Direction: Alexander Hall

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


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1937 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

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Yours for the Asking

1936 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast George Raft · Dolores Costello · Ida Lupino · Reginald Owen

Plot Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income. But Lamb's pals fear he may follow...

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Good Girls Go to Paris

1939 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Melvyn Douglas · Joan Blondell · Walter Connolly · Alan Curtis

Plot Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, confides to English Professor Ronald Brooke that she is willing to gold-dig and blackmail her way to a Paris vacation. Her journey...

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Forever, Darling

1956 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Lucille Ball · Desi Arnaz · James Mason · Louis Calhern

Plot Susan and Lorenzo have been married for over five years and they are starting to drift apart. So into her life comes an angel, which only Susan can see, to...

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There's Always a Woman

1938 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Joan Blondell · Melvyn Douglas · Mary Astor · Frances Drake

Plot An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give it up and go back...

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The Amazing Mr. Williams

1939 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Melvyn Douglas · Joan Blondell · Clarence Kolb · Ruth Donnelly

Plot Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a...

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Midnight Club

1933 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall · George Somnes

Cast Clive Brook · George Raft · Helen Vinson · Alison Skipworth

Plot Elegant Colin Grant and his associates are successful jewelry thieves, even unmasked to their victims, their perfect alibis making impossible for the Comissioner police to arrest them. Things are running...

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The Pursuit of Happiness

1934 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Francis Lederer · Joan Bennett · Charles Ruggles · Mary Boland

Plot Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local militiaman jealously makes things hard...

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The Girl in 419

1933 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall · George Somnes

Cast James Dunn · Gloria Stuart · David Manners · William Harrigan

Plot When a young woman is found lying in the street, savagely beaten and near daeth, she's taken to a big city hospital where two young doctors try to save her...

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Torch Singer

1933 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall · George Somnes

Cast Claudette Colbert · Ricardo Cortez · David Manners · Lyda Roberti

Plot When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer.

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Up Front

1951 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast David Wayne · Tom Ewell · Marina Berti · Jeffrey Lynn

Plot Based on the famed W.W.II cartoons: Lowbrow G.I.s Willie and Joe, on the Italian front, are good soldiers in combat, but meet the antics of gung-ho Captain Johnson and other...

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The Great Lover

1949 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Bob Hope · Rhonda Fleming · Roland Young · Roland Culver

Plot The French Surete and private eye Higgins are after a killer who uses innocent young Americans in a crooked gambling racket, and who sets sail on an ocean liner that...

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There's That Woman Again

1938 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Melvyn Douglas · Virginia Bruce · Margaret Lindsay · Stanley Ridges

Plot Bill Reardon, a private detective, is working on a case involving stolen items from a local jewelry store. The case takes a different turn when Bill's prying wife wants to...

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Madame Racketeer

1932 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Harry Wagstaff Gribble · Alexander Hall

Cast Alison Skipworth · Richard Bennett · George Raft · John Breeden

Plot International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel...

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Bedtime Story

1941 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Fredric March · Loretta Young · Robert Benchley · Allyn Joslyn

Plot A Braodway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few 'worlds-apart" discussion...

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He Stayed for Breakfast

1940 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Loretta Young · Melvyn Douglas · Alan Marshal · Eugene Pallette

Plot Paul Beliot, a Communist organizer working as a waiter in Paris, shoots a coffee cup from the hand of fat capitalist Maurice Duval because the banker's lifted pinky finger annoys...

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