Cast: Joe Devlin

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


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...

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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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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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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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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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