H.B. Warner
20 titles
Filmography
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The King of Kings
(1927)The carpenter from Nazareth faces religious and political oppression during his ministry and in the days before his death and resurrection.

City of Missing Girls
(1941)As an epidemic of missing girls sweeps through a city, a new district attorney and a veteran cop investigate possible ties to a local drama school.

Cross-Examination
(1932)A defense attorney's sharp skills become the key to uncovering the truth as he fights to save a young man accused of killing his millionaire father.

Unholy Love
(1932)
Born to Gamble
(1935)A wealthy industrialist relates tales of how his father-in-law’s gambling and that of his three sons had tragic consequences for his family.

The Boss of Big Town
(1942)After his assistant is killed, a crusading city official poses as a government stooge to flush out the big boss and shut down his gang of racketeers.

Arrest Bulldog Drummond
(1938)The former World War I British officer-turned-private investigator brings along his fiancee to help him catch dangerous spies with a stolen death ray.

Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police
(1939)A legendary investigator is wrapped up in a murder case when news of a secret hidden treasure gets out and leads to a man's untimely demise.

Bulldog Drummond's Bride
(1939)Crime fighter and contented bachelor Bulldog Drummond once again is prevented from marrying his girlfriend when a bank robbery in London pops off.

Bulldog Drummond in Africa
(1938)The London sleuth, his fiancee, and sidekick butler rescue a high-post Scotland Yard colonel who has been kidnapped and thrown into a lion pit.

In Old Santa Fe
(1934)A sweet, lovesick cowboy named Kentucky is framed for murder. His ornery sidekick Cactus helps him out of trouble and Kentucky gets his girl.

Along Came Love
(1936)Outside of a theater, a shop girl meets a handsome doorman, who is focused only on his medical school studies, and believes she has met her true love.

New Moon
(1940)Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy pair up once again in the film version of the popular Sigmund Romberg operetta about a Parisian belle who becomes involved with a political prisoner. In 18th century Louisiana, haughty plantation owner Marianne de Beaumanoir (MacDonald) and her handsome bondservant Charles (Eddy), who is actually a French nobleman in disguise, are thrown together when Charles commandeers a ship carrying Marianne and a cargo of mail-order brides. Romance, adventure--and the French Revolution--ensue. The soaring Romberg musical score includes such favorites as "One Kiss," "Stout-Hearted Men," "Lover Come Back to Me," "Softly as in a Morning Sunrise," and "Wanting You."
The Phantom of Crestwood
(1932)Who killed Jenny Wren? An added undercurrent of excitement accompanied this atmospheric mystery's arrival at movie houses. A multi-episode radio version had preceded the release of the film, and listeners were invited to vie for prizes by submitting their ideas on how the broadcast's cliffhanger ending should resolve. Would one of those submittals end up on the screen? Fans would have to see the movie to find out! Karen Morley portrays unfortunate Jenny, who plans to blackmail her rich and powerful paramours at a posh soiree. Instead, she is murdered. A career criminal (Ricardo Cortez) at the gathering, knowing he must act before police arrive and accuse him, takes it upon himself to sift through the clues to discover the Maltese of the whodunit. Combining elements of parlor mystery with the secret passages, stormy nights and strange apparitions of old-dark-house tales, the Selznick RKO unit crafts a clever entertainment.

The Corsican Brothers
(1941)After their parents are killed, conjoined twin boys are separated, with one raised as a gentleman in Paris and the other as a bandit in the mountains.
Action in Arabia
(1944)When an American newspaperman based in Damascus investigates the murder of a colleague, his search leads him to a beautiful French spy, a World War II Nazi plot to unite the Arabs against the Allies--and lots of Action in Arabia.

Nurse Edith Cavell
(1939)Anna Neagle stars in this biopic of English nurse and First World War martyr Edith Cavell. Matron of a small private hospital in German-occupied Brussels during WWI, Cavell makes no distinction between the civilian casualties, Allied troops and German soldiers brought in for treatment. However, her sympathy for the plight of the Belgians leads her to become involved with a secret underground resistance movement that helps refugees and escaped prisoners of war to cross the border into neutral Holland. When the German high command becomes suspicious of her activities, Cavell is branded a spy and faces execution by firing squad.

All That Money Can Buy
(1941)Echoing the legend of Faust, a poor farmer Jabez Stone (James Craig) makes a pact with the devil for seven prosperous years in return for his soul. When the devil (Walter Huston) comes a-calling, Stone begins to have second thoughts, enlisting the famed orator Daniel Webster (Edward Arnold) to fight his case.

Topper Returns
(1941)When fun-loving Gail is mistakenly murdered after trading bedrooms with her wealthy friend, her ghost seeks aid from Topper to find the killer.

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
(1936)A reluctant millionaire (Gary Cooper) is declared insane when he announces that he'll give his fortune away to America's poor. Oscar(r)-winning direction by Frank Capra.