James Dunn Movies

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

81/100

Encouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s.

Bright Eyes

73/100

An orphaned girl is taken in by a snobbish family at the insistence of their rich, crotchety uncle, even as her devoted aviator godfather fights for custody.

Bad Girl

66/100

A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage.

Baby, Take a Bow

66/100

Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time. Five years later, Eddie and his ex-convict buddy Larry, have both gone straight... See full summary »

The Living Ghost

53/100

Wise-cracking ex-detective Nick Trayne is called in to try to find the whereabouts of wealthy kidnap victim Walter Craig. Craig unexpectedly turns up alive but with apparent brain damage, ... See full summary »

Stand Up and Cheer!

57/100

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 ... See full summary »

Living on Love

55/100

Mary, a sometimes employed Midwest transplant living in New York is forced to share an apartment with Jack, a starving artist-night watchman. Both having problems paying their rent, ... See full summary »

Change of Heart

62/100

After graduating from a West Coast college, four friends fly to New York City to seek employment.

The Ghost and the Guest

45/100

A newlywed couple winds up spending their honeymoon night in an old, dark, spooky mansion.

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

62/100

A would-be playwright and a young woman escaping from a job at a gas station meet cute and fall in love.

That Brennan Girl

66/100

The film begins on Mother's Day, 1938 when 14-year-old Ziggy Brennan (Mona Freeman buys a gardenia for her mother. Ziggy's youthful exuberance disappears when she enters their apartment and... See full summary »

George White's 1935 Scandals

61/100

A vacationing Broadway producer, George White, stops off in a small Georgia town to send a telegram. He sees his name in lights on a local theater and is scandalized over the unauthorized ... See full summary »

Have a Heart

65/100

Hearts in Bondage

57/100

Best friends Kenneth Reynolds and Raymond Jordan are U.S. Navy officers, and Kenneth is engaged to Raymond's sister. But the eruption of the Civil War divides them, as Raymond stands by his... See full summary »

365 Nights in Hollywood

61/100

Down-on-his-luck film director Jimmie Dale takes a job at a fly-by-night acting school. He is drawn into the plans of the school's owner to bilk a wealthy young man out of the funds he has ... See full summary »

Leave It to the Irish

46/100

Private Investigator Terry Moran (James Dunn), who is in love with Nora O'Brien (Wanda McKay) the daughter of Police Detective Tim O'Brien (Arthur Loft), is hired by Mrs. Hamilton to solve ... See full summary »

The Payoff

54/100

Joe is a reporter who is looking for his big break and he gets it when he takes over George Gorman's sports column. Marty is a hood who would fix any sporting event he could and Joe keeps ... See full summary »

Hold That Woman!

58/100

A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don't pay--repossesses a small radio from a deadbeat who's... See full summary »

Son of the Navy

64/100

Actually, the sailor wants nothing to do with the boy, who we eventually find out is an orphan who ran away from the orphanage...

Shadows Over Shanghai

55/100

A pilot carrying a valuable amulet is shot down over China by a ruthless Russian agent, who also wants the amulet.

Arizona to Broadway

60/100

We Have Our Moments

64/100

Taking a cruise to Europe, a schoolteacher gets involved with a gang of crooks.

The Caribbean Mystery

61/100

Take a Chance

76/100

The Golden Gloves Story

57/100

Joe Riley is a boxing referee whose life-code is the same as the sporting rules of the prizefight ring. Two Golden Glove (a tournament for amateur prizefighters) contestants Nick Martel, a ... See full summary »