Cast: Alec Craig
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Alec Craig. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 27
The Spider Woman
1943 · Movie · 63 min. · United States
Direction Roy William Neill
Cast Basil Rathbone · Nigel Bruce · Gale Sondergaard · Dennis Hoey
Synopsis Alarmed by a series of baffling suicides of prominent gamblers popularly dubbed "The Pajama Murders" by the newspapers, Holmes fakes his own death and assumes the identity of Rajni Singh, a retired Indian military man with a paralyzed arm. After...
6.2
432 votes
6.2
432 votes
Stranger on the Third Floor
1940 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction Boris Ingster
Cast Peter Lorre · John McGuire · Margaret Tallichet · Charles Waldron
Synopsis Reporter Michael Ward is the key witness in a murder trial. His evidence - that he saw the accused Briggs standing over the body of a man in a diner - is instrumental in having Briggs deemed guilty. But afterwards...
6.1
499 votes
6.1
499 votes
National Velvet
1944 · Movie · 124 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast Mickey Rooney · Donald Crisp · Elizabeth Taylor · Anne Revere
Synopsis This classic family film made a star of 12-year-old Elizabeth Taylor in the title role as spunky Velvet Brown, a girl who's determined to enter her horse, Pie, in the Grand National Steeplechase. Critic Pauline Kael called it "One of...
6.1
349 votes
6.1
349 votes
Calling Dr. Death
1943 · Movie · 63 min. · United States
Direction Reginald Le Borg
Cast Lon Chaney Jr. · Patricia Morison · J. Carrol Naish · David Bruce
Synopsis Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brutally murdered. Steele, aware of his conniving wife's infidelity, believes he may have been the killer and enlists the aid of his...
6.0
68 votes
6.0
68 votes
Phantom Raiders
1940 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Jacques Tourneur
Cast Walter Pidgeon · Donald Meek · Joseph Schildkraut · Florence Rice
Synopsis A mysterious rash of cargo ship sinkings in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer...
5.6
31 votes
5.6
31 votes
Tom Brown's School Days
1940 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Robert Stevenson
Cast Cedric Hardwicke · Freddie Bartholomew · Jimmy Lydon · Josephine Hutchinson
Synopsis A conservative English boarding school is the setting for this glimpse into a boy's life during the Victorian era. Based on Thomas Hughes' novel of 1857, this moving film adaptation features one of child actor Freddie Bartholomew's finest performances. As...
5.5
34 votes
5.5
34 votes
Lassie Come Home
1943 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Fred M. Wilcox
Cast Roddy McDowall · Donald Crisp · Dame May Whitty · Edmund Gwenn
Synopsis Hard times came for Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog to the rich Duke of Rudling. However, Lassie, the dog, is unwilling to leave the young Carraclough boy and sets out on the long and dangerous...
5.1
371 votes
5.1
371 votes
Tennessee Johnson
1942 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction William Dieterle
Cast Van Heflin · Lionel Barrymore · Ruth Hussey · Marjorie Main
Synopsis A chronicle of the life of Andrew Johnson from his first arrival in Tennessee to his time as President of the United States.
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Barnacle Bill
1941 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Wallace Beery · Marjorie Main · Leo Carrillo · Virginia Weidler
Synopsis A grumpy old fisherman tries to avoid marriage, contend with a daughter he never knew he had and scuttle the attempts of landlubbers who want to rob him of his seagiong livelihood, while the locals try to reform him.
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Dangerous Passage
1944 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction William Berke
Cast Robert Lowery · Phyllis Brooks · Charles Arnt · Jack La Rue
Synopsis While living in Central America, Joe Beck receives word that his grandfather has passed away and left him $200,000. Beck prepares to travel to Galveston, Texas to claim his inheritance, with the important papers that he will need. When he...
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Super-Sleuth
1937 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Benjamin Stoloff
Cast Jack Oakie · Ann Sothern · Eduardo Ciannelli · Alan Bruce
Synopsis An actor who plays a detective in films soon finds himself out of his depth when he tries to investigate a real crime.
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Wrecking Crew
1942 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Frank McDonald
Cast Richard Arlen · Chester Morris · Jean Parker · Joe Sawyer
Synopsis Two demolitions experts become arch rivals when they fall in love with the same woman in this drama. Their job is to bring down old skyscrapers and it is quite dangerous. The two finally begin working together when they are...
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China Passage
1937 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Edward Killy
Cast Gordon Jones · Vinton Hayworth · Constance Worth · Leslie Fenton
Synopsis Two American's, Tommy Baldwin and Joe Dugan, are assigned to guard a fabulous diamond in Shanghai, and the diamond is promptly taken from them. They know it is being taken to a ship sailing from Shanghai to the United States,...
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Wildcat
1942 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Frank McDonald
Cast Richard Arlen · Arline Judge · William Frawley · Buster Crabbe
Synopsis A wildcatter, broke but slick, manages to acquire a lease for oil-rich land but ruthless competitors sabotage his oil company any way they can.
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The Woman I Love
1937 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Anatole Litvak
Cast Paul Muni · Miriam Hopkins · Louis Hayward · Colin Clive
Synopsis In World War I France, a pilot falls in love with the wife of his friend and superior officer.
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Winterset
1936 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Alfred Santell
Cast Burgess Meredith · Margo · Eduardo Ciannelli · John Carradine
Synopsis Immigrant radical Bartolomeo Romagna is falsely condemned and executed for a payroll robbery. Years later, his son Mio sets out to find the truth of the crime and to bring to account the gangster Trock Estrella.
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Double Danger
1938 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction Lew Landers
Cast Preston Foster · Whitney Bourne · Donald Meek · Samuel S. Hinds
Synopsis Robert Crane is a slick jewel thief who also doubles as a novelist writing about a slick-jewel-thief known as 'The Gentleman,' who the police have never been able to catch. Although Police Inspector Davd Theron, a friend of the 'novelist'...
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Golden Gloves
1940 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Edward Dmytryk · Felix E. Feist
Cast Richard Denning · Jeanne Cagney · J. Carrol Naish · Robert Paige
Synopsis Filmed with the full cooperation of the Golden Gloves Tournament Association, this Paramount programmer stars Richard Denning as promising pugilist Bill Crane. Though tempted to sign up with crooked Joe Taggerty for a series of fixed bouts, Crane is saved...
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Rulers of the Sea
1939 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Frank Lloyd
Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Margaret Lockwood · Will Fyffe · George Bancroft
Synopsis Story of the beginnings of the steam-powered engine and its use in the first steamship voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Northwest Rangers
1942 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Joseph M. Newman
Cast James Craig · William Lundigan · Patricia Dane · John Carradine
Synopsis Boyhood friends grow up into different professions, one a dedicated Royal Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious if well liked gambler.
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