Cast: Joe Devlin
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Joe Devlin. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 19
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
1944 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Preston Sturges
Cast Eddie Bracken · Betty Hutton · Diana Lynn · William Demarest
Synopsis Preston Sturges directs THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK, about Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton) a party girl who wakes up one morning to find she's married and pregnant, but she cannot remember who, of six possible American soldiers, is the lucky...
7.1
651 votes
7.1
651 votes
The Oklahoma Kid
1939 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast James Cagney · Humphrey Bogart · Rosemary Lane · Donald Crisp
Synopsis McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid (Cagney) takes the money from McCord (Bogart). McCord stakes a "sooner" claim on land which is to be...
6.3
194 votes
6.3
194 votes
King of the Underworld
1939 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Lewis Seiler
Cast Humphrey Bogart · Kay Francis · James Stephenson · John Eldredge
Synopsis Niles and Carol Nelson are married doctors who save one of ganglord Gurney's men. Gurney exploits them, then kills Niles leaving Carol to take the fall. He next kidnaps writer Bill Forrest to write his biography. Knowing Bill will be...
6.1
137 votes
6.1
137 votes
San Quentin
1946 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Gordon Douglas
Cast Lawrence Tierney · Barton MacLane · Marian Carr · Harry Shannon
Synopsis Television viewer seeing this for the first time: Gee whiz, it's in black-and-white and was made in the 40's and is about crime and...Eureka!...another "noir" film is discovered. How about just another typical Martin Mooney film that starts out as...
5.7
64 votes
5.7
64 votes
Criminal Court
1946 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction Robert Wise
Cast Tom Conway · Martha O'Driscoll · June Clayworth · Robert Armstrong
Synopsis A lawyer who is planning to run for District Attorney accidentally kills a gangster who owns the nightclub where the attorney's girlfriend is a singer. Although he manages to cover up his involvement in the crime, his girlfriend discovers the...
5.7
169 votes
5.7
169 votes
Shoot to Kill
1947 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction William Berke
Cast Russell Wade · Luana Walters · Edmund MacDonald · Robert Kent
Synopsis A former gangster is framed by a corrupt district attorney. With an investigative reporter, he gathers proof of his innocence in hopes to clear his name.
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The Devil with Hitler
1942 · Movie · 44 min. · United States
Direction Gordon Douglas · Glenn Tryon
Cast Alan Mowbray · Robert Watson · George E. Stone · Joe Devlin
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Fry's Planet Word
2011 · Documentary · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John-Paul Davidson · Helen Williamson
Cast Stephen Fry · Brian Blessed · Johnson Chang · Robert McCrum
Synopsis Stephen Fry finding out more about linguistic achievements and how our skills for the spoken word have changed. He dissects language in many of its guises.
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The Shanghai Cobra
1945 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction Phil Karlson
Cast Sidney Toler · Mantan Moreland · Benson Fong · James Cardwell
Synopsis When three employees of a bank are found murdered with cobra venom, Charlie Chan connects the homicides to a case he had worked in Shanghai in 1937. Even though he arrested the alleged murderer, whom later escaped from the police,...
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The Whistler (TV Series)
1954 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Will Jason · William F. Claxton · Joel Malone · Charles F. Haas
Cast William Forman · Danni Sue Nolan · Dorothy Green · Arthur Franz
Synopsis Crime anthology series with twist endings. Based on the popular radio drama and several B-movies.
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Chasing Trouble
1940 · Movie · 63 min. · United States
Direction Howard Bretherton
Cast Frankie Darro · Mantan Moreland · Marjorie Reynolds · Milburn Stone
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Brenda Starr, Reporter (TV Miniseries)
1945 · Series · 247 min. · United States
Direction Wallace Fox
Cast Joan Woodbury · Syd Saylor · Kane Richmond · Jack Ingram
Synopsis Daily Flash newspaper journalist Brenda Starr (Joan Woodbury), and her photographer, Chuck Allen (Syd Saylor), are assigned to cover a fire in an old house, where they discover the wounded Joe Heller (Wheeler Oakman), a mobster suspected of stealing a...
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Yankee Doodle Goes to Town (S)
1939 · Movie · 11 min. · United States
Direction Jacques Tourneur
Cast John Nesbitt · Clem Bevans · Joe Devlin · Robert Dudley
Synopsis Made just before America would be forced into the Second World War, this short subject is a brief dramatized history of American democracy. It targets a perceived threat to democracy from board room and soapbox fascists who advocated a government...
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Taxi, Mister
1943 · Movie · 46 min. · United States
Direction Kurt Neumann
Cast William Bendix · Grace Bradley · Joe Sawyer · Sheldon Leonard
Synopsis Its is NYC in 1928 and taxi-cab owners Tim McGuerin and Eddie Corbett are making a hard-scrabble living with the one tumbledown cab they have between them, and take shifts driving. They have plans to expand and already have their...
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Up in Smoke
1957 · Movie · 61 min. · United States
Direction William Beaudine
Cast Huntz Hall · Stanley Clements · David Gorcey · Eddie LeRoy
Synopsis In order to be able to get the names of winning horses at the track, Sach agrees to sell his soul to the devil.
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The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (TV) (TV Miniseries)
1940 · Series · 293 min. · United States
Direction Ford Beebe · John Rawlins
Cast Warren Hull · Keye Luke · Wade Boteler · Anne Nagel
Synopsis A wealthy publisher uses a disguise and calls himself the Green Hornet to fight crime in his city.
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The Phantom (TV Miniseries)
1943 · Movie · 299 min. · United States
Direction B. Reeves Eason
Cast Tom Tyler · Jeannie Bates · Ernie Adams · John Bagni
Synopsis Professor Davidson and his niece Diana Palmer search Africa for the Lost City of Zoloz, reputed to be the source of a large hidden treasure. Also searching is a local crook, Singapore Smith, and Dr. Max Bremmer, who plans to...
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My Buddy
1944 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Steve Sekely
Cast Don 'Red' Barry · Ruth Terry · Lynne Roberts · Alexander Granach
Synopsis Republic, never a company to not try getting ahead of the curve and with writers who could remember the 1930's social conscience WW I vets-returning-home films, made this in mid-1944 (a full year before the end of WW II) as...
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Dick Tracy (TV Series)
1950 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Thomas Carr · Will Sheldon · Nate Watt · B. Reeves Eason
Cast Ralph Byrd · Joe Devlin · Lyle Talbot · William Woodson
Synopsis Live-action Dick Tracy series that ran on ABC from 1950 to 1951. Additional episodes intended for first-run syndication continued to be produced into 1952. Produced by P. K. Palmer, who also wrote many of the scripts, the series often featured...
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