Franchot Tone Movies

Two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear to stand by each other in a belief that a great...

A country doctor (Franchot Tone) loves but cannot have a professor's wife (Clarence Derwent) in Chekhov's play set in czarist Russia.

A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.

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

A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang.

Princess is destined to marry the Emperor, until her sister steps in.

Foxhall Ridgeway, arriving in New York City from the West, stumbles onto a murder in the hotel room next to his. He gets tangled up into the affair,...

This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from...

A former comic is on the run from the mob.

Three children are stalked by hired killers after they unknowingly take evidence pointing to the existence of a corrupt international cartel, which...

While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the men who brought her to this current state of...

A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn...

Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway.

Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even...

New York Assistant District Attorney Howard Malloy launches an investigation into a series of murders related to a neo-fascist organisation.

Glamorous and hugely popular Joan Crawford raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winning stardom by guts, determination and hard work....

Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfriend and his former gangster buddies.

A blackmailer tries to stop a woman from revealing evidence that could save a condemned man.

A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn't count on the maid...

A newspaper illustrator tries to remain best friends with the man she secretly loves, even though he recently married another woman.