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

6.0

31 votes

6.0

31 votes