Dick Powell Movies

Prizewinning boxer Johnny Monterez is mad at the world, feeling persecuted because of his Mexican heritage. Worse yet, his right hand is damaged from...

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

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.

The story of one of the great environmental disasters to befall the United States, and the terrible movie that helped bring the catastrophe to light.

An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent...

A treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring.

A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper.

Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and...

A professor and his beautiful assistant investigate a murder which occurs in a supposedly haunted house.

A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.

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...

When two US cavalrymen transporting a gold shipment get killed, US Army Intelligence investigator John Haven goes undercover to a mining and logging...

After serving five years of a life sentence, Rocky Mulloy hopes to clear his friend who's still in prison for the same crime.

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

An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford...

Complications in a dressmaking firm when a model has to hide her marriage.

Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...

Pilot episode, directed by Dick Powell.

Students at New York's Rovina Finishing School for Girls send their photographs to the makers of Claybury's Beauty Soap, in the hope of being chosen...