Dick Powell Movies

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career.

Retired army dog King inherits a fortune from his eccentric millionaire owner. But someone poisons him for his fortune. He gets to go back to earth...

A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.

A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper.

Promotional short produced by General Electric for release through Warner Bros. to advertise GE's home appliances.

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

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...

When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave...

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

The king of an unnamed European country abdicates and tries to recapture the happiness with the wife he had to give up for the throne.

A show troupe is engaged by Judge Culliman, who is running for Governor, to enhance his political campaign. When the inebriated Judge has to be...

Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to...

Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.

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...

Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. President J.B. Honeywell is to choose a new company...

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

A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years...

Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.

Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal...