Douglas Shearer Movies

Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner.

John owns the largest chain of five and ten cent stores in the country. He moves his family to New York from Kansas City and their life, though...

A gangster hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter.

An escaped convict and the detective tasked with hunting him down end up working in parallel to clear the convict's name and nab the gangsters that...

Peg and her father live a simple life in an Irish fishing village. One day Sir Gerald arrives at the village to tell Pat that Peg is heir to estate...

In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land...

Young Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. When his play is chosen as the school's annual production, Andy seizes the opportunity to spend as...

An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now wed to a psychiatrist (Frank Morgan).

Andy is about to head off to college but he's got a few things to take care of before leaving. For starters, he must try and sell his junk car for...

A sophisticated jewel thief tries to prove himself innocent of a string of cop murders.

An Australian blowhard raises two orphaned children as his own in the years leading up to WWII.

Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel, Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous...

An unhappy child, accompanied by his dog, runs away from home and is befriended by a gangster on the lam.

Millionaire William van Luyn falls in love with his secretary Joan Thayer and marries her. Her family, part of "the great middle class" (as blowhard...

On a yacht sailing from Shanghai to the United States, the sailors, led by the megalomaniac steward, revolt and take control.

When a rash of murders depletes their number, a billionaire's employees are brought together at an Englishman's estate.

Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead...

A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy...

A recently-fired advertising executive starts his own company, Confidential Services, to help clients solve their unusual and problematic situations.

Bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter. One day, Tony shows up on Salter's...