The best John Shelton’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best John Shelton’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about John Shelton.
The Time of Their Lives
7.5/10
Two ghosts who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War return to 20th century New England to retieve a letter from George Washington which would prove their innocence.
A-Haunting We Will Go
6.2/10
Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins with disastrous but funny results.
We Who Are Young
5.9/10
A man violates company policy by getting married.
Blonde Inspiration
5.7/10
A writer (John Shelton) of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher (Albert Dekker) want to pay for.
Start Cheering
6/10
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
Talent Scout
5.2/10
A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
Ever Since Eve
6.6/10
Madge Winton (Marion Davies), a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews (Robert Montgomery), accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.
Navy Blue and Gold
6.5/10
Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.
I Take This Woman
6.3/10
On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
6.5/10
A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.
Smartest Girl in Town
6.3/10
A girl in search of a rich husband mistakes a millionaire for a male model.
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
6.2/10
Joe is scheduled for the big fight as usual. This one has more fight sequences than plot.
That Girl From Paris
5.7/10
Nikki Martin (Lily Pons), a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee. Once aboard, she joins an American swing band and falls in love with its leader, who, after hearing her sing, eventually comes to reciprocate her feelings.
Little Miss Broadway
6.9/10
Upon leaving finishing school, Judy Gibson goes to meet her presumed wealthy and socially prominent relatives. However they are penniless Broadway characters and take possession of a Long Island mansion owned by an incarcerated thief so Judy doesn't find out the truth. Judy arrives with her fiancé and his father, who tries to sell worthless stock to Judy's family. They give him $200,000, part of the stashed loot they found belonging to the home-owner thief.
Visage
7.1/10
Trying to live a normal life in Los Angeles, Christian Figo seeks to leave his past behind. Manipulated by his friend Marcus and Marcus's Uncle, Figo finds himself caught in a web of prostitution, drugs, murder, sex and deception.
Betty Co-Ed
6.8/10
The plot gets under way when Joanne, a carnival hootchy-kootchy dancer, is accepted into a snobbish college sorority when it is assumed that she hails from a blueblooded Virginia family.
Sins of Jezebel
4.7/10
Biblical costume drama starring Paulette Goddard as the beautiful pagan Jezebel, corruptor of men.
Wanted: Jane Turner
6/10
Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.
The Ghost Comes Home
5.9/10
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive. Director William Thiele's 1940 film stars Frank Morgan, Billie Burke, Ann Rutherford, John Shelton, Harold Huber, Donald Meek, Nat Pendleton, Renie Riano, Frank Albertson, Reginald Owen, Ann Morriss and Richard Carle.
Keeping Company
5.9/10
Wholesome comedy about newlyweds (and the bride's understanding--but sometimes interfering--parents) discovering married life isn't always bliss.
