Cast: John Sheehan

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


The Criminal Code

1930 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Walter Huston · Phillips Holmes · Constance Cummings · Mary Doran

Plot A young man's birthday celebration at a local speakeasy turns into a nightmare when he kills a man in self-defense! Bob Graham (Phillips Holmes), just twenty years old, is then...

6.8

330 votes

6.8

330 votes

The Murder Man

1935 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Tim Whelan

Cast Spencer Tracy · Virginia Bruce · Lionel Atwill · Harvey Stephens

Plot Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business...

6.4

45 votes

6.4

45 votes

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

1936 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Stephen Roberts

Cast William Powell · Jean Arthur · James Gleason · Eric Blore

Plot Relations between Dr. 'Brad' Bradford and ex-wife Paula are surprisingly romantic. They divorced because Brad hated being dragged into murder mysteries, to which mystery writer Paula is addicted. But through...

5.9

41 votes

5.9

41 votes

Slightly Honorable

1939 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Tay Garnett

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

Plot 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

Broadway Limited

1941 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast Victor McLaglen · Marjorie Woodworth · Dennis O'Keefe · Patsy Kelly

Plot As a ploy to gain publicity, a motion picture director wants his star actress to take a baby with her on a train trip. The director's secretary asks the train's...

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Night Club Scandal

1937 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Ralph Murphy

Cast John Barrymore · Lynne Overman · Louise Campbell · Charles Bickford

Plot Dr. Ernest Tindal kills his wife and plants clues pointing to her lover, Frank Marsh. Vera, Frank's sister, enlists the aid or reporter Russell Kirk in proving the innocence of...

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The Circus Clown

1934 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Ray Enright

Cast Joe E. Brown · Patricia Ellis · Dorothy Burgess · Don Dillaway

Plot Joe E. Brown plays a dual role as young acrobat Happy and his father Chuck. In the opening scene we see Chuck Howard telling his old boss at the circus...

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Fair Warning

1931 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Alfred L. Werker

Cast George O'Brien · Louise Huntington · Mitchell Harris · George Brent

Plot Warned to leave the premises or else, Whistlin’ Dan refuses to do so, sticking around long enough to whomp villain Jim Silent (Mitchell Lewis) and romance heroine Kate Cumberland (Louise...

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Wolf Call

1939 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction George Waggner

Cast John Carroll · Movita · George Lynn · Guy Usher

Plot A spoiled New York playboy learns the values of life when he’s sent by his father to work in a rural mining community in Canada.

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Wake Up and Live

1937 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Walter Winchell · Ben Bernie · Alice Faye · Patsy Kelly

Plot Built around the publicity "feud" between newspaper-radio-gossip spreader Walter Winchell and band leader Ben Bernie, a radio star, Alice Huntley (Alice Faye), who does an advice-and-inspiration program, helps a mike-shy...

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Midnight Court

1937 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Frank McDonald

Cast Ann Dvorak · John Litel · Carlyle Moore Jr. · Joseph Crehan

Plot After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.

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Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case

1941 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Bernard Vorhaus

Cast James Ellison · Virginia Gilmore · Franklin Pangborn · Paul Harvey

Plot P. Cadwallader Jones (James Ellison), assistant district attorney and his sweetheart Terry Parker (Virginia Gilmore), a newspaper reporter, are about to be married when news comes that newspaper publisher Elliott...

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Alibi Racket (S)

1935 · Movie · 18 min. · United States

Direction George B. Seitz

Cast Granville Bates · Al Bridge · Eddie Dunn · Irene Hervey

Plot How police interrogation cracks the "airtight" alibi of a criminal.

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The Past of Mary Holmes

1933 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Harlan Thompson · Slavko Vorkapich

Cast Helen MacKellar · Eric Linden · Jean Arthur · Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

Plot MacKellar is a washed up opera star and she blames it on her son, Linden. In an attempt to put her name back in the headlines and get revenge on...

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The Goose and the Gander

1935 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Kay Francis · George Brent · Genevieve Tobin · John Eldredge

Plot Wife #1 wants ex-husband to catch second wife being unfaithful.

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Three Godfathers

1936 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Richard Boleslawski

Cast Chester Morris · Lewis Stone · Walter Brennan · Irene Hervey

Plot Three Godfathers is a 1936 western film, adapted from the novel of the same name by Peter B. Kyne. Three bank robbers find a newborn baby and his dying mother...

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House of Mystery

1934 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction William Nigh

Cast Ed Lowry · Verna Hillie · John Sheehan · Brandon Hurst

Plot An ancient curse and a killer ape are contained inside an old dark mansion.

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The Countess of Monte Cristo

1934 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Karl Freund

Cast Fay Wray · Paul Lukas · Reginald Owen · Patsy Kelly

Plot In Austria a struggling actress borrows the fancy clothes and car from her film set, and goes to stay in a luxury hotel under the name "Countess of Monte Cristo".

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Youth Takes a Fling

1938 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Joel McCrea · Andrea Leeds · Frank Jenks · Dorothea Kent

Plot McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a...

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Death of a Champion

1939 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Robert Florey

Cast Lynne Overman · Virginia Dale · Joseph Allen · Donald O´Connor

Plot Oliver Quade is a pitchman who follows state fairs that feature dog shows---which limits his territory more than a little---at which he sells encyclopedias...and does it well as he possesses...

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