Jason Robards, Sr.Filmography

Leave It to Beaver: Kite Day

Actors: Keith Taylor, Richard Correll, Stephen Talbot, Stanley "Tiger" Fafara, Jason Robards, Sr.

Synopsis: Eagerly looking forward to a father and son kite-flying contest, Beaver (Jerry Mathers) and Ward (Hugh Beaumont) take great pains to build the most beautiful kite either one of them has ever seen. But the glue is not quite dry, and Ward admonishes Beaver not to fly the kite for a few days. Alas Read More

Cimarron City [TV Series]

Actors: George Montgomery, John Smith, Audrey Totter, Jason Robards, Sr., Dan Blocker

The Second Woman

Actors: Robert Young, Betsy Drake, Florence Bates, Morris Carnovsky

Synopsis: In the vein of Spellbound and Rebecca comes this 1951 film noir from director James V. Kern. Robert Young stars as Jeff Cohalan, a successful architect who is tormented by the fact that his fiancée was killed in a mysterious car accident on the night before their wedding. Blaming himself for her Read More

Western Pacific Agent

Actors: Mickey Knox, Sheila Ryan, Kent Taylor, Morris Carnovsky, Robert Lowery

Synopsis: Despite its title, Western Pacific Agent is a contemporary crime melodrama. Kent Taylor stars as a railroad detective, assigned to track down an elusive robber-murderer. The audience knows from the outset who the culprit is (hotheaded Mickey Knox, who delivers an astonishingly vicious Read More

Horsemen of the Sierras

Actors: Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Lois Hall, Tommy Ivo, John Dehner

Synopsis: Charles Starrett once more rights wrongs as "The Durango Kid" in Horsemen of the Sierras. The story revolves around Robin Grant (Tommy Ivo), a young boy who's inherited a valuable range. Certain evil interests do their best to kill off Robin and claim the land for themselves. U.S. marshall Steve Read More

Alaska Patrol

Actors: Richard Travis, Helen Westcott, James Griffith, Emory Parnell, Richard Fraser

Synopsis: Dauntless Navy intelligence officer Richard Travis is dispatched to the Frozen North to smash a spy ring. By a fortuitous circumstance, Travis is the exact lookalike of a recently deceased enemy agent. This plot contrivance is given surface credibility by the film's semi-documentary style. Onetime Read More

Rimfire

Actors: James Millican, Mary Beth Hughes, Reed Hadley, Henry Hull, Fuzzy Knight

Synopsis: Bargain-budget Screen Guild Productions was in the process of metamorphosing into Lippert Studios when Rimfire was filmed in 1949. This "government vs. gold thieves" affair has all of the virtues of the eager-to-please Lippert production team and none of the shortcomings of the pinchpenny Screen Read More

Post Office Investigator

Actors: Audrey Long, Warren Douglas, Jeff Donnell, Marcel Journet, Tony Cannon

Synopsis: Warren Douglas is Post Office Investigator Bill Mannerson in this diligent Republic programmer. Top billing, however, is awarded to Audrey Long as villainess Clara Kelso. The "maguffin" is a collection of rare stamps, which the baddies attempt to steal from stalwart Mr. Mannerson. Aiding and Read More

Impact

Actors: Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn, Helen Walker

Synopsis: Though he doesn't know it at first, industrialist Walter Williams (Brian Donlevy) shouldn't trust his wife Irene (Helen Walker) any farther than he can throw her. Irene schemes with her lover Jim Torrance (Tony Barrett) to kill Walter in an "accidental" car crash. The plan fails, and it is Jim who Read More

Riders of the Whistling Pines

Actors: Gene Autry, Patricia White, Jimmy Lloyd, Douglas Dumbrille, Damian O'Flynn

Synopsis: Gene Autry's second 1949 release for Columbia was Riders of the Whistling Pines. As was customary for Autry, the title refers to one of the songs heard in the film, rather than the plotline at hand. The villains busy themselves destroying all the timber in a government forest preserve. When Autry Read More

Smoky Mountain Melody

Actors: Roy Acuff, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Russell Arms, Sybil Merritt, Jason Robards, Sr.

Synopsis: Country-western favorite Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys star in the Columbia musical western Smoky Mountain Melody. Not much happens plotwise: Acuff, playing "himself," is a tenderfoot who somehow manages to come out on top when he heads westward. The villains (who aren't all that Read More

South of Death Valley

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

Fighting Father Dunne

Actors: Pat O'Brien, Griff Barnett, Gene Collins, Billy Cummings, Myrna Dell, Ruth Donnelly, Darryl Hickman

Synopsis: "Boys Town" goes to turn-of-the-century St. Louis in this moving drama that chronicles the love of a determined priest struggling to turn around the lives of a street-wise gang of newsboys living at his homeless shelter. The good father has little money and must use his wits and ability to Read More

Son of God's Country

Actors: Monte Hale, Pamela Blake, Paul Hurst, Jim Nolan, Jay Kirby

Synopsis: Son of God's Country stars singing cowboy Monte Hale in his traditional screen role of do-gooder and last-minute problem-solver. This time, it's the old "evil land baron" plot again, with the villains eager to grab up all available ranch property, then sell it back to the incoming railroad. The Read More

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Actors: Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Louise Beavers, Melvyn Douglas, Reginald Denny, Jason Robards, Sr., Lex Barker

Synopsis: Fed up with crowded big-city living, advertising executive Mr. Blandings (Cary Grant) decides to seek out a big, roomy house in the country. Armed with more enthusiasm than common sense, Blandings causes many a headache for his lawyer/business manager Melvyn Douglas, who tries to keep the costs Read More

Return of the Bad Men

Actors: Robert Armstrong, Walter S. Baldwin, Lex Barker, Robert Bray, Steve Brodie

Synopsis: The success of 1947's Badman's Territory prompted RKO Radio to assemble another "outlaw rally," Return of the Badmen. Randolph Scott plays US marshal Vance, assigned to rid the Oklahoma Territory of outlaws. This proves to be quite a challenge, inasmuch as virtually every frontier bad guy has Read More

If You Knew Susie

Actors: Eddie Cantor, Joan Davis, Allyn Joslyn, Charles Dingle, Phil Brown

Synopsis: Hoping for a success commensurate with his previous Show Business (1945), comedian Eddie Cantor poured a lot of his own money into the RKO Radio musical If You Knew Susie. Cantor and his Show Business co-star Joan Davis are reteamed herein as ex-vaudevillians Sam and Susie Parker, who retire to a Read More

Western Heritage

Actors: Tim Holt, Nan Leslie, Richard Martin, Lois Andrews, Tony Barrett

Synopsis: Western Heritage was Tim Holt's first western vehicle for the 1947-48 season, discounting his previous appearances in RKO Radio's "Zane Grey" series. Together with his new saddle pal Chito Rafferty (Richard Martin), Holt mediates a feud between ranchers and land barons. The villains use a forged Read More

Race Street

Actors: George Raft, William Bendix, Marilyn Maxwell, Frank Faylen, Henry Morgan

Synopsis: In this dark crime drama, the trouble begins when a San Francisco bookie attempts to lead an honest life by marrying a comely widow. In preparation for his nuptials, the fellow stays on the straight and narrow, but when he learns that one of his cohorts has been murdered by an East Coast gang that Read More

Guns of Hate

Actors: Tim Holt, Nan Leslie, Richard Martin, Myrna Dell

Synopsis: Filmed at majestic Lone Pine, CA, this fine B-Western features Tim Holt and sidekick Richard Martin helping an elderly miner, Jason Robards Sr., with an obstinate wagon-wheel. But the two friends become instant suspects when the miner is found murdered for the map to his claim. Although she is Read More

Riff Raff

Actors: Pat O'Brien, Walter Slezak, Anne Jeffreys, Percy Kilbride, Jerome Cowan

Synopsis: No relation to the 1935 Jean Harlow-Spencer Tracy vehicle of the same name, RKO Radio's Riff-Raff is an action-packed vehicle for aging but still virile Pat O'Brien. At large in Panama, American private eye Dan (O'Brien) hopes to get his hands on a valuable map showing priceless oil concessions. Read More

Under the Tonto Rim

Actors: Tim Holt, Nan Leslie, Richard Martin, Carol Forman

Synopsis: Bearing no resemblance to the two previous Westerns of the same title, Under the Tonto Rim retained little more than the title from Zane Grey's 1926 story. Tim Holt and sidekick Richard Martin are operating a stagecoach line. But when a gang of highwaymen steals the Wells Fargo box and abducts Read More

Wild Horse Mesa

Actors: Tim Holt, Nan Leslie, Richard Martin, Jason Robards, Sr.

Synopsis: RKO Radio's "Zane Grey" western series came to an end with the eighth entry, Wild Horse Mesa. Tim Holtstars as a cowboy who earns his keep by rounding up wild mustangs. When his boss is murdered after selling the horses, our hero and his Irish-Mexican sidekick Chito Rafferty (Richard Martin) try Read More

A Likely Story

Actors: Barbara Hale, Bill Williams, Lanny Rees, Sam Levene, Dan Tobin

Synopsis: Soon to be married in real life, Barbara Hale and Bill Williams also played sweethearts on screen in the frantic farce A Likely Story. After a routine medical examination, ex-GI Bill Baker (Bill Williams) overhears a conversation between two doctors, leading him to the mistaken conclusion that Read More

Trail Street

Actors: Randolph Scott, Robert Ryan, Anne Jeffreys, George "Gabby" Hayes, Madge Meredith

Synopsis: Quick-draw legend Bat Masterson is summoned to Kansas to end a small-town feud between local farmers and criminal ranch owners in this western starring Randolph Scott. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Thunder Mountain

Actors: Tim Holt, Martha Hyer, Steve Brodie, Virginia Owen, Harry Woods

Synopsis: Based on Zane Grey's 1922 novel To the Last Man, filmed previously by Paramount in 1923 and 1934, this fine RKO Western marked the return to his home lot of Tim Holt after a stint in the Army Air Corps. Returning to his Arizona homestead, Marvin Hayden (Holt) lands in the middle of the age-old Read More

Seven Keys to Baldpate

Actors: Phillip Terry, Jacqueline White, Eduardo Ciannelli, Margaret Lindsay, Arthur Shields

Synopsis: In this fifth film version of the play by George M. Cohan and Earl Derr Biggers, Phillip Terry portrays a mystery novelist who wagers that he can write a complete story in one night. To this end, he arranges to sequester himself in a remote rustic inn, assuming that he has the only key to the Read More

Dick Tracy's Dilemma

Actors: Ralph Byrd, Lyle Latell, Kay Christopher, Jack Lambert, Ian Keith

Synopsis: Ralph Byrd returns to the character he had originated ten years earlier in the serial Dick Tracy. This time, Chester Gould's immortal comic strip hero is called in to handle a fur theft. The owner of Flawless Furs, Humphreys (Charles Marsh), has just signed on with the Honesty Insurance Company Read More

The Farmer's Daughter

Actors: Loretta Young, Keith Andes, James Arness, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Art Baker, Charles Bickford, Harry Davenport, Lex Barker

Synopsis: When Loretta Young stepped up to accept her Academy Award for The Farmer's Daughter, the ever-youthful leading lady, who'd been in films since 1928, sighed "At long last!" Young is cast as Katie Holstrum, an independently-minded Swedish girl who leaves her family's Minnesota farm to take a Read More

Desperate

Actors: Steve Brodie, Audrey Long, Raymond Burr, Douglas Fowley, William Challee, Jason Robards, Sr.

Synopsis: With 1947's Desperate, a disturbing, noirish twist on traditional moral values, responsibility, and guilt, director Anthony Mann entered the ranks of class-A directors, though he'd still have to spend a few more years in "B" pictures. In his first important role, Steve Brodie plays newlywed Read More

Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome

Actors: Ralph Byrd, Boris Karloff, Lyle Latell, Anne Gwynne, June Clayworth, Skelton Knaggs

Synopsis: Befitting his status as a genre star, Boris Karloff earns top billing over leading man Ralph Byrd in RKO's final Dick Tracy caper. The former Frankenstein monster plays an escaped convict masterminding a daring bank robbery. To get in and out of the bank without being noticed, the gang uses an Read More

Born to Kill

Actors: Lawrence Tierney, Claire Trevor, Walter Slezak, Phillip Terry, Audrey Long

Synopsis: Somehow the titles of the films of hardcase actor Lawrence Tierney seemed to be extensions of the man's personality, as witness such films as The Devil Thumbs a Ride and Born to Kill. In the latter picture, Tierney starts the ball rolling by committing a double murder in a jealous pique. Claire Trevor Read More

The Falcon's Adventure

Actors: Tony Barrett, Steve Brodie, Edward S. Brophy, Tom Conway, Joseph Crehan

Synopsis: When a scientist discovers a way to create synthetic diamonds, a group of criminals kidnap his daughter Meredith (Louisa Braganza) in an attempt to ransom her for the valuable formula. Rescuing Meredith from her kidnappers, the Falcon (Tom Conway) becomes the prime suspect in a string of Read More

Dick Tracy vs. Cueball

Actors: Morgan Conway, Anne Jeffreys, Lyle Latell, Rita Corday, Ian Keith

Synopsis: Morgan Conway made his final screen appearance as Chester Gould's granite-jawed detective Dick Tracy in this RKO Radio programmer. This time around, Tracy's nemesis is baldheaded jewel thief Cueball, played with blunt menace by Dick Wessel. Double-crossed by his gang, Cueball methodically bumps Read More

The Bamboo Blonde

Actors: Frances Langford, Ralph Edwards, Russell Wade, Richard Martin

Synopsis: In this WW II romance, a small-time nightclub singer who works in a little Manhattan nightclub has a one-night stand with a handsome fly-boy. The next day, the B-29 pilot is sent to the Pacific and once there, his crew mischievously paints the picture of the singer upon his plane with the words Read More

The Falcon's Alibi

Actors: Tom Conway, Rita Corday, Vince Barnett, Jane Greer, Elisha Cook, Jr.

Synopsis: A loose remake of 1941's The Gay Falcon, The Falcon's Alibi is one of the better entries in RKO's "Falcon" series, and one of the few that can stand on its own merits as a "film noir." This time, amateur detective Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway), aka the Falcon, is hired by a wealthy woman's secretary Read More

Ding Dong Williams

Actors: Glenn Vernon, Marcy McGuire, Felix Bressart, Anne Jeffreys, James Warren

Synopsis: A moody but extremely talented clarinet playing band-leader is contracted to write a symphonic, bluesy soundtrack for an upcoming film. Unfortunately, he can neither read nor write music. Instead he simply plays whatever he feels. The comedy in this musical begins when two professional arrangers Read More

Two Reelers: Comedy Classics 2

Synopsis: This collection of three comedy shorts separately stars Billy Gilbert, Leon Errol and Edgar Kennedy in Chicken Feed (1939), Twin Husbands (1946) and False Roomers (1938). ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Vacation in Reno

Actors: Jack Haley, Anne Jeffreys, Wally Brown, Iris Adrian, Morgan Conway

Synopsis: With Vacation in Reno, RKO contract actress Anne Jeffreys proved herself an accomplished comedienne, a fact verified by her later work on TV's Topper. Jeffreys is cast as Eleanor, the wife of would-be prospector Jack Carroll (Jack Haley). When hubby goes off to find a cache of hidden loot near Read More

Step by Step

Actors: Lawrence Tierney, Anne Jeffreys, Lowell Gilmore, George Cleveland, Jason Robards, Sr.

Synopsis: In this espionage drama, a WW II veteran teams up with a government secretary and begins hunting a gang of Nazi agents who are seeking the secret documents carried by the G-man they killed. The two heroes are hindered on their hunt by fellow government agents who believe the two are responsible Read More

Twin Husbands

Actors: Leon Errol, Dorothy Granger, Jason Robards, Sr., Marian Carr, Myrna Dell

Synopsis: After a beauty parlor makeover, a housewife (Dorothy Granger), has a chance encounter with her husband's identical twin brother. Because she's never met the twin brother, she mistakes his behavior for infidelity by her husband and begins plotting divorce. Leon Errol plays the twins in this Read More

Deadline at Dawn

Actors: Susan Hayward, Paul Lukas, Bill Williams, Joseph Calleia, Osa Massen

Synopsis: Deadline at Dawn represented not only the sole film directorial effort of Broadway's Harold Clurman, but also the only cinematic collaboration between Clurman and his former Group Theatre associate, screenwriter Clifford Odets. While on shore leave in New York, sailor Alex (Bill Williams) is Read More

What a Blonde

Actors: Leon Errol, Richard Lane, Elaine Riley, Veda Ann Borg

Synopsis: What a Blonde gets under way when wealthy lingerie manufacturer Fowler (Leon Errol) runs out of valuable gas-ration coupons. Knowing that he can secure additional coupons if he forms a car pool, Fowler orders his butler Pomeroy (Richard Lane) to seek out a few "riders." Pomeroy returns with a Read More

Bedlam

Actors: Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, Billy House, Glenn Vernon, Jason Robards, Sr.

Synopsis: Bedlam is one of the costlier psychological-horror efforts from RKO producer Val (Curse of the Cat People) Lewton. Boris Karloff stars as the supervisor of the notorious 18th century British insane asylum St. Mary's of Bethlehem, better known as "Bedlam." Anna Lee, who co-stars as the feisty Read More

Wanderer of the Wasteland

Actors: James Warren, Richard Martin, Audrey Long, Robert H. Barrat, Robert Clarke

Synopsis: In this western, a young cowboy rides out to avenge his father's killer. Eventually, he finds the scoundrel, but by this time opts not to kill him for the cowboy has fallen in love with the outlaw's niece. Later, the killer ends up killed and the hero is blamed for the crime. Mayhem ensues until Read More

Isle of the Dead

Actors: Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer, Katherine Emery, Alan Napier, Jason Robards, Sr., Helene Thimig

Synopsis: Inspired by Swiss artist Arnold Böcklin's famous painting, this seminal horror film marked the first of three collaborations between RKO producer Val Lewton and British genre star Boris Karloff. Set during the 1912 Balkan Wars, Isle of the Death featured Karloff as Greek general Pherides who Read More

Man Alive

Actors: Pat O'Brien, Adolphe Menjou, Ellen Drew, Rudy Vallee

Synopsis: Man Alive is an inventive and consistently amusing farce dominated by stars Pat O'Brien and Adolphe Menjou. The former plays Speed, a moderately successful garage owner. Wrongly convinced that his wife Connie (Ellen Drew) has fallen in love with his old friend Gordon (Rudy Vallee), Speed goes off Read More

Johnny Angel

Actors: George Raft, Claire Trevor, Signe Hasso, Lowell Gilmore, Hoagy Carmichael

Synopsis: No relation to the later Shelley Fabares song hit of the same name, RKO Radio's Johnny Angel was adapted by Steve Fisher and Frank Gruber from a short story by Charles Gordon Booth. In one of his better performances, George Raft plays sea captain Johnny Angel, who doggedly pursues the no-good rats Read More

A Game of Death

Actors: John Loder, Audrey Long, Edgar Barrier, Russell Wade, Jason Robards, Sr., Russell Hicks

Synopsis: RKO Radio's A Game of Death was the first official remake of Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game, given a contemporary WW2 twist. Novelist Rainsford (John Loder) and brother-and-sister shipwreck victims Ellen (Audrey Long) and Robert (Russell Wade) are among the innocents stranded on remote Read More

Dick Tracy, Detective

Actors: Morgan Conway, Anne Jeffreys, Mike Mazurki, Jane Greer, Mickey Kuhn, Lyle Latell

Synopsis: Dick Tracy, Detective (originally just Dick Tracy) was the first of four RKO Radio B-pictures based on Chester Gould's classic comic strip. Though Ralph Byrd is most closely associated with the role of Tracy, the title character is played herein by Morgan Conway (Byrd would be seen as Tracy in the Read More

Music in Manhattan

Actors: Anne Shirley, Dennis Day, Phillip Terry, Raymond Walburn, Jane Darwell

Synopsis: In this musical comedy, a pair of small-potatoes performers try to make it to the big-time after winning an amateur talent contest. Though this leads them to a few professional gigs, something is missing from their act and they are not popular. Believing a little cash will boost their career, the Read More

Bermuda Mystery

Actors: Preston S. Foster, Ann Rutherford, Charles Butterworth, Jean Howard

Synopsis: This 20th Century-Fox programmer stars Preston Foster as breezy detective Steve Carromond. When a man dies of a suspicious heart attack, the victim's niece, Constance Martin (Ann Rutherford), hires Steve to investigate. The solution to the mystery lies in a tontine-like arrangement, wherein six Read More

Betrayal from the East

Actors: Nancy Kelly, Richard Loo, Abner Biberman, Regis Toomey

Synopsis: With famed journalist Drew Pearson appearing in the film's prologue and epilogue, it was easy in 1945 to confuse Betrayal from the East with Real Life. Lee Tracy is once again cast as a seemingly disreputable type with a heart of gold, in this case an expatriate ex-GI named Eddie. Believing that Read More

Mademoiselle Fifi

Actors: Simone Simon, John Emery, Kurt Kreuger, Alan Napier, Helen Freeman

Synopsis: One of the few failures for RKO Radio's resident "prestige programmer" producer Val Lewton, Mademoiselle Fifi is based on two Guy De Maupassant tales, with emphasis on Boule de Suif. The story takes place during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, though it is clearly an allegorical representation of Read More

The Master Race

Actors: George Coulouris, Osa Massen, Stanley Ridges, Carl Esmond, Lloyd Bridges, Nancy Gates

Synopsis: The Master Race argues persuasively that, although it appeared that the Nazis would lose WW2, it was foolish to assume that Hitler's legacy would not insinuate itself into the postwar era. Nazi bigwig Von Beck (George Coulouris) arrives in a small Belgian village on the eve of its liberation by Read More

Sing a Jingle

Actors: Allan Jones, June Vincent, Samuel S. Hinds, Gus Schilling, Betty Kean

Synopsis: During WW II, Universal cornered the market on "quickie" musicals, wrapping up songs, laughs and pretty girls in neat 60-minute packages. In Sing a Jingle, Allan Jones plays popular radio crooner Roy King, who goes to work in a war plant after being declared 4F. He falls in love with Muriel Crane (June Vincent Read More

The Kansan

Actors: Richard Dix, Jane Wyatt, Albert Dekker, Eugene Pallette, Victor Jory

Synopsis: Like several other Harry Sherman Productions of the 1942-43 season, The Kansan was originally slated for a Paramount release, then redirected to United Artists. Richard Dix and Jane Wyatt, stars of the previous Sherman effort Buckskin Frontier, are reunited herein as western lawman John Bonniwell Read More

Joan of Ozark

Actors: Judy Canova, Joe E. Brown, Eddie Foy, Jr., Jerome Cowan, Alexander Granach

Synopsis: The sure-fire combination of Judy Canova and Joe E. Brown paid off in big laughs and excellent box-office returns in the bizarre wartime musical Joan of Ozark. While hunting quail near her home, hillbilly Judy (Canova) catches a carrier pigeon bearing a message for a ring of Nazi spies. She turns 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

Give Out, Sisters

Actors: The Andrews Sisters, Grace McDonald, Dan Dailey, Charles Butterworth, Walter Catlett

Synopsis: The Andrews Sisters headline this musical. They play the lead act at a popular nightclub. The trouble begins when they hire a few students from a financially foundering dance school for their newest production. One of the dancers, a rich young socialite, desperately wants to be in it too, but her Read More

San Antonio Rose

Actors: Jane Frazee, Robert Paige, Eve Arden, Lon Chaney, Jr., Shemp Howard

Synopsis: San Antonio Rose is an amiably wacky mini-musical evenly divided between its "official" stars, The Merry Macs, and a strong cast of supporting clowns. Robert Paige plays roadhouse operator Con Conway, whose establishment is in danger of being squeezed out by its competition. Stranded entertainers Read More

I Love You Again

Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh, Edmund Lowe, Donald Douglas

Synopsis: Those popular MGM co-stars William Powell and Myrna Loy take a break from their usual Thin Man duties to star in the zany comedy I Love You Again. The film opens with Loy prepared to divorce her dull businessman husband Powell. A blow on the head causes Powell to remember his former life as a Read More

The Mad Empress

Actors: Lionel Atwill, Conrad Nagel, Guy Bates Post, Evelyn Brent

Synopsis: In this melodramatic historical drama, the lives of Mexico's Maximilian and Carlotta are chronicled. The story follows their brief reign as figureheads for Napoleon III. The two doomed rulers were terribly naive and had no idea that they were universally despised by the native population. Upon her Read More

The Fatal Hour

Actors: Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Marjorie Reynolds, Charles Trowbridge, John Hamilton

Synopsis: The Fatal Hour was the fourth entry in Monogram's "Mr. Wong" series, based on the gentlemanly oriental detective created by Hugh Wiley. Boris Karloff returns as Wong, supported by Grant Withers as dyspeptic police captain Street and Marjorie Reynolds as brash gal reporter Bobbie Logan. On this Read More

Sky Patrol

Actors: John Trent, Marjorie Reynolds, Milburn Stone, Jackie Coogan, Jason Robards, Sr.

Synopsis: Tailspin Tommy (played by John Trent) flies again in Monogram's Sky Patrol. The plot is motivated by an airborne smuggling operation, masterminded by gunrunner Mitch (Leroy Mason). Assigned to thwart the villains is young Carter (Jackie Coogan), the son of Tailspin Tommy's flight commander (Boyd Read More

Danger Flight

Actors: John Trent, Marjorie Reynolds, Milburn Stone, Jason Robards, Sr., Tommy Baker

Synopsis: A fearless young pilot helps turn around the lives of some young punks in this exciting episode of the "Tailspin Tommy" trio of films. Tommy helps them get off the street and into building working model airplanes. He and the kids then figure out how to use the models to do some skywriting, a trick Read More

I Stole a Million

Actors: George Raft, Claire Trevor, Dick Foran, Henry Armetta, Victor Jory

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a grizzled cabbie is scammed out of his life savings by a fake finance company. He tries to no avail to get police assistance. Finally he becomes a wanted criminal and escapes to California where he meets the girl who will become his wife. She helps him go straight by helping Read More

The Long Shot

Actors: Gordon Jones, Marsha Hunt, George Meeker, Harry Davenport

Synopsis: A racetrack melodrama, The Long Shot features Marsha Hunt and Gordon Jones as trainers of a thoroughbred horse. Despite the rivalries of their parents, the couple prepares to jointly enter the Santa Anita handicap. The odds are against their entry, but Hunt and Jones have every confidence of Read More

Mystery Plane

Actors: John Trent, Milburn Stone, Marjorie Reynolds, Jason Robards, Sr., Peter George Lynn

Synopsis: Mystery Plane is one of the better-known entries in Monogram's "Tailspin Tommy" series, if only because of its frequent TV showings. In this one, aviation ace Tommy (John Trent) and his pal Skeeter (Milburn Stone) develop a revolutionary new bombsight which they hope to turn over to the Army Air Read More

Range War

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Russell Hayden, Willard Robertson, Matt Moore, Pedro de Cordoba

Synopsis: Range War was the 22nd entry in the durable "Hopalong Cassidy" western series. William Boyd and Russell Hayden return as Hoppy and Lucky, while Britt Wood handles the comic-sidekick duties normally assigned to Gabby Hayes. In this outing, land baron Buck Collins (Willard Robertson) receives Read More

Stunt Pilot

Actors: John Trent, Marjorie Reynolds, Milburn Stone, Jason Robards, Sr.

Synopsis: Stunt Pilot is a typically lively entry in Monogram's "Tailspin Tommy" series. Hired to work on an aviation picture, ace pilot Tailspin Tommy (John Trent) immediately runs afoul of obnoxious, grandstanding stunt flyer Martin (George Meeker). Obliged by the script to shoot down Martin in one scene Read More

His Exciting Night

Actors: Charlie Ruggles, Richard Lane, Stepin Fetchit, "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom

Synopsis: In this comedy, a milquetoast clerk is betrothed to the socialite whose aunt holds a big account with his company. When the agency owner hears that the generous aunt is preparing to close her account and give all the money to the happy couple, the boss decides to stop the wedding. To do so, he Read More

The Adventures of Marco Polo

Actors: Gary Cooper, Sigrid Gurie, Basil Rathbone, George Barbier, Binnie Barnes

Synopsis: Gary Cooper stars in this lavish and often comic retelling of the life of the famed Italian explorer. Marco Polo (Cooper) crosses the sea in search of treasure and adventure, with the help of his loyal if cowardly sidekick Binguccio (Ernest Truex), and finds both in China, where as the nation's Read More

Little Tough Guy

Actors: Billy Halop, Helen Parrish, Robert Wilcox, Marjorie Main, Gabriel Dell

Synopsis: The first of the "splinter" groups to emerge from the Dead End Kids was the Little Tough Guys, consisting of veteran Dead-Enders Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsly and David Gorcey (Hally Chester and Billy Benedict would also appear in this new grouping from time to time). Read More

Cipher Bureau

Actors: Leon Ames, Charlotte Wynters, Joan Woodbury, Donald Dillaway, Tenen Holtz

Synopsis: This spy thriller is centered upon the actions of the Cipher Bureau, a part of a government agency devoted to intercepting and decoding secret messages. The protagonist must destroy a ring of thinly disguised German spies. The film contains a lot of interesting information about how codes are Read More

Clipped Wings

Actors: Lloyd Hughes, Rosalind Keith, William Janney, George Regas, Rychard Cramer

The Rage of Paris

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Mischa Auer, Louis Hayward, Helen Broderick

Synopsis: This late-30s gem is an engaging spoof that features the U.S. film debut of the French acting beauty Daniell Darrieux. She appears as a French model who's come to New York to find a job. Things go a little awry in her first interview when she applies for a nude modeling position and gets the Read More

Flight to Fame

Actors: Charles Farrell, Hugh Sothern, Alex D'Arcy, Jason Robards, Sr.

Synopsis: Once one of Hollywood's "top ten" screen attractions, Charles Farrell had slipped somewhat by the end of the 1930s, and obliging to accept roles in such B productions as Columbia's Flight to Fame. Farrell plays air force captain Lawrence, a Billy Mitchell type who finds himself constantly at odds Read More

Sweetheart of the Navy

Actors: Eric Linden, Cecilia Parker, Roger Imhof, Bernadene Hayes, Jason Robards, Sr.

Synopsis: In this drama, a cafe singer gets into deep financial trouble. Fortunately, a group of amiable sailors endeavor to save her. One of them falls in love with her and nearly abandons his Navy career to be with her until the whole mess is cleared up. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Man Who Cried Wolf

Actors: Tom Brown, Robert Gleckler, Forrester Harvey, Billy Wayne

Synopsis: An actor creates a devious murder plot in this suspenseful, ironic drama. For many years, the aging thespian has been confessing to homicides he never committed. Naturally the cops think he is bonkers so that when he really does kill his victim, no one believes he did it. Unfortunately, his lies Read More

The Firefly

Actors: Jeanette MacDonald, Allan Jones, Warren William, Billy Gilbert, Henry Daniell

Synopsis: In this adaptation of the operetta by Rudolf Friml, secret agent Nina Maria Azara (Jeannette MacDonald) is working undercover for the King of Spain as a singer known as the "Mosca del Fuego" or "Firefly." Her mission is to uncover Napoleon's plot to invade Spain before it is too late. This film Read More

San Francisco

Actors: Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy, Jack Holt, Jessie Ralph

Synopsis: The MGM historical "spectacular" San Francisco was allegedly based on a three-sentence synopsis, submitted verbally to producer B.F. Zeidman by studio troubleshooter Bob Hopkins. The story begins on the Barbary Coast on New Year's Eve, 1906, as rakish but likeable political boss Blackie Norton (Clark Gable Read More

The Luckiest Girl in the World

Actors: Jane Wyatt, Louis Hayward, Nat Pendleton, Eugene Pallette, Catherine Doucet

Synopsis: In this comedy, an sheltered heiress bets her father that she can make it in New York city on only $150 per week. She does this to prove to her father that she will be able to live a scaled down existence with her fiancé, who is not wealthy. Her father agrees to the bet, and she goes to the Big Read More

The White Legion

Actors: Ian Keith, Tala Birell, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Rollo Lloyd, Lionel Pape

Synopsis: As the Panama Canal is under construction, a group of doctors try to find a cure for yellow fever, or "Yellow Jack," a deadly disease taking its toll on the canal workers. A pet monkey accidentally frees disease-bearing mosquitoes, resulting in the death of Dr. Fontaine (Ferdinand Gottschalk). Read More

One Exciting Adventure

Actors: Binnie Barnes, Neil Hamilton, Paul Cavanagh, Grant Mitchell, Eugene Pallette

Synopsis: Binnie Barnes stars as Rina Sorel, a glamorous kleptomaniac who steals for the thrill of it. Specializing in uncut diamonds, Rina amasses quite a collection before detectives Lavassor (Grant Mitchell) and Kleinsibler (Eugene Pallette) catch up with her. Using the scent of Rina's perfume as their Read More

Ladies Crave Excitement

Actors: Norman Foster, Evelyn Knapp, Esther Ralston, Eric Linden, Purnell Pratt

Synopsis: Perhaps the best of Mascot Pictures' feature-film releases, Ladies Crave Excitement is also one of the fastest 69 minutes ever put on film. Norman Foster and Eddie Nugent play Don and Bob, a pair of ace newsreel cameraman for The March of Events, forever keeping one step ahead of their Read More

The Fighting Marines [Serial]

Synopsis: Its the US Marines against the pirates in this spliced-together adventure serial. The Marines are trying to set up a landing field on a Pacific island. Unfortunately, Halfway Island is the lair of the "Tiger Shark," a modern day pirate, and he is unwilling to share. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Break of Hearts

Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Charles Boyer, John Beal, Jean Hersholt, Sam Hardy

Synopsis: Katharine Hepburn suffers nobly while her philandering conductor husband Charles Boyer dallies with the likes of Helene Millard in this overheated melodrama directed by Philip Moeller of the renowned Theater Guild. Although receiving plenty of warning, prim lady composer Constance Roberti Read More

The Crusades

Actors: Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon, Ian Keith, C. Aubrey Smith, Katherine de Mille

Synopsis: The Holy Wars are given the usual overblown Cecil B. DeMille treatment in The Crusades. It all begins in the 12th-century AD, when Jerusalem falls into the hands of the Saracens, and the Christians are slaughtered or sold into slavery. A holy man known as The Hermit (C. Aubrey Smith) rallies the Read More

Take the Stand

Actors: Thelma Todd, Gail Patrick, Russell Hopton, Berton Churchill

Synopsis: A story by Earl Derr Biggers, of Charlie Chan fame, was the springboard for the Monogram melodrama Take the Stand. An abrasive Winchell-type columnist (Jack LaRue) manages to accumulate dozens of enemies, at least one of whom has murder on the mind. While many of the victims of the journalist's Read More

Burn 'em up Barnes [Serial]

Actors: Frankie Darro, Jack Mulhall, Lola Lane, Jason Robards, Sr.

Synopsis: A serialized remake of a popular 1919 film, the 12-chapter Burn 'Em Up Barnes was simultaneously released as a 74-minute feature version. Jack Mulhall plays stalwart racing-car champion Burn 'Em Up Barnes, while top-billed Frankie Darro portrays his adopted son Bobbie. The two heroes take on Read More

Public Stenographer

Actors: Lola Lane, William Collier, Jr., Esther Muir, Jason Robards, Sr., Duncan Renaldo

Synopsis: Wisecracking Public Stenographer Ann McNair (Lola Lane) spends most of her time fending off the Roamin' Fingers and Rushin' Hands of her employers. En route to another job, Ann's car stalls on a lonely stretch of road. She is rescued by handsome Jim Martin (William Collier Jr.), who at first Read More

The President Vanishes

Actors: Janet Beecher, Paul Kelly, Peggy Conklin, Rosalind Russell

Synopsis: Based upon a novel anonymously written by Rex Stout, The President Vanishes has as its title character a peace-loving man with distinct anti-interventionist views. As the picture opens, President Stanley Craig (A.S. Byron) finds himself in a bit of a bind: he fervently believes that the United Read More

The Miracle Rider [Serial]

Synopsis: A Texas Ranger (Tom Mix, in his last film) must stop an evil gang leader (Charles Middleton) who is trying to scare Indians from their reservation in order to profit from the land. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Crimson Romance

Actors: Ben Lyon, Sara Maritza, Erich Von Stroheim, Hardie Albright, James Bush

Synopsis: Often written off as just another Poverty Row effort featuring a fallen-from-grace Erich Von Stroheim, Mascot Pictures' Crimson Romance is actually a slick, entertaining little drama about broken dreams and dashed ideals. When World War I breaks out, a pair of German/American lads (Ben Lyon and Hardie Albright Read More

Broadway Bill

Actors: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Walter Connolly, Helen Vinson, Douglas Dumbrille

Synopsis: Just after completing It Happened One Night, director Frank Capra churned out a bread-and-butter picture titled Broadway Bill. Warner Baxter plays the carefree scion of a wealthy, highly-respected family. Baxter's cold but socially correct wife Helen Vinson forces her husband into the family Read More

The Merry Widow

Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton, Una Merkel, George Barbier

Synopsis: Ernst Lubitsch directs the 1934 musical comedy The Merry Widow, based on the 1905 operetta by Franz Lehar. In 1885, King Achmed (George Barbier) strives to protect the financial interests of his small, poor kingdom of Marshovia in Central Europe. When the kingdom's wealthiest widow, Sonia (Jeanette MacDonald Read More

Woman Unafraid

Actors: Lucille Gleason, Lona Andre, Warren Hymer, Barbara Weeks

Synopsis: Woman Unafraid stars venerable character actress Lucille Gleason as Officer Winthrop, a no-nonsense but golden-hearted policewoman. Winthrop serves as den mother and confidante for wayward girls on parole, and also keeps a watchful eye on the dance halls in her district. With the help of a former Read More

Slightly Married

Synopsis: In this drama, an unmarried pregnant woman is forced to marry a complete stranger to maintain a sense of propriety. The man who helps her is opposed by his mother who wants him to marry someone else. He is preparing to divorce, but suddenly finds himself bonding to the baby and decides to stay Read More

Carnival Lady

Actors: Boots Mallory, Jason Robards, Sr., Donald Kerr, Rollo Lloyd

Synopsis: A young blue-blood gets jilted on his wedding day after his bride-to-be discovers that he lost his fortune during the stock-market crash. This melodrama follows his exploits when he becomes a hobo and then joins a traveling carnival. There he becomes buddies with a pugilist and petty thief. He Read More

Ship of Wanted Men

Actors: Leon Waycoff [Ames], Gertrude Astor, Maurice Black, Jason Robards, Sr., James Flavin

Synopsis: Ship of Wanted Men stars former MGM leading lady Dorothy Sebastian and burly, all-purpose villain Fred Kohler Sr. A shipful of fugitives from justice pulls up on a Pacific Island where there are no extradition laws. The island is a magnet for the scum of the earth, as well as a few honest guys who Read More

Corruption

Actors: Evelyn Knapp, Preston S. Foster, Charles Delaney, Tully Marshall, Natalie Moorhead

Synopsis: Preston Foster, Mischa Auer, and Evalyn Knapp star in this tale of political intrigue centering on the quest of a powerful mayor to clear his name. Political leaders are being assassinated - stealthily shot dead by bullets made of ice - and when the blame falls on the mayor he must race to find Read More

The Way to Love

Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Ann Dvorak, Arthur Pierson, Minna Gombell

Synopsis: In this romantic musical, a carnival knife thrower's assistant falls for a Parisian tour guide who earns money wearing a sandwich board that says "Is Your Heart Happy? No? Consult Professor Bibi, 17 Rue Canton." After a few romantic mishaps, true love eventually ensues. Songs include: "Lover of Read More

Devil's Mate

Actors: Peggy Shannon, Preston S. Foster, Ray Walker, Hobart Cavanaugh, Barbara Barondess, George "Gabby" Hayes

Synopsis: This Monogram melodrama gets off to a quick start as a young man is shot to death -- while he's being led to the electric chair! The condemned man was planning to make a startling last-minute revelation which would have put a noose around the neck of his murderer. Several other people shared the Read More

Dance Hall Hostess

Actors: Helen Chandler, Jason Robards, Sr., Eddie Nugent, Natalie Moorhead, Alberta Vaughn

Damaged Lives

Actors: Diane Sinclair, Lyman Williams, Cecilia Parker, George Irving, Almeda Fowler

Synopsis: Although venereal disease was considered as delicate a subject then as it is now, this was nonetheless the third filmed version of Eugène Brieux' 1901 play Les Avariés, known in English-speaking lands as Damaged Lives. Don is a shallow, naïve former ship's officer trying to make the transition to Read More

Woman Condemned

Actors: Claudia Dell, Lola Lane, Richard Hemingway, Jason Robards, Sr., Mischa Auer

Synopsis: Slow moving, overly complicated, and badly acted in key roles, this low-budget melodrama from Poverty Row company Progressive Pictures was directed by silent screen actress Dorothy Davenport, the widow of the late matinee idol Wallace Reid. A girl detective, Barbara Hammond (Claudia Dell) is found Read More

Klondike

Actors: Lyle Talbot, Frank Hawks, Thelma Todd, Henry B. Walthall, Jason Robards, Sr.

Synopsis: Famed aviator Frank Hawks proves anew in Klondike that, as an actor, he was an excellent pilot. Though billed second, Hawks plays a comparatively minor role in the story, which deals with the redemption of one Dr. Cromwell (Lyle Talbot). Having failed to pull off a delicate operation, Cromwell Read More

Discarded Lovers

Actors: John Farrell MacDonald, Russell Hopton, Jason Robards, Sr.

Synopsis: In this mystery a sensual starlet suddenly dies. Though she was popular with the public, behind the scenes she had many enemies. The story opens on a movie set. Few mourned her passing, but because the circumstances were suspicious, several suspects are placed under surveillance. One of them is a Read More

Unholy Love

Actors: H.B. Warner, Lila Lee, Beryl Mercer, Joyce Compton, Lyle Talbot

Synopsis: It took nerve for low-budget producer M.H. Hoffman to update Gustave Flaubert's 19th century novel Madame Bovary and relocate the story to Rye, New York. It was equally nervy to retitle the film as Unholy Love and to cast Joyce Compton, usually cast as a dumb blonde, in the central role. Compton Read More

The Conquerors

Actors: Richard Dix, Ann Harding, Edna May Oliver, Guy Kibbee, Julie Haydon

Synopsis: This Depression-era morale-booster looks at the ups and downs of a banking family from the 1870s to the 1930s (and borrows plentifully from the previous year's hit Cimarron, another empire-building saga that also starred Dix). Following the financial collapse of 1873, Roger Standish (Richard Dix) Read More

Docks of San Francisco

Actors: Mary Nolan, Jason Robards, Sr., Marjorie Beebe, John Davidson

Synopsis: In this action drama, set on San Francisco's notorious Barbary Coast, a girl gets deeply entangled with gangsters. A professional writer understands why she got involved with the criminals; he tries to help her get out of that seedy life. It is not easy. Action and violence ensues before she Read More

White Eagle

Actors: Buck Jones, Barbara Weeks, Robert Ellis, Jason Robards, Sr., Robert Elliott

Synopsis: In this western, a Pony Express rider believes himself to be a Native American. The trouble begins when an Anglo outlaw begins stealing the fastest horses from the organization. The outlaw then blames the local Indians for the thefts. The gallant young rider learns of the scheme and rounds up the Read More

Wayne Murder Case

Actors: Regis Toomey, June Clyde, Lucille La Verne, William V. Mong, Jason Robards, Sr.

Synopsis: A varied group of more or less greedy relatives is once again gathered at the reading of a will in this atmospheric thriller from low-budget Monogram Pictures. But this time, the benefactor, Silas Wayne (William V. Mong), isn't quite dead yet and the law, in the persons of dense Lieutenant Read More

The Pride of the Legion

Synopsis: In this police drama, a cop, known for being a rock under pressure, endeavors to cope with the aftermath of a psychologically traumatic experience at work. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Charlie Chan Carries On

Actors: Warner Oland, John Garrick, Marguerite Churchill, Warren Hymer, Marjorie White

Synopsis: Warner Oland made his first appearance in the role of Earl Derr Biggers' sagacious, aphorism-spouting oriental detective Charlie Chan in the 1931 Fox production Charlie Chan Carries On. It all begins when Chan, on vacation from his job with the Honolulu police, tries to solve the murder of a Read More

Caught Plastered

Actors: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Lucy Beaumont, Jason Robards, Sr.

Synopsis: After briefly splitting for a brace of unsuccessful solo ventures, the comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey were reunited in one of their best vehicles, Caught Plastered. Bert and Bob are cast as itinerant vaudevillians Tommy and Egbert, who find themselves stranded in a small Midwestern Read More

Law of the Tong

Actors: Jason Robards, Sr., Mary Carr, Phyllis Barrington

Synopsis: Befitting its title, the old-fashioned meller Law of the Tongs is set in wicked old Chinatown. This time, the criminal element rubs shoulders with the Salvation Army, as represented by demure heroine Joan (Phyllis Barrington). Jason Robards Sr. hokes it up as Charlie Wong, a tong leader with a Read More

Subway Express

Actors: Jack Holt, Aileen Pringle, Fred Kelsey, Alan Roscoe, Jason Robards, Sr.

Synopsis: Adapted from a play by Eva Kay Flint and Martha Madison, Subway Express takes place entirely on a single subway car. When a murder is committed, the passengers are ordered to stay put while police inspector Killian (Jack Holt) investigates. From all appearances, it would seem that the victim was Read More

Salvation Nell

Actors: Ralph Graves, Helen Chandler, Sally O'Neil, Jason Robards, Sr., DeWitt Jennings

Synopsis: In this religious (but not overbearingly so) drama, a good man gets involved with a woman who wants to marry the man who impregnated her. When the lout refuses, her good friend intervenes to defend her and accidently kills the other. As a result he is imprisoned for five years. Following his Read More

Ex-Bad Boy

Actors: Robert Armstrong, Jean Arthur, Jason Robards, Sr., Spencer Charters, Grayce Hampton

Synopsis: Any movie that teams Robert Armstrong with Jean Arthur is certainly worth at least one look. Armstrong plays Chester Binney, a small-town rube who hopes to impress local beauty Ethel Simmons (Arthur). Aware that Ethel is ga-ga about "men of the world," Chester invents a shady past for Read More

Abraham Lincoln

Actors: Walter Huston, Una Merkel, Kay Hammond, Jason Robards, Sr., Ian Keith

Synopsis: To date, this D.W. Griffith epic is the only talking-picture effort to encapsulate the entire life of Abraham Lincoln, from cradle to grave. The script, credited to Stephen Vincent Benet, manages to include all the familiar high points, including Lincoln's tragic romance with Ann Rutledge (Una Merkel Read More

Lightnin'

Actors: Will Rogers, Louise Dresser, Joel McCrea, Helen Cohan

Synopsis: Lightnin' is based on the 1918 stage play by Winchell Smith and Frank Bacon, in which Bacon (the father of director Lloyd Bacon) had starred for years on Broadway and "the road." Will Rogers steps into the leading role as "Lightnin'" Bill Jones, the slow-moving husband of Mary Jones (Louise Dresser Read More

Crazy That Way

Actors: Jason Robards, Sr., Regis Toomey, Joan Bennett, Kenneth MacKenna

Synopsis: This comedy follows the attempts of a young woman to have her cake and eat it too. She is dating two nice young men, but she cannot decide which one she really wants. The men do not help as neither is willing to bow out. A dashing young engineer solves her problem after he bowls her over with his Read More

Jazz Cinderella

Actors: Myrna Loy, Jason Robards, Sr., Nancy Welford, Dorothy Phillips

Synopsis: Nancy Welford, a minor musical-comedy lead of the early 1930s, plays the title role in this Chesterfield Studios quickie. Welford is cast as department-store model Patricia Murray, the sweetheart of wealthy Herbert Carter (Jason Robards Sr.) The hero's class-conscious mother (Dorothy Phillips) Read More

The Last Dance

Actors: Vera Reynolds, Jason Robards, Sr., George Chandler, Gertrude Short, Harry Todd

Synopsis: Last Dance was loosely based on the real-life story of a newspaper mogul who married a Broadway taxi dancer. For the purposes of the film, Jason Robards Sr. plays wealthy Tom Malloy, while Vera Reynolds is cast as dime-a-dance damsel Sally Kelly. Though she enjoys Tom's company, Sally has no Read More

Sisters

Synopsis: In this romantic melodrama, a sophisticated New York model finds herself falling for a hick. The handsome farm boy is working in the city as a census taker. The two are happy, but when he meets the model's rakish friend from Chicago, he immediately knows that trouble will soon be afoot. Sure Read More

Peacock Alley

Synopsis: In this romantic drama, a chorine marries her absent-minded childhood sweetheart so she can make her real love, a millionaire jealous. The newlyweds are on their honeymoon, but soon get in trouble when the house detective bursts in their room. It seems the groom forgot to sign his bride's new name Read More

Trial Marriage

Actors: Norman Kerry, Sally Eilers, Jason Robards, Sr., Thelma Todd, Charles Clary

Synopsis: Capricious Constance Bannister (Sally Eilers) has had 12 fiances, but has yet to take her marital vows. Fiance number 13, Oliver Mowbray (Norman Kerry), suffers the same fate as his predecessors when Constance impulsively weds doctor Thorvald Ware (Jason Robards Sr.) Grace (Thelma Todd), Ware's Read More

The Isle of Lost Ships

Actors: Virginia Valli, Jason Robards, Sr., Clarissa Selwynne, Noah Beery, Sr.

Synopsis: Released in both silent and sound versions, Isle of Lost Ships stars Jason Robards Sr. as Frank Howard, an accused criminal being transported to prison by no-nonsense cop Jackson (Robert Emmet O'Connor). While sailing towards their destination, prisoner and policeman are swept up in a storm at sea Read More

The Gamblers

Actors: H.B. Warner, Lois Wilson, Jason Robards, Sr., George Fawcett, Johnny Arthur

Synopsis: The 1929 Wall Street crash was still two months in the future when Warner Bros.' Gamblers was released in the late summer of 1929. Jason Robards Sr. and George Fawcett play Carvel Emerson Jr. and Emerson Sr., father-and-son stock manipulators who "gamble" their firm's assets on a risky Read More

The Flying Marine

Actors: Ben Lyon, Shirley Mason, Jason Robards, Sr.

Synopsis: Two brothers fall for the same woman in this drama. While one of the brothers had been off fighting the war, the other had been romancing his girlfriend. He immediately dumps her when his brother returns. Unfortunately, this upsets the veteran, but it does not prevent him from sacrificing his life Read More

Paris

Actors: Irene Bordoni, Jack Buchanan, Louise Closser Hale, Jason Robards, Sr., Margaret Fielding

Synopsis: Paris served as the talkie debut for French music-hall favorite Irene Bordoni, who though never quite attaining screen stardom remained popular on American radio. Bordoni is cast as Vivienne Rolland, a Parisian chorus girl in love with Massachusetts boy Andrew Sabbot (Jason Robards Sr.) Andrew's Read More

Some Mother's Boy

Actors: Jobyna Ralston, Jason Robards, Sr., Mary Carr

Synopsis: Placed on this earth to play rheumy-eyed, careworn mothers, Mary Carr went through her customary paces in the Rayart production Some Mother's Boy. While pulling off a burglary, two wayward youths are found out by the cops. One of the lads (William A. Dickson) is shot and arrested, while the other Read More

On Trial

Actors: Pauline Frederick, Bert Lytell, Lois Wilson, Holmes Herbert, Richard Tucker

Synopsis: First filmed 1917, the Elmer Rice play On Trial was remade as a talkie eleven years later. The original stage version was hailed for its innovational use of flashbacks, a technique faithfully carried over to the screen. Bert Lytell stars as Robert Strickland, who as the picture opens is standing Read More

White Flannels

Actors: Louise Dresser, Jason Robards, Sr., Virginia Brown Faire, Warner P. Richmond, George Nichols

Synopsis: Its title notwithstanding, White Flannels starts out in a grimy coal-mining town. Mrs. Jacob Politz (Louise Dresser) scrimps, saves and sacrifices to send her son Frank (Jason Robards Sr.) to a fancy New England college. He soon becomes Big Man on Campus, adored by everyone -- but all this comes Read More

Tracked by the Police

Actors: Jason Robards, Sr., Virginia Brown Faire, Tom Santschi

Synopsis: This lively Rin Tin Tin drama throws in everything but the kitchen sink. This time Rinty finds himself on the site of a dam project, where the villains intend to destroy the huge structure for their own gain. Our canine hero not only prevents the sabotaging of the dam but also participates in a Read More

Casey Jones

Actors: Ralph Lewis, Kate Price, Al St. John, Jason Robards, Sr., Anne Sheridan

Synopsis: Based on the popular railroad ballad, Casey Jones stars Ralph Lewis in the title role. Actually, the ballad itself is dealt with only in the early scenes, when Casey's beloved daughter is killed in a train wreck. The bulk of the storyline is carried by Casey Jr. (Jason Robards), a humble baggage Read More

Wild Geese

Actors: Belle Bennett, Russell Simpson, Eve Southern, Donald Keith, Jason Robards, Sr.

Synopsis: Wild Geese is based on a novel by Martha Ostenso, originally serialized in the pages of The Pictorial Review. The story is set in rural Minnesota, where farm wife Amelia Gare (Belle Bennett) is forced to endure the tyranny of her domineering husband Caleb Gare (Russell Simpson). In spite of Read More

Irish Hearts

Actors: May McAvoy, Jason Robards, Sr., Walter Perry, Warner P. Richmond

Synopsis: The winning combination of star May McAvoy and director Byron Haskin was reteamed in Warner Bros.' Irish Hearts. McAvoy stars as Sheila, an Irish immigrant who lands a job as a short-order cook in New York. Scrimping and saving, Sheila gives all her money to fellow immigrant Emmett (Warner Richmond Read More

Jaws of Steel

Actors: Rin Tin Tin, Jason Robards, Sr., Helen Ferguson, Mary Louise Miller, Jack Curtis

Synopsis: Jaws of Steel is not the name of a carnival sideshow act, but rather the title of this standard 1928 Rin Tin Tin vehicle. In this one, the doggy hero is abandoned in the desert while in pup-hood. Upon reaching maturity, Tin Tin has undeservedly earned the reputation as a killer canine. Thus, the Read More

Hills of Kentucky

Actors: Jason Robards, Sr., Dorothy Dwan, Tom Santschi, Rin Tin Tin

Synopsis: Hills of Kentucky is regarded as the best of the Rin-Tin-Tin vehicles, largely because it is the most readily available. When famine hits the Kentucky hinterlands, Rinty is set free by his masters, who can't afford to feed him. Though he goes through a period of feeling rejected, the doggy star Read More

Streets of Shanghai

Actors: Pauline Starke, Kenneth Harlan, Margaret Livingston, Eddie Gribbon, Jason Robards, Sr.

Synopsis: The scene is Shanghai, where virginal missionary Pauline Garon finds herself the object of lust of the local Chinese crime lords. U.S. Marine Kenneth Harlan falls in love with Garon, while seductress Margaret Livingston sets her sights on Harlan. Once he disentangles himself from the troublesome Read More

The Third Degree

Actors: Dolores Costello, Louise Dresser, Rockliffe Fellowes, Jason Robards, Sr., Kate Price

Synopsis: Hungarian director Michael Curtiz made his American film bow with the highly stylized crime melodrama The Third Degree. Set against the backdrop of Coney Island, the story concerns a young couple, Annie Daly (Dolores Costello) and Howard Jeffries Jr. (Jason Robards Sr.). She's a working-class Read More

Footloose Widows

Actors: Louise Fazenda, Jacqueline Logan, Jason Robards, Sr., Arthur Hoyt, Neely Edwards

Synopsis: In the tradition of the venerable stage comedy The Gold Diggers, Footloose Widows zeroes in on two girls who hope to land millionaire husbands. Department-store models Flo (Louise Fazenda) and Marian (Jacqueline Logan) set their sights on wealthy young soft-drink magnate J. A. Smith (Jason Read More

Honeymoon Express

Actors: Irene Rich, Willard Louis, Virginia Lee Corbin, Holmes Herbert, Helene Costello, Harold Goodwin

Synopsis: Corpulent middle-aged Willard Louis fancies himself God's gift to women, indulging in various affairs while his frumpy wife Irene Rich busies herself with her grown children. Following the example set by Louis, the kids indulge in their own hedonistic pleasures, leaving Rich all alone. Finally Read More

Stella Maris

Actors: Mary Philbin, Elliott Dexter, Gladys Brockwell, Jason Robards, Sr., Phillips Smalley

Synopsis: Based on a novel by William J. Locke, Stella Maris is a remake of the 1918 Mary Pickford vehicle of the same name. Patsy Ruth Miller takes over the Pickford role as Stella, a crippled girl who is raised like a hothouse orchid by her overprotective guardians. Also like Pickford, Miller essays a Read More

Land of Hope

Synopsis: Marya Nisko (Alice Brady) and Sascha Rabinoff (Jason Robards Sr.) meet and fall in love on a ship bound for America. Marya is detained at Ellis Island and to while away the time, she dances. Serge Kosmanski, a Russian dancer (Schuyler Ladd), sees her and gives her his card. When Marya finally Read More

The Gilded Lily

Actors: Mae Murray, Lowell Sherman, Jason Robards, Sr., Charles Gerrard

Synopsis: A well-cast Mae Murray gets to show off some of her famous dance steps in this picture. The beautiful Lillian Drake (Murray) is a hostess at the Cafe Royal, a private New York club. She is constantly surrounded by adoring men who she uses mercilessly, among them Creighton Howard (Lowell Sherman) Read More

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