Movies: George Abbott

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat....

An opportunistic singer woos a wealthy widow to boost his career....

An Iowa pajama factory worker falls in love with an affable superintendent who had been hired by the factory's boss to help oppose the workers' demand for a pay raise....

Film adaptation of the George Abbott Broadway musical about a Washington Senators fan who makes a pact with the Devil to help his baseball team win the league pennant....

A Southern belle's flirtation with a working man leads to tragedy....

One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young engineer....

Mr. Casey's daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge, he sends four football players as her bodyguards. The college is in financial trouble and her bodyguards use their salary to help the college. The football p...

Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s....

A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers....

The Sea God is an early sound melodrama about two men vying for Fay Wray and wealth in the South Pacific....

A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder....

A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers....

A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer....

A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber....

Joe Boyd, an aging Washington Senators fan, would sell his soul for the Senators to beat the New York Yankees and win the pennant. Enter Mr. Applegate, who offers to turn Boyd into Joe Hardy, a powerful young baseball player, in exchange for his soul...

Mayme and sister Janie are salesgirls in Ginsberg's Department Store. Mayme is in love with store clerk Bill, but Janie tries to steal him from her. Hazel, another salesgirl, is Jean Harlow's first credited role....

Elsa Carlyle is impulsive and a gambler. Though loved by her husband Jeff, she's spoiled and selfish, concerned with social standing. Meanwhile, Jeff wants to stop spending while he completes business deals that could make them rich. One night, on a ...

Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her bizarre, unemployed, wise-cracking brother and various neighbors while keeping house in their Brooklyn tenem...

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

After completing his prison sentence for killing a rival gang leader in self-defence, Benny Horowitz decides to go straight....