Movies with Robert Armstrong
Movies found: 12, viewing from 1 to 12
The Sea of Grass
Genres: Drama, Western
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Robert Barrat, Russell Hicks, Robert Armstrong, Melvyn Douglas, Trevor Bardette
Directors: Elia Kazan
Country: USA
Year: 1947
The highly melodramatic western begins with St. Louis resident Katharine Hepburn marrying New Mexico cattleman Spencer Tracy after a short courtship. When she arrives in "Salt Pork, NM" she finds that her new husband is considered by the locals to be a tyrant who uses force to keep homesteaders off the government owned land he uses for grazing his cattle--the so-called Sea of Grass. Hepburn's character, Lutie, has difficulty reconciling her husband's beliefs and passions with her own, and eventually leaves him just long enough to conceive a child with her husband's moral enemy. Two years later, in the midst of a crisis, her husband discovers ...
The Kansan
Genres: Romance, Western
Starring: Francis McDonald, Ray Bennett, Victor Jory, Albert Dekker, Robert Armstrong, Hobart Cavanaugh, Douglas Fowley
Directors: George Archainbaud
Country: USA
Year: 1943
Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.
Call a Messenger
Genres: Crime, Drama
Starring: Victor Jory, Robert Armstrong, Huntz Hall, Buster Crabbe, El Brendel, Anne Nagel, Billy Halop
Directors: Arthur Lubin
Country: USA
Year: 1939
A tough street kid attempts to rob a post office and is caught. In order to avoid reform school, he takes a job as a messenger with the post office. He finds that he likes it, and when his brother is released from prison, attempts to help his brother go straight. However, the two of them get mixed up with a local gangster, who has plans to start robbing post office branches and using the messenger and his brother to do it.
The Paleface (1948)
Genres: Comedy, Western
Starring: Wade Crosby, Bob Hope, Robert Armstrong, Jane Russell, Iris Adrian, Jeff York, Charles Trowbridge
Directors: Norman Z. McLeod
Country: USA
Year: 1948
Someone is selling guns to the Indians and in order to find the culprit Calamity Jane and a secret agent go undercover posing as man and wife. When the agent is killed Jane recruits a new husband -- none other than innocent dupe "Painless" Peter Potter, a totally inept dentist and confirmed coward who's main goal is to leave the barbaric west far behind. When their wagon train is attacked by the Indians it's Jane's sharpshooting that saves the day, but she gives the credit to Potter making him an instant hero to the townspeople and instant target to both the Indians and the gunrunners.
A Girl in Every Port
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Francis McDonald, Robert Armstrong, Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Mathews, Leila Hyams, Natalie Kingston, Louise Brooks
Directors: Howard Hawks
Country: USA
Year: 1928
You'll Like This One!---It's a rollicking, jolly, happy picture---a laugh all the way.
Iron Man
Genres: Drama
Starring: Lew Ayres, Robert Armstrong, John Miljan, Ned Sparks, Mary Doran, Jean Harlow, Mike Donlin
Directors: Tod Browning
Country: USA
Year: 1931
Prizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around Mason trains and starts winning. Rose comes back and wants Mason to dump his manager Regan and replace him with her secret lover Lewis.
Be Yourself!
Genres: Comedy, Musical
Starring: Robert Armstrong, G. Pat Collins, Budd Fine, Harry Green, Gertrude Astor, Fanny Brice, Marjorie Kane
Directors: Thornton Freeland
Country: USA
Year: 1930
In the nightclub where entertainer Fannie Field sings, two rivals for her favors, Jerry Moore and Mac McCloskey, come to blows before either realizes the other is a boxer. Jerry loses the fight but wins Fannie, who becomes his trainer with the aid of her schlemiel brother. Aside from a slight tendency to lie down in the ring, Jerry is successful. But success brings the inevitable blonde; does this mean heartbreak for Fannie? Features the star's inimitable ethnic humor.
The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
Genres: Thriller, Adventure, Horror
Starring: William B. Davidson, Robert Armstrong, Fay Wray, Noble Johnson, Steve Clemente, Joel McCrea, Leslie Banks
Directors: Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Country: USA
Year: 1932
A cabin cruiser is shipwrecked off the coast of a remote island, and its three passengers manage to reach the island safely. The island is owned by a strange and enigmatic count who invites them to stay. But he has an underlying motive for his apparent generosity: Count Zaroff enjoys hunting--and he only hunts the most dangerous game: humans!
Decoy (1946)
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Starring: Sheldon Leonard, Herbert Rudley, Robert Armstrong, Philip Van Zandt, Bert Roach, Jean Gillie, Edward Norris
Directors: Jack Bernhard
Country: USA
Year: 1946
Gangster Frank Olins is to die in the gas chamber much to the dismay of his girlfriend Margot Shelby as he is carrying the secret of the location of $400,000 with him. Margot seduces gangster Jim Vincent to get him to engineer the removal of Olins' body from the prison immediately after he dies in the gas chamber. She takes prison doctor Craig away from his nurse/girl friend and gets him to administer an antidote for cyanide gas poisoning. During the removal of Olins' body, the hearse driver is killed by Tommy. The revived Olins gives Margot half of a map showing the money location and Vincent, in a fit of jealousy, kills Olins and takes the ...
The Mad Ghoul
Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi
Starring: Evelyn Ankers, Charles McGraw, Rose Hobart, Robert Armstrong, George Zucco, Turhan Bey, Addison Richards
Directors: James P. Hogan
Country: USA
Year: 1943
Curious about the effects of an ancient Mayan nerve gas on humans, a scientist exposes his young assistant and turns him into a mindless ghoul that must have human heart substance to live.
King Kong
Genres: Action, Adventure, Romance
Starring: Bruce Cabot, Robert Armstrong, James Flavin, Fay Wray, Frank Reicher, Sam Hardy, Noble Johnson
Directors: Unknown
Country: USA
Year: 1933
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Carl Denham needs to finish his movie and has the perfect location; Skull Island. But he still needs to find a leading lady. This 'soon-to-be-unfortunate' soul is Ann Darrow. No one knows what they will encounter on this island and why it is so mysterious, but once they reach it, they will soon find out. Living on this hidden island is a giant gorilla and this beast now has Ann is it's grasps. Carl and Ann's new love, Jack Driscoll must travel through the jungle looking for Kong and Ann, whilst avoiding all sorts of creatures and beasts.
Dive Bomber
Genres: Drama
Starring: Errol Flynn, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy, Alexis Smith, Robert Armstrong, Regis Toomey, Allen Jenkins
Directors: Michael Curtiz
Country: USA
Year: 1941
When Dr. Doug Lee fails to save the life of navy pilot Swede Larson, who blacked out and crashed after entering a steep dive, the flyer's friends take an immediate dislike to him and disparage his efforts to learn more about the problem by becoming a flyer himself. Lee's new superior officer, Dr. Lance Rogers, also exhibits resentment toward the presumptuous newcomer. They ultimately become friends and form a mutual bond of personal and professional respect when their research develops a high altitude flying suit which they hope will prevent the kind of blackouts that killed Swede. Unfortunately the process of experimental testing of the new ...