Movies: Alan Mowbray

Society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome tramp who shows up at her doorstep and ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catches the eye of Geraldine....

Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England....

In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generate another headline; he thinks he'll get a movie co...

A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier....

Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved." Dastardly villain Silas Cribbs schemes to get his lusty clutches on the virtuous heroine by driving her naïve husband to alcoholic ruin. Luckily,...

Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring attractive young ladies. Carroll's annual "Vanities" provided story material for three Hollywood films: Murder at the Vanities (34), A Night at Earl Ca...

A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans....

An incognito opera singer falls for a policeman who has been assigned to track down her fugitive brother....

Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard....

The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his...

The lion is trapped by the safari and brought to New York, where he's accidentally set free, but nobody is intimidated by him....

Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity....

A penniless former princess weds an equally cash-strapped baron, so they support themselves by becoming houseguests at the homes of wealthy American socialites....

A daydreaming dramatist and his beloved persevere through hard times in the hope that one of his plays will be a hit....

A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé's lover....

A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship....

A notorious womanizer sets his sights on a pretty American tourist, only to be told by his doctor that he must give up all romance for his health....

A destitute, bored monarch falls in love with a chorus girl....

After fighting in the Crusades alongside Richard I of England, Sir Allan Claire returns home to marry his betrothed Lady Christable. Accompanied by his sister Lady Marian, the two are intercepted by Robin Hood and his band of Merrie Men. Recognizing ...

Peg and her father live a simple life in an Irish fishing village. One day Sir Gerald arrives at the village to tell Pat that Peg is heir to estate of her grandfather, who hated Pat. The upshot of the will is that she must go to England for 3 years t...