Edward DmytrykFilmography

Hollywood: An Empire of Their Own

Actors: Bernard Avishai, Judith Balaban, Walter Bernstein, Bruce Cohn Curtis, Thomas Cripps

Synopsis: Winner of the Best Jewish Experience Documentary award at the 1998 Jerusalem Film Festival, this A&E program directed by Simcha Jacobovici was also hailed as "provocative and engaging" by John Leonard in New York Magazine and "shrewdly on target" by Caryn James in The New York Times. Essentially Read More

50 Years of Action!

Actors: Stanley Ackerman, Woody Allen, John A. Alonzo, Warren Beatty

Synopsis: One of the few documentaries to shine a spotlight on directors in Hollywood, this informative film sketches out the 50-year history of the Directors Guild of America. Formed at a time when people were still fighting for unions in the United States, the guild also had its problems when the studios Read More

Hollywood on Trial

Actors: John Huston, Edward Dmytryk, Albert Maltz, Ring Lardner, Jr., Lester Cole, Dalton Trumbo, John Howard Lawson, Joseph McCarthy

Synopsis: Combining familiar newsreel footage with freshly shot material, David Helpern's Hollywood on Trial is a documentary concerning the "communist witch-hunt" era. In the years following World War II, several ambitious Washington politicos were anxious to dissipate the last traces of Roosevelt's New Read More

He Is My Brother

Crew: Director

The Human Factor

Crew: Director

Actors: George Kennedy, John Mills, Raf Vallone, Arthur Franz, Rita Tushingham

Synopsis: A simple man becomes bent on violent revenge in this thriller. John Kinsdale (George Kennedy) is an American who lives with his wife and three children in Naples, Italy, where he's employed by NATO as an electronics expert. Kinsdale and his good friend Mike McAllister (John Mills) are working to Read More

Bluebeard

Crew: Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Burton, Raquel Welch, Joey Heatherton, Virna Lisi, Natalie Delon

Synopsis: Bluebeard is the retelling of the now familiar story of a wealthy aristocrat who marries and murders and marries again. Baron Von Sepper (Richard Burton), the BlueBeard of the story, meets and marries Anne (Joey Heatherton) who becomes suspicious of Von Sepper when she finds evidence of his Read More

Anzio

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, Earl Holliman, Mark Damon, Arthur Kennedy, Robert Ryan

Synopsis: This Dino De Laurentiis-produced re-creation of the decisive Italian military operation top-bills Robert Mitchum as a battle-weary war correspondent. Robert Ryan and Arthur Kennedy play generals, Peter Falk is the lovable Brooklynese corporal, and Earl Holliman is the country-boy sergeant. Anzio Read More

Shalako

Crew: Director

Actors: Sean Connery, Brigitte Bardot, Peter Van Eyck, Stephen Boyd, Honor Blackman

Synopsis: In this western adventure, Shalako (Sean Connery) leads a hunting expedition in the wilds of New Mexico. There they run across an Apache camp where the Countess Irina (Brigitte Bardot) is being held hostage. When the Indians retaliate by destroying the camp of the European aristocrats, Shalako Read More

Mirage

Crew: Director

Actors: Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau, Kevin McCarthy, Jack Weston

Synopsis: A dazed man, David Stillwell (Gregory Peck), wanders down the stairs of a New York skyscraper during a power blackout, only vaguely aware of who he is, where he's been, and why he has this nagging feeling that danger lurks all about him. Stillwell does know that many of the people in the building Read More

Alvarez Kelly

Crew: Director

Actors: William Holden, Richard Widmark, Janice Rule, Patrick O'Neal, Victoria Shaw, Roger C. Carmel

Synopsis: William Holden stars as Alvarez Kelly in this Civil War actioner. While transporting 5,000 head of cattle to the Union forces, Holden is captured by Confederate officer Richard Widmark. Threatened with instant execution if he doesn't cooperate, Holden sets about the train the raw rebel troops to Read More

Where Love Has Gone

Crew: Director

Actors: Susan Hayward, Bette Davis, Michael Connors, Joey Heatherton, Jane Greer

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Harold Robbins, comes this family drama from director Edward Dmytryk. Adapted for the the screen by John Michael Hayes, the film follows the events that befall Luke Miller (Michael Connors) when he discovers that his daughter, Danielle (Joey Heatherton), has been arrested for Read More

The Carpetbaggers

Crew: Director

Actors: George Peppard, Alan Ladd, Martha Hyer, Elizabeth Ashley, Carroll Baker

Synopsis: Edward Dmytryk brings Harold Robbins' trashy, dirt-dishing Hollywood best-seller to the screen with George Peppard starring as Jonas Cord, a rancidly-sketched portrait of Howard Hughes. In 1925, when his father dies of a stroke, Jonas inherits the Cord Chemical factory, a manufacturer of dynamite Read More

Walk on the Wild Side

Crew: Director

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda, Anne Baxter, Barbara Stanwyck

Synopsis: This moody and controversial drama takes place in Depression-era New Orleans. Dove (Laurence Harvey) has traveled by bus from Texas to find his wayward lover Hallie (Capucine). He meets young Kitty Twist (Jane Fonda) as the two get off in the crescent city. Teresina (Anne Baxter) gives him a job Read More

The Reluctant Saint

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Maximilian Schell, Ricardo Montalban, Lea Padovani, Akim Tamiroff, Mark Damon

Synopsis: Directed by Edward Dmytryk, The Reluctant Saint is based on the life of Saint Joseph of Cupertino. When young Giuseppe Diesa (Maximilian Schell) is sent to work at a monastery circa 17th century Italy -- his parents believed he was mentally challenged -- he surprises a local bishop by his Read More

Warlock

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn, Dorothy Malone, Dolores Michaels

Synopsis: Warlock offers us a mean-spirited, mercenary Henry Fonda and an honest, peaceloving Richard Widmark. A Wyatt Earp-like frontier marshal, Fonda agrees to protect the small town of Warlock from an outlaw gang, but only if he's permitted to plunder the town's cash reserve. Widmark, the town deputy Read More

The Blue Angel

Crew: Director

Actors: Curd Jürgens, May Britt, Theodore Bikel, John Banner, Fabrizio Mioni

Synopsis: May Britt attempts to follow in the footsteps of Marlene Dietrich in this glossy Hollywood remake of the German classic. Professor Immanuel Rath (Curt Jurgens) is shocked to discover a number of his students have been frequenting a nightspot called the Blue Angel, where a scandalous entertainer Read More

The Young Lions

Crew: Director

Actors: Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, Hope Lange, May Britt, Barbara Rush

Synopsis: Though several concessions to the censors and the box-office were made in adapting Irwin Shaw's bestseller The Young Lions to the screen, the end result is generally effective and satisfying. Set during World War 2, the film concentrates on three individuals, one German, two American. Marlon Brando Read More

Raintree County

Crew: Director

Actors: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, Nigel Patrick, Lee Marvin

Synopsis: Conceived as a Gone With the Wind for the CinemaScope generation, Raintree County wasn't quite as successful as its role model, but it still proved a moneyspinner for MGM. Elizabeth Taylor stars as a spoiled Southern belle who falls in love with pacifistic Indiana youth Montgomery Clift. Though Clift Read More

The Mountain

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Claire Trevor, William Demarest, Barbara Darrow, Anna Kashfi

Synopsis: To fully enjoy the rugged outdoors adventure The Mountain, one must accept the notion that 55-year-old Spencer Tracy and 25-year-old Robert Wagner are brothers. Tracy plays veteran mountain guide Zachary Wheeler, who is coaxed out of retirement when a passenger plane crashes on high mountain. He Read More

The End of the Affair

Crew: Director

Actors: Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson, John Mills, Peter Cushing, Stephen Murray, Michael Goodliffe

Synopsis: Recently freed from his MGM contract, Van Johnson headed to England to star in a series of pictures, the first of which was The End of the Affair. Adapted by Lenore Coffee from the novel by Graham Greene, the film casts Johnson as Maurice Bendrix, the clandestine lover of married Briton Sarah Read More

Soldier of Fortune

Crew: Director

Actors: Clark Gable, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie, Gene Barry, Alex D'Arcy

Synopsis: The first of two Clark Gable films produced by 20th Century-Fox, Soldier of Fortune casts Gable as an American mercenary, running a successful smuggling operation in and out of Hong Kong. Gable is hired by Susan Hayward, who hopes to locate her missing husband, photographer Gene Barry. Upon Read More

The Left Hand of God

Crew: Director

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Gene Tierney, Lee J. Cobb, Agnes Moorehead, E.G. Marshall

Synopsis: Humphrey Bogart stars in this improbable tale that marked Gene Tierney's return to the screen after battling mental illness for a number of years. Bogart plays Jim Carmody, an American soldier of fortune who, after crashing his plane in China, takes up with the Chinese warlord General Yang (Lee J. Cobb Read More

The Caine Mutiny

Crew: Director

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray, Robert Francis, May Wynn

Synopsis: Robert Francis is at the center of the story as Willis Keith, a newly-minted ensign assigned to the destroyer/minesweeper U.S.S. Caine during World War II. Soon after his arrival, the ship gets a new captain, Lt. Comdr. Philip Francis Queeg Humphrey Bogart, a tough, no-nonsense veteran officer who Read More

Broken Lance

Crew: Director

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters, Richard Widmark, Katy Jurado

Synopsis: In this Western with curiously Shakespearean undertones, Matt Devereaux (Spencer Tracy) is a ranch owner who has tried to raise his sons to carry on the fierce, hard-working spirit that helped make him a success. However, as a consequence, he never learned to show them affection and treats his Read More

The Juggler

Crew: Director

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 Sniper

Crew: Director

Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Arthur Franz, Gerald Mohr, Marie Windsor, Frank Faylen

Synopsis: The "regeneration" of blacklisted director Edward Dmytryk was expedited when he was hired by producer Stanley Kramer to helm the location-filmed melodrama The Sniper. In the interests of political expediency, Dmytrk was required to direct Adolphe Menjou, one of the most virulent Red-baiters of the Read More

Eight Iron Men

Crew: Director

Actors: Bonar Colleano, Arthur Franz, Lee Marvin, Richard Kiley, Nick Dennis

Synopsis: Bonar Colleano, who spent the war years playing brash Americans in British films, makes his final screen appearance in the Stanley Kramer production Eight Iron Men. Set during WW II, the film follows the exploits of a small Army squadron, billeted in a bombed-out house on the front lines. Tensions Read More

Mutiny

Crew: Director

Actors: Mark Stevens, Angela Lansbury, Patric Knowles, Gene Evans, Rhys Williams

Synopsis: Director Edward Dmytryk returned from a few unhappy years on the Blacklist in the early 1950s, to direct a handful of programmers before being restored to "A" pictures. Dmytrk's Mutiny is set during the War of 1812. Mark Stevens, captain of the American ship Concord, finds himself at the mercy of Read More

Obsession

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Newton, Sally Gray, Naunton Wayne, Phil Brown, Michael Balfour

Synopsis: Blacklisted in Hollywood, director Edward Dmytryk managed to find work in England. Dmytryk's Obsession is based on Alec Coppel's suspense play A Man About a Dog. Robert Newton stars as Dr. Clive Riordan, the insanely jealous husband of unfaithful Storm Riordan (Sally Gray). Aware that Storm is Read More

Christ in Concrete

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Sam Wanamaker, Lea Padovani, Kathleen Ryan, Bonar Colleano, Charles Goldner

Synopsis: On the outs in Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England in the late 1940s. Though filmed in its entirety in London, Dmytryk's Give Us This Day is set in New York during the depression. Fellow blacklistee Sam Wanamaker is starred as the head of an Italian Read More

So Well Remembered

Crew: Director

Actors: John Mills, Martha Scott, Patricia Roc, Trevor Howard, Richard Carlson

Synopsis: So Well Remembered was the first of a proposed series of Anglo-American co-productions underwritten by Hollywood's RKO Radio Pictures and England's J. Arthur Rank. In one of his better postwar roles, John Mills stars as George Boswell, the editor of the newspaper in the small English mining town Read More

Crossfire

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame, Paul Kelly

Synopsis: This drama was one of the first major-studio efforts to confront anti-Semitism (beating the Oscar-winning Gentleman's Agreement by several months), and it features a standout performance from Robert Ryan as a bigoted soldier on the run. Monty Montogomery (Ryan) is a violent and unstable soldier Read More

Till the End of Time

Crew: Director

Actors: Dorothy McGuire, Guy Madison, Robert Mitchum, Bill Williams, Tom Tully

Synopsis: Sometimes dismissed as a derivation of Samuel Goldwyn's The Best Years of Our Lives, RKO Radio's superb Till the End of Time was actually based on Niven Busch's novel They Dream of Home, and was completed and released several months before the Goldwyn film. The story concentrates on three Read More

Back to Bataan

Crew: Director

Actors: John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Beulah Bondi, Fely Franquelli, Richard Loo

Synopsis: Edward Dmytryk's Back to Bataan stars John Wayne as Colonel Joe Madden. After General MacArthur decides to follow his order and leave the Philippines, Madden agrees to stay behind and organize an underground resistance movement. Anthony Quinn plays Andres Bonifacio, a captain who falls in love Read More

Cornered

Crew: Director

Actors: Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Nina Vale, Micheline Cheirel, Morris Carnovsky

Synopsis: Canadian WW II pilot Gerard (Dick Powell) intends to track down and kill collaborationist Marcel Jarne, the man responsible for the wartime death of Gerard's French wife. The trouble is, Jarne has never been effectively identified by the authorities -- and in fact could be just about anyone whom Read More

In Old New Mexico

Crew: Director

Actors: Duncan Renaldo, Martin Garralaga, Gwen Kenyon, Norman Willis

Synopsis: The second of Monogram's 1945 trio of "Cisco Kid" westerns, In Old New Mexico stars Duncan Renaldo as Cisco and Martin Garralaga as Pancho. The plot concentrates on heroine Ellen (Gwen Kenyon), a nurse accused of murder. Gallant Cisco "kidnaps" Ellen from the authorities, then sets about to prove Read More

Murder, My Sweet

Crew: Director

Actors: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger, Mike Mazurki

Synopsis: One-time movie crooner Dick Powell literally turned his career around in the 1944 film noir Murder My Sweet. Powell stars as Phillip Marlowe, the hard-boiled private detective antihero created by novelist Raymond Chandler. Hired by hulking, psychotic Moose Malloy (Mike Mazurki) to locate Moose's Read More

Seven Miles from Alcatraz

Crew: Director

Actors: James Craig, Bonita Granville, Frank Jenks, Cliff Edwards, George Cleveland

Synopsis: For his first directorial assignment at RKO Radio, Edward Dmytryk was handed the mile-a-minute topical meller Seven Miles From Alcatraz. James Craig and Frank Jenks star as cynical Alcatraz inmates Champ and Jimbo, who manage to escape from the "rock" and then take refuge in the lighthouse Read More

Behind the Rising Sun

Crew: Director

Actors: Margo, Tom Neal, J. Carrol Naish, Robert Ryan, Gloria Holden

Synopsis: Behind the Rising Sun is a rarity: a WW2 film with a handful of sympathetic Japanese characters. His eyes slanted by the RKO makeup department, Tom Neal plays Taro, the Americanized son of a Japanese diplomat (J. Carroll Naish). During the Sino-Japanese war, Taro's father insists that the boy Read More

The Falcon Strikes Back

Crew: Director

Actors: Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Edgar Kennedy, Cliff Edwards

Synopsis: Tom Conway makes his second appearance as amateur sleuth Tom Lawrence, aka "The Falcon", in RKO Radio's The Falcon Strikes Back. Framed for the theft of valuable war bonds, Lawrence hides out at a country resort. Here he discovers that Mia Bruger (Rita Corday), who engineered the frame, has been Read More

Captive Wild Woman

Crew: Director

Actors: Evelyn Ankers, Acquanetta, John Carradine, Milburn Stone

Synopsis: A mad scientist turns a gorilla into a beautiful young woman in this well-made Universal potboiler, the first of three films featuring Paula Dupree, the Ape Woman. John Carradine stars as Dr. Sigmund Walters, whose Crestview Sanitarium witnesses strange and unsettling experiments. The doctor's Read More

Tender Comrade

Crew: Director

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey, Patricia Collinge, Mady Christians

Synopsis: A bit treacly at times, Tender Comrade is nonetheless a fascinating distillation of the American mindset during WW2. Ginger Rogers is at her noblest and most self-sacrificial as Jo, whose husband Chris (Robert Ryan) is off fighting the war. Though pregnant, Jo finds a job at Douglas Aircraft Read More

Counter-Espionage

Crew: Director

Actors: Warren William, Eric Blore, Hillary Brooke, Thurston Hall, Fred Kelsey

Synopsis: Counter-Espionage was the ninth film in Columbia's "Lone Wolf" series, based on characters created by Louis Joseph Vance. Warren William stars as Michael Lanyard, the suave ex-criminal known as The Lone Wolf. This time around, Lanyard is in London during the Blitz, where he finds himself up to his Read More

Hitler's Children

Crew: Director

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

The Blonde from Singapore

Crew: Director

Actors: Florence Rice, Gordon Jones, Don Beddoe, Alex D'Arcy

Synopsis: The Blonde from Singapore was one of several Columbia B-pictures that were presold to exhibitors on the basis of their titles alone. Pilot Terry Prescott (Leif Erickson), forced to resort to poaching pearl beds to keep financially afloat, makes the acquaintance of ex-showgirl Mary Brooke (Florence Rice Read More

Secrets of the Lone Wolf

Crew: Director

Actors: Warren William, Ruth Ford, Roger Clark, Victor Jory, Eric Blore

Synopsis: Michael Lanyard, the reformed criminal known as the Lone Wolf, is played in this Columbia B picture by the suave Warren William. The script contrives to have Lanyard's faithful butler Jamison (Eric Blore) to be mistaken for his boss by a gang of jewel robbers. They force poor Jamison to Read More

Confessions of Boston Blackie

Crew: Director

Actors: Chester Morris, Richard Lane, George E. Stone, Lloyd Corrigan

Synopsis: Chester Morris makes his second screen appearance as crook-turned-detective Boston Blackie in this superior series entry. This time, Blackie gets into trouble when he attends an art auction with his millionaire pal Arthur Manleder (Lloyd Corrigan). It so happens that the auction gallery is run by Read More

Under Age

Crew: Director

Actors: Nan Grey, Tom Neal, Mary Anderson, Alan Baxter, Leona Maricle

Synopsis: Columbia Pictures put a goodly number of its contract starlets to work in the mild exploitationer Under Age. Fresh out of reform school, a bunch of delinquent girls fall in with a gang of crooks and are put to work as "hostesses" in a number of mob-controlled bars and cafes. The girls are expected Read More

The Devil Commands

Crew: Director

Actors: Boris Karloff, Richard Fiske, Amanda Duff, Anne Revere, Ralph Penney, Kenneth MacDonald

Synopsis: Also known as When the Devil Commands, this cheap but lively Columbia melodrama was the last of Boris Karloff's "mad doctor" series (the official denoument of the series, The Boogie Man Will Get You, was a farcical lampoon). The film begins on an ominous note, as Anne Blair (Amanda Duff) makes a Read More

Sweetheart of the Campus

Crew: Director

Actors: Ruby Keeler, Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Hilliard, Gordon Oliver, Don Beddoe

Synopsis: Ruby Keeler made her final screen starring appearance in the Columbia musical Sweetheart of the Campus. Keeler plays Betty Blake, lead vocalist for Ozzie Nelson's orchestra. While performing a one-night stand at a college campus, Betty vows to prevent a hostile takeover of the establishment by Read More

Mystery Sea Raider

Crew: Director

Actors: Carole Landis, Henry Wilcoxon, Onslow Stevens, Kathleen Howard, Wallace Rairdon

Synopsis: Evidently Paramount had a great deal of faith in Mystery Sea Raider, else why would a mere B picture be permitted to run nearly 80 minutes? Onslow Stevens has the largest role as Carl Cutler, a prosperous importer who unexpectedly becomes a German spy when WW2 breaks out. Taking over a freighter Read More

Her First Romance

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this musical comedy, two rival sisters, one plain-but-good-hearted, and one a gorgeous manipulator, compete for the love of a handsome man. They are assisted by their pretty cousin who is involved in a tempestuous engagement. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Emergency Squad

Crew: Director

Actors: William Henry, Louise Campbell, Richard Denning, Robert Paige, John Marston

Synopsis: In this B movie actioner, a plucky female cub reporter is determined to get her boss a front page scoop and so finagles a way to spend a few days with two drivers in the title squad. While with them she finds herself reporting a huge fire at a chemical plant. She gets herself in real danger when Read More

Golden Gloves

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Denning, J. Carrol Naish, Robert Paige, William Frawley

Synopsis: Filmed with the full cooperation of the Golden Gloves Tournament Association, this Paramount programmer stars Richard Denning as promising pugilist Bill Crane. Though tempted to sign up with crooked Joe Taggerty (J. Carrol Naish) for a series of fixed bouts, Crane is saved from himself by Read More

Some Like It Hot

Crew: Editor

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

Television Spy

Crew: Director

Actors: William Henry, Judith Barrett, William Collier, Sr., Richard Denning, John Eldredge

Synopsis: In this espionage drama, an inventor creates a way to send television broadcasts across the country and finds himself pursued by international spies. Eventually the enemy succeeds in stealing the plans. But in the end, he gets it back and even falls in love with his former partner's daughter, with Read More

Million Dollar Legs

Crew: Director

Actors: Betty Grable, John Hartley, Donald O'Connor, Jackie Coogan, Dorothea Kent

Synopsis: No relation to the 1932 W.C. Fields comedy of the same name, Million Dollar Legs is a college picture starring most of Paramount's younger contract players. The college is in financial trouble, so the students pin their hopes on a race horse--the "million dollar legs" of the title. As it turns Read More

Love Affair

Crew: Editor

Actors: Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya, Lee Bowman, Astrid Allwyn

Synopsis: Leo McCarey's classic tale of romance stars Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer as two strangers who fall in love on an ocean voyage. Charles Boyer is Michel Marnet, engaged to be married to Lois Clarke (Astrid Allwyn). Irene Dunne is Terry McKay, also engaged to be married, in this case to Kenneth Read More

Zaza

Crew: Editor

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Bert Lahr, Helen Westley, Constance Collier

Synopsis: The old David Belasco theatrical warhorse Zaza, which starred Mrs. Leslie Carter way back in 1899, had already been filmed by Pauline Frederick in 1915 and by Gloria Swanson in 1923 when this Claudette Colbert version hit the screens in early 1939. Doing her own singing and dancing, Colbert plays Read More

Bulldog Drummond's Peril

Crew: Editor

Actors: John Barrymore, John Howard, Louise Campbell, Reginald Denny, E.E. Clive

Synopsis: Though John Barrymore is top-billed in Bulldog Drummond's Peril, the aging matinee idol is consigned to the supporting role of Inspector Nielsen. Drummond is portrayed by John Howard; once more, he is on the verge of marrying the ever-patient Phyllis Clavering (Louise Campbell). And yet again, the Read More

Prison Farm

Crew: Editor

Actors: Shirley Ross, Lloyd Nolan, John Howard, J. Carrol Naish, Porter Hall

Synopsis: Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to six months on a prison farm populated by both men and women (segregated, of course). Ross is also incarcerated, suffering the cruelties of the Read More

Hold'em Navy!

Crew: Editor

Actors: Lew Ayres, Mary Carlisle, John Howard, Ben Baker, Elizabeth Patterson

Synopsis: In this sports drama, framed by the annual Army-Navy football game, a freshman footballer at the Naval Academy falls in love with a pretty girl who is already going with one of his upper-class team cohorts. Their rivalry creates problems until the day of the Big Game when they unite on the last Read More

Double or Nothing

Crew: Editor

Actors: Bing Crosby, Martha Raye, Andy Devine, Mary Carlisle, William Frawley

Synopsis: In this lively musical, an eccentric philanthropist's will dictates that four people receive $5,000 with the stipulation that the first one who can double the amount-- without dishonesty-- will win a cool million. Hindering the four are the avaricious relatives of the late millionaire. Songs Read More

Murder Goes to College

Crew: Editor

Actors: Roscoe Karns, Marsha Hunt, Astrid Allwyn, Harvey Stephens

Synopsis: A sort of follow-up to the studio's earlier College Scandal, Paramount's Murder Goes to College once again combines homicide with higher learning. When the titular murder occurs, detective Hank Hyer (Lynne Overman) shows up to investigate, with vacationing reporter Sim Perkins (Roscoe Karns) Read More

Trail of the Hawk

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Edward Dmytryk, director of such films as The Carpetbaggers and The Caine Mutiny, takes the helm for this early effort detailing the struggle for love and justice on the sprawling American plains. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Turn off the Moon

Crew: Editor

Actors: Charlie Ruggles, Eleanore Whitney, Johnny Downs, Kenny Baker

Synopsis: Department store owner Elliot Dinwiddy (Charlie Ruggles) never makes a decision without first consulting his astrologer Dr. Wakefield (Andrew Tombes). Problem is, Dinwiddy's dependence upon the stars to dictate his fate has a negative trickle-down effect on his impending marriage to his secretary Read More

Three Cheers for Love

Crew: Editor

Actors: Eleanore Whitney, Robert Cummings, William Frawley, Roscoe Karns, John Halliday

Synopsis: In this musical, a young lady is sent to an East coast finishing school. She doesn't realize that it is a bogus school run by an unemployed stage troupe, her fellow students are chorus girls, and the faculty is comprised of the troupe's star act. The truth is soon revealed. Fortunately, it all Read More

Easy to Take

Crew: Editor

Actors: Marsha Hunt, John Howard, Eugene Pallette, Richard Carle, Douglas Scott

Synopsis: In this comedy, Uncle Rodney, the host of a kiddie show, finds himself assuming guardianship of a bratty lad at the behest of his radio station, which thinks it would boost ratings. The host is also to become trustee of the boy's estate. When the host meets the boys lovely big sister, he is Read More

Too Many Parents

Crew: Editor

Actors: Buster Phelps, George Ernest, Billy Lee, Howard Hickman, Porter Hall

Synopsis: In this drama, a group of young cadets in a military academy struggle to overcome their personal problems and make it through school. One of the lads is particularly troubled because he feels abandoned by his dad. In the end, the despondent youth nearly commits suicide by trying to paddle his Read More

The Hawk

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Rock bottom western film-making on all fronts, The Hawk starred Yancey Lane as Jay Price, a young man who learns from his dying mother that his estranged father, Jim King, has been searching for him for twenty years. Every year on Jay's birthday, a certified letter from Jim had remained unclaimed Read More

Ruggles of Red Gap

Crew: Editor

Actors: Charles Laughton, Mary Boland, Charlie Ruggles, ZaSu Pitts, Roland Young, Leila Hyams

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1918 and 1923, Harry Leon Wilson's novel achieved movie classic status when it was remade by Leo McCarey in 1935. The story opens in Paris, circa 1908. Ruggles, beautifully underplayed by Charles Laughton, is the ultra-obedient manservant to the bibulous Earl of Burnstead (Roland Young Read More

The Royal Family of Broadway

Crew: Editor

Actors: Ina Claire, Fredric March, Mary Brian, Henrietta Crosman, Charles Starrett

Synopsis: Royal Family of Broadway was an abridged but otherwise literal translation of the George S. Kaufman/Edna Ferber Broadway hit The Royal Family. The title referred not to kings and queens but to a prominent theatrical family named Cavendish--based none too loosely on the famed Barrymore clan. Ina Claire Read More

Only Saps Work

Crew: Editor

Actors: Leon Errol, Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, Stuart Erwin, Anderson Lawler

Synopsis: Rubber-legged comedian Leon Errol made his talkie starring bow in Paramount's Only Saps Work. Based on a play by Owen Davis Sr., the film casts Errol as James Wilson, a kleptomaniac who starts with picking pockets and ends up robbing a bank. Wilson's friend Lawrence Payne (Richard Arlen) Read More