Leo CarrilloFilmography

The Cisco Kid: Season 05

The Cisco Kid: Season 04

The Cisco Kid: Season 03

The Cisco Kid: Season 02

Pancho Villa Returns

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Esther Fernandez, Jeanette Comber, Rodopho (Rudy) Acosta, Rafael Alcayde

Synopsis: Fifth-generation Californian Leo Carrillo returns to the homeland of his ancestors in the Mexican Pancho Villa Returns. Though pushing 70, Carrillo is convincing as the relatively youthful rebel chieftain Pancho Villa. Made a general in the Mexican army by Presidente Madera, Villa is forced into a Read More

Don Amigo

Synopsis: The Cisco Kid is set up to take the blame for a series of stagecoach holdups committed by an outlaw gang. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Girl from San Lorenzo

Actors: Duncan Renaldo, Leo Carrillo, Jane Adams, Byron Foulger

Synopsis: In their last feature film, the Cisco Kid (Duncan renaldo) and Pancho (Leo Carrillo) come up against a vicious gang who is robbing stagecoaches in their likenesses. But when the latest holdup injures driver Jerry Todd (Bill Lester), the real Cisco and Pancho make sure that the youngster gets Read More

The Cisco Kid: Season 01

Actors: Duncan Renaldo, Leo Carrillo

The Daring Caballero

Actors: Duncan Renaldo, Leo Carrillo, Kippee Valez, Charles Halton, Pedro de Cordoba

Synopsis: Daring Cabellero was the third of producer Phil Krasne's Cisco Kid "B" westerns. Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carrillo return as Cisco and Pancho, roles they'd carry over into a popular 1950s TV series. Once more stumbling into a dangerous situation, Cisco and Pancho risk their own necks by saving an Read More

Satan's Cradle

Actors: Duncan Renaldo, Leo Carrillo, Ann Savage, Douglas Fowley, Byron Foulger

Synopsis: Satan's Cradle was the fourth of producer Phil Krasne's "Cisco Kid" programmers for United Artists. Anyone who remembers the Cisco TV series will know without being told that Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carrillo essayed the roles of wandering do-gooders Cisco and Pancho. Unlike previous entries Read More

The Gay Amigo

Actors: Duncan Renaldo, Leo Carrillo, Armida, Joe Sawyer, Walter S. Baldwin

Synopsis: The Gay Amigo was the second "Cisco Kid" theatrical entry produced for United Artists release by Philip N. Krasne. Duncan Renaldo, who would go on to portray Cisco in the popular 1950s TV series, stars in this outing, together with Leo Carrillo as his comical sidekick Pancho. Cisco and Pancho are Read More

Guns of Fury

Synopsis: A young boy with problems is assisted by Cisco and Pancho. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Cisco Kid in Satan's Cradle

The Valiant Hombre

Actors: Leo Carrillo, John Litel, Stanley Andrews, John James

Synopsis: The Cisco Kid and Pancho set off to find the missing owner of a devoted little dog in this western adventure. From the vanished man's sister, the heroes learn that her brother disappeared soon after striking a major gold vein in his mine. In the end Cisco accosts the villain, saves the kidnapped Read More

Devil's Den

The Fugitive

Actors: Henry Fonda, Dolores Del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz, J. Carrol Naish, Leo Carrillo

Synopsis: The Fugitive was shot on location in Mexico by that country's premiere cinematographer, Gabriel Figueroa. Henry Fonda plays a Christ-like priest in an unnamed Latin-American country where religion has been outlawed. Though incognito in a backwater village, Fonda cannot help but seem more spiritual Read More

The Daring Rogue

Under Western Skies

Actors: Martha O'Driscoll, Leo Carrillo, Leon Errol, Irving Bacon

Synopsis: One of the last of Universal's "pocket" musicals, Under Western Skies packs a surplus of entertainment value into its brief 57 minutes. Martha O'Driscoll plays Katie, the daughter of travelling showman Willie (Leon Errol). While playing an engagement in a wild-and-wooly Arizona town, Katie runs Read More

Crime, Inc.

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Tom Neal, Martha Tilton, Lionel Atwill, Grant Mitchell

Synopsis: More expensive-looking than most PRC productions, Crime Inc. is based on a story by former crime reporter Martin Mooney. Drawing from his own experiences, Mooney has concocted a tale of a newspaper journalist who faces a prison term because he refuses to reveal his sources. Tom Neal plays the Read More

Mexicana

Actors: Tito Guizar, Constance Moore, Leo Carrillo, Howard Freeman

Synopsis: In this musical comedy, a popular Mexican singer finds himself tiring of the constant adulation of rabidly adoring females and decides to fake a marriage so that will stop ripping the clothing off his body after concerts. Unfortunately, he and the woman he chooses seldom agree and mayhem ensues. Read More

Babes on Swing Street

Actors: Ann Blyth, Peggy Ryan, Andy Devine, Leon Errol, Anne Gwynne

Synopsis: At MGM, the studio's youth musicals were more rural than urban -- find a barn, get some friends together, and hey kids, let's put on a show. At Universal, for this musical for its young contract players, the atmosphere is more urban -- the kids at a settlement house, led by Trudy Costello (Peggy Read More

Gypsy Wildcat

Actors: Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Gale Sondergaard, Leo Carrillo, Peter Coe, Nigel Bruce

Synopsis: In this swashbuckler, a princess is raised by gypsies and becomes their queen. The trouble really begins when a count is murdered and the evil, ambitious baron who really did it blames the crime on the gypsies. The baron's messenger knows the truth and tries to prove it. When he notices that the Read More

Bowery to Broadway

Actors: Maria Montez, Jack Oakie, Susanna Foster, Turhan Bey, Ann Blyth

Synopsis: Two Bowery vaudevillians compete to be the first to produce shows on Broadway. They might be friends were they not so convinced that each has stolen ideas from the others. This bouncy musical chronicles their rivalry and the success they find after they finally team up. Unfortunately the success Read More

Ghost Catchers

Actors: Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Gloria Jean, Martha O'Driscoll, Andy Devine, Leo Carrillo

Synopsis: Colonel Breckinridge Marshall (Walter Catlett) of Clearwater, GA -- who puts on a big front but is actually only a step away from the poor house -- rents a luxurious townhouse in Manhattan in anticipation of the Carnegie Hall debut of his two daughters, singer Melinda (Gloria Jean) and Read More

Moonlight and Cactus

Synopsis: The swinging Andrews Sisters provide the musical interludes and romance in this western. They play a trio of WW II era ranchers. That they are so good at running it proves terrible surprise for a ranch hand who has just returned home after serving in the Navy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Crazy House

Actors: Basil Rathbone, Cass Daley, Patric Knowles, Martha O'Driscoll, Leighton Noble, Thomas Gomez

Synopsis: Olsen and Johnson's followup to their zany, iconoclastic Hellzapoppin' was the more conventional Crazy House. The premise: Having nearly laid waste to Universal while filming Hellzapoppin', O & J are thrown out of the studio when they arrive with plans for a new picture. Only momentarily daunted Read More

Follow the Band

Actors: Eddie Quillan, Mary Beth Hughes, Leon Errol, Anne Rooney, Samuel S. Hinds

Synopsis: In this musical drama, a Vermont farm lad goes to the Big Apple to become a member of the National Dairy Association. He happens to bring with him his beloved trombone. Soon, with the help of bandleader Skinnay Ennis, the boy gets a job in a nightclub and subsequently becomes a popular radio star. Read More

Frontier Badmen

Actors: Robert Paige, Anne Gwynne, Noah Beery, Jr., Diana Barrymore, Leo Carrillo

Synopsis: Cattlemen Robert Paige and Noah Beery Jr. run up against a shady syndicate, set up to squash the dealing between independent dealers and cattle buyers. Paige sets up his own exchange, in direct competition with cattle baron Thomas Gomez. He also falls in love with Anne Gwynne, daughter of a man Read More

The Phantom of the Opera

Actors: Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude Rains, Jane Farrar, Edgar Barrier, Leo Carrillo, Hume Cronyn

Synopsis: This Technicolor retelling of the Gaston Leroux "grand guignol" classic The Phantom of the Opera has a little more opera than phantom, but that's because the stars are soprano Susannah Foster and tenor Nelson Eddy. Claude Rains carries the acting honors on his shoulders, playing a pathetic Read More

Larceny with Music

Actors: Allan Jones, Kitty Carlisle, Leo Carrillo, William Frawley, Gus Schilling

Synopsis: In this musical, the vocalist and her chamber music quintet lose their job when a conniving manager of a rival orchestra manages to con the nightclub owner to book his group instead by telling him that his vocalist is heir to a fortune and that the owner can get a share of the inheritance by Read More

Unseen Enemy

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine, Irene Hervey, Don Terry, Lionel Royce

Synopsis: The Unseen Enemy in this wartime meller is Nick (Leo Carrillo), the outwardly effusive manager of a San Francisco waterfront café. To make enough money to ensure his daughter Gen's (Irene Hervey) entree into society, Nick sells his services to a gang of foreign spies, who then use Nick's Read More

Top Sergeant

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine, Don Terry, Elyse Knox, Don Porter

Synopsis: Top Sergeant was the third of four inexpensive Universal action films top-billing Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine and Don Terry. Terry plays the title character, drill sergeant Dick Manson of the Engineer Corps. Carrillo and Devine are cast respectively as Corporals Frenchy Devereaux and Andy Jarrett Read More

Escape from Hong Kong

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine, Marjorie Lord, Don Terry, Gilbert Emery

Synopsis: Its "timely" title notwithstanding, Escape From Hong Kong is simply more of the he-man derring-do that Universal had been grinding out since the silent era. The stars are Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine and Don Terry, previously teamed in Unseen Enemy and soon to be costarred in the studio's Top Sergeant Read More

Sin Town

Actors: Constance Bennett, Broderick Crawford, Anne Gwynne, Patric Knowles, Andy Devine

Synopsis: Marlene Dietrich was supposed to have starred in Universal's Sin Town, but the script was not to her liking. Dietrich was replaced by Constance Bennett in the role of a glamorous suspect in a small-town murder. Broderick Crawford and Leo Carrillo costar as a couple of con men who must solve the Read More

Men of Texas

Actors: Robert Stack, Broderick Crawford, Jackie Cooper, Anne Gwynne, Ralph Bellamy

Synopsis: Surprisingly little known, Universal's Men of Texas boasts an impressive cast and a fairly exciting and complex storyline. Set just after the Civil War, the film stars Robert Stack as Chicago war correspondent Barry Conovan, who is sent by his newspaper to Texas to get the low-down on the martial Read More

Timber

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine, Dan Dailey, Marjorie Lord, Edmund MacDonald

Synopsis: Timber is a typical Universal Pictures amalgam of he-man virility and endless spools of stock footage from earlier films. Newly recruited from MGM, Dan Dailey Jr. stars as Kansas, a two-fisted troubleshooter from the U.S. Forestry Service. Kansas, his pal Arizona (Andy Devine) and mill owner Read More

What's Cookin'?

Actors: Dorothy Babbs, Jane Frazee, Robert Paige, Gloria Jean, Leo Carrillo

Synopsis: There's plenty cookin' in this brisk, breezy Andrews Sisters vehicle. The plot, such as it is, concerns the efforts by a group of entertainers to package a weekly musical radio show. Their biggest obstacle is a lack of sponsorship, but this is overcome when eccentric business executive J. P. Read More

American Empire

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Preston S. Foster, Frances Gifford, Robert H. Barrat

Synopsis: Originally slated for release through Paramount Pictures but ultimately distributed by United Artists, American Empire is a western "special" from Hopalong Cassidy producer Harry "Pop" Sherman. Set during the Reconstruction period, the film stars Richard Dix and Preston S. Foster as Dan Taylor and Read More

Danger in the Pacific

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine, Don Terry, Louise Allbritton, Edgar Barrier

Synopsis: Don Terry's last leading-man assignment at Universal (save for his serial duties in Don Winslow of the Coast Guard) was the "B" actioner Danger in the Pacific. As usual, Terry is teamed with Leo Carrillo and Andy Devine, this time united by the common interest of an expedition through an uncharted Read More

Horror Island

Actors: Dick Foran, Leo Carrillo, Peggy Moran, Fuzzy Knight, John Eldredge

Synopsis: It has been alleged that Horror Island was the least expensive of Universal's 1940s horror films. While it certainly looks that way, it remains an enjoyable outing from fade-in to fade-out. In the tradition of "Ten Little Indians", a group of disparate types are lured to a supposedly haunted Read More

Tight Shoes

Actors: John Howard, Binnie Barnes, Broderick Crawford, Anne Gwynne, Leo Carrillo

Synopsis: This comedy-drama is adapted from a story by Damon Runyon and centers on a mobster with unusually large feet. The trouble begins when the big-footed crook buys a too-tight pair of shoes from a salesman and decides to use the store as a front for an illegal gambling operation. After buying the Read More

Barnacle Bill

Actors: Wallace Beery, Marjorie Main, Leo Carrillo, Virginia Weidler, Donald Meek

Synopsis: MGM tried to recapture the magic of the Wallace Beery/Marie Dressler films of the 1930s with Barnacle Bill. Beery is teamed with Marjorie Main, a Dressler "type" who had a roughneck style all her own. In the film, grumbly old fisherman Beery spends most of his screen time avoiding Main, who 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

Road Agent

Actors: Dick Foran, Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine, Anne Gwynne, Samuel S. Hinds

Synopsis: Not quite a B western but certainly no "A", Road Agent is kept alive by the boisterous byplay of stars Dick Foran, Leo Carrillo and Andy Devine. Summarily accused of murder, drifters Duke (Foran), Pancho (Carrillo) and Andy (Devine) are tossed into the hoosegow, only to be released when their Read More

The Kid from Kansas

Actors: Dick Foran, Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine, Ann Doran, Francis McDonald

Synopsis: In this drama, a South American planter and his neighbors find themselves plagued by vandals who have been destroying their equipment thereby forcing them to sell their fruit at below cost. Meanwhile, the orchardist's foreman hires a vagabond, an escaped convict framed for murder. It is he who Read More

Riders of Death Valley [Serial]

Actors: Jean Brooks

Synopsis: The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former singing cowboy Dick Foran and Buck Jones. The latter contributed deadpan humor to the proceedings, making Jones perhaps the highest paid B-western comedy relief in history. Read More

20 Mule Team

Actors: Wallace Beery, Leo Carrillo, Marjorie Rambeau, Anne Baxter, Douglas Fowley

Synopsis: As indicated by the title, 20 Mule Team is all about pioneering borax miners in territorial Arizona. Wallace Beery goes through his usual paces as Skinner Bill Bragg, a fugitive from justice who forms an uneasy alliance with slick outlaw Stag Roper (Douglas Fowley). The two scoundrels plot to jump Read More

Captain Caution

Actors: Victor Mature, Louise Platt, Leo Carrillo, Bruce Cabot, Robert H. Barrat

Synopsis: Set during the war of 1812, Hal Roach's Captain Caution is an unusual swashbuckler in that the "hero" is actually the heroine. Louise Platt plays Corunna, the daughter of Captain Dorman (Robert Barrat), skipper of the American vessel The Olive Branch. When Dorman is killed in battle, Corunna Read More

Lillian Russell

Actors: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Edward Arnold, Warren William

Synopsis: Lillian Russell is the sanitized musical biopic of the legendary (and much-married) 19th century musical comedy star. Discovered in 1880 by bandleader Tony Pastor (Leo Carrillo), Lillian Russell (Alice Faye) wastes no time rising to fame and fortune on the Broadway stage. Along the way, she Read More

Wyoming

Actors: Wallace Beery, Leo Carrillo, Ann Rutherford, Lee Bowman, Joseph Calleia, Bobs Watson

Synopsis: In addition to being a fine Western in its own right, this film served to introduce perhaps Hollywood's oddest romantic couple: the gruff but lovable Wallace Beery and the tart but lovable Marjorie Main. Beery plays "Reb" Harkness who, with his Mexican pal Pete (Leo Carrillo), is almost caught Read More

One Night in the Tropics

Actors: Bud Abbott, Allan Jones, Nancy Kelly, Lou Costello, Robert Cummings

Synopsis: The third film version of Earl Derr Biggers' novel Love Insurance, One Night in the Tropics stars Allan Jones as a hotshot insurance salesman who sells a policy to his best pal Robert Cummings. Cummings will earn $1 million if he fails to marry his fiance Nancy Kelly. Half of the policy is Read More

Guns and Fury

The Chicken Wagon Family

Actors: Jane Withers, Leo Carrillo, Marjorie Weaver, Spring Byington, Kane Richmond

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Barry Benefield, Chicken Wagon Family affords nearly equal screen time to child star Jane Withers and veteran character actor Leo Carrillo. Tired of living in the boonies, itinerant merchant J. P. B. Fiffany (Carrillo) packs his family into his ramshackle wagon and sets out for Read More

Rio

Actors: Basil Rathbone, Victor McLaglen, Sigrid Gurie, Robert Cummings, Leo Carrillo

Synopsis: Though running a mere 75 minutes, Rio has enough plot for ten movies. Basil Rathbone and Sigrid Gurie, previously teamed in The Adventures of Marco Polo, head the cast as crooked French financier Paul Reynard and his wife Irene. Sentenced to a ten-year term in a French penal colony for bank fraud Read More

Fisherman's Wharf

Actors: Bobby Breen, Henry Armetta, Lee Patrick, Rosina Galli

Synopsis: In this musical drama, a child is abandoned upon the San Francisco docks. He is found and raised by a fisherman. His life is happy until the fisherman's sister-in-law moves in after her husband dies. She brings her bratty son with her. This upsets the orphan so much that he runs away. The Read More

The Girl and the Gambler

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Tim Holt, Steffi Duna, Donald MacBride, Chris-Pin Martin

Synopsis: In this western, a dashing caballero makes a wager with his gang that he can court a beautiful dancer and lure her back to their lair. Unfortunately the woman loves another so the outlaw kidnaps them both. At the Mexican border, he has a change of heart and sets the lovers free. ~ Sandra Brennan Read More

Land of Liberty

Synopsis: Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from past American historical epics. The project was sponsored by the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, Inc. and supervised by Cecil B. DeMille, who also edited Read More

Society Lawyer

Actors: Walter Pidgeon, Virginia Bruce, Leo Carrillo, Eduardo Ciannelli, Lee Bowman

Synopsis: This remake of Penthouse (33) stars Walter Pidgeon as a smooth attorney with a few embarrassing friends. One of these is a gangster (Leo Carrillo) whom Pidgeon has successfully defended. When Pidgeon must go after his "pal" for murder, he is forced to go into hiding. He is also compelled to set up Read More

Little Miss Roughneck

Synopsis: Sad-eyed, uniquely talented child actress Edith Fellows was Columbia's "answer" to Shirley Temple, Jane Withers and Deanna Durbin. In Little Miss Roughneck, Fellows is cast as Foxine LaRue, a tomboyish sort who is being prodded into a show-biz career by her stage mother Gert (Margaret Irving). Read More

Flirting with Fate

Actors: Joe E. Brown, Leo Carrillo, Beverly Roberts, Wynne Gibson, Steffi Duna

Synopsis: Flirting with Fate is one of the lesser Joe E. Brown vehicles for independent producer David L. Loew. Brown is cast as Dixon, the manager of a third-rate vaudeville troupe stranded in a mythical South American country. Completely broke, Dixon hits upon a plan to finance the actors' trip home Read More

The Girl of the Golden West

Actors: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Walter Pidgeon, Leo Carrillo, Buddy Ebsen

Synopsis: MGM's leading musical team of the 30's, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are paired once again in this fourth film version of David Belasco's creaky melodrama, featuring music by Sigmund Romberg and Gus Kahn. Jeanette MacDonald is Mary Robbins, the owner of a bawdy, rough-house saloon in a Read More

Litlle Miss Roughneck

Actors: Edith Fellows, Leo Carrillo, Scott Colton, Jacqueline Wells, Margaret Irving

Blockade

Actors: Madeleine Carroll, Henry Fonda, Leo Carrillo, John Halliday, Vladimir Sokoloff

Synopsis: Since the United States was officially neutral in the Spanish Civil War, the struggle of the Loyalists against Franco's forces didn't find much favor in Hollywood; this drama, produced by Walter Wanger, was one of the few films to deal with the conflict, albeit in watered-down terms. Marco (Henry Fonda Read More

Too Hot to Handle

Actors: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Walter Connolly, Leo Carrillo

Synopsis: Alternating effortlessly between comedy and suspense and back again, Too Hot to Handle stars Myrna Loy as a famous aviatrix and Clark Gable as an opportunistic newsreel photographer. Gable and rival shutterbug Walter Pidgeon agree to accompany Loy on her search for her missing brother, sensing a Read More

Arizona Wildcat

Actors: Jane Withers, Leo Carrillo, Pauline Moore, William Henry, Henry Wilcoxon

Synopsis: In this sunny western, a mischievous young girl living in the Arizona territory during the 1870s, causes all kinds of trouble while trying to prove that her foster-daddy did not steal a gold shipment. Later, the step-dad, a former outlaw, re-gathers his gang to find the real culprit -- a shady Read More

City Streets

Actors: Edith Fellows, Leo Carrillo, Tommy Bond, Mary Gordon, Helen Jerome Eddy

Synopsis: This tragedy has pathos to spare as it presents the story of a crippled orphan who finds support in a kindly storekeeper who loves her. To help her the older man must constantly deal with the well-intentioned welfare representative who constantly interfere. To pay for an operation for the stricken Read More

Fit for a King

Actors: Joe E. Brown, Helen Mack, Paul Kelly, Harry Davenport, Halliwell Hobbes

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a rookie reporter works for his uncle's newspaper and gets assigned to write a story about an elderly archduke. While interviewing him, the young journalist falls in love with the crown princess. He then exposes a conspiracy to kill her and her father. Mayhem ensues as he Read More

I Promise to Pay

Actors: Chester Morris, Leo Carrillo, Helen Mack, Thomas Mitchell, Thurston Hall

Synopsis: Chester Morris plays a working stiff unable to provide for his family on his meager salary. He arranges a loan with the seemingly benign Leo Carrillo, but soon learns that he can't keep up with the usurious interest payments. Carrillo's loan company is actually a racket in league with the local Read More

Hotel Haywire

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Mary Carlisle, Lynne Overman, George Barbier, Spring Byington

Synopsis: The inimitable Preston Sturges originally scripted Hotel Haywire with George Burns and Gracie Allen in mind, but by the time the film went before the cameras, the Burns and Allen roles had been recast with Benny Baker and Colette Lyons -- and significantly abbreviated in the process. A dentist Read More

The Barrier

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Jean Parker, James Ellison, Robert H. Barrat, Otto Kruger

Synopsis: A pageant-like Rex Beach story was the source of the 1937 western The Barrier. Leo Carrillo is top-billed, but the main character is half-breed girl Jean Parker. Actually, Parker is a full-blooded white woman; she has been raised to believe that she is of mixed blood by Robert H. Barrat, who has Read More

History is Made at Night

Actors: Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo, Colin Clive, Ivan Lebedeff

Synopsis: History is Made at Night has been described as a romantic tragedy, which it indeed is, up to a point. The film begins deceptively in screwball-comedy fashion with socialite Jean Arthur and handsome head waiter Charles Boyer "meeting cute." But there's nothing cute about Arthur's estranged husband Read More

52nd Street

Actors: Ian Hunter, Leo Carrillo, Pat Paterson, Ella Logan, ZaSu Pitts

Synopsis: This musical chronicles 15 years in the life of a New York City Street. In 1912, 52nd Street is a peaceful residential neighborhood and by 1937 it has become a bawdy red-light district. As the street changes, so do the lives of a brother and his two sisters who become estranged when he marries an Read More

Manhattan Merry-Go-Round

Actors: Phil Regan, Leo Carrillo, Ann Dvorak, Tamara Geva, James Gleason

Synopsis: In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do their stuff. The trouble really begins when the gangster's strong-arm tactics nearly cause a singer to lose his fiancée. A wide variety of entertainers appear including cowboy crooner Gene Autry Read More

Moonlight Murder

Actors: Chester Morris, Leo Carrillo, Frank McHugh, Benita Hume

Synopsis: Moonlight Murder takes place virtually in its entirety at the Hollywood Bowl. Despite dire warnings by a sinister mystic (Pedro de Cordoba), opera-star Gino D'Acosta (Leo Carrillo) insists that he will sing in the Bowl's current production of Il Trovatore. He gets no farther than the "Anvil Read More

It Had to Happen

Actors: George Raft, Rosalind Russell, Leo Carrillo, Arline Judge, Alan Dinehart

Synopsis: Italian immigrant George Raft uses his wits and his fists to rise to prominence in a local political machine. He falls in love with Rosalind Russell, the wife of a prominent banker, but discreetly hides his feelings even as he and Russell are thrust together by social circumstances. The banker Read More

If You Could Only Cook

Actors: Herbert Marshall, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo, Lionel Stander, Alan Edwards

Synopsis: This screwball comedy stars Jean Arthur as unemployed professor's daughter Joan Hawthorne. While sitting on a park bench, Joan makes the acquaintance of wealthy automotive engineer Jim Buchanan (Herbert Marshall). Unaware of his identity, and assuming that he's as desperate as she is, Joan talks Read More

The Gay Desperado

Actors: Nino Martini, Ida Lupino, Leo Carrillo, Harold Huber, James "Doc" Blakely

Synopsis: The Gay Desperado is a 1936 musical lampooning the then-popular gangster pictures. Leo Carrillo plays a genial Mexican bandit, Pablo Braganza, who gets nowhere until he and his amigos begin studying gangster techniques -- courtesy of Hollywood movies. Selecting kidnapping as his crime of choice Read More

In Caliente

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, Pat O'Brien, Leo Carrillo, Edward Everett Horton, Glenda Farrell

Synopsis: Per its title, this merry Warner Bros. musical was filmed on location in the resort community of Agua Caliente. Pat O'Brien plays magazine editor Larry MacArthur, whose scathingly negative review of tempestuous dancer La Espanita (Dolores Del Rio) has incurred the lady's considerable wrath. Read More

Love Me Forever

Actors: Grace Moore, Leo Carrillo, Michael Bartlett, Spring Byington

Synopsis: Grace Moore and Victor Schertzinger, the star-director combination responsible for the marvelous One Night of Love (1934), came up with another tune-filled winner in Love Me Forever. Once again voluntarily shedding her "diva" image, Moore plays Margaret Howard, a once-glamorous socialite who's hit Read More

The Winning Ticket

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Louise Fazenda, Ted Healy, Irene Hervey, James Ellison

Synopsis: In this lively comedy, a humble Italian barber wins the Irish sweepstakes. Unfortunately, he has misplaced the ticket. Mayhem ensues as the family turns things topsy-turvy to find it. The baby then becomes the prime suspect for hiding it. Things get hilarious as the adults try to get the infant to Read More

Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Ted Fio Rito, Eduardo Durant, Mary Pickford, Bing Crosby

Manhattan Melodrama

Actors: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Leo Carrillo, Nat Pendleton

Synopsis: Notorious as the movie that gangster John Dillinger attended on the night he was killed, Manhattan Melodrama has weathered the years as one of MGM's finest examples of pure storytelling. The pageant-like story begins in 1904, when the excursion steamer "General Slocum" blows up and burns in the Read More

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Actors: Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan, Katherine Alexander

Synopsis: Based on a successful stage drama, this historical romance stars Norma Shearer as Elizabeth Barrett, an invalid largely confined to her bed. Elizabeth has little company beyond her dog and her obsessively protective father, Edward Moulton Barrett (Charles Laughton). Her one great passion and means Read More

The Band Plays On

Actors: Robert Young, Stuart Erwin, Betty Furness, Leo Carrillo, Ted Healy

Synopsis: Robert Young had to be the busiest leading man in Hollywood in 1934. He appeared in no fewer than nine pictures, four of them at his home studio of MGM. The Band Plays On features Young as one of four close pals, who have grown up together and are now college football champs known as "The Four Read More

Viva Villa!

Actors: Wallace Beery, Leo Carrillo, Fay Wray, Donald Cook, Joseph Schildkraut, Stuart Erwin

Synopsis: A far from factual filmed biography of Mexican patriot Pancho Villa, Viva Villa! was written by lengendary screenwriter Ben Hecht. We first meet the young Villa when his father is beaten to death after protesting Diaz' seizure of the Mexican peons' land. Pancho exacts a temporary revenge by Read More

Four Frightened People

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Mary Boland, William Gargan, Leo Carrillo

Synopsis: Cecil B. DeMille's least characteristic sound feature, Four Frightened People is a character study about a quartet of castaways whose fates are permanently altered by spectacular circumstances. Four coastal steamer passengers jump ship when a deadly bubonic plague breaks out. They steal a Read More

The Gay Bride

Actors: Carole Lombard, Chester Morris, ZaSu Pitts, Leo Carrillo, Nat Pendleton

Synopsis: Carole Lombard's only MGM film, The Gay Bride has been cited by some as a precursor to 1988's Married to the Mob -- only without the laughs. Adapted by the usually reliable Samuel and Bella Spewack from Charles Francis Coe's magazine story Repeal, the film charts the misadventures of gold-digging Read More

Parachute Jumper

Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Leo Carrillo, Bette Davis, Frank McHugh, Claire Dodd

Synopsis: Grounded daredevil pilot Douglas Fairbanks Jr. secures a job protecting shady Leo Carrillo from his many enemies. Carrillo takes a liking to the young man and promotes him to a flying job--smuggling narcotics into the United States. Fairbanks eventually redeems himself with the help of good girl Bette Davis Read More

Before Morning

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Lora Baxter, Taylor Holmes, Louise Prussing

Synopsis: Based on a 1933 play, this mediocre whodunit was independently produced in New York City with a Broadway cast. Lora Baxter plays Elsie Manning, a famous actress who suddenly finds herself stuck with the dead body of her former lover, James Nichols (Russell Hicks). Dr. Gruelle (Leo Carrillo) offers Read More

Deception

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Dickie Moore, Thelma Todd, Barbara Weeks

Men Are Such Fools

Actors: Vivienne Osborne, Una Merkel, Joseph Cawthorn, Tom Moore

Synopsis: An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the husband finds out his wife is having an affair with a local lowlife; when he turns up dead, the husband is jailed for his murder, even though he protests his innocence. ~ Brian Read More

Obey the Law

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Dickie Moore, Lois Wilson, Henry Clive, Eddie Garr

Synopsis: In this drama, an immigrant barber becomes a US citizen and works hard to uphold his ideals of personal freedom and rights. He is a total supporter of the system, and when he is held-up, decides to reform the criminal by feeding him and finding him work. Later, a local politician attempts to tell Read More

Moonlight and Pretzels

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Mary Brian, Roger Pryor, Herbert Rawlinson, Bobby Watson

Synopsis: Vaudeville performer George Dwight (Roger Pryor) finds himself stranded in the small town of Walkerville, and talks his way into a job at a music store owned by Sally Upton (Mary Brian). Dwight's personality and piano playing, and his way with plugging a song help make the store a success, but his Read More

Racetrack

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Kay Hammond, Lee Moran, Huntly Gordon

Synopsis: In this drama, Joe Tomasso, a slightly corrupt gambler, goes completely straight after he catches an orphan hanging around the racing stables and decides to take the lad under his wing. He then helps the kid become a jockey. Later the boys real mother appears and begs her son not to race; she also Read More

Girl of the Rio

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, Leo Carrillo, Norman Foster, Ralph Ince, Lucille Gleason

Synopsis: Dolores Del Rio plays Dolores in Girl of the Rio -- which, one supposes, makes perfect sense. The heroine is a cabaret dancer who attracts the eye of her boss, slick gambler Don Jose (Leo Carrillo). When Dolores falls for handsome gringo Johnny Powell (Norman Foster), Don Jose pulls a few strings Read More

The Broken Wing

Actors: Lupe Velez, Leo Carrillo, Melvyn Douglas, George Barbier, Willard Robertson

Synopsis: In this western, a lovely Mexican woman falls in love with the gringo pilot whose plane crashed nearby. Unfortunately, her father's neighbor, a powerful rancher is in love with her. He orders the execution of the happless Yankee aviator. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Cauliflower Alley

The Guilty Generation

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Constance Cummings, Robert Young, Boris Karloff, Emma Dunn

Synopsis: William Shakespeare's classic tragedy Romeo & Juliet is loosely adapted and modernized in director Rowland V. Lee's Guilty Generation. Set in 1930's New York, rival gangster families the Palmero's and the Ricca's play Lee's version of the infamous Montagues and Capulets. The two mobs had once Read More

Lasca of the Rio Grande

Synopsis: Texas Ranger Leo Carrillo falls for dance hall girl Dorothy Burgess who is wanted for murder. Burgess won't let her lover bring her to justice and kills herself by diving into a cattle stampede. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Lost Men

Hell Bound

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Lola Lane, Helene Chadwick

Synopsis: A "B" picture with "A" ambitions, Hell Bound stars Leo Carrillo as ruthless but basically decent racketeer Nick Cotrelli. Worried that singer Platinum Reed (Lola Lane) may know too much about his crooked operation, Cotrelli marries the girl so that she can't testify against him in court. Believing Read More

The Homicide Squad

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Noah Beery, Sr., Mary Brian, Russell Gleason, George Brent

Synopsis: In this crime drama, dedicated to the police forces of America, a gangster searches for his estranged son, also a gangster. Meanwhile a police captain searches for the gangsters who murdered his son. The gangster's crooked son, wanting to stay out of jail for killing the cop's son, offers to help Read More

Mister Antonio

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Gareth Hughes, Frank Reicher, Eugénie Besserer

Synopsis: In this romance, an organ grinder falls in love with a corrupt mayor's daughter. The mayor, worried that the organ grinder will reveal his knowledge of the politician's illegal activities, does all he can to persuade the organ grinder that the girl is not interested in him, but the intrepid street Read More

Dove

Actors: Norma Talmadge, Noah Beery, Sr., Gilbert Roland, Michael Vavitch

Synopsis: Adapted from the warhorse stage play by Willard Mack, The Dove proved a so-so vehicle for Norma Talmadge, but the lady's box-office appeal helped to overcome the film's weaker passages. Set in a mythical Mediterranean country, the story is motivated by despotic political boss Don José (Noah Beery Read More

Sgt. Preston of the Yukon and the Cisco Kid