Cast: Jack Oakie

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


The Great Dictator

1940 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Paulette Goddard · Jack Oakie · Reginald Gardiner

Plot In the 1930s, Tomania falls under the control of dictator Adenoid Hynkel, who dreams of world domination. In the Jewish district of the capital lives a barber who looks so...

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8.6

84K votes

8.6

84K votes

Lover Come Back

1961 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast Rock Hudson · Doris Day · Tony Randall · Edie Adams

Plot Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are both in the advertising business, but for different agencies. Annoyed by Jerry's methods of using alcohol and women to ensure contracts for his agency,...

7.1

10K votes

7.1

10K votes

Thieves' Highway

1949 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Richard Conte · Valentina Cortese · Lee J. Cobb · Barbara Lawrence

Plot A war-veteran-turned-truck driver attempts to avenge the crippling and robbing of his father at the hands of an amoral produce scofflaw.

7.1

836 votes

7.1

836 votes

It Happened Tomorrow

1944 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction René Clair

Cast Dick Powell · Linda Darnell · Jack Oakie · Edgar Kennedy

Plot An ambitious newspaper reporter, eager to scoop the competition, wishes he could know the news before it happens. A mysterious old man grants the reporter that power, even as he...

6.7

614 votes

6.7

614 votes

If I Had a Million

1932 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch · Norman Taurog · Norman Z. McLeod · William A. Seiter

Cast Gary Cooper · Charles Laughton · George Raft · Jack Oakie

Plot Buoyant, star-studded comedy about a dying steel tycoon (Richard Bennett) who randomly selects eight people from a phone book and gives them each a million dollars. Among the lucky recipients...

6.6

856 votes

6.6

856 votes

Call of the Wild

1935 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Clark Gable · Loretta Young · Jack Oakie · Reginald Owen

Plot Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields.

6.6

391 votes

6.6

391 votes

Alice in Wonderland

1933 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Charlotte Henry · Leon Errol · Louise Fazenda · Ford Sterling

Plot On a boring winter afternoon, Alice dreams, that she's visiting the land behind the mirror. This turns out to be a surrealistic nightmare, with all sorts of strange things happening...

6.4

330 votes

6.4

330 votes

The Wonderful Country

1959 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Robert Parrish

Cast Robert Mitchum · Julie London · Gary Merrill · Pedro Armendáriz

Plot Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin Brady travels to Texas to broker an arms deal for his Mexican boss, strongman...

6.2

522 votes

6.2

522 votes

The Eagle and the Hawk

1933 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Walker

Cast Fredric March · Cary Grant · Jack Oakie · Carole Lombard

Plot Three Americans (March, Grant and Oakie) go blustering off to volunteer for duty in the Royal Air Force in WWI. The reality of war sobers March quickly, but Grant's ill-advised...

6.1

104 votes

6.1

104 votes

The Texas Rangers

1936 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

6.0

43 votes

6.0

43 votes

The Wild Party

1929 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Dorothy Arzner

Cast Clara Bow · Fredric March · Marceline Day · Shirley O'Hara

Plot Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets in...

6.0

21 votes

6.0

21 votes

The Toast of New York

1937 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Rowland V. Lee

Cast Edward Arnold · Cary Grant · Frances Farmer · Jack Oakie

Plot The story starts just before the Civil War, showing Fisk, Boyd, and Luke conning Southern townsfolk into buying bars of soap that, might, have a $10 gold piece inside. Found...

5.9

160 votes

5.9

160 votes

The Rat Race

1960 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Robert Mulligan

Cast Tony Curtis · Debbie Reynolds · Jack Oakie · Don Rickles

Plot Peter arrives at New York City with his sax in hand and high hopes for a career. He then meets Peggy, a dancer down on her luck who needs a...

5.8

183 votes

5.8

183 votes

Tomahawk

1951 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction George Sherman

Cast Van Heflin · Yvonne De Carlo · Alex Nicol · Preston Foster

Plot In 1866, a new gold discovery and an inconclusive conference force the U.S. Army to build a road and fort in territory ceded by previous treaty to the Sioux...to the...

5.7

192 votes

5.7

192 votes

The Stolen Jools (S)

1931 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction William McGann · John G. Adolfi · Victor Heerman · Harold S. Bucquet

Cast Buster Keaton · Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Wallace Beery

Plot Star-packed promotional short subject intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists tuberculosis sanatarium, produced in association with a cigarette company! Plot involves the investigation of the reported theft...

5.6

32 votes

5.6

32 votes

Murder at the Vanities

1934 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Carl Brisson · Victor McLaglen · Jack Oakie · Kitty Carlisle

Plot Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading lady Ann Ware, who wants to...

5.6

40 votes

5.6

40 votes

Million Dollar Legs

1932 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Edward F. Cline

Cast Jack Oakie · W.C. Fields · Andy Clyde · Lyda Roberti

Plot A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money. Either a masterpiece of absurdity or a...

5.6

23 votes

5.6

23 votes

Northwest Stampede

1948 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Albert S. Rogell

Cast Joan Leslie · James Craig · Jack Oakie · Chill Wills

Plot When his father dies, rodeo star Dan Bennett returns to his ranch but hires on as a ranch hand. A horse known as the White Outlaw is the leader of...

5.2

62 votes

5.2

62 votes

Hitting a New High

1937 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

4.1

36 votes

4.1

36 votes

Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove (S)

1934 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Louis Lewyn

Cast Jack Oakie · Bing Crosby · Leo Carrillo · Mary Pickford

Plot Several members of MGM's 'galaxy of stars' attend an evening of music and a fashion show.

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Not rated