Charles Bickford Movies

An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.

After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.

A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...

Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks about securing a loan that large, McEwen shows him...

The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his...

A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.

The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former singing cowboy Dick...

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

A San Francisco hood is rubbed out by rival Bruno Felkin, who himself reports the crime to Homicide Lt. Kelsey in an alibi scheme which fails. To...

It's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the hillbilly Romeo and Juliet whose forbidden romance...

WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the...

Gangsters and police cross each other, including murder, in an attempt to cover up crimes.

The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.

A passenger ship unexpectedly runs into a typhoon.

Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.

An opportunistic young man from the slums gambles his way to wealth, power and high society.

Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits...

Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will...

Dot starts out as a bartender in Havana when in walks Dingo Mike (Charles Bickford) and orders up a drink that sounds like something you'd consume on...