The best Warner Baxter’s movies

Warner Baxter

Warner Baxter

29/03/1889- 07/05/1951
We present our ranking of the best Warner Baxter’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Warner Baxter.
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42nd Street

42nd Street
7.3/10
A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.

In Old Arizona

In Old Arizona
5.5/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 25/12/1928
  • Character: The Cisco Kid
Army Sergeant Mickey Dunn sets out in pursuit of the Cisco Kid, a notorious if kind-hearted and charismatic bandit of the Old West. The Kid spends much of his loot on Tonia, the woman he loves, not realizing that she is being unfaithful to him in his absence. Soon, with her oblivious paramour off plying his trade, Tonia falls in with Dunn, drawn by the allure of a substantial reward for the Kid's capture -- dead or alive. Together, they concoct a plan to ambush and do away with the Cisco Kid once and for all.

Kidnapped

Kidnapped
6.6/10
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour (Freddie Bartholomew) joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart (Warner Baxter) in 18th-century Scotland.

The Prisoner of Shark Island

The Prisoner of Shark Island
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 12/02/1936
  • Character: Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd
After setting the leg of John Wilkes Booth, Dr. Samuel Mudd is sent to prison as a conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

West of Zanzibar

West of Zanzibar
7.2/10
A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician's wife.

Crime Doctor

Crime Doctor
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 22/06/1943
  • Character: Dr. Robert J. Ordway / Phillip Morgan
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.

The Stolen Jools

The Stolen Jools
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/04/1931
  • Character: Cisco Kid Character
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)

Slave Ship

Slave Ship
6.3/10
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.

Penthouse

Penthouse
6.8/10
Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.

Broadway Bill

Broadway Bill
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 30/11/1934
  • Character: Dan Brooks
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons- in-law, Dan Brooks and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bank- roll is thin and the luck is against him, he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planed fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...

Three Sinners

Three Sinners
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/04/1928
  • Character: James Harris
A woman allows her husband, who she knows no longer loves her, to believe that she has been killed in a train wreck. Her husband later finds her as a hostess in a gambling den.

Doctors' Wives

Doctors' Wives
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/03/1931
  • Character: Dr. Judson Penning
The trials of being a doctor's wife are presented in this drama. The story centers upon the problematic marriage of one couple. Their troubles begin when the doctor makes a housecall to a seductive woman with designs upon him. His suspicious wife follows him and spies on him. She thinks they are getting romantic when he is actually trying to extricate himself from his predatory patient. She decides to get revenge with his best friend, but nothing happens.

One More Spring

One More Spring
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 15/02/1935
  • Character: Jaret Otkar
Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
7.1/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 06/08/1975
  • Character: (archive footage)
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Vogues of 1938

Vogues of 1938
5.9/10
An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All This and Glamour Too. The top models of the era, including several who are advertising household products, are in the cast. The plot centers around a chic boutique, whose owner, George Curson (Warner Baxter), tries hard to please his customers while keeping peace with his unhappy wife. A wealthy young woman, Wendy Van Klettering (Joan Bennett), decides to take a job as a model at the fashion house, just to amuse herself, but her presence annoys Curson, who must put together the best possible show to compete with rival fashion houses at the Seven Arts Ball. The film includes several hit songs, including the Oscar-nominated "That Old Feeling" by Sammy Fain and Lew Brown.

Stand Up and Cheer!

Stand Up and Cheer!
5.4/10
President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon runs afoul of political lobbyists out to destroy his department.

The Road to Glory

The Road to Glory
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 04/09/1936
  • Character: Captain Paul La Roche
The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and more somber. His rival for the affection of nurse Monique is Capt. La Roche. Written by Ed Stephan

Mannequin

Mannequin
6.7/10
  • Genre: Romance
  • Release: 11/01/1926
  • Character: John Herrick
Mannequin is a 1926 American silent romance film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. James Cruze directed and Alice Joyce, Warner Baxter, and Dolores Costello were the stars. The film is still extant.

The Crime Doctor's Warning

The Crime Doctor's Warning
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 27/09/1945
  • Character: Dr. Robert Ordway
A criminal psychologist treats an artist whose blackouts coincide with a series of murders.

The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case

The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 09/12/1943
  • Character: Dr. Robert Ordway
The Crime Doctor gets involved in the case of the poisoning of a wealthy industrialist.

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