James Dunn Movies

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well...

Best friends Kenneth Reynolds and Raymond Jordan are U.S. Navy officers, and Kenneth is engaged to Raymond's sister. But the eruption of the Civil...

Newlyweds Webster and Jackie Frye spend their honeymoon in a sinister old country house. Before long, they are besieged by a gang of crooks,...

Sponsored by The Protestant Film Commission, this religiously-affiliated tale centers around citizen Henry Wood (played by Oscar winner James Dunn...

A detective investigating kidnapping case discovers the victim, who may be a zombie.

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Young and restless Nick Adams, the only son of a domineering mother and a weak but noble doctor father, leaves his rural Michigan home to embark on...

An orphaned girl is taken in by a snobbish family at the insistence of their rich, crotchety uncle, even as her devoted aviator godfather fights for...

Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.

An amoral lowlife accidentally stumbles into an acting career that sets him on a trajectory to Hollywood stardom. But everyone on whom he steps on...

A corrupt sheriff knows the secrets of everyone in town and uses that information to go unchallenged. But after the arrest of an innocent teenager,...

Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hustling men at a young age. She hangs around with a...

Tommy McCoy grew up poor and scrappy. As a young man he discovers that he can fight with his powerful right arm. He becomes successful at boxing,...

Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and...

A documentary about child actors, since the beginning of motion pictures (narrated by Roddy McDowell).

A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.

An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.

An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.

Joe Riley is a boxing referee whose life-code is the same as the sporting rules of the prizefight ring. Two Golden Glove (a tournament for amateur...

A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don't...