Cast: Frederick Burton

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


The Big Trail

1930 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast John Wayne · Marguerite Churchill · El Brendel · Tully Marshall

Plot In this sweeping pioneer adventure, a courageous young scout (John Wayne) leads hundreds of settlers across treacherous cliffs, through brutal snowstorms, Indian attacks and buffalo stampedes to their destiny out...

7.1

726 votes

7.1

726 votes

One Way Passage

1932 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast William Powell · Kay Francis · Aline MacMahon · Frank McHugh

Plot Suave Dan Hardesty, a convicted murderer, is apprehended by Steve Burke, a police detective, in Hong Kong and accompanied on the SS Maloa headed for San Francisco. On board, Dan...

6.8

126 votes

6.8

126 votes

Two Seconds

1932 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Vivienne Osborne · Guy Kibbee · Preston Foster

Plot A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, flashes back over his life and the incidents that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair.

6.7

77 votes

6.7

77 votes

An American Tragedy

1931 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Phillips Holmes · Sylvia Sidney · Frances Dee · Irving Pichel

Plot Though his parents are street evangelists, Clyde Griffiths (Phillips Holmes) grows up in squalor, but not without ambitions. He first works as a bellhop in Kansas City, but when he's...

6.6

125 votes

6.6

125 votes

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

1939 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Francis Lederer · George Sanders · Paul Lukas

Plot Ed Renard is a G-Man investigating a huge Nazi spy ring in the United States. Contacts are discovered and arrested in U.S.A.

6.4

136 votes

6.4

136 votes

Theodora Goes Wild

1936 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Richard Boleslawski

Cast Irene Dunne · Melvyn Douglas · Thomas Mitchell · Thurston Hall

Plot The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's...

6.2

78 votes

6.2

78 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

The Saint in New York

1938 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Ben Holmes

Cast Louis Hayward · Kay Sutton · Sig Ruman · Jonathan Hale

Plot The Saint is a cold-blooded murderer, redeemed by the fact that all of his victims are notorious gangsters who'd otherwise elude the clutches of the law. Hired by a coterie...

5.7

30 votes

5.7

30 votes

Belle of the Nineties

1934 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

5.5

92 votes

5.5

92 votes

Flirtation Walk

1934 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Dick Powell · Ruby Keeler · Pat O'Brien · Ross Alexander

Plot A Musical-romance with Dick Powell as a private stationed in Hawaii who gets involved with Ruby Keeler, the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break...

4.7

21 votes

4.7

21 votes

Broadway Bad

1933 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Joan Blondell · Ricardo Cortez · Ginger Rogers · Adrienne Ames

Plot Showgirl Joan Blondell, supported by her friend Ginger Rogers, fights for the custody of her son during a divorce hearing.

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The Fighting Blade

1923 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction John S. Robertson

Cast Richard Barthelmess · Dorothy Mackaill · Morgan Wallace · Bradley Barker

Plot In the war-like times of Oliver Cromwell, in and around 'olde Oxford towne', Dutchman Karl Van Kerstenbrook, Dutch soldier-of-fortune and sword-for-hire, stands ready to defend his lady-love, the fair Thomsine...

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The Duke Comes Back

1937 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Irving Pichel

Cast Allan Lane · Heather Angel · Genevieve Tobin · John Russell

Plot An ex-prizefighter returns to the ring to help his father-in-law who has money problems. Based on Lucian Cary's novel "The Duke Comes Back

Not rated

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No Other Woman

1933 · Movie · 58 min. · United States

Direction J. Walter Ruben

Cast Irene Dunne · Charles Bickford · Gwili Andre · Eric Linden

Plot A steelworker and his aspiring wife make millions when they become partners in a dyeworks. Unfortunately, success does not bring happiness.

Not rated

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The Man Who Lost Himself

1941 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Edward Ludwig

Cast Brian Aherne · Kay Francis · Henry Stephenson · S.Z. Sakall

Plot John Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans finds himself mistaken for Scott and decides to do some good in his new role.

Not rated

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Silver on the Sage

1939 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Lesley Selander

Cast William Boyd · Russell Hayden · George 'Gabby' Hayes · Ruth Rogers

Plot Hoppy goes undercover as an Eastern gambler to rein in the fraternal perpetrators of a cattle-rustling scheme.

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Transient Lady

1935 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Edward Buzzell

Cast Gene Raymond · Henry Hull · Frances Drake · June Clayworth

Plot A senator's brother turns up murdered, and the senator tries to pin the blame on a man he knows is innocent.

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Man with Two Lives

1942 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Phil Rosen

Cast Edward Norris · Marlo Dwyer · Eleanor Lawson · Frederick Burton

Plot A man is brought back from death at the same time a vicious criminal dies in the electric chair. However, the man's soul is now taken over by the electrocuted...

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Not rated

Silver Queen

1942 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast George Brent · Priscilla Lane · Bruce Cabot · Lynne Overman

Plot In New York in 1873, President Ulysses S. Grant announces that the national debt is at three billion dollars. Meanwhile, suave, professional gambler James Kincaid and his valet, Blackie, continue...

Not rated

Not rated

The Voice of Bugle Ann

1936 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Lionel Barrymore · Maureen O'Sullivan · Eric Linden · Dudley Digges

Plot The countrymen in the hills of Missouri take the hounds on night fox hunts. This goes on until Jacob Terry comes into the county and decides to raise sheep and...

Not rated

Not rated