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Synopsis: This comedy makes fun of Castro's take-over of Cuba. The story is set upon the mythical Caribbean island of Hondo-Rico, which is suffering a similar military coupe until 26 pink Jeeps filled with beautiful women, wine and exotic food arrive to distract the soldiers from their mission. The ploy Read More
Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown was nearing the end of his starring career when he appeared in the Monogram oater Dead Man's Trail. Brown and his youthful sidekick Jimmy Ellison come to the aid of imperiled Barbara Allen. At this point, Johnny was too long in tooth and thick around the middle to qualify as a Read More
Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, James Ellison, Lois Hall, Lorna Thayer, Lane Bradford
Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown substitutes brains for brawn during most of Texas City. Cast once more as a U.S. marshal, Johnny investigates when several government gold shipments are hijacked. Someone has been tipping of the outlaws as to when and where the supposedly secret shipments will take place. The Read More
Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, James Ellison, Rand Brooks, Lane Bradford, I. Stanford Jolley
Synopsis: As other "B"-western series kept dropping like flies in 1952, Johnny Mack Brown kept grinding 'em out for Monogram. In Man From Black Hills, Johnny tries to help locate his saddle pal Jim Fallan's (James Ellison) long-lost father. Arriving in a small mining town, Johnny and Jim discover that Jim's Read More
Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, James Ellison, Noel Neill, Lee Roberts
Synopsis: Though ready for release in 1951, Whistling Hills ended up as western star Johnny Mack Brown's first entry for 1952. This time, Johnny comes to the aid of sheriff Dave Holland (Jimmy Ellison) when a band of stagecoach robbers plague the countryside. The masked bandits use the "whistling hills," a Read More
Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, James Ellison, Lee Roberts, Lane Bradford
Synopsis: Texas Lawmen was one of the shortest entries in Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown series, running a scant 54 minutes. This time, Brown is hunting for three desperate criminals. Fortunately for Our Hero, two of the crooks -- Bart and Steve Morrow (Stan Jolley and Lee Roberts) -- are father and son, on Read More
Actors: Jerry Colonna, Jean Porter, James Ellison, Fritz Feld, Raymond Hatton
Synopsis: From the opening credits onward, bombastic comedian Jerry Colonna dominates the proceedings in Kentucky Jubilee. Colonna plays second-rate entertainer Jerry Harris, who links up with aspiring singer Sally Shannon (Jean Porter) and hotshot reporter Jeff Benson (James Ellison). The trio heads to the Read More
Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown goes up against a lady bank robber in this average Mack Brown series late-entry from Monogram. The lady, played by Barbara Allen, is of course called "Ma." In order to get the goods on "Ma" and her "brood," Mack Brown must masquerade as a lone bandit. The ruse works up to a point Read More
Actors: James Ellison, Russell Hayden, Raymond Hatton, Fuzzy Knight, Betty Adams
Synopsis: Crooked River is another of Lippert Studio's "Four Star" western series. These six films were shot back-to-back in the space of a month; all were directed by Thomas Carr, and all starred Russell "Lucky" Hayden, Jimmy "Shamrock" Ellison, Raymond Hatton, Fuzzy Knight and Betty (later Julie) Adams. Read More
Synopsis: Sudden Death is the TV title of the 55-minute western Fast on the Draw. Colorado Ranger Jimmy Ellison has a phobia about handling guns, but it's his job to keep the peace. So Ellison poses as a famous gunslinger, hoping to intimidate a crooked land baron into capitulation. There comes a time in Read More
Actors: Evelyn Ankers, James Ellison, Lee "Lasses" White, Ruth Whitney, Jack Ingram
Synopsis: There are those who consider Texan Meets Calamity Jane as one of the worst westerns ever made. It isn't really, but neither is it one of the best. Evelyn Ankers stars as a highly glamorized Calamity Jane, while James Ellison is the Texan of the title, a tenderfoot lawyer named Gordon Hastings. Read More
Synopsis: Though released second, Hostile Country was the first of six "Four Star" westerns, filmed back to back within the space of four weeks by Lippert Productions. Starring in all six of these quickie oaters are Jimmie Ellison and Russell Hayden as a couple of wandering cavaliers named Shamrock and Read More
Actors: James Ellison, Russell Hayden, Raymond Hatton, Fuzzy Knight
Synopsis: Fast on the Draw was one of six Lippert Studios "Four Star" westerns, all of which were filmed simultaneously in the space of a single month. Jimmy Ellison plays Shamrock, a Colorado Ranger who suffers from a fear of firearms. Despite this handicap, Shamrock is assigned to pose as a gunman, the Read More
Actors: James Ellison, Raymond Hatton, Fuzzy Knight
Synopsis: West of the Brazos was one of six westerns filmed back-to-back within a single month by Lippert Studios in 1950. All of these films starred Russ "Lucky" Hayden, Jimmy "Shamrock" Ellson, Raymond Hatton, Fuzzy Knight and Betty (later Julie) Adams. In Brazos, "Lucky" and "Shamrock" try to foil the Read More
Synopsis: After his parents are killed, a cowboy vows to avenge their deaths. (AKA Crooked River) ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: In a season that also brought the world such cinematic confessions as I Shot Jesse James (1949) and I Shot Billy the Kid (1950), both from low-budget Lippert Productions, rival producer Jack Schwarz released I Killed Geronimo, starring former "Hopalong Cassidy" sidekick James Ellison. Going Read More
Synopsis: Colorado Ranger was the third in Lippert Studio's six-film "Four Star Western" series. All six entries were filmed simultaneously within the same month, and all starred Russell "Lucky" Hayden, James "Shamock" Ellison, Raymond Hatton, Fuzzy Knight, and Betty (later Julie) Adams. In this Read More
Synopsis: Blazing Guns is the television title of the Lippert Studios western Marshal of Helldorado. Jimmie Ellison and Russell Hayden star as perennial frontier do-gooders Shamrock and Lucky. This time, our heroes come to the assistance of banker Raymond Hatton, who is being blackmailed by an outlaw band Read More
Synopsis: In this western, a cowpoke and his pardner take off to see his step daddy and wind up embroiled in a range war. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: Marshal of Heldorado is one of six "Four-Star" westerns produced and released by Lippert Pictures in 1950. If these six films tend to look alike, it isn't surprising. All six were filmed at the same time within a space of four weeks, and all starred Russell "Lucky" Hayden, Jimmy "Shamrock" Read More
Actors: James Ellison, Mary Beth Hughes, Jane Frazee, Douglas Dumbrille, James Millican
Synopsis: By the none-too-exacting standards of Screen Guild Productions, Last of the Wild Horses is practically an "A" picture. James Ellison plays Duke Barnum, an innocent soul who is set up as the fall guy for duplicitious horse-ranch foreman Riley (Reed Hadley). When ranch owner Charlie Cooper (Douglass Dumbrille Read More
Synopsis: The Ghost Goes Wild is a low-cost but high-rolling farce starring James Ellison and Anne Gwynne. It starts off with Ellison, a young artist, being sued for an unauthorized caricature. To escape arrest, Ellison disguises himself as a mystic, only to conjure up a genuine ghost during a seance. Read More
Actors: Charles Arnt, Jane Frazee, William Marshall, James Ellison, Gail Patrick, Kenny Baker, Janet Martin, Victor McLaglen
Synopsis: In this Republic musical, all heck breaks loose when the girlfriend of an aspiring composer becomes a model for the starving artist who lives next door. The story takes place at the turn of the 19th century and is set in Miss Rich's boardinghouse, the temporary home of many young artists and Read More
Actors: Robert Armstrong, Louis Austin, Stephanie Bachelor, Virginia Carroll, Harry Davenport
Synopsis: Republic Pictures certainly didn't believe in obscure or misleading film titles, as G.I. War Brides amply proves. Ann Lee plays Linda Powell, a British lass who desires to enter the United States without dealing with the immigration authorities. To this end, Linda trades places with Joyce Giles Read More
Actors: James Ellison, Wanda McKay, June Clyde, Ralph Morgan, Franklin Pangborn
Synopsis: Hollywood and Vine is set in a drugstore located at the intersection of the title. James Ellison plays a successful screenwriter who likes to do his research first-hand. Assigned to write a film about Hollywood hopefuls, Ellison gets a job as a drugstore soda jerk. Wanda McKay plays Daisy, a Read More
Actors: Belita, James Ellison, Walter Catlett
Synopsis: Singing, dancing, and ice skating are featured in this musical that focuses on ice-skating sensation Belita. The story begins as she travels to a California resort where she has been hired as a replacement for a dance team. The resort is run by a handsome fellow. As a result of the gig, the skater Read More
Actors: Simone Simon, James Ellison, William Terry, Minna Gombell, Chick Chandler
Synopsis: The sparkling screwball comedy And So They Were Married was originally released as Johnny Doesn't Live Here Any More. French-Canadian girl Simone Simon leases a Washington DC apartment from Marine William Terry. Since the Nation's Capital is overcrowded (wartime, don't you know), Simon must put up Read More
Actors: James Ellison, Charlotte Greenwood, Charlie Ruggles, Lois Andrews, Helene Reynolds
Synopsis: Lois Andrews, best known in 1943 as the ex-wife of comedian Georgie Jessel, plays the title character in this cinemadaptation of Joseph P. McEvoy's popular comic strip Dixie Dugan. Swept up in the war effort, Dixie gets a job as secretary to government official Roger Hudson (James Ellison). Though Read More
Actors: Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, Charlotte Greenwood, James Ellison, Eugene Pallette, Edward Everett Horton, Phil Baker
Synopsis: Sgt. Andy Mason Jr. (James Ellison) is on the eve of shipping out from New York with his unit -- he's the son of Andrew Mason Sr. (Eugene Pallette), a wealthy, blustery Wall Street financier. While paying respects to his father and the latter's business partner, dithering fuss-budget Peyton Potter Read More
Actors: Tom Conway, Frances Dee, James Ellison, Edith Barrett, Christine Gordon, James Bell
Synopsis: RKO producer Val Lewton seemed to thrive upon taking the most lurid film titles and coming up with pocket-edition works of art. Saddled with the studio-dictated title I Walked With a Zombie, Lewton, together with scripters Curt Siodmak and Ardel Wray, concocted a West Indies variation on Jane Read More
Actors: James Ellison, Heather Angel, John Howard, Bramwell Fletcher, Heather Thatcher
Synopsis: One of two 20th Century-Fox horror melodramas released in 1942 (Dr. Renault's Secret was the second), The Undying Monster is a well-crafted variation on Universal's "Wolf Man" series. Ever since the suicide of its patriarch, the Hammonds, an old and wealthy English family has seemingly lived under Read More
Actors: Virginia Gilmore, James Ellison, Dan Duryea, Janis Carter, Alma Kruger
Synopsis: That Other Woman in this 20th Century-Fox programmer turns out to be Emily (Virginia Gilmore), faithful secretary to master architect Henry Summers (James Ellison). Hoping to trap her boss into marriage, Emily begins sending "mash notes" to Henry, purportedly from a mysterious female admirer. She Read More
Actors: James Ellison, Virginia Gilmore, Franklin Pangborn, Paul Harvey, Lynne Carver
Synopsis: The Carter Case was the second and last Republic film based on the popular radio series Mister District Attorney. Like the first entry, this one is played mostly for laughs, with Radio's Mister District Attorney. James Ellison replacing Dennis O'Keefe as feckless assistant DA P. Cadwallader Jones. Read More
Actors: Virginia Bruce, James Ellison, Aubrey Mather, Sheila Ryan, Ralph Byrd
Synopsis: In this espionage movie, set in Washington during WW II, the daughter of an ex-senator has become a dress model. She is approached by an American counter-espionage agent who offers her a chance to serve her country. The carefree son of a naval official receives a similar offer. He is asked to Read More
Actors: James Ellison, Jane Wyatt, Kent Taylor, James Burke
Synopsis: RKO Radio's Army Surgeon is something of a rarity: A WW2 drama set mostly in WW1. On board a transport ship bound for Europe, middle-aged Army nurse Jane Wyatt flashes back to her experience in the first world conflict. Foremost in her recollections is the romantic triangle involving Wyatt Read More
Actors: James Ellison, Jerry Colonna, Dorothy Lewis, Barbara Jo Allen, Alan Mowbray
Synopsis: By Republic Pictures standards, 1941's Ice-Capades certainly qualifies as an "all-star" film. The many subplots center around a performance of the real-life Ice-Capades skating troupe, featuring such luminaries as Belita, Red McCarthy, Megan Taylor, and future Republic film queen Vera Hruba Read More
Actors: Maureen O'Hara, Gene Raymond, James Ellison, Alberto Vila, Buddy Ebsen, Robert H. Barrat
Synopsis: One of the less laudable results of the United States' wartime "good neighbor" policy with South America was the relentlessly unfunny comedy They Met in Argentina. Looking about as Latin as corned beef and cabbage, Maureen O'Hara stars as spoiled Argentine heiress Lolita, who meets her match in Read More
Actors: Jack Benny, Kay Francis, Anne Baxter, Edmund Gwenn, Richard Haydn, James Ellison
Synopsis: Jack Benny brings his own distinctive touch to Brandon Thomas' venerable (and oft-filmed) stage farce Charley's Aunt. Utilizing a gloriously unconvincing broad-A English accent, Benny is cast as Lord Fancourt Babberly, a somewhat overaged undergraduate at Oxford University. Babbs' roommates Jack Read More
Actors: Kay Francis, James Ellison, Mildred Coles, Nigel Bruce, Margaret Hamilton
Synopsis: A gold-digger facing middle-age decides to pass her special talents on to a younger woman. Her young student learns quickly and is soon raking in the dough from wealthy suckers, but when she falls in love with a handsome Texan, she abandons her golddigging ways. The older woman is appalled that Read More
Actors: Lucille Ball, James Ellison, Robert Coote, Virginia Vale, Emma Dunn
Synopsis: In the RKO programmer You Can't Fool Your Wife, Lucille Ball gets mixed up in a storyline that would have been right at home on her future TV series I Love Lucy. Feeling neglected by her husband Andrew (James Ellison), drab housewife Clara Hinklin (Ball) walks out on him, much to the delight of Read More
Actors: Anne Shirley, James Ellison, Henry Travers, Patric Knowles, George "Slim" Summerville
Synopsis: This sequel to 1934's Anne of Green Gables stars Anne Shirley as Anne Shirley, the plucky Canadian orphan girl created by novelist Lucy Maude Montgomery. Now all grown up, Anne takes on the job of vice-principal of the only school in Windy Poplars Unfortunately, she must contend with the Read More
Actors: Anne Shirley, James Ellison, Barbara Read, Helen Wood
Synopsis: Sorority House is based on Mary Coyle Chase's short story Chi House. Anne Shirley plays a middle-class college student who is pledged to a snooty sorority. As Shirley struggles to qualify for membership, she becomes disillusioned by the prospect when she realizes the shallowness of her wealthy Read More
Actors: Ginger Rogers, Walter Connolly, Veree Teasdale, James Ellison, Tim Holt
Synopsis: A wealthy older man and a poor young woman each get a chance to see how the other half lives in this comedy. Alfred Borden (Walter Connolly) is a millionaire who feels neglected by his family. His wife Martha (Verree Teasdale), daughter Katherine (Kathryn Adams), and son Tim (Tim Holt) usually Read More
Actors: Oliver Hardy, Harry Langdon, Billie Burke, Alice Brady, James Ellison
Synopsis: With comedian Stan Laurel temporarily off his payroll due to a contract dispute, Hal Roach hastily put together a solo starring vehicle for Laurel's longtime partner Oliver Hardy. Digging into his files, Roach pulled out Zenobia's Infidelity, an H.C. Bunner story originally purchased as a vehicle Read More
Actors: Ann Sothern, Linda Darnell, James Ellison, Jean Rogers, Lynn Bari
Synopsis: In this romance, a young woman journeys from Syracuse to New York to see her sweetheart, a prominent architect. She is bitterly disappointed to discover that he has lost interest in her. The residents of the women's hotel at which she stays offer the heartbroken lass words of encouragement. They Read More
Actors: Anne Shirley, Ruby Keeler, James Ellison, Fay Bainter, Walter Brennan
Synopsis: Katharine Hepburn's association with RKO Radio Pictures came to an abrupt end when she refused to star in the studio's adaptation of Kate Douglas Wiggins' sentimental novel Mother Carey's Chickens. Hepburn was replaced by musical-comedy favorite Ruby Keeler, who though woefully miscast did her Read More
Actors: James Ellison, Helen Wood, Robert Kent, Leonard Penn, John Wray
Synopsis: Ace the Wonder Dog, RKO's Rin Tin Tin-wannabe, plays Picardy Max, a mongrel dog adopted by Dan Preston (James Ellison) when both are thrown in jail for vagrancy. Dan's legal problems are quickly done away with but his pretty boarder, Shirley Haddon (Helen Wood), is increasingly troubled by Dan's Read More
Actors: Lucille Ball, James Ellison, Lee Bowman, Granville Bates, Mantan Moreland
Synopsis: The Next Time I Marry stars actress Lucille Ball as an heiress who can only receive her 20 million dollar inheritance by marrying an American citizen. In love with a handsome foreigner, the young heiress marries the first man she comes across--a ditch-digger (James Ellison) whom she intends to Read More
Actors: Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, James Ellison, Beulah Bondi, Charles Coburn
Synopsis: James Stewart and Ginger Rogers were "an item" when Vivacious Lady was filmed, and their obvious real-life affection for one another pours over onto the screen. Stewart plays Peter Morgan, a young botany professor who while on a visit to New York impulsively marries free-spirited nightclub singer Read More
Actors: James Ellison, Terry Walker, Morgan Hill, Arthur Lake, Paul Harvey
Synopsis: Douglas MacLean, who starred in the original 1919 version of this World War I comedy, produced this remake starring James Ellison as Sgt. Gray. One day at training camp, Gray bets his buddies that he'll be having breakfast with the General (Paul Harvey) the next morning. Through a series of comic Read More
Actors: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison, Charles Bickford, Helen Burgess
Synopsis: One is immediately aware that The Plainsman is a Cecil B. DeMille production in the opening scene, wherein President Abraham Lincoln (Frank McGlynn Sr.), on the verge of signing crucial legislation which will determine the future of the American West, is dragged away from his Cabinet by a scolding Read More
Actors: James Ellison, Marsha Hunt, Harry Carey, Anne Hovey
Synopsis: Annapolis Salute is the 1937 remake of RKO's 1933 film Midshipman Jack. Lensed on location at the Annapolis Naval Academy, the film alternates scenes of cadet training with a sentimental romantic story. Essentially, midshipman James Ellison wants to romance officer's daughter Marsha Hunt. He is Read More
Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, James Ellison, George "Gabby" Hayes, Sidney Blackmer
Synopsis: Based on Clarence E. Mulford's Mesquite Jenkins, Tumbleweed from 1932, Heart of the West addresses the issue of fences on the hitherto free range. Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) and Johnny Nelson (James Ellison) have been hired to head a cattle drive by Trumbull (Sidney Blackmer), but then learn Read More
Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, James Ellison, George "Gabby" Hayes, Charlene Wyatt
Synopsis: An above-average "Hopalong Cassidy" series entry, Borderland has Hoppy (William Boyd) going undercover as a bandit in a tough Mexican border town in order to trap a notorious bandit known only as The Fox. Not even sidekicks Johnny Nelson (James Ellison) and Windy (George "Gabby" Hayes) are in on Read More
Actors: Leo Carrillo, Jean Parker, James Ellison, Robert H. Barrat, Otto Kruger
Synopsis: A pageant-like Rex Beach story was the source of the 1937 western The Barrier. Leo Carrillo is top-billed, but the main character is half-breed girl Jean Parker. Actually, Parker is a full-blooded white woman; she has been raised to believe that she is of mixed blood by Robert H. Barrat, who has Read More
Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, James Ellison, Muriel Evans, George "Gabby" Hayes, Chester Conklin, Al Hill
Synopsis: Hopalong Cassidy's young sidekick, Johnny Nelson, is falsely accused of robbing the Bar 20 in this the fourth installment of the long-running Western series. Nelson (James Ellison) had left the ranch in high dudgeon over a perceived slight and fallen in with a gang headed by Shanghai (George Read More
Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, James Ellison, William Farnum, George "Gabby" Hayes, Addison Richards
Synopsis: In the second of producer Harry Sherman's Hopalong Cassidy Westerns, Deputy Sheriff Cassidy (William Boyd) promises El Toro (William Farnum), a retired Mexican outlaw, that he will search for the old man's grandson, missing after a gang of outlaws robbed and murdered the child's parents. With the Read More
Actors: Arthur Treacher, James Ellison, Warren Hymer
Synopsis: In this emotional drama, a lonely British housekeeper, uses her hard-earned savings account to finance a trip to America so she can see the successful son she has been proud of all her life. At least she has been lead to believe that her son is a big shot. Once in the US, she and her young female Read More
Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, James Ellison, Onslow Stevens, Muriel Evans, George "Gabby" Hayes
Synopsis: Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) rescues a stranded schoolmarm (Muriel Evans) from a lecherous saloon owner (Onslow Stevens) in this the fifth entry in the long-running series which also served to re-introduce George "Gabby" Hayes as cantankerous sidekick Windy Haliday. While Hoppy is busy putting Read More