Dick Powell Movies

A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins...

When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making...

Students at New York's Rovina Finishing School for Girls send their photographs to the makers of Claybury's Beauty Soap, in the hope of being chosen...

A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper.

A gold-digger hopes to land a rich husband in Trinidad, but gets mixed up with a beach boy and voodoo.

Making-of documentary about the 1933 musical, 42nd Street.

Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town targeted for a nuclear bomb test.

An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets...

No relation to the 1950 Frank Capra film of the same name, the 1943 Technicolor musical Riding High is a by-the-numbers vehicle for Dorothy Lamour...

A post World War 2, US Army agent is assigned to join the Foreign Legion in search of high ranking Nazi war criminal who may have also enlisted.

A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake,...

Short documentary about the Great Depression's impact on film, specifically Berkeley musicals.

In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars.

Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window...

A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.

A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.

An army sergeant blames himself for causing a rookie's death during training.

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937.

A hobo searches the countryside for the daughter he lost when his wife left him...

A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.