The best Otto Yamaoka’s movies

Otto Yamaoka

Otto Yamaoka

25/04/1904- 05/06/1967
Today we present the best Otto Yamaoka’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Otto Yamaoka’s movies.
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Libeled Lady

Libeled Lady
7.8/10
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.

The Letter

The Letter
7.5/10
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.

The Black Camel

The Black Camel
6.7/10
Movie star Shelah Fane is seeing wealthy Alan Jaynes while filming in Honolulu, Hawaii, but won't marry him without consulting famed psychic Tanaverro first. Tanaverro confronts her about the unsolved murder of fellow film star Denny Mayo three years earlier, and she decides to reject Jaynes' proposal. When Shelah is found shot to death in her beach-front pavilion, Charlie Chan of the Honolulu Police investigates.

Hollywood Boulevard

Hollywood Boulevard
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/08/1936
  • Character: Thomas (uncredited)
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.

The Benson Murder Case

The Benson Murder Case
6/10
A ruthless, crooked stockbroker is murdered at his luxurious country estate, and detective Philo Vance just happens to be there; he decides to find out who killed him.

The Wedding Night

The Wedding Night
6.6/10
While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett (Cooper) becomes attracted to Manya (Sten), the daughter of a neighboring farmer. Manya is unhappily engaged to Frederik (Bellamy). Due to a snowstorm, Tony and Manya are trapped together in his house overnight. The next day, Manya's father insists her wedding to Frederik take place in spite of Manya's misgivings. Drunkenness and jealousy result in tragedy at the wedding reception that night.

Petticoat Fever

Petticoat Fever
6.2/10
A lonely radio operator in Labrador falls for an engaged woman.

We're Rich Again

We're Rich Again
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/07/1934
  • Character: Fugi, the Page's Servant
A polo-playing grandmother (Edna May Oliver) and her broke brood get back in the money with a Wall Street bet.

Night Waitress

Night Waitress
5.7/10
Helen Roberts, who's on probation, goes back to work as a waitress at Torre's Fish Palace, a San Francisco waterfront dive. The customers are low characters trying to make time with Helen and ex-rum runners trying to make a dishonest dollar. Some of the latter, including Helen's unwelcome suitor Martin Rhodes, are after a mysterious, valuable hidden "cargo"; when violence erupts, Helen finds herself innocently involved, and is soon on the run from both cops and crooks.

Two Girls on Broadway

Two Girls on Broadway
6/10
  • Genre: Romance
  • Release: 19/04/1940
  • Character: Ito
Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the show and gives Molly a job selling cigarettes. A wealthy friend of the producer named "Chat" Chatsworth also has his eye on Pat. Pat is teamed with Eddie in the specialty number as Kerns and Mahoney. Pat and Eddie soon realize that they are in love and must tell Molly. Pat balks at hurting Molly and goes out with Chat who already has five ex-wives.

Rhythm on the Range

Rhythm on the Range
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/07/1936
  • Character: Chinese Houseboy
Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm where he works. He tries to win her heart, but without success, until she is endangered by gangsters

Before Midnight

Before Midnight
5.9/10
A detective tries to figure out who killed a man who predicted his own death.

Westward Passage

Westward Passage
5.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/05/1932
  • Character: Chong (uncredited)
A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.

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