Movies with George E. Stone
Movies found: 12, viewing from 1 to 12
Little Caesar
Genres: Crime, Drama
Starring: George E. Stone, Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Sidney Blackmer, Stanley Fields, Maurice Black, Thomas E. Jackson
Directors: Mervyn LeRoy
Country: USA
Year: 1931
The ambitious criminal Rico moves from the country to the big city in the east and joins Sam Vettori's gang with his friend Joe Massara. Sooner he becomes the leader of the gangsters and known as Little Caesar, and gets closer to the great mobster Pete Montana. In a robbery of a night-club, he kills the Crime Commissioner Alvin McClure and his pal Joe witnesses the murder. When Rico orders Joe to leave his mistress Olga Strassoff, she takes a serious decision.
North West Mounted Police
Genres: Action, Adventure, Romance
Starring: Paulette Goddard, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, Walter Hampden, Francis McDonald, Gary Cooper, Lon Chaney Jr.
Directors: Cecil B. DeMille
Country: USA
Year: 1940
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
Some Like It Hot
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Billy Gray, George E. Stone, Joe E. Brown, Tony Curtis, Nehemiah Persoff, Jack Lemmon
Directors: Billy Wilder
Country: USA
Year: 1959
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Two struggling musicians witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and try to find a way out of the city before they are found and killed by the mob. The only job that will pay their way is an all girl band so the two dress up as women. In addition to hiding, each has his own problems; One falls for another band member but can't tell her his gender, and the other has a rich suitor who will not take "No," for an answer.
You and Me
Genres: Action, Crime, Adventure
Starring: Egon Brecher, Robert Cummings, Sylvia Sidney, George E. Stone, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, George Raft, Barton MacLane
Directors: Fritz Lang
Country: USA
Year: 1938
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.
A Slight Case of Murder
Genres: Comedy, Crime
Starring: Margaret Hamilton, Edward Brophy, Allen Jenkins, George E. Stone, John Litel, Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Donnelly
Directors: Lloyd Bacon
Country: USA
Year: 1938
Remy Marco announces he's going legit with the end of Prohibition. His fortune declines because the beer he makes tastes terrible. His daughter falls in love with a rich man's son who gets a job as a cop.
Bullets or Ballots
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Starring: Louise Beavers, Humphrey Bogart, Joseph Crehan, George E. Stone, Frank McHugh, Henry O'Neill, Joe King
Directors: William Keighley
Country: USA
Year: 1936
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner former detective Johnny Blake knocks him down convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Buggs" Fenner thinks Blake is a police agent.
Penthouse
Genres: Crime, Romance, Mystery
Starring: Mae Clarke, George E. Stone, Warner Baxter, C. Henry Gordon, Raymond Hatton, Nat Pendleton, Myrna Loy
Directors: W.S. Van Dyke
Country: USA
Year: 1933
Racketeer Tony Gazotti is thankful that lawyer Jackson Dumont helps him beat a murder rap, but Dumont just does it for the thrill of it and refuses payment. Dumont's defense of mobsters causes his firm to disown him and his girlfriend Sue to leave him. But when young Tom Siddell, Sue's new boyfriend, is framed for a murder, she is the first to come asking for Dumont's help. Dumont uses Gazotti's information network and the help of new girlfriend Gertie Waxted to find that rival gangster Jim Grelliman is involved in the framing of Siddell. When Dumont sends Gertie to Grelliman's apartment in a bid to blow open the case, she is walking on thin ...
Viva Villa!
Genres: Biography, Western
Starring: Frank Puglia, George E. Stone, Fay Wray, Ralph Bushman, Henry B. Walthall, Leo Carrillo, Joseph Schildkraut
Directors: Jack Conway
Country: USA
Year: 1934
In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's death. In 1910, he befriends American reporter Johnny Sykes. Then a meeting with visionary Francisco Madero transforms Villa from an avenging bandit to a revolutionary general. To the tune of 'La Cucaracha,' his armies sweep Mexico. After victory, Villa's bandit-like disregard for human life forces Madero to exile him. But Madero's fall brings Villa back to raise the people against a new tyrant...
Mr. Moto's Gamble
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Starring: Ward Bond, Keye Luke, George E. Stone, Peter Lorre, Douglas Fowley, Dick Baldwin, Lynn Bari
Directors: James Tinling
Country: USA
Year: 1938
Mr. Moto must discover who poisoned a fighter in the boxing ring. This movie began as "Charlie Chan at the Ringside," but Warner Oland abruptly quit during filming, so it was rewritten as a Mr. Moto film.
The Man with the Golden Arm
Genres: Drama
Starring: George Mathews, Frank Sinatra, Emile Meyer, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak, Arnold Stang, Darren McGavin
Directors: Otto Preminger
Country: USA
Year: 1955
Frankie Machine is a skilled card dealer and one-time heroin addict. When he returns home from jail, he struggles to find a new livelihood and to avoid slipping back into addiction.
Guys and Dolls
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Musical
Starring: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Robert Keith, Sheldon Leonard, Frank Sinatra, Stubby Kaye, Regis Toomey
Directors: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Country: USA
Year: 1955
All the hot gamblers are in town, and they're all depending on Nathan Detroit to set up this week's incarnation of "The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York"; the only problem is, he needs $1000 to get the place. Throw in Sarah Brown, who's short on sinners at the mission she runs; Sky Masterson, who accepts Nathan's $1000 bet that he can't get Sarah Brown to go with him to Havana; Miss Adelaide, who wants Nathan to marry her; Police Lieutenant Brannigan, who always seems to appear at the wrong time; and the music/lyrics of Frank Loesser, and you've got quite a musical. Includes the songs: Fugue for Tinhorns, "Luck Be a...
42nd Street
Genres: Musical, Romance, Drama
Starring: Allen Jenkins, George E. Stone, Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler, Guy Kibbee
Directors: Lloyd Bacon
Country: USA
Year: 1933
The source from which all modern musicals flow: An ailing Broadway director returns to produce one final show, but his leading lady is injured and must be replaced by a novice. Call it dated, but it's aged to perfection, and the final twenty minute sequence will leave you tapping your toes, with a smile on your face and a song in your heart. Movies--never mind musicals--just don't get any better than this.