Advise and Consent 1962  N/R, 139 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Henry Fonda, Walter Pidgeon, Don Murray, Charles Laughton, Peter Lawford, George Grizzard, Gene Tierney, Franchot Tone, Burgess Meredith, Paul Ford, Lew Ayres, Eddie Hodges, Inga Swenson, Edward Andrews
Backstage politics are exemplified in this film concerned with the U.S. Senate Confirmation Hearings of the President's (Franchot Tone) newly appointed Secretary of State Robert A. Leffingwell (Henry Fonda). It provides an insightful look into Washington, D.C., politics.
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Because of Him 1946  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Wallace
Cast: Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Helen Broderick, Stanley Ridges, Donald Meek, Charles Halton, Regina Wallace, Douglas Wood, Lynn Whitney
Kim (Deanna Durbin), an aspiring actress, is trying to get a role in playwright Paul's (Franchot Tone) Broadway show opposite Broadway legend Sheridan (Charles Laughton). But Paul is not at all pleased to have an unknown star in his play. All ends well, with Deanna still in good voice with the songs and Laughton putting in another fine performance.
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Dancing Lady 1933  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Cast: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, May Robson, Fred Astaire, Robert Benchley, Ted Healy, Nelson Eddy, Lynn Bari, Sterling Holloway, Moe Howard, Curly Howard, Larry Fine
This is Fred Astaire's movie debut, and he shines in this film about an aspiring performer (Joan Crawford) and stage producer Patch Gallagher (Clark Gable) who works toward making her a star. Also featured are the Three Stooges when they were known as "Ted Healy and His Stooges."
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Dangerous 1935 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alfred E. Green
Cast: Bette Davis, Franchot Tone, Margaret Lindsay, Alison Skipworth, John Eldredge, Dick Foran, Pierre Watkin, Milton Kibbee, George Irving, Mary Treen
Bette Davis won the Oscar for her role as alcoholic ex-star Joyce Heath in this fair movie. Obviously, she is the highlight and makes it worth watching.
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Dark Waters 1944 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Andre De Toth
Cast: Merle Oberon, Franchot Tone, Thomas Mitchell, Fay Bainter, Elisha Cook Jr., John Qualen, Rex Ingram, Nina Mae McKinney, Odette Myrtil, Eugene Borden
Her parents died after their ship was torpedoed, leaving Leslie Calvin (Merle Oberon) as the survivor. The fact that she is torn apart emotionally is what leads unscrupulous characters, led by Mr. Sydney (Thomas Mitchell), to enact a plan to drive Leslie into an asylum and then take her family fortune. But all is not lost when the good Dr. George Grover (Franchot Tone) steps in to thwart their efforts.
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Every Girl Should Be Married 1948 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Don Hartman
Cast: Cary Grant, Franchot Tone, Diana Lynn, Betsy Drake, Alan Mowbray, Elisabeth Risdon, Richard Gaines, Harry Hayden, Chick Chandler, Leon Belasco
Married in real life shortly after this filming, Cary Grant and Betsy Drake play the young romantic leads in this movie about a young spinster in search of an eligible bachelor.
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Five Graves to Cairo 1943  N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim, Peter van Eyck, Fortunio Bonanova, Miles Mander, Konstantin Shayne, Fred Nurney, Ian Keith
Remade from 1939's "Hotel Imperial," this story is updated to World War II, and it is the Germans–not Russians–who are the object of conspiracy as a hotel guest (Franchot Tone) tries to obtain military secrets from Field Marshal Rommel (Erich von Stroheim).
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The Gorgeous Hussy 1936 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Clarence Brown
Cast: Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas, James Stewart, Franchot Tone, Louis Calhern, Beulah Bondi, Sidney Toler, Gene Lockhart
This is the story about the Peggy Eaton scandal during the early 19th century and of President Andrew Jackson's rejection of those in his cabinet (including Vice President John C. Calhoun) who played a part in destroying Peggy Eaton's reputation.
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Here Comes the Groom 1951 N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Capra
Cast: Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman, Alexis Smith, Franchot Tone, James Barton, Robert Keith, Alan Reed, Walter Catlett, Ian Wolfe, Louis Armstrong
Reporter (Bing Crosby) wants to adopt two European war orphans but must be married before the agency will release the children. So, he sets out to woo his ex-fiancee (Jane Wyman) who has become romantically involved with another man (Franchot Tone). The film won the Oscar for Best Song "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening."
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Honeymoon 1947 N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Two Men and a Girl
Director: William Keighley
Cast: Shirley Temple, Franchot Tone, Guy Madison, Lina Romay, Gene Lockhart, Grant Mitchell, Corinna Mura, Julio Villarreal, Manuel Arvide, Jose Goula
Barbara (Shirley Temple) heads to Mexico to marry her fiance (Guy Madison). Once there, she enlists the aid of the American Vice Consul (Franchot Tone) to find her husband-to-be and help cut red tape so they can marry.
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In Harm's Way 1965 N/R, 165 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy, Patricia Neal, Tom Tryon, Paula Prentiss, Burgess Meredith, Slim Pickens, Dana Andrews, Brandon DeWilde, Jill Haworth, Stanley Holloway, Franchot Tone, Carroll O'Connor
The heroic efforts of the U.S. Navy following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and the camaraderie of those men and women as they found ways to fight back is the theme of this movie. John Wayne plays the hero and romantic lead Capt. Rockwell Torrey, while Kirk Douglas takes on the role of the executive officer Commander Paul Eddington Jr. who creates problems.
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Jigsaw 1949 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
aka: Gun Moll
Director: Fletcher Markle
Cast: Franchot Tone, Jean Wallace, Myron McCormick, Marc Lawrence, Doe Avedon, Henry Fonda, Marlene Dietrich, Burgess Meredith, John Garfield, Winifred Lenihan, Walter Vaughan, George Breen, Robert Gist, Hester Sondergaard, Luella Gear
A series of murders are taking place in New York, and, after the gangsters kill New York Assistant District Attorney Howard Malloy's (Franchot Tone) friend Charles Riggs (Myron McCormick), he is dedicated to exposing them. The gangsters are a "hate group" involved in stirring up racial prejudice. The group sends Barbara (Jean Wallace) to seduce Howard, but after she has second thoughts, she is murdered also. Now, Malloy is even more determined to bring them to justice.
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Lives of a Bengal Lancer 1935 N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell, Sir Guy Standing, C. Aubrey Smith, Monte Blue, Douglass Dumbrille, Akim Tamiroff, J. Carrol Naish, Colin Tapley
Camaraderie among the British Bengal Lancers of India is evident when MacGregor (Gary Cooper) and Forsythe (Franchot Tone) attempt the rescue of their fellow Lancer (Richard Cromwell). The film won an Oscar for Best Assistant Directors and received six nominations, including Best Picture and Director.
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Lost Honeymoon 1947 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Leigh Jason
Cast: Franchot Tone, Ann Richards, Tom Conway, Frances Rafferty, Clarence Kolb, Una O'Connor, Winston Severn, Adele Davenport, Sandra Rogers, John Wald
Realizing that he had amnesia while in England during the war, Johnny Gray (Franchot Tone) returns home and becomes a successful architect. Then one day, Amy (Ann Richards) shows up with two children in tow and claims she is his wife and the children are theirs. Not only does Johnny not remember a wife and children, he is not ready for the responsibility. And the fun begins.
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Love on the Run 1936 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Reginald Owen, Mona Barrie, Ivan Lebedeff, William Demarest, Donald Meek, Dewey Robinson, Charles Judels
Foreign correspondent Michael Anthony (Clark Gable) gets involved in the world of espionage during his attempt to woo the beautiful heiress Sally Parker (Joan Crawford).
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The Man on the Eiffel Tower 1949 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
Director: Burgess Meredith
Cast: Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Burgess Meredith, Robert Hutton, Jean Wallace, Patricia Roc, Belita, Wilfrid Hyde-White, William Phipps, William Cottrell, George Thorpe, Chaz Chase, Howard Vernon
Based on Georges Simenon's novel, this is an intriguing tale of a cat-and-mouse game played between police Inspector Jules Maigret (Charles Laughton) and Radek (Franchot Tone), which leads to a climactic chase over Paris rooftops.
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Man-Proof 1938 N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Myrna Loy, Franchot Tone, Rosalind Russell, Walter Pidgeon, Nana Bryant, Rita Johnson, Ruth Hussey, Leonard Penn, John Miljan, William Stack
Who loves whom? It is hard to tell with this married couple (Walter Pidgeon and Rosalind Russell) with others (Myrna Loy and Franchot Tone) waiting in the wings.
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Midnight Mary 1933 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Loretta Young, Ricardo Cortez, Franchot Tone, Andy Devine, Una Merkel, Frank Conroy, Warren Hymer, Harold Huber, Charley Grapewin, Halliwell Hobbes, Ivan F. Simpson, Sandy Roth, Martha Sleeper, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Louise Beavers
While Mary (Loretta Young) is on trial for murder, her story is told through flashbacks. She grows up in poverty, and when she reaches adulthood Mary gets mixed up with Leo the Rat (Ricardo Cortez) and his gang of crooked gamblers (Warren Hymer, Harold Huber, Una Merkel, and Sandy Roth). After meeting wealthy lawyer Tom and becoming romantically involved with him, Mary tries to straighten out her life. But, she finds it difficult to escape her past, and she is torn between "good" Tom and "bad" Leo. Good Wellman and Young efforts.
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Mutiny on the Bounty 1935  N/R, 135 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Dudley Digges, Donald Crisp, Herbert Mundin, Eddie Quillan, Henry Stephenson, Spring Byington, Ian Wolfe, Mamo Clark, Francis Lister, David Torrence, Percy Waram, DeWitt Jennings
This depiction of the 1787 mutiny aboard H.M.S. Bounty is a classic. The cruel Captain Bligh (Charles Laughton) sails his ship, H.M.S. Bounty, from England to Tahiti where the crew, including Fletcher Christian (Clark Gable) and his friend midshipman Byam (Franchot Tone), enjoy the island paradise. While Tahiti was a paradise, life on the Bounty proves anything but, and the overly strict discipline of Bligh becomes so intense that First Mate Fletcher Christian leads the crew in a mutiny and sends Bligh and a few crew members adrift at sea in an open boat. The film received an Academy Award for Best Picture. It also was nominated for seven others–including three for Best Actor (Laughton, Gable, and Tone) and Best Director (Frank Lloyd).
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Nice Girl? 1941 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: William A. Seiter
Cast: Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone, Walter Brennan, Robert Stack, Robert Benchley, Helen Broderick, Ann Gillis, Anne Gwynne, Elisabeth Risdon, Nana Bryant
In this first "adult" role for Deanna Durbin, she plays Jane Dana–who falls asleep in Richard Calvert's (Franchot Tone) home and must now protect her reputation.
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No More Ladies 1935 N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edward H. Griffith
Cast: Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Charles Ruggles, Franchot Tone, Edna May Oliver, Gail Patrick, Joan Fontaine, Vivienne Osborne, Arthur Treacher, Reginald Denny
To teach her philandering husband, Sherry (Robert Montgomery), a lesson, Marcia (Joan Crawford) pretends to be interested in Jim (Franchot Tone).
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Nobody Runs Forever 1968  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Action
aka: The High Commissioner
Director: Ralph Thomas
Cast: Rod Taylor, Christopher Plummer, Lilli Palmer, Camilla Sparv, Daliah Lavi, Franchot Tone, Clive Revill, Lee Montague, Calvin Lockhart, Burt Kwouk
Australian policeman Scobie (Rod Taylor) heads to London to bring back a diplomat (Christopher Plummer) who is in charge of high-level negotiations. The charge: murder of his wife 25 years ago. The diplomat talks Scobie into allowing him to finish the negotiations, but Scobie has his hands full saving the diplomat from assassination attempts. A tepid Cold War tale.
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Pilot #5 1943 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Sidney
Cast: Franchot Tone, Marsha Hunt, Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Alan Baxter, Dick Simmons, Frank Puglia, Steven Geray, Howard Freeman, Frank Ferguson
This World War II film features Franchot Tone as an anti-Fascist who dive bombs his own airplane into a Japanese carrier to help defeat the Japanese war effort.
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Quality Street 1937 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Stevens
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Franchot Tone, Eric Blore, Fay Bainter, Bonita Granville, Joan Fontaine, Cora Witherspoon, Estelle Winwood, Florence Lake, Helena Grant
This is a good film adaptation of a James Barrie play about Phoebe Throssel (Katharine Hepburn) who pretends to be her own niece in an effort to regain the love of a man who has been absent from her life for 10 years.
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Reckless 1935 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Victor Fleming
Cast: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Franchot Tone, May Robson, Ted Healy, Nat Pendleton, Rosalind Russell, Mickey Rooney, Henry Stephenson, Leon Ames
This musical extravaganza features Jean Harlow as a Broadway singer who finds that gaining acceptance in her playboy husband's (Franchot Tone) home is not an easy thing.
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Sadie McKee 1934 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Clarence Brown
Cast: Joan Crawford, Gene Raymond, Franchot Tone, Edward Arnold, Esther Ralston, Jean Dixon, Leo G. Carroll, Akim Tamiroff, Mary Forbes, Helen Ware, Matt McHugh, Zelda Sears, Wade Boteler, Selmer Jackson, Samuel S. Hinds
Housemaid Sadie McKee (Joan Crawford) is working for wealthy Michael Alderson (Franchot Tone) and his family when she elopes with her boyfriend Tommy (Gene Raymond) to New York City. But, before Sadie and Tommy get married, Tommy dumps her when he takes up with showgirl Dolly (Esther Ralston). Devastated, Sadie takes a nightclub job, accepts a drunken marriage proposal from millionaire Jack Brennan (Edward Arnold), and marries him. Now known as a gold digger, Sadie does help Brennan overcome his alcoholism. Has Sadie possibly found true love, or is it still waiting in the wings? The song "All I Do Is Dream of You" was introduced in this film.
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See How They Run 1964 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Lowell Rich
Cast: John Forsythe, Senta Berger, Jane Wyatt, Franchot Tone, Leslie Nielsen, Pamela Franklin, George Kennedy, John Van Dreelen, Harlan Warde, Robert Carricart
Based on Michael Blankfort's novel "The Widow Makers," this is the first movie made for TV. The plot involves the journey to America of three orphans who are not aware that their father's murderers are pursuing them.
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Suzy 1936 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Fitzmaurice
Cast: Jean Harlow, Franchot Tone, Cary Grant, Lewis Stone, Benita Hume, Reginald Mason, Inez Courtney, Una O'Connor, Theodore von Eltz, Dennis Morgan
Suzy is a dancer who becomes involved in German intrigue and falls in love with Andre (Cary Grant), a World War I flying ace.
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They Gave Him a Gun 1937 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Franchot Tone, Gladys George, Edgar Dearing, Mary Treen, Cliff Edwards, Charles Trowbridge, Joe Sawyer, George Chandler, Gavin Gordon
Returning home after duty in World War I, Jimmy (Franchot Tone), has trouble adapting to civilian life and becomes involved with gangsters until his friend, Fred (Spencer Tracy), finally convinces him to turn his life around.
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Three Comrades 1938 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Tone, Robert Young, Guy Kibbee, Lionel Atwill, Henry Hull, George Zucco, Charley Grapewin, Monty Woolley
Margaret Sullavan was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Pat–a woman dying of tuberculosis. The story reveals the devotion of three young men whose friendship gains strength as they care for the woman they love.
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Today We Live 1933  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Roscoe Karns, Robert Young, Louise Closser Hale, Rollo Lloyd, Hilda Vaughn, C. Montague Shaw, Frank Marlowe
Set during World War I, this story is about three soldiers (Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, and Robert Young), their mutual interest in the beautiful Diana (Joan Crawford), and how their lives change through the effect of battle.
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Without Honor 1949 N/R, 69 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Irving Pichel
Cast: Laraine Day, Dane Clark, Franchot Tone, Agnes Moorehead, Bruce Bennett, Frank Marlowe, Harry Lauter, Peter Virgo, Marjorie Stapp, Lester Dorr
Jane (Laraine Day) argues with her lover (Franchot Tone) and stabs him. Believing he is dead, she lugs him into the laundry room before her husband, Fred (Bruce Bennett), arrives home. Fred's brother, Bill (Dane Clark), arrives on the scene and tells Fred of Jane's extramarital affair, which causes Jane to confess and then try to kill herself. She is rushed to the hospital where she discovers that her lover, who was not dead after all, managed to drag himself to the hospital for treatment.
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The World Moves On 1934 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: John Ford
Cast: Madeleine Carroll, Franchot Tone, Reginald Denny, Raul Roulien, Stepin Fetchit, Sig Ruman, Lumsden Hare, Louise Dresser, Dudley Digges, Frank Melton, Brenda Fowler, Russell Simpson, Marcelle Corday
This is the saga of two wealthy Louisiana families enduring grim changes in Europe and America during a 100-year period. The Girards of French heritage and the Warburtons from England intermarry and form a successful business alliance. They corner the cotton business in the South, but, personally, they fight each other. Nevertheless, their fortunes grow–until the stock market plunge in the 1920s destroys the empire. Mrs. Warburton (Madeleine Carroll) and Richard Girard (Franchot Tone) survive and begin anew only to find World War II now closing in on them. A strong anti-war film.
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| 1. Advise and Consent (1962)
2. Because of Him (1946)
3. The Bride Wore Red (1937)
4. Dancing Lady (1933)
5. Dangerous (1935)
6. Dark Waters (1944)
7. Every Girl Should Be Married (1948)
8. Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
9. The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)
10. Here Comes the Groom (1951)
11. Honeymoon (1947)
aka: Two Men and a Girl
12. In Harm's Way (1965)
13. Jigsaw (1949)
aka: Gun Moll
14. Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
15. Lost Honeymoon (1947)
16. Love on the Run (1936)
17. The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949)
18. Man-Proof (1938)
19. Midnight Mary (1933)
20. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
21. Nice Girl? (1941)
22. No More Ladies (1935)
23. Nobody Runs Forever (1968)
aka: The High Commissioner
24. Pilot #5 (1943)
25. Quality Street (1937)
26. Reckless (1935)
27. Sadie McKee (1934)
28. See How They Run (1964)
29. Suzy (1936)
30. They Gave Him a Gun (1937)
31. Three Comrades (1938)
32. Today We Live (1933)
33. The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942)
34. Without Honor (1949)
35. The World Moves On (1934)
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