Ann SavageFilmography

Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen

Synopsis: Edgar G. Ulmer was one of the most fascinating figures of Hollywood's Golden Age. While Ulmer directed the occasional big-budget major studio film (most notably The Black Cat starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi and The Strange Woman with Hedy Lamarr), Ulmer was a maverick who valued his Read More

Fire with Fire

Actors: Craig Sheffer, Virginia Madsen, Jon Polito, Kate Reid

Synopsis: A juvenile delinquent falls in love with a beautiful Catholic girl's school student in this fact-based adolescent melodrama set in an Oregon forest. The two meet by accident when the troubled young man is out on a nature hike and sees the lovely girl floating in a small lake as she works on a Read More

The Woman They Almost Lynched

Actors: John Lund, Brian Donlevy, Audrey Totter, Joan Leslie, Ben Cooper

Synopsis: All suspense in The Woman They Almost Lynched would seem to be dissipated by title, but director Allan Dwan holds the viewers spellbound throughout. Part of the tension arises from fact that there are two leading female characters: Kate Quantrill (Audrey Totter), wife of infamous Confederate Read More

Pier 23

Actors: Hugh Beaumont, Ann Savage, Edward S. Brophy, Richard Travis, Margia Dean

Synopsis: Pier 23 was one of three hour-long mysteries produced by Lippert Productions for both TV and theatrical release. Each of the three films was evenly divided into two half-hour "episodes," and each starred Hugh Beaumont as San Francisco-based amateur sleuth Dennis O'Brien. In Pier 23, O'Brien first Read More

Pygmy Island

Actors: Johnny Weissmuller, Ann Savage, David Bruce, Steven Geray, William Tannen

Synopsis: Pygmy Island was entry number five in Columbia's "Jungle Jim" series. Johnny Weissmuller is back as Jungle Jim, who this time around leads a search for missing WAC officer Ann Kingsley (Ann Savage). He'd better hurry; enemy agents are also on the trail of the heroine, who became lost while Read More

Satan's Cradle

Actors: Duncan Renaldo, Leo Carrillo, Ann Savage, Douglas Fowley, Byron Foulger

Synopsis: Satan's Cradle was the fourth of producer Phil Krasne's "Cisco Kid" programmers for United Artists. Anyone who remembers the Cisco TV series will know without being told that Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carrillo essayed the roles of wandering do-gooders Cisco and Pancho. Unlike previous entries Read More

Jungle Flight

Actors: Robert Lowery, Ann Savage, Barton MacLane, Douglas Blackley, Douglas Fowley

Synopsis: On February 17, 1947, two efforts from Paramount's Pine-Thomas productions were tradeshown in tandem. The first was I Cover Big Town; the second was Jungle Flight.The latter film stars Robert Lowery and Douglas Blackley as Kelly Jordan and Andy Melton, troubleshooting freight pilots engaged in Read More

The Last Crooked Mile

Actors: Don "Red" Barry, Ann Savage, Adele Mara, Tom Powers, Sheldon Leonard

Synopsis: Republic contractee Don Barry plays private eye Tom Dwyer, whose ability to irritate both cops and crooks alike hides his keen deductive skills. Dwyer takes on the case of a missing $300,000, stolen from a bank by three robbers who were subsequently killed in a car accident. Before he can recover Read More

Lady Chaser

Synopsis: In this humorous murder mystery, a woman is wrongfully accused of poisoning her uncle when he died after she gave the ailing fellow a pill that she believed was aspirin. To prove her innocence, the woman must find the strange lady that gave her the pill. A crazy chase ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Detour

Actors: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald, Tim Ryan

Synopsis: Edgar G. Ulmer's Detour begins when hitchhiker Al Roberts (Tom Neal) accepts a ride from affable gambler Charles Haskell Jr. (Edmund MacDonald). When Haskell suffers a fatal heart attack, Roberts, afraid that he'll be accused of murder, disposes of the body, takes the man's clothes and wallet, and Read More

The Dark Horse

Actors: Phillip Terry, Ann Savage, Allen Jenkins, Jane Darwell, Donald MacBride

Synopsis: Universal's 1946 The Dark Horse is not a remake of the 1932 Warner Bros. film of the same name, though both deal with a long shot political candidate. The 1946 film stars Phillip Terry as a war veteran, who is persuaded by machine politico Donald MacBride to run for alderman. Ann Savage plays the Read More

Renegade Girl

Synopsis: Alan Curtis plays a hired Union agent who's been dispatched to capture a Confederate gal who's the leader of some ravaging rebels. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Midnight Manhunt

Synopsis: William C. Thomas' Midnight Manhunt begins with the shooting death of a master criminal who expires in a wax museum. Reporter Sue Gallagher (Ann Savage) is first on the scene, but she is soon in competition with her boyfriend, fellow reporter Pete Willis (William Gargan). The killer traps Sue in Read More

One Exciting Night

Actors: William Gargan, Ann Savage, Leo Gorcey, Don Beddoe

Synopsis: In this drama, two competing reporters get involved in a mystery when they find a gangster's corpse in a wax museum. As no one has reported the death, the two rivals begin racing to get the scoop. Unfortunately the uncooperative corpse keeps disappearing. Also looking for the body is the killer Read More

The Spider

Actors: Richard Conte, Faye Marlowe, Kurt Kreuger, John Harvey, Martin Kosleck

Synopsis: In this mystery, a detective and his partner are hired by a carnival psychic to help her find her long-lost sister who vanished a few years back. It is the partner who solves the mystery, but before she can tell her boss, she is killed. The detective is accused of the crime and arrested. He Read More

Dancing in Manhattan

Actors: Fred Brady, Jeff Donnell, William Wright, Ann Savage

Synopsis: In this comedy, a garbage truck driver stumbles across $5,000. He decides to use the money for a wild night on the town. He and his girlfriend do not know that the money represents the spoils of a blackmailer's scheme. Somehow, the trucker and his girl accidently run across the blackmailer and Read More

Apology for Murder

Actors: Ann Savage, Hugh Beaumont, Charles D. Brown, Russell Hicks, Pierre Watkin

Synopsis: PRC's Apology for Murder is aptly named: the production values in this 67-minute quickie are pretty sorry. If you're willing to look past the mildewed sets and murky lighting, however, this well-paced film noir is pretty enjoyable. Hugh Beaumont (yes, that Hugh Beaumont) plays a tough Read More

Scared Stiff

Actors: Jack Haley, Ann Savage, Barton MacLane, Veda Ann Borg, Arthur Ayleswofth

Synopsis: This comedy centers around an inept reporter who wouldn't recognize a hot story if it burned him on the hand. The trouble begins when he is assigned to do a story on a local wine festival. Meanwhile an escaped convict holds the heated interest of the rest of the newspaper employees. The bungler Read More

Two-Man Submarine

Actors: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, J. Carrol Naish, Abner Biberman

Synopsis: Columbia's Two-Man Submarine was predicated on a then-new Japanese invention, designed to maneuver in waters where no normal-sized sub could go. Naturally, the Japanese themselves could not be the heroes of this 1944 film, so Tom Neal and Lloyd Bridges play the good guys, while ersatz Read More

The Unwritten Code

Actors: Ann Savage, Tom Neal, Roland Varno, Howard Freeman, Mary Currier

Synopsis: The Unwritten Code is an offbeat, better-than-average Columbia wartime "B" picture. Though Ann Savage and Tom Neal are top-billed, the central character is supporting-actor Roland Varno. He plays a Nazi spy who sneaks into the U.S., hoping to release hundreds of German prisoners. He fails, but not Read More

The Last Horseman

Actors: Russell Hayden, Dub Taylor, Bob Wills, Ann Savage, John Maxwell

Synopsis: Former Hopalong Cassidy sidekick Russell Hayden retains his nickname of Lucky in this average entry in his short-lived starring series for Columbia. The foreman of the Bar W ranch, Lucky Rawlins finds himself cheated out of a check for 12,000 dollars (the proceeds from a cattle drive). Unbeknownst Read More

Klondike Kate

Actors: Ann Savage, Tom Neal, Glenda Farrell, Constance Worth, Sheldon Leonard

Synopsis: It's nice to see perennial "other woman" Ann Savage in a leading role, even in so antiseptic a film as Klondike Kate. Savage plays Kathleen O'Malley, who comes to the Great White North to claim her inheritance. When she finds that her legacy consists of a rundown hotel, she makes the best of Read More

Ever Since Venus

Actors: Ina Ray Hutton, Hugh Herbert, Ann Savage, Billy Gilbert, Glenda Farrell

Synopsis: The exciting world of the cosmetic industry provides the basis of this lively low-budget musical comedy that centers on the attempts of a young inventor to market a new kind of nonstaining lipstick at the American Beauty Association Show. When a make-up magnate learns of the revolutionary Read More

Footlight Glamour

Actors: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Ann Savage, Jonathan Hale

Synopsis: Footlight Glamour is one of two "Blondie" series entries in which Blondie's name isn't included in the credits. Otherwise, the film adheres strictly to formula, with Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) getting into a mess and Dagwood's wife Blondie (Penny Singleton) getting him out of it. This time Read More

What a Woman!

Actors: Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Willard Parker, Alan Dinehart, Edward Fielding

Synopsis: In his book on "screwball" comedies, the late William K. Everson described What a Woman as "indistinguishable from a dozen other big-business comedies, but a pleasant and zany time-killer." Once again, Rosalind Russell is cast as a high-pressure female executive, in this instance liteary agent Read More

The More the Merrier

Actors: Ann Doran, Ann Savage, Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn, Richard Gaines, Bruce Bennett

Synopsis: To fully appreciate The More the Merrier, it is important to know that, during WW2, there was an acute housing shortage in Washington DC. This is why elderly Benjamin Dingle (Charles Coburn) is obliged to share a tiny DC apartment with pretty Connie Milligan (Jean Arthur) and handsome Joe Carter Read More

Dangerous Blondes

Actors: Allyn Joslyn, Evelyn Keyes, Edmund Lowe, John Hubbard, Anita Louise

Synopsis: Stalwart supporting actor Allyn Joslyn is afforded a rare leading role in the Columbia mystery meller Dangerous Blondes. Joslyn and Evelyn Keyes play Harry and Jane Craig, a road-company Nick and Nora Charles. A popular mystery writer, Harry occasionally indulges in amateur detective work, with Read More

After Midnight With Boston Blackie

Actors: Chester Morris, Richard Lane, George E. Stone, Cy Kendall, George McKay

Synopsis: In this entry in the "Boston Blackie" series, the reformed crook meets his former lover who tells him that her father has just been freed from prison and that he is heading out to a safe deposit box where he hid a sack of diamonds. The good daughter wants her father to return the rocks and reform Read More

Saddles and Sagebrush

Synopsis: After faithfully serving in supporting roles in Columbia's Charles Starrett westerns, Russell Hayden was awarded his own series in 1943. Starrett's Saddles and Sagebrush is nothing special plotwise, but it does show off the star to best advantage actionwise. In trying to keep the peace by Read More

Passport to Suez

Actors: Warren William, Ann Savage, Eric Blore, Robert Stanford, Sheldon Leonard

Synopsis: Though it's not made readily apparent by the title, Passport to Suez was the 10th entry in Columbia's "Lone Wolf" series. Warren William returns as amateur sleuth Michael Lanyard, aka the Lone Wolf, while Eric Blore is his faithful valet Jamison. In this outing, Lanyard finds himself in Read More

Two Senoritas from Chicago

Actors: Joan Davis, Jinx Falkenburg, Ann Savage, Leslie Brooks, Ramsay Ames

Synopsis: The Two Senoritas from Chicago are Gloria (Jinx Falkenburg) and Maria (Ann Savage). When their goofy pal Daisy Baker (Joan Davis) passes off a discarded Portuguese play manuscript as her own, producer Rupert Shannon (Emory Parnell) agrees to bankroll the production. With stars in their eyes Read More

One Dangerous Night

Synopsis: In this entry in the "Lone Wolf" series, the sleuth and former jewel thief, the Lone Wolf finds himself accused of killing a blackmailer in front of the three women he was harassing. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More