Jay SilverheelsFilmography

One Little Indian

Actors: James Garner, Vera Miles, Clay O'Brien

Synopsis: In this comical Disney western, a cavalry rider goes AWOL in the midst of a raid to save the lives of a band of Indian women and children. He then takes off across the New Mexican desert astride a camel. En route, he meets a young white boy who was raised by an Indian. The Indian is trying to find Read More

The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Sarah Miles, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Warden, George Hamilton

Synopsis: This romantic western drama, based on the best-selling novel by Marilyn Durham, stars Burt Reynolds as Jay Grobart, an outlaw married to an Indian woman named Cat Dancing. When Cat is raped and murdered, a distraught Grobart kills the man responsible for the crime; he soon pulls a robbery with the Read More

The Phynx

Actors: Michael Miller, Ray Chippeway, Dennis Larden, Lonny Stevens, Lou Antonio

Synopsis: Have you ever longed for the day when James Brown, Martha Raye, and Col. Harland Sanders would appear in a movie together? Well, that's barely the tip of the improbable casting iceberg in this bizarre cold-war spoof. The leaders of the American intelligence organization the S.S.A. ("Super Secret Read More

Smith!

Actors: Glenn Ford, Nancy Olson, Dean Jagger, Keenan Wynn, Warren Oates

Synopsis: One of the better Disney features of the late 1960s, Smith relies not upon humanized Volkswagens or singing bears but on the considerable talents of its cast. Glenn Ford stars as Smith, a tenacious modern-day rancher who comes to the aid of a fugitive Native American boy (Frank Ramirez). When a Read More

True Grit

Actors: John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Jeremy Slate, Robert Duvall

Synopsis: In fine Hollywood tradition, John Wayne had to play a "one-eyed fat man" before the Motion Picture Academy considered him worthy of an Oscar. In True Grit, Wayne plays grumpy, pot-bellied U.S. marshal "Rooster" Cogburn, hired by 14-year-old Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) to find Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey) Read More

Branded: The Test

Synopsis: Caught up in a confrontation with four drunken Comanches, Jason (Chuck Connors) kills three of his attackers, and cannot understand why the stranger whose life he has saved refused to fight. Then he discovers that the man is a Catholic priest named Father Durant (Jason Evers), and as such is Read More

Indian Paint

Synopsis: After rescuing a horse from thieves, a Native American teen befriends the animal, and together they share a number of adventures. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Justice of the West

Synopsis: Justice of the West consists of rhree episodes of the TV series The Lone Ranger, cobbled together into an ersatz feature. Clayton Moore plays the Masked Rider of the Plains, while Jay Silverheels is his faithful Indian companion Tonto. In the first episode, our heroes find a cache stolen gold. In Read More

Disneyland: Tales of Texas John Slaughter: Apache Friendship

Synopsis: In the eleventh episode of Walt Disney's 17-part miniseries Tales of Texas John Slaughter, John's children, Willie (Brian Corcoran) and Addy (Patricia Gorman), have at last become accustomed to their new home in Tombstone, AZ. The kids are also anxious for the widowed John (Tom Tryon) to propose Read More

Not Above Suspicion

Synopsis: In this entry in the Lone Ranger series of westerns, he and Tonto must defeat an intelligent outlaw who controls a whole town. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Disneyland: Tales of Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge

Synopsis: In the 13th episode of Walt Disney's 17-part miniseries Tales of Texas John Slaughter, John (Tom Tryon) finds himself in the uncomfortable position of mediating an argument between his son Willie (Brian Corcoran) and his new bride Viola (Betty Lynn). This domestic disturbance is temporarily Read More

Disneyland: Tales of Texas John Slaughter: Kentucky Gunslick

Synopsis: In the 12th episode of Walt Disney's 17-part miniseries Tales of Texas John Slaughter, widower John (Tom Tryon) has finally wed the lovely Viola Howell (Betty Lynn), thus providing a mother for his children Willie (Brian Corcoran) and Addy (Patricia Gorman). En route to register his land claim Read More

Alias Jesse James

Actors: Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Jay Silverheels, Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey, Jim Davis, Gloria Talbott

Synopsis: Bob Hope plays a 19th-century insurance agent whose miserable sales record prompts his boss to send him out West, where he can (supposedly) do little harm. Hope manages to sell a $100,000 life insurance policy--to outlaw Jesse James (Wendell Corey), one of the worst "risks" in history! In his Read More

The Truth

Synopsis: In this Lone Ranger western comprised of two television episodes, hapless Tonto finds himself framed and an unlucky Chinese laundryman finds himself the victim of prejudice. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Return to Warbow

Actors: Philip Carey, Catherine McLeod, Andrew Duggan, William Leslie

Synopsis: In this western, a convict escapes from prison to search for the considerable loot he and his gang had stolen off a stage coach 11 years before. Before heading for the pokey, the outlaw left the loot with his boozy brother. Originally, the plan had been to split the cash with his two cohorts. Read More

The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold

Actors: Douglas Kennedy, Clayton Moore, Jay Silverheels, Charles Watts, Noreen Nash, Lisa Montell

Synopsis: This second theatrical-feature spin-off of TV's Lone Ranger series stars, as ever, Clayton Moore as the Masked Rider of the Plains and Jay Silverheels as his faithful Indian companion Tonto. This time around, the plot concerns five silver medallions. When placed together, these tiny hunks of Read More

The Adventures of Lone Ranger: Count the Clues

Count the Clues

Synopsis: Count the Clues is a jerry-built TV movie comprised of three half-hour episodes from the Lone Ranger TV series. Since all three are in color, we can assume that they were lifted from the series' final season (1955-56). Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels star as, respectively, the Lone Ranger and Read More

One Mask Too Many

Synopsis: Hiyo Silver! This western video contains three episodes from the "Lone Ranger" series in which the Masked Man and Tonto deal with assassins, a serial killer, and an imposter. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Search

Synopsis: In this 1956 Lone Ranger episode, the masked man and his Indian accomplice are trying to locate a missing man and a valuable relic. Clayton Moore stars as the Lone Ranger and Jay Silverheels as Tonto. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Walk the Proud Land

Actors: Audie Murphy, Anne Bancroft, Jay Silverheels, Charles Drake, Tommy Rall

Synopsis: Walk the Proud Land is the true story of Indian agent John Philip Clum, as set down on paper by Clum's son. The film begins in 1874, as Clum, an Eastern government representative, arrives in San Carlos, Arizona. It is Clum's intention to uphold the peace between the settlers and the Apaches, and Read More

Trackers

Synopsis: This Lone Ranger western is comprised of three episodes from the TV series. He and Tonto look into a haunted canyon. They then take on Confederates, and face down a lynch mob. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Lone Ranger: Season 05

More Than Magic

Synopsis: Three episodes of the Lone Ranger and Tonto series sees the pair searching for outlaws, locating missing road agents and assisting an Indian chief in his heir selection. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Lone Ranger

Actors: Clayton Moore, Jay Silverheels, Lyle Bettger, Bonita Granville, Perry Lopez

Synopsis: The Lone Ranger was the first of two Technicolor theatrical features based on the popular TV series of the same name. Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels, stars of the video version, essay the roles of the Masked Rider of the Plains and his faithful Indian companion Tonto. This time around, our Read More

The Lawless

Synopsis: The so-called "feature film" The Lawless is actually a compilation of three full-color Lone Ranger TV episodes. Each installment was drawn from the series' 1955-56 season, and each stars Clayton Moore as the Masked Rider of the Plains and Jay Silverheels as his faithful Indian companion Tonto. Read More

Masquerade

Synopsis: The Lone Ranger impersonates a deaf Mexican in order to join a gold robbing gang. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Tale of Gold

Champions of Justice

Synopsis: The Lone Ranger and his Native American sidekick, Tonto, must think quickly if they want to escape the noose after they are wrongly accused of murder. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Vanishing American

Actors: Scott Brady, Audrey Totter, Forrest Tucker, Gene Lockhart, Jim Davis

Synopsis: The oft-filmed Zane Grey yarn The Vanishing American is given respectful treatment in this Republic "A" production. Eliminating Grey's premise that the American Indian's downfall was all part of Nature's scheme of things, the film begins in the late 19th century, with Scott Brady starring as Read More

Vengeance Vow

Synopsis: Hi-ho Silver! The Lone Ranger and Tonto must round up an escaped prisoner, a skin-flint and a gang of Indian haters in this western. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Lone Ranger: Heritage of Treason

Synopsis: The adventures of radio hero the Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore) and his faithful sidekick Tonto (Jay Silverheels) came to life on the small screen in this 1949-1957 western series. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Lone Ranger: Enfield Rifle

Synopsis: The adventures of radio hero the Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore) and his faithful sidekick Tonto (Jay Silverheels) came to life on the small screen in this 1949-1957 western series. In this episode, the crime-fighters battle against an Indian uprising and hunt down a band of robbers. ~ Jason Ankeny Read More

Masterson of Kansas

Actors: George Montgomery, Nancy Gates, James Griffith, Jean Willes, Benny Rubin

Synopsis: Long before he devoted his life to gimmicky horror epics, director William Castle turned out a series of compact westerns for Columbia. One of the best of the batch was Masterson of Kansas, starring George Montgomery as dandified gunslinger Bat Masterson. The screenplay, by future Maverick Read More

Saskatchewan

Actors: Alan Ladd, Shelley Winters, Robert Douglas, J. Carrol Naish, Hugh O'Brian

Synopsis: Saskatchewan is a "northern" starring Alan Ladd as tight-lipped Canadian Mountie Sgt. Thomas O'Rourke. He rescues Grace Markey (Shelley Winters), sole survivor of a Sioux uprising, and the two of them set out across the treacherous Saskatchewan terrain to safety. To keep himself and his companion Read More

Four Guns to the Border

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Colleen Miller, George Nader, Walter Brennan, Nina Foch

Synopsis: Actor Richard Carlson learned how to direct while starring in his popular TV series I Led Three Lives, then extended his directorial expertise to such theatrical second features as Four Guns to the Border. Rory Calhoun, George Nader, and Jay "Tonto" Silverheels play three desperate bank robbers Read More

Drums Across the River

Actors: Audie Murphy, Walter Brennan, Lyle Bettger, Lisa Gaye, Hugh O'Brian

Synopsis: Audie Murphy is at his taciturn best in the Universal western Drums Along the River. Murphy is cast as Gary Brannon, a peaceful homesteader living a quiet existence with his father Sam (Walter Brennan). No-account Frank Walker (Lyle Bettger), hoping to open up the Ute Indian territory for Read More

The Lone Ranger: Six Gun Sanctuary

Synopsis: The adventures of radio hero the Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore) and his faithful sidekick Tonto (Jay Silverheels) came to life on the small screen in this 1949-1957 western series. In this episode, the crime fighters rid a town of control by outlaws after discovering the body of a rancher. ~ Jason Read More

The Lone Ranger: Outlaw's Trail

Synopsis: The adventures of radio hero the Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore) and his faithful sidekick Tonto (Jay Silverheels) came to life on the small screen in this 1949-1957 western series. In this episode, the duo attempt to get a homesteader and a rancher to make amends with each other. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Read More

The Lone Ranger: Message to Fort Apache

Synopsis: The adventures of radio hero the Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore) and his faithful sidekick Tonto (Jay Silverheels) came to life on the small screen in this 1949-1957 western series. In this episode, the duo must contend with a stagecoach holdup and a murder as they try to help the Army stop the supply Read More

The Lone Ranger: Season 04

The Lone Ranger: The Fugitive

Synopsis: The adventures of radio hero the Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore) and his faithful sidekick Tonto (Jay Silverheels) came to life on the small screen in this 1949-1957 western series. In "The Fugitive," the duo must clear an innocent man of murder charges. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Lone Ranger: Texas Draw

Synopsis: The adventures of radio hero the Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore) and his faithful sidekick Tonto (Jay Silverheels) came to life on the small screen in this 1949-1957 western series. In this episode, the duo protect a preacher from an assassin's bullet. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Lone Ranger: Colorado Gold

Synopsis: The adventures of radio hero the Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore) and his faithful sidekick Tonto (Jay Silverheels) came to life on the small screen in this 1949-1957 western series. In this episode, the duo must grapple with a tunnel packed with dynamite. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Black Dakotas

Actors: Gary Merrill, Wanda Hendrix, John Bromfield

Synopsis: Gary Merrill heads the cast of the unorthodox western The Black Dakotas. The story is set during the Civil War, as President Lincoln tries to mollify the Sioux Indians in order to free up soldiers for more important fighting. Disguised as a Northerner, Brock Marsh (Gary Merrill) intercepts Read More

The Lone Ranger: Rendezvous at Whipshow

Synopsis: The adventures of radio hero the Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore) and his faithful sidekick Tonto (Jay Silverheels) came to life on the small screen in this 1949-1957 western series. In this episode, the duo protect a woman who witnessed a murder and her brother, as they become targets for a gang of Read More

War Arrow

Actors: Maureen O'Hara, Jeff Chandler, John McIntire, Suzan Ball, Noah Beery, Jr.

Synopsis: War Arrow is another of Universal's efficiently produced A plus/B minus Technicolor westerns of the early 1950s. Maureen O'Hara and Jeff Chandler star as, respectively, army major Howell Brady and his former sweetheart Elaine Corwin. As Elaine awaits anxiously on the sidelines, Major Brady trains Read More

The Pathfinder

Actors: George Montgomery, Helena Carter, Jay Silverheels, Walter Kingsford, Rodd Redwing

Synopsis: Flying in the face of Hollywood tradition, this cinemadaptation of James Fennimore Cooper's The Pathfinder features genuine Native Americans in several principal "Indian" roles. Set during the French-Indian wars of the 18th century, the film stars George Montgomery as The Pathfinder, an Indian Read More

The Nebraskan

Actors: Philip Carey, Roberta Haynes, Wallace Ford, Richard Webb, Lee Van Cleef

Synopsis: Virile leading man Phil Carey heads the cast of the 3D western The Nebraskan. Carey plays U.S. Army scout Wade Harper, assigned to keep his Native American aide Wingfoot (Maurice Jara) in protective custody. Accused of killing an Indian chief, Wingfoot is dearly coveted by the dead man's tribe Read More

Jack McCall, Desperado

Actors: George Montgomery, Angela Stevens, Douglas Kennedy, James Seay, Eugene Iglesias

Synopsis: Jack McCall, the man who shot Wild Bill Hickok in the back, is presented in a sympathetic light in this "revisionist" western. During the Civil War, McCall (George Montgomery) is falsely accused of treason. He escapes to prove his innocence, but vengeful union sergeant Will Bill Hickok (Douglas Kennedy Read More

Last of the Comanches

Actors: Broderick Crawford, Barbara Hale, John Stewart, Lloyd Bridges, Mickey Shaughnessy

Synopsis: Cavalry sergeant Broderick Crawford is among the handful of survivors of a Comanche attack. Crawford must lead the survivors across 100 miles of treacherous terrain, and there's only a limited supply of water. Thing of it is, the hidden Comanches are also short of water, and they dearly covet the Read More

The Story of Will Rogers

Actors: Will Rogers, Jr., Jane Wyman, Carl Benton Reid, Eve Miller, James Gleason

Synopsis: Will Rogers Jr. stars as his own father in this slow, sentimental biopic. The film begins with Rogers' days on his father's ranch in Indian Territory (later Oklahoma). We see Will court his future wife, Betty (Jane Wyman), just before he strikes out on his own as a rodeo performer. Attempting to Read More

The Lone Ranger: Season 03

Brave Warrior

Actors: Jon Hall, Christine Larson, Jay Silverheels, Michael Ansara, Harry Cording

Synopsis: Veteran serial director Spencer Gordon Bennett keeps things moving at a hectic pace in Brave Warrior. The title character is legendary Shawnee chief Tecumseh, well-played by Jay Silverheels (better known as Tonto on TV's The Lone Ranger). Though he has every reason to distrust the White Man Read More

The Battle at Apache Pass

Actors: John Lund, Jeff Chandler, Beverly Tyler, Bruce Cowling, Susan Cabot

Synopsis: Two of the cast members from the 1950 western Broken Arrow, Jeff Chandler and Jay Silverheels, recreate their earlier roles in 1952's Battle at Apache Pass. Chandler plays temperate Indian leader Cochise, while Silverheels is the more explosive Geronimo. The film takes place several years before Read More

Yankee Buccaneer

Actors: Jeff Chandler, Scott Brady, Suzan Ball, Joseph Calleia, George Mathews

Synopsis: The innate dignity of leading-man Jeff Chandler lends credibility to the swashbuckling proceedings of Yankee Buccaneer. Set during the early 19th century, the film casts Chandler as David Porter, commander of a U.S. frigate sent to the Caribbean to quell the activities of pirates and privateers. Read More

The Legend of the Lone Ranger

Synopsis: The first three episodes of the popular Lone Ranger television series are edited together to form this Wild West adventure detailing the origins of the eponymous do-gooder. The notorious Cavendish Gang has ambushed an entire squad of Rangers, shooting every man in sight in an attempt to kill as Read More

Laramie Mountains

Actors: Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Jock Mahoney, Fred Sears, Marshall Reed

Synopsis: Charles Starrett is back as The Durango Kid in Laramie Mountains. The villains this time are a group of white outlaws who disguise themselves as Indians to stage raids on various U.S. army posts. Their plan is to foment an all-out war for their own profit. Government agent Steve Holden (Starrett) Read More

The Wild Blue Yonder

Actors: Vera Ralston, Forrest Tucker, Phil Harris, Walter Brennan

Synopsis: Wendell Corey and Forrest Tucker, the Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy of Republic, star as a pair of World War II Army Air Corps officers. In between their battles over the affections of beautiful nurse Vera Hruba Ralston, Corey and Tucker prepare to fly a bombing mission in the South Pacific. Read More

Red Mountain

Actors: Alan Ladd, Lizabeth Scott, Arthur Kennedy, John Ireland, Jeff Corey

Synopsis: The rugged Colorado Territory provides the setting for this epic Civil War-era western chronicle of a Southern rebel who sets off to join Captain Quantrill's raiders. Along the way, the rebel kills a Union supporter who had stolen the rebel's land. Unfortunately, he leaves a different Confederate Read More

Broken Arrow

Actors: James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget, Basil Ruysdael, Will Geer

Synopsis: Indian scout Tom Jeffords (James Stewart) is sent out to stem the war between the Whites and Apaches in the late 1870s. He learns (through an uncomfortably close encounter) that the Indians kill only to protect themselves, or out of retaliation for white atrocities. Befriending the sagacious Read More

The Lone Ranger: Season 02

The Origin of the Lone Ranger

The Cowboy and the Indians

Actors: Gene Autry, Sheila Ryan, Frank Richards, Hank Patterson, Jay Silverheels

Synopsis: In this western, a cowboy comes to the aid of the Indians. The story begins as hero, Gene Autry, begins an investigation of a series of Indian raids. They had been stealing food from homesteads located around the reservation. Autry is appalled to discover that they have been taking the food Read More

The Lone Ranger [TV Series]

Sand

Actors: Mark Stevens, Coleen Gray, Rory Calhoun, Charles Grapewin

Synopsis: Novelist Will James, a specialist in horse stories, wrote the yarn upon which 20th Century-Fox's Sand was based. Mark Stevens plays horse breeder Jeff Keane, who loses his prize stallion in a train accident. While the stallion roams wild and free, Keane enlists the aid of rancher Joan Hartley (Coleen Gray Read More

Laramie

Actors: Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Fred Sears, Tommy Ivo

Synopsis: Heavily trimmed prior to release, this entry in the Charles Starrett "Durango Kid" Western series for Columbia includes leading man Starrett dressed up as John Wayne's stunt double Yakima Canutt in order to match an entire sequence of stock footage lifted from the classic Stagecoach (1939). Read More

Trail of the Yukon

Actors: Kirby Grant, Suzanne Dalbert, Bill Edwards, Dan Seymour, William Forrest

Synopsis: "Suggested" by James Oliver Curwood's novel The Gold Hunters, this low-budget Monogram release was the first film in a series of seven "Northwest" adventures to team former Universal cowboy Kirby Grant and a beautiful white malamute named Chinook. Grant played Bob McDonald, a mountie shot in the Read More

Lust for Gold

Actors: Ida Lupino, Glenn Ford, Gig Young, William Prince, Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis: Producer/director S. Sylvan Simon, a man usually associated with comedies and musicals, turned out a rip-roaring western melodrama when he aimed his sights at Lust for Gold. Most of the film is told in flashback, relating the exploits of Jacob Walz (Glenn Ford), the greedy, homicidal owner of the Read More

The Lone Ranger: Season 01

Key Largo

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Monte Blue, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor, Thomas Gomez

Synopsis: Richard Brooks and John Huston's screenplay for Huston's Key Largo eschews the lofty blank verse of Maxwell Anderson's original play, concentrating instead on the simmering tensions among the many characters. Humphrey Bogart plays Frank McCloud, an embittered war veteran who travels to Key Largo Read More

Singing Spurs

Yellow Sky

Actors: Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Robert Arthur, John Russell

Synopsis: William Wellman's westerns always seemed a little claustrophobic, but in Yellow Sky the director's technique works to the film's advantage. Outlaw leader Gregory Peck takes refuge in a frontier ghost town. The only inhabitants are elderly James Barton and his pretty granddaughter Anne Baxter. Read More

Fury at Furnace Creek

Actors: Robert Adler, Griff Barnett, Harlan Briggs, Harry Carter, Fred Clark

Synopsis: In this western the two sons of the commanding officer of an outpost attempt to clear their father's name after he is accused of conspiring with the Indians and is forced to resign. To prove his innocence, the men use terribly different methods. The older one, an adventurer, approaches suspects Read More

The Prairie

Actors: Lenore Aubert, Alan Baxter, Russ Vincent, Charles Evans

Synopsis: Fairly ambitious for Screen Guild Productions, The Prairie is set at the time of the Louisiana Purchase. Hoping to find their destiny in the new territory, the Bush Family heads southward in a covered wagon. Sharing the family's numerous dangers and hardships are Ellen Wade (Lenore Aubert), sole Read More

Family Honeymoon

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, William Daniels, Rita Johnson, Gigi Perreau, Jimmy Hunt

Synopsis: In this family farce, an older couple falls in love and decide to marry and embark upon a peaceful honeymoon without the bride's three bratty children. Unfortunately, the way things work out, the whole family ends up tagging along. The little darlings are less than pleased that their widowed Read More

The Feathered Serpent

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Chan must find out who has been killing people over rare antiques. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Last Round-Up

Actors: Gene Autry, Jean Heather, Ralph Morgan, Carol Thurston, Mark Daniels

Synopsis: Dissatisfied with his postwar Republic westerns (not to mention his comparatively low salary), Gene Autry switched his base of operations to Columbia in 1947, where he wore two hats as both star and producer. Autry's first Columbia effort, The Last Round-Up, is a vast improvement over the Read More

Unconquered

Actors: Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva, Boris Karloff, Katherine de Mille, Ward Bond

Synopsis: Cecil B. DeMille's first postwar production, the $5 million Technicolor historical spectacular Unconquered lacks only the kitchen sink. The story begins in England in the 1760s, as Abigail Martha Hale (Paulette Goddard), unjustly accused of a crime against the Crown, is sentenced by the Lord Chief Read More

Northwest Outpost

Actors: Nelson Eddy, Ilona Massey, Joseph Schildkraut, Elsa Lanchester

Synopsis: Backed by the "American GI Chorus", Nelson Eddy made his final screen appearance in the unusually elaborate Republic musical Northwest Outpost. The story is set in the 1830s, when a good portion of California was owned by Russia. US cavalry officer James Laurence (Nelson Eddy) arrives at one of Read More

Captain from Castile

Actors: Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Lee J. Cobb, Antonio Moreno, John Sutton

Synopsis: In this big-budget historical adventure, Tyrone Power stars as Pedro De Vargas, a young and impetuous nobleman in 16th Century Spain. Pedro helps to free a slave who belongs to Diego De Silva (John Sutton), but this proves to be a mistake, as Diego is one of the leaders of the Inquisition. Diego Read More

Singin' in the Corn

Actors: Judy Canova, Allen Jenkins, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Al Bridge, Charles Halton

Synopsis: With a title like Singin' in the Corn, how could the star be anyone else but rambunctious rustic comedienne Judy Canova. This time, Canova plays Judy McCoy, a carnival mind-reader playing the boonies in the company of her partner Glen Cummings (Allen Jenkins). Judy's travelling days come to an end Read More

Song of the Sarong

Actors: Nancy Kelly, William Gargan, Eddie Quillan, Fuzzy Knight, George Dolenz

Synopsis: In this tuneful comedy adventure, a free-spirited fellow with a keen eye for easy money is assigned to sail to a remote island and grab a great fortune in pearls which happen to be guarded by some very fearsome natives who are ruled by a sensuous dancing woman. Later the guards capture the Read More

Good Morning, Judge

Actors: Dennis O'Keefe, Louise Allbritton, Mary Beth Hughes, J. Carrol Naish, Louise Beavers

Synopsis: This 67-minute farce stars Dennis O'Keefe as a music publisher sued for plagiarism by a pair of scraggly songwriters. Louise Allbritton is the lady lawyer bringing litigation against O'Keefe, who has promoted the song in question into a hit for his tempestuous singer girlfriend (Mary Beth Hughes). Read More

Northern Pursuit

Actors: Errol Flynn, Julie Bishop, Helmut Dantine, John Ridgely, Gene Lockhart

Synopsis: The fact that star Errol Flynn had been recently embroiled in a real-life rape trial only served to increase the box-office "pull" of Warner Bros. Northern Pursuit. Flynn is cast as Canadian mountie Steve Wagner, assigned to track down and capture downed Nazi pilot Hugo von Keller (Helmut Dantine) Read More

The Phantom [Serial]

Actors: Jeanne Bates

Synopsis: Lee Falk and Ray Moore's famous syndicated comic strip hero came to the screen in this 15 chapter serial produced by Rudolph C. Flotow for Columbia Pictures. Displaying unusually good judgment, the studio cast the still strapping former silent screen cowboy Tom Tyler as Geoffrey Prescott who, like Read More

Valley of the Sun

Actors: Lucille Ball, James Craig, Cedric Hardwicke, Dean Jagger, Peter Whitney

Synopsis: Though officially based on a Saturday Evening Post story by Clarence Buddington Kelland, RKO Radio's Valley of the Sun was obviously inspired by the blockbuster comedy western Destry Rides Again (indeed, both films were directed by George Marshall). James Craig stars as Indian scout Jonathan Read More

Too Many Girls

Actors: Lucille Ball, Ann Miller, Eddie Bracken, Frances Langford, Desi Arnaz

Synopsis: Now immortalized as the film on which Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz met, Too Many Girls is a faithful adaptation of the Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart-George Abbott Broadway musical hit. The light-as-a-feather plotline finds four football players hired to escort dizzy heiress Connie Casey (Lucille Read More