Cast: Donald Meek
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Donald Meek. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Stagecoach
1939 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast John Wayne · Claire Trevor · Thomas Mitchell · Andy Devine
Plot A stagecoach is set to leave Tonto, New Mexico, for a distant settlement in Lordsburg, with a diverse set of passengers on board. Dallas (Claire Trevor) is a woman with...
8.0
26K votes
8.0
26K votes
The Informer
1935 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Victor McLaglen · Heather Angel · Preston Foster · Margot Grahame
Plot A brutish but well-meaning Irishman, Gypo Nolan (Victor McLaglen), informs on his best friend Frankie McPhillip (Wallace Ford), who is a member of the Irish Republican Army, in order to...
7.6
3K votes
7.6
3K votes
Top Hat
1935 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Mark Sandrich
Cast Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Edward Everett Horton · Helen Broderick
Plot Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale...
7.4
7K votes
7.4
7K votes
Young Mr. Lincoln
1939 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Henry Fonda · Alice Brady · Marjorie Weaver · Arleen Whelan
Plot John Ford's film on the early career of Abraham Lincoln, which centers on an apocryphal murder trial, impressed even the great Sergei Eisenstein. This biography provides a glimpse into the...
7.3
2K votes
7.3
2K votes
Jesse James
1939 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Henry King
Cast Tyrone Power · Henry Fonda · Nancy Kelly · Randolph Scott
Plot The railroads are squeezing farmers off their land. When a railroad agent kills their mother, Frank and Jesse James take up robbing banks and trains. The public regard them as...
7.2
1K votes
7.2
1K votes
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1940 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction William Dieterle
Cast Edward G. Robinson · Ruth Gordon · Otto Kruger · Donald Crisp
Plot Dr. Paul Ehrlich was the German physician who developed the first synthetic antimicrobial drug, 606 or Salvarsan. The film describes how Ehrlich first became interested in the properties of the...
7.1
115 votes
7.1
115 votes
The Merry Widow
1934 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Maurice Chevalier · Jeanette MacDonald · Edward Everett Horton · Una Merkel
Plot Sonia is an immensely wealthy widow from Marshovia, a small country where she controls half the wealth. The country depends on her spending her money there and when she moves...
7.0
1K votes
7.0
1K votes
The Whole Town's Talking
1935 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Edward G. Robinson · Jean Arthur · Arthur Hohl · Arthur Byron
Plot Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is...
6.8
521 votes
6.8
521 votes
Barbary Coast
1935 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Howard Hawks
Cast Miriam Hopkins · Edward G. Robinson · Joel McCrea · Walter Brennan
Plot Year 1849 in the Gold Rush era. Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiance dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Louis Charnalis' Bella Donna,...
6.8
583 votes
6.8
583 votes
The Return of Frank James
1940 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Fritz Lang
Cast Henry Fonda · Gene Tierney · Jackie Cooper · Henry Hull
Plot Frank James continues to avoid arrest in order to take revenge on the Ford brothers for their murder of his brother Jesse.
6.8
1K votes
6.8
1K votes
Air Raid Wardens
1943 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Edward Sedgwick
Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Edgar Kennedy · Jacqueline White
Plot Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.
6.7
43 votes
6.7
43 votes
Keeper of the Flame
1942 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Spencer Tracy · Katharine Hepburn · Richard Whorf · Margaret Wycherly
Plot Journalist Steve O'Malley is writing a biography of a national hero who died when his car ran off a bridge. The man's widow Christine cooperates, and Steve learns that she...
6.6
611 votes
6.6
611 votes
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1938 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast Tommy Kelly · May Robson · Walter Brennan · Victor Jory
Plot Sentiment rules in this version of the Twain tale of boyhood in 1850 Missouri, reasonably faithful except for minor details and making the character Jim a boy instead of a...
6.5
849 votes
6.5
849 votes
Tortilla Flat
1942 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Victor Fleming
Cast Spencer Tracy · Hedy Lamarr · John Garfield · Frank Morgan
Plot Danny inherits two houses so Pilon and his lazy, impoverished friends move in. One of them, Pirate, is saving money which Pilon hopes to steal till he learns it is...
6.4
332 votes
6.4
332 votes
Mark of the Vampire
1935 · Movie · 58 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Lionel Barrymore · Elizabeth Allan · Bela Lugosi · Lionel Atwill
Plot Sir Karell Borotyn appears to have been killed by Count Mora, a vampire believed to haunt the local village. Now his daughter Irena is the count's next target. Enter Professor...
6.3
890 votes
6.3
890 votes
State Fair
1945 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Walter Lang
Cast Jeanne Crain · Dana Andrews · Dick Haymes · Vivian Blaine
Plot Farm family Frake, with discontented daughter Margy, head for the Iowa State Fair. On the first day, both Margy and brother Wayne meet attractive new flames; so does father's prize...
6.3
88 votes
6.3
88 votes
The Thin Man Goes Home
1944 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast William Powell · Myrna Loy · Gloria DeHaven · Lucile Watson
Plot Nick and Nora head to Nick's hometown of Sycamore Springs to spend some time with his parents. His father, a prominent local physician, was always a bit disappointed with Nick's...
6.3
125 votes
6.3
125 votes
Babes on Broadway
1941 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction Busby Berkeley
Cast Mickey Rooney · Judy Garland · Fay Bainter · Virginia Weidler
Plot After four months of floundering attempts to get into a Broadway show, Tommy Williams grasps the opportunity to produce a charity show to take city orphans on a trip to...
6.1
74 votes
6.1
74 votes
Magic Town
1947 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast James Stewart · Jane Wyman · Kent Smith · Ned Sparks
Plot Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country. He and his assistants go there to run...
6.0
474 votes
6.0
474 votes
Because of Him
1946 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Richard Wallace
Cast Deanna Durbin · Franchot Tone · Charles Laughton · Helen Broderick
6.0
31 votes
6.0
31 votes