John HarmonFilmography

Malibu High

Synopsis: A broken heart sends a teenage temptress on the road to prostitution and murder in this surprisingly gritty exploitation drama. Kim (Jill Lansing) is a high school senior with a bad attitude that just gets worse after her boyfriend Kevin (Stuart Taylor) breaks up with her and starts dating Annette Read More

Hitch Hike to Hell

Synopsis: Robert Gribbin stars as Howard, a dry cleaning delivery van driver and pampered mama's boy who goes over the deep end in this violent exploitation thriller. Howard is mild-mannered and slightly simple-minded, with a habit of picking up teenage hitchhikers while driving his delivery routes. Read More

Emergency!: Fools

Synopsis: Singer Bobby Sherman appears as Kenny Donaldson Jr., an arrogant young intern who makes a near-fatal diagnosis of a man who was injured in a chimney explosion. Dr. Brackett (Robert Fuller) figures out a suitable "punishment" for Donaldson, designed to teach the man a lesson and to improve his Read More

The Honkers

Actors: James Coburn, Lois Nettleton, Slim Pickens

Synopsis: The exciting world of rodeo provides the framework for this western saga that centers around a temperamental bronc rider who tries prove himself worthy of his wife, son, and his best friend's respect. He also wants to keep his freedom. Songs include: "Easy Made for Lovin," "My Special Day," "I'm a Read More

Unholy Rollers

Actors: Claudia Jennings, Louis Quinn, Betty A. Rees, Roberta Collins, Alan Vint

Synopsis: Claudia Jennings stars as Karen Walker, a woman who sets her sights for roller derby success. Released a few months after Raquel Welch's Kansas City Bomber, Unholy Rollers gives the Welch film a run for its money, despite its exploitation budget, by adding nudity and lesbianism. After being Read More

Bonanza: The Horse Traders

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Dub Taylor, Ann Prentiss

Synopsis: Introduced in the earlier episode "Meena", the scraggly Calhouns make a return Bonanza appearance in the April 5, 1970 episode "The Horse Traders." Having struck it rich, unkempt miner Luke Calhoun (Dub Taylor) and his feisty daughter Meena (Ann Prentiss) now wear fancy clothes and reek of Read More

Adam-12: Log 54: Impersonation

Synopsis: James McEachin appears as Mr. Rivers, who claims to be a police detective. A civilian fight promoter has accused Rivers of cheating him out of $350. It is up to Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) to determine Rivers' guilt or innocence--and to establish conclusively Read More

Ironside: Not With a Whimper, But a Bang

Synopsis: Ironside (Raymond Burr) investigates when a local college campus is besieged with phony bomb threats. It happens that there is another potentially explosive situation involving the bitterness between college newspaper editor Neal Morgan (Philip Chapin) and a pair of Army bomb-disposal squad Read More

Bewitched: Samantha's Caesar Salad

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick Sargent, Agnes Moorehead, Erin Murphy, Diane Murphy

Synopsis: Hoping to help Samantha in the kitchen, witch/maid Esmerelda tries to whip up a caesar salad. Instead, she produces Roman Emperor Julius Caesar (Jay Robinson), who is incensed that history has branded him a dictator. Unable to rid herself of the volatile house guest, Samantha decides to lure Read More

I Dream of Jeannie: Genie, Genie, Who's Got the Genie?, Part 2

Synopsis: In the second episode of a four-part story, Tony (Larry Hagman) has hired a pair of safecrackers (Edward Andrews, Lou Antonio) to open a safe that is destined for the moon--and which contains Jeannie (Barbara Eden), still trapped inside after being accidentally locked in the previous week. Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy and the Stolen Stole

Actors: Buddy Hackett, John "Red" Fox, Ray Kellogg, John Harmon

Synopsis: Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Mr. Mooney (Gale Gordon) head to a discount store to buy low cost fur for Mrs. Mooney. Before any legal transaction can get under way, Lucy is approached by a fence named Harry Barton (guest star Buddy Hackett) who talks her into buying a mink stole at a bargain price. Read More

Funny Girl

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis, Walter Pidgeon

Synopsis: "Hello, gorgeous!" was Barbra Streisand's first comment to the Oscar statuette which she won for her performance in this biopic of entertainer Fanny Brice. This is also her first line in the film itself, the catalyst for a movie-long flashback. Repeating her Broadway role, Streisand stars as Read More

Texas Across the River

Actors: Dean Martin, Alain Delon, Rosemary Forsyth, Joey Bishop, Tina Marquand

Synopsis: Dean Martin stars as an amiable gunrunner in the tongue-in-cheek western Texas Across the River. Martin teams up with fugitive from justice Alain Delon, a Spanish nobleman engaged to the beautiful Rosemary Forsyth. Amidst several Indian attacks, hairbreadth escapes and wild chases, Martin does his Read More

The Fugitive: Death Is the Door Prize

Synopsis: Now posing as "Ed Sanders", Kimble (David Janssen) shows up at an electronics demonstration being held in a shopping mall, where he witnesses security guard Pete Dawes (Howard Da Silva) gunning down a teenage thief. Now Kimble must save an innocent man from being accused of the shooting--but he Read More

The F.B.I.: Collision Course

Synopsis: When hitchhiker Frank Schroeder (a pre-Hawaii 5-0 Jack Lord) gallantly saves a young Mexican girl named Teresa (Pilar Seurat) from being sexually assaulted, she gratefully tags along with him on his Eastward journey. What Teresa doesn't know is that Frank is a triple murderer who for several days Read More

The Street Is My Beat

Actors: Shary Marshall, John Harmon, Anne MacAdams, Tom Irish

Synopsis: In this melodrama, a teenage girl is desperate to escape her domineering mother and unhappy home life so when an older man proposes, she readily accepts. To sway her parents, the man offers a $200 dowry, It works and they marry. Unfortunately, soon after, the young bride learns that her husband is Read More

The Las Vegas Hillbillys

Synopsis: Country and western star Ferlin Husky plays a backwoods yokel who inherits a Las Vegas saloon staffed by barmaid Mamie Van Doren. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Green Acres: My Husband, the Rooster Renter

Actors: Phil Gordon, John Harmon, Sid Melton

Synopsis: Once again, city slicker Oliver (Eddie Albert) is outfoxed by country bumpkin Haney (Pat Buttram). Seems that Oliver wants to buy a rooster, but Mr. Haney is only willing to rent him one -- and this particular rooster seems to have developed laryngitis! Alvy Moore makes his first series appearance Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy Makes a Pinch

Actors: Jack Kelly, Alan Carney, Jackie Searl, John Harmon

Synopsis: Police school rookie Lucy (Lucille Ball) gets herself assigned to handsome detective Bill Baker (Jack Kelly), who is participating in a stakeout to capture Green Scarf Louie (John Harmon), alias "The Lovers Lane Bandit." Making a shambles of the stakeout, Lucy must figure out a way to get back Read More

The Fugitive: Tug of War

Synopsis: While working as a farmhand, Kimble (David Janssen) is recognized from a wanted poster, and finds himself pursued by local sheriff Morgan Fallon (Don Gordon). Meanwhile, aging Samuel Cole (Arthur O'Connell), the town's former sheriff, is determined to make up for the tragic blunder of allowing a Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Capering Camera

Synopsis: The police are convinced that photographer Jacob Kadar (Eric Feldy) committed suicide. But model Judith Blair (Margo Moore) tells her lawyer Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) that she was present at Kadar's murder--and that she was pointing a loading gun at him at the time! Though Judith insists that she Read More

The Twilight Zone: Of Late I Think of Cliffordville

Actors: Albert Salmi, Julie Newmar, John Anderson, Wright King, Guy Raymond

Synopsis: This 60-minute Twilight Zone entry was adapted by Rod Serling from Malcolm Jameson's short story "Blind Alley." Wearing thick "age" makeup, Albert Salmi stars as ruthless millionaire Feathersmith, who would give anything to relive his carefree youth. Enter Miss Devlin (Julie Newmar) -- actually Read More

Move Over, Darling

Actors: Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen, Chuck Connors, Thelma Ritter

Synopsis: A man makes the highly unexpected discovery that he has two wives in this romantic comedy. Widower Nick Arden (James Garner) has just set off on his honeymoon with his new wife Bianca (Polly Bergen) when his mother Grace (Thelma Ritter) receives a very unexpected guest -- Nick's late wife Ellen (Doris Day Read More

Bonanza: The Last Haircut

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Perry Lopez

Synopsis: While sitting in a barber's chair, Carlos Rodriguez (Alex Montoya) is killed by impatient customer Duke Miller (Perry Lopez. The only person who could possibly identify Duke as the murderer is Joe Cartwright-who, unfortunately, was unconscious during the tragedy. Feeling responsible for Rodriguez' Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Devious Delinquent

Synopsis: Wealthy Timothy Balfour Sr. (Otto Kruger) draws up a new will leaving a great deal of money to his namesake grandson Tim (John Washbrook), but the lad may not be worthy of such an honor. Well on the way to becoming a full-fledged "J.D.", Tim is shaken down by hoodlum crony Chick Montana (David Read More

The Fugitive: Come Watch Me Die

Synopsis: In an ironic turn of events, fugitive Richard Kimble (David Janssen) is sworn in as a deputy when Phil Bellows (Robert Doyle) is arrested for murder. Ordered to drive the prisoner and the witnesses to the county seat, Kimble is persuaded that Bellows is actually an innocent victim of Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Libelous Locket

Synopsis: This is the second of four consecutive episodes in which Perry Mason appears only briefly, while a "guest" lawyer handles the case at hand (Raymond Burr was at the time recovering from minor surgery). Michael Rennie stars as erudite law professor Edward Lindley, one of Perry's best friends and Read More

For Love or Money

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Mitzi Gaynor, Gig Young, Thelma Ritter, Julie Newmar

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, Deke Gentry (Kirk Douglas) is a lawyer who gets an unusual assignment from Chloe Brasher (Thelma Ritter), a wealthy widow, owner of a successful hotel chain, and one of his most prominent clients. Chloe has three daughters, sensible Kate (Mitzi Gaynor), bohemian Jan (Leslie Parrish Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Cage at McNaab

Synopsis: Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired to arrange a jailhouse meeting between Nora Larson (Jacqueline Scott) and her husband Brian (Brian Larson), who has been condemned to death. Unfortunately, Nora has hatched a scheme whereby her husband will escape--and Paladin will hang in his place. Lon Chaney Jr. Read More

One Man's Way

Actors: Don Murray, Diana Hyland, William Windom, Virginia Christine, Carol Ohmart

Synopsis: From at least the 1930s on to the 1970s, the upbeat protestant minister, Reverend Norman Vincent Peale, ministered to the well-heeled and upwardly mobile of the United States from his pulpit at the Riverside church on Fifth Avenue in New York City. At least as positive-thinking as the similarly Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Dummy

Actors: Cliff Robertson, Frank Sutton, George Murdock, John Harmon, Sandra Warner

Synopsis: Bearing traces of such earlier film offerings as The Great Gabbo and Dead of Night, the eerie Twilight Zone episode "The Dummy" was scripted by Rod Serling from a story by Lee Polk. Cliff Robertson stars as Jerry Etherson, a nightclub ventriloquist with a predilection for liquor and emotional Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Melancholy Marksman

Synopsis: Ted Chase (Paul Richards) has long suspected that his second wife Irene (Mari Blanchard) is unfaithful. Now he is also convinced that Irene was responsible for the death of his beloved first wife Ellen--and is currently conspiring with the owner of gun shop to bump off Ted as well. To save Read More

Bonanza: A Hot Day for a Hanging

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Denver Pyle

Synopsis: On behalf of his father Ben Cartwright, Hoss delivers a large sum of money to the town of Dutchman Flats. Upon his arrival, however, Hoss is arrested by Sheriff Stedman (Denver Pyle) on a charge of bank robbery. Stedman knows that Hoss is innocent, but he's anxious to prove his worth to the Read More

The Untouchables: The Matt Bass Scheme

Synopsis: With Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) raiding the Syndicate's distilleries left and right, Frank Nitti (Bruce Gordon) is forced to devise a new method of distribution. Enter ex-convict Matt Bass (Telly Savalas), who'd been Nitti's boss back in the "bad old days." Bass and his partner Jason Fiddler Read More

Bonanza: Cut Throat Junction

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Robert Lansing

Synopsis: The Cartwrights accompany freight-company troubleshooter Ted Trask (Robert Lansing) to the far from peaceful community of Cut Throat Junction. Trask has been hired to round up a gang of thieves, and has been given a full and free hand to accomplish his goal. But when he is abruptly fired in the Read More

The 7th Commandment

Synopsis: When Pete (Jonathan Kidd) gets amnesia after a car wreck, he assumes the life of an evangelist with the help of of a preacher (Frank Arvidson). After his newfound success, however, his old girlfriend, and her new boyfriend, decide to blackmail Kidd for a search of the money. Kidd's problems Read More

The Untouchables: Nicky

Synopsis: Nick Bousso (Mario Roccuzzo), the son of mob-connected cab driver Mario Bousso (A.G. Vigganza), has sworn vengeance against Elliot Ness for killing Mario in a raid. Taking advantage of Nick's anger, mob boss Gus Marco (Luther Adler) and "Purple Gang" functionary Charlie Steuben (Michael Ansara) Read More

The Untouchables: The Organization

Synopsis: Though set in the 1930s, this episode is clearly based on the infamous Appalachin Mafia conference of 1957. Gangsters Al Seeger (Richard Conte) and Joe "The Teacher" Kulak (Oscar Beregi) call a summit meeting to establish a consolidation of all organized crime in the U.S., the better to take over Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Left-Handed Liar

Synopsis: Now working as a health club instructor, former college athletic star Ward Nichols (Ed Nelson) hopes to marry Casey Daniels (Maggie Pierce), the niece of his boss Bernard Daniels (Les Tremayne). Unfortunately, Nichols' estranged wife Veronica (Leslie Parrish) refuses to let him go, and claims to Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Singing Skirt

Synopsis: Gambling-casino owner George Anclitis (Henry Lascoe) has two big problems on his hands: His second-in-command Slim Marcus (H.M. Wynant) has been caught cheating in a high-stakes card game, and Slim's girlfriend Vivian (Jeanne Moody) has been murdered. Hoping to kill several birds with a single Read More

The Untouchables: The Underground Railway

Synopsis: This episode is a tour de force for future Oscar winner Cliff Robertson, here cast as hideously ugly escaped convict Frank Holloway (a character allegedly based on the equally repulsive Alvin "Creepy" Karpis). After breaking out of jail, Holloway is helped along his cross-country escape route by Read More

Maverick: A Bullet for the Teacher

Synopsis: Beau (Roger Moore) finds himself in the middle of some deadly intrigue (not to mention a bitter family feud) when he wins half-ownership of the Golden Wheel Casino. Shortly after this windfall, Bart's new partner Rand Storm is shot and killed in self-defense by dance-hall gal Flo Baker (Kathleen Read More

Maverick: Two Tickets to Ten Strike

Synopsis: En route from Tucson to the town of Ten Strike, Bret (James Garner) makes the acquaintance of Frankie French (Connie Stevens), a former saloon dancer. Frankie has been summoned to Ten Strike by a mysterious benefactor whom she has never met. Upon her arrival in town, Frankie discovers that her Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Startled Stallion

Synopsis: Jo Ann Blanchard (Patricia Hardy) seeks the help of Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) in reclaimed her ranch and her prize stallion, both of which have been claimed in a foreclosure by neighboring rancher John Brant (Trevor Bardette). Subsequently, Brant is killed, and at first it appears as though the Read More

Bonanza: The Hanging Posse

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Onslow Stevens

Synopsis: Determined to track down the man who murdered his wife, Flint Johnson (Onslow Stevens) forms a posse. Adam and Little Joe Cartwright, longtime friends of Johnson, join the posse to make sure that proper justice is meted out -- but Johnson has no intention of allowing the law to take its course. Read More

The Rifleman: The Mind Reader

Actors: John Carradine, Paul Fix, Milly Mathis

Synopsis: John Carradine and Michael Landon guest star in this early episode of The Rifleman. The only one in town to own a shotgun, young Billy Mathis (Landon) becomes the obvious suspect when Hallager (Robert Bice) is shot in the back. Especially when Sheriff Torrance (Paul Fix) learns that the victim had Read More

The Monster of Piedras Blancas

Actors: Les Tremayne, Jeanne Carmen, Don Sullivan

Synopsis: Lonely lighthouse-keeper Sturges (John Harmon) keeps mostly to himself, doing his job, which includes warning people away from the beaches and caves near the Piedras Blancas lighthouse. But when two fishermen are found dead, all-but-beheaded and without a trace of blood in their bodies, that Read More

The Rifleman: Duel of Honor

Synopsis: Cesare Danova and Jack Elam guest star in this episode of the popular The Rifleman television series. The town of North Fork is startled by the arrival of a genuine Italian count (Danova) and no one more so than brutish cattle buyer Sim Groder (Jack Elam), who does his best to rile the newcomer. Read More

Maverick: The Jail at Junction Flats

Synopsis: Against his better judgment (which is the way he usually does things), Bret (James Garner) lends $2000 to duplicitous gambler Dandy Jim Buckley (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.), which Jim claims will be used to start a horsetrading business. Not long afterward, Bret discovers that Dandy Jim is stuck in jail Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Crimson Kiss

Synopsis: Anita Bonsal (Jean Willes) is jealous of her roommate Fay Allison (Sue England), who is about to marry Anita's ex-boyfriend Dane Grover (Douglas Dick). In fact, she is so jealous that she is willing to frame Fay for the murder of Carver Clement (John Holland), a married man with whom Anita is Read More

Looking for Danger

Synopsis: In this episode of the long-running "Bowery Boys" series, Sach reminisces about the time he and the gang spent helping the Allies in North Africa during WW II. The boys were working as spies and were assigned to bring in "The Hawk" a key member of the African underground. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Maverick: Point Blank

Synopsis: Bret (James Garner) befriends a charming young couple, Molly Gleason (Karen Steele) and Ralph Jordan (a pre-Mannix Michael Connors). Alas, what Molly and Ralph currently have in mind is not so charming. The two lovebirds intend to use the trusting Bret as the fall guy for a bank robbery --and the Read More

God Is My Partner

Actors: John Hoyt, Marion Ross, Jesse White, Nelson Leigh

Synopsis: Prominent surgeon Walter Brennan comes to the conclusion that his talents are on loan from God. He retires from his lucrative practice and moves to a small town, there to donate his money to charitable religious causes. Brennan's avaricious family maneuvers to have the old doctor declared legally Read More

Three Violent People

Actors: Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Gilbert Roland, Tom Tryon, Forrest Tucker

Synopsis: Set in the American West after the Civil War, this drama is the pull-no-punches story of a lethal family feud. Colt Saunders (Charlton Heston) fought for the Confederacy in the war, and he returns to his family's Texas cattle ranch after impulsively marrying Lorna Hunter (Anne Baxter) following a Read More

Maverick: Hostage

Synopsis: Jack Kelly makes his first appearance as Bart Maverick in this episode, in which Bart and brother Bret find themselves broke and stranded in New Orleans. Hoping to stake themselves to a big poker game being held on a steamboat called the River Princess, the Maverick boys are denied admission by Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Help Wanted

Synopsis: In dire need of money for his wife's operation, Mr. Crabtree (John Qualen) accepts a job from a certain Mr. X (played by a decidedly pre-Bonanza Lorne Greene). Crabtree's assignment should he decide to accept it (as if he has any choice) is to murder a blackmailer. Our hero goes along with scheme Read More

Canyon River

Actors: George Montgomery, Marcia Henderson, Peter Graves, Richard Eyer, Walter Sande

Synopsis: Canyon River stars George Montgomery as trail boss Steve Patrick. Reversing the procedure usually depicted in westerns of this nature, Patrick is assigned to guide a cattle drive from the west-coast state of Oregon to the wilds of Wyoming. En route, our hero must fend off attacks from both Read More

The Adventures of Superman: The Magic Necklace

Synopsis: Lois (Noel Neill) writes a story about the discovery of an ancient necklace with alleged magic powers. It is said that whosoever wears the necklace will be protected from all harm. Gangster boss Jake Morrell (Lawrence Ryle) decides to kidnap Lois as part of a scheme to find out if necklace is all Read More

The Man from Bitter Ridge

Actors: Lex Barker, Mara Corday, Stephen McNally, John Dehner, Trevor Bardette

Synopsis: Lex Barker is The Man From Bitter Ridge in this modest Universal western. Barker plays Pinkerton man Jeff Carr, who comes to the town of Tomahawk in search of a gang of stage robbers. The consensus of opinion is that sheepman Alec Black (Stephen McNally) is responsible for the holdups, but Carr Read More

The Spoilers

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Anne Baxter, Jeff Chandler, Ray Danton, Barbara Britton

Synopsis: The Spoilers is the fourth and (very likely) last film version of Rex Beach's rugged Alaskan adventure yarn. Set during the Gold Rush of '98, the film stars Jeff Chandler as mine owner Roy Glennister, cheated out of his claim by gold commissioner Alex McNamara (Rory Calhoun). Though Glennister Read More

Jail Busters

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running series, the Bowery Boys must help a reporter who was beaten up during an undercover investigation at a local prison. With the consent of the reporter's editor, the boys pull off a phony jewel caper and two of them are imprisoned. In the pokey, they learn that the Read More

Three Young Texans

Actors: Mitzi Gaynor, Keefe Brasselle, Jeffrey Hunter, Harvey Stephens, Dan Riss, Michael Ansara

Synopsis: Mitzi Gaynor was contractually awarded with top billing in 20th Century-Fox's Three Young Texans, but the film's true star is Jeffrey Hunter. To prevent his father from being blackmailed into committing a train robbery, Johnny Colt (Hunter) pulls off the theft himself. Our hero and his lady friend Read More

Jungle Gents

Synopsis: The Bowery Boys go to Africa in this entry in the long-running series. They embark upon their adventure after they discover that one of them has the ability to smell diamonds. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Bitter Creek

Actors: William "Wild Bill" Elliott, Carleton Young, Beverly Garland, Claude Akins, Jim Hayward

Synopsis: Neither a B nor an A picture, Bitter Creek is a solid western programmer, offering an excellent, unglamorized performance by Wild Bill Elliot. Though officially prohibited to do so by the Production Code, the film is motivated by revenge. Elliot arrives in Bitter Creek seeking retribution for the Read More

Jack Slade

Actors: Mark Stevens, Barton MacLane, John Litel, Paul Langton

Synopsis: The psychological makeup of a dangerous gunman is probed in Jack Slade. Beginning with his childhood, Slade (Mark Stevens) is shown to be extremely unbalanced; in fact, he kills his first man at age 13. Growing up in the West, Slade comes to the conclusion that his gun is his only friend. At Read More

Run for the Hills

Actors: Barbara Payton, John Harmon, Mauritz Hugo, Jack Wrightson

Tangier Incident

Actors: George Brent, Mari Aldon, Dorothy Patrick, Bert Freed, Dan Seymour

Synopsis: The fate in the Free World is threatened when three atomic scientists decide to sell their secrets to the Reds. American secret agent Steve (George Brent) heads to Tangier, where he poses as a black marketer in hopes of intercepting the rogue scientists. But Steve finds he has a formidable foe in Read More

The Adventures of Superman: The Runaway Robot

Synopsis: Eccentric "Daily Planet" stringer Horatio Hinkle (Lucien Littlefield) invents a robot named Hero, which he uses to break up a jewel robbery. The disgruntled thieves decide to kidnap the robot and force Hinkle to reprogram it to help them commit their next few crimes. This, of course, is a Read More

The Adventures of Superman: Superman in Exile

Synopsis: Project X, an experimental nuclear reactor located just outside of Metropolis, runs out of control and threatens the city and the surrounding area for 100 miles around with a devastating radioactive explosion. Superman (George Reeves) arrives barely in time and shuts the reactor down, but in the Read More

Atomic Blonde

Synopsis: Originally titled Run For the Hills, Atomic Blonde is a frenetic satire of Cold War paranoia. Sonny Tufts plays a man so terrified by the prospect of nuclear war that he moves his family -- including wife Barbara Payton, who must be the "blonde" of the title -- into a cave. His preventative Read More

Man in the Dark

Actors: Edmond O'Brien, Audrey Totter, Ted de Corsia, Horace McMahon, Nick Dennis

Synopsis: Filmed in 3D, Man in the Dark stars Edmond O'Brien as Steve Rawley, a man with a past. Thing of it is, Rawley knows nothing about that past: a former gangster, he underwent an operation that not only altered his appearance, but also wiped out all criminal tendencies--not to mention all memory of Read More

Tales of Robin Hood

Actors: Robert Clarke, Mary Hatcher, Paul Cavanagh, Wade Crosby, Whit Bissell

Synopsis: Though filmed through the facilities of Hal Roach Studios and produced by Hal Roach Jr., Tales of Robin Hood was released by Lippert Pictures. Robert Clarke stars as the young Earl of Huntington, who after losing his property and title to the invading Normans heads to Sherwood Forest. Here he Read More

Horizons West

Actors: Robert Ryan, Julie Adams, Rock Hudson, John McIntire, Judith Braun, Raymond Burr

Synopsis: Set in the years following the Civil War, Horizons West stars Robert Ryan as Dan Hammond, one of three Texans who decide to return home after the cessation of hostilities. While his brother Neal (Rock Hudson) and his friend Tiny (James Arness) decide to become ranchers, Dan opts for a more Read More

Blonde Dynamite

Actors: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Adele Jergens, Gabriel Dell, Harry Lewis

Synopsis: Blonde Dynamite was the 17th of Monogram/Allied Artists' 48 Bowery Boys entries. This time, the boys have transformed Louie's Sweet Shop into an escort bureau. Louie (Bernard Gorcey) has little to say on the matter, since he's on vacation and knows nothing about this new business enterprise. The Read More

Cyrano De Bergerac

Actors: José Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince, Morris Carnovsky, Ralph Clanton, Lloyd Corrigan

Synopsis: Recreating his stage role, Jose Ferrer stars as Edmond Rostand's Cyrano, a 17th-century French cavalier, poet and swordsman whose prominent proboscis is the subject of many a duel. Cyrano is madly in love with the beautiful Roxanne (Mala Powers), but assumes that she'd never love him back due to Read More

Destination Big House

Actors: Dorothy Patrick, Robert Rockwell, Jimmy Lydon, Robert Armstrong, Larry Blake

Synopsis: Destination Big House is a well directed Republic Programmer starring Dorothy Patrick as a vacationing schoolteacher. Gangster Richard Benedict bursts into Dorothy's mountain cabin, where he dies in a shootout with the Law. As he breathes his last, Benedict wills $80,000 to Dorothy, but neglects Read More

Joe Palooka in the Squared Circle

Actors: Joe Kirkwood, Jr., Lois Hall, Edgar Barrier, Myrna Dell, Robert Coogan

Synopsis: Joe Kirkwood Jr. once more plays Ham Fisher's comic-strip creation Joe Palooka. This time around, Joe's faithful girl Ann Howe is essayed by Lois Hall, while James Gleason replaces Leon Errol in the role of Joe's manager Knobby Walsh. The story gets under way when soft-hearted pugilist Palooka Read More

Once More, My Darling

Actors: Robert Montgomery, Ann Blyth, Jane Cowl, Lillian Randolph, Steven Geray

Synopsis: After the film-noir melodramatics of Lady in the Lake and Ride the Pink Horse, actor/director Robert Montgomery turned to comedy in Once More, My Darling. Montgomery plays a former movie idol hired by the government to woo a young heiress (Ann Blyth). Someone had previously given the girl some Read More

Homicide

Actors: Robert Douglas, Helen Westcott, Robert Alda, Monte Blue, Warren Douglas

Synopsis: British actor Robert Douglas stars in the Warner Bros. crime melodrama Homicide. Douglas plays police lieutenant Michael Landers, whose suspicions are aroused when the only witness to an accidental killing is found dead, an apparent suicide. Though the case is officially closed, Landers Read More

The Lady Gambles

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Preston, Stephen McNally, Edith Barrett, John Hoyt

Synopsis: Barbara Stanwyck plays a woman whose addiction to gambling all but ruins her life. Stanwyck's husband Robert Preston tries to stand by her side, but even he is driven away by her gambling mania. Stanwyck lies, cheats and steals in order to raise capital for her addiction, descending from Read More

Alias the Champ

Actors: Robert Rockwell, Barbara Fuller, Audrey Long, Jim Nolan, John Harmon

Synopsis: Robert Rockwell, Republic Pictures' resident all-purpose hero, stars in Alias the Champ. This time, Rockwell plays Lt. Ron Peterson, who doubles as a homicide detective and local administrator of the professional wrestling code. When real-life rassler Gorgeous George (that's how he billed himself) Read More

The Crooked Way

Actors: John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew, Rhys Williams, Percy Helton

Synopsis: Postwar films were festooned with amnesiac ex-GIs who found themselves mixed up with crime. In The Crooked Way, John Payne plays memory-deficient veteran Eddie Rice, who runs afoul of mobster Vince Alexander (Sonny Tufts) and police inspector Lt. Williams (Rhys Williams). Both the crooks and the Read More

Streets of San Francisco

Actors: Robert Armstrong, Mae Clarke, Gary Gray, Wally Cassell, Richard Benedict

Synopsis: No relation to the 1970s TV series of the same name, Republic's Streets of San Francisco stars Hollywood veterans Robert Armstrong and Mae Clarke. Armstrong plays Willard Logan, a tough Frisco detective who is forced to killer a gangster leader. Logan takes pity on the gangster's orphaned son Read More

Whiplash

Actors: Dane Clark, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Jeffrey Lynn

Synopsis: In this drama, a California artist abandons his work to become a New York prizefighter after he falls in love with a married nightclub singer. Her husband was a fighter, but suffered a crippling accident in the ring and was unable to fulfill his lifelong dream of becoming the world champion. The Read More

Adventures of Gallant Bess

Actors: Cameron Mitchell, Audrey Long, James Millican, John Harmon

Synopsis: Bearing little relation to the 1946 MGM production Gallant Bess, The Adventures of Gallant Bess is a heartwarming low-budgeter from Eagle-Lion. Cameron Mitchell tops the cast as itinerant rodeo rider Ted Daniels, whose best "friend" is his trained horse Gallant Bess. When Ted falls in love with Read More

Moonrise

Actors: Dane Clark, Gail Russell, Ethel Barrymore, Allyn Joslyn, Rex Ingram

Synopsis: All of his life, Danny Hawkins (Dane Clark) has been taunted and mistreated by most of the people around him, enduring innumerable beatings and other humiliations as a boy because his father was a murderer who died on the gallows. He finds it not much better as an adult, living with his aunt in Read More

Brute Force

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo, Ann Blyth

Synopsis: Burt Lancaster had one of his first starring roles in this hard-hitting prison drama. Capt. Munsey (Hume Cronyn) is a cruel, corrupt prison guard who has his own less-than-ethical ways of dealing with inmates, enough so that Joe Collins (Lancaster) -- the toughest inmate in the cell block -- has Read More

Fall Guy

Synopsis: Nice guys don't always finish last as can be seen in this crime drama. The story begins as a perfectly nice fellow finds himself arrested for murder. The trouble is, the man cannot remember a thing about the night of the murder. Though he insists he is innocent, all the evidence tells a different Read More

Monsieur Verdoux

Actors: Charles Chaplin, Ada-May, Marjorie Bennett, Isobel Elsom, Audrey Betz, Marilyn Nash, Virginia Brissac

Synopsis: "Von Clausewitz said that war is the logical extension of diplomacy; Monsieur Verdoux feels that murder is the logical extension of business." With his controversial "comedy of murders" Monsieur Verdoux, Charles Chaplin makes his final, definitive break with the Little Tramp character that had Read More

Fear in the Night

Actors: Paul Kelly, DeForest Kelley, Kay Scott, Ann Doran, Robert Emmett Keane

Synopsis: One of several low-budget mellers directed by scriptwriter Maxwell Shane, Fear in the Night was based on the short story Nightmare by William Irish (pseudonym for Cornell Woolrich). In his first starring role, DeForest Kelley plays Vince Grayson, a young man who has a terrible nightmare wherein he Read More

Louisiana

Actors: Dottye Brown, Tristram Coffin, Joseph Crehan, Jimmie Davis

Synopsis: A sharecropper's son grows up to be the governor of Louisiana in this rags-to-riches bio-pic that tells the story of Jimmie Davis who was determined to get a good education and make something of himself. Not only did he become known as the singing governor, Davis was also a professor in a women's Read More

O.S.S.

Actors: Alan Ladd, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Patric Knowles, Richard Benedict, Richard Webb

Synopsis: Set during WWII, this taut and suspenseful espionage outing chronicles the courage of a brand-new cadre of specially trained American O.S.S. agents who parachute into France to destroy the vital Corbett Mallon tunnel to stop the German invaders from shipping supplies to their troops. One of the Read More

They Made Me a Killer

Actors: Robert Lowery, Barbara Britton, Frank Albertson, Lola Lane, James Bush

Synopsis: This Pine-Thomas Production was scripted by Geoffrey Homes (aka Daniel Mainwaring), best known as the author of the novel upon which the "film noir" classic Out of the Past was based. Robert Lowery plays victim-of-circumstance Tom Durling, in the wrong place at the wrong time when a bank robbery Read More

Below the Deadline

Actors: Warren Douglas, Ramsay Ames, Jan Wiley, Paul Maxey, Philip Van Zandt

Synopsis: Joe Hilton (Warren Douglas), long on looks and ambition but short on ethics, takes immediate advantage when his gambler brother is killed by a rival. Hilton takes over his late brother's operation, quickly and illegally building up a fortune. His friends plead with Hilton to quit the rackets Read More

Dangerous Money

Synopsis: In this episode of the popular detective series, Chan, along with Number Two Son, are aboard a ship bound for Pago Pago. On route a federal agent is murdered. The two sleuths investigate. The film is also titled "Charlie Chan in Dangerous Money." ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Conflict

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith, Sydney Greenstreet, Rose Hobart, Charles Drake

Synopsis: Filmed some 18 months before its release, Conflict is one of two melodramas in which Humphrey Bogart self-consciously portrayed a wife murderer (the other was The Two Mrs. Carrolls). Bogie plays unhappily married Richard Mason, who concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife, Kathryn (Rose Hobart Read More

Roger Touhy, Gangster!

Actors: Preston S. Foster, Victor McLaglen, Lois Andrews, Kent Taylor, Anthony Quinn

Synopsis: Melodramatic gangster action characterizes this tough and freely fictionalized biography of notorious, murderous Chicago mobster Roger Touhy. Set during Prohibition, it centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by that of Al Read More

Silent Partner

Actors: William Henry, Grant Withers, Ray Walker, Joan Blair

Synopsis: Silent Partner stars Jon Henry as cocky crime reporter Jeffrey Swales, who comes into possession of notebook which provides clues concerning the identity of a mysterious criminal chieftan. Swales tracks down the five people listed in the notebook, with explosive results. At one point, Swales Read More

Truck Busters

Actors: Richard Travis, Virginia Christine, Ruth Ford, Richard Fraser

Synopsis: Action specialist B. Reeves Eason socked Truck Busters through its breathless 58 minutes. Richard Travis plays independent trucker Casey Dorgan, who organizes his fellow drivers against the crooked machinations of crooked trucking executive Bonelli (Don Costello). Things get personal when Casey's Read More

After Midnight With Boston Blackie

Actors: Chester Morris, Richard Lane, George E. Stone, Cy Kendall, George McKay

Synopsis: In this entry in the "Boston Blackie" series, the reformed crook meets his former lover who tells him that her father has just been freed from prison and that he is heading out to a safe deposit box where he hid a sack of diamonds. The good daughter wants her father to return the rocks and reform Read More

Find the Blackmailer

Actors: Jerome Cowan, Faye Emerson, Gene Lockhart, Marjorie Hoshelle, Robert Kent

Synopsis: After years of faithful supporting-player service to Warner Bros., Jerome Cowan was rewarded with two starring vehicles, the first of which was Find the Blackmailer. Cowan is cast as private eyes D. L. Trees, who is hired by mayoral candidate John M. Rhodes (Gene Lockhart) to prevent any sort of Read More

White Savage

Actors: Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Sabu, Don Terry, Turhan Bey

Synopsis: This frothy fantasy adventure centers upon the exotic romance between a shark fisherman (the sharks he captured are used for the manufacture of vitamin A) and the beautiful princess of Temple Island. They meet when the fisherman asks a young boy with royal connections to introduce him to the Read More

Call of the Canyon

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, The Sons of the Pioneers, Ruth Terry, Thurston Hall

Synopsis: Cattleman Gene Autry is put out-to say the least-when he finds out that he's been slickered by crooked purchasing agent Thomas McCoy (Edmund MacDonald). It turns out that McCoy is in debt to bookies, and has been skimming his customers to pay off his gambling losses. Autry hopes to put a stop to Read More

Broadway

Actors: George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Broderick Crawford, Janet Blair, Anne Gwynne, Marjorie Rambeau

Synopsis: In this musical, which manages to look back with nostalgia upon prohibition and the depression (no small accomplishment), George Raft plays George, a hoofer looking back on his glory days. His memories are triggered when The Paradise Club, a nightspot where he used to work, is about to be turned Read More

Dangerously They Live

Actors: John Garfield, Nancy Coleman, Raymond Massey, Lee Patrick, Esther Dale, Moroni Olsen

Synopsis: In this wartime drama, a doctor discovers that one of his patients isn't as crazy as he thought, with dangerous consequences for the whole world. Dr. Michael Lewis (John Garfield) is an intern at a hospital where a woman named Jane (Nancy Coleman) is admitted. Jane was injured in a car wreck, and Read More

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

Actors: Jackie Gleason, Jack Durant, Florence Rice, Bruce Bennett, Hallene Hill

Synopsis: Columbia's belated effort to cash in on the popularity of Abbott & Costello's Buck Privates was the raucous and generally amusing wartime comedy Tramp, Tramp, Tramp. Jackie Gleason (the same!) and Jack Durant are teamed for the first and only time as Hank and Jed, a pair of dimwitted barbers who Read More

I Was Framed

Actors: Michael Ames, Julie Bishop, Regis Toomey, John Harmon

Synopsis: I Was Framed was a heavily disguised remake of Dust Be My Destiny, filmed only three years earlier. Michael Ames stars in the old John Garfield role, originally a drifter named Joe Bell but here a crusading reporter named Ken Marshall. Framed by a corrupt politician for a crime he dind't commit Read More

Lucky Jordan

Actors: Alan Ladd, Helen Walker, Sheldon Leonard, Mabel Paige, Marie McDonald

Synopsis: Lucky Jordan (Alan Ladd) is a tough but good-natured New York racketeer who tries to finagle his way out of Army service. Despite his efforts, Jordan is drafted, but soon goes AWOL, with a lovely USO worker (Helen Walker) dogging his heels. She tries to arouse Jordan's patriotism, but he is Read More

The Deadly Game

Synopsis: Charles Farrell, once a heartthrob of the silent screen, is the snow-on-the-roof protagonist in Monogram's The Deadly Game. Farrell rescues the lovely June Lang from a jam, only to get involved with a complex murder case. Evidently, no one can be trusted, so Farrell has his hands full during the Read More

Life Begins for Andy Hardy

Actors: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford

Synopsis: Number ten in MGM's heart-warming (and immensely profitable) "Andy Hardy" series was the 1941 entry Life Begins for Andy Hardy. Upon his graduation from high school, Andy (Mickey Rooney) decides to seek his fortune in New York City without benefit of a college education, much to the consternation Read More

Raiders of the Desert

Synopsis: Set in the burning Arabian desert, this action-adventure centers on the attempts of a well-meaning and wealthy fellow to turn a village into a democracy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Secrets of the Lone Wolf

Actors: Warren William, Ruth Ford, Roger Clark, Victor Jory, Eric Blore

Synopsis: Michael Lanyard, the reformed criminal known as the Lone Wolf, is played in this Columbia B picture by the suave Warren William. The script contrives to have Lanyard's faithful butler Jamison (Eric Blore) to be mistaken for his boss by a gang of jewel robbers. They force poor Jamison to Read More

Hit the Road

Actors: Gladys George, Barton MacLane, Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell

Synopsis: German director Joe May was light-years removed from his glory days at UFA when he helmed the "Little Tough Guys" entry Hit the Road. This time, the youthful protagonists-Tom (Billy Halop), Pig (Huntz Hall), String (Gabe Dell) and Ape (Bernard Punsley)-are all the orphaned sons of gangsters who'd Read More

Buy Me That Town

Actors: Lloyd Nolan, Constance Moore, Albert Dekker, Sheldon Leonard

Synopsis: A gangster and his mob buy a small-town in this warm comedy. They, tired of trying to make it as big city hoods, buy the town to use as a hideout. The leader of the gang begins to have a change of heart after he begins falling for a local girl. He decides to use the "protection money" his gang has Read More

Manpower

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, George Raft, Alan Hale, Frank McHugh

Synopsis: Manpower was Warner Bros' latest reworking of 1932's Tiger Shark, with power-company linemen substituting for tuna fisherman. While repair some downed lines in a heavy thunderstorm, Hank McHenry (Edward G. Robinson) saves the life of his best pal Johnny Marshall (George Raft). While Johnny emerges Read More

The Pittsburgh Kid

Actors: Billy Conn, Jean Parker, Dick Purcell, Alan Baxter, Veda Ann Borg

Synopsis: Unable to sign boxer Joe Louis to movie contract, Republic Pictures had to make do with the losers of Louis' heavyweight championship bouts. One of these was Billy Conn, who after being knocked out by Louis in the 13th round awakened to star in the Republic programmer The Pittsburgh Kid. The story Read More

Honolulu Lu

Synopsis: While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Two in a Taxi

Actors: Anita Louise, Russell Hayden, Dick Purcell, Chick Chandler

Synopsis: Columbia's Two in a Taxi is perfect "Late Late Late Show" fare, just the sort of brisk, breezy film with which one would want to greet the new sunrise. Cab driver Jimmy Owens (Russell Hayden) hopes to push a hack just long enough to raise enough money-300 bucks, to be exact--for his own gas Read More

The Shepherd of the Hills

Actors: John Wayne, Betty Field, Harry Carey, Beulah Bondi, James Barton

Synopsis: Harold Bell Wright's bestselling novel The Shepherd of the Hills had been previously filmed in 1919 and 1928 before Paramount offered the first talkie version in 1941. In one of his least typical roles, John Wayne plays a young Ozark backwoodsman forsworn to kill his father, who years earlier Read More

Women Without Names

Actors: Ellen Drew, Robert Paige, Judith Barrett, John Miljan, Fay Helm

Synopsis: Paramount's "B" pictures of the early 1940s were generally more interesting than their star-studded "A"s, as witness Women without Names. Ellen Drew and Robert Paige star as newlyweds Joyce and Fred MacNeil, whose honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Read More

A Fugitive from Justice

Actors: Roger Pryor, Lucille Fairbanks, Eddie Foy, Jr., Sheila Bromley, Morgan Conway

Synopsis: The 1940 Warner Bros. quickie A Fugitive From Justice is based on Leonard Neubauer's short story "Million Dollar Fugitive." Roger Pryor plays insurance investigator Don Miller, who endeavors to hide Lee Leslie (Donald Douglas), holder of a million-dollar policy, from both the police and the Read More

A Night at Earl Carroll's

Actors: Ken Murray, Rose Hobart, Blanche Stewart, Elvia Allman

Synopsis: For the purposes of this inconsequential 61-minute musical, Paramount Pictures shelled out a great deal of money to film on location at showman Earl Carroll's Hollywood cabaret, and to highlight several of the performers appearing therein on a nightly basis. Since Carroll claimed to have "The Most Read More

Queen of the Mob

Actors: Ralph Bellamy, Blanche Yurka, J. Carrol Naish, William Henry

Synopsis: Though the title character is loosely based on that of the notorious killer/robber Ma Barker, she has been sanitized and prettified to meet the perceived conservative values of Hollywood movie audiences. Unlike Barker, who was bad to the bone, Ma Webster is simply a matriarch who would do anything Read More

Devil's Island

Actors: Boris Karloff, Nedda Harrigan, James Stephenson, Adia Kuznetzoff, Rolla Gourvitch

Synopsis: Veteran movie heavy Boris Karloff plays a sympathetic role in Devil's Island. Karloff portrays a humanitarian physician, arrested for treating the wounds of a treasonous fugitive. Sent to the Devil's Island penal colony, Dr. Karloff runs afoul of sadistic commandant James Stephenson, who seems Read More

Gangs of Chicago

Actors: Lloyd Nolan, Barton MacLane, Lola Lane, Ray Middleton, Astrid Allwyn

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a young man becomes a criminal lawyer after witnessing the police shooting of his father, a thief. Most of his clients are criminals and he soon finds himself involved with a mob boss. Together they build a new crime syndicate. Unfortunately, the attorney's partner is secretly Read More

The Way of All Flesh

Actors: Akim Tamiroff, Gladys George, William Henry, John Hartley, Marilyn Knowlden

Synopsis: This is the third film based on a story by Lajos Biro and Jules G. Furthman. The first two were silent films, Cecil B. DeMille's The Whispering Chorus in 1918, and The Way of All Flesh in 1927. In this melodrama, Paul Kriza (Akim Tamiroff), a respectable bank cashier, leaves his wife Anna (Gladys George Read More

Inside Information

Actors: Dick Foran, Harry Carey, Mary Carlisle, Addison Richards

Synopsis: Pity poor police captain Dugan (Harry Carey). As if he hasn't got enough trouble with the green recruits that Headquarters continues saddling him with, he also has to solve a series of high-profile jewel robberies. Enter brash rookie cop Danny Blake (Dick Foran), whose know-it-all attitude drives Read More

Gambling Ship

Actors: Robert Wilcox, Helen Mack, Edward S. Brophy, Joe Sawyer, Irving Pichel

Synopsis: Universal's old Show Boat sets are brought out of mothballs for the energetic "B" entry Gambling Ship. When honest gambler Steve Riley (Selmer Jackson) is murdered by his rivals, his pretty daughter Mollie (Helen Mack) takes over the operation of Riley's floating gambling casino. On board this Read More

I Was a Convict

Actors: Barton MacLane, Beverly Roberts, Clarence Kolb, Janet Beecher

Synopsis: In this crime drama a wealthy business tycoon serves a sentence for tax fraud. While there he becomes good friends with his cellmates and after they are all released, the magnate appoints them both as executives in his company. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Pirates of the Skies

Actors: Kent Taylor, Rochelle Hudson, Lucien Littlefield, Ray Walker, Stanley Andrews

Synopsis: In this drama, a waitress leaves her husband after getting sick of being alone while her husband, a commercial pilot, plies his trade. To be near her, he quits his job and joins the state police air service. Unfortunately, he becomes mixed up in an interdepartmental rivalry between road-bound and Read More

The Return of Doctor X

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane, Dennis Morgan, John Litel, Huntz Hall, Wayne Morris

Synopsis: Humphrey Bogart makes his first and last appearance in a horror movie in this film. Though the title implies that it is a sequel to the classic 1932 chiller Dr. X it is not. The terror begins when an eager-beaver reporter stumbles across the corpse of a popular actress who turns up, after much Read More

Golden Boy

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, Lee J. Cobb, Joseph Calleia

Synopsis: Director Rouben Mamoulian often claimed that he'd been inspired to make Golden Boy after reading a newspaper clipping about a recently deceased boxer. While Mamoulian may have genuinely believed that he was the true "auteur" of Golden Boy, he probably wouldn't have made the picture at all had not Clifford Odets Read More

King of the Underworld

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, James Stephenson, John Eldredge, Jessie Busley

Synopsis: A remake of Dr. Socrates (1935), this middling melodrama features Kay Francis as Carol Nelson, a medical doctor blaming gangster Joe Gurney (Humphrey Bogart) for the death of her husband (John Eldredge) during a police raid. Determined to get even, Dr. Nelson sets up practice in a small town where Read More

King of Alcatraz

Actors: Gail Patrick, Lloyd Nolan, J. Carrol Naish, Harry Carey, Robert Preston

Synopsis: We never actually see J. Carroll Naish in Alcatraz, but there's no doubt he's the "king" of the title. Most of the action takes place aboard a passenger ship, which Naish has boarded incognito in hopes of escaping prosecution. Naish and his gunmen take over the ship, complicating the lives Read More

A Slight Case of Murder

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Bryan, Allen Jenkins, Ruth Donnelly, Willard Parker

Synopsis: Slight Case of Murder is a breakneck-paced comedy starring Edward G. Robinson as a tough but good-hearted bootlegger. When Prohibition is repealed, Robinson faces a financial crisis: His beer tastes so awful that no one wants to drink it legally. As an additional headache, Robinson is under Read More

The Missing Guest

Actors: Paul Kelly, Constance Moore, William Lundigan, Edwin Stanley, Selmar Jackson

Synopsis: The Missing Guest is the first of two remakes of the 1933 melodrama Secret of the Blue Room. The audience knows what it's in for when they're introduced to the hero (Paul Kelly), a hotshot reporter named "Scoop" (what else?) When a young man mysteriously disappears in the "forbidden room" of a Read More

Rendezvous

Actors: William Powell, Rosalind Russell, Binnie Barnes, Lionel Atwill, Cesar Romero

Synopsis: This espionage thriller with romantic comedy touches was loosely based on the book American Black Chamber by the real-life head of the U.S. Secret Service during World War I, Herbert O. Yardley. Bill Gordon (William Powell) is a newspaper puzzle editor who becomes a lieutenant in 1917 when he Read More