Movies: George Abbott

  • 1934
    Heat Lightning

    Heat Lightning (1934)

    Heat Lightning

    6.81934HD

    A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers....

    Heat Lightning
  • 1930
    Manslaughter

    Manslaughter (1930)

    Manslaughter

    5.51930HD

    A spoiled young rich girl is sent to prison for accidentally running down a pedestrian. There she learns about a life and people she had never even imagined existed before....

    Manslaughter
  • 1931
    Secrets of a Secretary

    Secrets of a Secretary (1931)

    Secrets of a Secretary

    5.51931HD

    Society girl becomes a social secretary when her father dies penniless. From a story by Charles Brackett....

    Secrets of a Secretary
  • 1934
    Straight Is the Way

    Straight Is the Way (1934)

    Straight Is the Way

    5.51934HD

    Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfriend and his former gangster buddies....

    Straight Is the Way
  • 1932
    Those We Love

    Those We Love (1932)

    Those We Love

    61932HD

    Director Robert Florey's 1932 melodrama about a woman who suspects her husband of infidelity stars Mary Astor, Kenneth MacKenna, Tommy Conlon, Lilyan Tashman, Hale Hamilton, Cecil Cunningham and Virginia Sale....

    Those We Love
  • 1930
    The Sea God

    The Sea God (1930)

    The Sea God

    4.71930HD

    The Sea God is an early sound melodrama about two men vying for Fay Wray and wealth in the South Pacific....

    The Sea God
  • 1952
    Where's Charley?

    Where's Charley? (1952)

    Where's Charley?

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    Musical version of the comedy, "Charley's Aunt," by Brandon Thomas. As part of a simple enough ruse, a Cambridge student poses as his aunt but his scheme goes wrong, first when someone falls for the aunt, and then when the real aunt turns up....

    Where's Charley?
  • 1930
    The Fall Guy

    The Fall Guy (1930)

    The Fall Guy

    5.51930HD

    Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her bizarre, unemployed, wise-cracking brother and various neighbors while keeping house in their Brooklyn tenem...

    The Fall Guy
  • 1940
    Too Many Girls

    Too Many Girls (1940)

    Too Many Girls

    5.51940HD

    Mr. Casey's daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge, he sends four football players as her bodyguards. The college is in financial trouble and her bodyguards use their salary to help the college. The football p...

    Too Many Girls
  • 1931
    Shadows of the Circus

    Shadows of the Circus (1931)

    Shadows of the Circus

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    Nick, the "swing" man in a trapeze troupe, loves Greta Nelson, the girl in the act; and Tony, the "flyer," incurs his enmity as Greta seems to favor him; thus Nick fails to catch Tony, and Tony is killed. Ned Lee, a novice, reports for the next engag...

    Shadows of the Circus
  • 1933
    Lilly Turner

    Lilly Turner (1933)

    Lilly Turner

    5.61933HD

    One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young engineer....

    Lilly Turner
  • 1941
    Highway West

    Highway West (1941)

    Highway West

    5.81941HD

    A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber....

    Highway West
  • 1929
    Broadway

    Broadway (1929)

    Broadway

    5.61929HD

    A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder....

    Broadway
  • 1929
    The Bishop's Candlesticks

    The Bishop's Candlesticks (1929)

    The Bishop's Candlesticks

    01929HD

    Very early sound version of a one-act play based on the "Bishop" sequence in Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables". The first filming of any portion of "Les Miserables" with sound....

    The Bishop's Candlesticks
  • 1931
    Stolen Heaven

    Stolen Heaven (1931)

    Stolen Heaven

    51931HD

    A hooker gets followed home by a man she thinks is drunk, but it turns out he's been wounded in a robbery of a radio factory where he used to work. As the police swarm into the seedy tenement, she decides to help him, and the two form an uneasy allia...

    Stolen Heaven
  • 1918
    The Impostor

    The Impostor (1918)

    The Impostor

    01918HD

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    The Impostor