Movies: Pat O’Brien

A drunken attorney tries to sober up in order to defend a friend in murder case....

A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis....

A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot....

Detective discovers that a colleague's death is tied into the disappearance of a wealthy playboy's wife....

A family is thrown into turmoil when a grandson convinces his grandfather to teach him to fly....

City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople....

During the filming of Ragtime, the 81-year old Cagney talks about his career. Cagney tells us about becoming a dancer and meeting his wife, his route from Broadway to Hollywood, the emergence of his tough-guy persona, and his post-war creations of in...

A female investigator in the district attorney's office sets out to track down the person who murdered a young schoolteacher....

Johnny Casar runs away from the orphanage to start a successful career as a roller skater and after setbacks learns to curb his ruthlessness and ambition....

Johnny One-Eye was adapted from one of Damon Runyon's lesser-known stories. Martin Martin and Dane Cory were former partners in crime who have long since split up. When a new district attorney puts the heat on, Cory, anxious to save his own hide, acc...

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939....

A dedicated family doctor tries to help a pregnant teen-ager....

The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy), who split up over a disagreement and join the army, Tim to escape Vince's wrath and Vince to get his lunch-hooks on Tim. Both of our heroes run afoul...

The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940's Escape to Glory. The story is given timeliness by placing the characters on a British merchant ship on the very day that World War II is declared. The shi...

A tale of an international counterfeiting-ring operating in Mexico starts with Patrick Nevil viewed as a suspicious character by newspaper woman Agnes Stuart, who is working on a story to expose racketeering night-club owner Doc Lilley....

A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind....

The darkest side of Tinseltown is depicted in this drama that centers upon a Hollywood columnist determined to reveal the awful truth about entertainment business....

On Christmas Eve, a former thief, recently released from prison, stops a forlorn, destitute, despairing young woman from committing suicide. She's from the country and hasn't been able to find her boyfriend who came to the city earlier. The ex-con su...

Documentary covering the Warner Bros. James Cagney /Pat O'Brien classic "Angels with Dirty Faces" (1938), hosted by film historian Rudy Behlmer....

A hired gunman inadvertently targets an undertaker as his next victim, who talks the killer into leaving the undertaker's business card whenever he does his next job....