Joe Palooka, comic strip artist Ham Fisher's golden-hearted pugilist, heads South of the Border in The Counterpunch....
|
Anne Howe
|
1949
|
Forgotten Women is Monogram's cut-rate 65-minute spin on MGM's The Women. The film deals with four lovely ladies, each of...
|
Kate Allison
|
1949
|
Whenever Monogram wanted to get prestige bookings, the studio released its product through its "class" subsidiary Allied...
|
Claire Adamson
|
1949
|
A Cornell Woolrich novel was the source for the variable Monogram melodrama I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes. The plot refers to...
|
|
1948
|
Ham Fisher's comic-strip pugilist Joe Palooka is once more visualized on-screen in Monogram's Winner Take All. In this one,...
|
Anne Howe
|
1948
|
Joe Palooka, Ham Fisher's famed comic-strip fighter, risks his life to clear the name of his manager in this series entry....
|
|
1948
|
A kind-hearted Native American adopts a homeless, orphaned Chinese boy who has only a horse to his name. This touching...
|
Ruth Frazer
|
1947
|
In this comedy, a novelist visits a local nightclub to do some research for her upcoming novel. Her husband, away on a...
|
|
1947
|
|
|
|
1947
|
In this first entry in the pugilistic comedy series based on Ham Fishers long-running comic strip, Joe Palooka is seen before...
|
Anne
|
1946
|
This musical is a remake of a 1933 film. Like the first, it is set on campus and chronicles the romantic travails of the...
|
|
1946
|
Paramount Pictures did their patriotic duty with this World War II era musical, with a number of the studio's biggest stars...
|
|
1944
|
Few B-picture factories ground out topical wartime dramas with as much regularity as Monogram. In Army Wives, Elyse Knox...
|
Jerry
|
1944
|
The swinging Andrews Sisters provide the musical interludes and romance in this western. They play a trio of WW II era...
|
|
1944
|
Released by Monogram, A WAVE, a WAC and a Marine was packaged by Biltmore Productions, a partnership consisting of Abbott and...
|
Marian
|
1944
|
Drama students rebel in this musical set in a tiny drama school. The trouble begins when the students begin complaining to...
|
Alice Taswell
|
1943
|
The Abbott & Costello vehicle Hit the Ice started life as satire of health clinics, with Lou Costello cast as a hypochondriac...
|
Peggy Osborne
|
1943
|
The 13-chapter Don Winslow of the Coast Guard was the second of two Universal serials based on the comic strip...
|
Mercedes Colby
|
1943
|
In this tuneful comedy, a would-be actor and playwright is deeply in debt, and to keep away from his creditors, begins...
|
Pat Williams
|
1943
|
|
|
Pat Rogers
|
1943
|
Keep 'Em Slugging was the last of Universal's "Little Tough Guys" series-which, like Monogram's "East Side Kids", was an...
|
|
1943
|
Campy Kids From Boot Camp was cobbled together from a brace of "streamliners" (second features running between 43 and 50...
|
|
1942
|
Instant recall allows a man to become a very valuable Good Samaritan in this comedy. ~ Rovi...
|
|
1942
|
Top Sergeant was the third of four inexpensive Universal action films top-billing Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine and Don Terry....
|
Helen Gray
|
1942
|
In a harem in a Middle Eastern palace, the guardian leads the women he protects in telling the tale of Halroun-Al-Raschid...
|
|
1942
|
You cannot keep a good mummy down forever and Kharis is back in this sequel to The Mummy's Hand, which itself was something...
|
Isobel Evans
|
1942
|
A sequel to the zany backstage comedy Curtain Call, RKO Radio's Footlight Fever once again stars Alan Mowbray and Donald...
|
Eileen
|
1941
|
In 1941, producer Hal Roach abandoned production of full-length features in favor of a new concept: The "Streamliner", a...
|
Jeanne
|
1941
|
In this western, Rogers and his sidekick Gabby get into all kinds of trouble when they ride into Tombstone and find...
|
Mary Carson
|
1941
|
Welcome to Midville, an appropriately named small town that has carried moderation to extremes. Run for over a generation by...
|
Barbara Snodgrass
|
1941
|
Lillian Russell is the sanitized musical biopic of the legendary (and much-married) 19th century musical comedy star....
|
|
1940
|
Free, Blonde and 21 was one of a handful of films directed by former leading man Ricardo Cortez. Two of 20th Century-Fox's...
|
|
1940
|
The Girl in 313 is undercover police detective Joan Matthews (Florence Rice), who infiltrates a gang of jewel thieves. It is...
|
|
1940
|
Seventeen-year-old Linda Darnell received her first big break in the appropriately titled 20th Century Fox production Star...
|
|
1940
|
In this comedy drama based on Shaw's play Pygmalion, and set in the 1800s, a wealthy playwright rescues a beautiful street...
|
Angela
|
1940
|
In this musical comedy, a young woman is sent to a National Youth Administration camp after her father is arrested for...
|
Pamela
|
1940
|
The hyped-up 1930s radio feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and columnist Walter Winchell is all but forgotten today, but...
|
|
1937
|