Forrest TuckerFilmography

Thunder Run

Actors: Forrest Tucker, John Ireland, Jill Whitlow, Wally Ward

Synopsis: In this Road Warrior clone, an aging trucker spends his retirement mining an old cobalt mine with the assistance of his devoted grandson. A good friend lures the trucker out of retirement by offering him a quarter of a million dollars to drive some plutonium from Nevada to a high-security Read More

Outtakes

Actors: Forrest Tucker, Bobbi Wexler, Joleen Lutz, Curt Colbert, Marilyn Abrams

Synopsis: Actor Forrest Tucker is the host of this Tunnelvision/Groove Tube-type film that spoofs television shows. Included are parodies of the Phil Donahue Show, a slasher Santa Claus and goofy late-night news reports, among others. Started in 1983, this film was finished in 1984 but not released until Read More

Murder, She Wrote: It's a Dog's Life

Synopsis: While visiting her cousin Abby (Lynn Redgrave) at lavish Langley Manor in the deep South, Jessica is among those present when patriarch Denton Langley (Dan O'Herlihy) is accidentally killed during a fox hunt. What is puzzling about the situation is that Langley's normally docile horse was startled Read More

Blood Feud

Actors: Robert Blake, Cotter Smith, Danny Aiello, Edward Albert, Brian Dennehy

Synopsis: Blood Feud was a two-part TV drama, originally presented as an "Operation Prime Time" special. Robert Blake is disturbingly convincing as labor leader Jimmy Hoffa, engaged in a decade-long war of words with attorney (and later attorney general) Robert F. Kennedy. Cotter Smith makes his TV debut as Read More

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Synopsis: Huckleberry Finn joins Tom Sawyer and Jim, a runaway slave, as they escape down the Mississippi River on a raft. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

A Rare Breed

Actors: George Kennedy, Forrest Tucker, Tracy Vaccaro, Tom Hallick, Don DeFore

Synopsis: As in the real-life story which spawned it, Rare Breed deals with the kidnapping of a racehorse and the quest of its loving owner to retrieve it. Tracy Vaccaro plays the cute young girl who wants her horse back so she can continue on her European circuit-winning ways. This film is directed by the Read More

The Rebels

Synopsis: The Rebels was the second "Operation Prime Time" miniseries to be based on author John Jakes' Kent Family Chronicles (the first was The Bastard). The saga of Philip Kent (Andrew Stevens), illegitimate son of a British blueblood, picks up with Kent fighting in the Continental Army during the Read More

Alice: Flo Finds Her Father

Synopsis: Forrest Tucker guest stars as Edsel Jarvis Castleberry, the long-absent father of hardbitten waitress Flo (Polly Holliday). Now sorry that he deserted his family thirty years earlier, Edsel hopes to patch things up with his daughter. But Flo wants nothing to do with the old man, obliging Alice Read More

A Real American Hero

Actors: Brian Dennehy

Synopsis: This made-for-TV actioner was designed as the pilot for a series based on the popular Walking Tall films of the 1970s. This time out, a young Brian Dennehy is cast as the stick-wielding, scrupulously honest Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser (played in the films by Joe Don Baker and Bo Svenson), with Forrest Tucker Read More

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Synopsis: This is a 1978 version of the Mark Twain classic with Huck dodging the drudgery of an eastern boys school (which he's doomed to attend) by faking his own drowning. Unfortunately his shenanigans result in his good friend Jim getting blamed for his apparent earthly exit. So the two of them set off Read More

The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West

Synopsis: This comical western chronicles the silly adventures of a bumbling wagonmaster and his clutzy assistant as they attempt to take seven passengers across the prairie. Among the passengers are two wealthy Bostonians, an aspiring showgirl, a teacher, and bachelor. The story is adapted from Dusty's Read More

Walking Tall: The Final Chapter

Actors: Bo Svenson, Maggie Blye, Forrest Tucker, Lurene Tuttle, Morgan Woodward

Synopsis: Rated R for violence, this is another of the promises broken to us by the movie industry. When they promise that we won't have to see something again, why can't they make it happen? Although this, like the Jason movies (Friday the 13th ad nauseam), is followed by a made for TV movie and a series Read More

The Incredible Rocky Mountain Race

Synopsis: The cast of the sitcom F-Troop stars in this comic western about the people of St. Joseph, Missouri and their exasperation with the community's most famous resident--Mark Twain (Christopher Connelly). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Kojak: On the Edge

Synopsis: Forrest Tucker guest stars as Paul Zachary, a jaded, world-weary NYPD detective. Zachary's obsessive devotion to his work has already alienated his family and stirred up ill will among his police colleagues. Now, the veteran detective's dogged determination to bring an elusive jewelry fence named Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Founder's Day

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Walnut Grove's annual Founder's Day celebration brings a host of visitors to compete in a wide variety of contests. As the Ingalls' and the Olesons' jealously squares off elsewhere (Mrs. Olesen [Katherine MacGregor] is quite a sight at the three-legged race), elderly but proud logger Jim Tyler (Forrest Tucker Read More

The Ghost Busters: The Maltese Monkey

The Ghost Busters [TV Series]

Synopsis: This 1975 live-action television series starred Larry Storch and Forrest Tucker as a pair of detectives who team up with a gorilla (Bob Burns) to keep troublesome ghosts in their rightful place. This series, which only lasted about a season, predated the popular feature film Ghostbusters and the Read More

The Wild McCullochs

Actors: Forrest Tucker, Julie Adams, Max Baer, Jr., Janice Heiden, Dennis Redfield

Synopsis: Originally released as The Wild McCulloughs, this AIP melodrama stars Forrest Tucker as J.J. McCulloch, a domineering patriarch. In their race to escape their father's overbearing influence, J.J.'s grown sons come to grief; one son dies in Korea, while another is arrested for murder. Only Gary Read More

Jarrett

Actors: Glenn Ford, Anthony Quayle, Forrest Tucker, Laraine Stephens, Yvonne Craig

Synopsis: Glenn Ford is Jarrett, a former boxer with an artistic streak. He becomes a private detective, specializing in cases that will allow him to breath the rarefied air of art galleries and museums. Anthony Quayle is Jarrett's "Moriarity," a wealthy art collector who will stop at nothing to build up Read More

Cancel My Reservation

Actors: Ralph Bellamy, Bob Hope

Synopsis: The title of this Bob Hope vehicle Cancel My Reservation is a multiple pun, referring to elements in the story. The ever-youthful Hope plays Dan Bartlett, a late-night TV talk show host. Frazzled, he takes a much-needed vacation in Arizona. There, he stumbles upon a murder and a conspiracy by Read More

Footsteps

Synopsis: In this sports drama, a small college, desperate for a grid iron win, hires an ultra tough new coach. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Alias Smith and Jones

Actors: Ben Murphy, Roger Davis

Synopsis: First telecast January 5, 1971, Alias Smith and Jones was the pilot for the popular TV series of the same name. This genial rip-off of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid stars Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Kid Curry, two notorious Western bandits who have become folk heroes because Read More

Bonanza: Warbonnet

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Chief Dan George, Forrest Tucker

Synopsis: Native American actor Chief Dan George, who had catapulted to stardom in the 1971 theatrical feature Little Big Man, appears in this Bonanza episode as Red Cloud, a dying Indian chieftan. Before being gathered to his fathers, Red Cloud wants to reclaim a precious warbonnet lost in battle, which Read More

Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol

Synopsis: In this drama, a freed-POW returns home and is further traumatized by his supposed friends, family and neighbors. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Barquero

Actors: Lee Van Cleef, Forrest Tucker, Warren Oates, Kerwin Mathews, Mariette Hartley

Synopsis: Lee Van Cleef plays a fiercely independent river ferryman in the Old West. Bandit Warren Oates, fresh from decimating a local town, rides up with his gang and demands that Van Cleef transport the crooks and their booty across the river. He refuses, and is taken prisoner. Biding his time, Van Cleef Read More

Chisum

Actors: John Wayne, Forrest Tucker, Christopher George, Ben Johnson, Glenn Corbett

Synopsis: John Wayne toplines this biography of the cattle owner John Simpson Chisum, a controversial figure who was the most powerful man in New Mexico during the Wild West era. A founder and prominent citizen in the town of Lincoln, Chisum is slow to act when ruthless land baron Lawrence Murphy (Forrest Tucker Read More

Ironside: Too Many Victims

Synopsis: Forrest Tucker guest stars as veteran police officer Milt Stein (Forrest Tucker), who takes the law into his own hands to nab the drug peddler who has sold marijuana to his daughter Barbara (Kathy Lloyd). Locating the criminal, Stein frames the man in order to insure a swift conviction. Stein's Read More

A Boy Called Nuthin'

Synopsis: In this drama a young urban boy must cope with his disappointment after he discovers that his uncle's ranch is nothing but a dusty, tumble-down operation. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Night They Raided Minsky's

Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., Britt Ekland, Norman Wisdom, Forrest Tucker, Harry Andrews

Synopsis: Narrator Rudy Vallee announces that he knows we are a "real high class audience," thus he has "some swell story to tell." Thus begins The Night They Raided Minsky's, set in the rarefied world of burlesque in the 1920s. Amish girl Rachel Schpitendavel (Britt Ekland) comes to New York in hopes of Read More

F Troop: Did Your Father Come from Ireland?

Synopsis: Forrest Tucker plays a dual role in this episode as both Sgt. O'Rourke and O'Rourke's Irish-born father. Arriving in Fort Courage fresh from the Emerald Isle, the bombastic elder O'Rourke quickly sets abuout transforming the fort into an American replica of the Auld Sod. When it becomes obvious Read More

Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title

Actors: Morey Amsterdam, Richard Deacon, Tim Herbert

Synopsis: Unfortunately, the comedy in this film is just about as crummy as its title. On the bright side, it does feature a number of veterans from popular TV sitcoms. It is set in a run-down diner where a bumbling short-order cook and a klutzy waitress work. They are so terrible at their jobs that they Read More

F Troop: Season 02

Actors: Forrest Tucker, Larry Storch, Ken Berry, Melody Patterson, Frank de Kova

Synopsis: The second season of F Troop is filmed in color instead of black-and-white, and the ballad and action montage which opened each season-one episode has been replaced by a simpler opening title, featuring caricatures of the cast members rendered by MAD magazine's Mort Drucker. Otherwise, it is Read More

Death Valley Days: Three Minutes to Eternity

F Troop: Season 01

Actors: Forrest Tucker, Larry Storch, Ken Berry, Melody Patterson

Synopsis: Each of the first-season episodes of the riotous Western sitcom F Troop opened with a stirring balled, sung by a male chorus, which explained how clumsy, inept Wilton Parmenter (Ken Berry), a hapless scion of a legendary military family, was promoted to captain in the final days of the Civil War. Read More

Counterplot

Actors: Forrest Tucker, Allison Hayes, Gerald Milton, Edmundo Rivera Alvarez

Synopsis: Counterplot is a standard murder melodrama in which a man mistakenly believes he has killed someone. Brock (Forrest Tucker) flees to Puerto Rico from New York City, the scene of his supposed crime. A Puerto Rican boy who had befriended Brock years ago turns out to offer him a haven in this Read More

Girl in the Woods

Actors: Forrest Tucker, Maggie Hayes, Barton MacLane, Diana Francis, Murvyn Vye, Joyce Compton

Synopsis: Republic Studios' B pictures were generally more exciting than their As, as was certainly the case with Girl in the Woods. The eponymous heroine is Bell Cory, played by Maggie Hayes. Bell is the wife of restless lumberman Steve Cory (Forrest Tucker), who'd been in constant trouble with the Read More

Fort Massacre

Actors: Joel McCrea, Forrest Tucker, Susan Cabot, John Russell, Anthony Caruso

Synopsis: In this western, an embittered cavalry sergeant must take over his regiment after their commanding officer is killed during an ambush. To save them, he leads the troop through Apache territory because it is the quickest way to reach the fort. The members of the regiment do not trust their new Read More

The Crawling Terror

Gunsmoke in Tucson

Actors: Mark Stevens, Forrest Tucker, Gale Robbins, John Ward, Kevin Hagen

Synopsis: In this western, the battle between ranchers and farmers provides the background for a battle between two disparate brothers. One is the outlaw gangleader of the Blue Chip gang; the other is a hard-bitten lawman. The outlaw is only too happy to witness the land conflicts as he plans on stealing Read More

Auntie Mame

Actors: Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne, Fred Clark, Roger Smith

Synopsis: Auntie Mame began as a novel by Patrick Dennis (aka Ed Fitzgerald), then was adapted into a long-running Broadway play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. This 1958 film version permits Rosalind Russell to recreate her stage role as Mame Dennis, the flamboyant, devil-may-care aunt of young Read More

The Cosmic Monsters

Actors: Forrest Tucker, Gaby André, Martin Benson, Wyndham Goldie, Alec Mango

Synopsis: At a laboratory outside of a small village in the south of England, physicist Dr. Laird (Alec Mango), assisted by American scientist Gilbert Graham (Forrest Tucker), is performing a series of advanced experiments with magnetic fields -- dangerous experiments, using massive amounts of power in Read More

The Crawling Eye

Actors: Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Janet Munro, Jennifer Jayne, Warren Mitchell

Synopsis: The Trollenberg Terror, authored by Peter Key and directed by Quentin Lawrence, started life on British television as a six-part installment of ITV's Saturday Serial in late 1956 and early 1957. The big-screen version, was adapted by Jimmy Sangster, who compressed most of the best horrific and Read More

The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas

Actors: Forrest Tucker, Peter Cushing, Maureen Connell, Richard Wattis, Robert Brown

Synopsis: This is a so-so early Hammer horror film from Nigel Kneale, who also wrote The Quatermass Experiment. Forrest Tucker and botanist Peter Cushing lead an expedition to the Himalayan Mountains (actually the Pyrenees, but who's complaining?) in search of the legendary Yeti. Several mysterious locals Read More

The Quiet Gun

Actors: Forrest Tucker, Mara Corday, Jim Davis, Kathleen Crowley, Lee Van Cleef

Synopsis: In this western, the town sheriff must look into a scandal involving his friend who is reportedly having an affair with a Native American girl while his wife is on a trip. The friend is enraged at the accusations and kills the town attorney. He is then lynched by the angry town folk. The sheriff Read More

The Deerslayer

Actors: Lex Barker, Rita Moreno, Forrest Tucker, Cathy O'Donnell, Jay C. Flippen

Synopsis: This drama is another adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's popular novel that follows the exploits of a white scout who was raised by the Mohicans. He comes to the aid of a settler's colony that is plagued by warring Indians. He becomes entangled with an old white trader and his two daughters Read More

Three Violent People

Actors: Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Gilbert Roland, Tom Tryon, Forrest Tucker

Synopsis: Set in the American West after the Civil War, this drama is the pull-no-punches story of a lethal family feud. Colt Saunders (Charlton Heston) fought for the Confederacy in the war, and he returns to his family's Texas cattle ranch after impulsively marrying Lorna Hunter (Anne Baxter) following a Read More

The Break in the Circle

Actors: Forrest Tucker, Marius Goring, Guy Middleton, Eric Pohlmann

Synopsis: Break in the Circle is one of several late-1950s British films given American distribution by 20th Century-Fox. Forrest Tucker heads the cast as American soldier of fortune Skip Morgan, who is hired by German millionaire Baron Keller (Marius Goring). The baron wants Skip to smuggle a Polish Read More

Stagecoach to Fury

Actors: Forrest Tucker, Mari Blanchard, Wallace Ford, Margia Dean, Rodolfo Hoyos

Synopsis: Stagecoach to Fury was one of several "pocket westerns" released through 20th Century-Fox's Regal Films subsidiary. The titular coach is robbed by Mexican bandits, who hold the passengers prisoner at a relay station. As both captors and captives nervously await the arrival of a gold shipment, the Read More

Fresh from Paris

Actors: Forrest Tucker, Margaret Whiting, Dick Wesson, Martha Hyer, Barbara Whiting

Synopsis: This jerry-built Allied Artists musical is also known as Showtime, Fresh From Paris. The film's plot is constructed around a single evening's performance at Hollywood's Moulin Rouge (don't expect the level of nudity you'd see in real Parisian show). Forrest Tucker plays a threadbare entrepreneur Read More

Rage at Dawn

Actors: Randolph Scott, Forrest Tucker, Mala Powers, Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis: Since lapsing into public domain, Rage at Dawn has become one of the most readily available of Randolph Scott's westerns. Based on the exploits of the infamous Reno gang, the film casts Scott as a federal agent assigned to squelch the Renos once and for all. After staging a few phony train Read More

The Finger Man

Actors: Frank Lovejoy, Forrest Tucker, Peggie Castle, Timothy Carey, John Cliff

Synopsis: Director Harold D. Schuster, heretofore more at home with "outdoor" fare, does a nice job with the film noir trappings of Finger Man. Frank Lovejoy plays the title character, a career criminal named Casey Martin. In exchange for immunity from prosecution, Martin agrees to help the Feds net a Read More

The Vanishing American

Actors: Scott Brady, Audrey Totter, Forrest Tucker, Gene Lockhart, Jim Davis

Synopsis: The oft-filmed Zane Grey yarn The Vanishing American is given respectful treatment in this Republic "A" production. Eliminating Grey's premise that the American Indian's downfall was all part of Nature's scheme of things, the film begins in the late 19th century, with Scott Brady starring as Read More

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Night Freight

Actors: Forrest Tucker, Barbara Britton, Keith Larsen, Thomas Gomez, Michael Ross

Synopsis: Forrest Tucker stars in this yeoman Republic actioner. A short-term railroad freight line is threatened with extinction by a swifter trucking service. Keith Larsen is Tucker's business opponent, as well his rival over the affections of the beauteous Barbara Britton. When the train service evinces Read More

Laughing Anne

Actors: Wendell Corey, Margaret Lockwood, Forrest Tucker, Ronald Shiner, Robert Harris

Synopsis: Comparatively little known today, Republic's Laughing Anne was a Late Late Show perennial in the early 1960s. One of several Republic features lensed in England in collaboration with producer Herbert Wilcox, the film stars Margaret Lockwood in the title role. A well-known Parisian cabaret singer Read More

Jubilee Trail

Actors: Vera Ralston, Joan Leslie, Forrest Tucker, John Russell, Ray Middleton, Pat O'Brien

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Gwen Bristow, Jubilee Trail is a sprawling, all-star western from the Republic Studio mills. Despite is vaunted budget, the plot is strictly B-picture material. Ambitious California landowner Charles Hale (Ray Middleton) hopes to add to his riches by marrying off his brother Read More

Trouble in the Glen

Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles, Victor McLaglen, John McCallum, Janet Barrow

Synopsis: Trouble in the Glen was one of several felicitous collaborations between Hollywood's Republic Pictures and England's Herbert Wilcox-Anna Neagle productions. Curiously, Ms. Neagle does not appear--just as well, since the film is dominated by Orson Welles. Introducing himself with a typically Read More

San Antone

Actors: Rod Cameron, Arleen Whelan, Forrest Tucker, Katy Jurado, Rodopho (Rudy) Acosta

Synopsis: Republic "regulars" Rod Cameron, Arleen Whelan and Forrest Tucker star in the A-minus western San Antone. During the Civil War, Texan Carl Miller (Rod Cameron) adopts a neutral stance regarding the conflict. Miller is branded a coward by Brian Culver (Forrest Tucker), a Confederate blowhard whose Read More

Flight Nurse

Actors: Joan Leslie, Forrest Tucker, Arthur Franz, Jeff Donnell, Ben Cooper

Synopsis: In this war drama, set during the Korean War, an Air Force nurse gets involved in a love triangle on the front lines. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ride the Man Down

Actors: Brian Donlevy, Rod Cameron, Ella Raines, Forrest Tucker, Barbara Britton

Synopsis: Will Ballard (Rod Cameron) is the longtime foreman of the Hatcher ranch, a spread renowned for its size and the wealth it contains. When owner Phil Evarts dies suddenly, the speculation in the territory is that Hatcher will be broken up, especially since it was Evarts' determination coupled with Read More

The Pony Express

Actors: Charlton Heston, Rhonda Fleming, Jan Sterling, Forrest Tucker, Michael Moore

Synopsis: The action in this loose adaptation of a popular 1925 silent tells the galloping (and largely untrue) tale if the formation of the U.S. rapid transcontinental mail system with a focus on the adventures of Buffalo Bill Cody (Charlton Heston) and Wild Bill Hickock (Forrest Tucker). ~ Sandra Brennan Read More

Bugles in the Afternoon

Actors: Ray Milland, Helena Carter, Hugh Marlowe, Forrest Tucker, Barton MacLane

Synopsis: During the Civil War, Colonel Kern Shafter (played by Ray Milland) and Captain Edward Garnett (played by Hugh Marlowe) become embroiled in a conflict, the cause of which is somewhat cloudy. As a result, Shafter leaves the Eastern Cavlary and moves West, where he is able to re-enlist. Ten years Read More

Hoodlum Empire

Actors: Brian Donlevy, Claire Trevor, Forrest Tucker, Vera Ralston, Luther Adler

Synopsis: The Kefauver Committee's ongoing investigation of organized crime spawned several "Torn from Today's Headlines!" films in the early 1950s. Republic's Hoodlum Empire concerns the efforts by gangster Joe Gray (John Russell) to get out of the rackets after WW II. Part of Gray's "reclamation" is to Read More

Montana Belle

Actors: Jane Russell, George Brent, Scott Brady, Forrest Tucker, Andy Devine

Synopsis: Originally filmed at Republic in 1948, Montana Belle was purchased by producer Howard R. Hughes, who'd loaned the services of the film's star, Jane Russell. After laying on the shelf for three years, Montana Belle was finally released by Hughes' RKO Radio Pictures in October of 1952. Russell plays Read More

Hurricane Smith

Actors: Yvonne De Carlo, John Ireland, James Craig, Forrest Tucker, Lyle Bettger

Synopsis: Surprisingly, the Paramount Technicolor actioner Hurricane Smith was not produced by the studio's Pine-Thomas unit (it sure sounds like one of their efforts), but instead by "outsider" Nat Holt. John Ireland plays the title character, a 19th-century mercenary stranded in the South Seas with his Read More

Oh! Susanna

Actors: Rod Cameron, Adrian Booth, Forrest Tucker, Chill Wills, William Ching

Synopsis: Oh! Susanna is a "big" western by Republic standards, decked out with lavish production values and an extended running time (90 minutes, as compared to the usual "B"-picture length of 60 or 70 minutes). Rod Cameron stars as Captain Calhoun, a cavalry officer dedicated to protecting the rights of Read More

The Wild Blue Yonder

Actors: Vera Ralston, Forrest Tucker, Phil Harris, Walter Brennan

Synopsis: Wendell Corey and Forrest Tucker, the Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy of Republic, star as a pair of World War II Army Air Corps officers. In between their battles over the affections of beautiful nurse Vera Hruba Ralston, Corey and Tucker prepare to fly a bombing mission in the South Pacific. Read More

Warpath

Actors: Edmond O'Brien, Charles Stevens, Dean Jagger, Forrest Tucker, Polly Bergen, Harry Carey, Jr.

Synopsis: In this western, a cowboy rides out to avenge the death of his fiancee. Three outlaws are responsible for the murder. He finds the first and kills him. The second he finds has become a sergeant in the Seventh Cavalry. The third has become a storekeeper. Unfortunately, before he can kill them, they Read More

Fighting Coast Guard

Actors: Brian Donlevy, Forrest Tucker, John Russell, Richard Jaeckel, William Murphy

Synopsis: The Coast Guard is highlighted in this propaganda drama set during WW II. In addition to the usual blend of romance and military adventure, the film also features an interesting glimpse in to the training of the young Guards as they prepare for war. The story centers around a crew of shipyard Read More

Flaming Feather

Actors: Sterling Hayden, Forrest Tucker, Barbara Rush, Arleen Whelan, Carol Thurston

Synopsis: Sterling Hayden and Forrest Tucker, two of Hollywood's most rugged leading men, head the cast of Paramount's Flaming Feather. Rancher Tex McCloud (Hayden) and cavalry lieutenant Tom Blaine (Tucker) despise each other at first sight. Even so, McCloud and Blaine are forced to work together to seek Read More

Crosswinds

Actors: John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, Forrest Tucker, Robert Lowery, Alan Mowbray

Synopsis: Paramount's Pine-Thomas unit served up another winner with the Technicolor actioner Crosswinds. Set in New Guinea, the film stars John Payne as schooner captain Pete Singleton, who loses his boat to a pair of scheming gold thieves (Forrest Tucker, Robert Lowery). On board the vessel as a Read More

California Passage

Actors: Forrest Tucker, Adele Mara, Estelita Rodriguez, Jim Davis, Gerald Perreau-Saissine

Synopsis: Beautiful Adele Mara, who Republic Pictures took for granted for far too long, finally gets a chance to shine in this fine Western produced and directed by the dependent Joseph Kane. Mara plays Beth Martin, an Easterner traveling west to be reunited with her brother, Bob (Bill Williams). But Bob Read More

The Nevadan

Actors: Randolph Scott, Dorothy Malone, Forrest Tucker, Frank Faylen, George Macready

Synopsis: Those westerns produced by the team of star Randolph Scott and producer Harry Joe Brown tended to be several notches above the norm, and The Nevadan is no exception. Scott is cast as U.S. marshal Andrew Barkeley, who goes undercover in a federal pen to get a line on $250,000 in stolen money. Read More

Rock Island Trail

Actors: Forrest Tucker, Adele Mara, Adrian Booth, Bruce Cabot

Synopsis: Rock Island Trail is proof enough that Republic could turn out an "A" western as well as any of the "majors." This saga of pioneer railroading stars Forrest Tucker as Reed Loomis, a visionary railman who dreams of the day that trains will run from coast to coast. During his own efforts to make Read More

Brimstone

Actors: Rod Cameron, Adrian Booth, Walter Brennan, Forrest Tucker, Jack Holt

Synopsis: The age-old enmity between cattle ranchers and settlers once again takes center stage in this slightly above-average Western filmed in Republic Pictures' Trucolor system. Walter Brennan plays Pop "Brimstone" Courteen, an ornery rancher who avenges the loss of the free range by robbing stagecoaches Read More

Sands of Iwo Jima

Actors: John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara, Forrest Tucker, Wally Cassell, Arthur Franz

Synopsis: From director Allan Dwan, Sands of Iwo Jima is a drama set during the Second World War and follows John Stryker (John Wayne), a relentlessly tough Marine sergeant as he trains a squad of naïve, rebellious recruits at a New Zealand military station in 1943. Recently left by his wife, Stryker has Read More

Hellfire

Actors: William "Wild Bill" Elliott, Marie Windsor, Forrest Tucker, Jim Davis, H.B. Warner

Synopsis: Western star William Elliot always insisted that his idol was silent-film cowboy William S. Hart. Elliot's Hellfire, then, can be seen as his tribute to the 1916 Bill Hart classic Hell's Hinges. Elliot plays a hard-bitten frontier gambler whose life is saved by a preacher. When the preacher dies Read More

The Big Cat

Actors: Lon McCallister, Peggy Ann Garner, Preston S. Foster, Forrest Tucker

Synopsis: A frequent cable-TV attraction since lapsing into public domain in 1976, The Big Cat is an excellent outdoor drama, beautifully lensed in Technicolor (though most current prints are printed in a washed-out 2-color process). Set in Utah in the darkest days of the Depression, the film stars Lon McCallister Read More

The Last Bandit

Actors: Adrian Booth, Forrest Tucker, Andy Devine, Jack Holt

Synopsis: Republic's program westerns of the 1940s fell into two categories: the Saturday-matinee fare of Roy Rogers, Allan "Rocky" Lane et. al., and the more adult-oriented William Elliot vehicles. In The Last Bandit, Elliot and Forest Tucker play a couple of James-like bandit brothers, Frank and James Read More

Coroner Creek

Actors: Randolph Scott, Marguerite Chapman, George Macready, Sally Eilers, Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis: Randolph Scott is a single-minded gunman bent on tracking down and killing the white man responsible for an Indian raid on a stagecoach. Scott's fiancee was killed in the raid and a large army payroll was stolen. The villain is George Macready, a "solid citizen" with fingers in several dirty pies. Read More

Adventures in Silverado

Synopsis: Stagecoach driver Bishop needs to capture the infamous bandit known as "The Monk" for his hooded attire. If Bishop can't bring the outlaw to justice, a crime will rest on his name. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Plunderers

Actors: Rod Cameron, Ilona Massey, Adrian Booth, Forrest Tucker, George Cleveland

Synopsis: Hero Rod Cameron kills Sheriff Sam Borden (George Cleveland) at point-blank range and in front of several witnesses in the opening of this Republic Pictures Western, released in the company's patented Trucolor system. The "killing," however, is merely a ruse set up to allow army agent Johnny Drum (Cameron Read More

Two Guys from Texas

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Dorothy Malone, Penny Edwards, Forrest Tucker

Synopsis: In this western-musical comedy, a remake of Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938), two vaudevillians find themselves stranded on a Texas dude ranch. Comic mayhem ensues as they cope with time in jail, a rodeo, and eventually love. They also help save the ranch from two greedy thugs trying to force the Read More

Gunfighters

Actors: Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, Dorothy Hart, Bruce Cabot, Charles Grapewin

Synopsis: Zane Grey, that bottomless bounty of inspiration for Hollywood westerns, wrote the novel upon which Gunfighters was based. Randolph Scott stars as a gunslinger who's vowed to kill no more. He goes to work for a land baron (Griff Barnett) who's been driving out neighboring ranchers by fair means Read More

Never Say Goodbye

Actors: Errol Flynn, Eleanor Parker, Lucile Watson, S.Z. Sakall, Forrest Tucker

Synopsis: Romantic comedy was never Errol Flynn's forte, but he occasionally gave it the old college try in such films as Never Say Goodbye. Flynn plays Phil Gayley, a Petty-like magazine illustrator, whose close proximity with gorgeous female models ruins his marriage to the lovely Ellen (Eleanor Parker). Read More

Renegades

Actors: Willard Parker, Larry Parks, Edgar Buchanan, Jim Bannon

Synopsis: Whenever budget-conscious Columbia laid out good money for Technicolor in the 1940s, it was usually for a musical or an "A" western. Renegades falls into the latter category. Fresh from The Jolson Story, Larry Parks stars as the son of a notorious, Scripture-spouting outlaw (Edgar Buchanan). Parks Read More

Dangerous Business

Synopsis: In this drama, it is up to two young lawyers to save a business executive who has been framed for embezzlement. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Man Who Dared

Synopsis: The oft-used title The Man Who Dared was applied to an oft-filmed movie plotline in 1946. George Macready, in a respite from his usual villainous roles, plays a crusading newspaperman who questions the efficacy of "circumstantial evidence." He wants to prove that it's quite possible to railroad an Read More

The Yearling

Actors: Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman, Jr., Chill Wills, June Lockhart, Forrest Tucker

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling is set in post-Civil War Florida. Claude Jarman Jr. plays Jody Baxter, the lonely son of just-getting-by farmers Pa and Ma Baxter (Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman). With all of his siblings dead and buried, Jody yearns to have a pet of some Read More

Talk About a Lady

Actors: Jinx Falkenburg, Forrest Tucker, Joe Besser, Trudy Marshall, Richard Lane

Synopsis: The "lady" is country lass Janie Clark (Jinx Falkenberg) in this peppy Columbia musical. Upon inheriting several million dollars' worth of real estate, Janie heads to Manhattan, where she runs up against her snooty, avaricious relatives. One of Janie's assets is a nightclub, providing the heroine Read More

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

Actors: Jackie Gleason, Jack Durant, Florence Rice, Bruce Bennett, Hallene Hill

Synopsis: Columbia's belated effort to cash in on the popularity of Abbott & Costello's Buck Privates was the raucous and generally amusing wartime comedy Tramp, Tramp, Tramp. Jackie Gleason (the same!) and Jack Durant are teamed for the first and only time as Hank and Jed, a pair of dimwitted barbers who Read More

Parachute Nurse

Actors: Marguerite Chapman, William Wright, Kay Harris, Louise Allbritton

Synopsis: Though released before Atlantic Convoy, Columbia's Parachute Nurse didn't make it to New York until after Convoy had already made the rounds. Typical of Columbia's B-grade wartime melodramas, the film trots out the old "girls in training" plot device that the studio would later apply to films Read More

My Sister Eileen

Actors: Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Janet Blair, George Tobias, Richard Quine, June Havoc, Allyn Joslyn

Synopsis: Rosalind Russell plays aspiring Ohio journalist Ruth Sherwood, who heads for New York to seek her fortune, accompanied by her sister, Eileen (Janet Blair), an aspiring actress. The girls take a basement apartment in Greenwich Village, which becomes a gathering place for several oddball characters Read More

Canal Zone

Synopsis: Another timely entry from the Columbia assembly line, Canal Zone stars Chester Morris as flight instructor "Hardtack" Hamilton (his nickname sums up his personality with sublime perfection). Our hero's students will eventually help ferry bombing planes across the Atlantic-with the possible Read More

Submarine Raider

Actors: John Howard, Marguerite Chapman, Bruce Bennett, Warren Ashe, Eileen O'Hearn

Synopsis: The first of Columbia's "B" wartime melodramas for their Summer 1942 schedule was the largely speculative Submarine Raider. Set in the early stages of the war, the film makes several suppositions concerning the events surrounding the Pearl Harbor attack which don't entirely hold up when seen Read More

The Spirit of Stanford

Actors: Frankie Albert, Marguerite Chapman, Matt Willis, Shirley Patterson, Kay Harris

Synopsis: Like Harmon of Michigan and Smith of Minnesota, Columbia's Spirit of Stanford is built around the talents of a real-life college football star, in this instance all-American quarterback Frankie Albert. The story is cut from a familiar cloth, with Albert's arrogance getting him into all sorts of Read More

Counter-Espionage

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

Shut My Big Mouth

Actors: Joe E. Brown, Adele Mara, Victor Jory, Fritz Feld, Don Beddoe

Synopsis: The best of Joe E. Brown's Columbia starring vehicles, Shut My Big Mouth is also one of Joe's funniest efforts since his heyday at Warner Bros. Brown is cast as wealthy easterner Wellington Holmes, who heads to the Wild West in search of peace and quiet (!) When Wellington's stagecoach is held up Read More

Keeper of the Flame

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf, Margaret Wycherly, Forrest Tucker

Synopsis: If you're wondering what Citizen Kane might have looked like had it been produced by MGM, we submit for your approval Keeper of the Flame. War correspondent Spencer Tracy is assigned to write the life story of a recently deceased super-patriot. One would suppose that the much-beloved decedent's Read More

Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood

Synopsis: Reformed criminal Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) and his pal "The Runt" (George E. Stone) obey the film's title and head for Tinseltown. Blackie has been asked by a friend to transport $60,000 to California, but the L.A. cops assume that he's involved in the disappearance of the valuable Monterey Read More

Honolulu Lu

Synopsis: While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Robot Pilot

Actors: Forrest Tucker, Carolyn Hughes, Evelyn Brent, Emmett Vogan, William Halligan

Synopsis: Originally titled Emergency Landing, PRC's Robot Pilot affords an early leading-man opportunity to Forrest Tucker. He plays a test pilot, working on behalf of inventor Emmett Vogan. When Vogan's radio-controlled plane proves a failure, Tucker valiantly offers to keep trying. Carol Hughes and Evelyn Brent Read More

New Wine

Actors: Ilona Massey, Alan Curtis, Binnie Barnes, Albert Basserman, Billy Gilbert

Synopsis: Also released as The Great Awakening, New Wine purports to recreate an incident in the life of Austrian composer Franz Schubert. Though the real-life Schubert was chubby and homely, he is played on screen by the slim-and-handsome Alan Curtis. Unable to convince the world of his talent, Schubert is Read More

The Westerner

Actors: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport, Fred Stone, Forrest Tucker

Synopsis: The town of Vinegaroon, TX, is the home to Judge Roy Bean (Walter Brennan), who calls himself "The Only Law West of the Pecos." Bean keeps a saloon, where he also conducts trials, using his office to get fat on fines and the seizure of property, and hanging most of those who get in his way Read More