Movies: Charley Grapewin

A young boy finds out that the man he thought was his father actually killed his real father, then adopted him....

"Duke" Gordon (Robert Armstrong), a circus lion-tamer, tries to tames his wife, Laura (Sally Eilers), just as he does his lions. But she is a one-man woman, married to the wrong man, and refuses to cheat on her cheating husband even though her happin...

A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss....

At Portland, Oregon, playboy pilot Len Kendrick lands at the end of a cross-country record flight, met by his father J.P. Kendrick who owns Amalgamated Air Lines. Len is a media darling, adored by fans for his daring flights. He is in love with Amalg...

A power-company troubleshooter has his brother get him out of prison by running high voltage to the bars of his cell....

WBLA is on the air, presenting the live music, the sudsy dramas and the sell-sell-sell of commercial interludes that keep consumers buying and sponsors smiling. But one sponsor, a producer of plumbing supplies, isn’t happy. So WBLA scriptwriter Bill ...

Josh is a young boy who feels neglected and misunderstood at home. Preparing to run away, he chances across an old diary once kept by his grandfather. Leafing through the yellowed pages, Josh discovers that Grandpa went through many of the same child...

"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn....

Eccentric tycoon Jasper Whyte hosts a dinner at his mansion and announces that he will divide his money and give each guest a million dollars before the stroke of midnight. When his long-lost granddaughter suddenly arrives, Whyte changes his mind and...

A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom....

In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it can be "the playground of the world." Brad's wheeling and dealing proves remarkably successful in at...

An underworld character wins a Broadway nightclub in a card game....

A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) of a neighbor who has killed the farmer's foxhound....

When her husband, who founded the town's crusading local newspaper, doesn't come back from the French battlefields of World War I, a woman struggles to raise her two sons and keep the newspaper going. Matters are complicated by the fact that, several...

A plumber wins big at the racetrack but then his luck runs out and almost ruins his business. His manicurist girlfriend stands by him and helps him readjust to life as a plumber....

When a night watchman is mistaken for a wealthy college alumnus, his family and friends help him go along with the pretense....

A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of affairs....

Armed robbers invade the home of a crippled boy and his grandfather and the effect the boy and his surroundings have on them is reforming....

Early 30s pre-code comedy about a woman attempting to get her two ex-husbands to pay back alimony....

The life of an avowed bachelor who tows garbage is changed when he meets a runaway taxi dancer....