Jean Hersholt Movies

Greed

79/100

The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.

Heidi

73/100

A plucky little orphan girl gets dumped abruptly into her gruff, hermit grandfather's care, then later gets retaken and delivered as a companion for an injured girl.

The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg

77/100

A cloistered, overprotected Austrian prince falls in love with a down-to-earth barmaid in this "Viennese fairy tale."

The Phantom of Paris

74/100

Cheri-Bibi is an escape artist wrongly imprisoned for murdering the wealthy father of his admirer Cecile. The real murderer is Cecile's fiancé, so how will Bibi escape his death sentence and win back Cecile?

Run for Cover

67/100

Mistaken for train robbers, Matt Dow and Davey Bishop are shot at by the sheriff and his posse but they are cleared and hired as lawmen.

The Beast of the City

69/100

Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick ruthlessly goes after organized crime and is prepared to use brutal and violent methods to fight it.

Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)

65/100

Fleeing her cruel uncle and an arranged marriage Susan Lenox falls in love with a kind stranger but circumstances force her to become a woman of easy virtue.

Emma

71/100

After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father.

Seventh Heaven

70/100

A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, and then marches away to ... See full summary »

Mr. Moto in Danger Island

70/100

The U.S. government asks Mr. Moto to go to Puerto Rico to investigate diamond smuggling after an earlier investigator is murdered.

Men in White

64/100

An idealistic doctor must make some hard choices between his dedication to the profession and his personal life.

His Brother's Wife

57/100

Rita Wilson meets epidemiologist Chris Claybourne and they fall in love with each other. When Claybourne leaves for the tropics to find a cure against a disease, Wilson gets her revenge by ... See full summary »

Flesh

66/100

Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.

Break of Hearts

59/100

Franz Roberti is a famous orchestra conductor who has a number of girlfriends. While talking with his old music teacher, Professor Thalma, he meets Constance, an aspiring music composer. ... See full summary »

The Battle of the Sexes

67/100

Gum-chewing frizzy-haired gold-digger Marie Skinner cooks up a scheme with her lover Babe Winsor, a jazz hound...

Her Night of Romance

71/100

An impoverished British lord (Paul Menford) impersonates a doctor in order to woo an ailing American heiress (Dorothy Adams). The lord is in it for love, but his business associate (Joe Diamond) smells money.

The Younger Generation

65/100

Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them.

Happy Landing

68/100

Bandleader (Romero and manager (Ameche) discover skater (Henie) in Norway. They become rivals as she returns with them to America.

Daybreak

62/100

Willi, a brash young lieutenant in the Austrian Imperial Guard, bent on an evening of pleasure, visits a house of ill repute and gambling parlor...

Viennese Nights

72/100

Dr. Christian Meets the Women

61/100

A "professor" hits Dr. Christian's town, promising the local women dramatic weight loss in a very short...

They Meet Again

49/100

In the sixth entry of this series, Dr. Paul Christian is giving a party for Janie Webster, a motherless little girl of nine, with a fine singing voice. But, as her father, Bob Webster, is ... See full summary »

Melody for Three

60/100

Dr. Christian takes an interest in a young boy, a violin prodigy, whose mother is a divorced music teacher...

The Courageous Dr. Christian

58/100

A doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the rest of the town to help out.

Meet Dr. Christian

62/100

A pleasant down-home entry which casts Hersholt as the title doctor in the mythical town of Rivers End, Minnesota.