Cast: William Demarest

Direction H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast Warner Oland · Boris Karloff · Keye Luke · William Demarest

Plot Regarded by many as the best of the Charlie Chan series. The opera star Gravelle suffers amnesia. He is a recent escapee from an insane asylum, accused of murdering fellow...

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Bing Crosby · Coleen Gray · Charles Bickford · Frances Gifford

Plot RIDING HIGH is Frank Capra's remake of his own 1934 film Broadway Bill (AKA Strictly Confidential), in which romance and comedy play out against the backdrop of thoroughbred horse racing....

Direction Garson Kanin

Cast John Barrymore · Peter Holden · Virginia Weidler · Katharine Alexander

Plot In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book-to-bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman and his children, who know him...

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast Alan Ladd · Edward G. Robinson · Joanne Dru · William Demarest

Plot After 5 years in prison, ex-cop Steve Rollins is paroled and searches for the San Francisco mobsters who framed him for manslaughter.

Direction Rudolph Maté

Cast Tony Curtis · Colleen Miller · Arthur Kennedy · William Demarest

Plot Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena with his girlfriend, luscious entertainer Zoe. But Galena's leading citizen is murdered on...

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Alan Ladd · Gail Russell · William Demarest · Stanley Clements

Plot Salty owes money to Doc Baxter; he and his pal Smitty have one month to pay up. They get a race horse and a disbarred jockey, Johnny Cates, who must...

Direction Robert Parrish

Cast Jane Wyman · Charlton Heston · Claire Trevor · Thelma Ritter

Plot An unusually matronly Jane Wyman plays the title character in Lucy Gallant. Adapted from a novel by Margaret Cousins, the story concerns the efforts by Lucy Gallant to make the...

Direction Eugene Forde

Cast Lloyd Nolan · Mary Beth Hughes · Sheila Ryan · William Demarest

Plot Detective Michael Shayne and his girlfriend Joanne leave a marriage bureau when shots fired in a nearby theatre draw his attention to a string of theatrical murders.

Direction John Ford

Cast James Cagney · Corinne Calvet · Dan Dailey · William Demarest

Plot James Cagney signed on to play Captain Flagg in 20th Century Fox's 1952 remake of the 1926 classic What Price Glory after being told that the old property was being...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Charles Boyer · William Demarest · Lyle Bettger · Barbara Rush

Direction Rudolph Maté

Cast Fred MacMurray · Charlton Heston · Donna Reed · Barbara Hale

Plot After the United States acquired Louisiana from France, explorers Meriwether Lewis (MacMurray) and William Clark (Heston) lead an expedition to survey the territory where no white man has ever gone...

Direction Stuart Heisler

Cast Gary Cooper · Loretta Young · William Demarest · Dan Duryea

Plot Riding into Payneville, easy-going cowboy Melody Jones is mistaken by the townsfolk for notorious gunman Monte Jarrad. The real Jarrad is hiding out wounded on the ranch of childhood sweetheart...

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...

Direction Richard Wallace

Cast Joan Bennett · Cary Grant · George Bancroft · Conrad Nagel

Plot Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are great reporters on a Chicgo tabloid and romantically involved as well. Despite their skills in obtaining great scoops, they are often irresponsible and immature...

Direction Leslie Fenton

Cast Alan Ladd · Robert Preston · Brenda Marshall · Donald Crisp

Plot Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go after him. He also seems to...

Direction King Vidor · George Stevens · Leslie Fenton

Cast James Stewart · Henry Fonda · Burgess Meredith · Charles D. Brown

Plot Also released under the title A MIRACLE CAN HAPPEN, this three-part anthology features vignettes that are connected by a question from feature reporter Oliver Pease (Burgess Meredith): "Has a child...

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Cary Grant · Janet Blair · James Gleason · Ted Donaldson

Plot Smalltime crookster and showman Jerry Flynn is desperately searching for a new act to promote in order to save him from ruin. He meets a boy on the street who...

Direction George Marshall

Cast Betty Hutton · John Lund · Billy De Wolfe · William Demarest

Plot Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville performance. Her brief stage career leads her...

Direction Jesse Hibbs

Cast Lex Barker · Mala Powers · Howard Duff · William Demarest

Plot A formula brawling-buddies western where one goes bad and then returns to the fold. Pete Menlo owns some gold claims in Nevada where he is joined by his old friend...

Direction George Beck

Cast Farley Granger · Shelley Winters · William Demarest · Francis L. Sullivan

Plot A young couple's dog gets them mixed up in a string of murders.