Grant Withers — Actor (22)
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Bringing Up Father (1928) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Bringing Up Father
director: Jack Conway actor: Marie Dressler / Polly Moran …
The wealthy Jiggs is tired of being left out of the swanky parties thrown by his social-climbing wife Maggie and their daughter. He decides to teach them a "lesson" by faking his own suicide, but things don't quite turn out the way he planned.
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Navy Secrets (1939) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Navy Secrets
director: Howard Bretherton actor: Fay Wray / Grant Withers …
After a stamp-collecting Navy chief petty officer is jailed following FBI and Naval Justice investigation, his fiancee meets one of his fellow officers, becomes romantically interested in him, and joins him in trying to get an envelope, believed to contain rare stamps, to its intended recipient, only to end up in a web of intrigue involving foreign-accented men who are unusually interested in that simple envelope.
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Night Time in Nevada (1948) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Night Time in Nevada
director: William Witney actor: Roy Rogers / Adele Mara …
Twenty years earlier Farrell killed his mining partner Andrews. Now Andrews daughter arrives to get her father's trust fund. Farrell having rustled Roy's cattle now takes her money from her Lawyer and lets her overhear false information of their next rustling job. With the posse at the wrong location, his men attack the cattle train and Roy on board find himself greatly outnumbered.
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Apache Trail (1942) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Apache Trail
director: Richard Thorpe / Richard Rosson actor: Lloyd Nolan / Donna Reed …
other title: La voz de la sangre / アパッチ街道
The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous Apache territory. A stagecoach arrives at the station with a valuable box of cargo, and the outlaw brother soon shows up, though denying that he's planning to take the cargo box. Soon, however, rampaging Apaches attack the station, and the station manager, his brother and a disparate group of passengers and employees must fight them off.
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Hell's Crossroads (1957) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Hell's Crossroads
director: Franklin Adreon actor: Stephen McNally / Peggie Castle …
other title: 地獄の分れ道 / Ich ritt für Jesse James …
An imprisoned gunfighter must scatter to elude the authorities. Outlaws Bob Ford and Vic Rodell are nabbed, but the governor offers them amnesty in exchange for their help in bringing Jesse and his brother Frank to justice.
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Fair Wind to Java (1953) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Fair Wind to Java
director: Joseph Kane actor: Fred MacMurray / Vera Ralston …
other title: Der Rebell von Java / Toutes Voiles sur Java …
The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American merchant vessel is looking for a sunken Dutch vessel containing 10,000 precious diamonds. Unfortunately, he's not the only one and then there's also that volcano on the nearby island of Krakatau, waiting to explode in its historical, disastrous eruption...
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So Long Letty (1929) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
So Long Letty
director: Lloyd Bacon actor: Charlotte Greenwood / Claude Gillingwater …
other title: Parejas modernas
Uncle Claude goes on vacation with his granddaughters and meets and dislikes boisterous Letty. When he finds nephew Tommy, he mistakes Grace for his wife, unaware that he is married to Letty. To get a check from Uncle Claude, the two couples switch spouses.
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Mr. Wong in Chinatown (1939) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Mr. Wong in Chinatown
director: William Nigh actor: 鲍里斯·卡洛夫 / 玛乔丽·雷诺兹 …
other title: 黄先生在唐人街
A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl "Captain J" on a sheet of paper. She proves to be Princess Lin Hwa, on a secret military mission for Chinese forces fighting the Japanese invasion. Mr. Wong finds two captains with the intial J in the case, neither being quite what he seems; there's fog on the waterfront and someone still has that poison-dart gun...
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The Fighting Seabees (1944) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Fighting Seabees
director: Edward Ludwig actor: 约翰·韦恩 / Susan Hayward …
other title: Romance dos Sete Mares / Alarm im Pazifik …
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.