Movies123 - - Pat Obrien Movie List

A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.

Marine Raiders (1944) A U.S. Marine major tries to keep his captain on the right track through combat on Guadalcanal, training new recruits in San Diego, and a relationship with a WAAAF while on leave in Australia.

Knute Rockne All American (1940) Lars Rockne and his family, including his four year old son Knute, emigrate to Chicago in 1892 from their native Norway. By his mid-twenties Knute saves enough to attend obscure Notre Dame University, where he excels in football and chemistry. He and a teammate devel

Bombardier (1943) Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular, if somewhat jingoistic, battle sequ

San Quentin (1937) Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries to separate lawbreakers from hardened criminals, badguy Hansen tries to stir up trouble by telling Joe about Ja

American Madness (1932) It's the 1930s, the Depression era, and the Board of Directors of Thomas Dickson's bank want Dickson to merge with New York Trust and resign. He refuses. One night, Dickson's bank is robbed of $100,000. The suspect is Matt Brown, an ex-convict whom Dickson hired and appointed

The Boy with Green Hair (1948) Peter Frye, typical American boy, is orphaned when his parents are caught in the London Blitz. He is not told of their fate, but shuttled from one selfish relative to the next, ending with "Gramp," a kindly ex-vaudevillean. Peter and Gramp, both fond of &quot

CrackUp (1946) George Steele, art curator at a small museum, has an apparent mental breakdown one night, convinced he was in a train wreck...which never happened. In flashback, shortly after proposing to x-ray some old master paintings the museum has on loan, Steele is called on an unplanned nocturn

Here Comes the Navy (1934) To continue a grudge with naval officer Biff Martin, feisty construction worker Chesty O'Connor joins the navy and manages to get stationed on the same ship as Martin. Further complications arise when O'Connor starts dating Martin's sister, whom he meets while on shore lea

The World Gone Mad 1933 A district attorney and a reporter try to find the killer of a D A who uncovered a massive stock fraud

I Sell Anything 1934 Fast talking auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is content with his Second Avenue existence selling pawned goods for highly inflated prices One day, a Fifth Avenue society lady picks up a priceless belt buckle for a song at Cutlers shop Cutler tries to get his cut of the true price, bu

The Front Page 1931 Hildy Johnson, newspaper reporter, is engaged to Peggy Grant and planning to move to New York for a higher paying advertising job The court press room is full of lame reporters who invent stories as much as write them All are waiting to cover the hanging of Earl Williams When Wil

Okinawa 1952 Basically the story of the sea battle for Okinawa between the ships of the U S Navy and the Japanese suicide planes the Kamaikazes and, as such, is filled with stock footage from official U S war department films and newsreels and from Japanese newsreels and even a movie within a movie

Hells House 1932 Jimmy Mason idolizes bootlegger Matt Kelly who is dating Peggy Unwilling to squeal on his idol, Jimmy winds up in a cruel reformatory where a new found friend is dying from abuse Jimmy escapes to report the abuse Matt and Peggy help him once he has escaped