Cast: Alan Dinehart

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


The Cat's-Paw

1934 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Sam Taylor

Cast Harold Lloyd · Una Merkel · George Barbier · Nat Pendleton

Synopsis Naive Ezekial Cobb, brought up by his missionary father in China returns to America to seek a wife. Corrupt politicians enlist him to run for mayor as a dummy candidate with no chance of winning. Their plan backfires as he...

6.8

180 votes

6.8

180 votes

Dante's Inferno

1935 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Harry Lachman

Cast Spencer Tracy · Claire Trevor · Henry B. Walthall · Alan Dinehart

Synopsis Jim Carter moves in on the McWade's carnival concession which shows scenes from Dante's "Inferno". He makes it a going concern, marrying Betting along the way. An inspector calls the amusement pier unsafe but Carter bribes him. The pier collapses,...

6.2

84 votes

6.2

84 votes

Born to Dance

1936 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Eleanor Powell · James Stewart · Virginia Bruce · Una Merkel

Synopsis Sailor Ted meets at the Lonely Hearts Club of his friend Gunny's wife, Jenny, a girl, Nora Paige, and falls in love. Nora wants to become a dancer on Broadway. Ted rescues the Pekinese of Lucy James, a Broadway star...

6.2

106 votes

6.2

106 votes

Danger-Love at Work

1937 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Ann Sothern · Jack Haley · Mary Boland · Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis A young lawyer is unable to get the Pembertons to sign a land sale contract until their daughter falls in love with him.

6.1

174 votes

6.1

174 votes

Sweepings

1933 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Lionel Barrymore · Eric Linden · William Gargan · Gloria Stuart

Synopsis Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the business to his three sons and daughter, but has to deal with their lack of interest...

6.0

32 votes

6.0

32 votes

Jimmy the Gent

1934 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast James Cagney · Bette Davis · Allen Jenkins · Alan Dinehart

Synopsis Unscrupulous Jimmy Corrigan (James Cagney) runs an agency that searches for heirs of those who have died without leaving a will and often provides phony claimants in order to collect his fee. When his former girlfriend Joan Martin (Bette Davis),...

5.9

60 votes

5.9

60 votes

5.9

135 votes

The Whistler

1944 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction William Castle

Cast Richard Dix · Gloria Stuart · J. Carrol Naish · Alan Dinehart

Synopsis The Whistler was the first of eight Columbia "B" thrillers based on the popular radio series of the same name. The Whistler, a shadowy (and unbilled) figure, introduced each film as he'd done on radio: "I am the Whistler...and I...

5.9

47 votes

5.9

47 votes

Slightly Honorable

1939 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Pat O'Brien · Edward Arnold · Broderick Crawford · Ruth Terry

Synopsis A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.

5.7

119 votes

5.7

119 votes

Lawyer Man

1932 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast William Powell · Joan Blondell · David Landau · Helen Vinson

Synopsis Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown attracts the attention of high-profile legal eagle Granville Bentley, who asks Adam to become a partner in his law firm....

5.4

22 votes

5.4

22 votes

Second Fiddle

1939 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Sonja Henie · Tyrone Power · Rudy Vallee · Edna May Oliver

Synopsis Studio publicist (Power) discovers Minnesota skating teacher (Henie) and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.

5.3

28 votes

5.3

28 votes

A Study in Scarlet

1933 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Edwin L. Marin

Cast Reginald Owen · Anna May Wong · Warburton Gamble · June Clyde

Synopsis In London, a secret society collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining members. When society members start dropping like flies, Sherlock Holmes is approached by a member's widow. The atmospheric doings involve...

5.2

30 votes

5.2

30 votes

Bureau of Missing Persons

1933 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Bette Davis · Lewis Stone · Pat O'Brien · Glenda Farrell

Synopsis Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work. He regards the assignment as "kindergarten" work. When a young woman asks him to help locate her husband, Therme, he learns that she...

5.2

42 votes

5.2

42 votes

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Seven Days Ashore

1944 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction John H. Auer

Cast Wally Brown · Alan Carney · Marcy McGuire · Dooley Wilson

Synopsis Dan Arland, a womanizing playboy, is looking forward to a seven day leave in his home town of San Francisco with one of two beautiful violinists playing for an all-girl swing band but can't decide which of the two gorgeous...

Not rated

Not rated

Midnight Taxi

1937 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Eugene Forde

Cast Brian Donlevy · Frances Drake · Alan Dinehart · Sig Ruman

Synopsis G-Man Chick Gardner, posing as a taxi driver, convinces the members of a counterfeiting gang that he is on their side and is taken into the organization by Philip Strickland, the boss, over the objections of gang lieutenant Flash Dillon....

Not rated

Not rated

The World Changes

1933 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Paul Muni · Aline MacMahon · Mary Astor · Donald Cook

Synopsis An ambitious farmer becomes a pioneer in the meat packing business, finding financial success but private disappointment over the course of many decades.

Not rated

Not rated

Everything Happens at Night

1939 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Irving Cummings

Cast Sonja Henie · Ray Milland · Robert Cummings · Maurice Moscovitch

Synopsis Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.

Not rated

Not rated

Not rated

Fired Wife

1943 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Not rated

Not rated