Cast: Ian Hunter

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


Smilin' Through

1941 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Jeanette MacDonald · Brian Aherne · Gene Raymond · Ian Hunter

Synopsis John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered. He accepts into his house Kathleen, the 5 year old orphaned niece of Moonyean, and she quickly grows up to look...

7.6

56 votes

7.6

56 votes

Confession

1937 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

7.2

35 votes

7.2

35 votes

The Adventures of Robin Hood

1938 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz · William Keighley

Cast Errol Flynn · Olivia de Havilland · Basil Rathbone · Claude Rains

Synopsis In Michael Curtiz's swashbuckling spectacle about the infamous outlaw and his band of merry men who "robbed from the rich and gave to the poor," Robin Hood (Errol Flynn) fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne...

7.2

28K votes

7.2

28K votes

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1941 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Spencer Tracy · Ingrid Bergman · Lana Turner · Donald Crisp

Synopsis Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone. Experiments reveal his evil side, named Hyde. Experience teaches him how evil Hyde can be: he kills Ivy who earlier expressed interest in Jekyll and Sir Charles, Jekyll's faincee's father.

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

The Long Voyage Home

1940 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Thomas Mitchell · Ian Hunter · Ward Bond

Synopsis Aboard the freighter Glencairn, the lives of the crew are lived out in fear, loneliness, suspicion and cameraderie. The men smuggle drink and women aboard, fight with each other, spy on each other, comfort each other as death approaches, and...

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6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes

Broadway Melody Of 1940

1940 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Fred Astaire · Eleanor Powell · George Murphy · Frank Morgan

Synopsis Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to gives him...

6.6

244 votes

6.6

244 votes

Edward, My Son

1949 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Spencer Tracy · Deborah Kerr · Ian Hunter · James Donald

Synopsis Londoners Arnold and Evelyn Boult had high hopes for the life of their son, Edward. His relatively short life ended up being one of privilege but irresponsibility. His life ended at age 23 when he was killed in battle in...

6.5

286 votes

6.5

286 votes

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1935 · Movie · 133 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle · Max Reinhardt

Cast Ian Hunter · Verree Teasdale · Hobart Cavanaugh · Dick Powell

Synopsis Theseus, Duke of Athens, is going to marry Hyppolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Demetrius is engaged with Hermia, but Hermia loves Lysander. Helena loves Demetrius. Oberon and Titania, of the kingdom of fairies have a slight quarrel about whether or...

6.3

251 votes

6.3

251 votes

Strange Cargo

1940 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Joan Crawford · Clark Gable · Ian Hunter · Peter Lorre

Synopsis Verne wants nothing more than to escape from a penal colony located off the northern coast of South America. He tries to involve Julie, a saloon girl, in his plans but she turns him in to the authorities. On Verne's...

6.3

229 votes

6.3

229 votes

Ziegfeld Girl

1941 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast James Stewart · Judy Garland · Hedy Lamarr · Lana Turner

Synopsis Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila,...

6.2

133 votes

6.2

133 votes

That Certain Woman

1937 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Bette Davis · Henry Fonda · Anita Louise · Ian Hunter

Synopsis Mary Donnell was married at sixteen to a gangster and soon widowed. She works for unhappily married lawyer Lloyd Rogers. A client's son Jack elopes with her, but his father tracks them down and has the marriage annulled. Mary...

6.2

62 votes

6.2

62 votes

Always Goodbye

1938 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Herbert Marshall · Ian Hunter · Cesar Romero

Synopsis Former doctor Jim Howard (Herbert Marshall) helps desperate Margot Weston (Barbara Stanwyck), pregnant and unmarried; when her son is born.

6.1

34 votes

6.1

34 votes

The Ring

1927 · Movie · 133 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Ian Hunter · Carl Brisson · Lillian Hall-Davis · Harry Terry

Synopsis A love triangle set in the world of prize-fighting.

6.1

634 votes

6.1

634 votes

North West Frontier

1959 · Movie · 129 min. · United Kingdom

Direction J. Lee Thompson

Cast Kenneth More · Lauren Bacall · Herbert Lom · Wilfrid Hyde-White

Synopsis In northwestern India soon after the turn of the 20th Century, Moslem rebels seek to kill a six-year-old Hindu prince to end his family line. Captain Scott of the British Army is ordered to get the prince out of the...

6.1

355 votes

6.1

355 votes

Tower of London

1939 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Rowland V. Lee

Cast Basil Rathbone · Boris Karloff · Barbara O'Neil · Ian Hunter

Synopsis In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he...

6.1

284 votes

6.1

284 votes

The Sisters

1938 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Errol Flynn · Bette Davis · Anita Louise · Ian Hunter

Synopsis Three sisters attend a celebration of the inauguration of Teddy Roosevelt. Each will marry a man in attendance. Helen marries a millionaire whom she does not love. Grace marries a local man and remains in Montana. Louise elopes with Frank...

6.0

207 votes

6.0

207 votes

Another Dawn

1937 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Kay Francis · Errol Flynn · Ian Hunter · Frieda Inescort

Synopsis Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. There he falls in love with Julia Ashton, who cares deeply for him but believes herself incapable of love following...

6.0

44 votes

6.0

44 votes

The Battle of the River Plate

1956 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast Peter Finch · John Gregson · Anthony Quayle · Ian Hunter

Synopsis Set during the early years of World War II, the War in the Atlantic. The Royal Navy was fighting a desperate battle to keep the convoy routes open to keep the British Isles supplied. One great danger was the surface...

6.0

659 votes

6.0

659 votes

Tarzan Finds a Son!

1939 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Johnny Weissmuller · Maureen O'Sullivan · Johnny Sheffield · Ian Hunter

Synopsis A young couple die in a plane crash in the jungle. Their son is found by Tarzan and Jane who name him Boy and raise him as their own. Five years later a search party comes to find the young...

6.0

8K votes

6.0

8K votes

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Bette Davis · Ian Hunter · Colin Clive · Alison Skipworth

Synopsis When his fiancée Valentine dumps him, prominent lawyer Geoffrey Sherwood goes on a bender and winds up married to a stranger, Miriam Brady. They decide to give their marriage a chance. Their landlady, a one-time Floradora girl, offers to help...

5.9

27 votes

5.9

27 votes