David Butler Movie Rankings
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David Butler scores a combined 3.2560 out of 4 stars for Road to Morocco
3.2560
When Jeff enters the room where Orville and Princess Shalmar are watching the dancing girls, he walks down the center and then drifts slightly over to the left decorative border on the floor. In the next shot, he is well past the left border, standing near a column. ... more about Road to Morocco
DVD from $2.44 
(22 sellers)
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David Butler scores a combined 2.7796 out of 4 stars for Princess and the Pirate
2.7796
Princess Margaret is travelling incognito to elope with her true love instead of marrying the man her father has betrothed her to. ... more about Princess and the Pirate
DVD from $4.83 
(15 sellers)
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David Butler scores a combined 2.7581 out of 4 stars for Calamity Jane
2.7581
Deadwood, Dakota Territory, is largely the abode of men, where Indian scout Calamity Jane is as hard-riding, boastful, and handy with a gun as any; quite an overpowering personality. ... more about Calamity Jane
DVD from $8.99 
(23 sellers)
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David Butler scores a combined 2.7396 out of 4 stars for They Got Me Covered
2.7396
Bumbling reporter Robert Kittredge has been fired after bungling his latest assignment. His career isn't all he's botched up: his girlfriend Chris is tired of waiting for him to marry her. ... more about They Got Me Covered
DVD from $24.75 
(1 sellers)
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David Butler scores a combined 2.6848 out of 4 stars for Pigskin Parade
2.6848
Married coaches Slug and Bessie find hillbilly football tosser Amos and the team gets invited to the Yale Bowl. This was Judy Garland's first film. ... more about Pigskin Parade
Not Available on DVD
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David Butler scores a combined 2.4510 out of 4 stars for Just Imagine
2.4510
New York, 1980: airplanes have replaced cars, numbers have replaced names, pills have replaced food, government-arranged marriages have replaced love, and test tube babies have replaced ... well, you get the idea. ... more about Just Imagine
Not Available on DVD
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David Butler scores a combined 2.4200 out of 4 stars for Captain January
2.4200
Shirley lives with a lighthouse keeper (Kibbee) who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer (Haden) decides she should go to boarding school, but she's rescued by relatives. Buddy Ebsen dances "At The Codfish Ball" with Shirley. ... more about Captain January
DVD from $6.61 
(19 sellers)
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David Butler scores a combined 2.4108 out of 4 stars for Caught in the Draft
2.4108
Don Bolton is a movie star who can't stand loud noises. To evade the draft, he decides to get married...but falls for a colonel's daughter. By mistake, he and his two cronies enlist. ... more about Caught in the Draft
DVD from $5.95 
(18 sellers)
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David Butler scores a combined 2.3660 out of 4 stars for April in Paris
2.3660
Miss Ethel 'Dynamite' Jackson is a chorus girl who mistakingly receives an invitation from the State Department to represent the American theatre at an arts exposition in Paris, France. ... more about April in Paris
Not Available on DVD
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David Butler scores a combined 2.2838 out of 4 stars for Lullaby of Broadway
2.2838
Pretty Melinda Howard has been abroad singing with a musical troupe. She decides to return home to surprise her mother whom she thinks is a successful Broadway star with a mansion in Manhattan. ... more about Lullaby of Broadway
DVD from $3.83 
(22 sellers)
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David Butler scores a combined 2.2617 out of 4 stars for Bright Eyes
2.2617
When a maid is accidentally hit by a car and killed, her young orphaned daughter is forced to live with the snooty couple her mother used to work for. ... more about Bright Eyes
DVD from $4.99 
(10 sellers)
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David Butler scores a combined 2.2336 out of 4 stars for By the Light of the Silvery Moon
2.2336
The trials and tribulations of the Winfield family in small town Indiana as Marjorie Winfield's boyfriend, William Sherman, returns from the Army after W.W.I. ... more about By the Light of the Silvery Moon
DVD from $10.88 
(20 sellers)
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David Butler scores a combined 2.1780 out of 4 stars for Kentucky
2.1780
Romeo and Juliet story set amidst horseracing in Kentucky. The family feud of lovers Jack and Sally goes back to the Civil War and is kept alive by her Uncle Peter. ... more about Kentucky
Not Available on DVD
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David Butler scores a combined 2.0943 out of 4 stars for Little Colonel
2.0943
After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to never speak to her again. ... more about Little Colonel
DVD from $7.56 
(14 sellers)
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David Butler scores a combined 2.0920 out of 4 stars for Tea for Two
2.0920
In this reworking of "No, No, Nanette," wealthy heiress Nanette Carter (Doris Day) bets her uncle $25,000 that she can say "no" to everything for 48 hours. ... more about Tea for Two
Not Available on DVD
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David Butler scores a combined 2.0145 out of 4 stars for Story of Seabiscuit
2.0145
Horse trainer Shawn O'Hara and his lovely niece, Margaret, come to America to escape the memory of an accident involving Margaret's brother, Danny. ... more about Story of Seabiscuit
DVD from $3.54 
(21 sellers)
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David Butler scores a combined 1.9542 out of 4 stars for Ali Baba Goes to Town
1.9542
A movie company is doing the Arabian Nights when a hobo enters their camp, falls asleep and dreams he's back in Baghdad as advisor to the Sultan. In a spoof of Rosevelt's New Deal, he organizes work programs, taxes the rich and abolishes the army. ... more about Ali Baba Goes to Town
Not Available on DVD
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David Butler scores a combined 1.8264 out of 4 stars for San Antonio
1.8264
Not Available on DVD
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David Butler scores a combined 1.8173 out of 4 stars for Straight Place and Show
1.8173
The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man (Arlen) train the horse of his fiancée (Brooks). ... more about Straight Place and Show
Not Available on DVD
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David Butler scores a combined 1.7488 out of 4 stars for Thank Your Lucky Stars
1.7488
Two producers are putting together a Calvacade of Stars for a wartime charity show. Along with a list of well-knowns they promote the work of an unknown singer and songwriter. ... more about Thank Your Lucky Stars
Not Available on DVD
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David Butler scores a combined 1.7442 out of 4 stars for Doubting Thomas
1.7442
A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by also going on stage. ... more about Doubting Thomas
DVD from $37.94 
(14 sellers)
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David Butler scores a combined 1.6164 out of 4 stars for Littlest Rebel
1.6164
Shirley Temple's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his family and is arrested. A Yankee takes pity and sets up an escape. Everyone is captured and the officers are to be executed. ... more about Littlest Rebel
DVD from $6.18 
(15 sellers)
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David Butler scores a combined 1.3546 out of 4 stars for You'll Find Out
1.3546
An uproarious comedy spoof which mixes sinister dealings with funny happenings. the combination of Lorre, Karloff and Lugosi makes this film a nostalgic rarity. Academy Award Nominations: Best Song ("I'd Know You Anywhere"). ... more about You'll Find Out
Not Available on DVD
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David Butler scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for White Fang
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Jack London tale of a woman (Muir) and weakling brother (Beck) who inherit a mine. ... more about White Fang
Not Available on DVD
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David Butler scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Bottoms Up
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Promoter Smoothe King helps a pair of phonies con their way into a movie company. As Wanda heads toward stardom, she turns more and more from King toward the matinee idol. King must decide between his plans and her happiness. ... more about Bottoms Up
Not Available on DVD
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David Butler scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Command
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Not Available on DVD
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David Butler scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Delicious
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A varied group of immigrants head for the USA aboard S.S. Mauronia, including Russians Sascha, Mischa, Toscha, and Olga. Sascha has fallen for Scots lassie Heather; Olga is courted by Chris Jansen, valet of first class passenger Larry Beaumont. ... more about Delicious
Not Available on DVD
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David Butler scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Glory
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Not Available on DVD
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David Butler scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Handy Andy
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Not Available on DVD
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David Butler scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Have a Heart
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David Butler scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for If I Had My Way
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A construction worker takes charge of the daughter of a fellow worker killed in an accident. He brings the girl to New York to try to find her uncle. ... more about If I Had My Way
DVD from $12.34 
(18 sellers)
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David Butler scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Kentucky Moonshine
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Tony Martin goes to Kentucky to find talent to boost radio ratings. There it is learned that the Ritz brothers are really from New York and only pretending to be hillbillies to get on Martin's show. ... more about Kentucky Moonshine
Not Available on DVD
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David Butler scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Look for the Silver Lining
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This musical biopic chronicles the vaudeville-to-Broadway story of 1920s' star Marilyn Miller (June Haver). ... more about Look for the Silver Lining
Not Available on DVD
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David Butler scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for My Weakness
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Not Available on DVD
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David Butler scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for My Wild Irish Rose
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The life of Irish tenor Chauncey Olcott is chronicled from his childhood to his days as the toast of New York. ... more about My Wild Irish Rose
Not Available on DVD
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David Butler scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for News Parade
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Not Available on DVD
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David Butler scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Painting the Clouds with Sunshine
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When boyfriend Vince Nichols (Dennis Morgan) won't give up his gambling, Abby (Lucille Norman) joins vaudeville partners Carol (Virginia Mayo) and June (Virginia Gibson) in a trek to Las Vegas searching for millionaires, followed by playboy Ted Lansing ... more about Painting the Clouds with Sunshine
Not Available on DVD
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David Butler scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Playmates
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Lulu Monahan (Patsy Kelly), the press agent for John Barrymore (Himself),is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program. ... more about Playmates
Not Available on DVD
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David Butler scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Prep and Pep
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Not Available on DVD
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David Butler scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Sunny Side Up
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Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less happy, since his fiancée Jane won't discourage her other admirers. ... more about Sunny Side Up
Not Available on DVD
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David Butler scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Time
0.0001
The stuffy manager of lovely opera singer Vicki Cassel and her uncle, a classical conductor, is determined to close down the noisy nightclub that's next door to the Cassels' home. ... more about Time
Not Available on DVD
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David Butler scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Two Guys from Milwaukee
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Balkan Prince Henry has two wishes, to meet Lauren Bacall and see the "real" America. ... more about Two Guys from Milwaukee
Not Available on DVD
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David Butler
Birthdate:
December 17, 1894
Death date:
June 14, 1979

David Butler

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Career Span:

Decade
# Movies
Movie Score
1920s
8
No Reviews
1930s
24
total ranking of 2.3180  2.3180
1940s
17
total ranking of 2.3763  2.3763
1950s
11
total ranking of 2.3967  2.3967
1960s
1
No Reviews
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Overall Director Score:
2.5188
David Butler is ranked overall as 2.5188 of of 4 stars
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