Bernard NedellFilmography

Heller in Pink Tights

Actors: Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn, Eileen Heckart, Ramon Novarro, Margaret O'Brien, Steve Forrest

Synopsis: The talents of the cast and director George Cukor (A Star Is Born, My Fair Lady), combine to bring off this otherwise routine Western based on a Louis L'Amour novel. Sophia Loren is Angela Rossini, a woman who seems to create the situations she gets into, and Anthony Quinn is the strong, silent Read More

The Loves of Carmen

Actors: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Ron Randell, Victor Jory, Luther Adler, Arnold Moss

Synopsis: Perhaps it's just as well that Columbia elected to film Prosper Merimee's Carmen without Georges Bizet's music: after all, Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford weren't exactly Leontyne Price and Robert Merrill. The Loves of Carmen is a reasonably faithful rehash of Merimee's story of the tempestuous gypsy Read More

The Lone Wolf in Mexico

Synopsis: In this entry in the enduring series, the suave jewel thief finds himself helping the police break up a ring of diamond smugglers. Along the way, he winds up accused of both robbery and murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Albuquerque

Actors: Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, George "Gabby" Hayes, Lon Chaney, Jr., Russell Hayden

Synopsis: Randolph Scott puts in time with Paramount's Pine-Thomas unit in the big-budget western Albuquerque. Scott is cast as Cole Armin, the nephew of tyrannical town boss John Armin (George Cleveland). Defying his grasping uncle, Cole sides with a small wagon-train line which the elder Armin hopes to Read More

Monsieur Verdoux

Actors: Charles Chaplin, Ada-May, Marjorie Bennett, Isobel Elsom, Audrey Betz, Marilyn Nash, Virginia Brissac

Synopsis: "Von Clausewitz said that war is the logical extension of diplomacy; Monsieur Verdoux feels that murder is the logical extension of business." With his controversial "comedy of murders" Monsieur Verdoux, Charles Chaplin makes his final, definitive break with the Little Tramp character that had Read More

The Crime Doctor's Man Hunt

Actors: Warner Baxter, Paul E. Burns, Claire Carleton, Ellen Drew, William Frawley

Synopsis: Scripted by Leigh Brackett of The Big Sleep fame and directed by future horrormeister William Castle, Crime Doctor's Manhunt has been singled out by many film buffs as the best of Columbia's "Crime Doctor" series. This time, criminal-turned-sleuth Dr. Robert Ordway (Warner Baxter) befriends Read More

Behind Green Lights

Actors: Carole Landis, William Gargan, Richard Crane, Mary Anderson, John Ireland

Synopsis: In this police drama, a busy precinct is thrown into chaos when the murdered corpse of a local detective is found in an abandoned car. Now the press is demanding to learn details. Meanwhile, an ambitious officer finds himself sorely tempted to use dishonest means to advance his political career. Read More

Maisie Goes to Reno

Actors: Ann Sothern, John Hodiak, Tom Drake, Marta Linden, Paul Cavanagh, Ava Gardner

Synopsis: In this eighth film in MGM's "Maisie" series, Ann Sothern is back as ever-stranded chorus girl Maisie Revier. As the story opens, Maisie has a steady non-showbiz job as a defense plant riveter (it's wartime, of course); still, she utilizes a two-week vacation to take a singing job in a Reno night Read More

One Body Too Many

Actors: Jean Parker, Bela Lugosi, Bernard Nedell, Blanche Yurka

Synopsis: Another of Jack Haley's comedy vehicles for Pine-Thomas productions, One Body Too Many casts Haley as timid insurance salesman Albert Tuttle. Much against his better judgment, Tuttle makes a business call at a sinister old mansion, intending to sell life insurance to the owner. He proves a bit Read More

Henry Aldrich Swings It

Actors: Jimmy Lydon, Charles Smith, John Litel, Olive Blakeney, Mimi Chandler

Synopsis: For this entry in the popular Henry Aldrich series, bumbling typical high school student Henry (Jimmy Lydon) catches sight of the new band teacher Louise Elliott (Marian Hall) and really likes what he sees. Quickly developing a mad crush on her, Henry goes so far as to join the band just to be Read More

Northern Pursuit

Actors: Errol Flynn, Julie Bishop, Helmut Dantine, John Ridgely, Gene Lockhart

Synopsis: The fact that star Errol Flynn had been recently embroiled in a real-life rape trial only served to increase the box-office "pull" of Warner Bros. Northern Pursuit. Flynn is cast as Canadian mountie Steve Wagner, assigned to track down and capture downed Nazi pilot Hugo von Keller (Helmut Dantine) Read More

The Desperadoes

Actors: Randolph Scott, Glenn Ford, Claire Trevor, Evelyn Keyes, Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis: In this Western drama, Steve Upton (Randolph Scott) is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers (Glenn Ford), was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, he's gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. However, while Cheyenne is in town to pay Upton Read More

Allotment Wives, Inc.

Actors: Kay Francis, Paul Kelly, Otto Kruger, Gertrude Michael, Teala Loring

Synopsis: In her final film appearance, Kay Francis plays Sheila, the slinky, seductive mastermind of a marriage racket preying on ex-servicemen. Sheila's stable of "brides" marry homecoming GIs for their military allotment pay, then dump their hubbies and abscond with the dough. Trouble brews when Sheila's Read More

Ship Ahoy

Actors: Eleanor Powell, Red Skelton, Virginia O'Brien, William Post, Jr., Jimmy Cross

Synopsis: This musical -- a concoction of comedy, songs, dancing, and war-time patriotism mixed together with a spy spoof plot -- opens with Tommy Dorsey and his band swinging through "Hawaiian War Chant" while Eleanor Powell taps away. Powell, it turns out, is Tallulah Winters, the band's official tap Read More

Ziegfeld Girl

Actors: James Stewart, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr, Lana Turner, Tony Martin

Synopsis: All that MGM's Ziegfeld Girl lacks is Technicolor; otherwise, the film has talent and "sock" entertainment value in abundance. The story focuses on three showbiz hopefuls-Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr and Lana Turner-and the efforts to attain the lofty status of "Ziegfeld Girl." Garland is compelled Read More

So You Won't Talk

Actors: Joe E. Brown, Frances Robinson, Vivienne Osborne, Bernard Nedell, Tom Dugan

Synopsis: In this comedy of mistaken identity, a bookish literary reviewer bows to the desires of his lover and shaves off his whiskers. Suddenly he finds himself in trouble, for without the mustache, he is the spitting image of a gangster who has just been released from prison. When the mobster's gang sees Read More

Rangers of Fortune

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Albert Dekker, Gilbert Roland, Patricia Morison

Synopsis: Fred MacMurray stars as a US Army misfit who, with pals Albert Dekker and Gilbert Roland, roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they befriend the elderly newspaper editor (Arthur Allen) and his young granddaughter (Betty Brewer). The trio learns that the community is Read More

Strange Cargo

Actors: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Ian Hunter, Peter Lorre, Paul Lukas

Synopsis: "Strange" is right: this mystical MGM melodrama has to be the oddest of the studio's Clark Gable-Joan Crawford vehicles. When eight prisoners escape from a New Guinea penal colony, they are picked up by a sloop commandeered by another escapee named Verne (Gable) and his trollop girl friend Julie Read More

Slightly Honorable

Actors: Pat O'Brien, Edward Arnold, Broderick Crawford, Ruth Terry, Claire Dodd

Synopsis: The successful producer-director combination of Walter Wanger and Tay Garnett served up another winner with Slightly Honorable. Adapted from F. G. Presnell's novel Send Another Coffin, the story concerns the efforts made by corrupt politician Cushing (Edward Arnold) to frame honest attorney John Read More

The Angels Wash Their Faces

Actors: Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan, Billy Halop, Bernard Punsly, Gabriel Dell, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall

Synopsis: Though not a sequel to Angels with Dirty Faces, this Warner Bros. programmer does star the Dead End Kids-or, more specifically, Billy Halop, Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, and Bernard Punsley. Fresh out of reform school, Gabe Ryan (Frankie Thomas) promises his sister Joy (Ann Sheridan Read More

They All Come Out

Actors: Rita Johnson, Tom Neal, Bernard Nedell, Edward Gargan, John Gallaudet

Synopsis: Famous filmmaker Jacques Tourneur (known for his compelling film noir and scary horror movies) makes his directorial debut in this crime drama that centers on a gang's getaway driver who is captured and imprisoned. There he undergoes rehabilitation and decides to go straight. The head gangster's Read More

Some Like It Hot

Actors: Bob Hope, Shirley Ross, Una Merkel, Gene Krupa, Rufe Davis

Synopsis: Rhythm Romance is the television title for the 1939 Bob Hope comedy Some Like It Hot (the change was made to avoid confusion with the 1959 Billy Wilder film of the same name). Hope plays a penny-ante carnival concessionaire with both eyes on the Main Chance. Exploiting the musical talents of his Read More

Lucky Night

Actors: Myrna Loy, Robert Taylor, Henry O'Neill, Douglas Fowley

Synopsis: An heiress gets a crash course in the simple life when she marries a penniless man in this comedy. Calvin Jordan (Henry O'Neill) is the prosperous owner of a successful steel mill, and the apple of his eye is his daughter Cora (Myrna Loy). Cora stands to inherit Calvin's firm, and he's taken it Read More

Those High Grey Walls

Actors: Walter Connolly, Onslow Stevens, Paul Fix, Bernard Nedell, Iris Meredith

Synopsis: In this prison drama, a physician ends up incarcerated after he treats a long-time patient who was a fugitive convict. As soon as he gets there, the doctor tries to get on the medical staff, but the head doctor will not allow it. When a prisoner's visiting wife goes into labor, the doctor is asked Read More

Fast and Furious

Actors: Franchot Tone, Ann Sothern, Ruth Hussey, Lee Bowman, Allyn Joslyn

Synopsis: Harry Kurnitz' fictional book-dealer/detectives Joel and Garda Sloane appeared in three MGM "B"s of the late 1930s, each with different stars in the leads. Fast and Furious, the last of the mini-series, featured Franchot Tone and Ann Sothern as the Sloanes. The couple attends a seaside beauty Read More

Secret Service of the Air

Actors: John Litel, Ila Rhodes, James Stephenson, Eddie Foy, Jr.

Synopsis: In this, the premiere entry in the "Brass" Bancroft series (starring the man who would-be President, Ronald Reagan), Brass is seen as an ex-Army pilot who works as a commercial airline pilot. One day he quits his well-paying, safe job to become an agent for the Secret Service. His first assignment Read More

Exposed

Actors: Glenda Farrell, Otto Kruger, Herbert Mundin, David Oliver, Lorraine Krueger

Synopsis: Glenda Farrell plays still another fast-talking girl reporter in Universal's Exposed. Willing to sell her soul for a story, newspaper sob sister Click Stewart (Farrell) is presently on the trail of DA William Reardon (Otto Kruger), a "Judge Crater" type who disappeared without a trace several Read More

Oh Boy!

Synopsis: In this comedy, a scientist endeavors to turn into a caveman after drinking a secret formula. Instead he becomes a child. In this state, he overhears three Yankees conspiring to take the Crown Jewels. As soon as he is back to normal, he stops them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mr. Moto's Gamble

Actors: Peter Lorre, Keye Luke, Dick Baldwin, Lynn Bari, Douglas Fowley

Synopsis: In this mystery programmer, a prizefighter dies in the midst of a match, but evidence suggests that it was a dose of poison that killed him rather than the violence of the bout. Mr. Moto (Peter Lorre), a detective who also teaches sleuthing to others, is called in to find out who killed the boxer Read More

The Live Wire

Actors: Bernard Nedell, Jean Gillie, David Burns, Hugh Wakefield, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: In this British comedy, a Yankee con artist hides out in England. Trouble ensues when he follows a pretty girl into a office building and encounters the company president just before he commits suicide. He then learns that the distraught executive has been involved in embezzling scheme. The con Read More

The Man Who Could Work Miracles

Actors: Roland Young, Joan Gardner, Ralph Richardson, Ernst Thesiger, Robert Cochran

Synopsis: As a result of a discussion between a trio of gods over the true worthiness of Earth, a retiring British shop assistant is granted miraculous powers in this fantasy based on an H.G. Wells story. Roland Young stars as George McWhirter Fotheringay, whose new powers are virtually limitless; choosing Read More

Terror on Tiptoe

Synopsis: In this mystery, the stunt-double of a Hollywood star is almost killed when a gun supposedly filled with blanks is fired from an unknown killer and nearly gets her. She enlists the aide of a Yankee investigator. Working as team, they manage to catch the killer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The First Offense

Synopsis: A wealthy doctor's bratty son throws a temper tantrum when his father denies him a car. To get even, the spoiled sprout heads for France to join a gang of car thieves. Fortunately, his devoted father speeds across the Channel to save him from further travels down a ruinous road. ~ Sandra Brennan Read More

Lazybones

Synopsis: Adapted from a play by Ernest Denny, this was one of director Michael Powell's "quota quickies" that lived up to the name, being filmed in a scant thirteen nights. (The stars were appearing in West End plays and couldn't film during the day, a not-uncommon practice at the time.) The lazybones of Read More

Heat Wave

Actors: Albert Burdon, Cyril Maude, Anna Lee, Vera Pearce

Synopsis: Venerable stage favorite Cyril Maude is pretty much the whole show in the British comedy-melodrama Heat Wave. Maude plays a cranky old vegetable trader who pulls into port at a mythical banana republic. Loudly announcing that he has potatoes, onions and cabbage for sale, the old man unwittingly Read More

Girl in Possession

Actors: Laura La Plante, Claude Hulbert, Henry Kendall, Bernard Nedell

Synopsis: The Girl in Possession was one of the best of a cluster of entertaining "quota quickies" produced in the early 1930s by Warner Bros.' British arm, Teddington Studios. Hollywood's Laura La Plante plays Eve Chandler, a young girl who falls heir to a vast estate -- or so she thinks. Our heroine is Read More

Her Imaginary Lover

Synopsis: New Yorker La Plante concocts an imaginary fiance with the name of Lord Michael of Ware to keep the deluge of admirers away. When she travels to London to accept an inheritance she discovers that her "fiance" actually exists! ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Why Saps Leave Home

Synopsis: In this British crime comedy, an Englishman is bequeathed a Chicago dairy by his late uncle. Once there, he learns that the operation is a front for racketeers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Shadows

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a gangster murders his own girlfriend and kidnaps a wealthy socialite. He takes her to his boat and holds her for ransom. Fortunately, an ace reporter follows his tracks and manages to save the girl. When faced with his own capture, the gangster chooses to kill himself Read More

The Man from Chicago

Actors: Bernard Nedell, Joyce Kennedy, O.B. Clarence, Billy Milton, Dodo Watts

Synopsis: In this British crime drama, a Yankee crook uses a garage owner's son as his alibi after he robs a bank and shoots a cop. A Scotland Yard investigator is behind him. He is just about to catch the crook, when the crook shoots him. The police then close in on the killer, but then his girl friend Read More

The Call of the Sea

Synopsis: In this drama a British naval officer searches an isolated tropical island for his friend who mysteriously disappeared there long ago. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Knight in London

Synopsis: In this drama, originally filmed as a silent, a young woman blunders into the wrong hotel room and finds herself in the midst of a romantic fight between two socially disparate fellow. The aristocratic one demonstrates how low he is willing to go to get what he wants. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Silver King

Actors: Percy Marmont, Jean Jay, Bernard Nedell, Hugh E. Wright

Synopsis: Silver King was adapted from a well-worn stage melodrama by Henry Arthur Jones. Having left home and hearth in disgrace, silver miner Wilfred Denver (Percy Marmont) returns to England years later to extract revenge on those who've betrayed him. The formidable array of villainy facing Denver Read More

The Return of the Rat

Synopsis: This is the final episode in the three part Rat series. This time, the Rat decides to go straight to marry his beloved. Unfortunately, the relationship disintegrates, and the Rat heads right back for the underworld. There he falls in love with a barmaid, but then finds he cannot escape the Read More