Cast: Dave O'Brien

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Dave O'Brien. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Big Parade of Comedy

1964 · Documentary · 90 min. · United States

Direction Robert Youngson

Cast Clark Gable · Greta Garbo · Jean Harlow · Cary Grant

Plot A compilation of scenes from classic MGM comedies from the silent era up to 1948's "A Southern Yankee." Among the films showcased are "The Thin Man," "A Night at the...

6.5

24 votes

6.5

24 votes

The Devil Bat

1940 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Jean Yarbrough

Cast Bela Lugosi · Suzanne Kaaren · Dave O'Brien · Guy Usher

Plot Dr. Carruthers feels bitter at being betrayed by his employers, Heath and Morton, when they became rich as a result of a product he devised. He gains revenge by electrically...

5.1

179 votes

5.1

179 votes

Bowery at Midnight

1942 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Wallace Fox

Cast Bela Lugosi · John Archer · Wanda McKay · Tom Neal

Plot Kindly soup kitchen operator and professor of criminology Bela Lugosi uses his soup kitchen as a front for a criminal gang who commit a series of daring robberies and murders....

5.0

39 votes

5.0

39 votes

Tell Your Children (Reefer Madness)

1936 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Louis J. Gasnier

Cast Dorothy Short · Kenneth Craig · Lillian Miles · Dave O'Brien

Plot Propaganda film that relates the story, as told by high school principal Dr. Carroll to parents at a PTA meeting, of the scourge of marijuana. The tale revolves around Mae...

4.3

234 votes

4.3

234 votes

The Singing Cowgirl

1938 · Movie · 59 min. · United States

Direction Samuel Diege

Cast Dorothy Page · Dave O'Brien · Vince Barnett · Dorothy Short

Plot John Tolen is after Tom Harkins' ranch where his men have found gold. After they kill Harkins, Dorothy Hendricks and Dick Williams step in and discover that the gold actually...

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Hold That Woman!

1940 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Sam Newfield

Cast James Dunn · Frances Gifford · George Douglas · Rita La Roy

Plot A skip tracer repossesses a small radio from a deadbeat who's skipped payments. What he doesn't know is that a gang has stashed stolen diamonds inside the radio, and they...

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The Man Who Walked Alone

1945 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Christy Cabanne

Cast Dave O'Brien · Kay Aldridge · Walter Catlett · Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams

Plot Marion Scott, honorably discharged WW II soldier, in "civies" and carrying a suitcase containing his uniform and medals, is hitch-hiking to the small hometown of a buddy killed overseas, intending...

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Good News

1930 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Nick Grinde

Cast Mary Lawlor · Stanley Smith · Bessie Love · Cliff Edwards

Plot Tom Marlowe is the star of his college football team, and has a promising romance with a female college student, Connie Lane. He does not excel, however, in his college...

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The Desperados Are in Town

1956 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Kurt Neumann

Cast Robert Arthur · Kathleen Nolan · Rhys Williams · Rhodes Reason

Plot Lonnie works the family farm in Double Rivers Georgia, but dreams of going west. When he finally leaves, he makes it to Texas where his new friend Frank gets him...

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Murder by Invitation

1941 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Phil Rosen

Cast Wallace Ford · Marian Marsh · Sarah Padden · Gavin Gordon

Plot The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can divide up her money. To show them that there are no hard feelings,...

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Boys of the City

1940 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Joseph H. Lewis

Cast Bobby Jordan · Leo Gorcey · Hal E. Chester · Frankie Burke

Plot Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.

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Spooks Run Wild

1941 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Phil Rosen

Cast Bela Lugosi · Leo Gorcey · Bobby Jordan · Huntz Hall

Plot The boys are sent to a mountain camp. Stranded in a small rural town, they hear about a "monster killer" roaming the countryside. At night, they sneak out. Peewee is...

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Queen of the Yukon

1940 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Phil Rosen

Cast Charles Bickford · Irene Rich · June Carlson · Dave O'Brien

Plot Sadie owns a riverboat that gold-miners are using to travel to their claims, while gambling and drinking on the way. The Yukon Mining Company sends Thorne to take over Sadie's...

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East Side Kids

1940 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Robert F. Hill

Cast Leon Ames · Dennis Moore · Joyce Bryant · Hal E. Chester

Plot A young street kid grows up and becomes a cop when he realizes that crime doesn't pay. One of his childhood friends is in prison for a murder he didn't...

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The Kettles in the Ozarks

1956 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

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That Gang of Mine

1940 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

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Riders of the Sage

1939 · Movie · 57 min. · United States

Direction Harry S. Webb

Cast Bob Steele · Claire Rochelle · Ralph Hoopes · Jimmy Aubrey

Plot In an effort to get Jim Martin to sell his ranch, the Halsey brothers have kidnapped his son Tom. When Bob Burke goes after him alone, he gets help from...

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Tennessee Champ

1954 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Fred M. Wilcox

Cast Shelley Winters · Keenan Wynn · Dewey Martin · Earl Holliman

Plot Sarah Wurble's husband Willy is the larceny-inclined manager of an illiterate, and very religious boxer from Tennessee named Danny. Gifted with a powerful punch and a nickname that gives the...

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On Your Toes

1939 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Ray Enright

Cast Vera Zorina · Eddie Albert · Alan Hale · Frank McHugh

Plot A young hoofer quits vaudeville to become a composer and hooks up with a Russian ballet troupe.

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King of the Stallions

1942 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Edward Finney

Cast Dave O'Brien · Chief Thundercloud · Sally Cairns · Rick Vallin

Plot Both Indians and cowboys are after a beautiful stallion, the leader of a pack of wild horses.

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