Direction: Lloyd Bacon

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Lloyd Bacon. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


42nd Street

1933 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Dick Powell · Ruby Keeler · Warner Baxter · Ginger Rogers

Synopsis A sickly Julian Marsh (Warner Baxter) puts his all into what may be his last show, only to face a disaster when leading lady Dorothy Brock (Bebe Daniels) sprains her ankle. Thank heavens for ingenue Peggy Sawyer (Ruby Keeler), who...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

Larceny, Inc.

1942 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Jane Wyman · Broderick Crawford · Jack Carson

Synopsis Three bumbling crooks buy a store so that they can rob the bank next door. When they soon discover the money they can make as legitimate businessmen, they abandon their plan. Trouble is, one of their cohorts, who's escaped from...

6.9

96 votes

6.9

96 votes

6.8

257 votes

Marked Woman

1937 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Bette Davis · Humphrey Bogart · Lola Lane · Isabel Jewell

Synopsis Set in the underworld of Manhattan, Marked Woman tells the story of a woman who dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters. The women of the story are "hostesses". What is implied, but not stated...

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6.8

881 votes

6.8

881 votes

Invisible Stripes

1939 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast George Raft · Jane Bryan · William Holden · Humphrey Bogart

Synopsis Cliff Taylor (George Raft) is an ex-con who wants to go straight, but since being released from prison on parole, he finds it hard to find and hold a job because of his criminal past. His brother Tim (William Holden)...

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6.7

123 votes

6.7

123 votes

Picture Snatcher

1933 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast James Cagney · Ralph Bellamy · Patricia Ellis · Alice White

Synopsis Ex-convict Danny Kean decides to become honest as a photographer for a paper. He falls in love with Patricia, the daughter of the policeman who arrested him. Mr Nolan, her father, doesn't like that relation at first, but McLean, Kean's...

6.6

72 votes

6.6

72 votes

The Sullivans

1944 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Anne Baxter · Thomas Mitchell · Selena Royle · Edward Ryan

Synopsis The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression and of World War II and their eventual deaths in action in the Pacific theater are chronicled in this film based...

6.6

53 votes

6.6

53 votes

A Slight Case of Murder

1938 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Jane Bryan · Allen Jenkins · Ruth Donnelly

Synopsis Remy Marco announces he's going legit with the end of Prohibition. His fortune declines because the beer he makes tastes terrible. His daughter falls in love with a rich man's son who gets a job as a cop.

6.5

75 votes

6.5

75 votes

Brother Orchid

1940 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Humphrey Bogart · Ann Sothern · Donald Crisp

Synopsis Gangster Little John Sarto (Edward G. Robinson) is a man fed up with the racket who travels across Europe in the hopes of finding class. When he returns, he finds his gang in the hands of Jack Buck (Humphrey Bogart),...

6.3

169 votes

6.3

169 votes

The Oklahoma Kid

1939 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast James Cagney · Humphrey Bogart · Rosemary Lane · Donald Crisp

Synopsis McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid (Cagney) takes the money from McCord (Bogart). McCord stakes a "sooner" claim on land which is to be...

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6.3

194 votes

6.3

194 votes

Wonder Bar

1934 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Al Jolson · Kay Francis · Dolores del Rio · Ricardo Cortez

Synopsis Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When...

6.1

35 votes

6.1

35 votes

San Quentin

1937 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Pat O'Brien · Humphrey Bogart · Ann Sheridan · Barton MacLane

Synopsis Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries to separate lawbreakers from hardened criminals, badguy Hansen tries to...

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6.1

255 votes

6.1

255 votes

It Happens Every Spring

1949 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Ray Milland · Jean Peters · Paul Douglas · Ed Begley

Synopsis A college professor is working on a long term experiment when a baseball comes through the window destroying all his glassware. The resultant fluid causes the baseball to be repelled by wood. Suddenly he realizes the possibilities and takes a...

6.0

41 votes

6.0

41 votes

Action in the North Atlantic

1943 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Raymond Massey · Alan Hale · Julie Bishop

Synopsis An American tanker is sunk by a German U-boat and the survivors spend eleven days at sea on a raft. They're next assigned to the liberty ship "Sea Witch" bound for Murmansk through the sub-stalked North Atlantic.

6.0

313 votes

6.0

313 votes

The Frogmen

1951 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Richard Widmark · Dana Andrews · Gary Merrill · Jeffrey Hunter

Synopsis World War II drama in which Richard Widmark, as Lt. Cmdr. John Lawrence, replaces the popular commanding officer of a group of underwater demolition divers. a crew of fiercely independent studs who hang their proverbial hats in Davy Jones' locker....

5.9

131 votes

5.9

131 votes

Racket Busters

1938 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Humphrey Bogart · George Brent · Gloria Dickson · Allen Jenkins

Synopsis Manhattan gangster Pete Martin enters the trucking business in an effort to control the produce market. When he catches popular trucker Danny Jordan robbing the gang's office to provide for his pregnant wife Nora, Martin forces Jordan to join him....

5.9

51 votes

5.9

51 votes

Gold Diggers of 1937

1936 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon · Busby Berkeley

Cast Dick Powell · Joan Blondell · Glenda Farrell · Victor Moore

Synopsis Stage-producer J.J. Horbart, is going to put on a new show, but he doesn't know that his two partners lost the money at the stock market. Insurance salesman Rosmer Peck falls in love with ex chorus-girl Joan Blondell, who's friend...

5.8

24 votes

5.8

24 votes

She Couldn't Say No

1954 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Robert Mitchum · Jean Simmons · Arthur Hunnicutt · Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis Corby Lane (Jean Simmons) coming to a small Arkansas town to play Santa Claus because, when she was a small child traveling with her impoverished father, the townspeople saved her life by donating money needed for medical treatment. She meets...

5.7

81 votes

5.7

81 votes

Kept Husbands

1931 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Dorothy Mackaill · Joel McCrea · Ned Sparks · Mary Carr

Synopsis Blue collar steelworker Richard Brunton (McCrea) saves two of his fellow workers after an accident at a factory. In gratitude, his boss, millionaire Arthur Parker invites Richard for dinner with his family. Arthur's daughter Dot (Mackaill) is instantly impressed and...

5.5

22 votes

5.5

22 votes

Espionage Agent

1939 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Joel McCrea · Brenda Marshall · Jeffrey Lynn · George Bancroft

Synopsis When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.

5.3

22 votes

5.3

22 votes