Cast: Donald Cook

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


The Public Enemy

1931 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast James Cagney · Jean Harlow · Edward Woods · Joan Blondell

Plot A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, even as a gangster's accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war.

7.6

4K votes

7.6

4K votes

Baby Face

1933 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · George Brent · Donald Cook · Alphonse Ethier

Plot Lily Powers (Baby Face) has to do more than serve drinks at her father's run-down speakeasy in a small industrial town. His death gives her the chance to get to...

7.0

410 votes

7.0

410 votes

Frisco Jenny

1932 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Ruth Chatterton · Louis Calhern · Helen Jerome Eddy · Donald Cook

Plot Frisco Jenny was orphaned by the 1906 earthquake and fire and has become the madame of prosperous bawdy house. She puts her son up for adoption and he rises to...

6.9

130 votes

6.9

130 votes

Safe in Hell

1931 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Dorothy Mackaill · Donald Cook · Ralf Harolde · John Wray

Plot After killing an ex-boyfriend in New Orleans, a prostitute flees to a Caribbean island. There the vicious local police chief sets his sights on her, unaware that she is a...

6.6

128 votes

6.6

128 votes

The Conquerors

1932 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

6.6

28 votes

6.6

28 votes

Show Boat

1936 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction James Whale

Cast Irene Dunne · Allan Jones · Charles Winninger · Helen Morgan

Plot With SHOW BOAT, horror maven James Whale (FRANKENSTEIN, THE INVISIBLE MAN) returns to the stage-adaptation genre of his first film (JOURNEY’S END). The second film version of the 1926 Edna...

6.5

187 votes

6.5

187 votes

The Kiss Before the Mirror

1933 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction James Whale

Cast Nancy Carroll · Frank Morgan · Paul Lukas · Gloria Stuart

Plot When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney--who suspects that his own wife is having an affair.

6.2

37 votes

6.2

37 votes

Viva Villa!

1934 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Jack Conway · Howard Hawks · William A. Wellman

Cast Wallace Beery · Leo Carrillo · Fay Wray · Donald Cook

Plot A gutsy action-drama about the career of a Mexican rebel. In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's...

6.1

148 votes

6.1

148 votes

The Mad Genius

1931 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast John Barrymore · Marian Marsh · Charles Butterworth · Donald Cook

Plot A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with...

5.9

25 votes

5.9

25 votes

Penguin Pool Murder

1932 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction George Archainbaud

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

Plot 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...

5.7

46 votes

5.7

46 votes

Our Very Own

1950 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction David Miller

Cast Ann Blyth · Farley Granger · Joan Evans · Jane Wyatt

Plot Gail discovers the shocking news that she is adopted during a heated argument with her sister, Joan. With the reluctant support of her adopted parents and baby sister, Penny, Gail...

5.5

42 votes

5.5

42 votes

The Night Is Young

1935 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Dudley Murphy

Cast Ramon Novarro · Evelyn Laye · Charles Butterworth · Una Merkel

Plot Young Austrian Archduke Paul “Gustl” Gustave is in an arranged engagement to Princess Matilda, but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl continue his fling with ballet dancer Lisl...

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Jennie Gerhardt

1933 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

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The Girl from Mandalay

1936 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

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Brief Moment

1933 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction David Burton

Cast Carole Lombard · Gene Raymond · Donald Cook · Monroe Owsley

Plot A dissolute rich society boy marries a worldly nightclub singer, and she begins to have a wholly unexpected effect on him.

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The World Changes

1933 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Paul Muni · Aline MacMahon · Mary Astor · Donald Cook

Plot An ambitious farmer becomes a pioneer in the meat packing business, finding financial success but private disappointment over the course of many decades.

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Whirlpool

1934 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Roy William Neill

Cast Jack Holt · Jean Arthur · Donald Cook · Allen Jenkins

Plot Carnie owner Buck Rankin marries local girl Helen and plans to go straight, but after a brawl ends up with a twenty-year sentence for manslaughter. When a pregnant Helen vows...

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The Woman I Stole

1933 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Irving Cummings

Cast Jack Holt · Fay Wray · Donald Cook · Noah Beery

Plot A man (Jack Holt) wins his best friend's wife (Fay Wray) and seems to be plotting to ruin the man's oil business.

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Bowery to Broadway

1944 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Maria Montez · Jack Oakie · Susanna Foster · Turhan Bey

Plot Two Bowery vaudevillians find success in producing shows on Broadway, but when one of them suddenly departs to work for a beautiful woman, a feud erupts.

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The 9th Guest

1934 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Roy William Neill

Cast Donald Cook · Genevieve Tobin · Hardie Albright · Edward Ellis

Plot Eight strangers are invited to spend the night in a penthouse apartment. After being wined and dined, a voice on the radio informs them that they will be murdered unless...

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