Cast: Irving Pichel

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


An American Tragedy

1931 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Phillips Holmes · Sylvia Sidney · Frances Dee · Irving Pichel

Plot Though his parents are street evangelists, Clyde Griffiths (Phillips Holmes) grows up in squalor, but not without ambitions. He first works as a bellhop in Kansas City, but when he's...

6.6

125 votes

6.6

125 votes

Juarez

1939 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Paul Muni · Bette Davis · Brian Aherne · Claude Rains

Plot The newly named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carolotta arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juraez and democracy. He tries to appease the Mexicans but fails. Abraham...

6.6

289 votes

6.6

289 votes

The Story of Temple Drake

1933 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Stephen Roberts

Cast Miriam Hopkins · Jack La Rue · William Gargan · William Collier Jr.

Plot A wealthy but neurotic Southern belle finds herself trapped in the hideout of a gang of vicious bootleggers. The gang's leader lusts after her, and is determined not to let...

6.4

55 votes

6.4

55 votes

Special Agent

1935 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction William Keighley

Cast Bette Davis · George Brent · Ricardo Cortez · Jack La Rue

Plot Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and...

6.2

58 votes

6.2

58 votes

Madame Butterfly

1932 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Marion Gering

Cast Sylvia Sidney · Cary Grant · Charles Ruggles · Irving Pichel

Plot Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton is on shore-leave in Japan. He and his buddy Lieutenant Barton, out for a night on the town, stop in at a local establishment to check out...

6.0

45 votes

6.0

45 votes

Fog Over Frisco

1934 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Bette Davis · Donald Woods · Margaret Lindsay · Lyle Talbot

Plot Arlene is involved with underworld types. Her society girl sister believes it is only innocent thrill seeking; her stepfather fears it may be more criminal than that. Kidnap and murder...

5.8

102 votes

5.8

102 votes

This Is Korea!

1951 · Documentary · 50 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast John Ireland · Irving Pichel · George O'Brien

Plot Director John Ford's documentary about the beginnings of the Korean War, after North Korenn troops invaded South Korea and battled U.S., South Korean and United Nations forces. Notable in that,...

5.8

25 votes

5.8

25 votes

The Cheat

1931 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction George Abbott

Cast Tallulah Bankhead · Harvey Stephens · Irving Pichel · Jay Fassett

Plot Love, lust, possession, money, social standing, and addiction. Elsa Carlyle is impulsive and a gambler; though loved by her husband Jeff, she's spoiled and selfish, concerned with social standing. Meanwhile,...

5.7

35 votes

5.7

35 votes

Dracula's Daughter

1936 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Lambert Hillyer

Cast Otto Kruger · Gloria Holden · Marguerite Churchill · Edward Van Sloan

Plot Hungarian countess Marya Zaleska seeks the aid of a noted psychiatrist, in hopes of freeing herself of a mysterious evil influence.

5.7

304 votes

5.7

304 votes

British Agent

1934 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Leslie Howard · Kay Francis · William Gargan · Phillip Reed

Plot An Englishman falls in love with a Russian spy.

5.5

35 votes

5.5

35 votes

Westward Passage

1932 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Not rated

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Armored Car

1937 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Lewis R. Foster

Cast Robert Wilcox · Judith Barrett · Cesar Romero · Irving Pichel

Plot An undercover man helps break a gang planning to rob armoured cars carrying bullion.

Not rated

Not rated

Two Kinds of Women

1932 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction William C. de Mille

Cast Miriam Hopkins · Phillips Holmes · Irving Pichel · Wynne Gibson

Plot The daughter of a senator from South Dakota visits Manhattan for the first time, eager to see the sights of the big city. While there, she finds herself caught up...

Not rated

Not rated

Oliver Twist

1933 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction William Cowen

Cast Dickie Moore · Irving Pichel · William Boyd · Doris Lloyd

Plot An orphan boy in 1830s London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves.

Not rated

Not rated

Murder by the Clock

1931 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Edward Sloman

Cast William Boyd · Lilyan Tashman · Irving Pichel · Regis Toomey

Plot When a wealthy woman dies, she is buried with a loud horn in her crypt due to her fear of premature burial. Before her will can be read, her heirs...

Not rated

Not rated

Rio

1939 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction John Brahm

Cast Basil Rathbone · Victor McLaglen · Sigrid Gurie · Robert Cummings

Plot A crazed man escapes from prison to kill his wife's lover.

Not rated

Not rated

High, Wide, and Handsome

1937 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Irene Dunne · Randolph Scott · Dorothy Lamour · Elizabeth Patterson

Plot The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when their wagon catches fire, they...

Not rated

Not rated

Torture Ship

1939 · Movie · 57 min. · United States

Direction Victor Halperin

Cast Lyle Talbot · Irving Pichel · Julie Bishop · Sheila Bromley

Plot A mad scientist performs experiments on "the criminal mind" on captured criminals on board his private ship.

Not rated

Not rated

Wild Girl

1932 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Not rated

Not rated

The Right to Love

1930 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Not rated

Not rated