Willie Best Movies

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

An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.

Discover how television has reflected the African American experience in this retrospective of the medium's first half-century. Actors, writers and...

Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter's accomplices steal the money so he can take...

A stockbroker bets his new partners $10,000 that he can tell the truth, and only the truth, for twenty-four hours.

Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.

When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for...

A treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger, Charlie Chan, that there have been two attempts on his...

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

In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find...

Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He...

A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man's old partner,...

When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.

An amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane suddenly dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James...

A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941.

A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.

A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music...

Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. When the precious treasure is...

Eccentric wealthy old woman Lorinda Channing uses her insane brother, John Channing, to help her frighten their greedy relatives after her money.