Direction: Norman Z. McLeod
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Norman Z. McLeod. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 44
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
The Kid from Brooklyn
1946 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Norman Z. McLeod
Cast Danny Kaye · Virginia Mayo · Vera-Ellen · Steve Cochran
6.5
204 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
The Twilight Zone: Once Upon a Time (TV)
1961 · Movie · 25 min. · United States
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
Direction Norman Z. McLeod
Cast W.C. Fields · Kathleen Howard · Jean Rouverol · Julian Madison
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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The Powers Girl
1943 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Norman Z. McLeod
Cast George Murphy · Anne Shirley · Carole Landis · Dennis Day
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Redheads on Parade
1935 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Norman Z. McLeod
Cast John Boles · Dixie Lee · Jack Haley · Raymond Walburn
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