Beverly WashburnFilmography

The Streets of San Francisco: Letters from the Grave

Synopsis: As is customary, Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas) are faced with a baffling mystery which they must unravel in the episode's alotted sixty minutes. The game is afoot the moment that the skeleton of a former convict is found during an excavation on Alcatraz Island. There's only one Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Most Feared in the Jungle

Synopsis: Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas) are obliged to track down a perpetrator who under normal circumstances might have been the heroine of the story. Refusing to believe that her baby was stillborn, young mother Barbara Talmadge (Kity Winn) goes on a desperate search for her child, who Read More

When the Line Goes through

Synopsis: In this film, the Southern small-town life of two attractive twin sisters becomes much more interesting after they meet up with a traveling stranger. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Pit Stop

Actors: Brian Donlevy, Dick Davalos, Ellen McRae, Sid Haig, Beverly Washburn

Synopsis: This routine stockcar racing feature finds Grant Willard (Brian Donlevy) as the head of a racing team who desires to be first at any cost. He helps rookie driver Rick Bowman (Dick Davalos) break into the racing circuit. Their efforts are impeded by the villainous driver Hawk Sidney (Sid Haig), who Read More

Gidget: Take a Lesson

Synopsis: A comedy (?) of errors ensues when Gidget (Sally Field) agrees to accompany her friend Shirley (Beverly Washburn) when the latter heads out to pick up her first car. Thanks to unforeseen circumstances, Gidget ends up being driven around town in her pajamas by Shrley's parents. And thanks to a Read More

Gidget: Chivalry Isn't Dead, It's Just Hiding

Synopsis: In this lighthearted variation on the "Lysistrata" theme, Gidget (Sally Field) and her female friends are of the opinion that men in their lives are taking them for granted. At Gidge's institigation, the girls stage a "date boycott" , which will remain in effect until the boys learn some proper Read More

Spider Baby

Synopsis: Exploitation titan Jack Hill, who went on to make such cult favorites as Switchblade Sisters, The Swinging Cheerleaders, and Foxy Brown, made his solo directorial debut with this fascinating, offbeat shocker. The three surviving children of Titus W. Merrye, who represent the end of his family's Read More

Leave It to Beaver: Blind Date Committee

Actors: Beverly Washburn, Rusty Stevens, Ken Osmond, Tommy Ivo

Synopsis: Season three of Leave It to Beaver finds the Cleaver family living in a new house, the result of the series' production company moving out of Republic Studios and into their new stamping grounds at Universal. In the season opener, Wally (Tony Dow) is appointed chairman of his high school's blind Read More

One Step Beyond: Premonition

Synopsis: A few days before her wedding, wealthy Lisa Garrick (Pamela Lincoln) insists that her father move the ceremony out of the family's massive ballroom. It seems that, as a child, Lisa had a recurring dream in which, while standing in the middle of the ballroom, she was killed by a falling chandelier. Read More

Summer Love

Actors: John Saxon, Molly Bee, Rod McKuen, Judi Meredith, Jill St. John, Fay Wray

Synopsis: Summer Love is a sequel to 1957's Rock Pretty Baby, with John Saxon repeating his role as aspiring musician Jim Daley. When his band is hired to perform at a summer resort, Jim falls in love with two girls: sweet Joan Wright (Judy Meredith) and not-so-sweet Erica Landis (Jill St. John). Meanwhile Read More

Old Yeller

Actors: Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran, Chuck Connors, Jeff York

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Fred Gipson, Old Yeller is set in Texas in 1869. While his father is away on a cattle drive, 15-year-old Travis Coates (Tommy Kirk) takes over management of the family farm. Adopting a "strictly business" policy, Travis is irritated when younger brother, Arliss (Kevin Corcoran Read More

Wagon Train: The Willy Moran Story

The Lone Ranger

Actors: Clayton Moore, Jay Silverheels, Lyle Bettger, Bonita Granville, Perry Lopez

Synopsis: The Lone Ranger was the first of two Technicolor theatrical features based on the popular TV series of the same name. Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels, stars of the video version, essay the roles of the Masked Rider of the Plains and his faithful Indian companion Tonto. This time around, our Read More

Dragnet: The Big Pair

Synopsis: In a scenario that could as easily be set in the early 21st century as in the mid-20th century, a married couple driving a moving van has been robbing the houses of vacationing homeowners, pretending to have been hired by the occupants to remove the furniture in their absence. Checking out several Read More

Shane

Actors: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon de Wilde, Jack Palance

Synopsis: The simple story of a Wyoming range war is elevated to near-mythical status in producer/director George Stevens' Western classic Shane. Alan Ladd plays the title character, a mysterious drifter who rides into a tiny homesteading community and accepts the hospitality of a farming family. Patriarch Read More

The Juggler

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Milly Vitale, Paul Stewart, Alf Kjellin

Synopsis: A man finds himself running from both the police and his own troubling memories in this drama. Hans Muller (Kirk Douglas), a German Jew, was once a well-known juggler before he was committed to a concentration camp; Muller survived, but his wife and children did not. After the war, Muller and many Read More

The Greatest Show on Earth

Actors: Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston, Dorothy Lamour, Gloria Grahame

Synopsis: Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth is a lavish tribute to circuses, featuring three intertwining plotlines concerning romance and rivalry beneath the big top. DeMille's film includes spectacular action sequences, including a show-stopping train wreck. The Greatest Show on Earth won Read More

Here Comes the Groom

Actors: Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman, Alexis Smith, Franchot Tone, James Barton

Synopsis: Here Comes the Groom was the second collaboration between director Frank Capra and star Bing Crosby. Though not as "socially relevant" as previous Capra productions, the film is a thoroughly likeable yarn about a happy-go-lucky newspaperman named Pete (Bing Crosby). In order to legally adopt a Read More

Superman and the Mole Men

Actors: George Reeves, Phyllis Coates, Jeff Corey, Walter Reed

Synopsis: Superman, the comic-book "Man of Steel" created in 1938 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, made his feature-film debut in Lippert's Superman and the Mole Men. The story takes place in the small town of Silsby, where the local oil company is drilling what will become the world's deepest well. When Read More

The Killer That Stalked New York

Actors: Evelyn Keyes, Charles Korvin, William Bishop, Dorothy Malone, Lola Albright

Synopsis: A married team of diamond smugglers enter New York to fence their purloined gems unaware that the wife is carrying the highly contagious, deadly smallpox virus. The crooks ensconce themselves in a hotel without realizing that the wife's every move is being monitored by a Treasury agent. The Read More