Cast: Jason Robards Sr.
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Jason Robards Sr.. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
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The Merry Widow
1934 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Maurice Chevalier · Jeanette MacDonald · Edward Everett Horton · Una Merkel
Synopsis 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 to Paris in the quest to find a husband, the...
7.0
1K votes
7.0
1K votes
Desperate
1947 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Anthony Mann
Cast Steve Brodie · Audrey Long · Raymond Burr · Douglas Fowley
Synopsis When mobster Walt Radak tries to trick independent trucker Steve Randall into transporting stolen furs, Steve alerts the police, and Walt's young brother Al is caught and held for a cop-killing. When ruthless Radak tries to extort Steve's help in...
6.6
231 votes
6.6
231 votes
The Conquerors
1932 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast Richard Dix · Ann Harding · Edna May Oliver · Guy Kibbee
6.6
28 votes
6.6
28 votes
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
1948 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction H.C. Potter
Cast Cary Grant · Myrna Loy · Melvyn Douglas · Reginald Denny
Synopsis In Manhattan, the American middle class Jim Blandings lives with his wife Muriel and two teenage daughters in a four bedroom and one bathroom only leased apartment. Jim works in an advertising agency raising US$ 15,000.00 a year and feels...
6.6
1K votes
6.6
1K votes
Abraham Lincoln
1930 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction D.W. Griffith
Cast Walter Huston · Una Merkel · William L. Thorne · Lucille La Verne
Synopsis D.W. Griffith's first talking movie is the biography of Lincoln from his birth in a log cabin to his entry into politics and his years of power before his assassination in Ford's Theatre. It is sincere and straightforward as it...
6.5
478 votes
6.5
478 votes
Broadway Bill
1934 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra
Cast Warner Baxter · Myrna Loy · Walter Connolly · Helen Vinson
Synopsis This comedy-drama was directed, and then -- over twenty years later -- remade, by Frank Capra. Dan Brooks cares more about his thoroughbred Broadway Bill than for his wife Margaret or his job at father-in-law J. L. Higgins's business. When...
6.5
294 votes
6.5
294 votes
Riffraff
1947 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Ted Tetzlaff
Cast Pat O'Brien · Anne Jeffreys · Walter Slezak · Percy Kilbride
Synopsis A plane takes off from Peru (in a long no-dialogue scene) in a storm with two passengers; it lands in Panama with one. The missing man had valuable oil-location maps; everyone who is after them must deal with Dan Hammer,...
6.3
31 votes
6.3
31 votes
Bedlam
1946 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Mark Robson
Cast Boris Karloff · Anna Lee · Billy House · Richard Fraser
Synopsis London, 18thcentury. Nell Bowen, the spirited protege of rich Lord Mortimer, becomes interested in the conditions of notorious St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum (Bedlam). Encouraged by the Quaker Hannay, she tries to bring support to reforming Bedlam, but the cruel...
6.2
516 votes
6.2
516 votes
Guy de Maupassant's Mademoiselle Fifi
1944 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Robert Wise
Cast Simone Simon · John Emery · Kurt Kreuger · Alan Napier
Synopsis In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors. But when a Prussian officer holds the coach over, social standings are leveled and integrity and spirit are...
6.1
85 votes
6.1
85 votes
Isle of the Dead
1945 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Mark Robson
Cast Boris Karloff · Ellen Drew · Marc Cramer · Katherine Emery
Synopsis On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people, a superstitious old peasant woman, suspects one young girl of being a vampiric kind...
6.0
397 votes
6.0
397 votes
The Adventures of Marco Polo
1938 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Archie Mayo
Cast Gary Cooper · Sigrid Gurie · Basil Rathbone · George Barbier
Synopsis Marco Polo travels from Venice to Peking, where he quickly discovers spaghetti and gunpowder and falls in love with the Emperor's daughter. The Emperor Kublai Khan is a kindly fellow, but his evil aide Ahmed wants to get rid of...
5.8
416 votes
5.8
416 votes
The Fatal Hour
1940 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction William Nigh
Cast Boris Karloff · Marjorie Reynolds · Grant Withers · Charles Trowbridge
Synopsis When Captain Street's best friend Dan O'Grady is murdered, Street enlists the help of Chinese detective James Lee Wong. Mr. Wong uncovers a smuggling ring on the waterfront of San Francisco and unmasks the killer, though not until several more...
5.6
26 votes
5.6
26 votes
Step by Step
1946 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction Phil Rosen
Cast Lawrence Tierney · Anne Jeffreys · Lowell Gilmore · Myrna Dell
Synopsis Johnny, an ex-Marine, and Evelyn, a chance acquaintance, find themselves caught up in a plot involving Nazi spies in California.
5.1
51 votes
5.1
51 votes
The Bamboo Blonde
1946 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Anthony Mann
Cast Frances Langford · Ralph Edwards · Russell Wade · Iris Adrian
Synopsis A nightclub singer is promoted when a likeness of her face is painted on a WWII bomber that goes on to sink Japanese battleships and down several enemy planes.
4.9
71 votes
4.9
71 votes
Damaged Lives
1933 · Movie · 61 min. · United States
Direction Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast Diane Sinclair · Lyman Williams · Harry Myers · Marceline Day
Synopsis An extramarital affair leads to a young couple contracting venereal disease.
4.8
21 votes
4.8
21 votes
Mystery Plane
1939 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction George Waggner
Cast John Trent · Marjorie Reynolds · Milburn Stone · Jason Robards Sr.
Synopsis An American pilot with a top-secret invention is kidnapped by foreign agents.
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Alaska Patrol
1949 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Jack Bernhard
Cast Richard Travis · Helen Westcott · Emory Parnell · Richard Fraser
Synopsis Spotted after he microfilms secret U.S. Navy documents, foreign agent Rattick is killed when he tries to make a getaway. Naval Intelligence officer Captain Wright and Operative Dale are assigned to investigate and determine who is behind the spy syndicate...
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Discarded Lovers
1932 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction Fred C. Newmeyer
Cast Natalie Moorhead · Russell Hopton · J. Farrell MacDonald · Barbara Weeks
Synopsis In this murder mystery, sexy blonde film star Irma Gladden is found dead in her car after shooting the last scene in her film, "Falling Star," at Eminent Studios. The suspects are numerous due to her free-and-easy lifestyle and messy...
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Code of the West
1947 · Movie · 57 min. · United States
Direction William Berke
Cast James Warren · Debra Alden · John Laurenz · Steve Brodie
Synopsis Knowing the railroad is coming, Carter is after the rancher's land. Bob and Chito return just in time to save Banker Stockton and his money from Carter's men. When Stockton then lends the ranchers money, Carter has them burned out....
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Footloose Widows
1926 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Roy Del Ruth
Cast Louise Fazenda · Jacqueline Logan · Jason Robards Sr. · Douglas Gerrard
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