George MontgomeryFilmography

Traveling Saleswoman

Crew: Set Designer

Actors: Joan Davis, Andy Devine, Adele Jergens, Joe Sawyer, Dean Riesner

Synopsis: In the late 1940s - early 1950s, Columbia Pictures enjoyed a great deal of success with a series of slapsticky feature films built around the talents of such gifted funsters as Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, William Bendix and Jack Carson. In this tradition, Columbia's Traveling Saleswoman is a Read More

The Crime Doctor's Diary

Crew: Set Designer

Actors: Warner Baxter, Lois Maxwell, Adele Jergens, Robert Armstrong

Synopsis: Columbia's "Crime Doctor" series drew to a close with 1949's Crime Doctor's Diary. A visibly weary but still virile Warner Baxter stars as Dr. Robert Ordway, whose previous life of crime has made him something of an expert in the field of detection. This time, Ordway takes the case of parolee Read More

South of Death Valley

Crew: Set Designer

Actors: Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Gail Davis, Fred Sears, Lee Roberts

Synopsis: Someone is unhappy with Steve Downey taking over his murdered brother-in-law's gold mine -- the Tavishes, for example, brothers Scotty and Tommy (Lee Roberts and Richard Emory) and their sister Molly (Gail Davis), who blame runoff from the mine for poisoning their cattle. When Tommy is killed Read More

The Big Sombrero

Crew: Set Designer

Actors: Gene Autry, Elena Verdugo, George Lewis, Vera Marshe

Synopsis: Gene Autry sings, fights, and sings some more in the Cinecolor "special" The Big Sombrero. Autry comes to the aid of senorita Estrellita Estrada (Elena Verdugo), who is slated to marry villainous James Garland (Stephen Dunne). The caddish Garland intends to sell Estrellita's ranch for a huge Read More

The Strawberry Roan

Crew: Set Designer

Actors: Gene Autry, Gloria Henry, Jack Holt, Dick Jones, Pat Buttram

Synopsis: Gene Autry's equine sidekick Champion takes the center stage in western drama, based on a story by fellow sagebrush star Ken Maynard. Walt Bailey (Jack Holt) is teaching his young son Joe (Dickie Jones) how to break in a horse when a high-spirited steed (Champion) throws the boy, leaving him Read More

West of Sonora

Crew: Set Designer

Actors: Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Steven Darrell, George Cheseboro

Synopsis: Western star Charles Starrett was amazing; he kept making the same film over and over, but always made it seem as if it was for the first time. In West of Sonora, Starrett once again plays a frontier good-guy named Steve (Steve Rollins, to be exact), who, when the need arises, disguises himself as Read More

The Guilt of Janet Ames

Crew: Set Designer

Actors: Rosalind Russell, Melvyn Douglas, Sid Caesar, Betsy Blair, Nina Foch

Synopsis: In this drama, a soldier's widow, whose husband died a hero in WW II, begins a quest to find the five men whose lives were saved when her husband sacrificed his own life by taking the brunt of a hand grenade blast. Her search begins two years after the war's end, and is an attempt to see if the Read More

Sing While You Dance

Crew: Set Designer

Synopsis: In this musical, a struggling songwriter endeavors to make it big in Tin Pan Alley. She is befriended by the widow of a famous composer. The budding lyricist manages to convince the widow to allow her to make some small changes in her husband's music. She does, and it becomes a tremendous success. Read More

Romance of the West

Crew: Set Designer

Actors: Eddie Dean, Joan Barton, Forrest Taylor, Bob McKenzie, Jerry Jerome

Synopsis: Filmed in two-toned Cinecolor, Romance of the West was the second of PRC's western vehicles for singing cowboy Eddie Dean. Our hero is cast as a government agent, bound and determined to prevent an Indian war. The villains are a gang of outlaws who are fomenting discord between the Indians and the Read More

Six Gun Man

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Bob Steele, Sid Saylor, Jim Martin, Jean Carlin, I. Stanford Jolley

Synopsis: Diminutive western hero Bob Steele stars in Six Gun Man. Steele plays federal marshal Bob Storm, who has been assigned to halt the activities of cattle rustlers. Given his previous movie track record, we'll wager that Bob also wants to avenge the death of his father. Jean Carlin is the ingenue, I. Read More

The Crime Doctor's Man Hunt

Crew: Set Designer

Actors: Warner Baxter, Paul E. Burns, Claire Carleton, Ellen Drew, William Frawley

Synopsis: Scripted by Leigh Brackett of The Big Sleep fame and directed by future horrormeister William Castle, Crime Doctor's Manhunt has been singled out by many film buffs as the best of Columbia's "Crime Doctor" series. This time, criminal-turned-sleuth Dr. Robert Ordway (Warner Baxter) befriends Read More

The Devil's Mask

Crew: Set Designer

Actors: Anita Louise, Jim Bannon, Michael Duane, Mona Barrie, Barton Yarborough

Synopsis: This entry in the short "I Love a Mystery" series has detective Jack Packard and his sidekick Doc Young investigating the identity of a shrunken head that was discovered in a downed cargo plane. The head was one of four others discovered in the wreckage. It was notable as having belonged to a Read More

The Navajo Kid

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Bob Steele, Sid Saylor, Edward Cassidy, Caren Marsh, Stanley Blystone

Synopsis: A B-Western hero since the late silent era, Bob Steele would hang up his spurs after a final four westerns for director Harry L. Fraser. In the opener, The Navajo Kid, Steele, as he had so many times before, went in search of the villain, or villains, who murdered his foster-father and stole both Read More

The Phantom Thief

Crew: Set Designer

Synopsis: Boston Blackie is back and in hot pursuit of a jewel thief and killer in this mystery. The reformed thief soon tracks the thief to the domicile of a suspicious spiritualist. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Tahiti Nights

Crew: Set Designer

Actors: Jinx Falkenburg, Dave "Tex" O'Brien, Mary Treen, Florence Bates

Synopsis: Sam White, brother of Columbia Pictures' 2-reel-comedy maven Jules White, served as producer of the quickie Columbia musical Tahiti Nights. The lissome Jinx Falkenberg plays Tahitian princess Luana, who is promised in marriage to American bandleader Jack (Dave O'Brien). Luana is delighted by the Read More

Cowboy from Lonesome River

Crew: Set Designer

Synopsis: This western features a singing cowboy, a brave hero, and a bumbling sidekick who band together to defeat a ruthless range boss. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Racket Man

Crew: Set Designer

Synopsis: An ex-racketeer becomes an undercover for the military in this drama. He keeps his work so secret that his friends become convinced that he is dabbling in illegal activities again. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mr. Winkle Goes to War

Crew: Set Designer

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Warrick, Ted Donaldson, Bob Haymes, Richard Lane

Synopsis: The year is 1942: Mr. Winkle (Edward G. Robinson), a mild-mannered bank clerk, decides to quit his job and open a fix-it shop in his garage. Winkle's wife Amy (Ruth Warrick) disapproves of this, and orders her husband to move into his little shop. Tired of being browbeaten, Winkle is delighted Read More

One Dangerous Night

Crew: Set Designer

Synopsis: In this entry in the "Lone Wolf" series, the sleuth and former jewel thief, the Lone Wolf finds himself accused of killing a blackmailer in front of the three women he was harassing. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Boogie Man Will Get You

Crew: Set Designer

Actors: Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, Jeff Donnell, Larry Parks

Synopsis: In this silly but enjoyable rip-off of Arsenic and Old Lace, Boris Karloff plays an addlepated scientist who is experimenting with bringing the dead back to life. To do this, he has "killed" several travelling salesmen and placed them in suspended animation in his basement. Karloff is fiercely Read More

Underground Agent

Crew: Set Designer

Synopsis: In this espionage caper, a government spy must keep enemy agents from spying upon a defense plant. His work is made easier by his newest invention, a word scrambler which makes it difficult for the enemy agent. The good guy spy then hires a crack team to assist him; among them is the pretty young Read More