Direction: Joseph Santley
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Joseph Santley. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
The Cocoanuts
1929 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Santley · Robert Florey
Cast The Marx Brothers · Groucho Marx · Harpo Marx · Chico Marx
Plot Mr. Hammer runs a bankrupt Florida hotel. He'll try anything to make money, even make love to rich Mrs. Potter. But his main scheme, selling real estate, is in danger...
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Melody Ranch
1940 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Santley
Cast Gene Autry · Jimmy Durante · Ann Miller · Barton MacLane
Plot With a longer-than-usual running time on original release and booked and sold to the exhibitors as a "Gene Autry Special", which Republic would do once a year from 1939-1943 in...
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Waterfront Lady
1935 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Santley
Cast Ann Rutherford · Frank Albertson · J. Farrell MacDonald · Barbara Pepper
Plot When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers up a...
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Earl Carroll Vanities
1945 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Santley
Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Constance Moore · Eve Arden · Otto Kruger
Plot Royalty from a small European principality come to New York City to arrange for a loan to prop up their country's troubled finances. While the queen mother attends to the...
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She's Got Everything
1937 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Santley
Cast Gene Raymond · Ann Sothern · Victor Moore · Helen Broderick
Plot Carol Rogers returns from Europe to discover that her recently deceased father has left her with huge debts and no resources to pay them. Aunt Jane suggests that Carol marry...
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The Spirit of Culver
1939 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Santley
Cast Jackie Cooper · Freddie Bartholomew · Andy Devine · Henry Hull
Plot Tom Allen, the son of a decorated war hero who is feared to have died in battle, wins a scholarship to the Culver military academy. His arrogance and unwillingness to...
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Blond Cheat
1938 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Santley
Cast Joan Fontaine · Derrick De Marney · Cecil Kellaway · Cecil Cunningham
Plot Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, is the chief assistant to Rufus Trent, wealthy London loan broker. He has allowed himself to become engaged to the Rufus' daughter, Roberta, the match engineered...
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Brazil
1944 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Santley
Cast Tito Guízar · Virginia Bruce · Edward Everett Horton · Robert Livingston
Plot Brazil is perhaps the best of the handful of American films made by Brazilian singing sensation Tito Guizar. In typical screwball-comedy fashion, the plot is set in motion by authoress...
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Sis Hopkins
1941 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Santley
Cast Judy Canova · Bob Crosby · Charles Butterworth · Jerry Colonna
Plot A young girl from the "sticks" comes to the city to live with her wealthy relatives. At first she is the objection of derision and made fun of because of...
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Walking on Air
1936 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Santley
Cast Gene Raymond · Ann Sothern · Jessie Ralph · Henry Stephenson
Plot A stubborn young woman hires a struggling singer to play her obnoxious suitor in a scheme to overturn her father's objections to the man she really wants to marry.
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A Tragedy at Midnight
1942 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Santley
Cast John Howard · Margaret Lindsay · Roscoe Karns · Mona Barrie
Plot A radio detective and his wife solve murder mysteries that baffle the police, but finds the most difficult case is saving their own neck.
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We Went to College
1936 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Santley
Cast Charles Butterworth · Walter Abel · Hugh Herbert · Una Merkel
Plot Phil is high strung and needs a rest so Nina talks him into going to the Sutter College homecoming. He takes his wife and Glenn, who was another classmate, to...
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Frisco Waterfront
1935 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Arthur Lubin · Joseph Santley
Cast Ben Lyon · Helen Twelvetrees · Rod La Rocque · Russell Hopton
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Goodnight, Sweetheart
1944 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Santley
Cast Robert Livingston · Ruth Terry · Henry Hull · Grant Withers
Plot A journalist attacks the campaign of a mayoral candidate who has gained the endorsement of a rival newspaper.
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Shadow of a Woman
1946 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Santley
Cast Helmut Dantine · Andrea King · William Prince · John Alvin
Plot A young bride's marital bliss is replaced by shades of suspicion when she suspects that her husband is trying to starve his young son to death in order to claim...
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Down Mexico Way
1941 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Santley
Cast Gene Autry · Smiley Burnette · Fay McKenzie · Harold Huber
Plot After the bad guys swindle the good folk of Sage City, Gene and Frog chase them to Mexico, where they are trying to rob a rich Mexican ranchero.
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Make Believe Ballroom
1949 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Santley
Cast Jerome Courtland · Ruth Warrick · Ron Randell · Virginia Welles
Plot Liza Lee, fast-talking press agent for Al Jarvis, persuades Jarvis to stage a Musical Mystery Contest, with a $5000 prize to the person who can first name the most musical...
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Music in My Heart
1940 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Santley
Cast Tony Martin · Rita Hayworth · Edith Fellows · Andre Kostelanetz
Plot Boasting Tony Martin and Rita Hayworth and bandleader Andre Kostelanitz as its leading players, it's surprising that Music in My Heart isn't better than it is. Martin plays European-born actor...
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Yokel Boy
1942 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Santley
Cast Albert Dekker · Joan Davis · Eddie Foy Jr. · Alan Mowbray
Plot A "Perfect Movie Fan",Joe Ruddy, is brought to Hollywood as a publicity stunt, and is put in charge of a production company as a gag, but everybody isn't in on...
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There Goes the Groom
1937 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Santley
Cast Ann Sothern · Burgess Meredith · Mary Boland · Onslow Stevens
Plot A young man scores seeking Alaskan gold, comes home to claim his bride. When she snubs him, he falls for the younger sister instead.
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