Movies: Minor Watson

When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Cor...

Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the family show their stuff....

A young femme fatale realizes that the man she married is an incorrigible wastrel....

Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII....

Hoppy and Lucky have been called in to investigate a series of stage holdups. The robbers are taking gold from Colby's mine and Hoppy suspects it may be ex-outlaw Colby himself. When Speedy strikes gold, Hoppy borrows it and announces a gold shipment...

The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has amazingly managed to elude the Secret Service for 20 years....

The Denbow family denies access across their land to homesteaders. To evade a murder charge, Glenn Denbow marries Jane, the only witness who's in love with him. But the woman favors the settlers......

A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it....

Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer closes the show prematurely. She meets ranch foreman Charles "Slim" Martin when he accuses her of lifting his wallet and ends up being hired as a maid f...

A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race....

Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded into making themselves better people. But hard-n...

A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino....

A belly dancer causes a scandal with her suggestive dancing at a Worlds Fair exhibition at the turn of the 20th century....

A pair of men try to perform the dangerous "triple" in their trapeze act. Problems arise when the duo is made into a trio following the addition of a sexy female performer....

A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life....

A cook in a railroad construction camp inherits $500,000. She pretends to be English royalty and barges into the New York social scene....

A nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her lover is suspected of the crime....

Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller....

Prep football star Jimmy Howal gets a reception far different from what he expected when he enters West Point....

A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm....