Herbert RawlinsonFilmography

The Stranger Wore a Gun

Actors: Randolph Scott, Claire Trevor, Joan Weldon, George Macready, Alfonso Bedoya

Synopsis: Randolph Scott makes his 3-D debut in the stereoscopic western Stranger Wore a Gun. This time, Scott plays Jeff Travis, a former spy for Quantrill's Raiders. When he heads to Arizona to start life anew, Travis finds that his reputation has preceded him: crooked Jules Mourret (George Macready) Read More

The Adventures of Superman: Superman on Earth

Synopsis: The sole survivor of the doomed planet Krypton is the baby son of scientist Jor-El (Robert Rockwell) and Lara (Aline Towne), who providently place the child in a rocketship and blast him to earth just before their planet explodes. Rescued by a farm couple named Kent, the infant, renamed Clark Read More

Gene Autry and the Mounties

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Elena Verdugo, Carleton Young, Richard Emory

Synopsis: Gene Autry is back in the saddle again, albeit North of the Border. Montana marshal Autry and another lawman pursue a bank robber into Canada. Teaming with a straight-arrow Mountie, Autry tracks down the criminal in the Canadian wilderness, taking time out once in a while to sing one of his host's 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

Fighting Man of the Plains

Actors: Randolph Scott, Bill Williams, Victor Jory, Jane Nigh, Douglas Kennedy

Synopsis: Randolph Scott plays one of the members of Quantrill's Raiders, staging attacks on Kansas on behalf of the fallen Confederacy in the years following the Civil War. During one raid, Scott kills the man he holds responsible for the death of his brother. The dead man was innocent, and Scott becomes a Read More

Borrowed Trouble

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks, Elaine Riley, John Kellogg

Synopsis: "This town ain't big enough to hold both of us," saloon owner Dink Davis (Cliff Clark) tells his new rival Steve Mawson (John Phillips) in the opening of this lighthearted Hopalong Cassidy Western. Schoolmarm Lucy Abbott (Anne O'Neal) couldn't agree more; in fact, the spinsterish teacher is Read More

Joan of Arc

Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Selena Royle, José Ferrer, Ward Bond, Robert H. Barrat, Jimmy Lydon, Francis L. Sullivan, Rand Brooks, Cecil Kellaway

Synopsis: Director Victor Fleming's final film features Ingrid Bergman as a vivid and luminous Joan of Arc, the 15th-century French peasant girl who led the French in battle against the invading English, becoming a national hero. When she was captured, tortured, and ultimately executed by the English, she Read More

The Argyle Secrets

Actors: William Gargan, Marjorie Lord, Ralph Byrd, Jack Reitzen, John Banner

Synopsis: Only faintly related to the old stage play The Argyle Case, The Argyle Secrets is based on a half-hour radio program originally heard on CBS' Suspense. In the immediate postwar years, several above-suspicion Americans attempt to hide their past collaborations with the Nazis. Reporter William Gargan Read More

Sinister Journey

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks, Elaine Riley, John Kellogg

Synopsis: The long-running "Hopalong Cassidy" series trudged on with its 61st entry, Sinister Journey. William Boyd, looking pretty much the same as he did when the series started in 1936, is back as Hoppy, with Andy Clyde and Rand Brooks as his cohorts California and Lucky, respectively. Like most of the Read More

Silent Conflict

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks, Virginia Belmont, Earl Hodgins

Synopsis: Hypnotism and mind control take center stage in this unusual latter-day "Hopalong Cassidy" series entry produced by its star, William Boyd. Having delivered a herd of cattle for the Cattlemen's Association, Hoppy (Boyd) and California (Andy Clyde) are confronted by a strangely moody Lucky Jenkins Read More

Strange Gamble

Actors: Andy Clyde

Synopsis: In this the final Hopalong Cassidy Western, Hoppy (William Boyd), California Carlson (Andy Clyde), and Lucky Jenkins (Rand Brooks) search for the leaders of a counterfeiting ring after receiving a tip from an anonymous source whose signature is a pencil sketch of a comet. In Silver City, they help Read More

Superman [Serial]

Actors: Kirk Alyn

Synopsis: This adventure is the first live-action Superman serial and was one of the most successful multi-chapter films ever made. Superman is played by B-movie hero Kirk Alyn. The story centers upon the hero and the nefarious Spider Lady, who is trying to rule the Earth. If she cannot have complete Read More

The Counterfeiters

Actors: John Sutton, Doris Merrick, Hugh Beaumont, Lon Chaney, Jr., George O'Hanlon

Synopsis: With Maurice Conn as producer and Peter Stewart (aka Sam Newfield) as director, one suspects that 20th Century-Fox's The Counterfeiters was actually produced by one of the minor companies like Film Classics or PRC. Scotland Yard investigator Jeff McAllister (John Sutton) teams with the FBI to Read More

The Gallant Legion

Actors: Adrian Booth, James Brown, Bruce Cabot, Andy Devine, Steve Drake

Synopsis: When Republic moved its popular star William Elliot from "B" series westerns to "A" frontier specials, a lot of the fun and excitement was lost in the process. Additionally, Republic seemed reluctant to admit the new Elliot films were westerns, as witness the title Gallant Legion, which could have Read More

Accomplice

Actors: Richard Arlen, Veda Ann Borg, Tom Dugan, Michael Branden, Marjorie Manners

Synopsis: Accomplice was the "pilot" for a proposed PRC series based on Frank Gruber's short-tempered detective hero Simon Lash. Commendably, Richard Arlen plays Lash as written-brusque, nasty, antisocial. The plot gets under way when socialite Joyce Bonniwell (Veda Ann Borg) hires Lash to located her Read More

Forty Thieves

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Jimmy Rogers, Douglas Dumbrille, Louise Currie

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running western series, Hoppy is running for sheriff and is beaten by the yellow-belly who had garnered the support of the local outlaws. Hoppy stands by for a while and watches as the once law-abiding town becomes a veritable den of inequity. Finally, unable to stand it Read More

Sheriff of Sundown

Synopsis: In his third western for Republic Pictures, Allan Lane plays Tex Jordan, a cattle rancher en route to sell his stock to cattle baron Jack Hatfield (Roy Barcroft). But in the town of Sundown, our hero finds that the omnipotent Hatfield has been squeezing the small ranchers in general and Tex's Read More

Lumberjack

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Jimmy Rogers, Herbert Rawlinson, Ellen Hall

Synopsis: Though it's not readily obvious from the title, Lumberjack is the 52nd entry in the long-running "Hopalong Cassidy" series. In this one, Hoppy (William Boyd) and his pals California (Andy Clyde) and Jimmy (Jimmy Rogers) come to the rescue of recently widowed Julie (Ellen Hall). It so happens that Read More

Shake Hands with Murder

Actors: Iris Adrian, Frank Jenks, Douglas Fowley, Jack Raymond, Claire Rochelle

Synopsis: In this comic murder mystery, two bail bondsmen try to help out a man who is suspected of stealing bonds from his partner. More mayhem ensues when the other partner is found dead. Now the bail bondsmen must try to prove the fellow is innocent before it is too late. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

The Woman of the Town

Synopsis: Originally, producer Harry Sherman's Woman of the Town was slated for Paramount release, but that studio was overloaded with product, so the film was deferred to United Artists. Nonetheless, the finished product has the "look" of a Paramount, right down to the presence of character actor Albert Read More

Hi, Beautiful

Actors: Martha O'Driscoll, Hattie McDaniel, Walter Catlett

Synopsis: Part of the series of Universal B-musicals teaming Martha O'Driscoll and Noah Beery Jr., this film is also a remake of the 1937 comedy Love in a Bungalow. Patty Callahan (O'Driscoll) offers residence in a model home to soldier Jeff (Beery) and soon falls in love with him. Although the pair are Read More

Goin' to Town

Actors: Chester Lauck, Norris Goff, Barbara Hale, Florence Lake, Dick Elliott

Synopsis: Originally released under the more informal cognomen Goin' to Town, this was the fifth RKO B-picture based on the popular radio series Lum 'N' Abner. This time Lum (Chester Lauck) and Abner (Norris Goff), proprietors of the Jot 'Em Down Store in Pine Ridge, Arkansas, talk their neighbors into Read More

Sailor's Holiday

Synopsis: Arthur Lake takes a break from his Dagwood Bumstead duties in the "Blondie" series to star as furloughed sailor Marble Head Tomkins in Columbia's Sailor's Holiday. The plot is the old one about an engagement being broken because both male and female have fallen in love with someone else. In this Read More

Marshal of Gunsmoke

Synopsis: U.S. marshal Ritter arrives in town to round up bandits who are attempting to fix the local elections. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Oklahoma Raiders

Synopsis: In this western, two cowboys go to buy fresh horses for the cavalry and end up taking on two badguys and a female vigilante. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Marshal of Reno

Synopsis: Two wild western towns battle it out for the position of county seat. Fortunately, Red Ryder and his little side-kick are around to restore the peace. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Nabonga

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Fifi D'Orsay, Barton MacLane, Julie London, Bryant Washburn

Synopsis: In this campy jungle adventure, an embezzler's daughter is the sole survivor of a plane crash. Hurt and afraid, the woman is befriended by a gorilla who protects her from danger. They stay together for many years when one day a man appears looking for the stolen loot. At first Nabonga wants to rip Read More

Saller's Holiday

Actors: Arthur Lake, Jane Lawrence, Bob Haymes, Shelley Winters, Lewis Wilson

Two Weeks to Live

Actors: Chester Lauck, Norris Goff, Franklin Pangborn, Kay Linaker, Irving Bacon

Synopsis: The title of this "Lum 'N' Abner" comedy isn't explained until the film is half over. Chester Lauck and Norris Goff repeat their radio characterizations of Lum and Abner, proprietors of the Jot-Em-Down Store in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. This time, the boys journey to Chicago, where Abner hopes to Read More

Days of Old Cheyenne

Actors: Don "Red" Barry, Lynn Merrick, William Haade, Emmett Lynn, Herbert Rawlinson

Synopsis: Some clever directorial touches by veteran Elmer Clifton help lift Days of Old Cheyenne from the B-western norm. Don "Red" Barry stars as Clint Ross, whose skill at fisticuffs earns him the town marshal's job in the titular western town. Thanks to the string-pulling of political boss Big Bill Read More

Old Acquaintance

Actors: Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young, John Loder, Dolores Moran

Synopsis: After the box office success of The Old Maid, Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins were reunited for this catty drama. Kitty Marlowe (Davis) is a well-respected author who returns to the small town of her birth, where she becomes reacquainted with her childhood friend Millie Drake (Hopkins). While Read More

Reveille with Beverly

Actors: Ann Miller, William Wright, Dick Purcell, Franklin Pangborn, Tim Ryan

Synopsis: Beverly Ross (nn Miller) is a would-be radio personality, but the closest she gets to being on the air is running the switchboard at a local station. Worse yet, the blustery station owner Mr. Kennedy (Tim Ryan) wants no part of programming "jive" (i.e., swing music) that she loves, preferring the Read More

Riders of the Deadline

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Jimmy Rogers, Richard Crane, Robert Mitchum

Synopsis: Two newcomers, Robert Mitchum and Richard Crane, take center stage in this lavishly budgeted entry in the long-running Hopalong Cassidy series. The latter plays Tim Mason, a young hothead about to be inducted into the Texas Rangers on the behest of his good friend, Hoppy (William Boyd). Read More

Colt Comrades

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Jay Kirby, George Reeves, Gayle Lord, Victor Jory

Synopsis: The winning streak of superior Hopalong Cassidy westerns continued with 1943's Colt Comrades. In this one, Hoppy (William Boyd) and his saddle pals California (Andy Clyde) and Johnny (Jay Kirby) use a large amount of reward money to buy their own ranch. But despotic Jebb Hardin (Victor Jory), who Read More

Lost Canyon

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Jay Kirby, Andy Clyde, Lola Lane, Douglas Fowley

Synopsis: A virtual remake of Rustlers' Valley (1937), this average "Hopalong Cassidy" Western features Jay Kirby as Johnny Travers, a Hoppy associate framed for a bank robbery and supposedly killed during the ensuing chase. Johnny, however, to Hoppy and California Carlson's (Andy Clyde) great relief Read More

Doughboys in Ireland

Synopsis: According to Doughboys in Ireland, there were those who sang their way through WW2. Radio tenor Kenny Baker plays Manhattan orchestra leading Danny O'Keefe, who is drafted into the army along with a Ritz Brothers-like quartet called The Jesters. Stationed in Ireland, Danny believes that his New Read More

Where Are Your Children?

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Gale Storm, Patricia Morison, John Litel, Gertrude Michael

Synopsis: This socially conscious drama examines the causes of juvenile delinquency and centers on one girl who joins a gang of punks and ends up involved in a murder. She is jailed. Later her old friend returns from the Navy and convinces the courts that she wasn't really part of the killing. The chastened Read More

The Panther's Claw

Actors: Sidney Blackmer, Byron Foulger, Rick Vallin, Herbert Rawlinson

Synopsis: Magazine writer and editor Fulton Ousler's stern police commissioner Thatcher Colt came to the screen in April of 1942 courtesy of former investment broker Lester Cutler, veteran actor Sidney Blackmer, and cinematic hack William Beaudine (the latter living up to his nickname "One Shot" by Read More

Perils of the Royal Mounted

Synopsis: White villains once again agitate a friendly tribe of Indians in this average Columbia serial starring nonentity Robert Stevens (aka Robert Kellard. Stevens, who was awarded billing below leading lady Nell O'Day, played Sgt. MacLane of the Royal Canadian mounties, assigned to quell the uprising. Read More

Broadway Big Shot

Actors: Ralph Byrd, Virginia Vale, William Halligan, Dick Rush, Herbert Rawlinson

Synopsis: This drama chronicles the extreme measures taken by a determined young crime reporter to get an interview with a notorious convict. The zealous journalist, also a star quarterback on the town college team, decides to become a convict himself. He gets into the prison, becomes president of the Read More

Foreign Agent

Actors: John Shelton, Gale Storm, Ivan Lebedeff, Hans Schumm, William Halligan

Synopsis: Director William "One Take" Beaudine slapped together Foreign Agent in a week or so, enabling Monogram to ship the picture to theaters before its subject matter grew stale. Set in a Hollywood movie studio (sure looks like the cramped Monogram headquarters), the story concerns a gang of Nazi agents Read More

Winslow of the Navy

Actors: Don Terry, Walter Sande, John Litel, Wade Boteler, Samuel S. Hinds

Pride of the Army

Actors: Billy Lee, Addison Richards, Kay Linaker, Bradley Page, Herbert Rawlinson

Synopsis: In this patriotic film, a good-hearted boy donates his best friend to the Dogs for Defense, an government organization that trained household dogs for the military during WW II. Following training, the canine recruit is assigned to keep a defense plant safe from saboteurs. Coincidentally, the Read More

Stagecoach Buckaroo

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Nell O'Day, Anne Nagel, Herbert Rawlinson

Synopsis: Stagecoach Buckaroo was Johnny Mack Brown's final Universal western of the 1941-42 season. A gang of holdup men has been plaguing the stagecoach line run by Denton (Henry Hall), the father of heroine Molly (Nell O'Day). Hoping to flush out the crooks, hero Steve (Johnny Mack Brown) rides shotgun 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

We Were Dancing

Actors: Norma Shearer, Melvyn Douglas, Gail Patrick, Lee Bowman, Marjorie Main

Synopsis: Strange but true: Norma Shearer turned down the title role in Mrs. Miniver to star instead in the insignificant trifle We Were Dancing. Loosely based on two Noel Coward playlets originally presented as part of the omnibus production Tonight at 8:30, the story concerns the romance between socialite Read More

Hello Annapolis

Synopsis: Tom Brown, an actor who "borrowed" his professional name from 1932's Tom Brown of Culver, finds himself back in the collegiate pool in 1942's Hello Annapolis. Brown and up-and-coming Larry Parks sign up at the titular Naval academy, battling both in and out of uniform over the affections of Jean Parker Read More

Smart Alecks

Actors: Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom

Synopsis: Short of funds to buy baseball uniforms, the East Side Kids are forced to go to work for their crooked ex-pal Hank (Gabriel Dell). When Hank's fugitive mentor Butch Brocalli (Max Rosenbloom) shows up to make trouble, gang member Danny (Bobby Jordan) is instrumental in Butch's arrest, earning a big Read More

Lady Gangster

Actors: Faye Emerson, Julie Bishop, Frank Wilcox, Roland Drew, Jackie Gleason

Synopsis: The direction of Warner Bros.' Lady Gangster is credited to one "Florian Roberts," who on closer examination turns out to be veteran helmsman Robert Florey, working pseudonymously. Faye Emerson plays the title character, aspiring actress Dot Burton, whose chance association with a gang of bank Read More

I Killed That Man

Actors: Ricardo Cortez, Joan Woodbury, Iris Adrian, George Pembroke, Herbert Rawlinson

Synopsis: Thanks to the canny production team of Maurice and Franklin King, I Killed That Man is superior to the general run of Monogram Studio films. Ricardo Cortez stars in this whodunit, set in a prison full of suspects. A confession is made, and that seems to be that--but is it? B-picture stalwarts Joan Woodbury Read More

Silver Queen

Actors: George Brent, Priscilla Lane, Bruce Cabot, Lynne Overman, Eugene Pallette

Synopsis: In this Victorian-era adventure, a blue-blooded girl is dismayed to discover that her recently deceased father, a compulsive gambler, has left her destitute and deeply in debt. At one time, he'd had a silver mine but even that was lost at the card table. The man who won the mine learns the Read More

Flying Wild

Actors: Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Donald Haines, David Gorcey, Bobby Stone

Synopsis: Mugs McGinniss (Leo Gorcey), top dog of the East Side Kids, takes a job at an airplane plant. Here he grows suspicious of Dr. Nagel (George Pembroke), operator of a flying ambulance service. Mugs becomes convinced that Nagel is using his plane to smuggle aviation secrets to a gang of enemy agents Read More

Gentleman from Dixie

Actors: Jack LaRue, Marian Marsh, Clarence Muse, Mary Ruth, Robert Kellard

Synopsis: Veteran screen menace Jack LaRue is the unlikely hero of Monogram's Gentleman From Dixie--and no one seems more surprised at this atypical casting than LaRue himself! The star is cast as ex-convict Thad Terrill, who upon his release heads to his family estate in the Deep South. It is here that Read More

I Wanted Wings

Actors: Ray Milland, William Holden, Wayne Morris, Brian Donlevy, Constance Moore

Synopsis: Three disparate young men struggle to become Army Air Corps pilots in this rousing drama that earned an Oscar for its excellent aerial special effects. The film is also noted for making Veronica Lake, who previously appeared in films under the name Constance Keane, a star. For added realism, the Read More

Riot Squad

Synopsis: This Monogram quickie stars Richard Cromwell as Dr. Tom, an idealistic young tenement-district physician. When his best pal, a police captain, is killed by gangsters, Dr. Tom offers his services to the authorities in hopes of bringing the villains to justice. Working undercover, our hero becomes a Read More

Bad Man of Deadwood

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Carol Adams, Henry Brandon, Herbert Rawlinson

Synopsis: A mystery man works behind the scenes in this tuneful Roy Rogers western in which the local theatre owner attempts to ruin the honest businessmen of Deadwood. Even the sheriff, Jordan (Monte Blue), answers to nasty Jake Marvel (Ralf Harolde), whose reign of terror forces the decent people to Read More

King of the Texas Rangers [Serial]

Synopsis: In this serial, onetime football hero Slingin' Sammy Baugh stars as Tom King, a Texas Ranger on the hunt for the Nazis who killed his father. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Scattergood Meets Broadway

Actors: Guy Kibbee, Emma Dunn, Joyce Compton, Bradley Page, Frank Jenks

Synopsis: Scattergood Meets Broadway was the third of RKO's film series based on the long-running radio favorite Scattergood Baines. Guy Kibbee once again plays the avuncular Mr. Baines, philosophical storekeeper of the mythical town of Coldriver. Though he has no use for the Big City, Scattergood heads to Read More

Arizona Cyclone

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Nell O'Day, Kathryn Adams, Herbert Rawlinson

Synopsis: Arizona Cyclone is usually cited as the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal western series, if only because of the inventive direction of Joseph H. Lewis. Brown is cast as Tom, owner of a wagon-freight line who business is coveted by crooked banker Quirt (Dick Curtis). The villain will stop at Read More

Framed

Actors: Frank Albertson, Constance Moore, Jerome Cowan, Robert Armstrong, Sidney Blackmer

Synopsis: Reporter Albertson works to solve a murder case in order to clear his name and get a great story for his paper. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Blind Fools

Synopsis: This British-American, coproduction was released in England by Pathe, and in the US by Monogram. Blind Fools is the old bromide about all those parents who are too rich and busy to pay attention to their teenaged children. The kids' restlessness translate into Big Trouble, culminating in the Read More

Five Little Peppers at Home

Actors: Edith Fellows, Dorothy Ann Seese, Clarence Kolb, Dorothy Peterson, Ronald Sinclair

Synopsis: Like the other entries Columbia's "Five Little Peppers" series, The Five Little Peppers at Home is based on characters created by Margaret Sidney. Edith Fellows stars as Polly, the oldest child of the Pepper clan, while her four siblings are portrayed by Dorothy Ann Seers (as Phronsie), Ronald Read More

I Want a Divorce

Actors: Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Frank Fay, Jessie Ralph

Synopsis: Ironically, the marriage between Dick Powell and Joan Blondell was beginning to fall apart at the time they co-starred in Paramount's I Want a Divorce. The film manages to sustain two plotlines, with newlyweds Alan and Geraldine MacNally (Powell and Blondell) beginning to have second thoughts Read More

Swiss Family Robinson

Actors: Thomas Mitchell, Edna Best, Freddie Bartholomew, Terry Kilburn, Tim Holt

Synopsis: Johan David Wyss' novel Swiss Family Robinson had been in print for nearly fifty years before the first film version was made by RKO in 1940. Thomas Mitchell is top-billed as the patriarch of the Robinson family, who, as in the book, are shipwrecked on a tropical island and compelled to bring the Read More

Money to Burn

Synopsis: In this episode of the Higgins Family series, pandemonium ensues when Ma enters a dog biscuit contest. The prize is a whopping $50,000. Unfortunately, the company is represented by Pa's ad agency and his wife cannot legally enter. The trouble is, to win, Ma purchased every dog biscuit in town. Read More

Free, Blonde and Twenty-One

Actors: Lynn Bari, Mary Beth Hughes, Joan Davis, Henry Wilcoxon, Robert Lowery

Synopsis: Free, Blonde and 21 was one of a handful of films directed by former leading man Ricardo Cortez. Two of 20th Century-Fox's busiest leading ladies, Mary Beth Hughes and Lynn Bari, head the cast of this soap opera-style yarn about life in a hotel catering to women. Hughes plays Jerry, a duplicitious Read More

King of the Royal Mounted

Synopsis: The twelve-chapter serial King of the Royal Mounted stars Allan Lane as Zane Grey's fictional Canadian Mountie Sergeant King. The story involves King hunting down some foreign spies who have entered Canada in order to take back materials that will help wage war against Great Britain. ~ Perry Read More

Seven Sinners

Actors: Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Broderick Crawford, Mischa Auer, Albert Dekker

Synopsis: Set in the South Seas, Seven Sinners stars Marlene Dietrich as a cabaret singer whose reputation as a troublemaker has gotten her kicked out of one port of call after another. Once more causing a riot, Dietrich takes refuge on the first ship out, together with her underhanded cohorts Broderick Crawford Read More

Secret Service of the Air

Actors: John Litel, Ila Rhodes, James Stephenson, Eddie Foy, Jr.

Synopsis: In this, the premiere entry in the "Brass" Bancroft series (starring the man who would-be President, Ronald Reagan), Brass is seen as an ex-Army pilot who works as a commercial airline pilot. One day he quits his well-paying, safe job to become an agent for the Secret Service. His first assignment Read More

Dark Victory

Actors: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ronald Reagan

Synopsis: Bette Davis earned an Oscar nomination for her role in this classic four-hanky tearjerker. Judith Traherne (Bette Davis) is a very wealthy Long Island heiress whose life is a constant whirl of cocktails, parties, and wild living. Despite her hedonistic lifestyle, Judith derives little pleasure Read More

You Can't Get Away with Murder

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Billy Halop, John Litel, Henry Travers

Synopsis: A young punk hooks up with a mobster and helps him rob a gas station in this crime drama. From there the crimes become more serious and the boy is very happy until something goes wrong and the gangster shoots someone using the stolen gun of the boy's sister's lover. The innocent lover is given the Read More

Orphans of the Street

Actors: Tommy Ryan, Robert Livingston, June Storey, Ralph Morgan, Harry Davenport

Synopsis: In this drama, an young, orphaned heir is dismayed to discover that his inheritance will no longer cover the tuition and expenses for military school and ends up sent to a state orphanage. He and his devoted police dog, end up running away from there. He then finds himself entangled in a dog show Read More

Naughty But Nice

Actors: Ann Sheridan, Dick Powell, Gale Page, Helen Broderick

Synopsis: It's Swing Music vs. the Classics in the easy-to-take Warners tunefest Naughty But Nice. Dick Powell dons the obligatory spectacles as a staid music professor Hardwick, who harbors a desire to become a songwriter. With the help of aspiring lyricist Linda McKay (Gale Page), Hardwick pens a little Read More

Under the Big Top

Actors: Anne Nagel, Marjorie Main, Jack LaRue, Grant Richards, George Cleveland

Synopsis: Veteran cinematographer Karl Brown also had several directorial efforts to his credit. Most were on a par with Monogram's Under the Big Top: slick and mildly entertaining, but not much more. Circus aerialist Penny (Anne Nagel) may be the queen of the trapeze, but she can't seem to manage her life Read More

Torchy Gets Her Man

Actors: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy, Willard Robertson, George Guhl

Synopsis: In this entry in the "Torchy Blane" series, the plucky young reporter tries to expose a ring of counterfeiters led by a man pretending to be a G-man assigned to investigate the case. He asks her not to print any of the information she has gathered so as not to blow his cover. The ploy works until Read More

Hard to Get

Actors: Olivia de Havilland, Dick Powell, Charles Winninger, Melville Cooper, Allen Jenkins, Bonita Granville

Synopsis: Dick Powell had already played the poor guy who falls for rich gal in Happiness Ahead (34); Hard to Get is a far superior film in this vein, and with better songs to boot. The wealthy lady in this film is Olivia de Havilland, who at this point in her career specialized in spoiled heiresses. Dick Powell Read More

Women Are Like That

Actors: Kay Francis, Pat O'Brien, Ralph Forbes, Melville Cooper, Thurston Hall

Synopsis: Though Kay Francis' Warner Bros. vehicle had slipped from "A" attractions to B-plus programmers by 1938, she was still worth watching. A typical Francis vehicle of the time was Women are Like That, in which the star is cast as businesswoman Claire King, the daughter of a powerful advertising Read More

Secrets of an Actress

Actors: Kay Francis, George Brent, Ian Hunter, Gloria Dickson, Isabel Jeans

Synopsis: Kay Francis fights off tears, deprivations and a mediocre script in Warner Bros.' Secrets of an Actress. La Francis plays Fay Carter, a popular Broadway star romantically involved with architect Dick Orr (George Brent), who has put up the money for her latest production. Problem is, Dick is Read More

Hawaii Calls

Actors: Bobby Breen, Ned Sparks, Irvin S. Cobb, Warren Hull, Gloria Holden

Synopsis: Though it may be difficult for modern audiences to understand or appreciate the appeal of canary-voiced boy soprano Bobby Breen, the fact remains that he was one of the most popular box-office attractions of the 1930s. Adapted from Don Blandings' novel Stowaways in Paradise, Hawaii Calls stars Read More

Marie Antoinette

Actors: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley, Anita Louise, Joseph Schildkraut

Synopsis: M.G.M.'s opulent costume drama Marie Antoinette marked a return to the screen after a two-year absence for reigning Queen of M.G.M. Norma Shearer. Shearer plays the title role of an Austrian princess who is married off to Louis Auguste (Robert Morley), the Dauphin of France. Marie, by becoming the Read More

The Kid Comes Back

Actors: Wayne Morris, Barton MacLane, June Travis, Dick Jones, "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom

Synopsis: In this boxing drama, a prizefighter spies a young man during a street fight. Deciding that the lad shows promise, he begins training him for the ring. The young man's sister gets romantically involved with the trainer and this creates problems. More trouble ensues when the young man is slated to Read More

Mysterious Crossing

Actors: James Dunn, Jean Rogers, Andy Devine, John Eldredge, Hobart Cavanaugh

Synopsis: James Dunn is once more cast as a reporter, this one named Murphy. On the outs with practically every newsroom in America, Murphy finds a chance for redemption when he stumbles into a mysterious murder case. Most of the story takes place during a train-ferry ride down the Mississippi. By the time Read More

Every Day's a Holiday

Actors: Mae West, Edmund Lowe, Charles Butterworth, Charles Winninger, Walter Catlett, Lloyd Nolan

Synopsis: Paramount spent a record one million dollars on its 1937 Mae West vehicle Every Day's a Holiday. La West portrays a turn-of-century confidence trickster who poses as a famous French chanteuse to avoid arrest. In this guise, she manages to expose crooked police chief Lloyd Nolan and smooths the Read More

Back in Circulation

Actors: Pat O'Brien, Joan Blondell, Margaret Lindsay, John Litel, Ben Welden

Synopsis: In this newsroom drama, a tabloid's ace reporter's investigations lead to a chorine's conviction for murdering her husband. The trouble begins when the reporter digs a little deeper and realizes that the showgirl is really innocent. Now, despite the objections of her editor, the reporter must Read More

Love Is on the Air

Actors: Ronald Reagan, Eddie Acuff, Robert H. Barrat, Raymond Hatton, Willard Parker

Synopsis: The first of three remakes of the 1933 Paul Muni picture Hi, Nellie, Love is on the Air is historically important as the screen debut of Ronald Reagan. In the original Hi, Nellie, a Winchellesque newspaper reporter is demoted to writing the "advice to the lovelorn" column when he steps on too many Read More

Nobody's Baby

Actors: Patsy Kelly, Lyda Roberti, Lynne Overman, Robert Armstrong, Rosina Lawrence

Synopsis: Three former stalwarts of producer Hal Roach's two-reel comedies, actresses Patsy Kelly and Lyda Roberti and director Gus Meins, combine their talents in the Roach feature film Nobody's Baby. Kelly and Roberti play nurses-in-training Kitty and Lena, who reluctantly come into possession of a cute Read More

Over the Goal

Actors: June Travis, William Hopper, Johnnie Davis, Mabel Todd, Gordon Oliver

Synopsis: In this football drama, a college gridiron star attempts to leave the game, at the request of his girl friend who does not want to see him injured. Unfortunately, it is not that simple for his college will win a large donation if they can win the Big Game. When he learns that his family is betting Read More

S.O.S. Coast Guard [Serial]

Actors: Ralph Byrd, Bela Lugosi, Maxine Doyle, Herbert Rawlinson, Richard Alexander

Synopsis: In his third of four action serials, horror star Bela Lugosi played Boroff, an internationally notorious fiend who's attempting to pawn off his deadly invention, a disintegrating gas, to the highest bidder. Before the gas can be manufactured, however, Boroff must go in search of certain hard to Read More

The Go-Getter

Actors: George Brent, Charles Winninger, Anita Louise, Henry O'Neill

Synopsis: An intrepid amputee must pass a test to prove his devotion to his sweetie in this romantic drama. The hero lost his leg during the crash of a navy dirigible. Later he gets a job with a lumber company. He soon falls for the boss's daughter. Unfortunately, the general manager is also interested in Read More

Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island [Serial]

Actors: Mala, Rex the Dog, Mamo Clark, Herbert Rawlinson

Synopsis: It has been said that Ray Mala was the only Jewish Eskimo actor in Hollywood. Whatever his religious or racial origins, Mala is "all hero" in the 14-chapter Republic serial Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island. The star plays a character also named Mala, a Polynesian native and U.S. Intelligence Read More

Blake of Scotland Yard [Serial]

Actors: Herbert Rawlinson, Ralph Byrd

Synopsis: Silver-haired silent film leading man Herbert Rawlinson plays Scotland Yard inspector Sir James Blake in this 15-episode serial. Blake has financed a death ray designed by young inventor Ralph Byrd. The ray will be a boon to mankind (sure!) so long as it doesn't fall into the wrong hands. Those Read More

Make a Wish

Actors: Bobby Breen, Basil Rathbone, Marion Claire, Henry Armetta, Ralph Forbes

Synopsis: Canary-voiced boy wonder Bobby Breen once more croons his way into our hearts in Make a Wish. While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Breen befriends famed composer Basil Rathbone. Stuck for an inspiration for his latest operetta, Rathbone at last finds it when he meets Breen's Read More

God's Country and the Woman

Actors: George Brent, Beverly Roberts, Barton MacLane, Robert H. Barrat, Alan Hale

Synopsis: Rivalry, romance, and brotherly love in logging camps are chronicled in this drama. The trouble begins when the brother of a lumber company owner arrives from Paris to work for him. Upon seeing the beautiful owner of the rival logging camp, the newly arrived brother immediately defects to begin Read More

That Certain Woman

Actors: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Ian Hunter, Anita Louise, Donald Crisp

Synopsis: Edmund Goulding directed this remake of his own 1929 The Trespasser, which starred Gloria Swanson. Here Bette Davis assumes the lead role of Mary Donnell, a young innocent married to a bootlegger. When her husband is killed, she decides to pursue a better life and gets a job as a secretary to Read More

Bullets or Ballots

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Barton MacLane, Frank McHugh, Joseph King, Humphrey Bogart, Joan Blondell

Synopsis: Two-fisted New York police detective Edward G. Robinson is so volatile that he manages to get himself thrown off the force in disgrace. The local gangsters are delighted, in that Robinson had been breathing down their necks. When Robinson goes to crime boss Barton MacLaine insisting that he's Read More

Follow the Fleet

Actors: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Harriet Hilliard, Astrid Allwyn

Synopsis: This lesser Astaire/Rogers vehicle is one of several screen versions of the venerable Hubert Osborne stage play Shore Leave. For reasons unknown, Fred and Ginger are virtually supporting players here, spending most of their time trying to patch up the romance between Fred's fellow sailor Randolph Scott Read More

Hollywood Boulevard

Actors: John Halliday, Marsha Hunt, Robert Cummings, C. Henry Gordon, Frieda Inescort

Synopsis: Hollywood Boulevard is a trenchant look at the underside of Tinseltown. Though the nominal hero is a disillusioned screenwriter played by Robert Cummings (whose dialogue anticipates the lines spoken by William Holden in 1950's Sunset Boulevard), the focus of the story is John Halliday as a Read More

Hitch Hike to Heaven

Actors: Henrietta Crosman, Herbert Rawlinson, Russell Gleason, Polly Ann Young, Al Shean

Synopsis: Virtually all of the Chesterfield Pictures efforts of the 1930s served as starring vehicles for Hollywood's best character actors. It was Henrietta Crossman who headed the cast of the 1936 Chesterfield production Hitch Hike to Heaven, sharing star billing with former silent-movie matinee idol Herbert Rawlinson Read More

Something to Sing About

Actors: James Cagney, Evelyn Daw, William Frawley, Mona Barrie, Gene Lockhart

Synopsis: Battling Hoofer is the reissue title of the 1936 James Cagney vehicle Something to Sing About. Cagney plays Terry Rooney, a New York bandleader who heads to Hollywood when he is offered a movie contract. The down-to-Earth Rooney resists the "star treatment," an attitude misinterpreted by movie Read More

Ticket to Paradise

Actors: Roger Pryor, Wendy Barrie, Andrew Tombes, Luis Alberni

Synopsis: In this comedy, an amnesiac takes off with a young woman. This causes the woman's father to hire a detective to find them. Real mayhem ensues when a nightclub owner/gangster gets involved. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Son Comes Home

Actors: Mary Boland, Julie Haydon, Donald Woods, Wallace Ford, Roger Imhof

Synopsis: This crime drama is set in the fictional San Francisco eatery, Mary Grady's Chowder House which is presided over by the crusty Mary, a tough broad with a marshmallow heart. One of her regulars is a newspaper reporter who decides to write about the widow Grady's long lost son who disappeared Read More

Mad Holiday

Actors: Edmund Lowe, Elissa Landi, ZaSu Pitts, Ted Healy, Edmund Gwenn

Synopsis: The overlong but absorbing MGM "B" melodrama Mad Holiday stars Edmund Lowe as vacationing movie idol Philip Trent. Tired of starring in murder mysteries, Trent discovers he can't escape typecasting even on an ocean voyage: one of the passengers is murdered in our hero's cabin. The killing is tied Read More

Dancing Feet

Actors: Ben Lyon, Joan Marsh, Eddie Nugent, Isabel Jewell, James Burke

Synopsis: Dancing Feet stars Joan Marsh as Judy, a society deb who lands a job as a dime-a-dance girl to spite her wealthy grandfather (Purnell Pratt). While her fiancé Peyton (Ben Lyon) stews, Judy strikes up a friendship with Jimmy (Eddie Nugent), a bellhop who aspires to become a vaudeville dancer. Judy Read More

Show Them No Mercy!

Actors: Rochelle Hudson, Cesar Romero, Bruce Cabot, Edward Norris, Edward S. Brophy

Synopsis: Taking refuge from a rainstorm in a deserted farmhouse, young married couple Joe and Loretta Martin (Edward Norris and Rochelle Hudson) soon discover to their horror that the house is being used as a hideout for a gang of kidnappers. Gang leader Tobey (Cesar Romero), a comparatively reasonable Read More

The People's Enemy

Actors: Preston S. Foster, Lila Lee, Melvyn Douglas, Shirley Grey, Roscoe Ates

Synopsis: Preston S. Foster is the "hero" of The People's Enemy only in the sense that his is the largest male role. Foster plays a detestable gangster who works his way up to millionaire status. To gain a veneer of respectability, he marries lovely Lila Lee. But when the going gets rough, he deserts both Read More

Convention Girl

Actors: Rose Hobart, Weldon Heyburn, Sally O'Neil, Herbert Rawlinson

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Atlantic City, Convention Girl is the story of Babe Laval (Rose Hobart), whose job it is to keep out-of-town conventioneers entertained during their visits to the New Jersey resort town. Though Babe has a tough veneer, she's a good girl at heart, hoping someday to escape the Read More

Men Without Names

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Madge Evans, Lynne Overman, David Holt, John Wray

Synopsis: The title refers to those special government agents who go undercover to flush out criminal gangs. In his second starring role, Fred MacMurray plays a government man who travels incognito as he trails a team of crooks from Brooklyn to Kansas. Lynne Overman is MacMurray's easygoing partner, who Read More

Confidential

Actors: Donald Cook, Evelyn Knapp, Warren Hymer, J. Carrol Naish, Herbert Rawlinson

Synopsis: Treasury agent Dave Elliot (Donald Cook) dedicates himself to smashing a crime syndicate, especially after his best friend is killed by the mob. This requires Elliot to go undercover, posing as a criminal. He gains the confidence of sadistic mob gunman Lefty (J. Carroll Naish), and it's Read More

Enlighten Thy Daughter

Actors: Herbert Rawlinson, Charles Eaton, Claire Whitney, Edmund MacDonald

Synopsis: The late "B"-picture historian Don Miller once referred to the "teenage sex" exploitationers of the 1930s as the "Enlighten Thy Daughter-type film." A remake of the 1917 picture of the same name, the 1934 version of Enlighten thy Daughter stars Herbert Rawlinson as Dr. Richard Stevenson, who for Read More

Moonlight and Pretzels

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Mary Brian, Roger Pryor, Herbert Rawlinson, Bobby Watson

Synopsis: Vaudeville performer George Dwight (Roger Pryor) finds himself stranded in the small town of Walkerville, and talks his way into a job at a music store owned by Sally Upton (Mary Brian). Dwight's personality and piano playing, and his way with plugging a song help make the store a success, but his Read More

Burning Gold

Actors: Herbert Rawlinson, Mildred Harris, Shirley Palmer

Synopsis: Herbert Rawlinson, a star on the downgrade, headed the cast of the independently produced Burning Gold. Most of the action is set amidst the oil wells of Oklahoma, as courageous digger Rawlinson races against the clock to bring in a gusher. Complicating matters are Rawlinson's romantic Read More

Wages of Conscience

Actors: John Ince, Herbert Rawlinson, Grace Darmond

Synopsis: Wages of Conscience was something of a halfway house for several faded film favorites, including John Ince (who also directed), Herbert Rawlinson and Grace Darmond. When her sweetheart Rawlinson is framed on a murder charge, Darmond is forced to marry Ince, a man she does not love. The woman dies Read More

Bugle Call

Actors: Jackie Coogan, Claire Windsor, Herbert Rawlinson, Tom O'Brien, Harry Todd

Synopsis: Little Jackie Coogan, Charlie Chaplin's famous The Kid(1921), starred in this action melodrama from MGM as a young bugler whose stepmother (Claire Windsor) attempts to supplant the mother who only lives in his memory. According to the Motion Picture New Booking Guide, The Bugle Call, which Read More

Hour of Reckoning

Actors: John Ince, Herbert Rawlinson, Grace Darmond, Harry Von Meter

Synopsis: John Ince, the brother of pioneering Hollywood mogul Thomas Ince, was producer, director and star of The Hour of Reckoning. The plot concerns an elderly inventor, whose precious blueprints are appropriated illegally by the crooked owner of a safe-manufacturing company. The villain's honest Read More

Belle of Broadway

Actors: Betty Compson, Herbert Rawlinson, Edith Yorke, Armand Kaliz

Synopsis: Set during the turn of the century, The Belle of Broadway starts out in Paris, where celebrated stage star Madame Adele (Edith Yorke) is making her debut in "DuBarry." During the performance, Mme. Adele's musician husband abruptly walks out of the theater, never to return. The husband takes their Read More

The Gilded Butterfly

Actors: Alma Rubens, Bert Lytell, Huntly Gordon, Herbert Rawlinson, Vera Lewis

Synopsis: Alma Rubens, a hauntingly beautiful silent screen actress whose career was cut short by drug addiction, stars in The Gilded Butterfly. Rubens plays Linda Haverhill, who has been raised to be a golddigger by her mercenary father. While vacationing in Monte Carlo, she loses her heart to handsome Read More

Men of the Night

Actors: Gareth Hughes, Herbert Rawlinson, Wanda Hawley, Lucy Beaumont

Synopsis: According to critics of the day, the sentimentality of this crook drama was a bit too much even for the 1920s, when mother love was viewed with extreme reverence. A pair of thieves, J. Rupert Doods (Herbert Rawlinson) and Dick Foster (Gareth Hughes), are on the lam from the cops when they meet Read More

Millionaire Policeman

Actors: Herbert Rawlinson, Eva Novak

Synopsis: Long before such TV series as Burke's Law, Herbert Rawlinson played the title role in Millionaire Policeman. Considered a pampered pantywaist by his fellow police officers, rich-man's-son Rawlinson tries to prove his worth, but he lacks the nerve to do the job. A climactic fire allows Rawlinson to Read More

Slipping Wives

Synopsis: A love-starved wife (Priscilla Dean) hires a dim-witted delivery man (Stan Laurel) to make love to her and revive the waning interest of her eccentric artist husband (Herbert Rawlinson). As might be expected, the makeshift gigolo manages to foul things up, disastrously confusing the identities of Read More

Everyman's Wife

Actors: Elaine Hammerstein, Herbert Rawlinson, Robert Cain, Dorothy Phillips, Diana Miller

Synopsis: Not long after their honeymoon, Mr. Randolph and Mrs. Randolph (Herbert Rawlinson and Elaine Hammerstein) begin having a series of arguments. The latest is over a cat: She loves the creatures, he doesn't. One day Randolph is chasing a cat away from his yard and his neighbor, Mrs. Bradin (Dorothy Read More

The Adventurous Sex

Actors: Clara Bow, Herbert Rawlinson, Earle Williams, Harry T. Morey, Mabel Beck

Synopsis: This overwrought program drama was given a racy title to promote the up-and-coming Clara Bow, but all it really did for her career was keep her face in the public eye. Patricia Webster (Bow) feels that she is being neglected by her boyfriend, Rodney Adams (Herbert Rawlinson), who spends more time Read More

The Flame Fighter

Synopsis: Released in ten chapters by low-budget Beacon Films, The Flame Fighter starred one of the silent era's better serial heroes, Herbert Rawlinson, as Jack Sparks, a fireman battling corruption within the department and a gang of smugglers operating out of the San Pedro harbor, where most of the Read More

Unnamed Woman

Actors: Leah Baird, Katherine MacDonald, Wanda Hawley, John Miljan, Herbert Rawlinson

Synopsis: The Unnamed Woman stars veteran film player Leah Baird, who also wrote the script. The actress plays the greedy, covetous wife of wealthy businessman Herbert Rawlinson. Unhappy with his mercenary spouse, Rawlinson begins keeping time with Katherine MacDonald. Though the relationship is quite Read More

The Man in Blue

Synopsis: Awarded a higher budget than usual, Edward Laemmle, yet another relative of studio founder Carl Laemmle, directed this melodrama based on The Flower of Napoli by Gerald Beaumont. Herbert Rawlinson plays Tom Conlin, an Irish cop in an Italian neighborhood who falls in love with Tita (Madge Read More

The Prairie Wife

Actors: Dorothy Devore, Herbert Rawlinson, Gibson Gowland

Synopsis: Silent screen comedienne Dorothy Devore left comedy producer Al Christie with hopes of going dramatic. She succeeded -- at least for a while -- and The Prairie Wife was probably her finest hour. Devore plays an impoverished society girl who marries a wealthy rancher (Herbert Rawlinson) for his Read More

My Neighbor's Wife

Actors: E.K. Lincoln, Helen Ferguson, Edwards Davis, Herbert Rawlinson, William Russell

Synopsis: Jack Newberry (E.K. Lincoln) is the millionaire's son who tries to become a Hollywood filmmaker in this melodrama. His father advances him $40,000 to make the picture with the understanding the feature must make a profit. The feature takes several comic looks at the industry, with William Russell Read More

High Speed

Actors: Herbert Rawlinson, Carmelita Geraghty, Otto Hoffman, Bert Roach

Synopsis: Based on a 1918 magazine serial by Fred Jackson, this typical silent-action melodrama from Universal starred Herbert Rawlinson as Hi Moreland, a handsome athlete battling with a wealthy but insipid rival for the attention of pretty Marjorie Holbrook (Carmelita Geraghty), the daughter of a bank Read More

Tomboy

Synopsis: This mediocre comedy relies on the stereotypical concept of country rubes for much of its humor. The village tomboy, appropriately named Tommy Smith (Dorothy Devore), runs a boarding house. A city visitor, Aldon Farwell (Herbert Rawlinson), comes to stay at the Smiths,' and Tommy finds out that he Read More

Dancing Cheat

Actors: Herbert Rawlinson, Alice Lake, Robert Walker, Jim Blackwell, Edwin J. Brady

Synopsis: Herbert Rawlinson and Alice Lake star in this uneven drama taken from the Saturday Evening Post story by Calvin Johnston. Harmon McGregor attempts to provide comedy relief as Moron Mike. Robert Walker, Jim Blackwell, and Edwin J. Bradley co-star in this monotonous melodrama. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Read More

Jack O'Clubs

Synopsis: Herbert Rawlinson starred in this silent, action melodrama based on Gerald Beaumont's Red Book Magazine serial. A tough neighborhood cop, John Francis Foley loses his nerve when he believes that he almost killed Tillie Miller (Ruth Dwyer), the girl he loves. In reality, Tillie's injuries were Read More

Dark Stairways

Actors: Herbert Rawlinson

Synopsis: Universal luminary Herbert Rawlinson, whose star was on the wane by 1924, has the lead in this rather predictable murder mystery. Although Sheldon Polk (Rawlinson) is only a bank cashier, his extravagant ways reveal that his father is the man who owns the bank. Frank Farnsworth (Hayden Stevenson) Read More

Victor

Actors: Herbert Rawlinson, Dorothy Manners, Esther Ralston, Eddie Gribbon

Synopsis: This mediocre comedy-drama starred Herbert Rawlinson as an impoverished nobleman turned pugilist. Lord Waring (Frank Currier) is broke so he sends his son Cecil (Rawlinson) to America to marry a girl from a wealthy family. Cecil is less than thrilled with the situation, especially after meeting Read More

The Clean Up

Actors: Herbert Rawlinson, Claire Adams, Claire Anderson, Herbert Fortier, Margaret Campbell

Synopsis: Lively Universal star Herbert Rawlinson may have been past his prime, but he still made a good showing in this pleasant comedy-drama, which had a story written by H.H. Van Loan. Carefree Monte Bixby (Rawlinson) is dismayed to discover that his wealthy grandfather has left him but one dollar -- and Read More

The Prisoner

Actors: Herbert Rawlinson, Eileen Percy, George Cowl, June Elvidge, Lincoln Stedman

Synopsis: It seems like nearly everything written by George Barr McCutcheon found its way to the silent screen. Castle Craneycrow was one of his lesser novels, and this Universal picture starring the studio's matinee idol Herbert Rawlinson as the dashing hero, was one of the lesser adaptations. While on a Read More

His Mystery Girl

Actors: Herbert Rawlinson

Synopsis: Although Herbert Rawlinson's acting talents never received great notices, he was well-cast in this blend of mystery and farce. Kerry Reynolds (Rawlinson) hates women and takes life very seriously. One day he comes home to find his brother Dick (Ralph McCullough) throwing a wild party. Dick Read More

Million to Burn

Actors: Herbert Rawlinson

Synopsis: Fading Universal star Herbert Rawlinson, whose acting ability was never one of his strong points, shows a surprising flair for comedy in this lighthearted farce. He also has help from ex-wrestler and Mack Sennett alumnus Kalla Pasha. Rawlinson is Thomas Gwynne, a college graduate who goes to work Read More

The Scarlet Car

Actors: Edward Cecil, Tom McGuire, Herbert Rawlinson, Marc Robbins

Synopsis: This political drama, based on the story by George Randolph Chester, is not related to the 1917 film of the same name. Jim Winthrop (Tom McGuire), who runs the bus line in a small town, backs Ernest Peabody (Edward Cecil) in the mayoral election. At first Winthrop's son Billy (Herbert Rawlinson) Read More

Fools and Riches

Actors: Herbert Rawlinson, Katherine Perry, Tully Marshall, Doris Pawn, Arthur S. Hall

Synopsis: Herbert Rawlinson is Jimmy Dorgan, the spendthrift son of a wealthy man. John "Pick-Handle" Dorgan (Tully Marshall) earned his fortune through hard work. He's incredulous when Jimmy flips a 20-dollar gold piece, loses a car and 5,000 dollars, and then doesn't even pick the coin up off the ground. Read More

Railroaded

Actors: Herbert Rawlinson, Esther Ralston, Alfred Fisher, David Torrence, Lionel Belmore

Synopsis: Richard (Herbert Rawlinson), the son of Judge Garbin (David Torrence), is railroaded into prison. He angrily swears vengeance against Corton (Mike Donlin), the man who sent him and his prison mate up the river. Escaping, he returns to his father, who sends him to finish out his prison term at the Read More

Nobody's Bride

Actors: Herbert Rawlinson, Edna Murphy, Alice Lake, Frank Brownlee

Synopsis: Herbert Rawlinson is the star of this mediocre crime drama from Universal. When his father's business fails, Jimmy Nevins (Herbert Rawlinson) hits the skids. His fiancée, Doris Standish (Edna Murphy), dumps him for a wealthy suitor. Nevins is saved from the streets by Mary Butler (Alice Lake), who Read More

The Scrapper

Synopsis: Just about all the major players in this romance were miscast here; in the 1920s heavy ethnic characterizations (offensive as they may seem nowadays) were the norm and none of the stars were even remotely Irish. In addition, the plot, based on R. G. Kirk's Saturday Evening Post story "Malloy Read More

Man under Cover

Actors: Herbert Rawlinson, George Hernandez, William Courtwright, George Webb

Synopsis: Universal bragged that this standard crime melodrama was written by Louis Victor Eytinge, a "lifer" at the Arizona state prison. Herbert Rawlinson plays Paul Porter, who has just gotten out of the joint and, along with his pal Daddy Moffat (George Hernandez), goes back to his home town in a search Read More

Confidence

Synopsis: This comedy is in a similar vein to the popular Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, which was released the year before. Herbert Rawlinson plays salesman Bob Mortimer, who loses his job but finds he is wealthy when he picks up what he believes to be his valise and finds it stuffed with a million dollars. Read More

Black Bag

Actors: Herbert Rawlinson, Virginia Valli, Bert Roach, Charles King

Synopsis: This mystery is based on the novel by Louis Joseph Vance. While on vacation, Billy Kirkwood (Herbert Rawlinson) meets pretty Dorothy Calender (Virginia Valli) when she dashes alone into the restaurant where he is dining. Dorothy, who is in possession of a valuable necklace, is trying to avoid a Read More

Another Man's Shoes

Synopsis: Pleasant-looking British-born Herbert Rawlinson starred in this silent comedy-drama as look-alike cousins Stuart Granger and Jack Burton. When wealthy but crooked businessman Granger gets in trouble with a gang of criminals, he switches identity with the unsuspecting Burton. After escaping several Read More

One Wonderful Night

Synopsis: As a cheap programmer, this romantic mystery had little to recommend it. Star Herbert Rawlinson overacts as John D. Curtis, who mistakenly picks up an overcoat belonging to someone else. In its pocket he finds a marriage license and tracks down the girl, Hermoine Fane (Lillian Rich), whose name is Read More

Don't Shoot

Actors: Herbert Rawlinson, William J. Dyer, Wade Boteler, Margaret Campbell, Edna Murphy

Synopsis: Universal star Herbert Rawlinson has the lead in this rather unusual romantic crime drama. James Harrington Court (Rawlinson) is a crook whose talent as a safecracker is well known. But one night he breaks into the wrong house and is discovered by the owner. The owner, however, doesn't think that Read More

The Conflict

Actors: Priscilla Dean, Martha Mattox, Hector V. Sarno, Herbert Rawlinson

Synopsis: Priscilla Dean, Universal's most popular leading lady of the early twenties, heads the cast of Conflict. Compelled by family loyalty to live with her uncle, evil lumber baron Ed Connelly, Dean incurs the jealous wrath of Connelly's housekeeper Martha Mattox. After nearly suffering an "accidental" Read More

The Millionaire

Actors: Herbert Rawlinson, Bert Roach, William Courtwright, Verne Winter, Lillian Rich

Synopsis: After spending quite a long while as a leading man, Herbert Rawlinson was upped to star status by Universal. Jack Norman (Rawlinson) is an office clerk who falls in love with co-worker Kate Blair, a stenographer (Lillian Rich). He gets fired from his job but before this can really sink in, he Read More

Charge It

Actors: Clara Kimball Young, Herbert Rawlinson, Edward M. Kimball, Betty Blythe, Nigel Barrie

Synopsis: Though made over seventy years ago, Charge It tells a story that will be all too familiar to the Yuppie generation. Clara Kimball Young plays the wife of just-getting-by businessman Herbert Rawlinson. When Rawlinson is promoted into a higher-paying position, the previously frugal Young goes on a Read More

Playthings of Destiny

Actors: Anita Stewart, Herbert Rawlinson, Walter McGrail, Grace Morse, William V. Mong

Synopsis: Popular silent star Anita Stewart is the draw in this soap opera-like feature. Julie Laneau, a French-Canadian girl (Stewart) weds distinguished Englishman Geoffrey Arnold (Herbert Rawlinson) and soon enough, she is expecting. But then she is told that Arnold is already married to a woman, Claire Read More

Wealth

Actors: Ethel Clayton, Herbert Rawlinson, Lawrence Steers, George Periolat

Synopsis: Cosmo Hamilton, a popular author of the era, wrote the novel on which this drama was based. During a train trip, Mary McLeod (Ethel Clayton) loses her purse and her ticket, and Phillip Dominick (Herbert Rawlinson) comes to her rescue by offering her his drawing room, while he sleeps in the smoking Read More

Cheated Hearts

Actors: Herbert Rawlinson, Warner Baxter, Marjorie Daw, Doris Pawn, Winter Hall

Synopsis: Although the story to this drama -- based on the novel, Barry Gordon, by William F. Payson -- was ludicrous, female filmgoers were still able to admire the virile good looks of star Herbert Rawlinson. Rawlinson is Barry Gordon, who has inherited a love of drink from his father (Joseph Swickard). Read More

Man and His Woman

Synopsis: Director J. Stuart Blackton was a cinema pioneer, but by 1920, the kind of heavy, self-righteous melodrama he specialized in was outdated. Here, he tells the story of Dr. John Worthing (Herbert Rawlinson), who is diligently working on a serum for tuberculosis when he discovers that his sweetheart Read More

Back to the Woods

Synopsis: In her fifth film for producer Samuel Goldwyn, elfin comedienne Mabel Normand was cast as bored heiress Stephanie Trent. Unimpressed by the crop of men on the Eastern seaboard, Stephanie heads to a remote forest community, adopting an assumed name and taking a job as the local schoolmarm. Here she Read More

Flash of Fate

Synopsis: Randolph Shorb (Herbert Rawlinson) and his father have always been on the level when it comes to business. Their competitors, however, lack such high-minded scruples and ruin the pair. The father commits suicide and Randolph becomes bitter and ruthless, out only for the money and nothing else Read More

Smashing Through

Synopsis: Young prospector Hod Mason (Herbert Rawlinson) decides to call it quits when land promoter Marco (Neal Hart) offers to purchase his claim for a ridiculously low sum. Upon learning that he's been cheated by Marco, Mason chases after the crook, catching up with him in a small Midwestern town. Read More

Brace Up

Synopsis: The motivating factor of the Universal five-reeler Brace Up was the then-new science of Psychology -- or, as it was labelled here, "Mental Inspiration." Hero Henry Court (Herbert Rawlinson) is very much his parents' child, having inherited the predominant character traits of both his go-getting Read More

Kiss or Kill

Synopsis: Henry Warner (Herbert Rawlinson) is so broke that he has sold his overcoat and now his landlady won't leave him alone about the rent. When he sees a wallet sticking out of a rich man's pocket, he's desperate enough to steal it. The police give pursuit, and Henry winds up in someone's study. The Read More

Man Trap

Synopsis: Since Herbert Rawlinson's fans craved action, Mr. Rawlinson was ever eager to please. In fact, there was so much action in the star's 1917 vehicle Man Trap that there was barely any time left over for plot. To cover up the activities of a crooked political machine, the powers-that-be contrive to Read More

Scarlet Crystal

Synopsis: A young society man (Herbert Rawlinson) decides to marry a nice country girl (Betty Schade) instead of his Follies girlfriend (Dorothy Davenport). But he can't seem to stay away from his old pals and their wild ways, which apparently include such "shocking" vices as smoking cigarettes and drinking Read More

Flirting with Death

Synopsis: Billy "Sky-High" Wardwell (Herbert Rawlinson) and his pal "Domino" Dominick (Frank McQuarrie) are veteran sideshow hucksters who make a good living clipping the yokels with phony gold watches and "fixed" games of chance. When the Law finally catches up with them, Sky-High and Domino are thrown in Read More

Come Through

Synopsis: Velma Gay (Alice Lake) gets engaged to Buck Linsay (Roy Stewart), a rich Westerner, even though she loves someone else. Buck knows this, and when a burglar breaks into the house the evening before they are to be wed, he assumes the crook is Velma's lover and forces them to marry. The burglar Read More

Like Wildfire

Synopsis: Pretty Nina Potter (Neva Gerber) runs the local five and dime owned by her father (Johnnie Cook). When she turns down a marriage proposal, Tobias, the rejected suitor (Howard Crampton), makes arrangements with Buckman (L.M. Wells), the owner of a large chain of five and dimes, to open a store in Read More

High Sign

The Black Box [Serial]

Actors: Herbert Rawlinson, Anna Little, Laura Oakley, William Worthington

The Opened Shutters

Synopsis: Pioneering woman director Lois Weber scripted the 4-reel The Opened Shutters from a novel by Clara Louise Burnham. The title refers symbolically to the invisible shutters people construct around themselves so that their true natures remain hidden to the world. Anna Little stars as an insecure Read More

Damon and Pythias

Synopsis: Otis Turner may have been billed as the "dean of American directors," but he was no D.W.Griffith. Even so, Turner did a good job with the epic excesses of the multireel Universal costumer Damon and Pythias. Based chiefly on a novel by Edward Bullwer-Lytton, the story is the familiar one about two Read More

Her Only Son

Synopsis: Produced by the Italian Ambrosio company, Her Only Son manages to squeeze its entire narrative into a slim two reels. The heroine, a careworn Italian woman, works her fingers to the bone so as to provide an expensive education for her son. He returns the favor by inviting her to move in with him Read More

The Sea Wolf

Actors: Jack London

Synopsis: This first film version of Jack London's The Sea Wolf starred Hobart Bosworth (who also produced and directed the picture) as the tyrannical Wolf Larsen. Subscribing to the philosophy set forth by Satan in John Milton's Paradise Lost -- "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven" -- Larsen Read More

The Child of the Sea

Synopsis: A silent melodrama produced by the Selig Polyscope Company, The Child of the Sea starred Kathlyn Williams as a girl who saves the assistant lighthouse keeper (Harold Lockwood) from being disgraced by a rival. The latter was played by Herbert Rawlinson, a handsome actor from England whose screen Read More