Pat O'Brien

When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all female band disguised as women, but further complications set in (imdb)

Sexpot film star Lola Burns seeks a new image and tries marrying a marquis, adopting a baby -- all sorts of schemes which go awry. (imdb)

Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connolly were tough kids who grew up together in the toughest part of New York --- Hell's Kitchen... (imdb)

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City. (imdb)

This parable looks at public reaction when the hair of an American war orphan mysteriously turns green. (imdb)

A district attorney and a reporter try to find the killer of a D.A. who uncovered a massive stock fraud. (imdb)

"The Fighting 69th" is a First World War regiment of mostly New York-Irish soldiers. Amongst a cocky crew, perhaps the cockiest is Jerry Plunkett, a scrappy fellow who looks out only for himself... (imdb)

It's the 1930s, the Depression era, and the Board of Directors of Thomas Dickson's bank want Dickson to merge with New York Trust and resign. He refuses. One night, Dickson's bank is robbed of $100,000. The suspect is Matt Brown, an ex-convict whom Dickson hired and appointed Chief Teller... (imdb)

Hildy Johnson, newspaper reporter, is engaged to Peggy Grant and planning to move to New York for a higher paying advertising job. The court press room is full of lame reporters who invent stories as much as write them. All are waiting to cover the hanging of Earl Williams. When Williams escapes from the inept Sheriff, Hildy seizes the opportunity by using his $260 honeymoon money to payoff an insider and get the scoop on the escape... (imdb)

An aging politician (Spencer Tracy) tries to get re-elected one last time in the changing world of the 1950s when TV started to play a bigger part in politics. Based loosely on the career of multi-term Boston Mayor James Michael Curley, this film examines the good and evil inherent in politics and all the things that go into an election. Tracy's uphill battle to stay in office is set against the political machinery that preyed on ethnic hatred and old-time money. (imdb)

Farmer slim joins a group of workers who are building power lines. Foreman Red teaches him all he needs and soon they become friends. When they are fired because they protected their boss in a case when another worker died by falling from a mast because he was drunk, they go to Chicago, where they spend their money and visit Red's girl friend, Cally... (imdb)

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 to separate lawbreakers from hardened criminals, badguy Hansen tries to stir up trouble by telling Joe about Jameson's interest in his sister. (imdb)

A relationship gradually develops between a savvy New York street girl and a good-hearted cab driver--who first meet when she stiffs him for the fare--but other matters keep getting in their way, including financial problems and a murder. (imdb)

The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne. (imdb)

A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind. (imdb)

A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name. (imdb)

Johnny runs away from Father O'Hara's orphanage and becomes a roller skating star with the help of Mary Reeves. He becomes involved with women, including Polly, who only love him because he is a champion, not, as with Mary, out of love for him. Then he gets polio. (imdb)

Slapstick black comedy about a man (Reynolds) who finds that he hasn't much longer to live and has bungled his attempts at suicide. (imdb)

Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot? (imdb)

James Curtayne has retired from law but he returns to defend John O'Hara on a murder charge. Curtayne's drinking and rustiness result in O'Hara's being found guilty, but Curtayne makes further efforts to prove him innocent. (imdb)

Plagued by revolutionaries that harass his plantation in a banana republic, fruit company exec Steve Case rehires former nemesis Nick Butler to restore order and profits. (imdb)

A con artist creates a composite photo to win a beauty contest, then has to find the real thing. (imdb)

A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism. (imdb)

Training of bombardiers in semi-documentary style, with personal stories and a battle climax. (imdb)

Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie about a cowboy and a baby. The waitress's baby becomes the star. The cowboy and his agent run off with the waitress and her valuable asset. The writers retaliate by hiring an unemployed extra to impersonate the baby's father. But the extra already knows the waitress. (imdb)

Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work. He regards the assignment as "kindergarten" work. When a young woman asks him to help locate her husband, Therme, he learns that she is really Norma Phillips, wanted by Chicago police for murder of her husband. She escapes, but Saunders borrows a corpse from the morgue to arrange her fake funeral. The trap brings the woman and Therme to the mortuary out of curiosity. (imdb)

Trouble follows when "Dizzy" Davis, an experienced but irresponsible barnstormer, joins Federal Air Lines as a pilot, and, as a result of one of his selfish actions, a fellow-pilot crashes to death in a fog. After he learns that his license will not be renewed, "Dizzy" makes amends---in his own fashion. (imdb)

Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another. (imdb)

A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep the town as wide-open as it is. (imdb)

Lady Lee, gambler's daughter, plies her trade while pondering the proposal of a social-register suitor. (imdb)

Jimmy idolizes bootlegger Matt, and when he refuses to implicate his friend, he is sent to reform school. He befriends Shorty, a boy with a heart condition, and escapes to let the world know about the brutal conditions. (imdb)

Billy Jack fights against the scheme of political boss Bailey and fellow Senator Paine to exploit a planned nuclear plant for their financial gain. (BFI)

A couple who married after each was jilted faces the return of their former loved ones. (tcm.com)

A retired Texas Ranger and his three aging pals are hired to clean up a lawless town. (imdb)

Mobster Tommy Gordon isn't worried about being sentenced to Sing Sing prison because his political pals have promised him a quick parole. A troublesome prisoner, he finally concedes that his friends have deserted him, and he makes an effort to reform. When his girlfriend Kay is injured in an accident, Warden Long gives Tommy a pass to go see her. But trouble erupts when Tommy encounters the man responsible for his imprisonment. (imdb)

Johnny Blake, dodging the law on a false murder charge, gets work in the oil fields. His boss and friend Hap O'Connor turns on him when Johnny and Hap's girlfriend Linda fall in love. An oil well fire becomes the catalyst for their relationships. (imdb)

Major Steve Lockhart commander of a Marine Raider battalion and Captain Dan Craig commander of the Paramarines are together on Guadalcanal facing a Japanese assault that became the Battle of Edson's Ridge. When Captain Craig discovers the body of one of his lieutenants who had been tortured and executed by the Japanese, he goes on a one man army kill crazy rampage of revenge in the jungle.

The Clyde Beatty Circus seems jinxed, falling victim again and again to apparent accidents which are actually the acts of a murderous saboteur. Mystery writer Mickey Spillane comes on the scene to solve the case. (imdb)

The air-mail pilots who fly from a small airport in the Rocky Mountains are determined but not paid well, and there are occasional fatal crashes. It's a tradition of long standing that when this happens, chief pilot Mike Miller (Ralph Bellamy) makes the next flight himself. Daredevil Duke Talbot (Pat O'Brien) is hired; he starts an affair with Irene Wilkins (Lilian Bond), wife of pilot Dizzy (Russell Hopton)... (allmovie.com)

Inspired by Lindbergh's flight, Dave Logan sets out with a Washington-Philadelphia airline but suffers financial problems. With flying ace Hap Stuart he tries clipper ships on the Caribbean, then aims for the trans-Pacific route. His relentless ambition forces those closest to him to abandon him. (imdb)

Coach Gore, a ruthless and cynical big-time football coach, neglects his wife in his unrelenting drive to make Calvert College a football power. (imdb)

Two Marine pilots vie for romance and glory. (TCM.com)

A Musical-romance with Dick Powell as a private stationed in Hawaii who gets involved with Ruby Keeler, the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years later when Powell's at West Point producing the annual play that turns out to star Keeler. (imdb)

Officer O'Malley arrests John Phillips for a traffic violation and costs him a chance at a good job. Phillips has a wife and crippled child, so he commits robbery and O'Malley sends him to prison. After this O'Malley becomes closer to Phillips' family. (imdb)

A lawyer and two newlyweds get mixed up in mock mystery at a resort. (imdb)

The sons of an Irish family have to choose among police work, prize fighting and love. (TCM.com)

A young girl visits New York for two reasons: to see her half-brother, and to try to start a musical career. (imdb)

Unscrupulous agent Pat O'Brien makes singing waiter Dick Powell a big radio star while Ginger Rogers, who has lost her own radio show, helps Powell. (imdb)

An actor can only get a radio job if he can prove that he's an authentic cowboy. (imdb)

A plane takes off from Peru (in a long no-dialogue scene) in a storm with two passengers; it lands in Panama with one. The missing man had valuable oil-location maps; everyone who is after them must deal with Dan Hammer, combination private eye, agent, and con man, who can "fix" anything for a fee. Nightclub singer Maxine is on Dan's side... or is she? The rest is lighthearted, white-suited tropical intrigue. (imdb)

A hare-brained inventor invents a new flying machine but can't figure out how to land it. (TCM.com)

A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis. (imdb)

A boozy old reporter finds his life is falling apart around him. He loses his wife and then his job...

A duplicitous nightclub owner brings a struggling young band to fill in for the house orchestra.

George Raft, playing himself, recalls his days on Broadway, where he acquired a reputation as a great dancer--and also one as a brawler, a ladies man and an associate of some of the city's most notorious gangsters. (imdb)

Ex-policeman Vince Kane is a partner with Joe Farley as bail bond brokers, but retains his ties and friendship with the police and Detective Nick Ferrone. Ferrone picks up Claude Brackette, a brokerage clerk, as a suspect in the securities robbery in which a policeman was killed, and Kane goes with him when the detective searches Brackett's apartment, and Kane finds that Brackett's wife, Lucy, is his former sweetheart. (imdb)

A disgraced pilot determines to regain the respect of both his son, now a test pilot for the Army, and the men he once flew with. (imdb)

Magazine editor Pat O'Brien gives Mexican dancer Dolores Del Rio a bad write-up, and then becomes romantically involved. Lots of songs and Busby Berkeley numbers. (imdb)

The Iron Major is the saga of WW1 hero-cum-football coach Frank Cavanaugh, played with his usual no-nonsense professionalism by Pat O'Brien. Leaving home and hearth behind to serve his country in the Great War, Cavanaugh goes on to lead the Dartmouth, Boston College and Fordham football teams to victory. His credo throughout is "Love of God?Love of Country?Love of Family"-inspiriational words indeed in war-torn 1943. (allrovi.com)

Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes. (imdb)

Detective discovers that a colleague's death is tied into the disappearance of a wealthy playboy's wife. (imdb)

The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940's Escape to Glory. The story is given timeliness by placing the characters on a British merchant ship on the very day that World War II is declared. The ship is attacked by a Nazi U-Boat, resulting in a variety of reactions from the diverse passengers--one of whom (Erwin Kalser) is a German doctor. (allrovi.com)

The dirty, dangerous world of oilmen provides the basis of this drama that centers on a pair of wildcatters sent into the unforgiving Sonora desert to search for oil. (allrovi.com)

Fredric March, a businessman, is in love with his secretary (Claudette Colbert) but she deserts him for another man; when she realizes her mistake, she goes back to March. Ginger Rogers is Colbert's girlfriend who is love with Charles Ruggles. (imdb)

Joe is the three time Indy champion who still races to put young Eddie through College. Joe wants a better life for Eddie, and he explodes when he finds out that Eddie quit school for a racing career. Joe tries to teach Eddie the trade, but they separate when Eddie will not drop bad girl Frankie. When Joe causes the death of a driver at the next race, he quits racing and wanders around. Joe winds up at Indianapolis where Eddie is driving the Martin Special. (imdb)

Gus Linden (Pat O'Brien)former racketeer head of a Detroit local of the United Automobile Workers of America, A.F.L, attempts to destroy his successor, Blair Vickers (Dennis O'Keefe),so he can put his old rackets back into the auto factories. Vickers fights him off, ultimately winning help from Linden's attractive daughter, Barbara (Margaret Field), and from Joni Calvin (Tina Carver), Vickers' moll. (imdb)

Martin is a wounded gangster comforted by a visits from a little girl and her tiny dog with one bad eye. As he hides out, he makes plans to find his abusive, double crossing, partner. (imdb)

A wild-west trader and his New York wife head out for the California by wagon train. The trader is killed enroute, and his wife finds herself with child. She continues on hoping to find a man and a home. (imdb)

Banking on the popularity of the Warner Bros.' boxing saga Kid Galahad (37), the studio rushed into production with another, similarly titled prizefight picture. In Kid from Kokomo, Wayne Morris once more plays a small-town rube who's good with his fists. The "kid" becomes convinced that a drunken harridan (May Robson) is his mother, and invites her to move in with him. Since the old lady is a kleptomaniac, it doesn't take long for the law to breathe down Morris' neck. (allrovi.com)

Alcoholic lawyer sobers up to defend friend in murder case. (imdb)

Cesar Romero, (Gene Moroc) is a con serving time in prison and also has a wife named Margaret Lindsay, (Judith Maroc), who served time for her husband by not revealing any information to the police. Judith was released from prison after serving her time. However, her husband told her when he gets out he is going to kill her and does not want her to marry anyone. Pat O'Brien, (Lee Laird) and Robert Armstrong,(Gene Ferguson) are FBI Agents who are interested in getting information from Judith. (imdb)

Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. (imdb)

In 1905, a crusading priest tries to help poor newsboys. (imdb)

A tough, female reporter tries to get a story on the head of a crime syndicate and when the new police commissioner is murdered, she tries to get the evidence she needs for her story by getting in with the mobsters right-hand man. (imdb)

Sinclair Lewis's 1920 novel Main Street came to the screen in 1936 from Warner Bros. under this rather more mundane title. Carol Kennicott (Josephine Hutchinson) is the newly-married spouse of small-town doctor William Kennicott (Pat O'Brien). But Carol's big city upbringing hasn't prepared her for life in their rural village, where everyone seems to know everyone else, and everything about them. (allmovie.com)

Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned? (imdb)

A female investigator in the district attorney's office sets out to track down the person who murdered a young schoolteacher. (imdb)

In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover. (imdb)

Man Alive is an inventive and consistently amusing farce dominated by stars Pat O'Brien and Adolphe Menjou. The former plays Speed, a moderately successful garage owner. Wrongly convinced that his wife Connie (Ellen Drew) has fallen in love with his old friend Gordon (Rudy Vallee), Speed goes off on a toot. During a long and drunken night, he gives his clothes and his car to an old tramp named Willie the Wino (Jack Norton). (allmovie.com)

A typical Francis vehicle of the time was Women are Like That, in which the star is cast as businesswoman Claire King, the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin (Pat O'Brien), she wants to use her influence to help her husband get ahead, but he will have none of it. Claire's persistence and Bill's stubbornness almost leads to a parting of the ways.

A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million. (imdb)

Success corrupts a young prizefighter and leads him to neglect his wife. (imdb)

Al is a down on his luck promoter who is thinking of taking the final bow when he meets Jan, the singing porter. He sees something in Jan so he signs him to a contract. Al works odd jobs to pay for Jan's singing lessons and drops the idea of Opera when he learns that it will take years. He has him sing in a nightclub and from there it is up. But Jan soon starts missing lessons and rehearsals and hits the bottle so the partnership between Al and Jan ends. (imdb)

An American, working for his oil company in China, disregards all but the company's interests. " The characters and the institution portrayed in the story are not actual but the product of fiction. The oil business was chosen because light has ever been symbolic of progress." (imdb)

A released robber stops a young lady on Christmas eve from committing suicide by jumping in the water. She's from the country and can't find her friend who came to New York earlier but has moved. The robber, who is being followed by a detective, suggests having a little party together, but both are flat broke, so he robs a man passing on the street, who turns out to be the missing boy friend, but he has already called the police... (imdb)

Sam, a Government agent, gets a job through his brother Jeff in the Seaboard Shipyards in order to track down a gang of Nazis who are plotting sabotage. Jill, an agent, poses as his wife, and 2 children complete his "cover family." Sam works hard and makes friends with most of the men in his crew. He gets a line on the saboteurs and their identities are revealed to him. The Nazis plan to blow up the yard while a carrier is docked there. (imdb)

Two newspaper reporters, a man and a woman, inadvertently send a boy to reform school after they write an expose of the illegal slot-machine racket he was a spotter for. Guilt-ridden, she convinces her colleague that they should marry in order to adopt the boy and get him out of reform school.

Recruits on a new submarine fall for the same girl. (TCM)

A screen-struck girl, saved from suicide by a gossip writer, gets a test and starts her career. (BFI)

Mrs. Bartlett gets pressured by her boss to become a Den Mother for a Cub group. Joey is one of her cubs - but tends to annoy her. However, Joey is also the most eager and attentive of her cubs and his skills come in handy.

When a crook decides to go straight, his jealous cast off moll exposes him to the police. (imdb)

1936. Musical. This 1936 Musical film shows a rare chance to see some of the greatest acts from the Music Hall Years. Starring Sam Barton, Mabel Constanduros, Horace Goldin and many more. (imdb)

The story of the sea battle for Okinawa between the ships of the U.S. Navy and the Japanese suicide planes, the Kamikazes.

Nora Ryan, a poor Irish girl, living in New York decides to change her life by working as a personal maid for the wealthy, Gary family. The Gary family fear Grandpa Gary Gary, a copper magnate, for he controls the family fortune. Mrs. Otis Gary, hearing that her son, Dick Gary has been expelled from college, sends Nora to meet Dick at the train station and escort him to his aunt's in Virginia. Dick flirts with Nora. Nora is repulsed, but finds him irresistible.

Based on a "serial" story by Robert Carson that ran in the Saturday Evening Post, this tale of an international counterfeiting-ring operating in Mexico starts with Patrick Nevil (Pat O'Brien)viewed as a suspicious character by newspaper woman Agnes Stuart (Ruth Warrick), who is working on a story to expose racketeering night-club owner Doc Lilley (Alan Hale.) She searches Lilley's home and finds the counterfeiting plates and thinks Nevil is part of the gang.

Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy) are partners in petty crime who fall out with each other. To escape the wrath of Barrows, Reardon enlists in the U.S. Army and so does Barrows and his two bodyguards Joe Scavenger (Frank Jenks) and Mike Paradise (Frank Sully.) All are sent to Trinidad, where a Nazi-spy operation brings the two partners together to pool their talents , for their sense of patriotism far outweighs their sense of outrage against each other.

A young dress designer marries an insurance agent. They soon have a daughter, but what the wife doesn't know is that her husband is actually a criminal, who soon involves her--unwittingly--in a robbery. Sentenced to prison, she gives up her baby for adoption. When she is released 15 years later, she sets out to find her long-lost daughter. A police inspector gets involved in her search and, for reasons of his own, tries to dissuade her from finding her child.

Jack Benny narrates the Screen Snapshots that, utilizing archive footage, traces the career of Al Jolson, and rare off-stage shots of Jolson with stars such as Bob Hope, Eddie Cantor and Pat O'Brien.