Douglas EvansFilmography

Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Angel

Synopsis: For reasons which he prefers to keep secret, wealthy industrialist Cameron Burgess (Paul Stewart) hires shady music promoter Clete Hawley (Richard Carlson) to groom a likable but untalented British rock singer named Sandy Chester (Martin Horsey) for superstardom. Soon afterward, Hawley is Read More

The Munsters: Grandpa's Lost Wife

Synopsis: While perusing the pages of Shocking Detective magazine, Herman is surprised to see a "wanted" poster with Grandpa Munster's picture! It turns out that the poster was submitted by one Pamela Thornton (Jane Withers) of Sioux City, Iowa, who insists that Grandpa (Al Lewis) is her long-lost husband. Read More

Bewitched: The Joker Is a Card

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Paul Lynde, David White

Synopsis: Having scored with his guest star turn as a nervous driving instructor in the first-season episode "Driving Is the Only Way to Fly," Paul Lynde was added to the long list of recurring Bewitched characters in the role of Samantha's scampish Uncle Arthur. On this occasion, Endora has placed a Read More

I Saw What You Did

Actors: Joan Crawford, John Ireland, Leif Erickson, Sarah Lane, Andi Garrett

Synopsis: With true William Castle-style flamboyance the advertisements for I Saw What You Did intrigued non-etymologically inclined audiences by warning them that this suspenseful thriller was about uxoricide. He then had some of the theaters where the film was shown equipped with seat belts so frightened Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Wrongful Writ

Synopsis: Contacted by a man claiming to be a US intelligence agent, lawyer Ward Toyama (James Shigeta) uses his influence with his father's export firm to help the self-proclaimed spy deliver a top-secret cargo to the Middle East. As a result, Toyama becomes innocently involved in an illegal gun-running Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Fetish

Synopsis: In her third and final Perry Mason appearance, Fay Wray is incongruously cast as voodoo dancer Mignon Germaine, the mother of DA Hamilton Burger's new assistant Larry (played by future talkshow host Gary Collins). Though Burger (William Talman) tries to warn Larry that the young man's girlfriend Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Sleepy Slayer

Synopsis: Lifelong parasite Rachel Gordon (Phyllis Hill) will be cut off without a cent by her rich Uncle Abner (Richard Hale) unless she immediately returns all the money she has syphoned from his bank account. Out of desperation, Rachel takes a shot at Albert while the man is sleeping. It turns out she Read More

Petticoat Junction: Betty Jo's Dog

Synopsis: Season Two of Petticoat Junction begins when a cute little dog follows Betty Jo (Linda Kaye) home to the Shady Rest Hotel. Naturally, Betty Jo wants to keep the pooch, but her mom Kate (Bea Benadaret) is dead set against it. And just as naturally, by the end of the episode the little mutt proves Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Simple Simon

Synopsis: Appearing in Santa Barbara with her Shakesperean acting troupe "A Company of Four", former Broadway star Ramona Carver (Virginia Field) is confronted by a man who claims to be the son she gave up for adotion. Whether or not this is good news to Ramona seems inconsequential when she accused of Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Stand-in Sister

Synopsis: Mob boss Big Jahnchek (Peter Whitney) escapes Federal custody and makes a beeline for his brother Gregory (R. G. Armstrong), who has managed to bury his connection to Big Steve by changing his name to John Gregory and establishing a successful fleet of tuna boats. Motivating Big Steve's getaway is Read More

The Twilight Zone: Mr. Dingle, the Strong

Actors: Burgess Meredith, Don Rickles, James Westerfield, Edward Ryder, Douglas Spencer

Synopsis: First telecast March 3, 1961, this is a deft reworking of the first-season Twilight Zone episode "Mr. Bevis." Making his second appearance on the series, Burgess Meredith stars as Luther Dingle, a mild-mannered salesman whom a pair of Martians select for a most unusual experiment. The aliens endow Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Malicious Mariner

Synopsis: When a storm at sea threatens to sink the freighter "Janeel Trader", first officer Jerry Griffin orders a million dollars' worth of cargo to be dumped overboard, taking full responsibility for what he regards as a life-saving act. But when returns to shore, Jerry must face charges brought by a Read More

The Man in the Net

Actors: Alan Ladd, Carolyn Jones, Diane Brewster, John Lupton, Charles McGraw

Synopsis: This undistinguished murder muddle by director Michael Curtis involves an artist and his alcoholic psychologically disturbed wife -- who disappears one day. John Hamilton (Alan Ladd) has retreated to the New England countryside to pursue a potential career as an artist, but his wife Linda (Carolyn Jones Read More

Leave It to Beaver: The Bus Ride

Actors: Eddie Marr, Frank Sully, Bill Idelson, Yvonne White, Douglas Evans

Synopsis: Insisting that he can handle the responsibility, Wally (Tony Dow) asks to be allowed to escort Beaver (Jerry Mathers) on a 90-mile bus trip from Mayfield to Crystal Falls. Unfortunately, once they've arrived at the bus station, the boys get separated and Beaver gets on the wrong bus, one headed Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lucky Legs

Synopsis: Beauty contest winner Marjorie Cluny (Lisabeth Hush) is really steamed when she finds out that her big prize, a Hollywood movie contract, is a hoax. After angrily confronting contest sponsor Frank Patton (Douglas Evans), Marjorie abruptly disappears--not surprising, since Patton has been murdered. Read More

The Female Animal

Actors: Hedy Lamarr, Jane Powell, Jan Sterling, George Nader, Jerry Paris

Synopsis: Harry Keller, the man who directed the extra scenes in Orson Welles' Touch of Evil, receives solo directorial credit in The Female Animal. Hedy Lamarr stars as Vanessa Windsor, a beautiful but ageing film star whose life is saved on the set by handsome extra Chris Farley (George Nader). Falling in Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Married Moonlighter

Synopsis: Perry (Raymond Burr) would rather not get involved when he finds out that his childhood friend Eileen Harrison (Anne Sargent) plans to divorce her overworked husband Danny (Arthur Franz), a schoolteacher who moonlights as a restaurant worker to pay for his baby daughter's operation. But Perry is Read More

Short Cut to Hell

Actors: Robert Ivers, Georgann Johnson, William Bishop, Jacques Aubuchon, Peter Baldwin

Synopsis: As a favor to an old friend, producer Alex Gordon, James Cagney turned director for the first and only time in his career with Short Cut to Hell. The film is a remake of the 1942 Veronica Lake-Alan Ladd starrer This Gun For Hire. Robert Ivers plays Kyle, a hired killer who is double-crossed by his Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Crimson Kiss

Synopsis: Anita Bonsal (Jean Willes) is jealous of her roommate Fay Allison (Sue England), who is about to marry Anita's ex-boyfriend Dane Grover (Douglas Dick). In fact, she is so jealous that she is willing to frame Fay for the murder of Carver Clement (John Holland), a married man with whom Anita is Read More

The Birds and the Bees

Actors: George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor, David Niven, Reginald Gardiner, Fred Clark

Synopsis: This comedy is a remake of 1941's The Lady Eve, and tells the story of the vegetarian son of a prominent meat packer who is sailing back from an African safari when he meets and falls in love with a con-artist's lovely daughter. Posing as a military officer, the card-sharp and his boys have come Read More

Dragnet: The Big Heel

Synopsis: The object of the search conducted by police detectives Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) is a thief who specializes in stealing costume jewelry. The only other clue the detectives have to go on is the footprint made by someone wearing a very expensive tennis shoe. The most likely Read More

I Love Lucy: The Black Wig

Actors: Douglas Evans, Eve McVeagh, Bennett Green, Louis Nicoletti

Synopsis: Lucy (Lucille Ball) tries to find out if Ricky (Desi Arnaz) is faithful by donning a black wig and passing herself off as a sexy senorita. Ricky, however, is wise to her scheme, and decides to teach her a lesson by pretending to succumb to the seductions of the "mysterious brunette." Before the Read More

Let's Do It Again

Actors: Jane Wyman, Ray Milland, Aldo Ray, Leon Ames, Valerie Bettis

Synopsis: This tuneful remake of 1937's The Awful Truth centers on the rocky marriage of a philandering composer and the wife who has her fill and decides to get even by having an "affair" of her own. Actually, hers is quite innocent. Unfortunately, her husband doesn't known this and the couple get a Read More

So Big

Actors: Jane Wyman, Sterling Hayden, Nancy Olson, Steve Forrest, Elisabeth Fraser

Synopsis: This 1953 tear-jerker is the third film version of the Edna Ferber novel So Big. Stepping into the role previously essayed by Colleen Moore and Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Wyman plays Selina, a girl of wealth who comes to a Dutch community outside Chicago as a schoolteacher. Here Selina falls in love Read More

The Magnetic Monster

Actors: Richard Carlson, King Donovan, Harry Ellerbe, Leo Britt

Synopsis: Curt Siodmak's The Magnetic Monster (1953) is a truly novel science fiction film, in terms of its rather cerebral plot and low-key, quietly intense execution. As much a mystery and, in its first half, a manhunt, as it is a sci-fi-thriller, the movie pushed lots of suspense buttons for viewers in Read More

The Eddie Cantor Story

Actors: Keefe Brasselle, Marilyn Erskine, Aline MacMahon, Marie Windsor, Arthur Franz, Alex Gerry, Jackie Barnett

Synopsis: Eddie Cantor, beloved "banjo eyed" entertainer who conquered stage, films, radio and television, is given the Hollywood biopic treatment in this largely uninvolving film. Cantor is portrayed by Keefe Brasselle, a minor nightclub performer of the 1950s who couldn't hope to come within shouting Read More

City of Bad Men

Actors: Jeanne Crain, Dale Robertson, Richard Boone, Lloyd Bridges, Carole Mathews

Synopsis: Unlike many westerns, City of Bad Men is placed within a specific historical time frame. The scene is Carson City, Nevada, in the year 1897. As the city prepares itself for the much-ballyhooed prizefight between Gentleman Jim Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons, soldier-of-fortune Brett Stanton (Dale Robertson Read More

The Big Heat

Actors: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin

Synopsis: Fritz Lang directed this gritty drama of gangland murder and police corruption, which was considered quite violent in its day. Dave Bannion (Glenn Ford) is a scrupulously honest police detective who learns that one of his fellow officers has committed suicide. Bannion is told by the officer's Read More

My Son, John

Actors: Helen Hayes, Van Heflin, Robert Walker, Dean Jagger, Minor Watson

Synopsis: Filled with the kind of Red Scare propaganda that must have delighted members of McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee, this drama chronicles the attempts of two All-American parents to save their son from the temptations of Communism. Unfortunately, they are too late. The arrogant and Read More

Actors and Sin

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Marsha Hunt, Dan O'Herlihy, Eddie Albert, Rudolph Anders, Tracey Roberts

Synopsis: At least half of the two-part Actors and Sin is well worth having. Part One, "Actor's Blood", is based on a Ben Hecht tale of theatrical intrigue. Edward G. Robinson plays a Barrymoresque Shakespearean actor whose obsessive control of the life and career of his actress-daughter Marsha Hunt results Read More

Captive Women

Actors: Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Gloria Saunders, Ron Randell, Stuart Randall

Synopsis: Assembled by the same production team responsible for the science fiction mini-classic The Man From Planet X, Captive Women is a mixed-bag post-apocalyptic melodrama. After a windy opening lecture about the dangers of atomic power, the story moves ahead to the year 3000. New York City is now a Read More

With a Song in My Heart

Actors: Susan Hayward, Rory Calhoun, David Wayne, Thelma Ritter, Robert Wagner

Synopsis: With a Song in My Heart is the story of popular 1930s songstress Jane Froman, here portrayed by Susan Hayward. We first see Ms. Froman as a humble staff singer at a Cincinnati radio stations, but it doesn't take her long to rise to the uppermost rungs of network radio fame. Jane gratefully marries Read More

The Quiet Man

Actors: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond

Synopsis: Returning to the Ireland of his birth, director John Ford fashions a irresistable valentine to the "Auld Sod" in The Quiet Man. Irish-American boxer John Wayne, recovering from the trauma of having accidentally killed a man in the ring, arrives in the Irish village where he was born. Hoping to Read More

South Pacific Trail

Actors: Rex Allen, Slim Pickens, Nestor Paiva

Synopsis: Stock footage abound in this otherwise average Rex Allen musical Western from Republic Pictures. When crooked ranch foreman Link Felton (Roy Barcroft) diverts the "Comanche Limited" into an old mineshaft, causing the engine to explode, everyone believes that ranch owner Carlos Alvarez (Nestor Paiva Read More

Leave It to the Marines

Actors: Sid Melton, Mara Lynn, Gregg Martell, Ida Moore, Sam Flint

Synopsis: In this comedy, a dimwitted fellow bumbles off in search of the marriage license bureau and instead finds himself in a recruiting office for the Marines. Before he knows it, the jughead has become a jarhead. Fortunately, his fiancee also joins and they go through boot camp together. ~ Sandra Read More

I Was a Communist for the F.B.I.

Actors: Frank Lovejoy, Dorothy Hart, Philip Carey, James Millican, Richard Webb

Synopsis: The real Matt Cvetic was a borderline alcoholic with a nasty disposition (he once allegedly beat his sister-in-law so badly she required hospitalization). But Cvetic was also a fervent anti-communist, and so, for a brief period in the early 1950s, he was a folk hero. I Was a Communist for the Read More

Let's Go Navy!

Actors: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Allen Jenkins, Tom Neal, Charlita

Synopsis: Through an incredible series of circumstances, the Bowery Boys sign up for a hitch in the Navy. While clumsily going about the shipboard duties, Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall) and the rest of the gang search high and low for a couple of crooks disguised in sailor suits who've stolen a large Read More

The Well

Actors: Richard Rober, Gwendolyn Laster, Maide Norman, George Hamilton, Ernest Anderson

Synopsis: The Well is a modest but generally effective plea for racial tolerance. Based loosely on a real incident, the film tells of the disappearance of a little African-American girl in a small, segregated community. Caucasian Claude Packard (Harry Morgan, the nephew of the town's richest man (Barry Kelley Read More

Sky High

Actors: Sid Melton, Mara Lynn, Sam Flint, Douglas Evans, Fritz Feld

Synopsis: In this wartime espionage comedy, a mentally-ill soldier looks exactly like the notorious enemy spy who has been trying to steal the plans for a highly classified new plane. Mayhem ensues when the bungling GI is assigned to capture this spy. Somehow he manages to succeed. The film is also titled Read More

Queen for a Day

Actors: Phyllis Avery, Darren McGavin, Rudy Lee, Frances Williams, Joan Winfield

Synopsis: The genesis for Queen for a Day was the Dorothy Parker short story Horsie, all about a homely woman who takes a job as a nanny in the household of a selfish, insensitive couple. Months later, the husband receives a gift of an electric razor from "Horsie," out of gratitude for his kindnesses Read More

Rustlers on Horseback

Actors: Allan Lane, Claudia Barrett, Eddy Waller, Roy Barcroft

Synopsis: Lawman Allan “Rocky” Lane is mistaken for a hired killer in this average western from Republic Pictures. Assuming the identity of his captive, Clune (Stuart Randall), when the latter is killed by mistake by fellow outlaw Murray (John Cason), Rocky learns that Murray’s cohort Leo Straykin (Roy Read More

North of the Great Divide

Actors: Roy Rogers, Penny Edwards, Gordon Jones, Roy Barcroft

Synopsis: Roy Rogers goes "PC" in North of the Great Divide. In this one, Roy champions the cause of the Oseka Indians, whose supply of salmon has been cut off. The perpetrator is fish-cannery owner Banning (Roy Barcroft), who has been hogging the salmon for his own business. Not only that, Banning Read More

Between Midnight and Dawn

Actors: Mark Stevens, Edmond O'Brien, Gale Storm, Donald Buka, Gale Robbins

Synopsis: Between Midnight and Dawn is a solid, no-frills detective drama from the Columbia studio mills. Mark Stevens and Edmond O'Brien star as police officers Barnes and Purvis, who tool around in their prowl car in the wee hours of the morning. Vengeful gangster Ritchie Garris (Donald Buka) would like Read More

Champagne for Caesar

Actors: Ronald Colman, Celeste Holm, Vincent Price, Barbara Britton, Art Linkletter

Synopsis: This comedy stars Ronald Colman as Beauregard Bottomley, a self-styled genius in need of a job. He applies for a position with a large soap company, but Burnbridge Walters (Vincent Price), the firm's willfully eccentric president, falls into a "trance" while interviewing Beauregard and decides not Read More

Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard

Actors: Howard St. John, Amanda Blake, Ron Randell, June Vincent, Fred Sears

Synopsis: Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard was the second entry in Columbia's "David Harding, Counterspy" series. Howard St. John stars as Harding, who, per the film's title, travels to England in this one. Joining forces with Scotland Yard operative Simon Langton (Ron Randell), Harding attempts to break up a Read More

At War With the Army

Actors: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Mike Kellin, Polly Bergen, Jimmie Dundee, Dick Stabile

Synopsis: Though At War With the Army was the third film appearance of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, it was the team's first starring vehicle. A pattern is set herein for all the Martin-Lewis flicks to follow: Martin plays a self-assured romeo, forever bursting into song, while Lewis is a hopeless screw-up Read More

Lucky Losers

Actors: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Hillary Brooke, Gabriel Dell, Lyle Talbot

Synopsis: Lucky Losers is an uncharacteristically dramatic entry in Monogram's "Bowery Boys" comedy series. Incredibly enough, Slip Mahoney (Leo Gorcey) and Sach Jones (Huntz Hall) have gotten jobs in the office of Wall Street broker David J. Thurston (Selmer Jackson). Soon afterward, Thurston apparently Read More

No Sad Songs for Me

Actors: Margaret Sullavan, Wendell Corey, Viveca Lindfors, Natalie Wood, John McIntire

Synopsis: Rudolph Mate directs this sentimental melodrama about a ridiculously self-sacrificing wife based on the book by Ruth Southard and starring a 12-year-old Natalie Wood. Mary Scott (Margaret Sullavan) is pregnant when she finds out that she has terminal cancer with only a few months left to live. She Read More

Trail's End

Actors: Max "Alibi" Terhune, Kay Morley, Douglas Evans, Zon Murray

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown's Trails End was barely distinguishable from his other Monogram releases of 1949. In fact, more than one reviewer noted that even the background music was the same as in previous Brown vehicles. Once again, Johnny and his saddle pal Alibi (Max Terhune) ride into a frontier town Read More

Powder River Rustlers

Actors: Allan Lane, Eddy Waller, Gerry Ganzer, Roy Barcroft, Francis McDonald

Synopsis: Plot number 6259A -- mistaken identity -- is trotted out for the Republic sagebrusher Powder River Rustlers. Allan "Rocky" Lane stars as a wandering cavalier who stumbles across a scheme to defraud an entire village. A stranger has arrived in town, claiming to be a railroad agent who has been Read More

The Arizona Cowboy

Actors: Rex Allen, Teala Loring, Gordon Jones, Minerva Urecal, James B. Cardwell

Synopsis: Marking the screen debut of Rex Allen, the last of the Singing Cowboys, The Arizona Cowboy featured a mildly entertaining though hardly innovative story of a rodeo cowboy who learns that his father (John Elliott) is falsely accused of stealing 50,000 dollars from his employer, the Dusty Acres Read More

The Golden Stallion

Actors: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Estelita Rodriguez, Pat Brady, Douglas Evans

Synopsis: Part of the Roy Rogers series, this film focuses on Roy Roger's horse, Trigger, and his infatuation with a handsome palomino mare. When Trigger discovers the mare being beaten by her lowlife owner, he kills him, leaving Rogers to take the blame. However, it seems that Trigger's new girlfriend Read More

Michael O'Halloran

Actors: Charles Arnt, Florence Auer, Gregg Barton, Scotty Beckett, Ralph Brooks

Synopsis: In this three-hanky movie, an orphaned newsboy decides to care for a crippled young girl after her alcoholic mother is injured. With a doctor's assistance, he helps the girl understand that her paralysis is hysterical, caused by her reactions to her mother's behavior. Trouble ensues when the boy Read More

King of the Rocket Men [Serial]

Actors: Tristram Coffin, I. Stanford Jolley, Mae Clarke

Synopsis: To stop a madman from blowing up New York City, a researcher dons a flying suit and prepares for battle in this serial, later re-editing into the feature Lost Planet Airmen. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Hideout

Actors: Adrian Booth, Lloyd Bridges, Ray Collins, Sheila Ryan, Alan Carney

Synopsis: Reliable serial and western leading lady Adrian Booth is awarded top billing in Republic's Hideout. Hannah (Booth) and Edie (Sheila Ryan) vie for the attentions of naïve attorney George Browning (Lloyd Bridges). Our hero wises up in a hurry when he takes on a gang of jewel thieves, headed by Read More

Crossed Trails

Actors: Raymond Hatton, Johnny Mack Brown, Lynne Carver, Douglas Evans, Kathy Frye

Synopsis: "Some were good, some were bad, and all looked pretty much alike." This was "B"-western historian Don Miller's assessment of Johnny Mack Brown's Monogram westerns of the 1940s. One of the better look-alikes was Crossed Trails, in which Brown champions the cause of pretty ranch owner Maggie (Lynne Carver Read More

Dangerous Venture

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks, Fritz Leiber, Douglas Evans

Synopsis: A group of archeologists is sent to the American Southwest to investigate a tribe's claims that they are descendants of the ancient Aztecs. However, a gang of crooks are trying to discredit the claim by dressing up as Indians to commit crimes. Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) must rescue the Read More

Secret Service Investigator

Actors: Lynne Roberts, Lloyd Bridges, George Zucco, June Storey

Synopsis: An especially good casts helps lift Republic's Secret Service Investigator well above the norm. Lloyd Bridges plays disillusioned ex-GI Steve Mallory, who falls in with a gang of wily crooks. Convincing Mallory that they're U.S. secret service agents, the villains persuade our hero to help them in Read More

California Firebrand

Actors: Monte Hale, Adrian Booth, Paul Hurst, Alice Tyrrell, Tristram Coffin

Synopsis: The tragic death from a heart attack of veteran supporting player LeRoy Mason marred the filming of this, Monte Hale's first music western of 1948. Returning to the town of Gunnison to investigate the murder of his uncle, Hale is mistaken for a notorious outlaw (Daniel M. Sheridan) and hired as Read More

Gun Talk

Actors: Christine McIntyre, Douglas Evans, Geneva Gray

Synopsis: In this western, a hero prevents a stagecoach robbery and wins the respect and confidence of a mine owner and a pretty woman who is going west to see her sister. Two outlaws next try to jump the miner's claim. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Cowboy Cavalier

Synopsis: In this western a singing cowboy and his side-kick rescue a pretty gal who runs a stagecoach and finds herself in trouble. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Main Street Kid

Actors: Al Pearce, Janet Martin, Alan Mowbray, Adele Mara, Arlene Harris

Synopsis: In this drama, a print shop owner suffers a blow to the head and wakes up a mind-reader. Meanwhile the president of a publishing firm finds himself involved with a former chorus girl who has secretly teamed up with a phony mind-reader. An ambitious friend of the president aspires to his job; to Read More

The Farmer's Daughter

Actors: Keith Andes, Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, James Arness, Art Baker, Ethel Barrymore, Charles Bickford, Harry Davenport, Lex Barker

Synopsis: When Loretta Young stepped up to accept her Academy Award for The Farmer's Daughter, the ever-youthful leading lady, who'd been in films since 1928, sighed "At long last!" Young is cast as Katie Holstrum, an independently-minded Swedish girl who leaves her family's Minnesota farm to take a Read More

Flashing Guns

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Jan Bryant, Douglas Evans, James Logan

Synopsis: After a brief mid-1940s burst of originality, Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown western series settled back into the commonplace with such entries as Flashing Guns. In this outing, Brown tries to save his pal Shelby (Raymond Hatton) from being thrown off his ranch by crooked banker Ainsworth (James E. Read More

The Crimson Key

Actors: Kent Taylor, Doris Dowling, Dennis Hoey, Louise Currie, Ivan Triesault

Synopsis: In this suspense film, a detective must find the murderer of a rich and jealous wife and her husband, a doctor with a tendency to work late into the night. After many missteps and false leads, he finally finds himself confronted with a sexy former patient of the deceased doc. Is she the guilty Read More

Hitler's Children

Actors: Tim Holt, Bonita Granville, Kent Smith, Otto Kruger, H.B. Warner

Synopsis: This modestly produced film version of Gregor Ziemmer's book Education for Death surprised everyone at RKO--and in the film industry--by becoming one the biggest hits of 1943. The "children" invoked in the title are borne on behalf of Adolf Hitler; according to the film, it is standard operating Read More

Man Made Monster

Actors: Lionel Atwill, Lon Chaney, Jr., Anne Nagel, Frank Albertson, Samuel S. Hinds

Synopsis: Originally slated as a Boris Karloff-Bela Lugosi vehicle, Man Made Monster emerged on screen as a tour de force for Lon Chaney Jr. (in his first horror-film starring role) and Lionel Atwill. Chaney plays Dynamo Dan the Electric Man, a sideshow performer whose talent for absorbing mass quantities Read More

Parachute Battalion

Actors: Robert Preston, Edmond O'Brien, Nancy Kelly, Harry Carey, Buddy Ebsen

Synopsis: In this patriotic war drama, a unit of Army recruits train for a parachute corps. One is an arrogant football star who finds jumping a kick. Another is a coward who eventually finds his courage. Finally there is a chronic bumbler. The coward and jock find themselves competing for the affections of Read More

The Green Hornet [Serial]

Actors: Gordon Jones

Synopsis: The 13-episode Universal serial The Green Hornet is based on the radio series of the same name. Gordon Jones stars as Britt Reid, crusading young publisher of the Daily Sentinel, who matches wits with the underworld by disguising himself as the Green Hornet. So far as police are concerned, the Read More

Sued for Libel

Actors: Kent Taylor, Linda Hayes, Lillian Bond, Morgan Conway, Richard Lane

Synopsis: Thanks to a practical joker, hotshot radio newscaster Steve (Kent Taylor) announces that prominent financier Pomeroy (Morgan Conway) has been convicted of murder. When it turns out that Pomeroy has been acquitted, Steve, his radio station and the newspaper that owns it are slapped with libel Read More

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Actors: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Thomas Mitchell, Guy Kibbee, Eugene Pallette, Beulah Bondi, Harry Carey

Synopsis: Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal) roles. The film opens as a succession of reporters shout into telephones announcing the death of Senator Samuel Foley. Senator Joseph Paine (Claude Rains), the state's senior Read More

Young Fugitives

Actors: Robert Wilcox, Dorothea Kent, Harry Davenport, Larry Blake

Synopsis: Despite the title, the plot of Young Fugitives is carried by an oldster. Civil war veterans Harry Davenport and Clem Bevans save a nest egg of $50,000. When Bevans dies, Davenport sets out to find Bevans' son and heir Robert Wilcox. The younger man proves to be a wastrel and cheat, but Davenport Read More

Public Cowboy No. 1

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Ann Rutherford, William Farnum, James C. Morton

Synopsis: In this 20th-century western, hero Gene Autry uses his old-fashioned horse and six-shooter to foil the plans of cattle rustlers who ply their trade via airplanes, refrigerated trucks and shortwave radios. Songs include: "The West Ain't What It Used to Be?", "I Picked up the Trail When I Found Read More