Edward Brophy
15 titles
Filmography
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Dumbo
(1941)The tale of Dumbo, the baby elephant who uses his ears to soar to fame.

The Falcon in San Francisco
(1945)In San Francisco, the Falcon and Goldie Locke investigate a suspicious silk-smuggling operation, uncovering hidden dangers and unexpected twists.

The Falcon's Adventure
(1946)The Falcon saves Louisa from kidnappers seeking her father's diamond formula and must flee to Florida after being framed for murder.

Renegade Girl
(1946)Allied with Confederate guerrilla leader William Quantrill, Ann Shelby turns outlaw to seek vengeance against the tribesman who killed her brother.

Great Guy
(1936)Un inspector de la Oficina de Pesos y Medidas lucha contra la corrupción en el oscuro submundo de los Estados Unidos de la década de 1930.

Doughboys
(1930)In his second "talkie" the immortal Buster Keaton displays his comic genius in full regalia. The addition of his deep, rich voice only serves to make his numerous pratfalls and outrageous mishaps all the funnier. World War I is underway and young men are eager to enlist. Elmer J. Stuyvesant (Keaton), a rich man about town, has no such plans, but one day while looking for a new chauffeur he accidentally enlists in the Army. The uniform appeals to a young lady he's been eyeing, so he decides to tough it out. Classic gags and slapstick shenanigans highlight Elmer's tour of duty as he strives to be a hero to his country and win the heart of the girl he loves. Keaton's priceless scene as a female Apache dancer is a definite highlight in this amusing and original tale of wartime services.

The Champ
(1931)This original father-son tale remains one of the all-time great tearjerkers. Wallace Beery plays the washed-up prizefightermaking a ring comeback to provide for his son.

Larceny, Inc.
(1942)An ex-convict and his gang try to use a luggage store to front a bank robbery, but business keeps getting in the way.

It Happened Tomorrow
(1944)An ambitious reporter can't believe his good fortune when he happens upon a newspaper predicting tomorrow's news—until he reads his own obituary.

The Soldier and the Lady
(1937)This Jules Verne epic action-adventure follows a courageous courier as he struggles to deliver vital information to Russian troops.

It Happened on Fifth Avenue
(1947)Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.

Mad Love
(1935)When Parisian actress Yvonne Orlac (Frances Drake) announces that she is leaving the stage to be a full-time wife to her concert pianist husband, Stephen (Colin Clive), brilliant surgeon Dr. Gogol (Peter Lorre), who is obsessed with Yvonne, is crushed. So when Stephen loses his hands in a train wreck, Gogol agrees to Yvonne's request to graft another pair of hands onto Stephen. But before long, Stephen realizes that his hands seem to have a mind of their own. He can no longer play the piano -- but he can throw knives with deadly accuracy! It turns out the hands belonged to an executed murderer, and they never lost the desire to kill. As Stephen slowly goes insane, Gogol professes his love for Yvonne, but she rejects him. Gogol vows to hasten Stephen's demise to drive Yvonne into his own arms.

Wonder Man
(1945)After being murdered by gangsters, an exuberant nightclub entertainer returns as a ghost to persuade his meek twin brother to help bring his killers to justice.

Evelyn Prentice
(1934)William Powell and Myrna Loy star in this romantic mystery thriller about a trial attorney who is so busy with his career that he doesn't realize that mysterious in his current case.
What! No Beer?
(1933)Two of comedy's greatest masters – Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante – appear together in this effervescent and irreverent slapstick about a couple of regular guys trying to cash in on the end of Prohibition. Durante is a barber who talks Keaton, his dim-bulb taxidermist buddy, into spending his life's savings on a brewery. Determined to be first, they start making beer before Prohibition is actually over. That makes their "competition" bootlegging thugs – something they didn't count on! Then, Buster falls for one of the gangster's molls, the cops get into the act, and Keaton and Durante have to figure out how to get out of the beer business before they're done in! From a story by Robert E. Hopkins (Anita Loo's screenwriting partner on San Francisco), this timely farce, directed by veteran Edward Sedgwick, was called "one solid riot of laughs…Rowdy and hoodlum fun" (The New York American).