsis In Reno a man kills a girl he likes and her boyfriend out of jealousy. A woman whose divorce has just come through finds the bodies but says nothing to the police; she's leaving town and doesn't want to be...

6.7

611 votes

6.7

611 votes

Direction King Vidor

Cast Spencer Tracy · Robert Young · Walter Brennan · Ruth Hussey

Synopsis Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers' Rangers, as the legendary elite force engages the enemy during the French and Indian War. The film focuses on...

6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes

Evelyn Prentice

1934 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction William K. Howard

Cast William Powell · Myrna Loy · Una Merkel · Rosalind Russell

Synopsis Evelyn Prentice is the respected wife of a high-profile New York attorney. Despite the prestige and status she enjoys, she feels neglected and out of boredom becomes involved with an unscrupulous womanizing poet, who gives her the attention she craves....

6.6

31 votes

6.6

31 votes

6.4

28 votes

The Seventh Victim

1943 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Tom Conway · Jean Brooks · Isabel Jewell · Kim Hunter

Synopsis Mary Gibson (Kim Hunter) travels to New York City to find her missing sister Jacqueline (Jean Brooks). In her search she discovers that Jacqueline has become involved with a Satanist cult, The Palladists. Having spoken about the Palladists' existence to...

6.4

830 votes

6.4

830 votes

Bombshell

1933 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Jean Harlow · Lee Tracy · Frank Morgan · Franchot Tone

Synopsis Lola Burns is at the top of the pile in Hollywood. But life ain't easy, what with her father and brother always hanging around for handouts, and devious studio publicity honcho Space Hanlon cooking up endless lurid newspaper stories. Makes...

6.4

43 votes

6.4

43 votes

Man in the Attic

1953 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Hugo Fregonese

Cast Jack Palance · Constance Smith · Byron Palmer · Frances Bavier

Synopsis London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade, a research pathologist, takes lodgings with the Harleys, including a gloomy attic room for "experiments." Mrs. Harley finds Slade odd and increasingly suspects the worst;...

6.3

180 votes

6.3

180 votes

Big Brown Eyes

1936 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Cary Grant · Joan Bennett · Walter Pidgeon · Lloyd Nolan

Synopsis Dan Barr is a flatfoot on the trail of jewel robbers. Eve Fallon is his girl of 5 years. We meet them spitting and sparring, but never doubting they're in love. Eve is a manicurist, with an eye for news....

6.0

100 votes

6.0

100 votes

Drum Beat

1954 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Delmer Daves

Cast Alan Ladd · Audrey Dalton · Marisa Pavan · Robert Keith

Synopsis President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and southern Oregon. On the way he must escort Nancy Meek to the home of her aunt and uncle. After Modoc renegade Captain Jack engages in...

5.8

506 votes

5.8

506 votes

Small Town Girl

1936 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman · Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Janet Gaynor · Robert Taylor · Binnie Barnes · Andy Devine

Synopsis Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds...

5.7

53 votes

5.7

53 votes

The Crowd Roars

1938 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Robert Taylor · Edward Arnold · Frank Morgan · Maureen O'Sullivan

Synopsis A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy does for a living.

5.6

45 votes

5.6

45 votes

Irene

1940 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Herbert Wilcox

Cast Anna Neagle · Ray Milland · Roland Young · Alan Marshal

Synopsis Sent by her employers on an errand to the home of the wealthy Mrs. Vincent, Irene O'Dare meets Don, a friend of Bob, Mrs. Vincent's son. Attracted to Irene, Don decides to invest some money in Bob's latest venture, the...

5.6

30 votes

5.6

30 votes