Movies: William Powell

A criminal lawyer's wife is blackmailed when she is falsely accused of infidelity....

Attorney's daughter falls for one of his gangster clients....

Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia....

Mr. Roberts is a Navy officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned ship run by the bullying Captain Morton....

A woman's life falls to pieces when she's caught cheating on her husband....

Short documentary about Jean Harlow's life and career. Episode of A&E's Biography series....

Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife....

A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies....

The film is about a desert-bound member of the French Foreign Legion who exposes a betrayer to the Legion and is then sent on a mission among the Arabs to conclude the signing of a crucial peace treaty....

Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club....

High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder....

A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary is stolen....

Sherlock Holmes is a master at solving the most impenetrable mysteries, but he has his work cut out for him on his latest case. As the famed detective investigates an alleged theft, he’s brought face to face with his most devious adversary yet — Prof...

A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop....

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The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style....

Michael "Beau" Geste leaves England in disgrace and joins the infamous French Foreign Legion. He is reunited with his two brothers in North Africa, where they face greater danger from their own sadistic commander than from the rebellious Arabs....

A young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. There she meets and is romanced by a worldly novelist; what she doesn't know is that he is a blackmailer who is using her to get to her uncle....

A young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education. He returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution....

A society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with his girlfriend, who is neither rich nor in "society."...