The best Robert Kent’s movies

Robert Kent

Robert Kent

03/12/1908- 04/05/1955
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The Country Girl

The Country Girl
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 17/05/1955
  • Character: Paul Unger
An ex-theater actor is given one more chance to star in a musical yet his alcoholism may prevent it from happening.

A Chump at Oxford

A Chump at Oxford
7.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/01/1940
  • Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
The boys get jobs as a butler and maid (Stan in drag) for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The thankful bank president sends them to Oxford to get an education. Predictable results ensue.

Born Reckless

Born Reckless
6/10
Racketeer Jim Barnes is trying to force the independent taxicab-drivers to join his "protection service" at the cost of five bucks a day. Champion race-car driver, Bob Kane, joins with his friends Lee and "Dad" Martin in a fight for the street rights of a big city.

Wild Weed

Wild Weed
4.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/07/1949
  • Character: Lt. Mason
A chorus girl's career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking marijuana.

Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever

Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 21/07/1939
  • Character: Ensign Copley
Young Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. When his play is chosen as the school's annual production, Andy seizes the opportunity to spend as much time as possible with his pretty teacher. Meanwhile, Judge Hardy has his own problems when he gets conned into forming a phony aluminum corporation.

Dimples

Dimples
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 09/10/1936
  • Character: Allen Drew
Dimples Appleby lives with her pick-pocket grandfather in 19th century New York City. She entertains the crowds while he works his racket. A rich lady makes it possible for the girl to go legit.

Blonde Alibi

Blonde Alibi
6.3/10
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past.

Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo

Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
6.7/10
Although Charlie and Lee are in Monaco for an art exhibit, they become caught up in a feud between rival financiers which involves the Chan's in a web of blackmail and murder.

Gang Bullets

Gang Bullets
5.6/10
Gang Bullets was one of a myriad of late-1930s Monogram crime pictures, bearing such interchangable titles as I Am a Criminal, Convict's Code and Federal Bullets. Morgan Wallace plays a Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out of one town by the authorities immediately sets up shop in another. Unable to get any tangible evidence against Anderson, DA Wayne (Charles Trowbridge) orders his assistant Carter (Robert Kent) to dig up some dirt on the gangster boss. To do this, Carter pretends to turned crooked, joining Anderson's gang in order to accumulate evidence. Alas, Carter's girl friend Patricia (Anne Nagel) knows nothing of her boyfriend's subterfuge, and she suspects the worst. With such formidable henchmen as John Merton and Carleton Young at his beck and call, it's something of a surprise when Anderson comes a-cropper in the last reel.

Ship Cafe

Ship Cafe
6.2/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 09/11/1935
  • Character: Jimmy (uncredited)
The singing stoker and the vamp.

The Phantom Creeps

The Phantom Creeps
4.7/10
A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.

East Side of Heaven

East Side of Heaven
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 07/04/1939
  • Character: Cyrus Barrett Jr.
A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family.

Mr. Moto Takes a Chance

Mr. Moto Takes a Chance
6.4/10
In the jungle near Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Mr. Moto poses as an ineffectual archaeologist and a venerable holy man with mystical powers to help foil two insurgencies against the government.

Step Lively, Jeeves!

Step Lively, Jeeves!
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 30/06/1937
  • Character: Gerry Townsend
A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.

Find the Blackmailer

Find the Blackmailer
6/10
A private eye is hired by a mayoral candidate to prevent any sort of adverse publicity. It seems that, somewhere in town, there's a talking blackbird who insists upon saying that the candidate will commit a murder. When the killing occurs, the candidate is implicated, and the detective is off on a hectic pursuit of the incriminating crow and the actual murderer.

Reunion

Reunion
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/11/1936
  • Character: Tony Luke
Newspapers around the world proclaim the birth in Moosetown, Canada of the 3,000th baby brought into the world by the doctor, John Luke, known for delivering the famous Wyatt quintuplets. To honor the doctor on his retirement and to publicize their town, the Moosetown chamber of commerce decides to hold a reunion of all the babies delivered by the doctor, some of whom have become famous.

The Counterfeiters

The Counterfeiters
5.8/10
Scotland Yard cop goes undercover to nab counterfeiter and his gang.

The Gladiator

The Gladiator
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/08/1938
  • Character: Tom Dixon
A man returns to college and is talked into joining he football team and is a real joke on the team, until he is given a drug that gives him super strength.

One Million B.C.

One Million B.C.
5.7/10
One Million B.C. is a 1940 American fantasy film produced by Hal Roach Studios and released by United Artists. It is also known by the titles Cave Man, Man and His Mate, and Tumak. The film stars Victor Mature as protagonist Tumak, a young cave man who strives to unite the uncivilized Rock Tribe and the peaceful Shell Tribe, Carole Landis as Loana, daughter of the Shell Tribe chief and Tumak's love interest, and Lon Chaney, Jr. as Tumak's stern father and leader of the Rock Tribe.

Big Town After Dark

Big Town After Dark
5.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 12/12/1947
  • Character: Jake Sebastian (as Douglas Blackley)
A crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.

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