Cast: Guy Usher

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


Charlie Chan at the Opera

1936 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction H. Bruce Humberstone

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

Synopsis 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 performers (his wife and her lover).

6.2

36 votes

6.2

36 votes

It's a Gift

1934 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

5.8

178 votes

5.8

178 votes

Penguin Pool Murder

1932 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction George Archainbaud

Cast Edna May Oliver · Robert Armstrong · James Gleason · Mae Clarke

Synopsis The body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium. Naturally, suspicion falls on his wife and her boyfriend, who were present. Inspector Piper investigates with the unsolicited aid of teacher Hildegard Withers, a...

5.7

46 votes

5.7

46 votes

Fast Workers

1933 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Tod Browning

Cast John Gilbert · Robert Armstrong · Mae Clarke · Muriel Kirkland

Synopsis Gunner and Bucker are pals who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she is true or not. So far, Gunner has not failed. But...

5.6

59 votes

5.6

59 votes

Doomed to Die

1940 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction William Nigh

Cast Boris Karloff · Marjorie Reynolds · Grant Withers · William Stelling

Synopsis Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office...at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming. Of...

5.5

26 votes

5.5

26 votes

The Devil Bat

1940 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Jean Yarbrough

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

Synopsis 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 enlarging bats and sending them out to kill his employers'...

5.1

179 votes

5.1

179 votes

King of the Zombies

1941 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Jean Yarbrough

Cast Dick Purcell · Joan Woodbury · Mantan Moreland · Henry Victor

Synopsis In World War II, during a storm, a small plane crashes in an island between Cuba and Porto Rico, but the pilot James 'Mac' McCarthy (Dick Purcell) and his two passengers, Bill Summers (John Archer) and his black servant Jeff...

4.6

70 votes

4.6

70 votes

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Borrowed Hero

1941 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Lewis D. Collins

Cast Alan Baxter · Florence Rice · Constance Worth · John Hamilton

Synopsis Roger Andrews, an assistant district attorney, is the accidental hero of a police capture that results in his appointment by crooked civic leaders as a special prosecutor assigned to smash a crime ring. The crooked politicians, in an effort to...

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I Was Framed

1942 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction D. Ross Lederman

Cast Tod Andrews · Julie Bishop · Regis Toomey · Patti Hale

Synopsis A newspaperman out to get the goods on a crooked politician winds up in jail, framed for a killing he didn't commit. He and another prisoner attempt an escape, but although the newspaperman gets away, his colleague is caught and...

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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

Synopsis 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 start hunting for him.

Not rated

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Buck Rogers

1939 · Movie · 237 min. · United States

Direction Ford Beebe · Saul A. Goodkind

Cast Buster Crabbe · Constance Moore · Jack Moran · Jack Mulhall

Synopsis A pilot and his young passenger crash-land on a mountaintop and are put into suspended animation by a strange gas. They awake 500 years later to discover that the Earth is now ruled by a tyrannical despot called Killer Kane,...

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Crashing Through Danger

1936 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Sam Newfield

Cast Ray Walker · Sally Blane · Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams · James Bush

Synopsis Three electric-company linemen are constantly reprimanded by their supervisor, "Pop" Foster, for their behavior, which is a bit too "happy-go-lucky" for Pop's tastes. Complications ensue.

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The Missing Guest

1938 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction John Rawlins

Cast Paul Kelly · Constance Moore · William Lundigan · Edwin Stanley

Synopsis A newspaper reporter, "Scoop" Hanlon, is required to spend time in a haunted house in which two murders are committed, several people faint and most of them drink a lot.

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Passport to Alcatraz

1940 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Lewis D. Collins

Cast Jack Holt · Noah Beery Jr. · Cecilia Callejo · Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom

Synopsis George Hollister, crack investigator for the NYC police, is assigned to run down the enemy aliens who dynamited a Detroit munitions plant. The trail takes him to a customs inspector who is known to have honored fake passports provided by...

Not rated

Not rated

Wolf Call

1939 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction George Waggner

Cast John Carroll · Movita · George Lynn · Guy Usher

Synopsis 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.

Not rated

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Clear All Wires!

1933 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction George W. Hill

Cast Lee Tracy · Benita Hume · Una Merkel · James Gleason

Synopsis Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being rescued from his alleged kidnappers, he finds that his boss,...

Not rated

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Annapolis Farewell

1935 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Guy Standing · Rosalind Keith · Tom Brown · Richard Cromwell

Synopsis Commodore Fitzhugh, an old retired naval officer, lives at the Annapolis Naval Academy and, unhappy with the "modern" navy, likes to talk about his days in the "old" navy, especially about his part in the Battle of Manila Bay under...

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Once a Doctor

1937 · Movie · 57 min. · United States

Direction William Clemens

Cast Jean Muir · Donald Woods · Gordon Oliver · Joe King

Synopsis Young doctors Steven and Jerry are rivals professionally and for Paula Norland. Jerry lets Steven take the blame for a mistake he made and sends him to prison. After his release, Steven gets redemption during a storm at sea.

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Laughing at Danger

1940 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

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Not rated