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Crew: Director
Synopsis: The Seaview is sent on a recovery mission, to pick up a space capsule with a top secret "passenger" -- a robot. But no sooner is it aboard than the mechanical man runs amuck, killing anyone in its path and attempting to destroy the sub. Complicating the struggle for survival is the robot's Read More
Synopsis: Admiral Nelson (Richard Basehart) is kidnapped by a group of latter-day Nazis and thrown into a POW camp, where he is held as part of a plot to re-establish the Third Reich using the Seaview. He becomes the de facto leader of the men he is held with, all celebrities in their respective fields Read More
Synopsis: When the submarine Angier is lost at sea, Nelson (Richard Basehart) and Crane (David Hedison) investigate and discover that the captain and first officer -- previously the best of friends -- turned on each other, after a few hours' stay on a mysterious island. They head to the same island and are Read More
Synopsis: The Seaview investigates mysterious events at the XP-1 undersea research laboratory. Nelson (Richard Basehart} and Crane (David Hedison) discover that the scientists in charge, Dr. Winslow (Curt Conway) and Dr. Jenkins (Skip Homeier), have developed artificial gills, and have used their crew to Read More
Synopsis: Captain Crane (David Hedison) is kidnapped and brainwashed by an enemy power, and then returned to the Seaview. helpless to resist the programming imposed on him. His mission is to deactivate a group of defensive missiles, and to kill Admiral Nelson (Richard Basehart). ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Read More
Synopsis: Nelson (Richard Basehart) and Crane (David Hedison) are assigned to conduct a top Communist agent to the West, so that he can defect -- but their plan is betrayed and the man they're helping is wounded. He gets aboard, but unbeknownst to all concerned, the enemy has placed a trained assassin Read More
Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Everett Sloane
Synopsis: Crooked sheepherder Jeb Drummond (Everett Sloane) is caught trying to graze his flock on the Ponderosa without permission. Ben Cartwright orders Jeb and his sons Billy (Ray Daley) and Burton (Tom Reese) to get out and stay out. But Jeb has other plans -- and he kidnaps Ben's son Adam to make sure Read More
Actors: Paul Henreid, Patricia Medina, Paul Newlan, John Miljan, Mark Hanna
Synopsis: Paul Henreid was light-years removed from Now Voyager and Casablanca when he starred in the Columbia costume cheapie Pirates of Tripoli. Henreid is cast as Edri-Al-Gadrian, a bold buccaneer who comes to the rescue of Princess Karjan (Patricia Medina). Much of the action footage is culled from Read More
Crew: Director, Screenwriter
Actors: Lew Ayres, Gene Evans, Nancy Davis, Steve Brodie, Lisa Howard
Synopsis: Felix E. Feist directed this second adaptation of the novel by Curt Siodmak (filmed previously in 1944 as The Lady and the Monster and later in 1963 as The Brain), which tells the story of a brilliant brain specialist (Lew Ayres) whose attempts to save the life of an accident victim result in the Read More
Actors: Randolph Scott, Patrice Wymore, Dick Wesson, Philip Carey, Lina Romay
Synopsis: Man Behind the Gun is a standard-issue Randolph Scott western elevated by good performances and exciting action sequences. Scott plays Callicut, newly arrived in the bustling mid-19th century metropolis of Los Angeles. Outwardly just another soldier of fortune, Callicut is actually an undercover Read More
Actors: Joan Crawford, Dennis Morgan, David Brian, Richard Webb, Mari Aldon
Synopsis: Joan Crawford is appropriately cast as the title character in This Woman is Dangerous. Crawford plays master criminal Beth Austin, the lady friend of dangerous gangster Matt Jackson (David Brian). After being caught in the crossfire of a robbery engineered by Jackson, Beth recuperates in a Read More
Actors: Eve Miller, Patrice Wymore, Edgar Buchanan, John Archer
Synopsis: Ever since slipping into Public Domain, The Big Trees has become one of the most accessible and oft-televised of Kirk Douglas' pictures. Douglas plays an unscrupulous lumberjack who covets the land owned by a religious sect. All that's saving him from being the film's main villain is the fact that Read More
Actors: Lex Barker, Helen Westcott, Lon Chaney, Jr., Berry Kroeger, Roy Roberts
Synopsis: Some sources have indicated that Battles of Chief Pontiac was originally intended as the pilot for a TV series. Erstwhile Tarzan Lex Barker stars as 18th-century frontiersman Kent McIntyre, while Lon Chaney Jr. essays the title role of Chief Pontiac. On behalf of the British, McIntyre tries to Read More
Crew: Screenwriter
Actors: Paulette Goddard, Gypsy Rose Lee, Richard Ney, John Boles, Thomas Gallagher
Synopsis: Though she was pushing 50 at the time, Paulette Goddard still looked quite fetching in harem duds in the independently produced comedy Babes in Bagdad. On the other hand, Goddard's leading man, 57-year-old John Boles, not only looked his age but acted it. Even the youngest of the three leads, Gypsy Rose Lee Read More
Actors: Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Lurene Tuttle, Ray Teal, Morris Ankrum
Synopsis: When Margaret Mitchell originally submitted her manuscript for Gone with the Wind, its title was Tomorrow Is Another Day. The 1951 film of that title has nothing to do with Gone with the Wind, as will be obvious before the credits fade. Steve Cochran plays an ex-convict who thinks he killed Read More
Actors: John Ireland, Marshall Thompson, Vanessa Brown, William Bishop, Hazel Brooks
Synopsis: The title tells all in Realart's Basketball Fix. Talented young basketball star Johnny Long (Marshall Thompson) allows success to go to his head. To keep on living in the manner to which he is accustomed, Johnny agrees to shave a few points here and there at the behest of gambling boss Mike Taft (William Bishop Read More
Actors: James Dunn, Dewey Martin, Greg Sherwood, Kevin O'Morrison, Kay Westfall
Synopsis: The Golden Gloves Story is the sort of heartwarming fare that MGM used to turn out once a week in the 1930s. Though this 1950 film was produced by pinchpenny Eagle Lion Studios, director Felix E. Feist manages to perform miracles on a tiny budget. Dewey Martin stars as Nick Martel, a tough Read More
Actors: Charles Bickford, Paul Kelly, Bonita Granville, Richard Derr, Berry Kroeger
Synopsis: Made in the same atmosphere and paranoia that spawned the infamous Joseph McCarthy, this is an anti-communist propaganda movie looking more at the dark side of communism than at its subject matter--the life and times of Joszef Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary. Mindszenty was imprisoned as an enemy Read More
Actors: Lee J. Cobb, John Dall, Jane Wyatt, Lisa Howard, Alan Wells
Synopsis: Lee J. Cobb stars as Ed Cullen, a San Francisco police lieutenant, embroiled in a clandestine romance with married socialite Lois Frazer (Jane Wyatt). When Lois kills her husband Howard (Harlan Warde), the flustered Cullen vows to cover for her. He arranges the evidence to suggest that Howard was Read More
Actors: Michael O'Shea, Virginia Grey, Charles McGraw, Julie Bishop, Frank Conroy
Synopsis: Homicidal criminal Charles McGraw busts out of jail, kidnapping the three people responsible for his incarceration. The hapless hostages include detective Michael O'Shea, district attorney Frank Conroy, and nightclub singer Virginia Grey. McGraw makes no secret of his plans to kill O'Shea and Read More
Synopsis: The exciting world of racing provides the backdrop for this adventure that is unusual because it is told from a race horse's viewpoint. The story begins as the racer is born on a Kentucky farm. He is then seen being trained, having problems, and getting very attached to his devoted owner. Later Read More
Actors: Lawrence Tierney, Ted North, Nan Leslie, Betty Lawford, Andrew Tombes
Synopsis: Not by any means a great film, The Devil Thumbs a Ride nonetheless has an indefinable audience allure that sucks the viewer into its labyrinthine storyline and doesn't let go until the fade-out. Lawrence Tierney plays Steve Morgan, a charming but utterly sociopathic criminal who has just robbed Read More
Actors: Joan Davis, Jack Haley, Martha Holliday, Phillip Terry, Ethel Smith, Jane Greer
Synopsis: Like the same-named 1934 and 1935 films, RKO Radio's 1945 musical George White's Scandals uses the eponymous Broadway revue as a framework for a fabricated plotline. The main story concerns the romance between stage comedienne Joan Mason (Joan Davis) and back-bay Bostonite Jack Williams (Jack Read More
Crew: Director, Producer
Actors: Gloria Jean, Henry Stephenson, Kathleen Howard, Franklin Pangborn, Andrew Tombes
Synopsis: Reckless Age is a by-the-numbers Universal musical, elevated by the presence of perky songstress Gloria Jean. The star plays Linda Wadsworth, the granddaughter of fabulously wealthy department-store magnate J. H. Wadsworth (Henry Stephenson). Rebelling against Wadsworth's close-minded tyranny Read More
Actors: Gloria Jean, Patric Knowles, Evelyn Ankers, Marjorie Weaver, Walter Catlett
Synopsis: This youthful musical follows the romantic travails of a group of talented high school students and their charismatic high school bandleader. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Donald O'Connor, Susanna Foster, Peggy Ryan, Louise Allbritton, Patric Knowles
Synopsis: In this musical comedy, a soldier falls in love with a very young woman who in turn has a crush on an older, more sophisticated man. When the older gent goes to New York, she follows as does her younger suitor. While in the Big Apple, the soldier encounters the older man's ex-wife who is still in Read More
Actors: Allan Jones, Evelyn Ankers, Billie Burke, David Bruce, Patsy O'Connor
Synopsis: The title of this low-budget Universal musical was lifted from the Andrew Sisters' hit song, introduced in 1941's Buck Privates. Evelyn Ankers stars as Lynn, who in order to collect an inheritance must quickly wed dull old Harvey (David Bruce). En route to her marriage by train, Lynn is Read More
Actors: Rosemary Lane, Evelyn Ankers, Patric Knowles, Neil Hamilton, Grant Mitchell
Synopsis: All By Myself is another of Universal Pictures' "instant" musicals of the 1940s, built tenuously around the popular title song. Patric Knowles stars as a handsome but easily distracted doctor. Evelyn Ankers costars as Knowles' loyal clinic partner, who carries a torch for the oblivious Doc. When Read More
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
Synopsis: This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series focuses on customs evasion. It shows how even wealthy people, not just career criminals and smugglers, attempt to evade paying customs tax on items they bring back from overseas. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Peggy Shannon, Sidney Blackmer, Lois Wilson, Matt Moore, Fred Kohler, Jr.
Synopsis: This remarkable early-talkie "disaster" flick was the first directorial effort of Felix E. Feist. An enormous tidal wave destroys New York City and most of the Eastern seaboard -- and that's only the beginning of the picture! The rest of the film deals with the aftermath of the deluge. Hero Martin Read More
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