Soundtrack: Charles Maxwell

The best movies, series, and documentaries with a soundtrack by Charles Maxwell. Enjoy the titles that feature an unforgettable music.


Grand Hotel

1932 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Greta Garbo · John Barrymore · Joan Crawford · Wallace Beery

Plot Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.". The doctor is usually drunk so he missed...

7.1

3K votes

7.1

3K votes

Possessed

1931 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Joan Crawford · Clark Gable · Wallace Ford · Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

Plot Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line, for a beautiful penthouse apartment. Mark Whitney, a wealthy and influential lawyer can make her dreams come true,...

6.8

143 votes

6.8

143 votes

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1939 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Richard Greene · Basil Rathbone · Wendy Barrie · Nigel Bruce

Plot On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from abroad and opens up the ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire. Holmes uncovers a plot to have Sir Henry...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

Charlie Chan at the Opera

1936 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast Warner Oland · Boris Karloff · Keye Luke · William Demarest

Plot Regarded by many as the best of the Charlie Chan series. The opera star Gravelle suffers amnesia. He is a recent escapee from an insane asylum, accused of murdering fellow...

6.2

36 votes

6.2

36 votes

San Quentin

1937 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Pat O'Brien · Humphrey Bogart · Ann Sheridan · Barton MacLane

Plot Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries...

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6.1

255 votes

6.1

255 votes

Submarine Patrol

1938 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Richard Greene · Nancy Kelly · Preston Foster · George Bancroft

Plot A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser and with a motley crew.

5.9

100 votes

5.9

100 votes

Black Bart

1948 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction George Sherman

Cast Yvonne De Carlo · Dan Duryea · Jeffrey Lynn · Percy Kilbride

Plot Cheerful outlaw Charlie Boles leaves former partners Lance and Jersey and heads for California, where the Gold Rush is beginning. Soon, a lone gunman in black is robbing Wells Fargo...

5.8

106 votes

5.8

106 votes

Banjo on My Knee

1936 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Joel McCrea · Walter Brennan · Buddy Ebsen

Plot Ernie Holley runs away on his wedding night because he thinks he has killed a wedding guest. His father Newt and bride Pearl find him in New Orleans and persuade...

5.5

24 votes

5.5

24 votes

Heidi

1937 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Shirley Temple · Jean Hersholt · Arthur Treacher · Helen Westley

Plot Orphaned early in the proceeding, Heidi is left in the care of her bitter, misanthropic grandfather Adolph Kramer (Jean Hersholt). It doesn't take long before the sweet little child has...

5.3

516 votes

5.3

516 votes

My Pal Trigger

1946 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Frank McDonald

Cast Roy Rogers · Dale Evans · George 'Gabby' Hayes · Jack Holt

Plot Gabby refuses to breed his horse the Golden Sovereign with Roy's. When the Sovereign and Roy's horse escape, Skoville shoots the Sovereign by mistake but Roy is blamed and jailed....

Not rated

Not rated

Return of the Cisco Kid

1939 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Herbert I. Leeds

Cast Warner Baxter · Lynn Bari · Cesar Romero · Henry Hull

Plot Cisco is attracted to Ann Carver and is soon involved in her and her Grandfather's problems. Sheriff McNally has taken their money, their deed, and thrown them in jail. After...

Not rated

Not rated

Calm Yourself

1935 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction George B. Seitz

Cast Robert Young · Madge Evans · Betty Furness · Ralph Morgan

Plot Advertising executive Preston 'Pat' Patton is fired from his job by Col. Allenby when he offends his daughter Mary Elizabeth. Pat tries to remain calm and starts the agency 'Confidential...

Not rated

Not rated

Wife, Husband and Friend

1939 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Gregory Ratoff

Cast Loretta Young · Warner Baxter · Binnie Barnes · Cesar Romero

Plot Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.

Not rated

Not rated

Mysterious Mr. Moto

1938 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Norman Foster

Cast Peter Lorre · Mary Maguire · Henry Wilcoxon · Erik Rhodes

Plot Mr. Moto has himself imprisoned on Devil's Island so he can help his cellmate (Ames) escape and thereby get the goods on a gang of international killers. Fifth of Fox's...

Not rated

Not rated

Kidnapped

1938 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Alfred L. Werker · Otto Preminger

Cast Warner Baxter · Freddie Bartholomew · Arleen Whelan · C. Aubrey Smith

Plot In the late eighteenth century David Balfour's evil uncle arranges for him to be kidnapped and sent to sea where he meets exiled Breck. The two make their way back...

Not rated

Not rated

Susannah of the Mounties

1939 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Shirley Temple · Randolph Scott · Margaret Lockwood · Martin Good Rider

Plot Shirley is the orphaned survivor of an Indian attack in the Canadian West. A Mountie and his girlfriend take her in. Everybody suffers further Indian attacks and the Mountie is...

Not rated

Not rated

Storm Over Lisbon

1944 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction George Sherman

Cast Vera Ralston · Erich von Stroheim · Richard Arlen · Robert Livingston

Plot Deresco owner of a night club in neutral Portugal, works a free-lance spy for everybody who can afford his price. He tries to get information from US agent John Craig...

Not rated

Not rated

Magnificent Brute

1936 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction John G. Blystone

Cast Victor McLaglen · Binnie Barnes · Jean Dixon · William Hall

Plot The foreman of a blast furnace gets involved in a romantic triangle and stolen money.

Not rated

Not rated

This Is My Affair

1937 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Robert Taylor · Barbara Stanwyck · Victor McLaglen · Brian Donlevy

Plot At Arlington National Military Cemetery, children ask a nun why Lieutenant Richard L. Perry, whose grave they pass, is not listed in the guidebook. She replies that no doubt he...

Not rated

Not rated

Star for a Night

1936 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast Claire Trevor · Jane Darwell · Arline Judge · Evelyn Venable

Plot Blind Mrs. Lind comes to American to visit her three children whom she thinks are successful.

Not rated

Not rated