Sheldon Leonard Movies

From Amos 'n' Andy to Nat King Cole, from Roots to The Cosby Show, black people have played many roles on primetime television. Brilliantly weaving...

A lazy and fat cat, named Dodsworth, is ordered by his mistress to catch mice that have invaded her home and are terrorizing her. Dodsworth doesn't...

A ship company employee, Jay Williams, is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships is stuck on a reef off of the coast. He obtains...

A gangster and his mob buy a small-town in this warm comedy. They, tired of trying to make it as big city hoods, buy the town to use as a hideout....

A Hollywood talent agency tries to avoid finacial ruin by getting its best clients on the air.

In Haiti, a black female plantation owner enacts a voodoo curse, and revives zombies for revenge on a white male neighbor, who has chosen a white...

The homespun Nelson family must deal with various comical situations, including an encounter with gangsters.

With the end of Prohibition a former bootlegger and his wife attempt to go straight. Remake of the 1938 film "A Slight Case of Murder".

In this brief B programmer, a nurse is hired to care for a widower's daughter who is unaware that her father is a gangster and that her mother is...

Milo Terkel's life is never the same after he is willed a dog named Joe. Milo buys his wife a diamond necklace for their anniversary, but when he...

Roy visits his home town while on a personal appearance tour. While there he enters a pony express race. To keep him from winning, bad guys try to...

A French-Canadian trapper's adventures jeopardize his romance with an innkeeper.

A man's marriage suffers when he pretends to be a bachelor while promoting "his" best-selling book about married life (actually written by an...

An orphan girl lives with apparently kind uncle who turns out to be a murderer.

A loving tribute to a forgotten pioneer of the golden age of television. Starting out as a Runyonesque character actor, Sheldon Leonard went on to...

A prize-fighting banty rooster, so slap-happy that he goes into a punching spree whenever he hears a bell, falls out of a truck and onto the farm...

Two Americans attempt to make time with the daughter of the British financier of an archaeological expedition to Egypt.

A couple discovers that their friend has gone missing. Their investigation leads them to believe that anti-semites are behind the disappearance.

A scientist possessing the formula for making a nuclear bomb finds himself chased by evil gangsters in this thriller that was made just after the...

In this musical short, the leading lady is a French woman who finds mystery and romance on a luxury liner. There is much music with a chorus of...