Direction: Christy Cabanne

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


The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (S)

1916 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Christy Cabanne · John Emerson

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Bessie Love · Allan Sears · Tom Wilson

Plot Coke Ennyday, the scientific detective, divides his own time in periods for "Sleep", "Eat", "Dope" and "Drink". In fact he's used to overcome every situation with drugs: consuming it to...

6.6

84 votes

6.6

84 votes

The Mummy's Hand

1940 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Christy Cabanne

Cast Dick Foran · Peggy Moran · Wallace Ford · Eduardo Ciannelli

Plot A couple of comical, out-of-work archaeologists (Dick Foran and Wallace Ford) in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka.

5.3

108 votes

5.3

108 votes

Scared to Death

1947 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Christy Cabanne

Cast Bela Lugosi · Molly Lamont · George Zucco · Nat Pendleton

Plot From a slab in the morgue, a dead young woman tells the bizarre tale of how she got there, through a maze of murder involving a hypnotist, a midget and...

4.1

62 votes

4.1

62 votes

The Average Woman

1924 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Christy Cabanne

Cast Pauline Garon · David Powell · Harrison Ford II · Burr McIntosh

Plot Reporter Jimmy Munroe is writing an article on "the average woman". He meets Sally Whipple in the library and chooses her as a likely subject, following her around to gather...

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The Keeper of the Bees

1935 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Christy Cabanne

Cast Neil Hamilton · Betty Furness · Emma Dunn · Edith Fellows

Plot A severely traumatized World War I veteran, believing that he's living on borrowed time, comes upon a peaceful little village and meets an old man called Bee Master and his...

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Scattergood Survives a Murder

1942 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Christy Cabanne

Cast Guy Kibbee · John Archer · Margaret Hayes · Wallace Ford

Plot Scattergood meets the new owner of the local newspaper, Dunker Gillson. One of Gillson's first tasks is to interview the wealthy but reclusive Quentin sisters, Lydia and Cynthia, who have...

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The Man Who Walked Alone

1945 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Christy Cabanne

Cast Dave O'Brien · Kay Aldridge · Walter Catlett · Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams

Plot Marion Scott, honorably discharged WW II soldier, in "civies" and carrying a suitcase containing his uniform and medals, is hitch-hiking to the small hometown of a buddy killed overseas, intending...

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Criminal Lawyer

1937 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Christy Cabanne · Edward Killy

Cast Lee Tracy · Margot Grahame · Eduardo Ciannelli · Erik Rhodes

Plot Barry Brandon, a criminal lawyer, visits the night club of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with Betty Walker, a spoiled society girl. The police raid the club and Brandon pleads...

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Mutiny on the Blackhawk

1939 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Christy Cabanne

Cast Richard Arlen · Andy Devine · Constance Moore · Noah Beery

Plot Story deals with slave-running between Hawaii and California in 1840, featuring a wild mutiny aboard a slave ship on the high seas, the bartering of natives for slavery in a...

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Man from Montreal

1939 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction Christy Cabanne

Cast Richard Arlen · Andy Devine · Anne Gwynne · Kay Sutton

Plot Clark Manning, a fur trapper, is false accused of stealing pelts from other trapper's traps and sets out, with the aid of a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman, Constanle 'Bones" Blair,...

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The Outcasts of Poker Flat

1937 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Christy Cabanne

Cast Preston Foster · Jean Muir · Van Heflin · Virginia Weidler

Plot A California mining camp is plagued by a series of murders. Four people come under suspicion for the killings and are run out of the camp. During a blizzard they...

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Graft

1931 · Movie · 54 min. · United States

Direction Christy Cabanne

Cast Regis Toomey · Sue Carol · Dorothy Revier · Boris Karloff

Plot Cub reporter Dusty investigates the murder of the District Attorney and stumbles into a plot involving a kidnapping and a crooked election.

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Martyrs of the Alamo

1915 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Christy Cabanne

Cast Sam De Grasse · Allan Sears · Walter Long · Alfred Paget

Plot The story of the defense of the mission-turned-fortress by 185 Texans against an overwhelming Mexican army in 1836.

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Tropic Fury

1939 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Christy Cabanne

Cast Richard Arlen · Andy Devine · Beverly Roberts · Louis Merrill

Plot An investigator checks into the rumors of harsh working conditions on an Amazon rubber plantation.

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The Masked Bride

1925 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Christy Cabanne · Josef von Sternberg

Cast Mae Murray · Francis X. Bushman · Roy D'Arcy · Basil Rathbone

Plot An American millionaire wants to reform a Parisian cabaret singer who moonlights as a jewel thief.

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Red-Haired Alibi

1932 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Christy Cabanne

Cast Merna Kennedy · Theodore von Eltz · Grant Withers · Purnell Pratt

Plot A young girl new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the man is a notorious gangster.

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One Frightened Night

1935 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Christy Cabanne

Cast Charley Grapewin · Mary Carlisle · Arthur Hohl · Wallace Ford

Plot An eccentric millionaire, unable to locate his only granddaughter, decides to divide his estate among a group of people less close to him: his niece and nephew, his attorney, his...

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Double Trouble

1915 · Movie · 53 min. · United States

Direction Christy Cabanne

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Margery Wilson · Richard Cummings · Olga Grey

Plot Banker Florian Amidon, a somewhat shy and timid young man, is assaulted, robbed and knocked out while on vacation. When he wakes up he discovers that he's in the booming...

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You Can't Beat Love

1937 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

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The Unwritten Law

1932 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Christy Cabanne · Wilfred Lucas

Cast Greta Nissen · Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher · Mary Brian · Lew Cody

Plot A film producer is found murdered on a ship, and among the suspects are a young woman whose mother was mistreated by him and his recently fired electrician.

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