Dick Powell Movies

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...

A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his...

Trace the history of television and its impact on American culture with clips, newsreels, and exclusive interviews from television greats like Walter...

Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal...

Marilyn Monroe is one of the most famous and adored icons of the 20th century. Like no other Hollywood star, she won the hearts of millions around...

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

A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.

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

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

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

A potpourri of features involving Hollywood celebrities. The Columbia University football team, winner of the 1934 Rose Bowl game, visits the Warner...

A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career.

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

A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.

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

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

Pilot episode, directed by Dick Powell.

A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.

A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.

Amos Burke is an L.A. cop who's inherited millions and usually arrives at crime scenes in a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce. Investigating the death of...