Movies by Director - Norman Z. McLeod (45 [Missing: 6]) Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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Taking a ChanceNA | 1928 | | Western | | | Not Available |
Along Came YouthNA | 1930 | | Comedy,Romance | | | Not Available |
Finn and HattieA child genius has fun getting her cousin into trouble. When she is not bedeviling her cousin, she is helping her father get out of trouble with con artists. | 1931 | Norman Z. McLeod, Norman Taurog | Comedy | 6.4 (60 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Monkey BusinessOn a transatlantic crossing, The Marx Brothers get up to their usual antics and manage to annoy just about everyone on board the ship. | 1931 | Norman Z. McLeod | Comedy,Family,Musical | 7.5 (13.4K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
Touchdown!Football coach Dan Curtis is eager for his small college team to win at all costs. However, he has a change of heart when a player is severely injured by playing when he should have been resting. Finally, Dan's school confronts it... | 1931 | Norman Z. McLeod | Drama,Sport | 6.5 (41 votes) | 79 | 20240625 |
Horse FeathersQuincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley University, accidentally hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against the rival Darwin University. | 1932 | Norman Z. McLeod | Comedy,Family,Musical | 7.6 (12.5K votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
If I Had a MillionA dying tycoon gives million-dollar windfalls to eight people picked from the city directory. | 1932 | James Cruze, H. Bruce Humberstone, Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Z. McLeod, Lothar Mendes | Comedy,Drama | 7.0 (1.8K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
Miracle Man, TheA gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam the gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. But when a rea... | 1932 | Norman Z. McLeod | Drama,Romance | 6.6 (187 votes) | 85 | 20230619 |
Alice in WonderlandIn Victorian England a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland populated by even more fantastic characters. | 1933 | Norman Z. McLeod, Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising | Adventure,Family,Fantasy | 6.4 (2.2K votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
Lady's Profession, AAn English nobleman (Ronald Young) and his sister (Sari Maritza) run a stateside speakeasy at a riding club. | 1933 | Norman Z. McLeod | Comedy | 6.8 (43 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Mama Loves PapaNA | 1933 | | Comedy,Romance | | | Not Available |
Its a GiftA henpecked New Jersey grocer makes plans to move to California to grow oranges, despite the resistance of his overbearing wife. | 1934 | Norman Z. McLeod | Comedy | 7.2 (5.3K votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Many Happy ReturnsGracie Allen assumes the "management" of the shop owned by her papa Horatio Allen, turning it into a radio station and then an aviary, with the usual Gracie Allen logic. While distracted, Papa is trying to get younger daughter, beaut | 1934 | Norman Z. McLeod | Comedy,Music | 6.4 (42 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
Melody in SpringCharlie Ruggles plays a souvenir-buff in quest of a real Swiss cowbell. | 1934 | Norman Z. McLeod | Comedy,Music,Romance | 7.0 (35 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
CoronadoSouthern California's Hotel Coronado caters to and is frequented by members of the social upper-crust. Although she lives on the wrong side of the San Diego track, in a tent-city with her father. Otto, and ditzy sister, Violet, June | 1935 | Norman Z. McLeod | Comedy,Musical,Mystery | 6.9 (36 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
Here Comes CookieAlarmed that his younger daughter is about to marry a gold-digger, a millionaire turns over the fortune to her ditsy older sister for safe-keeping to his ultimate regret, protection. | 1935 | Norman Z. McLeod | Comedy,Music,Romance | 6.3 (161 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
Redheads on ParadeNA | 1935 | | Comedy,Musical,Romance | | | Not Available |
Early To BedChester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally do | 1936 | Norman Z. McLeod | Comedy,Mystery,Romance | 6.7 (41 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Pennies From HeavenLarry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promise an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a young girl, Patsy Smith, and her elderly grandfather who need lots of help. This de | 1936 | Norman Z. McLeod | Comedy,Drama,Music | 6.6 (714 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
Mind Your Own BusinessA newspaper columnist uses wildlife critters to report city gossip. He becomes a celebrity until he alludes to a murder that takes place the same day. All mayhem breaks out after that. | 1936 | Norman Z. McLeod | Comedy,Crime,Mystery | 6.4 (24 votes) | 75 | 20240622 |
TopperA fun-loving couple, finding that they died and are now ghosts, decide to shake up the stuffy lifestyle of a friend of theirs. | 1937 | Norman Z. McLeod | Comedy,Fantasy,Romance | 7.3 (7.4K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
Merrily We LiveDizzy society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome "tramp" who shows up at her doorstep and soon ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catches the eye of her pr | 1938 | Norman Z. McLeod | Comedy,Romance | 7.4 (1.8K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
There Goes My HeartA young heiress runs away from her overprotective grandfather. Penniless on the streets of New York, she manages to find employment, but a reporter knows her true identity. | 1938 | Norman Z. McLeod | Comedy,Romance | 6.6 (605 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
RememberA jilted man gives his divorced best friend and his ex-wife - to whom he was previously engaged - a potion that causes them to forget each other. Will they fall in love all over again? | 1939 | Norman Z. McLeod | Comedy,Romance | 5.9 (580 votes) | 83 | 20220315 |
Topper Takes a TripTo gain entry to Heaven, a ghost attempts to reunite a divorcing couple as a good deed. | 1938 | Norman Z. McLeod | Comedy,Fantasy,Romance | 6.6 (1.3K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Little MenJo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused. Dan's f | 1940 | Norman Z. McLeod | Comedy,Drama | 5.7 (368 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
Lady Be GoodA composer and his songwriter wife clash as they succeed in working together, writing hit Broadway shows, but fail in their marriage to the point of getting divorced twice. | 1941 | Norman Z. McLeod, Busby Berkeley | Comedy,Music,Musical | 6.5 (977 votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
Trial of Mary Dugan, TheThe Trial of Mary Dugan is a 1941 American drama, thriller film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and written by Bayard Veiller. The film stars Laraine Day, Robert Young, Tom Conway, Frieda Inescort, John Litel, Marsha Hunt, Marjorie Main | 1941 | Norman Z. McLeod | Drama | 6.5 (49 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
Jackass MailTiny Tucker delivers mail and attracted to her, Just Baggot becomes her new carrier. When he kills a man in a gunfight, the man's son joins him in the deliveries and they become good friends. But Baggot has two problems, alcohol and | 1942 | Norman Z. McLeod | Western | 6.2 (156 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
Panama HattieHattie Maloney runs a saloon in Panama where assorted characters congregate where they frequently sing and dance Cole Porter numbers. An upper class gentleman arrives and sparks fly between him and Hattie. They try and overcome compl | 1942 | Norman Z. McLeod, Roy Del Ruth, Vincente Minnelli | Comedy,Musical | 5.9 (450 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
Powers Girl, TheTwo sisters living in New York City aspiring to become high-profile models. | 1943 | Norman Z. McLeod | Biography,Drama,Music | 6.5 (85 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Swing Shift MaisieStreet-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roomma | 1943 | Norman Z. McLeod | Action,Adventure,Comedy | 6.2 (358 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
Kid From Brooklyn, TheAfter a timid milkman knocks unconscious a boxing champion who was accosting his sister, he decides to take up boxing himself in order to impress a beautiful nightclub singer. | 1946 | Norman Z. McLeod | Comedy,Sport | 6.6 (1.2K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
Road to RioTwo inept vaudevillians stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner and foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortune hunter. | 1947 | Norman Z. McLeod | Adventure,Comedy,Musical | 7.0 (3.3K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
Secret Life of Walter Mitty, TheA clumsy daydreamer gets caught up in a sinister conspiracy. | 1947 | Norman Z. McLeod | Comedy,Fantasy,Romance | 7.0 (6.2K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
Isn't It RomanticIn rural 19th-century Indiana, the three daughters of a Civil War veteran are courted by three young men--one a sophisticated city slicker who sells phony oil stock, the second a local eccentric and the third a stolid country boy. | 1948 | Norman Z. McLeod | Comedy,Romance | 5.2 (80 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
Paleface, TheCalamity Jane is dispatched to find out who's smuggling rifles to the Indians, and winds up married to a hapless correspondence-school dentist as part of her cover. | 1948 | Norman Z. McLeod | Comedy,Family,Western | 6.8 (4.1K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
Let's DanceDonald Elwood meets after the war his former USO partner, Kitty McNeil, who is now a rich widow with a little child. She tries to evade her paternal grandmother, who wants her to live in a way according to the customs of her dead hus | 1950 | Norman Z. McLeod | Comedy,Drama,Musical | 6.2 (518 votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
My Favorite SpyA burlesque comic, who resembles an international spy, is recruited by the government and sent to Tangier to retrieve a sensitive microfilm before it's captured by hostile foreign agents. | 1951 | Norman Z. McLeod | Comedy,Crime,Music | 6.6 (1.2K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Never Wave at a WACA shallow society matron is urged by her senator father to join the Women's Army Corps. | 1953 | Norman Z. McLeod | Adventure,Comedy,Romance | 6.0 (482 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
Casanova's Big NightA meek tailor thinks his wooing will be helped if he assumes the identity of the famous Casanova...who's deeply in debt. | 1954 | Norman Z. McLeod | Adventure,Comedy | 6.7 (1.1K votes) | 86 | 20220423 |
Public Pigeon No. 1Swindlers con a lunchroom clerk into doing them a favor, supposedly on behalf of the FBI. | 1957 | Norman Z. McLeod | Comedy | 6.4 (68 votes) | 79 | 20230328 |
Alias Jesse JamesOutlaw T.J. "Jesse" James tries to kill insurance agent Milford Farnsworth, who has been mistaken for him in order to collect on a big policy. | 1959 | Norman Z. McLeod | Comedy,Western | 6.5 (1.4K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
Ben Blue's BrothersNA | 1960 | | Comedy | | | Not Available |
The Ginger Rogers ShowNA | 1961 | | Drama | | | Not Available |