Alan Hale

Alan Hale

February 9, 1892

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alan Hale Sr. (born Rufus Edward Mackahan; February 10, 1892 – January 22, 1950) was an American movie actor and director, most widely remembered for his many supporting character roles, in particular as a frequent sidekick of Errol Flynn, as well as films supp…

Known For

35 titles
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It Happened One Night

It Happened One Night

1934 · 1h 45m · Movie

A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.

8.1
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The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Adventures of Robin Hood

1938 · 1h 42m · Movie

When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence in 1190s England, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a resistance movement.

7.9
3
The Sea Hawk

The Sea Hawk

1940 · 2h 7m · Movie

Geoffrey Thorpe, a buccaneer, is hired by Queen Elizabeth I to nag the Spanish Armada. The Armada is waiting for an attack on England and Thorpe surprises them with attacks on their galleons where he shows his skills with the sword.

7.6
4
They Drive by Night

They Drive by Night

1940 · 1h 35m · Movie

When one of two truck-driving brothers loses an arm, they both join a transport company where the other is falsely charged as an accessory in the murder of the owner.

7.2
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Stella Dallas

Stella Dallas

1937 · 1h 46m · Movie

A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.

7.4
6
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

1939 · 1h 46m · Movie

A depiction of the love/hate relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex.

7.0
7
Imitation of Life

Imitation of Life

1934 · 1h 51m · Movie

A struggling widow and her daughter take in a Black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter; the two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.

7.5
8
Dodge City

Dodge City

1939 · 1h 44m · Movie

A Texas cattle agent witnesses first hand, the brutal lawlessness of Dodge City and takes the job of sheriff to clean the town up.

7.1
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Destination Tokyo

Destination Tokyo

1943 · 2h 15m · Movie

In order to provide information for the first air raid over Tokyo, a U.S. submarine sneaks into Tokyo Bay and places a spy team ashore.

7.1
10
Action in the North Atlantic

Action in the North Atlantic

1943 · 2h 6m · Movie

An American tanker is sunk by a German U-boat, and the survivors spend 11 days at sea on a raft. Their next assignment - bound for Murmansk through the sub-stalked N. Atlantic.

7.0
11
Santa Fe Trail

Santa Fe Trail

1940 · 1h 50m · Movie

In 1854, Jeb Stuart, George Custer and other graduates from West Point are posted to Kansas to help pacify the territory before railroad construction to Santa Fe can resume.

6.2
12
The Strawberry Blonde

The Strawberry Blonde

1941 · 1h 39m · Movie

Quick-tempered yet likable Biff Grimes falls for the beautiful Virginia Brush, but he is not the only young man in the neighborhood who is smitten with her.

7.2
13
Gentleman Jim

Gentleman Jim

1942 · 1h 44m · Movie

As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert, Jim Corbett, uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the top of the boxing world.

7.5
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Pursued

Pursued

1947 · 1h 41m · Movie

A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.

7.2
15
The Lost Patrol

The Lost Patrol

1934 · 1h 13m · Movie

A dozen British soldiers, lost in a Mesopotamian desert during World War I, are menaced by unseen Arab enemies.

6.8
16
Adventures of Don Juan

Adventures of Don Juan

1948 · 1h 50m · Movie

The great lover Don Juan comes to the assistance of his queen.

7.0
17
Our Relations

Our Relations

1936 · 1h 11m · Movie

Two pairs of long-lost twin brothers experience high jinks involving a valuable ring, cases of mistaken identity, and gangsters.

7.3
18
Virginia City

Virginia City

1940 · 2h 1m · Movie

Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from Confederate prison and is sent to Virginia City, Nevada, where he finds out that the former commander of his prison, Vance Irby, is planning to send $5 million in gold to save the Confeder...

6.8
19
The Prince and the Pauper

The Prince and the Pauper

1937 · 1h 58m · Movie

A poor boy named Tom Canty and the Prince of Wales exchange identities but events force the pair to experience each other's lives as well.

7.2
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Robin Hood

Robin Hood

1922 · 2h 23m · Movie

A nobleman becomes the vigilante Robin Hood who protects the oppressed English people from the tyrannical Prince John.

7.0
21
The Sisters

The Sisters

1938 · 1h 39m · Movie

Three daughters of a small town pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.

6.7
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The Fighting 69th

The Fighting 69th

1940 · 1h 30m · Movie

Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.

6.6
23
Captains of the Clouds

Captains of the Clouds

1942 · 1h 54m · Movie

Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF but are deemed too old to be fliers.

6.4
24
Manpower

Manpower

1941 · 1h 44m · Movie

Two friends, who are members of a road crew employed by a Los Angeles power company, battle the elements to restore electrical power, and trade punches over the same woman.

6.6
25
The Man I Love

The Man I Love

1946 · 1h 36m · Movie

A homesick, no-nonsense lounge singer decides to leave New York City to spend some time visiting her two sisters and brother on the West Coast. Eventually she falls in love with a down-and-out ex-jazz pianist.

6.6
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The Crusades

The Crusades

1935 · 2h 5m · Movie

King Richard and the Third Crusade (1190-1192) are given the DeMille treatment with more spectacle than history.

6.5
27
Colt .45

Colt .45

1950 · 1h 14m · Movie

Gun salesman Steve Farrell gets two of his new Colt .45 pistols stolen from him by ruthless killer Jason Brett but vows to recover them.

6.0
28
Dust Be My Destiny

Dust Be My Destiny

1939 · 1h 28m · Movie

Joe Bell, wrongly imprisoned for burglary, gets released to a prison farm. His romance with the foreman's daughter leads to the foreman's accidental death. Fearing disbelief, Bell flees with the daughter, Mabel.

6.8
29
The Covered Wagon

The Covered Wagon

1923 · 1h 38m · Movie

Two wagon caravans converge at what is now Kansas City, and combine for the westward push to Oregon. On their quest the pilgrims will experience desert heat, mountain snow, hunger, and Indian attacks. To complicate matters further...

6.6
30
Little Man, What Now?

Little Man, What Now?

1934 · 1h 38m · Movie

A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire married men.

7.1
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South of St. Louis

South of St. Louis

1949 · 1h 28m · Movie

The friendship of three Texas ranchers whose ranch is destroyed by Cottrell, of the Union army, and his band of outlaw raiders. The working title was "Distant Drums", and south of St. Louis was a term used to describe Civil War de...

6.0
32
The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter

1934 · 1h 9m · Movie

In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.

5.4
33
Thin Ice

Thin Ice

1937 · 1h 19m · Movie

A Swiss hotel's ski instructor falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning.

6.3
34
High, Wide and Handsome

High, Wide and Handsome

1937 · 1h 50m · Movie

Pennsylvania, 1859. Railroad tycoon Brennan (Alan Hale) is muscling in on oil-drilling farmers, led by Peter Cortland (Randolph Scott). Cortland must try to save their oil business, while also saving his marriage to Sally (Irene D...

6.4
35
The Trap

The Trap

1922 · 1h 0m · Movie

A miner's happiness is destroyed when a rival steals his mine. He becomes obsessed with revenge, and plans a trap for the man who took his mine.

6.0