Direction: Leigh Jason

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


The Mad Miss Manton

1938 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Leigh Jason

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Henry Fonda · Sam Levene · Frances Mercer

Synopsis Madcap debutante Melsa Manton finds a body in a deserted house. Of course, the police don't believe her. Stung by Peter Ames's front page editorial decrying her "prank," Melsa enlists seven fellow debs to help her investigate. The wisecracking young...

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5.8

374 votes

5.8

374 votes

The Bride Walks Out

1936 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Leigh Jason

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Gene Raymond · Robert Young · Ned Sparks

Synopsis Carolyn and Michael fall in love and decide to marry. However, Michael insists that Carolyn quit her job. She soon finds that the two of them cannot make ends meet on his salary alone, so she gets a job and...

5.5

59 votes

5.5

59 votes

Lady for a Night

1942 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Leigh Jason

Cast Joan Blondell · John Wayne · Ray Middleton · Philip Merivale

Synopsis Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society. When her husband is killed in an attempt on her life, she is charged with his murder.

5.4

46 votes

5.4

46 votes

Nine Girls

1944 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Leigh Jason

Cast Ann Harding · Evelyn Keyes · Jinx Falkenburg · Anita Louise

Synopsis One of the members of a sorority is found murdered. Although the police are called in to investigate, fellow sorority girl Mary O'Ryan decides to do some sleuthing on her own to unmask the killer.

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The Man from Texas

1948 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Leigh Jason

Cast James Craig · Lynn Bari · Johnny Johnston · Una Merkel

Synopsis James Craig is torn between his criminal career as the masked bandit named the "El Paso Kid," and the life of a law-abiding citizen with his long-suffering wife Zoe (Bari). Throughout the film, he tells his worried wife "just one...

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Carolina Blues

1944 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Leigh Jason

Cast Kay Kyser · Ann Miller · Victor Moore · Jeff Donnell

Synopsis Band Leader Kay Kyser wants to take a holiday, but his publicist Charlotte has promised that he'll give a concert for defense plant workers. Due to the fact that his vocalist has quit to get married, the plant owner's daughter...

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Okinawa

1952 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Leigh Jason

Cast Pat O'Brien · Cameron Mitchell · Richard Denning · Rhys Williams

Synopsis Basically the story of the sea battle for Okinawa between the ships of the U.S. Navy and the Japanese suicide planes---the Kamaikazes---and, as such, is filled with stock footage from official U.S. war-department films and newsreels and from Japanese newsreels..and...

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Dangerous Blondes

1943 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Leigh Jason

Cast Allyn Joslyn · Evelyn Keyes · Edmund Lowe · John Hubbard

Synopsis A crime fiction writer and his wife investigate murders that are occurring at a fashion photography studio.

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Lost Honeymoon

1947 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Leigh Jason

Cast Franchot Tone · Ann Richards · Tom Conway · Frances Rafferty

Synopsis When an Englishwoman dies, leaving behind two children, her devoted friend decides to take the children to find the woman's husband, an American serviceman who had returned to the USA. But the father, now a successful architect, claims not to...

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Model Wife

1941 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

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The Thin Man (TV Series)

1957 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Oscar Rudolph · Don Weis · Andrew McCullough · William Asher

Cast Peter Lawford · Phyllis Kirk · Jack Albertson · Patricia Donahue

Synopsis Nick Charles, an ex-private detective, marries Nora and lives in a luxurious Park Avenue apartment in New York City. Nick's former underworld friends still hang around and get him involved in a number of crimes that he solves. Beatrice Dane...

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High Gear

1933 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Leigh Jason

Cast James Murray · Joan Marsh · Jackie Searl · Eddie Lambert

Synopsis When Mark 'High Gear' Sherrod (Murray) looses his nerve, the race car driver takes a job driving a taxi, but when he befriends a cute reporter and the young handicapped son of a deceased driver, he attempts to return to...

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Three Girls About Town

1941 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Leigh Jason

Cast Joan Blondell · Robert Benchley · Binnie Barnes · Janet Blair

Synopsis Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to...

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Direction John Peyser · Paul Landres · Harold Daniels · Gilbert Kay

Cast Charles Bickford · Joel Aldred · Norman Rose · Paul Brinegar

Synopsis Stories taken from the files of various law-enforcement agencies, including city, county and state police, park rangers, military police, etc.

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Direction John Brahm · Roy Kellino · Ted Post · Jus Addiss

Cast Irene Dunne · Arthur Franz · Lee Van Cleef · John Doucette

Synopsis TV Series (1951-1959). 8 seasons. 363 episodes. An anthology series.

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That Girl from Paris

1936 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Leigh Jason

Cast Lily Pons · Jack Oakie · Gene Raymond · Herman Bing

Synopsis Nikki Martin, a parisian opera star, takes off in search of adventure and true-love leaving her arranged husband to be at the alter. While hitchhiking, Nikki meets handsome American musician, Windy McLean and his band the 'McLean Wildcats'. Windy immediately...

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Wise Girl

1937 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Leigh Jason

Cast Miriam Hopkins · Ray Milland · Walter Abel · Henry Stephenson

Synopsis Snooty heiress decides to track down her dead sister's kids, who are living a Bohemian life with their uncle in Greenwich Village. Once she finds them, she discovers that the Bohemian life is fun and free of the constraints her...

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The Festival Girls

1961 · Movie · 76 min. · Italy

Direction Leigh Jason

Cast Barbara Valentin · Alexander D'Arcy · Scilla Gabel · Alain Dijon

Synopsis Barbara runs into a rich guy who funds Alexander and Barbara's movie. In order to sell the movie, Alexander takes the players and the movie to the festival circuit.

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