Jim Hawkins and Wahoo Jones are stagecoach robbers who head to Texas to find Sam McGee, their partner. Read More »
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Call of the Wild (1935) William A. Wellman, Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Jack Oakie
Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. Read More »
Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943) H. Bruce Humberstone, Alice Faye, John Payne, Jack Oakie
In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time Read More »
The Great Dictator (1940) Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie
20 years after the end of WWI, in which the nation of Tomainia was on the losing side Read More »
Bowery to Broadway (1944) Charles Lamont, Maria Montez, Jack Oakie, Susanna Foster
Two Bowery vaudevillians find success in producing shows on Broadway Read More »
It Happened Tomorrow (1944) René Clair, Dick Powell, Linda Darnell, Jack Oakie
In the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Lawrence ‘Larry’ Stevens is an ambitious reporter of The Evening News. Read More »
Shoot the Works (1934) Wesley Ruggles, Jack Oakie, Ben Bernie, Dorothy Dell
Jack Oakie stars as seedy sideshow barker Nicky, who uses everyone he meets to get ahead. Read More »
When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948) Walter Lang, Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Jack Oakie
Vaudeville performers, Dailey and Grable, have marital difficulties when he hits the “Big Time”, which are compounded by his drinking problem. Read More »
Florida Special (1936) Ralph Murphy, Jack Oakie, Sally Eilers, Kent Taylor
A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue in this comedy. Read More »
Dancers in the Dark (1932) David Burton, Miriam Hopkins, Jack Oakie, William Collier Jr.
A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. Read More »