Most Popular Titles With John Wray
- Job Types
- Movies or TV
- Genres
- Keywords
- IMDb Rating
- Instant Watch Options
- In Theaters
- On TV
- Release Year
1. Gone with the Wind (1939)
TV-PG | 238 min | Drama, Romance, War
A manipulative Southern belle carries on a turbulent affair with a blockade runner during the American Civil War.
Writers: Margaret Mitchell, Sidney Howard | Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood | Stars: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil
2. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Unrated | 136 min | Drama, War
A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
Writers: Erich Maria Remarque, Maxwell Anderson, George Abbott, Del Andrews, C. Gardner Sullivan | Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Arnold Lucy
3. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
TV-G | 115 min | Comedy, Drama
Longfellow Deeds, a simple-hearted Vermont tuba player, inherits a fortune and has to contend with opportunist city slickers.
Writers: Robert Riskin, Clarence Budington Kelland | Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander
4. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.
Writers: Robert E. Burns, Howard J. Green, Brown Holmes | Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Noel Francis
5. You Only Live Once (1937)
Passed | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The public defender's secretary and an ex-convict get married and try to make a life together, but a series of disasters sends their lives spiraling out of control.
Writers: Gene Towne, C. Graham Baker | Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane, Jean Dixon
6. The Cat and the Canary (1939)
72 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
When an eccentric family meets in their uncle's remote, decaying mansion on the tenth anniversary of his death for the reading of his will, murder and madness follow.
Writers: Walter DeLeon, Lynn Starling, John Willard | Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, John Beal, Douglass Montgomery
7. Boys Town (1938)
TV-G | 96 min | Biography, Drama
Against all odds Father Flanagan starts "Boys' Town" after hearing a convict's story. Whitey Marsh comes there. He runs away but, hungry, returns. He runs away again but, when friend Pee ... See full summary »
Writers: John Meehan, Dore Schary, Eleanore Griffin | Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton
8. Doctor X (1932)
Unrated | 76 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.
Writers: Robert Tasker, Earl Baldwin, Howard Warren Comstock, Allen C. Miller | Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Lee Tracy, Preston Foster
9. Remember the Night (1940)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Just before Christmas, Lee Leander is caught shoplifting. It is her third offense. She is prosecuted by John Sargent. He postpones the trial because it is hard to get a conviction at ... See full summary »
Writer: Preston Sturges | Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi, Elizabeth Patterson
10. The Whole Town's Talking (1935)
Approved | 93 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A meek milquetoast of a clerk is mistaken for Public Enemy #1, and the notorious killer takes advantage of the situation.
Writers: Jo Swerling, Robert Riskin, W.R. Burnett | Director: John Ford | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Jean Arthur, Arthur Hohl, James Donlan
11. Golden Boy (1939)
Approved | 99 min | Drama, Romance
Despite his musical talent, Joe Bonaparte wants to be a boxer.
Writers: Lewis Meltzer, Daniel Taradash, Sarah Y. Mason, Victor Heerman, Clifford Odets | Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, William Holden, Lee J. Cobb
12. Each Dawn I Die (1939)
Approved | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Although innocent, reporter Frank Ross is found guilty of murder and is sent to jail. While his friends at the newspaper try to find out who framed him, Frank gets hardened by prison life ... See full summary »
Writers: Norman Reilly Raine, Warren Duff, Jerome Odlum | Director: William Keighley | Stars: James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan, George Bancroft
13. Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)
Approved | 79 min | Adventure, Family, Musical
The daughter of a wealthy businessman becomes lost in the city while traveling to a new school, and is taken in by a pair of down-on-their-luck performers.
Writers: Sam Hellman, Gladys Lehman, Harry Tugend, Eleanor Gates, Ralph Spence | Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Shirley Temple, Alice Faye, Gloria Stuart, Jack Haley
14. Safe in Hell (1931)
Passed | 73 min | Drama
After accidentally killing the man who raped her and forced her into prostitution, a New Orleans woman flees to a Caribbean island. While she awaits her fiancé, the vicious local police chief sets his sights on her.
Writers: Houston Branch, Joseph Jackson, Maude Fulton | Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, Donald Cook, Ralf Harolde, John Wray
15. The Death Kiss (1932)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
While filming the closing scene of "The Death Kiss", leading man Myles Brent is actually killed. Having played around with, or been married to, most of the women connected with the movie ... See full summary »
Writers: Madelon St. Dennis, Gordon Kahn, Barry Barringer | Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Adrienne Ames, John Wray
16. The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
Writers: George Seaton, Ken Englund, Aleen Leslie | Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Loretta Young, Ray Milland, Reginald Gardiner, Gail Patrick
17. Swiss Family Robinson (1940)
93 min | Adventure
A family setting out for a new life across the sea is shipwrecked on a deserted island. The family members collaborate to create a home for themselves in the jungle environment.
Writers: C. Graham Baker, Walter Ferris, Gene Towne, Johann David Wyss | Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Thomas Mitchell, Edna Best, Freddie Bartholomew, Terry Kilburn
18. The Mouthpiece (1932)
Unrated | 86 min | Drama
When a hot young prosecutor learns that a man he got convicted and executed was in fact innocent, he quits his DA job and becomes a defense attorney. He grows rich and powerful defending ... See full summary »
Writers: Frank J. Collins, Joseph Jackson, Earl Baldwin | Directors: James Flood, Elliott Nugent | Stars: Warren William, Sidney Fox, Aline MacMahon, John Wray
19. Spawn of the North (1938)
110 min | Action, Adventure, Film-Noir
Friends since childhood, two men are on opposite sides in a salmon fishing conflict.
Writers: Jules Furthman, Talbot Jennings, Barrett Willoughby | Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: George Raft, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Akim Tamiroff
20. The Big Shakedown (1934)
64 min | Crime, Drama
Racketeers flood the market with counterfeit cosmetics and drugs, causing some tragedies.
Writers: Niven Busch, Rian James, Samuel G. Engel | Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Charles Farrell, Bette Davis, Ricardo Cortez, Glenda Farrell
21. High Pressure (1932)
73 min | Comedy
Gar Evans is a "high pressure" promoter who tends to be unrealistically optimistic about his projects and exaggerates the chance of success. He sets up the "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber ... See full summary »
Writers: Aben Kandel, Joseph Jackson | Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: William Powell, Evelyn Brent, George Sidney, John Wray
22. The Captain Hates the Sea (1934)
93 min | Comedy
Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are Steve's friend Schulte, a private ... See full summary »
Writer: Wallace Smith | Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Wynne Gibson, Alison Skipworth, John Gilbert
23. The Rich Are Always with Us (1932)
TV-G | 71 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The ten year marriage of of Caroline Van Dyke and Greg Grannard is falling apart. A young woman, Allison, plots to become his second wife. Caroline's friend, novelist Julian, has long loved... See full summary »
Writers: Ethel Pettit, Austin Parker | Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Bette Davis, John Miljan
24. Frisco Kid (1935)
Approved | 77 min | Adventure, Romance
After a roustabout sailer avoids being shanghaied in 1852 San Francisco, his audacity helps him to arise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
Writers: Warren Duff, Seton I. Miller | Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ricardo Cortez, Lili Damita
25. Winter Carnival (1939)
105 min | Comedy, Drama
Writers: Lester Cole, Corey Ford, Maurice Rapf, Budd Schulberg | Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Richard Carlson, Helen Parrish, James Corner
26. Gangs of New York (1938)
Approved | 67 min | Crime, Drama
The undercover cop Rocky Thorpe infiltrates a crime syndicate being run by the incarcerated mob boss John Franklin. Franklin conducts his business via a short-wave radio concealed in his ... See full summary »
Writers: Herbert Asbury, Samuel Fuller, Charles F. Royal, Wellyn Totman, Jack Townley | Director: James Cruze | Stars: Charles Bickford, Ann Dvorak, Alan Baxter, Wynne Gibson
27. Miss Pinkerton (1932)
66 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
A hospital nurse is recruited by the police to watch a household where a suspicious death has occurred.
Writers: Mary Roberts Rinehart, Niven Busch, Lillie Hayward, Robert Tasker | Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Joan Blondell, George Brent, Ruth Hall, John Wray
28. The Cat's-Paw (1934)
Approved | 102 min | Comedy
Naive Ezekial Cobb, brought up by his missionary father in China returns to America to seek a wife. Corrupt politicians enlist him to run for mayor as a dummy candidate with no chance of ... See full summary »
Writers: Clarence Budington Kelland, Sam Taylor | Directors: Sam Taylor, Harold Lloyd | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Una Merkel, George Barbier, Nat Pendleton
29. The President's Mystery (1936)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A millionaire with a crumbling personal life comes up with an idea on how he can disappear, start a new life without anyone knowing who he is and be able to take all his money with him.
Writers: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Lester Cole, John Erskine, Rupert Hughes, Fulton Oursler, S.S. Van Dine, Rita Weiman, Nathanael West | Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Henry Wilcoxon, Betty Furness, Sidney Blackmer, Evelyn Brent
30. The Devil Is a Sissy (1936)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
Writers: John Lee Mahin, Richard Schayer, Rowland Brown | Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Rowland Brown | Stars: Freddie Bartholomew, Jackie Cooper, Mickey Rooney, Ian Hunter
31. Blackmail (1939)
Passed | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
John Ingram, successful oil-field firefighter, is really a chain-gang escapee. Someone out of his past finds him...
Writers: David Hertz, William Ludwig, Endre Bohem, Dorothy Yost | Director: H.C. Potter | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Hussey, Gene Lockhart, Bobs Watson
32. The Miracle Man (1932)
85 min | Drama
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam the gullible public of ... See full summary »
Writers: George M. Cohan, Robert Hobart Davis, Samuel Hoffenstein, Frank L. Packard, Waldemar Young | Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Chester Morris, Robert Coogan, John Wray
33. The Most Precious Thing in Life (1934)
67 min
Writers: Ethel Hill, Travis Ingham, Dore Schary | Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Richard Cromwell, Jean Arthur, Donald Cook, Anita Louise
34. After Tonight (1933)
Passed | 71 min | Drama, Romance, War
While romancing a beautiful Russian countess, a captain in the Austrian intelligence service is assigned to capture "K-14", a clever spy who has so far managed to remain undetected. What ... See full summary »
Writers: Jane Murfin, Albert S. Le Vino | Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Constance Bennett, Gilbert Roland, Edward Ellis, Lucien Prival
35. Stranded (1935)
Approved | 72 min | Drama, Romance
Writers: Frank Wead, Ferdinand Reyher, Delmer Daves, Carl Erickson | Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Kay Francis, George Brent, Patricia Ellis, Donald Woods
36. A Man to Remember (1938)
Approved | 79 min | Drama, Romance
Doctor John Abbott is a single parent who settles in the town of Westport, with his son Dick, trying to eke out a living for them. He also inherits, by way of his doorstep, an unwanted baby... See full summary »
Writers: Dalton Trumbo, Katharine Havilland-Taylor | Director: Garson Kanin | Stars: Anne Shirley, Edward Ellis, Lee Bowman, William Henry
37. 10th Ave Kid (1938)
Approved | 66 min | Crime, Drama
A hardboiled police detective goes soft when he takes in a young boy to get him to spill the beans on a bank robbery.
Writers: Gordon Kahn, Adele Buffington | Director: Bernard Vorhaus | Stars: Bruce Cabot, Beverly Roberts, Ben Welden, Horace McMahon
38. New York Nights (1929)
82 min | Crime, Drama
Writers: Jules Furthman, Hugh Stanislaus Stange | Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Norma Talmadge, Gilbert Roland, John Wray, Lilyan Tashman
39. Professor Beware (1938)
Passed | 93 min | Comedy
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert (Lloyd), accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets... See full summary »
Writers: Delmer Daves, Jack Cunningham, Clyde Bruckman, Crampton Harris, Francis M. Cockrell, Marian B. Cockrell | Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Phyllis Welch, William Frawley, Raymond Walburn
40. Green Eyes (1934)
68 min | Mystery
The owner of a large mansion in the country throws a costume party for some of his friends. However, the party turns sour when he is found stabbed to death in a closet. The police and a guest try to discover who committed the murder.
Writers: H. Ashbrook, Andrew Moses | Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Shirley Grey, Charles Starrett, Claude Gillingwater, John Wray
41. The Match King (1932)
Approved | 79 min | Drama
Unscrupulous Paul Kroll, starting as a Chicago janitor, uses graft to finance a trip to Sweden where by trickery he gains control of his uncle's small match factory. By expert manipulation ... See full summary »
Writers: Einar Thorvaldson, Houston Branch, Sidney Sutherland | Directors: Howard Bretherton, William Keighley | Stars: Warren William, Lili Damita, Glenda Farrell, Juliette Compton
42. The Man from Dakota (1940)
Approved | 75 min | Drama, History, War
During the Civil War a beautiful woman helps two Union spies cross into the Confederacy and gather information.
Writers: MacKinlay Kantor, Laurence Stallings | Director: Leslie Fenton | Stars: Wallace Beery, John Howard, Dolores del Rio, Donald Meek
43. Lone Cowboy (1933)
Passed | 64 min | Adventure, Western
"Scooter" O'Neal is a young Chicago boy brought up in the slums by his idolized father, and "Scooter" dreams of being a cowboy out in the Wild West, where his father was once a rancher. He ... See full summary »
Writers: Paul Sloane, Agnes Brand Leahy, Bobby Vernon, Will James | Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: Jackie Cooper, Lila Lee, John Wray, Addison Richards
44. Circus Girl (1937)
Approved | 66 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Trapeze artist Kay Rogers marries aerial-act member Charles Jerome, who immediately become jealous of fellow-trapeze artist Bob McAvoy, and sets out to kill him through a series of staged ... See full summary »
Writers: Adele Buffington, Bradford Ropes, Frank R. Adams | Director: John H. Auer | Stars: June Travis, Robert Livingston, Donald Cook, Betty Compson
45. Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936)
110 min | Drama
Writers: Barry Benefield, Claude Binyon | Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Gladys George, Arline Judge, John Howard, Dudley Digges
46. Pacific Liner (1939)
Approved | 76 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The S. S. Arcturus sails from Shanghai to San Francisco, and Dr. Jim Craig takes the post of ship's physician in order to be near Ann Grayson, the ship's nurse. Chief Engineer 'Crusher" ... See full summary »
Writers: John Twist, Anthony Coldeway, Henry Roberts Symonds | Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Chester Morris, Wendy Barrie, Alan Hale
47. Quick Millions (1931)
72 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Truck driver Bugs Raymond organizes the trucking associations and takes protection money. Now rich, he decides to marry socialite Dorothy Stone. She rejects him for another, so he makes plans to kidnap her on her wedding day.
Writers: Rowland Brown, Courtney Perrett, Courtney Terrett, John Wray | Director: Rowland Brown | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Marguerite Churchill, Sally Eilers, Bob Burns
48. The Woman from Monte Carlo (1932)
65 min | Drama
Writers: Claude Farrère, Lucien Nepoty, Harvey F. Thew | Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Lil Dagover, Walter Huston, Warren William, John Wray
49. Central Park (1932)
58 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Rick and Dot, two penniless New Yorkers, meet and fall in love in Central Park. Promising to meet later, they separate. Dot is picked up by small-time hood Nick Sarno, posing as a police ... See full summary »
Writers: Ward Morehouse, Earl Baldwin | Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: Joan Blondell, Wallace Ford, Guy Kibbee, Henry B. Walthall
50. Atlantic Adventure (1935)
Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Mystery
Writers: John T. Neville, Nat Dorfman, Diana Bourbon | Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Nancy Carroll, Lloyd Nolan, Harry Langdon, Arthur Hohl