The best Oscar O'Shea’s movies

Oscar O'Shea

Oscar O'Shea

08/10/1881- 06/04/1960
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Love Affair

Love Affair
7.3/10
French playboy Michel Marnet and American Terry McKay fall in love during the transatlantic passage of a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed their mind.

The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties
7.9/10
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

Captains Courageous

Captains Courageous
7.9/10
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.

Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men
7.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/12/1939
  • Character: Jackson
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.

Four Mothers

Four Mothers
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 04/01/1941
  • Character: George Edwards (uncredited)
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.

Pier 13

Pier 13
6.1/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 08/08/1940
  • Character: Skipper Kelly
A policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront smuggling racket.

Rosalie

Rosalie
6/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 24/12/1937
  • Character: Mr. Callahan
West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom.

Racket Busters

Racket Busters
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/07/1938
  • Character: Pop Wilson
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.

Mannequin

Mannequin
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/01/1938
  • Character: 'Pa' Cassidy
Jessie, a young working class woman who seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.

Double Wedding

Double Wedding
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 15/10/1937
  • Character: Turnkey (uncredited)
A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.

The Shining Hour

The Shining Hour
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 18/11/1938
  • Character: Charlie Collins
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.

Stranger on the Third Floor

Stranger on the Third Floor
6.8/10
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.

Lucky Night

Lucky Night
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 05/05/1939
  • Character: Police Lieutenant
Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The two of them embark on a wild night of gambling and winning, where everything they touch turns to gold. Pretty soon they're in love and, to the horror of Cora's father, married.

Man-Proof

Man-Proof
6/10
A newspaper illustrator tries to remain best friends with the man she secretly loves, even though he recently married another woman.

Bewitched

Bewitched
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/07/1945
  • Character: Capt. O'Malley
A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.

International Crime

International Crime
5.4/10
The second and final Grand National Pictures film to feature The Shadow, played again by Rod La Rocque. In this version, Lamont Cranston is an amateur detective and host of a radio show with his assistant Phoebe (not Margo) Lane. Cabbie Moe Shrevnitz and Commissioner Weston also appear.

Forty Little Mothers

Forty Little Mothers
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/04/1940
  • Character: Janitor at Train Station
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.

Lydia

Lydia
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 18/09/1941
  • Character: Doctor Richards
Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young and courted her. In memory, each romance seemed splendid and destined for happiness, but in each case, Lydia realizes, the truth was less romantic, and ill-starred.

The Mummy's Ghost

The Mummy's Ghost
5.6/10
  • Genre: FantasyHorror
  • Release: 07/07/1944
  • Character: Museum Watchman
An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning that Ananka's spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a mysterious resemblance to the princess. However, the high priest's greedy desires cause him to lose control of the mummy...

Tell No Tales

Tell No Tales
6.5/10
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.

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