Samuel S. Hinds

Samuel S. Hinds

April 3, 1875

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Samuel Southey Hinds (April 4, 1875 – October 13, 1948) was an American actor and former lawyer. He was often cast as kindly authoritarian figures and appeared in over 200 films until his death. Hinds was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Joseph E. Hinds…

Known For

29 titles
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It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life

1946 · 2h 10m · Movie

An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman see the value of his own life.

8.6
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You Can't Take It with You

You Can't Take It with You

1938 · 2h 6m · Movie

The son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.

7.8
3
Scarlet Street

Scarlet Street

1945 · 1h 42m · Movie

A man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, though her fiancé persuades her to con him out of the fortune they mistakenly assume he possesses.

7.7
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Destry Rides Again

Destry Rides Again

1939 · 1h 35m · Movie

Deputy sheriff Destry tames the town of Bottle Neck, including saloon singer Frenchy.

7.6
5
Little Women

Little Women

1933 · 1h 55m · Movie

A chronicle of the lives of sisters growing up in 19th-century New England.

7.2
6
Son of Dracula

Son of Dracula

1943 · 1h 20m · Movie

When Katherine, a beautiful Southern girl obsessed with thoughts of eternal life, invites Count Alucard to come to her mansion in the U.S., she unleashes a Pandora's box of horror on unsuspecting relatives and neighbors.

6.1
7
The Raven

The Raven

1935 · 1h 1m · Movie

A brilliant surgeon with a morbid obsession for instruments of torture grows dangerously obsessed with a young socialite whose life he's saved.

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Phantom Lady

Phantom Lady

1944 · 1h 27m · Movie

A devoted secretary risks her life to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his selfish wife.

7.2
9
Black Legion

Black Legion

1937 · 1h 23m · Movie

A hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he's seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.

6.9
10
The Spoilers

The Spoilers

1942 · 1h 27m · Movie

In Nome, Alaska, miner Roy Glennister and his partner Dextry, financed by saloon entertainer Cherry Malotte, fight to save their gold claim from crooked commissioner Alexander McNamara.

6.7
11
The Boy with Green Hair

The Boy with Green Hair

1948 · 1h 22m · Movie

This parable looks at public reaction when the hair of an American war orphan mysteriously turns green.

6.7
12
The Egg and I

The Egg and I

1947 · 1h 48m · Movie

On their wedding night, Bob reveals to Betty that he has purchased an abandoned chicken farm. Betty struggles to adapt to their new rural lifestyle, especially when a glamorous neighbor seems to set her eyes on Bob.

6.9
13
Test Pilot

Test Pilot

1938 · 1h 59m · Movie

Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.

6.8
14
The Shepherd of the Hills

The Shepherd of the Hills

1941 · 1h 38m · Movie

A mysterious but pleasant stranger arrives in the Missouri hills and befriends a young backwoods girl, which doesn't sit well with her moonshiner fiancé who has vowed to find and kill his own father.

6.9
15
Lady on a Train

Lady on a Train

1945 · 1h 34m · Movie

In New York, a woman who partially witnesses a killing from a train window seeks the aid of a crime novelist to solve the murder.

6.7
16
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

1945 · 1h 20m · Movie

Bachelor Harry Quincey, head designer in a small-town cloth factory, lives with his selfish sisters, glamorous hypochondriac Lettie and querulous widow Hester. His developing relationship with new colleague Deborah Brown promises ...

6.7
17
Man Made Monster

Man Made Monster

1941 · 59m · Movie

A mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.

6.1
18
Seven Sinners

Seven Sinners

1940 · 1h 27m · Movie

Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims.

6.5
19
Murders in the Zoo

Murders in the Zoo

1933 · 1h 2m · Movie

A monomaniacal zoologist is pathologically jealous of his beautiful but unfaithful wife Evelyn and will not stop short of murder to keep her.

6.4
20
Gabriel Over the White House

Gabriel Over the White House

1933 · 1h 26m · Movie

A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.

6.4
21
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

1936 · 1h 42m · Movie

A railroad man from the city befriends a mountain girl in a Kentucky family feud.

6.8
22
It Ain't Hay

It Ain't Hay

1943 · 1h 20m · Movie

The horse of a street vendor is replaced by a racehorse.

6.5
23
Back Street

Back Street

1941 · 1h 29m · Movie

Five years after meeting and falling in love with a banker, a willful shop girl decides to become his mistress upon learning he has since gotten married and had a son.

6.7
24
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx

The Strange Case of Doctor Rx

1942 · 1h 6m · Movie

A mysterious vigilante known as "Dr. Rx" strikes again. Assigned to the case is private detective Jerry Church but the crimes are baffling and involve strangulation and a possible attempt to implant a gorilla's brain into a human ...

5.3
25
Lady in a Jam

Lady in a Jam

1942 · 1h 22m · Movie

A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of it, decides to follow her out there.

6.2
26
This Day and Age

This Day and Age

1933 · 1h 26m · Movie

High school students band together to dispense vigilante justice against a vicious gangland boss.

6.3
27
The Crime of the Century

The Crime of the Century

1933 · 1h 13m · Movie

A doctor who is also a "mentalist" confesses to a murder. The only problem is that the murder he's confessed to hasn't happened yet--although dead bodies are now starting to turn up all over the place. A reporter sets out to solve...

6.6
28
Rio

Rio

1939 · 1h 17m · Movie

A crazed man escapes from prison to kill his wife's lover.

6.1
29
The Boys from Syracuse

The Boys from Syracuse

1940 · 1h 13m · Movie

The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the story concerns the efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Antipholus and his servant Dromio, to find their long-lost twins who, for reason of plot confusion, are also na...

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