John KelloggFilmography

Orphans

Actors: Albert Finney, Matthew Modine, Kevin Anderson, John Kellogg, Anthony Heald

Synopsis: Two brothers kidnap a boozy gangster and try to hold him for ransom in this psychological thriller. Harold (Albert Finney) is lured from a saloon by Treat (Matthew Modine) to their squalid tenement. He and his reclusive and agoraphobic brother, Phillip (Kevin Anderson), have no idea Harold is a Read More

Violets Are Blue

Actors: Sissy Spacek, Kevin Kline, Bonnie Bedelia, Jim Standiford

Synopsis: This small-town romance may be trying to ride the coattails of the Big Chill that also featured Kevin Kline. Kline plays Henry here, and when the film opens he and his love Gussie Sawyer (Sissy Spacek, wife of director Jack Fisk), are sitting together planning the future they will have. She will Read More

Blind Justice

Actors: Tim Matheson, Mimi Kuzyk, Philip Charles MacKenzie, Tom Atkins, Lisa Eichhorn

Synopsis: Blind Justice is a fact-based TV movie starring Tim Matheson, here made to look "normal" with glasses and mustache. The innocent Matheson is fingered by witnesses as an armed robber/kidnapper/rapist. For the next 14 months, his life is hell. Too much circumstantial evidence surrounds the case, and Read More

Kojak: Sister Maria

Synopsis: Season Hubley is cast as Sister Maria, a young nun whose sister has been killed in a highly suspicious auto accident. Vowing vengeance against the airline executive whom she holds responsible for her sibling's death, Sister Maria formulates a plan to see that justice is serve--and ulitmately finds Read More

A Knife for the Ladies

Actors: Jack Elam, Ruth Roman

Bonanza: Salute to Yesterday

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Patrick Conway

Synopsis: The focus in this Bonanza episode of September 29, 1968 is on ranch hand Candy, played by David Canary. Candy and the Cartwrights offer their assistance to a US Army unit, presently under attack from a gang of gold bandits. Crisis mounts upon crisis when it develops that Captain Harris (Pat Read More

Bonanza: The Conquistadores

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, John Saxon, Ray Teal

Synopsis: Joe Cartwright is kidnaped by a band of impoverished Mexicans, who hope to save their rundown village by collecting a $25,000 ransom from Joe's father Ben. Meanwhile, a pair of thieves named Anderson (John Kellogg) and Perkins (Eddie Ryder) prepare to steal the ransom before it can be delivered Read More

The Fugitive: The Cage

Synopsis: Using the alias "Jeff Parker", Kimble (David Janssen) finds work in a fishing village where Captain Vardez (Joe De Santis) rules with an iron hand. Noting evidence of bubonic plague, Kimble is duty-bound to alert the authorities, even though he himself will be quarantined in town, thus placing Read More

Bonanza: Logan's Treasure

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Dan Duryea

Synopsis: When Sam Logan (Dan Duryea) was sent to prison, he claimed he didn't know where his partner Jack Crawford hid $100,000 in stolen gold. After serving 20 years, Sam is released, whereupon his trail is dogged by a number of shady and avaricious characters, among them a relentless bounty hunter named Read More

Bonanza: No Less a Man

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Ray Teal

Synopsis: In anticipation of a raid by the deadly Wagner outlaw gang, the townsfolk of Virginia City want to replace their ageing sheriff Roy Coffee, whom they feel is not equal to the task of standing up to the Wagners. Adam Cartwright is among the few who insists that Coffee remain in office-but even he Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Final Escape

Actors: Edward Byrnes, Stephen McNally, Robert Keith, Stacy Harris, Betsy Hals

Synopsis: Career criminal Paul Perry (Edd Byrnes) has earned a measure of fame for his daring escapes from various jails and prisons. But it looks like Perry's luck has run out when he sentenced to serve a 15-year sentence in a maximum-security prison farm, where head guard Captain Tollman (Stephen McNally) Read More

Bonanza: A Question of Strength

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Ilka Windish

Synopsis: A gang of bandits attacks the stagecoach carrying Hoss Cartwright and two nuns, elderly Mother Veronica (Ilka Windish) and young Sister Mary Kathleen (Judy Carne). When the younger of the nuns anxiously surrenders the money collected for a new convent hospital, the older nun rebukes her, informing Read More

The Untouchables: Double Cross

Synopsis: Ubiquitous Untouchables guest star Nehemiah Persoff makes his final appearance as criminal mastermind Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik. Determined to drive Guzik out of the bootlegging business, Elliot Ness secretly begins supplying Jake's rivals with illegal booze. Ness hopes this heightened competition Read More

The Untouchables: The Maggie Storm Story

Synopsis: One year before her Oscar-winning performance in Hud, Patricia Neal guest-starred in this Untouchables episode as torch singer Maggie Storm (and never mind that we never hear her sing a note at any time). Maggie is the featured entertainer at the 808 Club, a night spot mentioned by dying drug Read More

Convicts Four

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Stuart Whitman, Ray Walston, Vincent Price, Rod Steiger

Synopsis: Based on the autobiography of convicted killer John Resko (played here by Ben Gazzara), this routine biographical drama looks at the crucial years between 1931 and 1949 in the convict's life. That period begins when Resko is convicted of killing a store owner and is sentenced to life in prison. Read More

The Untouchables: The Gang War

Synopsis: Victor Buono, who skyrocketed to stardom by virtue of his work in the title role of the earlier Untouchables episode "Mr. Moon", returns to the series in a different characterization. This time Buono is cast as Parnise Surigao, whose booming bootlegging operation is cutting into the profits of Read More

Go Naked in the World

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Anthony Franciosa, Ernest Borgnine, Luana Patten, Will Kuluva

Synopsis: Gina Lollobrigida plays a Lady of the Evening who is wooed by wealthy young Anthony Franciosa. She leaves him in the dark concerning her checkered past. Alas, Franciosa's father Ernest Borgnine knows everything about Lollobrigida, and breaks the bad news to his son. Aghast at first, Franciosa is Read More

Maverick: The Ice Man

Synopsis: Broke again, Bart (Jack Kelly) accepts a job from rancher Cal Powers (Andrew Duggan), hauling ice from the nearby mountains. While on the job, Bart comes upon a corpse, frozen beneath the surface of an icy river. This discovery will prove to have dire consequence for our hero, thanks largely to Read More

One Step Beyond: Gypsy

Synopsis: Answering a call from a prison warden (Addison Richards, series host John Newland) is told a strange story about a young convict named Tom (played by a pre-Baretta Robert Blake). In flashback, we learn that Tom had wanted to participate a jailbreak masterminded by a hardened con named Gypsy Read More

One Step Beyond: Moment of Hate

Synopsis: After a nasty confrontation with business rival Joyce Chapman (Linda Lawson), career woman Karen Wadsworth (Joanne Linville) expresses the wish that Joyce were dead--and before long, the wish comes true. Coincidence? Karen doesn't think so, especially after it appears that she has "willed" the Read More

Edge of the City

Actors: John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Jack Warden, Kathleen Maguire, Ruby Dee

Synopsis: Edge of the City is a modern morality play, acted out in the railyards of New York. AWOL soldier John Cassavetes takes a job as a railroad worker, where he is taunted and bullied by supervisor Jack Warden, a union functionary appointed by the Mob. Cassavetes befriends his African-American Read More

African Manhunt

Synopsis: In this low-budget jungle adventure three people must take a wanted man through the jungle to the coast. Along the way they encounter many ferocious wild animals and face frequent dangers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Gorilla at Large

Actors: Cameron Mitchell, Anne Bancroft, Lee J. Cobb, Raymond Burr, Charlotte Austin

Synopsis: Whenever Mel Brooks wanted to get a rise out of wife Anne Bancroft during their joint talk-show appearances of the 1970s, Brooks would bring up the subject of Gorilla at Large. Easily the low point of Ms. Bancroft's movie career, the film is good for a few chuckles if one's in the proper mood. The Read More

The Adventures of Superman: Five Minutes to Doom

Synopsis: Season Two of the Adventures of Superman opened with a bang, and a new level of sophistication in the writing and directing, with "Five Minutes To Doom". Clark Kent (George Reeves) and Lois Lane (Noel Neill) are at the death house in state prison to try and get an interview out of Joe Winters Read More

The Fighting Lawman

Actors: Wayne Morris, Virginia Grey

Synopsis: In this western, a brave cowgirl tries to steal the ill-gotten gains of an outlaw gang. The sheriff is hot on her heels. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Adventures of Superman: The Big Squeeze

Synopsis: Future Leave It to Beaver paterfamilias Hugh Beaumont appears in this episode as Dan Grayson, an ex-convict who has gone straight for the sake of his wife Peg (Aline Towne) and son Tim (Bradley Mora). Alas, his former cellmate Luke Maynard (John Kellogg) has threatened to reveal Grayson's criminal Read More

The Silver Whip

Actors: Dale Robertson, Rory Calhoun, Robert Wagner, Kathleen Crowley, James Millican

Synopsis: The Silver Whip stars Dale Robertson as Race Crim, the guard on a stage coach driven by his best friend, young Jess Harker (Robert Wagner). Wounded during a holdup, Crim vows to get even with bandit Slater (John Kellogg). Meanwhile, Harker, fired from his job as driver, manages to become the Read More

Those Redheads from Seattle

Actors: Rhonda Fleming, Gene Barry, Agnes Moorehead, Guy Mitchell, Teresa Brewer

Synopsis: Paramount's Pine-Thomas production unit takes the plunge into the 3-D craze in Those Redheads from Seattle. The titular carrot-tops are played by Rhonda Fleming, Teresa Brewer and Cynthia and Kay Bell, as members of a singing-sister act. Arriving in the Yukon during the Gold Rush days in the Read More

Jet Job

Actors: Stanley Clements, Elena Verdugo, John Litel, Bob Nichols, Tom Powers

Synopsis: The perfunctorily titled Jet Job is an updated retelling of the old one about the hotshot test pilot who learns the value of being a team player. Stanley Clements stars as Joe Kovak, whose recklessness and refusal to follow orders causes no end of trouble for his superiors. Fired by boss Sam Read More

Rancho Notorious

Actors: Arthur Kennedy, Marlene Dietrich, Mel Ferrer, Lloyd Gough, Gloria Henry, William Frawley

Synopsis: The original title for Rancho Notorious was Chuck-a-Luck, which is also the title of the soundtrack ballad (written by Ken Darby) which unifies the plotline, à la High Noon. Frontiersman Vern Haskell (Arthur Kennedy) wanders throughout the West in search of the man who robbed and murdered his Read More

The Adventures of Superman: A Night of Terror

Synopsis: While taking a well-deserved vacation in Canada, reporter Lois Lane (Phyllis Coates) ends up at a seedy motel where the owner's wife (Ann Doran) is behaving in a strangely terrified fashion. It turns out that the motel is the refuge for a pair of gunmen who are awaiting the arrival of a paid Read More

The Raiders

Actors: Richard Conte, Viveca Lindfors, Barbara Britton, Hugh O'Brian, Richard Martin

Synopsis: It's always a pleasure to see ace western director Leslie Selander in action, and Riders of Vengeance is no exception. Originally released as The Raiders, this Universal programmer stars Richard Conte as a miner who leads an expedition of his compatriots to the California Gold Rush. Crooked Morris Ankrum Read More

The Greatest Show on Earth

Actors: Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston, Dorothy Lamour, Gloria Grahame

Synopsis: Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth is a lavish tribute to circuses, featuring three intertwining plotlines concerning romance and rivalry beneath the big top. DeMille's film includes spectacular action sequences, including a show-stopping train wreck. The Greatest Show on Earth won Read More

Bomba and the Elephant Stampede

Actors: Johnny Sheffield, Donna Martell, Edith Evanson, Martin Wilkins, John Kellogg

Synopsis: Elephant Stampede was the sixth entry in Monogram's "Bomba the Jungle Boy" series. This time Bomba (Johnny Sheffield) must contend with a pair of scurrilous ivory hunters (John Kellogg and Myron Healey). Not above killing pachyderms, the bad guys show an equal lack of remorse when they murder Read More

Tomorrow Is Another Day

Actors: Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Lurene Tuttle, Ray Teal, Morris Ankrum

Synopsis: When Margaret Mitchell originally submitted her manuscript for Gone with the Wind, its title was Tomorrow Is Another Day. The 1951 film of that title has nothing to do with Gone with the Wind, as will be obvious before the credits fade. Steve Cochran plays an ex-convict who thinks he killed Read More

Come Fill the Cup

Actors: James Cagney, Phyllis Thaxter, Raymond Massey, James Gleason, Gig Young

Synopsis: James Cagney plays a once great newspaper reporter ruined by liquor. Thanks to the help of reformed alcoholic James Gleason, Cagney pulls himself out of the gutter and restores his journalistic reputation. Because of his own redemption, Cagney is asked by his editor to straighten out the editor's Read More

The Enforcer

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia, Everett Sloane, Roy Roberts

Synopsis: Humphrey Bogart plays Martin Ferguson, a prosecutor about to put Albert Mendoza (Everett Sloane), the head of a murder-for-hire ring, on trial. But the night before the trial, his key witness, Joe Rico (Ted de Corsia), dies in a fall out of the window of the room in which he's been guarded, part Read More

Kansas Raiders

Actors: Audie Murphy, Brian Donlevy, Marguerite Chapman, Scott Brady, Tony Curtis

Synopsis: Having previously played Billy the Kid, Audie Murphy assumes the role of Jesse James in Kansas Raiders. The plot finds Jesse and his brother Frank (Richard Long), together with the Younger Brothers (James Best, John Kellogg and Tony Curtis -- yes, Tony Curtis) joining Quantrill's Raiders. Read More

Hunt the Man Down

Actors: Gig Young, Lynne Roberts, Mary Anderson, Willard Parker, Carla Balenda

Synopsis: Gig Young was just beginning to toughen up his previously lightweight screen image when he starred in Hunt the Man Down. In a tense, tight, 68 minutes, public defender Paul Bennett (Young) dedicates himself to freeing an innocent man who has already spent 12 years in jail. Accused of murder Read More

Bunco Squad

Actors: Robert Sterling, Joan Dixon, Ricardo Cortez, Douglas Fowley, Elizabeth Risdon

Synopsis: RKO's Bunco Squad stars Robert Sterling as Sgt. Steve Johnson, a big-city detective dedicated to tracking down con artists. His current target is a gang of slicksters who are running a successful seance racket. Wealthy Jessica Royce (Elizabeth Risdon) is on the verge of bequeathing her fortune to Read More

Bad Men of Tombstone

Actors: Barry Sullivan, Marjorie Reynolds, Broderick Crawford, Fortunio Bonanova, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams

Synopsis: Director Kurt Neumann, more closely associated with science fiction and mystery programmers, delivers a powerhouse of a pocket western in Bad Men of Tombstone. Barry Sullivan and Broderick Crawford head the cast as a pair of gunslingers who hold no regrets and evidently harbor no consciences. They Read More

Port of New York

Actors: Scott Brady, Richard Rober, K.T. Stevens, Yul Brynner, Arthur Blake

Synopsis: The location-filmed Port of New York might have been forgotten had it not been for one of its leading players. In his first film role, Yul Brynner plays an erudite narcotics smuggler named Paul Vicola. Using a phony yacht club as a front, Vicola conducts a brisk drug trade, making certain that no Read More

Samson and Delilah

Actors: Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Henry Wilcoxon

Synopsis: Samson and Delilah is Cecil B. DeMille's characteristically expansive retelling of the events found in the Old Testament passages of Judges 13-16. Victor Mature plays Samson, the superstrong young Danite. Samson aspires to marry Philistine noblewoman Semadar (Angela Lansbury), but she is killed Read More

Hold That Baby!

Actors: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Frankie Darro, Anabel Shaw

Synopsis: Hold That Baby! was the 14th entry in Monogram's money-spinning "Bowery Boys" series. Ever in search of spare change, the Bowery Boys, headed by Slip Mahoney (Leo Gorcey) go into the laundromat business. While unfolding some linen, Sach (Huntz Hall) comes across a seemingly abandoned baby. The Read More

House of Strangers

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Luther Adler, Paul Valentine

Synopsis: House of Strangers is the first of three film versions of Jerome Weidman's I'll Never Go Home Any More, each of which was scripted by Philip Yordan. Edward G. Robinson plays a Giannini-like Italian-American banker, Gino Monetti, who runs roughshod over his four grown sons. The ruthless Gino Read More

Twelve O'Clock High

Actors: Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Millard Mitchell, Dean Jagger, Robert Arthur

Synopsis: How much can a man give? When the U.S. 8th Army Air Force 918th Bombardment group is ordered on their fourth harrowing mission in four hard days, Brigadier General Frank Savage (Gregory Peck) demands "maximum effort." The bombers are forced to fly lower, to fly farther, and to test themselves Read More

Fighting Back

Actors: Paul Langton, Jean Rogers, Joe Sawyer, Morris Ankrum, John Kellogg

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a convict is freed after he agrees to join the military during WW II. After he is discharged he gets a job at a factory. The criminal is almost completely reformed when he is visited by an old partner in crime. The shady pal's dog steals the factory owner's bracelet and the Read More

Borrowed Trouble

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

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

Secret Service Investigator

Actors: Lynne Roberts, Lloyd Bridges, George Zucco, June Storey

Synopsis: An especially good casts helps lift Republic's Secret Service Investigator well above the norm. Lloyd Bridges plays disillusioned ex-GI Steve Mallory, who falls in with a gang of wily crooks. Convincing Mallory that they're U.S. secret service agents, the villains persuade our hero to help them in Read More

Sinister Journey

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

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

Station West

Actors: Dick Powell, Jane Greer, Agnes Moorehead, Burl Ives, Tom Powers

Synopsis: Station West may look like a western, but it sure sounds like a contemporary film noir. Dick Powell stars as Haven, a government private investigator assigned to investigate the murders of two cavalrymen. Travelling incognito, Haven arrives in a small frontier outpost, where leggy saloon singer Read More

The 13th Hour

Synopsis: The last of the Richard "The Jaw" Dix films. Dix, the trucking company owner, is pitted against time to discover who murdered a police officer rival of his. He must do so to clear his own name, as the murder was pinned on him. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Gangster

Actors: Barry Sullivan, Belita, Joan Lorring, Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis: Having struck gold with the previous season's Dillinger, the King Brothers returned to Monogram as producers of The Gangster. Adapted by Daniel Fuchs from his own novel Low Company, the film stars Barry Sullivan as flint-faced racketeer Shubunka. Shown to be a product of the slums, Shubunka spends Read More

Suddenly It's Spring

Actors: Paulette Goddard, Fred MacMurray, MacDonald Carey, Arleen Whelan, Lilian Fontaine

Synopsis: A post-WWII romantic comedy that explores the effects of the war on American marriage, this film stars Fred MacMurray and Paulette Goddard as Peter and Mary Morley, a pair of constantly fighting attorneys. They are on the verge of breaking up their marriage when the war breaks out. Mary goes into Read More

The Thirteenth Hour

Synopsis: In this drama, a trucker's business is nearly destroyed after he is wrongfully accused of killing a policeman with whom he recently quarreled. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

King of the Wild Horses

Synopsis: The deep unbreakable bond between a wild stallion and the boy he rescues is chronicled in this children's adventure. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Johnny O'Clock

Actors: Dick Powell, Evelyn Keyes, Lee J. Cobb, Ellen Drew, Nina Foch

Synopsis: Three years after song-and-dance man Dick Powell reshaped his nice-guy image by playing hard-boiled gumshoe Phillip Marlowe in Murder My Sweet, he returned to film noir with this crime-based thriller. Johnny O'Clock (Dick Powell) and his partner Pete Marchettis (Thomas Gomez) operate a Read More

Robin Hood of Texas

Actors: Stanley Andrews, Gene Autry, Michael Branden, Al Bridge, Paul Bryar

Synopsis: A dude ranch, unemployed cowhands, modern-day bank robbers, and music are the main ingredients in this, Gene Autry's swan song for Republic Pictures, lovingly restored by UCLA and Gene Autry Entertainment in 2001. Swindled out of their savings, Gene and the Cass County Boys mistakenly get mixed up Read More

Out of the Past

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Webb

Synopsis: Out of the Past is so perfect a film noir that it is considered practically a textbook example of the genre. In his first starring role (it had previously been offered to John Garfield and Dick Powell), Robert Mitchum plays Jeff Bailey, the friendly but secretive proprietor of a Read More

Mr. District Attorney

Actors: Dennis O'Keefe, Adolphe Menjou, Marguerite Chapman, Michael O'Shea, George Coulouris

Synopsis: Columbia's Mr. District Attorney was the second attempt to launch a film series based on the popular radio series of the same name. Adolphe Menjou plays the title role, DA Craig Warren, though top billing is bestowed upon Dennis O'Keefe as Warren's assistant Steve Bennett. Resenting his boss' Read More

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Roman Bohnen, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Charles D. Brown, Ann Doran, Kirk Douglas, Judith Anderson

Synopsis: In The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, relationships formed in childhood lead to murder and obsessive love. The wealthy Martha Ivers (Barbara Stanwyck) is the prime mover of the small Pennsylvania town of Iverston. Martha lives in a huge mansion with her DA husband, Walter O'Neil (Kirk Douglas), an Read More

Without Reservations

Actors: Claudette Colbert, John Wayne, Don DeFore, Dona Drake, Anne Triola, Louella Parsons, Phil Brown

Synopsis: Without Reservations has to be the least typical John Wayne picture of the postwar era. Top billing is bestowed upon Claudette Colbert as Kit, a best-selling novelist heading westward to oversee the film version of her latest novel. Taking it upon herself to select the man who should portray the Read More

Somewhere in the Night

Actors: Charles Arnt, Richard Benedict, Whit Bissell, Richard Conte, Clancy Cooper

Synopsis: George Taylor (John Hodiak) is a war veteran suffering from amnesia with only two clues to his past: the bitter letter from a woman who hates him and another mysterious letter signed "Larry Cravat." Taylor goes to Los Angeles to meet Cravat. It turns out that Cravat is wanted for murder and the Read More

A Walk in the Sun

Actors: Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, John Ireland, Norman Lloyd, George Tyne, Lloyd Bridges, Sterling Holloway

Synopsis: Harry Brown's honest, unsentimental WW2 novel A Walk in the Sun has been effectively adapted for the screen by Robert Rossen. Dana Andrews stars as Sgt. Tyne, a platoon squad leader in Italy who ends up assuming command of his platoon after a series of deaths. As they prepare to attack an isolated Read More

The Crimson Canary

Actors: Noah Beery, Jr., Lois Collier, Danny Morton, John Litel, Claudia Drake

Synopsis: An offbeat Universal murder mystery, Crimson Canary is set in the very special world of jazz musicians. A duplicitous songstress is murdered, and the prime suspects are members of a nightclub jazz combo. John Litel, the detective assigned to the case, is himself a jazz fan and thus takes Read More

This Man's Navy

Actors: Wallace Beery, Tom Drake, James Gleason, Jan Clayton, Selena Royle

Synopsis: Ned Trumpet (Wallace Beery), the chief pilot of a Navy blimp, is given to weaving accounts of the fighting prowess of his non-existent son. His friendship with widow Maude Weaver (Selena Royle) and her son Jess (Tom Drake) in effect sets him up with a real family. Jess enters the service and goes Read More

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

Actors: Van Johnson, Robert Walker, Phyllis Thaxter, Tim Murdock, Scott McKay, Robert Mitchum

Synopsis: Billed third, Spencer Tracy plays Lt. Col. James P. Doolittle, who led the bombing raid over Tokyo. Most of the footage concerns pilot Ted Lawson (Van Johnson), who loses a leg while escaping from China after the attack; other subplots concern the meticulous preparations for the raid, and the Read More

A Wing and a Prayer

Actors: Don Ameche, Dana Andrews, William Eythe, Charles Bickford, Cedric Hardwicke

Synopsis: Former president Ronald Reagan may have genuinely believed that he was referring to a real-life act of selfless wartime bravery whenever repeating his "We'll bring this one down together" anecdote. In fact, he was merely quoting a scene from the above-average World War 2 drama A Wing and a Prayer. Read More

The Pride of the Yankees

Actors: Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, George Herman "Babe" Ruth, Walter Brennan, Dan Duryea

Synopsis: "It's box office poison," producer Samuel Goldwyn is said to have exclaimed when he heard the idea of filming the life story of fabled first baseman Lou Gehrig. "If people want baseball, they go to the ballpark!" The story begins before World War I, when young Lou Gehrig (played as a boy by Douglas Croft Read More

To Be or Not to Be

Actors: Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill

Synopsis: Ernst Lubitsch directs the 1942 political satire classic To Be or Not to Be, which marked the final screen appearance of comedienne Carole Lombard. In Warsaw at the beginning of WWII, Maria Tura (Lombard) and husband Joseph (Jack Benny) perform anti-Nazi plays with their theater troupe until they Read More

Captains of the Clouds

Actors: James Cagney, Dennis Morgan, Brenda Marshall, Alan Hale, George Tobias

Synopsis: James Cagney made his first Technicolor appearance in the morale-boosting aviation flick Captains of the Clouds. Cagney plays Brian MacLean, a hotshot Canadian bush pilot who delights in stealing jobs-and women-away from his competitors. Brian is forced to shape up in a hurry when he's assigned to Read More

Knockout

Actors: Arthur Kennedy, Olympe Bradna, Virginia Field, Anthony Quinn, Cliff Edwards

Synopsis: In this boxing drama, champion fighter Johnny Rocket decides to leave the ring to please his new bride. Unfortunately, his greedy manager, unwilling to get off the gravy train engineers things so that the fighter cannot find work and must return to the squared circle to make a living. His ploy Read More

Among the Living

Actors: Albert Dekker, Susan Hayward, Harry Carey, Frances Farmer, Gordon Jones

Synopsis: One of the eerier chillers of its period -- and one of the best ever to come out of Paramount -- Stuart Heisler's Among the Living is a strange and compelling mix of social drama, horror film, and suspense thriller. The story opens with the funeral of Maxim Raden, the patriarch who was pretty much Read More

Mob Town

Actors: Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsly, Dick Foran

Synopsis: This wildly uneven "Dead End Kids/Little Tough Guys" entry focuses on young Tom Barker (Billy Halop), whose older brother Eddie ended up in the electric chair. Idolizing Eddie's memory, Tom and his buddies are also fascinated with Eddie's former partner, gangster Monk Bangor (Paul Fix). Police Read More

Young Tom Edison

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Fay Bainter, George Bancroft, Virginia Weidler, Eugene Pallette

Synopsis: This film follows the teenage years of brilliant inventor Thomas Alva Edison (Mickey Rooney) as the young man troubles his family and his school teachers with his great quest for knowledge. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

High School

Actors: Jane Withers, Joe Brown, Jr., Lloyd Corrigan, Claire Du Brey, Lynne Roberts

Synopsis: Unlike Shirley Temple, Jane Withers was permitted to "grow up" in her 20th Century-Fox vehicles. Since Withers was 13 going on 14 in 1940, it was only natural that she should star in a film titled High School. Fresh from her family's Texas cattle ranch, rambunctious Jane Wallace (Wither) is sent Read More

Sailor's Lady

Actors: Nancy Kelly, Jon Hall, Joan Davis, Dana Andrews, Mary Nash

Synopsis: The sailor in this entertaining 20th Century-Fox programmer is Danny Malone (Jon Hall), while the lady is Sally Gilroy (Claire Trevor). Danny's impending marriage to Sally is put on the back burner when she is put in charge of an orphaned baby (Bruce Hampton, playing a girl!) During naval Read More