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
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast Richard Dix · Ann Harding · Edna May Oliver · Guy Kibbee
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
Direction Marion Gering
Cast Sylvia Sidney · Donald Cook · Mary Astor · Edward Arnold
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The Girl from Mandalay
1936 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Howard Bretherton
Cast Conrad Nagel · Kay Linaker · Donald Cook · Esther Ralston
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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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