Frank CadyFilmography

Hearts of the West

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Andy Griffith, Donald Pleasence, Blythe Danner, Alan Arkin

Synopsis: Hearts of the West (British title: Hollywood Cowboy) stars Jeff Bridges as Lewis Tater, a 1930s-era aspiring novelist who harbors dreams of becoming the next Zane Grey or Peter B. Kyne. He arrives in Nevada to seek out the correspondence school that has "graduated" him. After learning that he's Read More

Zandy's Bride

Actors: Gene Hackman, Liv Ullmann, Eileen Heckart, Susan Tyrrell, Samuel Bottoms

Synopsis: Based on Lillian Bos Ross' novel The Stranger and adapted by screenwriter Marc Norman 25 years before he would win the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award for 1999's Shakespeare in Love (along with Tom Stoppard), Zandy's Bride is a romantic Western starring (Gene Hackman) as gruff rural rancher Read More

Million Dollar Duck

Actors: Sandy Duncan, Dean Jones, Lee Montgomery, Joe Flynn, Tony Roberts

Synopsis: In $1,000,000 Duck, the titular duck is exposed to radiation and begins laying golden eggs, which brings it under the scrutiny of the treasury department, the FBI, and a gang of comic-opera crooks. The cast includes Disney perennials Dean Jones and Joe Flynn, with Sandy Duncan taking over the part Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: The Clampett-Hewes Empire

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part episode, greedy banker Drysdale is laboring under yet another misapprehension. This time, Drysdale has convinced himself that Hooterville aviation-service proprietor Howard Hewes (Guy Raymond) is actually billionaire recluse Howard Hughes. Anxiously, Drysdale tries Read More

Green Acres: Season 06

Actors: Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Pat Buttram, Tom Lester, Alvy Moore

Synopsis: The merriment continues unabated as Green Acres enters its sixth and last season, with city slickers Oliver and Lisa Douglas (Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor) no more successful at managing a rural farm than they'd been in season one. New to the cast is Judy McConnell as Darlene Wheeler, the latest of Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Sam Drucker's Visit

Synopsis: In another "crossover" episode, Petticoat Junction's Sam Drucker (Frank Cady) wins a trip to Hollywood. Upon his arrival in Beverly Hills, Sam is set upon by Granny, who thinks that the mild-mannered storekeeper has come to propose marriage -- something that neither Jed nor Mr. Drysdale wants to Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Buzz Bodine, Boy General

Synopsis: In still another "crossover" episode, the Clampetts are reunited with two of the cast members from Petticoat Junction. While paying a visit to Hooterville, Jed goes into the airplane-transport business with pilot Steve Elliot (Mike Minor). Along for the ride is good old Jethro who, still under the Read More

Green Acres: Season 05

Actors: Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Pat Buttram, Tom Lester, Alvy Moore

Synopsis: Season five of Green Acres begins as the ramshackle farm of Oliver and Lisa Douglas (Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor) is invaded by Lisa's Hungarian mother (Lilia Skala), a bejeweled countess. As "Mudder" remains on the premises for weeks and weeks, the male citizenry of Hooterville, notably hotelier Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Drysdale and Friend

Synopsis: Returning from their Hooterville holiday, Granny and Elly May arrive in Beverly Hills to discover that both Mr. Drysdale -- and Elly's pet bear -- are nowhere to be found. It seems that Drysdale, with bear in tow, had set out for Hooterville to meet the Clampett ladies, unaware that his car Read More

Petticoat Junction: Season 07

Actors: Edgar Buchanan, June Lockhart, Linda Kaye, Meredith Mac Rae, Lori Saunders

Synopsis: Although Petticoat Junction's already sagging ratings had dropped precipitously upon the death of star Bea Benaderet in the fall of 1968, the series still maintained enough of a viewership to warrant a seventh and final season, which commenced in September of 1969. Edgar Buchanan is now top-billed Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: The Italian Cook

Synopsis: While Granny is visiting her friends in Hooterville, Jethro and Jed are forced to fend for themselves in the kitchen. Constitutionally incapable of cooking an edible meal, Jethro finally breaks down and hires Maria Antonini (Maria Mirka), a delectable Italian cook who speaks no English. This Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: The Week Before Christmas

Synopsis: In another "crossover" episode, the Clampetts head back to Hooterville for Christmas, where they renew their friendships with the cast of Petticoat Junction. Having set her cap for Hooterville storekeeper Sam Drucker (Frank Cady), Granny panics when a letter written by Sam is swallowed by Elly Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: The Courtship of Homer Noodleman

Synopsis: Banker Drysdale lives in mortal terror that the Clampetts will withdraw their millions and return to Hooterville. To prevent this catastrophe, Drysdale tries to convince Elly May that movie idol Dash Riprock (Larry Pennell) is madly in love with her. Entering into the spirit of things, Dash adopts Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: The Thanksgiving Spirit

Synopsis: This memorable "crossover" episode serves to unite the casts of three popular, interrelated TV sitcoms: Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, and Green Acres. The Clampett family visits the town of Hooterville for the Thanksgiving holiday. Appearing on this densely populated episode are Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Christmas in Hooterville

Synopsis: Once again, the casts of The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, and Green Acres converge for a "very special" holiday episode. In Hooterville for Christmas, Granny continues to romantically pursue hapless storekeeper Sam Drucker (Frank Cady, while Elly May is courted by Eb Dawson (Tom Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Granny Goes to Hooterville

Synopsis: "Granny Goes to Hooterville" was the first of several "crossover" episodes in which the cast of The Beverly Hillbillies commingled with the cast of Petticoat Junction. Preparing to pay a visit of "great medical importance" to Hooterville, Granny is delayed by the possibility -- an extreme remote Read More

Petticoat Junction: Season 06

Actors: Edgar Buchanan, Linda Kaye, Meredith Mac Rae, Lori Saunders, Mike Minor

Synopsis: Although Bea Benaderet is still billed as the star of the first few episodes of Petticoat Junction's sixth season, it was purely a gesture of kindness and sentiment on the part of producer Paul Henning. Everyone in the cast knew that Benaderet was mortally ill with cancer, but this tragic Read More

Green Acres: Season 04

Actors: Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Pat Buttram, Tom Lester, Alvy Moore

Synopsis: It's hard to believe that the producers of Green Acres could come up with fourth-season episodes that are even crazier than those seen in the previous three seasons, but that's just what happens as city slickers Oliver and Lisa Douglas (Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor) continue to weather the trials and Read More

Petticoat Junction: Season 05

Actors: Bea Benaderet, Edgar Buchanan, Linda Kaye, Meredith Mac Rae, Lori Saunders

Synopsis: In retrospect, the first episode of Petticoat Junction's fifth season, "Is This My Daughter?," is ironically amusing. Kate Bradley, widowed owner of Hooterville's Shady Rest Hotel, is astonished by how much her daughter Betty Jo (Linda Kaye Henning), has changed upon returning from a trip to Read More

The Gnome-Mobile

Actors: Walter Brennan, Tom Lowell, Matthew Garber, Karen Dotrice, Ed Wynn, Richard Deacon

Synopsis: The Gnome-Mobile was Walt Disney's first all-out fantasy since Mary Poppins. Walter Brennan stars in a dual role, as kindly lumber tycoon D. J. Mulrooney and the irascible (and much tinier) 943-year-old gnome Knobby. Mulrooney likes Knobby and his fellow gnomes, but the feeling isn't reciprocal Read More

Green Acres: Season 03

Actors: Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Pat Buttram, Tom Lester, Alvy Moore

Synopsis: Season three of Green Acres begins as attorney Oliver Wendell Douglas (Eddie Albert) is nominated for the political post of state senator. Alas, this dream come true is destined to become as much a comic nightmare as city slicker Oliver's efforts to become a successful farmer in the bucolic Read More

Green Acres: Season 02

Actors: Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Pat Buttram, Tom Lester, Alvy Moore

Synopsis: City slickers Oliver and Lisa Douglas (Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor) make the best of another year of "farm livin'" in bucolic Hooterville as Green Acres enters its second season. Still stubbornly determined to make a profit on his rundown farm, Oliver continues to be flustered by such local looneys as Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: The Legend of Barney Fife

Actors: Don Knotts, Jack Burns

Synopsis: While on a visit to Mayberry, Barney Fife discovers that he is idolized by his successor, deputy Warren Ferguson. Unfortunately, the nervous Barney has to live up to his reputation when a convict escapes. As he has done so often in the past, Andy comes to Barney's rescue without anyone knowing Read More

Petticoat Junction: Season 04

Actors: Bea Benaderet, Edgar Buchanan, Linda Kaye, Meredith Mac Rae, Lori Saunders

Synopsis: Just as Jeannine Riley was replaced by Gunilla Hutton in the role of Billie Jo Bradley at the beginning of Petticoat Junction's third season, Hutton herself is replaced in the same role by Meredith Mac Rae at the outset of season four. However, the rest of the series' familiar cast remains intact: Bea Benaderet Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: The Rehabilitation of Otis

Actors: Hal Smith, Howard McNear, Frank Cady

Synopsis: When all his efforts to reform town drunk Otis Campbell fail, Barney orders Otis to do all his future drinking in Mount Pilot. Before long, however, Barney and Andy realize that they miss old Otis. Utilizing Barney's "psychological therapy" ploy, Andy tries to lure everyone's favorite tosspot back Read More

Green Acres [TV Series]

Actors: Eva Gabor, Eddie Albert, Pat Buttram, Tom Lester, Alvy Moore

Synopsis: The third of producer Paul Henning's enormously successful "rustic" comedies of the 1960s, Green Acres made its CBS bow on September 15, 1965. Reversing the situation established on Henning's The Beverly Hillbillies, in which a group of yokels was transplanted to luxurious Beverly Hills, Green Read More

Petticoat Junction: Season 03

Actors: Bea Benaderet, Edgar Buchanan, Linda Kaye, Gunilla Hutton, Lori Saunders

Synopsis: Since the first two black-and-white seasons of Petticoat Junction have not been included in the series' syndicated package, for many contemporary viewers Petticoat Junction "begins" with season three, when the show switches over to color. This is hardly the only change implemented as the program Read More

Green Acres: Season 01

Actors: Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Pat Buttram, Tom Lester, Alvy Moore

Synopsis: City-bred attorney Oliver Wendell Douglas (Eddie Albert) and his chic, sophisticated wife, Lisa (Eva Gabor), undergo quite a period of adjustment throughout the first season of Green Acres. Having insisted upon bundling himself and his wife to a 160-acre farm just outside the bucolic town of Read More

Petticoat Junction: Season 02

Actors: Bea Benaderet, Edgar Buchanan, Linda Kaye, Jeannine Riley, Patricia Woodell

Synopsis: The second season of Petticoat Junction carries on the tradition of season one: Widowed Kate Bradley (Bea Benaderet) continues trying to make financial ends meets as owner of the Shady Rest, the only travelers' hotel in the town of Hooterville, and also seeks out eligible boyfriends for her Read More

Petticoat Junction: Season 01

Actors: Bea Benaderet, Edgar Buchanan, Linda Kaye, Jeannine Riley, Patricia Woodell

Synopsis: Strictly speaking, there are but four basic plotlines during the first season of Petticoat Junction. The first concerns the efforts by widow Kate Bradley (Bea Benaderet) to make a financial go of the Shady Rest, the quaint traveler's hotel she owns in the Illinois town of Hooterville. The second Read More

Seven Faces of Dr. Lao

Actors: Tony Randall, Barbara Eden, Arthur O'Connell, John Ericson, Kevin Tate

Synopsis: Tony Randall has the showcase of a lifetime in the marvelous George Pal production The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao. We first see Randall as Dr. Lao, an enigmatic Chinese medicine-show impresario. The doctor brings his travelling show into the frontier town of Abalone, which is chafing under the Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Pathetic Patient

Synopsis: Doctor Wayne Edley (Skip Homeier) has trouble finding colleagues that will back him up when he is accused of malpractice by a disgruntled patient (Frank Cady). But that's nothing compared to the trouble facing the good doctor when he is accused of two murders committed by scalpel. Perry Mason must Read More

The Man Who Understood Women

Actors: Leslie Caron, Henry Fonda, Cesare Danova, Myron McCormick, Marcel Dalio

Synopsis: After making Man Who Understood Women and seeing that the result was an ill-realized, uneven combination of Hollywood satire and tear-jerking melodrama, star Henry Fonda did not make another film until almost three years later. The story centers on a Hollywood producer who becomes so obsessed with Read More

Maverick: Rope of Cards

Synopsis: Bret (James Garner) is summoned for jury duty in the trial of young Bill Gregg (William Reynolds), who is accused of murdering a wealthy rancher. Disturbed that the jury has already decided that Gregg is guilty--and certain that the poor fellow is being railroaded--Bret endeavors to win the other Read More

The Missouri Traveler

Actors: Brandon de Wilde, Lee Marvin, Gary Merrill, Paul Ford, Mary Hosford

Synopsis: Missouri Traveler was one of a handful of independent films distributed by Disney's Buena Vista corporation. Brandon De Wilde heads the cast as 15-year-old orphan boy Biarn Turner. Doing his best to survive in the rural South of the pre-WW1 years, Biarn is unofficially adopted by crusty small-town Read More

The Girl Most Likely

Actors: Jane Powell, Cliff Robertson, Keith Andes, Kaye Ballard, Tommy Noonan

Synopsis: The Girl Most Likely owns the distinction of being the last RKO Radio picture ever produced at the studio's Hollywood facilities; shortly afterward, RKO moved out and Desilu moved in. A musical remake of the 1941 Ginger Rogers comedy Tom, Dick and Harry, the film stars Jane Powell as Dodie, an Read More

The Tin Star

Actors: Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Betsy Palmer, Michael Ray, Neville Brand, Lee Van Cleef

Synopsis: Taciturn marshal-turned-bounty hunter Henry Fonda rides into a small town where greenhorn deputy Anthony Perkins is sole representative of the law. Sensing that the boy could use some seasoning, Fonda makes it his mission to teach Perkins how to protect himself against the criminal element. Though Read More

The Bad Seed

Actors: Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones, Eileen Heckart, Evelyn Varden

Synopsis: Can evil be inherited? That's the question posed by Maxwell Anderson in his stage play The Bad Seed. This 1956 film adaptation stars many actors from the Broadway version, including Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones and Eileen Heckart. Young McCormack plays Rhoda, a too-good-to-be-true Read More

Trial

Actors: Glenn Ford, Dorothy McGuire, Arthur Kennedy, John Hodiak, Katy Jurado

Synopsis: Adapted by Don M. Mankiewicz from his own novel, Trial is a surprisingly timely story of how justice can sometimes be compromised by "special interests". It all begins when Mexican youth Angelo Chavez (Rafael Campos) is placed on trial for the murder of a white teenaged girl. Battling the Read More

The Indian Fighter

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Elsa Martinelli, Walter Abel, Walter Matthau, Diana Douglas

Synopsis: The Indian Fighter is trail guide Kirk Douglas, who agrees to shepherd a wagon train through Sioux territory. Douglas tries to convince the Sioux to leave his charges alone, but such hotheads as drunken white trader Walter Matthau and embittered Indian brave Harry Landers escalate the tensions. Douglas Read More

Rear Window

Actors: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr

Synopsis: Laid up with a broken leg, photojournalist L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart) is confined to his tiny, sweltering courtyard apartment. To pass the time between visits from his nurse (Thelma Ritter) and his fashion model girlfriend Lisa (Grace Kelly), the binocular-wielding Jeffries stares through the Read More

Half a Hero

Actors: Red Skelton, Jean Hagen, Charles Dingle, Willard Waterman, Mary Wickes

Synopsis: Red Skelton does his best with the situation-comedy trappings of Half a Hero. A sort of poor man's Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, the story concerns one Ben Dobson (Skelton), whose wife Martha (Jean Hagen) talks him into leaving the big city and moving into a suburban housing development. Read More

Marry Me Again

Actors: Robert Cummings, Marie Wilson, Ray Walker, Mary Costa, Jess Barker

Synopsis: This nonsensical farce stars Robert Cummings as an air force reserve pilot, called back to active duty on the eve of his wedding to Marie Wilson. When he returns, he discovers that Wilson has inherited a million dollars, and plans to be the head of their household. Under the circumstances Read More

The Atomic City

Actors: Gene Barry, Lydia Clarke, Michael Moore, Nancy Gates, Lee Aaker

Synopsis: The city of the title is Los Alamos, where nuclear physicist Gene Barry lives and works. Terrorists kidnap Barry's son and demand that the physicist turn over the H-bomb formula. It's cat-and-mouse for a while, but when the FBI gets on the case, the criminals haven't got a chance. Outdated almost Read More

Ace in the Hole

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall, Frank Cady

Synopsis: Billy Winder directed and co-wrote this bitterly satiric comedy-drama which turns a jaundiced eye towards both the news media and its consumers. Chuck Tatum (Kirk Douglas) is a talented but short-tempered reporter whose fondness for booze and unwillingness to bow to authority has cost him jobs at Read More

When Worlds Collide

Actors: Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hanson, John Hoyt, Larry Keating

Synopsis: First published in 1932, Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer's speculative novel When Worlds Collide was immediately purchased by Paramount as a possible project for director Cecil B. DeMille. But because none of Paramount's scriptwriters were able to come up with an adequate screen treatment, the Read More

Dear Brat

Actors: Mona Freeman, Billy De Wolfe, Edward Arnold, Lyle Bettger, Mary Philips

Synopsis: Dear Brat was the second sequel to the 1947 comedy hit Dear Ruth (the first sequel, in case you're interested, was Dear Wife). Mona Freeman is back as Miriam Watkins, still minding everyone's business but her own. This time around, Miriam "adopts" a criminal (Lyle Bettger) who claims he wants to Read More

The Sellout

Actors: Walter Pidgeon, Paula Raymond, John Hodiak, Audrey Totter, Thomas Gomez

Synopsis: Gerald Mayer proved once more that he had talent above and beyond being the nephew of MGM-head Louis B. Mayer with his direction of The Sellout. The story begins with a bang, as big-city newspaper editor Haven Allridge (Walter Pidgeon) falls victim to the small-town tyranny of corrupt sheriff Read More

Let's Make It Legal

Actors: Claudette Colbert, MacDonald Carey, Zachary Scott, Barbara Bates, Robert Wagner

Synopsis: Let's Make It Legal begins at the end--the end of the long marriage between beautiful grandmother Miriam (Claudette Colbert) and her chronic-gambler husband Hugh (Macdonald Carey). Barbara (Barbara Bates), the daughter of the couple, hopes to bring her parents back together, which proves to be a Read More

The Asphalt Jungle

Actors: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, James Whitmore, Jean Hagen, Sam Jaffe

Synopsis: The Asphalt Jungle is a brilliantly conceived and executed anatomy of a crime -- or, as director John Huston and scripter Ben Maddow put it, "a left-handed form of human endeavor." Recently paroled master criminal Erwin "Doc" Riedenschneider (Sam Jaffe), with funding from crooked attorney Emmerich Read More

Three Husbands

Actors: Eve Arden, Ruth Warrick, Vanessa Brown, Howard Da Silva, Shepperd Strudwick

Synopsis: Inspired by the 1949 hit A Letter to Three Wives, this takes the other side of the coin with a deceased playboy leaving letters to the husbands accusing their wives of having had affairs with him. Although the 1949 hit was done as a dramatic treatise on the reactions of the wives to the Read More

Emergency Wedding

Actors: Larry Parks, Barbara Hale, Willard Parker, Una Merkel, Alan Reed, Sr.

Synopsis: 1950's Emergency Wedding is a remake of 1940's You Belong to Me. The later film stars Larry Parks, who'd had a bit role in the original. Parks plays wealthy Peter Kirk, a playboy, while Barbara Hale co-stars as female doctor Helen Hunt. When Peter marries Helen, it is a "given" that he'll stay Read More

Experiment Alcatraz

Actors: John Howard, Joan Dixon, Walter Kingsford, Lynne Carter, Robert Shayne

Synopsis: Experiment Alcatraz stars John Howard as a doctor who develops a serum to cure radioactive poisoning. He tests it on several Alcatraz "lifers," who have volunteered for the experiment on the promise of freedom if they survive. A murder within the group casts aspersions on the doctor, but the Read More

The Great Rupert

Actors: Jimmy Durante, Terry Moore, Tom Drake, Frank Orth, Sara Haden

Synopsis: Jimmy Durante plays the patriarch of a down-on-their-luck family of acrobats, who suddenly finds a great deal of money hidden in his house amid the depths of the Great Depression. The authorities suspect Durante of being a thief, but in fact the culprit is a benevolent little squirrel named Read More

Perfect Strangers

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, Thelma Ritter, Margalo Gillmore, Anthony Ross

Synopsis: The Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur Broadway comedy Ladies and Gentlemen formed the basis of the Warner Bros. laughspinner Perfect Strangers. The title characters are Terry Scott and David Campbell, played by Ginger Rogers and Dennis Morgan. She's a divorcee, he's a husband and father. Terry and David Read More

Father of the Bride

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett, Don Taylor, Billie Burke

Synopsis: Spencer Tracy received an Oscar nomination for his performance in this classic comedy. Stanley T. Banks (Tracy) is a securely middle-class lawyer whose daughter Kay (Elizabeth Taylor) announces that she's going to marry her beau Buckley Dunstan (Don Taylor). From that point on, everything in Read More

Young Man With a Horn

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, Juano Hernandez

Synopsis: The life of tragic jazz great Bix Beiderbecke is given the "a clef" treatment in Warner Bros. Young Man With a Horn. Kirk Douglas plays the Beiderbecke character, here named Rick Martin. An ace trumpter player, Martin is one of the few white musicians to flourish in the black-dominated jazz scene Read More

Convicted

Actors: Glenn Ford, Broderick Crawford, Millard Mitchell, Dorothy Malone, Carl Benton Reid, Ed Begley, Sr.

Synopsis: Convicted stars Glenn Ford as a hotheaded young man convicted of manslaughter. Broderick Crawford plays a sympathetic warden (formerly a tough DA) who tries to help Ford adjust to prison life, eventually giving the lad responsibilities in the warden's office. Ford witnesses the killing of a Read More

Take One False Step

Actors: William Powell, Shelley Winters, Marsha Hunt, Dorothy Hart, James Gleason

Synopsis: William Powell stars in Take One False Step as a happily married college professor who foolishly agrees to a reunion supper with old flame Shelley Winters. Winters later disappears, and the evidence points to murder. To allay suspicion--and to avoid losing an important financial grant to his Read More

The Sky Dragon

Actors: Roland Winters, Keye Luke, Mantan Moreland, Tim Ryan, Milburn Stone

Synopsis: Film historian Leonard Maltin has labelled this final entry in Monogram's "Charlie Chan" series as "embarrassing," but it's not quite as bad as its reputation would indicate. True, star Roland Winters steadfastly refuses to take his characterization of Charlie Chan seriously, but that's part of Read More

The Lady Takes a Sailor

Actors: Jane Wyman, Dennis Morgan, Eve Arden, Robert Douglas, Allyn Joslyn

Synopsis: Though she may have won an Oscar in 1948, Jane Wyman still had a Warner Bros. contract to fulfill, even if it meant appearing in frivolities like The Lady Takes a Sailor. It all begins when Jennifer (Wyman), the head of an oceanographic research institute, claims to have made a fascinating Read More

Abandoned

Actors: Dennis O'Keefe, Gale Storm, Jeff Chandler, Meg Randall, Raymond Burr

Synopsis: Viewers who know Gale Storm only through her chaotic comic performances on TV's My Little Margie and Oh Susanna will be surprised by her subdued dramatic performance in Abandoned. Storm plays Paula Consodine, who comes to Los Angeles in search of her missing sister. Newspaperman Mark Sitko (Dennis O'Keefe Read More

Prejudice

Actors: David Bruce, Mary Marshall, Tommy Ivo, Bruce Edwards, Barbara Billingsley

Synopsis: This cautionary fable was produced by the Protestant Film Commission. The main character is plant-manager Joe Hanson (David Bruce), who manages himself to be free of all forms of racial prejudice. Yet when he feels that his job is being threatened by Jewish co-worker Al Green (Bruce Edwards), Joe Read More

City Across the River

Actors: Stephen McNally, Thelma Ritter, Luis Van Rooten, Jeff Corey, Sharon McManus, Tony Curtis

Synopsis: This slightly bowdlerized version of Irving Shulman's The Amboy Dukes was used by Universal-International to showcase several of its new male contractees. Set in the slums of Brooklyn, the film follows the exploits of the Amboy Dukes, a teenaged street gang. Foremost among the Dukes is Frank Read More

Bungalow 13

Actors: Tom Conway, Margaret Hamilton, Richard Cromwell, James Flavin, Marjorie Hoshelle

Synopsis: In this detective drama, a gumshoe must find a priceless hunk of jade. His several leads evaporate when the police succeed in killing all of the suspects. Angered, the dick relaxes in a motel room and ponders the remaining clues, not realizing until it is almost too late that the biggest clue is Read More

He Walked by Night

Actors: Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts, Whit Bissell, James B. Cardwell

Synopsis: The "He" of the title is Richard Basehart, a clever but psychopathic burglar (based on real-life criminal Erwin Walker) Basehart stays one step ahead of the law by listening in to the police band on his radio. To avoid detection, he changes his M.O. on each crime, making it seem that the string of Read More

Sarge Goes to College

Actors: Earl Bennett, Margaret Brayton, Frank Cady, Monte Collins, Jr.

Synopsis: Years before his tenure as "The Skipper" on Gilligan's Island, Alan Hale Jr. delivered a delightful comic performance in Monogram's Sarge Goes to College. Hale is cast as a none-too-bright marine sergeant who is ordered to take a long rest before undergoing a serious operation. For reasons best Read More

Violence

Actors: Nancy Coleman, Michael O'Shea, Sheldon Leonard, Peter Whitney, Emory Parnell

Synopsis: With a title like Violence, the audience knew what it was in for from the get-go. Nancy Coleman plays Ann Mason, troubleshooting journalist for an illustrated newsmagazine. Going undercover, Ann infiltrates the United Defenders, a so-called patriotic organization comprised of thugs and Read More