Dick Powell Movies

A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.

Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.

An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford...

A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.

This film is based on the novel, Mrs. Mike, which is based on the real life woman, Kathy O'Fallon Flannigan. A Boston teenager is sent to live with...

Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town targeted for a nuclear bomb test.

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...

A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.

A Songwriter falls asleep while writing a song about the NRA. He dreams that Washington, Lincoln and FDR appear in his room asking him why he wants...

Amos Burke is an L.A. cop who's inherited millions and usually arrives at crime scenes in a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce. Investigating the death of...

A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper.

A treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring.

The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back...

A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).

Silent home movies, in both black and white and color, of Dick Powell and Joan Blondell from around the time of their wedding. Footage features Joan...

After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her...

These home movies shot by Dick Powell feature his wife Joan Blondell in a series of poses and dances as she tries on various dresses.

Trace the history of television and its impact on American culture with clips, newsreels, and exclusive interviews from television greats like Walter...

A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.

Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his...