Direction: Norman Z. McLeod

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Norman Z. McLeod. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Monkey Business

1931 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast The Marx Brothers · Groucho Marx · Harpo Marx · Chico Marx

Synopsis On a transatlantic crossing, the Marx brothers get up to their usual antics and manage to annoy just about everyone on board the ship. While stowing away on a ship to America, the boys get involuntarily pressed into service as...

7.0

3K votes

7.0

3K votes

Horse Feathers

1932 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast The Marx Brothers · Groucho Marx · Harpo Marx · Chico Marx

Synopsis Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff is hired as the new president of Huxley College. In order to beat Darwin, their rival school, in a football game, Wagstaff hires two ringers. However, Darwin has beaten him to the punch, and Wagstaff hires...

7.0

3K votes

7.0

3K votes

If I Had a Million

1932 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch · Norman Taurog · Norman Z. McLeod · William A. Seiter

Cast Gary Cooper · Charles Laughton · George Raft · Jack Oakie

Synopsis Buoyant, star-studded comedy about a dying steel tycoon (Richard Bennett) who randomly selects eight people from a phone book and gives them each a million dollars. Among the lucky recipients are a clumsy china salesman (Charles Ruggles), a working girl...

6.6

856 votes

6.6

856 votes

6.5

204 votes

Alice in Wonderland

1933 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Charlotte Henry · Leon Errol · Louise Fazenda · Ford Sterling

Synopsis On a boring winter afternoon, Alice dreams, that she's visiting the land behind the mirror. This turns out to be a surrealistic nightmare, with all sorts of strange things happening to her, like changing her size or playing croquet with...

6.4

330 votes

6.4

330 votes

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Buster Keaton · Stanley Adams · James Flavin · Gil Lamb

Synopsis Janitor Woodrow Mulligan gets a trip from 1890 to 1962 courtesy of his employer's time helmet.

6.4

77 votes

6.4

77 votes

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

1947 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Danny Kaye · Virginia Mayo · Boris Karloff · Fay Bainter

Synopsis Walter Mitty, a daydreaming pulp-fiction writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes true when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book....

6.3

787 votes

6.3

787 votes

Merrily We Live

1938 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Constance Bennett · Brian Aherne · Alan Mowbray · Billie Burke

Synopsis A cynical writer (Brian Aherne), unwittingly infiltrates a loony house of philanthropists. Mrs. Emily Kilbourne (Billie Burke) runs a household that, due to her charitable nature, is as much a loony-bin as happy home. When he joins the menage, Aherne...

5.9

26 votes

5.9

26 votes

Topper

1937 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Constance Bennett · Cary Grant · Roland Young · Billie Burke

Synopsis Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend, bank president Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains...

5.8

235 votes

5.8

235 votes

It's a Gift

1934 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

5.8

178 votes

5.8

178 votes

Topper Takes a Trip

1938 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Constance Bennett · Roland Young · Billie Burke · Alan Mowbray

Synopsis Mrs Topper's friend Mrs Parkhurst has convinced Mrs topper, to file for a divorce from Cosmo, due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost Marion Kirby. Marion comes back from heaven's door to help Cosmo again, this time...

5.7

23 votes

5.7

23 votes

Road to Rio

1947 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Bob Hope · Bing Crosby · Dorothy Lamour · Gale Sondergaard

Synopsis Scat Sweeney, and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away on board a Rio bound ship, after accidentally setting fire to the big top of a circus. They then get mixed up with a potential suicide Lucia,...

5.4

92 votes

5.4

92 votes

The Paleface

1948 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Bob Hope · Jane Russell · Robert Armstrong · Iris Adrian

Synopsis Bob Hope -in his finest role as Painless Potter- plays a nervous dentist who becomes a gritty gunfighter when he marries Calamity Jane (Jane Russell), a trouble-shooting woman, as a cover for her secret activities as a governmente agent.

5.3

204 votes

5.3

204 votes

Casanova's Big Night

1954 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Bob Hope · Joan Fontaine · Audrey Dalton · Basil Rathbone

Synopsis Italy, 1757. Meek tailor Pippo Popolino disguises himself as the great Casanova in order to romance attractive widow Francesca. He little suspects what he's getting into: locked into the incongruous role by the greed of the real Casanova's creditors, Pippo...

5.3

39 votes

5.3

39 votes

Alias Jesse James

1959 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Bob Hope · Rhonda Fleming · Wendell Corey · Gloria Talbott

Synopsis The outlaw T.J. 'Jesse' James (Wendell Corey) tries to kill insurance agent Milford Farnsworth (Bob Hope) who has been mistaken for him in order to collect on a big policy.

5.3

112 votes

5.3

112 votes

My Favorite Spy

1951 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Bob Hope · Hedy Lamarr · Francis L. Sullivan · Arnold Moss

Synopsis Peanuts White, a burlesque comic, is recruited by U.S. agents to impersonate international spy Eric Augustine (whom White resembles) in a mission to purchase a million-dollar microfilm in mysterious, exotic Tangier. There, he encounters the irresistable Lily Dalbray, an "old...

4.9

35 votes

4.9

35 votes

Early to Bed

1936 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Mary Boland · Charles Ruggles · George Barbier · Gail Patrick

Synopsis Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally does...

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Never Wave at a WAC

1953 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Rosalind Russell · Paul Douglas · Marie Wilson · William Ching

Synopsis A divorced socialite decides to join the Army because she hopes it will enable her to see more of her boyfriend, a Colonel. She soon encounters many difficulties with the Army lifestyle. Moreover, her ex-husband is working as a consultant...

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Not rated

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