Ben Welden
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1901-06-12
Locus Natus: Toledo, Ohio, USA
Et ut: Benjamin Weinblatt, Ben Weldon
Mannequin
'Boxer leaves true love for society lady, but returns.' (British Film Catalogue)
release : 1933.12.06popularis : 0.742
The Pretender
Story of an investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime by marrying the estate's heiress. The girl is...
release : 1947.08.11popularis : 2.07
Here Comes Elmer
This musical comedy stars radio star Al Pearce has a double role playing himself and Elmer Blurt, the leader of a small-town band that struggles...
release : 1943.11.15popularis : 2.17
Manpower
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang....
release : 1941.08.09popularis : 3.895
The Lemon Drop Kid
When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas....
release : 1951.04.02popularis : 9.433
His Grace Gives Notice
'Butler inherits title but keeps it secret to woo employer's daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)
release : 1933.07.22popularis : 0.737
Outside the Three-Mile Limit
Government Agent Conway, posing as a crew member of a ship, is investigating the flood of counterfeit money that seemingly is originating for a...
release : 1940.03.07popularis : 1.915
Night Passage
Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw brother, the Utica Kid, escape. After spending five years...
release : 1957.07.24popularis : 10.921
Circumstantial Evidence
A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.
release : 1945.04.20popularis : 3.098
All Through the Night
Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.
release : 1942.01.10popularis : 7.972
Smart Girls Don't Talk
A society woman gets involved with a gangster only to find he has hidden plans.
release : 1948.10.09popularis : 1.838
Appointment with Murder
The second Falcon film to feature actor/magician John Calvert sees the Falcon dealing with art thieves.
release : 1948.11.24popularis : 3.975
Search for Danger
The murders of a suspected thief and a rival private eye draw the attention of The Falcon.
release : 1949.04.15popularis : 2.707
The Saint in New York
A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through...
release : 1938.05.25popularis : 8.802
A Close Call for Ellery Queen
Amateur sleuth Ellery Queen learns the truth about a businessman's two long-lost daughters.
release : 1942.01.29popularis : 1.505
Dangerously They Live
A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.
release : 1941.12.24popularis : 2.768
The Last Crooked Mile
A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.
release : 1946.08.09popularis : 3.367
Kid Galahad
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
release : 1937.05.29popularis : 4.436
Confession
Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's...
release : 1937.08.19popularis : 3.126
Thunder Bay
Shrimpers and oilmen clash when an ambitious wildcatter begins constructing an off-shore oilrig.
release : 1953.05.21popularis : 4.881
Maisie Gets Her Man
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton...
release : 1942.06.01popularis : 1.913
Here Comes Trouble
A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the police beat.
release : 1948.03.15popularis : 4.476
Tenth Avenue Kid
In this drama, a 12-year-old boy becomes an orphan after seeing a detective shoot his father. Later the detective feels bad and offers to become his...
release : 1938.08.22popularis : 1.455
Tough Assignment
A meddlesome reporter sporting a young bride takes on a gang of modern day cattle rustlers. Donald "Red" Barry plays Dan Reilly, a newspaper...
release : 1949.11.15popularis : 4.767
Lady at Midnight
A couple's adopted daughter has an inheritance someone else wants.
release : 1948.08.15popularis : 3.97
The Man from Chicago
'American motor bandit takes over London garage and club.' (British Film Catalogue)
release : 1930.10.22popularis : 0.889
Three Dark Horses
A campaign boss is looking for three delegates to the presidential convention, delegates that are too stupid to discover that his candidate, Hammond...
release : 1952.10.16popularis : 0.887
Fighting Fools
The boys are working at the local boxing arena where their friend, Jimmy Higgins, is boxing. During a crooked match Jimmy is killed. The boys seek...
release : 1949.03.17popularis : 5.888
Love Is on the Air
A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
release : 1937.10.02popularis : 4.107
Varsity Show
Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big...
release : 1937.09.04popularis : 8.339
Wolf of New York
A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a police inspector.
release : 1940.01.23popularis : 4.234
Knockout
Johnny Rocket (Arthur Kennedy) needs to fight one more match to have enough money to get married to Angela (Olympe Bradna) and start on his dream to...
release : 1941.03.29popularis : 1.029
The Duke Comes Back
After winning the heavyweight championship, boxer Duke Foster (Allan Lane) quits the ring to marry socialite Susan Corbin (Heather Angel). When his...
release : 1937.11.29popularis : 8.642
Missing Witnesses
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
release : 1937.12.11popularis : 2.888
I'll Wait for You
A gangster hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter.
release : 1941.05.16popularis : 1.472
Heading for Heaven
A fake swami and his crooked business partner, hoping to buy the land that's targeted for a new airport, convince the property's owner that he hasn't...
release : 1947.12.06popularis : 1.151
Sergeant Madden
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
release : 1939.03.24popularis : 1.559
Boys' Reformatory
A tough street kid takes the rap for a burglary committed by the son of his foster family and is sent to a boys reformatory, where the inmates are...
release : 1939.05.01popularis : 3.678
Bullet Scars
Dr. Steven Bishop is taken to the hideout of Frank Dillon and his gang to treat the wounded Joe Madison. Joe's nurse sister Nora Madison is also...
release : 1942.03.07popularis : 8.295
South of Pago Pago
Sent by cutthroat pirates to turn Kehane’s head while they loot his island paradise of a fortune in pearls, Ruby instead falls for the young...
release : 1940.07.19popularis : 3.718
The Crooked Circle
A young prizefighter finds himself being squeezed on all sides to throw a fight.
release : 1957.11.11popularis : 1.572
The Missing Corpse
A feud between rival newspapermen Kruger (Bromberg) and McDonald (Guilfoyle) goes deadly when blackmailing McDonald ends up murdered and his corpse...
release : 1945.06.01popularis : 5.607
Federal Man-Hunt
By a daring ruse and inside help, Pete Rennick, a noted criminal behind bars on federal charges, escapes from the prison, and all of the law-agencies...
release : 1938.12.27popularis : 2.772
Always Goodbye
Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor Jim Howard helps the desperate Margot. When her...
release : 1938.06.24popularis : 6.159
Happy Landing
Bandleader and manager discover skater in Norway. They become rivals as she returns with them to America.
release : 1938.01.23popularis : 6.004
Prison Nurse
A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick,...
release : 1938.03.02popularis : 2.363
Mystery House
When a banker is found shot dead with a gun in his hand, his daughter refuses to believe it is a suicide. With the help of a detective, she hopes to...
release : 1938.05.21popularis : 2.202
The Black Abbot
A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man.
release : 1934.06.10popularis : 1.734
Crime Ring
Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless.
release : 1938.07.08popularis : 1.736
Nine Lives Are Not Enough
A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
release : 1941.09.20popularis : 3.879
The Night Hawk
Gangster Charlie McCormick despairs as his young brother Bobby lays near death and vows to break the quarantine of the ocean liner Pacific Queen in...
release : 1938.10.01popularis : 2.762
This Is the Life
This Is the Life is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Gordon Harker, Binnie Hale and Betty Astell. It was made...
release : 1933.09.01popularis : 0.699
The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes
Holmes, retired to Sussex, is drawn into a last case when his arch enemy Moriarty arranges with an American gang to kill one John Douglas, a country...
release : 1935.03.24popularis : 7.205
On the Isle of Samoa
After committing a robbery, a man is inspired to confess by a lovely native girl he meets on a small island.
release : 1950.08.03popularis : 1.802
Strange Alibi
An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true identity.
release : 1941.04.19popularis : 1.454
Back in Circulation
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...
release : 1937.08.27popularis : 2.686
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
release : 1939.01.27popularis : 4.736
Smashing the Rackets
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office....
release : 1938.08.08popularis : 7.903
Love and Hisses
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.
release : 1937.12.21popularis : 1.804
Hollywood Cavalcade
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for...
release : 1939.10.13popularis : 2.444
The Jackie Robinson Story
Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major...
release : 1950.05.16popularis : 4.816
Adventures of Captain Africa
Filled from front to back with stock footage taken from the Columbia serials "The Phantom-1943" and, primarily, "The Desert Hawk-1944", with John...
release : 1955.06.09popularis : 2.821
Stand Up and Fight
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
release : 1939.01.06popularis : 9.002
Rose of Washington Square
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
release : 1939.05.05popularis : 1.858
The Roaring Twenties
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie...
release : 1939.10.28popularis : 15.527
Too Many Winners
Michael Shayne mystery involving counterfeit tickets at a race track.
release : 1947.05.24popularis : 2.05
My Dear Secretary
A budding young writer thinks it's her lucky day when she is chosen to be the new secretary for Owen Waterbury, famous novelist. She is soon...
release : 1948.11.05popularis : 2.77
Puppets of Fate
'Escaped convict blackmails murderous doctor into helping him.' (British Film Catalogue)
release : 1933.01.10popularis : 1.169
Send 'Em Back Half Dead
'Parody of big game films: a Hollywood film director discovers that film units have civilised Africa.' (British Film Institute)
release : 1933.05.24popularis : 0.49
Hollywood or Bust
The last movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin together, is a satire of the life in Hollywood. Steve Wiley is a deceiver who cheats Malcolm Smith...
release : 1956.12.06popularis : 3.685
Aunt Sally
An ambitious girl who wants to be a cabaret star poses as "Zaza", a French chanteuse, to get a job in a prestigious nightclub. Unfortunately, she...
release : 1934.06.13popularis : 1.324
That Certain Woman
A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.
release : 1937.08.30popularis : 5.215
Mary Ryan, Detective
A female police detective (Marsha Hunt) enters jail to gain the confidence of a shoplifter and learn the identity of the leader of a stolen goods...
release : 1949.11.03popularis : 2.724
The Pride of the Force
This lively comedy of 1933 provided an early film role for Leslie Fuller, and sees the wildly popular, rubber-faced actor and entertainer –...
release : 1933.01.01popularis : 1.579
The Earl of Chicago
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
release : 1940.01.05popularis : 5.656
Alcatraz Island
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
release : 1937.10.13popularis : 3.43
I Was a Convict
In this crime drama a wealthy business tycoon serves a sentence for tax fraud. While there he becomes good friends with his cellmates and after they...
release : 1939.03.06popularis : 4.809
Killer Dill
Door-to-door salesman Johnny Dill, the exact double of a notorious gangster, finds himself struck between the forces of good and evil.
release : 1947.08.02popularis : 5.166
Secrets of the Underground
With the help of a WAAC group, Mr. District Attorny smashes a Nazi spy-ring that is selling counterfeit War Stamps and Bonds.
release : 1942.12.18popularis : 6.646
The Awful Sleuth
Drug store soda jerk Bert is a true-crime buff who revels in detective magazines. But he doesn't recognize the notorious gangster he waits on,...
release : 1951.04.18popularis : 6.824
The Medicine Man
A young man impersonates a doctor.
release : 1933.01.01popularis : 2.808
Midnight Manhunt
Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.
release : 1945.07.27popularis : 4.2
The Man Who Changed His Name
A young woman begins to suspect that her wealthy, respectable husband may be an escaped Canadian murderer.
release : 1934.03.01popularis : 1.879
The Fire Raisers
Jim Bronton is an insurance investigator, but he's unhappy with his work and gets involved with a gang of arsonists. His conscience is troubling him...
release : 1934.01.22popularis : 2.288
Gateway
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in...
release : 1938.08.05popularis : 3.227
City for Conquest
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York...
release : 1940.09.21popularis : 5.102
The Veils of Bagdad
Antar is sent by Suleiman, head of the Ottoman Empire, to Bagdad to prevent Hammam, Pasha of Bagdad, from purchasing the services of local leader...
release : 1953.10.06popularis : 2.839
Mr. Hex
Sach is given a post-hypnotic suggestion that turns him into a championship prizefighter.
release : 1946.11.09popularis : 2.431
At the Stroke of Twelve
This entry in Warner's "Broadway Brevity" series of shorts is based on Damon Runyon's short story, "The Old Doll's House". Racketeer Lance McGowan,...
release : 1941.11.15popularis : 1.339
Gay Love
Sisters are music-hall performers. One loves the other's fiancé and decides to quit the show, but the other runs into an old flame and new...
release : 1934.09.01popularis : 1.984
Annie, Leave the Room!
British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
release : 1935.02.01popularis : 0.34
The Big Splash
A millionaire hires a man to play his double...
release : 1935.01.01popularis : 1.686
Come Out of the Pantry
A Duke's son plays the part of a footman and shows himself amusing in the pantry.
release : 1935.11.22popularis : 3.527
Death on the Set
A well-known film director has a gangster double, whom he ends up killing. Taking the gangsters place, he then causes an actress to be framed.
release : 1935.07.29popularis : 1.29
Their Night Out
An evening of cocktails and frolicking lands a chap in hot water when he's suspected of masterminding a criminal gang!
release : 1933.03.01popularis : 2.133
Blackmail
A private detective is offered a job protecting a rich business man from suspected blackmail. Before he can accept the case a murder is uncovered.
release : 1947.07.24popularis : 4.116
The Fighting Seabees
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the...
release : 1944.01.27popularis : 5.247
Spook Chasers
Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) find stashed cash in an old farmhouse apparently haunted.
release : 1957.06.02popularis : 5.038
The Desert Hawk
A desert guerilla, with flashing scimitar, opposes a tyrannical prince and marries the caliph's daughter.
release : 1950.08.05popularis : 5.376
Killers from Space
Atomic scientist/pilot Doug Martin is missing after his plane crashes on an reconnaissance mission after a nuclear test. Miraculously appearing...
release : 1954.01.23popularis : 12.907
Impact
After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.
release : 1949.03.20popularis : 14.255
Tales of Robin Hood
The story of Robin Hood, how he met his Merry Men and Maid Marian, and saved England from Sir Guy de Clairmont and his henchman. Compiled from the...
release : 1951.12.21popularis : 3.865
Hidden Guns
The outlaw Stragg has the town so intimidated that no one will speak against him no matter what he does. Sheriff Young heads for a nearby town, where...
release : 1956.01.30popularis : 1.618
Big Business
A Musical film Directed by Oscar M. Sheridan.
release : 1930.09.30popularis : 0.734
77 Park Lane
When a 'man about town' takes a young lady back to his house they are both surprised to find that it has been turned into an illegal casino in his...
release : 1931.07.02popularis : 1.334
Who Killed Doc Robin?
A short comedy film directed by W.P. Kellino
release : 1931.12.31popularis : 2.846
His Lordship
The commoner is a happy cockney plumber by the name of Bert Gibbs. Bert comes into contact with the celebrated Russian movie star Ilya Myona....
release : 1932.06.02popularis : 1.518
The Innocents of Chicago
A British comedy film directed by Lupino Lane
release : 1932.03.20popularis : 1.46
Men of Boys Town
Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.
release : 1941.04.11popularis : 3.554
The Star Maker
This is a film about the life of Gus Edwards, a well known vaudeville composer, entertainer, and producer.
release : 1939.08.25popularis : 3.122
Tin Gods
A British drama film directed by F.W. Kraemer
release : 1932.07.25popularis : 0.823
Admirals All
A standoffish actress is pursued by a low ranking Navy officer
release : 1935.01.01popularis : 2.024
Alibi Inn
A British drama film directed by Walter Tennyson
release : 1935.08.01popularis : 3.539
Little Orphan Annie
Annie (Ann Gillis), an orphan, (based on Harold Gray's comic strip but who is at no point in the film called 'Little Orphan Annie), is befriended by...
release : 1938.12.02popularis : 4.592
Breakdowns of 1938
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
release : 1938.12.31popularis : 2.282
Buccaneer's Girl
A New Orleans performer loves a pirate who robs only from the shipowner who ruined his father.
release : 1950.03.01popularis : 4.438
Straight, Place and Show
The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his...
release : 1938.09.30popularis : 2.125
Mr. District Attorney
An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.
release : 1941.03.27popularis : 3.124
The Big Sleep
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the...
release : 1946.08.23popularis : 13.307
Tear Gas Squad
A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.
release : 1940.05.04popularis : 1.45
A Song Is Born
The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome...
release : 1948.10.19popularis : 4.316
The Man I Love
Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor's wife are involved in various...
release : 1946.12.26popularis : 5.381
All Ashore
Three sailors finally get some shore leave, and go in search of fun and girls.
release : 1953.03.03popularis : 2.391
Shadows in the Night
A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion.
release : 1944.07.27popularis : 4.245
Jinx Money
A man wins $50,000 in a card game with gamblers, but is soon found dead and the money missing. Slip and Sach find the money near where the body was...
release : 1948.06.27popularis : 2.972
Marked Woman
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
release : 1937.04.10popularis : 15.008
The Desert Hawk
Evil Hassan slips back into his native land of Ahad and plots to overthrow his twin bother, Kasim, who has just been crowned the Caliph. Hassan...
release : 1944.07.07popularis : 2.557
The Lady and the Bandit
Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.
release : 1951.08.13popularis : 4.145
The Medium
A mad sculptor murders his wife and hides the body within a statue; a psychic model suspects the truth.
release : 1934.01.01popularis : 0.745
Sorrowful Jones
A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of...
release : 1949.07.04popularis : 2.996
Angel on My Shoulder
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
release : 1946.09.20popularis : 6.766
Little Miss Broadway
Upon leaving finishing school, Judy Gibson goes to meet her presumed wealthy and socially prominent relatives. However they are penniless Broadway...
release : 1947.06.19popularis : 2.928
It's in the Bag!
The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.
release : 1945.04.21popularis : 5.226
The Noose Hangs High
Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent...
release : 1948.04.05popularis : 2.262
Tell It to the Judge
Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a federal judgeship, but her nomination is opposed by a 'Good-Government' group that thinks her...
release : 1949.11.18popularis : 8.539
Rhubarb
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money...
release : 1951.08.29popularis : 1.499
The Great Barrier
The building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
release : 1937.01.02popularis : 1.382
Passport to Alcatraz
George Hollister, crack investigator for the NYC police, is assigned to run down the enemy aliens who dynamited a Detroit munitions plant. The trail...
release : 1940.06.06popularis : 3.104
Stand by for Action
U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his...
release : 1942.12.31popularis : 3.077
My True Story
Ann Martin is serving time as a jewel thief. Paroled and determined to stay clean, she quickly finds out that her freedom was bought by an old,...
release : 1951.03.08popularis : 0.948