Kent SmithFilmography

Die Sister, Die!

Synopsis: Amanda Price (Edith Atwater) is an aging spinster with suicidal tendencies who keeps herself ensconced in the sprawling house she grew up in. Her brother Edward (Jack Ging) hires a nurse to watch Amanda, choosing Esther (Antoinette Bower), who quit the profession in shame after a scandal involving Read More

Murder or Mercy

Synopsis: Made for television in 1974, a doctor (Melvyn Douglas) is accused of murdering his terminally ill wife. The defense receives a shot in the arm when a famed lawyer returns from retirement to help the case. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Disappearance of Flight 412

Actors: Glenn Ford, Bradford Dillman, Guy Stockwell, David Soul, Robert F. Lyons

Synopsis: US Air Force colonel Glenn Ford has a dilemma on his hands. He knows for a fact that two jets under his command were last seen chasing a UFO. But the military higher-ups have no intention of filling Ford in on further developments. Despite these stonewalling tactics, Ford steps up his own Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: The Runaways

Synopsis: With the child-welfare authorities breathing down his neck, orphaned teenager George Morgan (played by future ChiPs costar Larry Wilcox) desperately tries to hold his family together. Going on the run with his younger siblings, George is forced to steal medicine for his ailing sister--and as a Read More

Lost Horizon

Actors: Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann, Sally Kellerman, George Kennedy, Michael York

Synopsis: James Hilton's beloved fantasy novel about the land of Shangri-La was given an awkward musical treatment in this extravagantly produced flop. Larry Kramer's screenplay stays close to the 1937 Frank Capra original, as a plane fleeing China crashes in the Himalayas and a mixed group of survivors Read More

The Cat Creature

Actors: John Carradine, Gale Sondergaard

Synopsis: Cat Creature is a heady Curtis Harrington combination of high-gloss production values and spinechilling terror. A curse imposed thousands of years ago by a cat goddess wreaks havoc in the 20th century--all for the purpose of retrieving a long-lost golden amulet. Gale Sondergaard, whose association Read More

The Affair

Actors: Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood

Synopsis: The made-for-TV movie The Affair (working title: Love Song) marked the return to television of Natalie Wood after an 18-year absence (her last regular small-screen work was on the 1954 sitcom The Pride of the Family). Wood plays a crippled 32-year-old songwriter whose handicap has made her cynical Read More

The Snoop Sisters - Female Instinct

Actors: Paulette Goddard, Helen Hayes, Mildred Natwick

Synopsis: First telecast December 16, 1972, The Snoop Sisters was the pilot for a Richard Levinson/William Link detective series. Helen Hayes and Mildred Natwick play a couple of mystery writers who happen to be siblings. With the help of their pragmatic chauffeur (Art Carney), the Snoop Sisters take it Read More

The Judge and Jake Wyler

Actors: Bette Davis

Synopsis: Even Bette Davis showed up in a TV-movie pilot from time to time. The Judge and Jake Wyler stars the indestructible Davis as a hypochondriac former judge who becomes a private detective. Davis puts paroled ex-con Doug McClure to work as her "leg man," searching for clues in the supposed suicide of Read More

Probe

Synopsis: This pilot for the TV adventure series Search stars Hugh O'Brian as Hugh Lockwood, a secret agent implanted with a electronic transmitter which allows everything he sees and hears to be beamed back to police headquarters. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Pete 'n' Tillie

Actors: Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett, Geraldine Page, Barry Nelson, René Auberjonois

Synopsis: Based on Peter DeVries' novel Witch's Milk, Pete 'n' Tillie stars Walter Matthau and Carol Burnett in the title roles. Middle-aged when they first meet, eternally joking Pete and repressed "old maid" Tillie don't immediately hit it off. Gradually, their friendship deepens into love and culminates Read More

The F.B.I.: The Edge of Desperation

Synopsis: This episode may remind some viewers of the much-later theatrical feature Fargo--minus the grim humor, of course. Hoping to escape from an unhappy marriage, wealthy executive Alan Graves (Michael Graves) fakes his own kidnapping. Graves plans to collect $200,000 in ransom money from his hated Read More

The Night Stalker

Actors: Darren McGavin, Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland, Ralph Meeker, Claude Akins

Synopsis: Seedy newspaper reporter Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin) is assigned the Las Vegas police beat by his boss Tony Vincenzo (Simon Oakland). A series of murders has been plaguing the Glitter Capital; the victims, all beautiful showgirls, have had the blood drained from their bodies. Kolchak can't Read More

The Crooked Hearts

Synopsis: A million-dollar cast was assembled for this high-gloss TV movie. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Rosalind Russell play a pair of ageing con artists, plying their trade with the members of a lonely hearts club managed by Maureen O'Sullivan. Complicating the schemes of the tricky duo is the presence of a Read More

The Last Child

Actors: Michael Cole, Van Heflin, Janet Margolin

Synopsis: Back before he was producing Charlie's Angels, Aaron Spelling was a major supplier of made-for-television feature films, particularly to ABC, on which this movie premiered in 1971. The Last Child takes place in America in 1994, a time in which a massive, chronic overpopulation crisis has resulted Read More

How Awful About Allan

Actors: Anthony Perkins, Julie Harris

Synopsis: Director Curtis Harrington (The Killing Kind) teams with screenwriter Henry Farrell (Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte) for this quietly disturbing tale of a man driven to psychosomatic blindness by a horrific family tragedy. Unable to cope with the fact that he has been blamed for the fire that killed Read More

The F.B.I.: The Impersonator

Synopsis: Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) is anxious to bring con artist Wesley Ziegler to justice. Specializing in fleecing wealthy, lonely women, Ziegler has recently added murder to his list of crimes--a fact that does not bode well for his latest pigeon, Jessica Bowling (Mariette Hartley). Read More

The Games

Actors: Michael Crawford, Ryan O'Neal, Charles Aznavour, Jeremy Kemp, Elaine Taylor

Synopsis: Not to be confused with the 1966 Diabolique rip-off Games, 1970's The Games is set during the Rome Olympics. The film zeroes in on four contestants in the 26-mile marathon race: Briton Michael Crawford, American Ryan O'Neal, Czech Charles Aznavour and Australian Athol Compton. Scenes of the Read More

The F.B.I.: Consipiracy of Silence

Synopsis: Hollywood film favorite Gene Tierney makes a rare TV appearance in this episode, in which she plays one of three witnesses to a Mob murder. The victim was an ex-FBI agent who just before his death had informed Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) that the Mafia was in the process of taking over an Read More

Death of a Gunfighter

Actors: Richard Widmark, Lena Horne, Carroll O'Connor, David Opatoshu, Kent Smith

Synopsis: Famed anonymous director Alan Smithee (in this case a hybrid of Richard Totten and Don Siegel), directed this turgid western drama concerning Marshal Frank Patch (Richard Widmark), who, even though he has kept the peace in Cottonwood Springs for over twenty years, is now considered a local joke by Read More

Kona Coast

Actors: Richard Boone, Vera Miles, Joan Blondell, Steve Ihnat, Chips Rafferty

Synopsis: Sam Moran (Richard Boone) is a Honolulu charter-boat captain who leads fishing expeditions in the tropical paradise. When his daughter is found murdered at the party of a wealthy young playboy, he seeks the truth about the murder. Convinced the playboy is guilty, he enlists the help of his friend Read More

The Money Jungle

Actors: John Ericson, Lola Albright, Leslie Parrish, Nehemiah Persoff, Charles Drake

Synopsis: The Money Jungle is an innovative mystery concerning some greedy oil companies in competition to secure off-shore drilling rights. Detective Blake Heller (John Ericson) is the hard drinking sleuth hired by the oil companies to try and keep the proceedings above board. He contends with a group that Read More

Assignment to Kill

Actors: Patrick O'Neal, Joan Hackett, John Gielgud, Herbert Lom, Eric Portman

Synopsis: Insurance investigator Richard Cutting (Patrick O'Neal) is summoned to look into the sinking of some ships owned by wealthy shipping-magnate Curt Valayan (John Gielgud). Traveling to Switzerland, he interviews the owner and finds that his henchmen Matt (Herbert Lom) and the Big Man (Leon Greene) Read More

The Invaders, Vol. 12: The Believers

Synopsis: Roy Thinnes was the star of this 1967-1968 science fiction series, about an Earth poised on the brink of alien takeover. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Invaders, Vol. 1: Beach Head

Synopsis: Roy Thinnes was the star of this 1967-1968 science fiction series, about an Earth poised on the brink of alien takeover. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Invaders, Vol. 2: The Experiment

Synopsis: Roy Thinnes was the star of this 1967-1968 science fiction series, about an Earth poised on the brink of alien takeover. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The F.B.I.: Blood Verdict

Synopsis: After the mysterious death of a juror in the trial of a dangerous mob functionary, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr. investigates the possibility of jury-tampering in the case. Meanwhile, Ana Nieves (Pilar Seurat, the wife of another juror, is threatened with death or disfigurement at the Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Confession

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: US Senator William Townsend (Kent Smith), the head of a right-wing extremist group, has been assassinated. Confessing to the crime is Andreas Solowiechek (David Sheiner), a member of a Communist Trade delegation, who insists that he was acting on orders from his own government. In truth, however Read More

The Trouble With Angels

Actors: Rosalind Russell, Hayley Mills, Binnie Barnes, Gypsy Rose Lee, Camilla Sparv, June Harding

Synopsis: The Trouble With Angels opens on the first day of school for a new batch of students at St. Francis Academy, run by a very strong-willed Mother Superior (Rosalind Russell). She is used to having things her way, but she may have met her match in the headstrong and independent Mary Clancy (Hayley Mills Read More

A Covenant with Death

Actors: George Maharis, Laura Devon, Katy Jurado, Earl Holliman, Arthur O'Connell

Synopsis: In this courtroom drama, a Mexican American judge must preside over the case of the town ne'er-do-well, who is accused of killing his wife. The film is set during the 1920s in the Southwest. The murderer is convicted and sentenced to hang, but on execution day, he has a fight and kills the Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Thou Still Unravished Bride

Actors: Ron Randell, Sally Kellerman, David Carradine, Michael Pate, Kent Smith

Synopsis: Newly engaged to an American girl named Sally Benner (Sally Kellerman), London policeman Tommy Bonn (Ron Randell) brings his sweetheart back home, only to find that he has been assigned to track down a strangler. The situation gets personal when, while taking a nocturnal stroll in the London fog Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Granny's Romance

Synopsis: Kent Smith guest stars as Clifton Cavanaugh, a womanizing member of the Commerce Bank's board of directors. To curb Cavanaugh's playboy habits, Drysdale persuades the aging roué to romance one of the bank's biggest depositors: Granny Clampett. Sylvia Lewis, a popular TV dancer of the 1950s and Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Body in the Barn

Actors: Lillian Gish, Maggie McNamara, Peter Lind Hayes, Patricia Cutts, Kent Smith

Synopsis: There's no love lost between small-town busybody Bessie Carnby (Lillian Gish) and her neighbors Henry and Samantha Wilkins (Peter Lind Hayes, Patricia Cutts) -- nor does Bessie's daughter, Camilla (Maggie McNamara), make a secret of her dislike for the mousy Henry. Eventually, Bessie decides to Read More

Youngblood Hawke

Actors: James Franciscus, Suzanne Pleshette, Geneviève Page, Eva Gabor, Mary Astor, Edward Andrews, Werner Klemperer

Synopsis: Youngblood Hawke (James Franciscus) is a Kentucky truck driver who comes to New York City to make it as a writer. He meets editor Jeanne Green (Suzanne Pleshette), who sees talent in Hawke's work. Jeanne falls for the handsome Kentuckian and helps him put together a book deal. His first book is Read More

The Young Lovers

Actors: Peter Fonda, Sharon Hugueny, Nick Adams, Deborah Walley, Beatrice Straight, Malachi Throne

Synopsis: Producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. took a stab at directing with this '60s-era melodrama about college students dealing with the realities of love, sex, and war. Peter Fonda and Sharon Hugueny star as Eddie and Pam, the titular young lovers. An art student and teacher's assistant, the two meet in college Read More

A Distant Trumpet

Actors: Troy Donahue, Suzanne Pleshette, Diane McBain, James Gregory, William Reynolds

Synopsis: Troy Donahue stars in this drive-in quality "B"-Western from the Warner Brothers backlot, directed by veteran director Raoul Walsh. Donahue is U.S. Cavalry Lieutenant Matt Hazard, who arrives at Fort Delivery on the Mexican border of Arizona for a new assignment. Kitty Mainwaring (Suzanne Pleshette Read More

The Outer Limits: Children of Spider County

Synopsis: In Volume 21 of a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series, the alien patriarch of a family searches for clues to the disappearance of his Earth-born children. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Prankish Professor

Synopsis: This episode opens with an apparent murder in a college classroom--which turns out to be a staged event, dreamed up by Professor Ronald Hewes (Barry Atwater) to test his students' powers of observation. After the demonstration, however, Hewes discovers that the gun used to "kill" him had only one Read More

The Balcony

Actors: Shelley Winters, Peter Falk, Lee Grant, Peter Brocco, Jeff Corey

Synopsis: The denizens of a sordid brothel become embroiled in a bloody coup in this arty political satire adapted from the Jean Genet play. Shelley Winters stars as the cathouse's madam, a stern woman who supervises the fantasy role-playing of her beautiful employees and their well-heeled customers Read More

The Untouchables: The Charlie Argos Story

Synopsis: A pre-Man From U.N.C.L.E. Robert Vaughn appears in this episode, in which Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) is offered a hefty fee to act as executor to the estate of deceased gangster Frank Argo (Paul Birch). It seems that Frank has left millions of dollars in negotiable bonds to his son Charlie, who Read More

The Outer Limits: It Crawled Out of the Woodwork

Synopsis: Dr. Stuart Peters (Michael Forest) arrives in Los Angeles from upstate New York, with his ne'er-do-well younger brother Jory (Scott Marlowe) in tow, to take a job at NORCO, an energy research laboratory. After an odd encounter with a guard -- who tries to warn him away from NORCO -- he reports for Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: I Saw the Whole Thing

Synopsis: The only episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour directed by Hitchcock himself (though he'd previously helmed several of the anthology's half-hour installments), "I Saw the Whole Thing" draws its suspense from the reliability -- or lack of reliability -- of eyewitness testimony. Arrested on Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Darwin's Man

Synopsis: The word "dysfunctional" hardly begins to describe the condition of the murderous Coombs family. Conducting his own "survival encounter", sadistic patriarch Avery Coombs (Kent Smith) has ordered his son Jayce (Richard Rust) to attempt to track down and kill his other son Tully (Buzz Martin). Read More

Moon Pilot

Actors: Tom Tryon, Brian Keith, Edmond O'Brien, Dany Saval, Bob Sweeney

Synopsis: Moon Pilot is an engaging Disney sci-fi comedy that manages to shoot off a few neat and surprisingly satirical barbs at the hypertense US/Russia "space race" of the era. Tom Tryon plays an astronaut who is ordered to keep his upcoming moon flight a secret, even from his family. While on a plane Read More

Susan Slade

Actors: Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Dorothy McGuire, Lloyd Nolan, Bert Convy, Brian Aherne

Synopsis: A complicated soap opera, Susan Slade features Connie Stevens as the title character, a naïve, virginal 17-year-old, raised by her parents in Chile, where her father Roger (Lloyd Nolan) works as an engineer. As the story opens, the family returns to their home in California on a luxury cruise Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Meddling Medium

Synopsis: Determined to make contact with her late son, wealthy Sylvia Walker (Virginia Field) contacts spiritualist Philip Paisley (James Forrest), never suspecting that the man is a crook who intends to leech off of Sylvia's fortune. But Bonnie Craig (Sonya Wilde) knows that Paisley is a phony--and when Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Shadow of a Man

Synopsis: Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired by Marion Sutter (Dianne Foster), the wife of Virginia-born "officer and gentleman" John Sutter (Kent Smith). John's life has been threatened by Logan Adcock (Mike Kellin), a sadistic town boss who hates all Southerners and has stirred up a lynch mob to do his Read More

Strangers When We Meet

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Kim Novak, Ernie Kovacs, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau

Synopsis: Sexual misconduct in white-collar suburbia is the topic of this routine melodrama involving two neighboring couples. Architect Larry Coe (Kirk Douglas), unhappy with his wife Eve's (Barbara Rush) fixation on their bank balance, starts taking an interest in Maggie Gault (Kim Novak), whose husband Read More

This Earth Is Mine

Actors: Rock Hudson, Jean Simmons, Dorothy McGuire, Claude Rains, Kent Smith

Synopsis: Based on the novel The Cup and the Sword by Alice Tisdale Hobart, this drama examines the trials and tribulations of three generations of French-American California vineyard owners. It's set during the Prohibition era, when wine makers were financially challenged and had to decide whether or not Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Curtains for Me

Synopsis: A nurse (Jane Greer) suspects that something is amiss when her patient, a woman on the verge of recovery, suddenly dies. Nonetheless, the nurse marries the woman's widower, Gilbert Hughes (Jane Greer). Later on, she relates her suspicions to lawyer Paul Brett (Robert Webber), who informs her that Read More

Imitation General

Actors: Glenn Ford, Red Buttons, Taina Elg, Dean Jones, Kent Smith

Synopsis: Based on a novel by William Chamberlain, Imitation General has a bit more story depth and character development than the average WWII service comedy. Glenn Ford stars as M/Sgt. Murphy Savage, who is forced to take drastic action when Brigadier General Charles Lane (Kent Smith) is killed in action. Read More

The Badlanders

Actors: Alan Ladd, Ernest Borgnine, Katy Jurado, Claire Kelly, Nehemiah Persoff, Kent Smith

Synopsis: Peter Van Hook (Alan Ladd), alias The Dutchman, is nearing the end of a stretch in Yuma Territorial Prison for a gold robbery that he didn't commit. Released early with the unwitting -- and unwilling -- help of fellow inmate John McBain (Ernest Borgnine), he sets about getting even with the men Read More

Party Girl

Actors: Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb, John Ireland, Kent Smith

Synopsis: Vicki Gaye (Cyd Charisse) is a dancer at a night club in early 1930's Chicago. A healthy cynic who still possesses some ideals, she entertains no illusions about the "invitation" (or the $100 that goes with it) that she gets to a party hosted by mob kingpin Rico Angelo (Lee J. Cobb) -- but she Read More

The Mugger

Actors: Kent Smith, Nan Martin, James Franciscus, Stefan Schnabel

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a police psychiatrist sets out to capture a whacko purse snatcher who has been scarring the faces of his female victims as he makes off with their bags. When a girl is killed, all evidence points to the mugger, but when he is captured he fervently denies it. The police then Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Long Night

Synopsis: Paladin (Richard Boone) and two strangers named Fisher (James Best) and Broderick (William Schallert) find themselves the prisoners of embittered cattle baron Louis Strome (Kent Smith). Strutting around his captives, Strome explains that his wife was recently murdered--and that the suspected Read More

Sayonara

Actors: Marlon Brando, Red Buttons, Ricardo Montalban, Miyoshi Umeki, Miiko Taka, Patricia Owens, Martha Scott

Synopsis: Sayonara takes its own sweet time to unfold; in so doing, it permits us to make intimate acquaintance with its characters, so as to better understand their multitextured motivations. The film is set in Japan during the Korean War. While on leave, pugnacious American soldier Red Buttons falls in Read More

Comanche

Actors: Dana Andrews, Kent Smith, Linda Cristal, Lowell Gilmore, Nestor Paiva

Synopsis: Comanche is one of several 1950s westerns sympathetic to the Indian point of view. Dana Andrews stars as a frontier scout who hopes to shield his Native American friends from the genocidal machinations of bigoted Cavalry officer John Litel. Comanche chief Kent Smith likewise wants to keep the Read More

Front Row Center: Dark Victory

Synopsis: Previously presented on Broadway with Tallulah Bankhead and filmed in 1939 with Bette Davis, the classic stage tearjerker Dark Victory was whittled down to an hour's running time for this live presentation on the CBS anthology Front Row Center. Margaret Field (the mother of Oscar winner Sally Field Read More

Paula

Actors: Loretta Young, Kent Smith, Alexander Knox, Tommy Rettig, Otto Hulett

Synopsis: Loretta Young plays a guilt-ridden hit-and-run driver in Paula. After leaving the scene of an accident, Paula (Young) discovers that her victim, a young boy named David Larson (Tommy Rettig), may have permanently lost the power of speech. Her maternal instinct overcoming her desire for Read More

This Side of the Law

Actors: Viveca Lindfors, Kent Smith, Janis Paige, Robert Douglas, John Alvin

Synopsis: This Side of the Law stars Kent Smith as David Cummins, a man caught up in an epic subterfuge. At the behest of attorney Philip Cagle (Robert Douglas), Cummins poses as a man who has been missing for seven years and is presumed dead. Cagle insists that this deception is necessary to protect a huge Read More

The Damned Don't Cry

Actors: Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran, Kent Smith, Hugh Sanders

Synopsis: A woman's desire to rise above her drab lower middle-class life take her down the road to destruction in this gripping crime melodrama. The story opens as she cowers insider her old home, fearing the inevitable arrival of the murderous gangsters pursuing her. Her tragic tale unfolds via flashback. Read More

My Foolish Heart

Actors: Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward, Kent Smith, Lois Wheeler, Jesse Royce Landis

Synopsis: Producer Samuel Goldwyn dishes up sentiment by the bowlful with My Foolish Heart. Susan Hayward is (somewhat unconvincingly) cast as a wide-eyed girl from Idaho who meets bon vivant Dana Andrews at a Manhattan party. Their brief affair results in a pregnancy, but since Andrews has been killed in Read More

The Fountainhead

Actors: Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey, Kent Smith, Henry Hull, Robert Douglas

Synopsis: The hero of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is Howard Roark (Gary Cooper), a fiercely independent architect obviously patterned after Frank Lloyd Wright. Rather than compromise his ideals, Roark takes menial work as a quarryman to finance his projects. He falls in love with heiress Dominique (Patricia Neal Read More

Nora Prentiss

Actors: Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett, Robert Alda, Rosemary de Camp

Synopsis: In this slick melodrama, a sort of film-noir for women, a nightclub singer has an affair with an unhappily married San Francisco doctor. Though the physician desperately wants to leave his wife, he lacks the courage to ask for a divorce. In retaliation, the singer accepts an offer to move East and Read More

The Voice of the Turtle

Actors: Ronald Reagan, Eleanor Parker, Eve Arden, Wayne Morris, Kent Smith

Synopsis: John Van Druten's Broadway hit The Voice of the Turtle was purchased by Warner Bros. as a vehicle for...well, in all likelihood, stars Eleanor Parker and Ronald Reagan were both second choices. Reagan is a returning GI who falls in love with Parker, an ingenuous young actress. Circumstances Read More

Magic Town

Actors: E.J. Ballantine, James Stewart, Jane Wyman, Mary Currier, Julia Dean, Kent Smith, Ann Doran, Ned Sparks, Frank Fenton, Wallace Ford

Synopsis: With Robert Riskin as screenwriter, director William Wellman proved in Magic Town that it was possible to make a Frank Capra-esque picture without Capra himself at the helm. James Stewart plays Rip Smith, a cynical pollster who comes across a small American town named Grandview, which represents a Read More

The Spiral Staircase

Actors: Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith, Rhonda Fleming

Synopsis: The wonderfully suspenseful psychological drama Spiral Staircase is the prototype of the "old dark house, lady in distress" thriller, full of dark corners, flickering candles and featuring a mysterious, menacing killer whose true identity remains hidden until the end. Helen Capel (Dorothy Read More

The Curse of the Cat People

Actors: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, Ann Carter, Eve March, Elizabeth Russell

Synopsis: Officially a sequel to Val Lewton's psychological-horror classic Cat People (1942), Curse of the Cat People is in fact an engrossing and oftimes charming fantasy, told from a child's point of view. Six-year-old Ann Carter plays Amy Reed, the lonely daughter of eternally preoccupied Oliver Reed (Kent Smith Read More

Youth Runs Wild

Actors: Bonita Granville, Kent Smith, Jean Brooks, Glenn Vernon, Tessa Brind

Synopsis: In this WW II-era drama set in a small town, most of the adults are so busy fighting the war or working in the local defense plant that they have little time to supervise their children. A sort of juvenile anarchy ensues with the children and teens doing whatever they please. Soon the town is Read More

Forever and a Day

Crew: Director

Actors: Brian Aherne, Merle Oberon, Gladys Cooper, Ida Lupino, C. Aubrey Smith, Claude Rains, Robert Cummings, Anna Neagle, Roland Young

Synopsis: The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people turned over their salaries to British war relief -- a point driven home during the lengthy opening credits by an unseen narrator. The true star of the film is a stately old Read More

Three Russian Girls

Actors: Anna Sten, Kent Smith, Alexander Granach, Kathy Frye

Synopsis: Another of a wartime cycle of Hollywood films lauding the praises of America's Soviet allies, Three Russian Girls is a remake of Russia's The Girl From Stalingrad. Set just after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the film stars Anna Sten as Natasha, a Red Cross volunteer who is Read More

This Land Is Mine

Actors: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak, Kent Smith

Synopsis: Written by Dudley Nichols and directed by French expatriate director Jean Renoir, This Land is Mine is one of those "inspirational" wartime dramas that just don't hold up too well when seen today. The scene is an unnamed European country, recently overrun by the Nazis (this takes place during a Read More

Hitler's Children

Actors: Tim Holt, Bonita Granville, Kent Smith, Otto Kruger, H.B. Warner

Synopsis: This modestly produced film version of Gregor Ziemmer's book Education for Death surprised everyone at RKO--and in the film industry--by becoming one the biggest hits of 1943. The "children" invoked in the title are borne on behalf of Adolf Hitler; according to the film, it is standard operating Read More

Cat People

Actors: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Jack Holt

Synopsis: Handed the exploitive title Cat People, RKO producer Val Lewton opted for a thinking man's thriller--a psychological mood piece, more reliant on suspense and suggestion than overt "scare stuff". Simone Simon plays an enigmatic young fashion artist who is curiously affected by the panther cage at Read More

The Garden Murder Case

Actors: Edmund Lowe, Virginia Bruce, Gene Lockhart, Benita Hume, Grant Mitchell, Nat Pendleton, H.B. Warner

Synopsis: Edmund Lowe made his only screen appearance as S. S. Van Dine's dilettante sleuth Philo Vance in The Garden Murder Case. The story wastes no time getting started, with Floyd Garden (Douglas Walton) being killed in the first reel from a fall in a steeplechase. It looks like an accident -- but then Read More