Direction: Erle C. Kenton

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Erle C. Kenton. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Island of Lost Souls

1932 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Charles Laughton · Bela Lugosi · Richard Arlen · Leila Hyams

Plot An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.

6.8

990 votes

6.8

990 votes

Picking Peaches (S)

1924 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Harry Langdon · Alberta Vaughn · Ethel Teare · Dot Farley

Plot A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe clerk steps out on his wife with one of his customers. Both his wife...

5.8

26 votes

5.8

26 votes

House of Frankenstein

1944 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Boris Karloff · Lon Chaney Jr. · John Carradine · J. Carrol Naish

Plot After escaping from an asylum the mad Dr. Niemann (Boris Karloff) and his hunch back assistant (J. Carrol Naish) revive Count Dracula (John Carradine), the Wolf Man (Lon Chaney Jr.)...

5.6

561 votes

5.6

561 votes

The Ghost of Frankenstein

1942 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Cedric Hardwicke · Lon Chaney Jr. · Ralph Bellamy · Lionel Atwill

Plot The villagers finally decide to free themselves of the Frankenstein menace and blow up Castle Frankenstein, but this succeeds in reviving the monster. Ygor takes the monster to the village...

5.5

292 votes

5.5

292 votes

House of Dracula

1945 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Lon Chaney Jr. · John Carradine · Martha O'Driscoll · Lionel Atwill

Plot At the same time, both Count Dracula and the wolfman, Larry Talbot, arrive at the sanitarium of Dr Franz Edelman in Vasaria, seeking a cure for their various afflictions. Edelman...

5.2

348 votes

5.2

348 votes

The Best Man Wins

1935 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Edmund Lowe · Jack Holt · Bela Lugosi · Florence Rice

Plot A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go...

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Search for Beauty

1934 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Buster Crabbe · Ida Lupino · Robert Armstrong · James Gleason

Plot Three shady characters - Larry, Jean, and Dan - want to make money legally by resuscitating a fitness magazine with cheesecake and beefcake photos and salacious stories with tacked-on morals....

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Party Wire

1935 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Jean Arthur · Victor Jory · Helen Lowell · Robert Allen

Plot When the daughter of the town's leading citizen and a local dairyman have a romance,and the man makes a sudden-and-unexplained trip out of town, the local gossips, employing the small-town's...

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The Cat Creeps

1946 · Movie · 58 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Noah Beery Jr. · Lois Collier · Paul Kelly · Frederick Brady

Plot A black cat is suspected of being possessed by the spirit of a elderly murdered woman.

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Devil's Squadron

1936 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Richard Dix · Karen Morley · Lloyd Nolan · Shirley Ross

Plot Martha Dawson (Karen Morley), the daughter of an aircraft manufacturer building airplanes for the U.S. Army Air Corps, takes over the running of the plant when her father dies. She...

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Counterfeit

1936 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Chester Morris · Margot Grahame · Lloyd Nolan · Marian Marsh

Plot A cop goes undercover to infiltrate and break up a counterfeiting ring.

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The Public Menace

1935 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Jean Arthur · Douglass Dumbrille · George Murphy · George McKay

Plot Non-citizen Arthur marries reporter Murphy for a bogus gangster's confession. A divorce is needed, and Murphy is fired. The gangster wants her to be his girlfriend, the police are outside,...

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Stranger in Town

1932 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Charles Sale · Ann Dvorak · David Manners · Noah Beery

Plot Ulysses Crickle owns a small town grocery store, doubling as the post office, dealing with the peculiarities of the townspeople. Jerry Fleming arrives to run a rival business and to...

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From Hell to Heaven

1933 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Carole Lombard · Jack Oakie · Adrienne Ames · David Manners

Plot The various residents and occupants of a resort hotel await the outcome of a horse race at a nearby track, as it will affect each of their lives in different...

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Everything's on Ice

1939 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Irene Dare · Edgar Kennedy · Roscoe Karns · Lynne Roberts

Plot A rascal turns his little niece into a skating star, but spends more money than she makes.

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Flying Cadets

1941 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast William Gargan · Edmund Lowe · Peggy Moran · Frank Albertson

Plot A newly-formed flying school, located at a small flying field, attracts a lot of young men based on the World War I reputation of its flying instructor, Captain Rockcliffe "Lucky...

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Mexicali Rose

1929 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Sam Hardy · William Janney · Louis Natheaux

Plot In this drama, set in a bordertown gambling saloon, the owner falls in love with a promiscuous young girl. When she has an affair with another, he tosses her out...

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Who Done It?

1942 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Patric Knowles · William Gargan

Plot Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder...

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You're Telling Me!

1934 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast W.C. Fields · Joan Marsh · Buster Crabbe · Adrienne Ames

Plot A hard-drinking, socially-awkward inventor wrecks his daughter's chances of marriage into a rich family and bungles his own chances of success by selling one of his more practical inventions.

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The Girl in the Pullman

1927 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Marie Prevost · Harrison Ford II · Franklin Pangborn · Kathryn McGuire

Plot Dr. Burton's divorce is about to be effective when his flappery ex-wife Irene pays him a visit turning everything upside down. To avoid explanations to his bride-to-be and her mother...

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