Benny Rubin Filmography

Sanford and Son: Fred Meets Redd

Actors: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Jack Carter, Fritzi Burr

Synopsis: With his tax deadline rapidly approaching, Fred (Redd Foxx) suddenly skips an appointment with his accountant. The reason? Fred hopes to win a huge prize by entering a Redd Foxx lookalike contest. And just guess who makes a "guest appearance" as Redd? Also appearing in this classic dual-identity Read More

The Shaggy D.A.

Actors: Dean Jones, Tim Conway, Suzanne Pleshette, Keenan Wynn, Jo Ann Worley

Synopsis: Robert Stevenson, Walt Disney Productions' house director, cobbled together his 19th family film for the organization with this slapstick sequel to the Disney comedy The Shaggy Dog (produced 17 years after the fact). Dean Jones plays Wilby Daniels, a lawyer running against the villainous John Read More

Emergency!: Dilemma

Synopsis: Dr. Brackett (Robert Fuller) is saddled with a hero-worshipping nurse, while paramedic John Gage (Randolph Mantooth) is similarly burdened with a "fireman groupie." The case load this week includes an elevator crash involving a heart-attrack victim, a hippie (played by Seymour Cassel od Minnie and Read More

Adam-12: Extortion

Synopsis: Moving to a new Wednesday-night slot for its fourth season, Adam-12 wastes no time getting down to business. This time, Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) are working the waterfront beat, where a nasty gang of extortionists specializes in targeting elderly Jewish Read More

How to Frame a Figg

Actors: Savannah Bentley

Synopsis: In this comedy, a bungling bookkeeper's assistant works in the Dalton city hall and finds himself framed for embezzling by his corrupt superiors. A sweet young woman helps him clear his name. He is also assisted by Leo the computer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Which Way to the Front?

Actors: Jerry Lewis, John Wood, Jan Murray, Steve Franken, Dack Rambo

Synopsis: Brendan (Jerry Lewis) is an eccentric multimillionaire who is rejected for military service in this misfired comedy. Eager to help the Allies, he gathers a quartet of offbeat irregulars and sails to Italy to join the conflict. Brendan captures a Nazi general and masquerades as the enemy. When Read More

Airport

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset, George Kennedy

Synopsis: Airport had enough plot and enough star power in its cast for three feature films, and it only encompassed about half of the complexity or characters found in Arthur Hailey's best-selling potboiler. Essentially built around 12 harrowing hours at a major Midwestern airport, the film had everything Read More

I Dream of Jeannie: The Case of My Vanishing Master, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Dr. Bellows (Larry Hagman) sends Tony (Larry Hagman) to a secret location in order to work on some hush-hush Apollo 12 flight plans. To avoid arousing suspicion, Bellows plants a lookalike (also played by Larry Hagman) in Tony's house. The trouble begins Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Ballad of the Everyday Housewife

Synopsis: Feeling that husband Steve (Mike Minor) is taking her for granted, Betty Jo (Linda Kaye Henning) seeks out advice from her sister Bobbie Jo (Lori Saunders) and her neighbor Lisa Douglas (Eva Gabor). As a result, Betty works overtime to make herself a vital part of her husband's life--and nearly Read More

Adam-12: Log 83: A Different Thing

Synopsis: Officers Malloy (Martin Milner) and Reed (Kent McCord) swing into action when suspicions arise that a hit-and-run accident was actually a case of cold-blooded murderer. Witnesses insist that a young man had a violent quarrel with the female "accident" victim on the night before the tragedy. The Read More

The Shakiest Gun in the West

Actors: Don Knotts, Barbara Rhoades, Jackie Coogan, Don "Red" Barry, Ruth McDevitt

Synopsis: This hilarious oater finds Jesse Heywood (Don Knotts) as a Philadelphia dentist who leaves his home to open a new practice on the western frontier. The hapless dentist is saved by the expert gun handling of Penny (Barbara Rhoades), a reformed bandit trying to earn a pardon by intercepting gun Read More

Angel in My Pocket

Actors: Andy Griffith, Jerry Van Dyke, Kay Medford, Lee Meriwether, Henry Jones

Synopsis: Minister Sam (Andy Griffith) and his wife Mary Elizabeth (Lee Meriweather) move to a Kansas town divided by political concerns that stall the town's progress. Will Sinclair (Henry Jones) and Alex Gresham (Edgar Buchanan) have allowed a long-standing family argument to impede the progress of the Read More

I Dream of Jeannie: Genie, Genie, Who's Got the Genie?, Part 4

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a four-part story, Tony (Larry Hagman) has failed in every attempt to rescue Jeannie (Barbara Eden) from a safe that is slated to be blasted to the moon. Now, Jeannie has a new reason to despair: If she remains locked up for a month, Tony will no longer be her master, and she Read More

Petticoat Junction: Wings

Synopsis: Buddy Rogers and Richard Arlen, who costarred in the very first Oscar-winning movie Wings, are reunited in this episode. The two veteran actors show up in Hooterville Valley to save the Pixley Bijou Theater from demolition, agreeing to appear at the theater's premiere screening of Wings. . .some Read More

Thoroughly Modern Millie

Actors: Julie Andrews, James Fox, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing, John Gavin

Synopsis: George Roy Hill directed this original musical set the 1920s that mixes pop standards with new tunes written by Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen. Julie Andrews, in a role that recalls her Broadway triumph in The Boy Friend, stars as Millie Dillmount, who comes to New York is search of a secretarial Read More

I Dream of Jeannie: My Master, the Spy

Synopsis: Jeannie (Barbara Eden) wants Tony (Larry Hagman) to take her to a Parisian restaurant, but he is slated to remain at NASA headquarters for a top-secret meeting about "Operation Galaxy". Resourcefullly, Jeannie creates two Tonys, one to fulfill his astronaut duties, the other to escort her to the Read More

The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini

Actors: Deborah Walley, Tommy Kirk, Aron Kincaid, Basil Rathbone, Quinn O'Hara, Boris Karloff, Dwayne Hickman, Jesse White

Synopsis: American-International's Beach Party series came to an abrupt end with Ghost in the Invisible Bikini. Because of such tangible reasons as contractual commitments, coupled with such intangibles as illness and death, most of the series "regulars" are absent. Deborah Walley and Aron Kinkaid fill the Read More

The Munsters: Herman's Raise

Synopsis: Cadaverous John Carradine makes his first series appearance as mortuary owner Mr. Gateman, the employer of Herman Munster (Fred Gwynne). At the prodding of wife Lily (Yvonne DeCarlo), Herman asks Gateman for a raise--and gets fired for his troubles. To keep his unemployement a secret from his Read More

That Funny Feeling

Actors: Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin, Donald O'Connor, Nita Talbot, Larry Storch

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, an aspiring actress pays her bills by working as a maid for various households. One of her employers is a wealthy and prominent publisher. After accidentally running into each other a number of times on the New York streets without recognizing each other, they begin to Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Umquaw Strip

Synopsis: Homer Bedloe (Charles Lane) finally thinks he's found a way to scrap the Hooterville Cannonball. It seems that the local Umquaw Indian tribe claims that they own the land which holds the Cannonball's railroad tracks--and Bedloe wastes no time cozying up to the tribal leaders (meaning a lot of Read More

A House is Not a Home

Actors: Shelley Winters, Robert Taylor, Cesar Romero, Ralph Taeger, Kaye Ballard

Synopsis: This drama tells the true story of one of Broadway's most successful madams in the 1920s. It is loosely based on the autobiography of Polly Adler. The story begins when young Polly is seduced and raped at her job by the sweatshop foreman. When her uncle, with whom she lived, learns of the act, he Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy and Viv Open a Restaurant

Actors: Gale Gordon, Jack Albertson, Kathleen Freeman, Alan Hewitt, Benny Rubin

Synopsis: Once again, Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Viv (Vivian Vance) dream of untold riches by going into business together; this time their joint enterprise is a small restaurant. Unfortunately, despite several changes of "theme", the restaurant only seems to attract the local mailman and an army of bill Read More

The Disorderly Orderly

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Glenda Farrell, Everett Sloane, Karen Sharpe, Kathleen Freeman

Synopsis: In this comedy classic, Jerry Lewis plays Jerome Littlefield, an orderly in a mental hospital in this slapstick situation comedy that makes full use of Lewis's patented brand of screwball comedy. Dr. Jean Howard (Glenda Farrell) is the exasperated head of the sanitarium who almost becomes a Read More

The Jack Benny Show: Johnny Carson Guests

The Beverly Hillbillies: Turkey Day

Synopsis: The Clampetts prepare to celebrate their first Thanksgiving in Beverly Hills. Problem is, Elly May has become so attached to the Thanksgiving turkey that she can't bear the thought of cookin' and eatin' the poor bird. The plot of this episode manages to accommodate two rather inauthentic-looking Read More

Pocketful of Miracles

Actors: Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Hope Lange, Arthur O'Connell, Peter Falk

Synopsis: Director Frank Capra's last feature film, Pocketful of Miracles is a Technicolor remake of his 1933 film Lady for a Day. A barely recognizable Bette Davis plays Apple Annie, the besotted, unkempt, rag-clad street vendor who controls the activities of all the beggars on Broadway. Apple Annie is the Read More

The Dick Tracy Show [Animated TV Series]

The Errand Boy

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Brian Donlevy, Howard McNear, Dick Wesson, Robert Ivers, Pat Dahl

Synopsis: The second of Jerry Lewis' directorial endeavors, The Errand Boy, like its predecessor The Bellboy, is essentially a series of "spot gags," some hilarious, others only moderately amusing. The gossamer-thin plot finds Morty Tashman (Lewis) being hired by the CEO of "Paramutuel Pictures" (Brian Donlevy Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Blind Man's Bluff

Synopsis: A man wearing dark glasses steals a valuable necklace from the showroom window of a jewelry store--then returns the item and walks away. It turns out that this is a mere "dress rehearsal" for an actual robbery planned by store employee Karl Addison (John Conte), who intends to use the fact that an Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Blonde-Haired Brunette

Actors: Ann Morgan Guilbert, Benny Rubin

Synopsis: An exhausted Rob (Dick Van Dyke) pays but scant attention to Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) on his day off, convincing Laura that Rob has grown tired of her. Next-door neighbor Millie (Ann Morgan Guilbert) suggests a sure-fire method to win back Rob's affections. All Laura has to do is dye her hair Read More

Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Actors: Doris Day, David Niven, Janis Paige, Spring Byington, Richard Haydn

Synopsis: In this entertaining comedy by Charles Walters, everyone seems to get in on the act, even the dog and especially the four overactive kids in a wildly challenging family. David Niven co-stars with Doris Day as Lawrence and Kate Mackay, distinctive parents struggling with home, life, and family. Read More

A Hole in the Head

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Eleanor Parker, Carolyn Jones, Thelma Ritter

Synopsis: Although the main character, Tony Manetta (Frank Sinatra), in this light comedy tends to tip the scales towards being unbelievably unrealistic, the story is pulled off because everyone else is convincing. Tony is a widower in need of a financial bailout for himself and his son, so he asks for help Read More

Dragnet: The Big Carnation

Synopsis: An out-of-town couple named Johnser are the latest victims of a sneak thief who preys upon hotel guests. Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) have only one tangible clue to work with: the thief leaves behind a carnation at the scene of each crime. Veteran dialect comedian Benny Rubin has a Read More

In the Money

Synopsis: This is the very last entry in the long-running Bowery Boys saga. This time the gang gets involved with English diamond smugglers after they are hired to safely escort a valuable poodle on a Transatlantic voyage. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Party Girl

Actors: Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb, John Ireland, Kent Smith

Synopsis: Robert Taylor stars in director Nicholas Ray's Party Girl as the traditional Ray anti-hero: a criminal lawyer who's a little bit of both. Fronting for Chicago gang boss Lee J. Cobb during the late 1920s, Taylor manages to get Cobb-underling John Ireland off on a murder rap. Cobb throws a party to Read More

Eighteen and Anxious

Actors: Mary Webster, William Campbell, Martha Scott, Jackie Loughery, Jim Backus

Synopsis: In this teenage exploitation drama, a young woman secretly marries. The trouble begins after her husband is killed while drag racing. She bears his child, but she cannot prove that she was married. Caring nothing for the child, she spends her time hitting on a jazz trumpeter who takes her to Las Read More

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

Actors: Jayne Mansfield, Tony Randall, Betsy Drake, Joan Blondell, Mickey Hargitay, John Williams

Synopsis: Jayne Mansfield recreated her starmaking stage role in this film adaptation of George Axelrod's Broadway comedy. Mansfield plays a Monroe-like movie queen whom adman Tony Randall hopes to sign for a product endorsement. Through a fluke, the press believes that Randall is having an affair with Read More

Up in Smoke

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running "Bowery Boys" series Sach sells his soul to the Devil so he can atone for spending a charity fund at the track. The bargain enables the young man to successfully predict winning horses at the track. Soon Sach finds himself pursued by greedy mobsters who want him Read More

Space Ship Sappy

Synopsis: In their first sci-fi comedy, the Three Stooges land on Sunev (Venus spelled backwards), a planet inhabited by cannibalistic starlets such as Harriette Tarler, Lorraine Crawford, and Playboy Playmate Marilyn Hanold. Emil Sitka once again plays a deranged scientist, a favorite role of the popular Read More

Hoofs and Goofs

Synopsis: The first Three Stooges short to co-star Joe Besser as the third Stooge, Hoofs and Goofs features Moe Howard in drag playing his own sister, Birdie. Joe dreams that Birdie is reincarnated as a horse who soon takes up every inch of space in the Stooges' apartment. Benny Rubin returned to the series Read More

Meet Me in Las Vegas

Actors: Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Agnes Moorehead, Lili Darvas, Jim Backus

Synopsis: A whole slew of guest stars makes Meet Me in Las Vegas a special treat for movie buffs. The central plot concerns wealthy rancher Chuck Rodwell (Dan Dailey), who takes a Vegas vacation with his mother (Agnes Moorehead). At the same time, ballerina Maria Corvier (Cyd Charisse) also arrives in Las Read More

The Tender Trap

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, David Wayne, Celeste Holm, Jarma Lewis, Lola Albright

Synopsis: Max Shulman and Robert Paul Smith's Broadway hit The Tender Trap is transformed into a beguiling Frank Sinatra film vehicle. Sinatra plays a Manhattan showbiz agent, Charlie Y. Reader, who enjoys the attentions of several willing young ladies. At an audition, Charlie meets aspiring actress Julie Read More

I Love Lucy: The Tour

Actors: Richard Widmark, Benny Rubin, Barbara Pepper, Audrey Betz, Juney Ellis

Synopsis: While their husbands are otherwise occupied, Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Ethel (Vivian Vance) take a bus sightseeing tour of Los Angeles. When the bus pulls up near the home of actor Richard Widmark, Lucy announces that Widmark and her husband, Ricky (Desi Arnaz), are at that moment having lunch Read More

Susan Slept Here

Actors: Dick Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Anne Francis, Alvy Moore, Glenda Farrell

Synopsis: Susan Slept Here is the only feature film in Hollywood history ever to be narrated by an Academy Award. After introducing itself, the Oscar statuette invites us into the apartment home of its owner, screenwriter Mark Christopher Dick Powell. Knowing that Mark is working on a script about juvenile Read More

Yankee Pasha

Actors: Jeff Chandler, Rhonda Fleming, Mamie van Doren, Lee J. Cobb, Bart Roberts, Hal March, Benny Rubin, Christiane Martel

Synopsis: Yankee Pasha has the potential for silliness, but is commendably played straight by most of the participants (exceptions being such professional funsters as Hal March and Benny Rubin). Jeff Chandler plays American frontiersman Jason, who springs into action when his sweetheart Roxanna (Rhonda Fleming Read More

Masterson of Kansas

Actors: George Montgomery, Nancy Gates, James Griffith, Jean Willes, Benny Rubin

Synopsis: Long before he devoted his life to gimmicky horror epics, director William Castle turned out a series of compact westerns for Columbia. One of the best of the batch was Masterson of Kansas, starring George Montgomery as dandified gunslinger Bat Masterson. The screenplay, by future Maverick Read More

The Law vs. Billy the Kid

Actors: Scott Brady, James Griffith, Alan Hale, Jr., Paul Cavanagh

Synopsis: Scott Brady plays a decidedly mature Billy the Kid in this Columbia western programmer. According to this acount, Billy was just a mixed-up kid who was forced against his will to become a gunslinger. Billy's friendship with sheriff Pat Garrett (James Griffith), which has always been a matter of Read More

Alamein

Synopsis: In this action war drama, set in the African desert during WW II, a civilian is hired to deliver tanks to the British soldiers at the front. Trouble ensues when he gets trapped at an oasis being used as a fuel dump by the Afrika Korps with a small band of men. Together, they keep the Germans at Read More

About Mrs. Leslie

Actors: Shirley Booth, Robert Ryan, Marjie Millar, Alex Nicol, Sammy White

Synopsis: Shirley Booth followed up her Oscar-winning performance in Come Back Little Sheba with the high-gloss soap opera About Mrs. Leslie. Based on a novel by Vina Delmar, the film casts Booth as a philosophical boarding house keeper who recalls her life and loves in a long, long flashback. Born on the Read More

Easy to Love

Actors: Esther Williams, Van Johnson, Tony Martin, John Bromfield, Edna Skinner

Synopsis: The Cole Porter title tune is but one of the musical highlights in the (literally) splashy Esther Williams musical Easy to Love. Reshuffling plot devices utilized in previous Williams vehicles, the film casts Williams as Julie Hallerton, the star of Ray Lloyd's (Van Johnson) aquacade. She loves Read More

Torch Song

Actors: Joan Crawford, Michael Wilding, Sr., Gig Young, Marjorie Rambeau, Henry Morgan

Synopsis: Joan Crawford's first Technicolor feature has come to be known as a textbook example of "high camp." Crawford stars as musical comedy luminary Jenny Stewart, who has been hardened by the worst life has to offer. Romance enters her life in the form of her new piano accompanist, blinded war-veteran Read More

Tangier Incident

Actors: George Brent, Mari Aldon, Dorothy Patrick, Bert Freed, Dan Seymour

Synopsis: The fate in the Free World is threatened when three atomic scientists decide to sell their secrets to the Reds. American secret agent Steve (George Brent) heads to Tangier, where he poses as a black marketer in hopes of intercepting the rogue scientists. But Steve finds he has a formidable foe in Read More

Pardon My Backfire

Synopsis: The second of two Three Stooges comedy shorts laboriously filmed in unfunny 3-D, Pardon My Backfire featured the boys as garage mechanics who get involved with a gang of crooks. Benny Rubin, in his second of three appearances with the Stooges, Frank Sully, Andy Clyde regular Barbara Bartay, Phil Read More

Tricky Dicks

Synopsis: While the Three Stooges are best known for their violent brand of slapstick -- and director Jules White generally played the boys' physical aspect for all it was worth -- this comic short also contains quite a few very funny lines. The Stooges are detectives, but they're more interested in their Read More

The Glass Web

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, John Forsythe, Kathleen Hughes, Marcia Henderson, Richard Denning

Synopsis: John Forsythe plays a successful television writer, Don Newell, who works on the "Crime of the Week" anthology series. Newell is being blackmailed by one of the program's actresses (Kathleen Hughes), who threatens to tell his wife of their clandestine affair. Arriving at the actress' apartment for Read More

Just This Once

Actors: Janet Leigh, Peter Lawford, Lewis Stone, Marilyn Erskine, Richard Anderson

Synopsis: Peter Lawford goes through his standard "rich, spoiled young playboy" paces in the MGM comedy Just This Once. In danger of squandering his entire fortune, the wastrelly Mark MacLene (Peter Lawford) is put on a strict allowance by an old family friend, Judge Samuel Coulter (Lewis Stone). To make Read More

The Sellout

Actors: Walter Pidgeon, Paula Raymond, John Hodiak, Audrey Totter, Thomas Gomez

Synopsis: Gerald Mayer proved once more that he had talent above and beyond being the nephew of MGM-head Louis B. Mayer with his direction of The Sellout. The story begins with a bang, as big-city newspaper editor Haven Allridge (Walter Pidgeon) falls victim to the small-town tyranny of corrupt sheriff Read More

The Scar

Actors: Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett, Eduard Franz, Leslie Brooks, John Qualen

Synopsis: John Muller (Paul Henreid), an intelligent, arrogant criminal who has been a medical student and a phony psychoanalyst, believes that people are only interested in themselves and do not notice what is happening around them. Paroled from prison to a boring job, Muller is more interested in a big Read More

The Noose Hangs High

Actors: Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, Cathy Downs, Joseph Calleia, Leon Errol

Synopsis: For their first independently-produced vehicle, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello chose to appear in a remake of the 1939 Universal programmer For Love or Money. Bud and Lou are cast as Ted and Tommy, two bumbling window washers hired by gangster Mike Craig (Joseph Calleila) to collect a $50,000 Read More

Mr. Wise Guy

Actors: Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Billy Gilbert, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams

Synopsis: In this "East Side Kids" escapade (the eighth in the series), the gang, led by Muggs McGinniss (Leo Gorcey), help a man load a barrel on a truck. Little do they know that the man is a crook; accused of trying to steal the truck, they are immediately and without due process sent to reform school. Read More

College Sweethearts

Actors: Grace Hayes, Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy, Huntz Hall, Jan Wiley

Synopsis: A nightclub singer becomes actively involved in the education of the son she has never seen. She uses almost everything she makes to pay his tuition and expenses. One day she goes to the college to see how well he is doing. She is horrified to see that he is squandering his opportunity by spending Read More

Broadway

Actors: George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Broderick Crawford, Janet Blair, Anne Gwynne, Marjorie Rambeau

Synopsis: In this musical, which manages to look back with nostalgia upon prohibition and the depression (no small accomplishm