The best Edward Arnold’s movies

Edward Arnold

Edward Arnold

18/02/1890- 26/04/1956
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Gremlins

Gremlins
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyFantasyHorror
  • Release: 07/06/1984
  • Character: Donald Deagle (archive footage) (uncredited)
When Billy Peltzer is given a strange but adorable pet named Gizmo for Christmas, he inadvertently breaks the three important rules of caring for a Mogwai, and unleashes a horde of mischievous gremlins on a small town.

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 21/05/1982
  • Character: (in "Johnny Eager") (archive footage)
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.

Johnny Eager

Johnny Eager
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/12/1941
  • Character: John Benson Farrell
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's daughter for revenge, then falls in love.

You Can't Take It with You

You Can't Take It with You
7.8/10
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.

Duck Soup

Duck Soup
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 12/11/1933
  • Character: Politician (uncredited)
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
8.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/10/1939
  • Character: Jim Taylor
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.

Ziegfeld Follies

Ziegfeld Follies
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 26/08/1945
  • Character: Lawyer (segment Pay the Two Dollars)
The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.

All That Money Can Buy

All That Money Can Buy
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaFantasy
  • Release: 17/10/1941
  • Character: Daniel Webster
Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his sale before he collects. Over that time, Jabez pays off his debts and helps many neighboring farmers, then becomes an advocate for the upstanding Sen. Daniel Webster. When Jabez's contract with Mr. Scratch concludes, he desperately turns to Webster to represent him in a trial for his soul.

Meet John Doe

Meet John Doe
7.6/10
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.

James Stewart's Wonderful Life

James Stewart's Wonderful Life
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 22/11/1988
  • Character: (archive footage)
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.

I'm No Angel

I'm No Angel
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 06/10/1933
  • Character: Big Bill Barton
The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head into the lion's mouth! With this attraction, the circus makes it to New York and Tira can pursue her dearest occupation— flirting with rich men and accepting expensive presents.

He Who Gets Slapped

He Who Gets Slapped
7.8/10
Story of an inventor who, suffering betrayal in life, makes a career of it by becoming a clown whose act consists of getting slapped by all the other clowns. He falls in love with another circus performer, and those who betrayed him enter his life yet again.

Annie Get Your Gun

Annie Get Your Gun
6.9/10
Gunslinger Annie Oakley romances fellow sharpshooter Frank Butler as they travel with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

Living It Up

Living It Up
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 15/07/1954
  • Character: The Mayor of New York
Homer Flagg (Lewis) is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. One day he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic proving ground. His doctor and best friend, Steve Harris (Martin), diagnoses him with radiation poisoning and gives Homer three weeks to live. A reporter for a New York newspaper, hears of Homer's plight and convinces her editor, to provide an all-expenses paid trip to New York.

That's Entertainment!

That's Entertainment!
7.8/10
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.

Easy Living

Easy Living
7.5/10
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.

Eyes in the Night

Eyes in the Night
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 16/10/1942
  • Character: Duncan 'Mac' Maclain
Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaMystery
  • Release: 30/06/1916
  • Character: Moriarty Henchman In Striped Cap
When a couple of scammers hold young Alice Faulkner against her will to discover the whereabouts of letters whose dissemination could cause a scandal affecting the royal family, Sherlock Holmes decides to take over the case. (Considered lost, a copy was found in 2014, in the vaults of the Cinémathèque Française.)

Slightly Honorable

Slightly Honorable
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 22/12/1939
  • Character: Vincent Cushing
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.

Sadie McKee

Sadie McKee
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 09/05/1934
  • Character: Jack Brennan
A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.

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