The best Victor Potel’s movies

Victor Potel

Victor Potel

12/10/1889- 08/03/1947
Today we present the best Victor Potel’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 Victor Potel’s movies.
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Fury

Fury
7.8/10
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.

Sullivan's Travels

Sullivan's Travels
7.9/10
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.

The Palm Beach Story

The Palm Beach Story
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 28/08/1942
  • Character: Mr. McKeewie
Gerry and Tom Jeffers are finding married life hard. Tom is an inventor/ architect and there is little money for them to live on. They are about to be thrown out of their apartment when Gerry meets rich businessman being shown around as a prospective tenant. He gives Gerry $700 to start life afresh but Tom refuses to believe her story and they quarrel. Gerry decides the marriage is over and heads to Palm Beach for a quick divorce but Tom has plans to stop her.

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
7.6/10
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.

Flame of Barbary Coast

Flame of Barbary Coast
6.2/10
Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer; but the 1906 quake destroys his place.

The Great McGinty

The Great McGinty
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/08/1940
  • Character: Cook (uncredited)
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...

Slightly Honorable

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

Ten Cents a Dance

Ten Cents a Dance
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/03/1931
  • Character: Smith, a Sailor
A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.

Christmas in July

Christmas in July
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 25/10/1940
  • Character: Davenola Salesman
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/04/1947
  • Character: Prof. Potelle
Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Wagglebury, with nothing but a tiny pension.

The Lady Eve

The Lady Eve
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 25/02/1941
  • Character: Second Steward (uncredited)
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.

His Regeneration

His Regeneration
4.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 07/05/1915
  • Character: Pawn Shop Clerk
A rough criminal gets a second chance at life thanks to a kindly (and wealthy) lady saloon patron. But he hasn't gone straight yet, as he and a partner attempt to rob the home of a rich homeowner-- whose wife is asleep in the next room.

The Egg and I

The Egg and I
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/05/1947
  • Character: Crowbar (as Vic Potel)
World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country. While Betty gamely struggles with managing the crumbling house and holding off nosy neighbors and a recalcitrant pig, Bob makes plans for crops and livestock. The couple's bliss is shaken by a visit from a beautiful farm owner, who seems to want more from Bob than just managing her property.

Second Fiddle

Second Fiddle
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/06/1939
  • Character: Steve - Crane Operator
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.

Three Godfathers

Three Godfathers
7.3/10
In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching desert. There, they happen upon an ill woman stranded with her child. As the mother dies, she begs the men to take care of her infant. The fugitives want to save the baby -- but to do so, they'll have to travel back to New Jerusalem, where they are wanted men.

The Virginian

The Virginian
6.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 09/11/1929
  • Character: Nebrasky
A good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he discovers his best friend is engaged in cattle rustling.

Doughboys

Doughboys
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 30/08/1930
  • Character: Svendenburg
Elmer, rich society loafer, falls for Mary, but she'll have nothing to do with him until (mistakenly thinking that he's hiring a new chauffeur) he accidentally volunteers for the army. Luckily, Mary's signed up to entertain the troops. Unluckily, Elmer's sergeant likes Mary, too. And worst of all, they're all about to ship out for France.

Young Tom Edison

Young Tom Edison
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/03/1940
  • Character: Mr. Tompkins
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Toms only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.

Man Hunt

Man Hunt
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeDrama
  • Release: 29/01/1936
  • Character: Townsman Pointing Out Shefiff's Office (uncredited)
A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.

Li'l Abner

Li'l Abner
4.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/11/1940
  • Character: Fantastic Brown
Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from an angry mob). It is all settled at the Sadie Hawkins Day race.

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