Lyle TalbotFilmography

The Dukes of Hazzard: Heiress Daisy Duke

Synopsis: The Dukes are dumbfounded when Daisy (Catherine Bach) is identified as the long-lost granddaughter of millionaire Carter Stewart (played by versatile veteran Lyle Talbot). Though Boss Hogg doubts that Daisy is indeed the heiress, he hires the disreputable Professor Crandall (Walker Edmiston) to Read More

Adam-12: Capture

Synopsis: Hoping to solve a series of burglaries, Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) set their sights on Reno West (Jed Allan), an ex-convict whom they'd confronted in the previous episode "Hot Shot". Elsewhere, the cops search high and low for a nasty marauding dog. And yet Read More

Green Acres: King Oliver I

Actors: Lyle Talbot, William Sylvester

Synopsis: When the governor announces a 52 percent tax hike, the town of Hooterville secedes from the state. Cutting themselves off from their neighbors by sabotaging the bridge over the local swamp, the Hootervillians declare that they are subjects of an independent monarchy. Carrying the situation to its Read More

Green Acres: The Road

Actors: Lyle Talbot, Dave Willock, Edwin Max

Synopsis: Gentleman farmer Oliver (Eddie Albert) is outraged that Hooterville's unpaved road continues to kick up a veritable dust storm, seriously endangering the local crops. On behalf of their fellow agrarians, Oliver and Lisa (Eva Gabor) head to the state capitol, there to demand that the road be paved. Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Jethro In the Reserve

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a three-part story arc, Granny captures General Ulysses S. Grant (William Mimms) and wins the Civil War on behalf of the Confederacy. Actually, Granny has merely captured an actor dressed as Grant, who is appearing in a war film being shot near the Clampett estate. But rather Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: The South Rises Again

Synopsis: In the second episode of a three-part story arc, Granny is still convinced that the Civil War epic being filmed near the mansion is an actual battle between North and South. A loyal daughter of Dixie, Granny forms her own "Confederate Army" to fight the actors dressed as Union soldiers. Lyle Talbot Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: The Reserve Program

Synopsis: Still anxious to serve his country in the military, Jethro heads to what he thinks is an Army-reserve recruiting office, and is immediately inducted into the ranks of the costumed movie extras appearing in a Civil War epic. The confusion is compounded when Granny, spotting the maneuvers of the Read More

Green Acres: Lisa's First Day On the Farm

Actors: Edgar Buchanan, Bea Benaderet, Smiley Burnette, Rufe Davis, Iris Adrian

Synopsis: Upon taking possession of their new farm in Hooterville, Oliver (Eddie Albert) and Lisa (Eva Gabor) discover that former owner Mr. Haney (Pat Buttram) has taken all the furniture and accessories with him. Making matters worse, the wily Haney has compiled a list of "hidden charges" to further Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Art Game

Synopsis: Veteran character actors Lyle Talbot, Olan Soule and Ian Wolfe are seen in this episode, a gentle spoof of the "modern art" world. When a visiting art dealer purchasing one of Uncle Joe's own paintings, Joe (Edgar Buchanan) thinks he has a lucrative future as a brush-pusher. In truth, the dealer Read More

The Lucy Show: Kiddie Parties, Inc.

Actors: Lyle Talbot, Jimmy Gaines, Ronnie Dapo, Sid Gould

Synopsis: Strapped for cash as usual, Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Viv (Vivian Vance) cook up yet another get-rich-quick scheme. This time, the girls set up a business arranging children's birthday parties in the Danville area. What could go wrong with such a foolproof scheme? Well, just about Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: The Great Feud

Synopsis: When Sonny Drysdale (Louis Nye) runs off in terror at the prospect of marrying Elly May, the Clampetts grab their shootin' irons and prepare for a feud against the Drysdale family. Descending upon the Drysdale manion, the hillbillies take "Mister Butler" (aka Ravenswood) prisoner, but Granny Read More

Bonanza: The Courtship

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Julie Adams

Synopsis: Julie Adams guest-stars as Helen, the widow of Ben Cartwright's old friend Josh Layton. As beautiful as she is charming, Helen has a fatal flaw: She is a chronic gambler, one who tends to drag her lovers down into her own bottomless pit of debt and despair. Now Helen has caught the eye of Read More

Sunrise at Campobello

Actors: Ralph Bellamy, Greer Garson, Hume Cronyn, Jean Hagen, Ann Shoemaker

Synopsis: One of only two theatrical features by television director Vincent J. Donahue, Sunrise at Campobello is a biography of President Franklin D. Roosevelt that attempts to illustrate the statesman's courageous battle against infantile paralysis and his political foes. While in the prime of his life Read More

City of Fear

Actors: Vince Edwards, John Archer, Steven Ritch, Patricia Blair, Kelly Thordsen

Synopsis: Fairly fast-paced, with only a lull here and there, this standard thriller by director Irving Lerner was one of his most successful films. It stars (Vince Edwards) as Vince, an escaped convict who grabs a metal vial from the prison's hospital before he makes his break. He thinks it is his ticket Read More

Maverick: Two Tickets to Ten Strike

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

The Notorious Mr. Monks

Synopsis: In this dark drama a hapless hitchhiker takes a ride with a drunk driver who takes him to his house. There he meets the driver's wife and murder ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Hot Angel

Actors: Jackie Loughery, Ed Kemmer, Mason Alan Dinehart, Emory Parnell, Lyle Talbot

Synopsis: In this drama, a Korean war vet becomes a pilot who must take care of his late war buddy's little sister and brother. The sister is upset when her brother begins hanging around with a bad biker gang. The vet manages to turn the kid around by convincing him that he would have more fun flying an Read More

Love That Bob: Season 05

Actors: Robert Cummings, Rosemary de Camp, Ann B. Davis, Dwayne Hickman

Synopsis: Still on NBC after moving from CBS a year earlier, Love That Bob (originally The Bob Cummings Show) enters its fifth and final season in first-run prime time. Bob Cummings returns in his signature role as professional photographer and self-styled ladies' man Bob Collins, with Ann B. Davis as Bob's Read More

High School Confidential

Actors: Russ Tamblyn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jan Sterling, John Drew Barrymore, Mamie van Doren, Diane Jergens, Ray Anthony, Jackie Coogan, Michael Landon

Synopsis: Producer Albert Zugsmith serves up another all-star exposé with High School Confidential. Delivering a superb performance under the circumstances, Russ Tamblyn heads the cast as "typical" high schooler Tony Baker. Usually seen in the company of his voluptuous "aunt" Gwen Dulaine (the truly Read More

Love That Bob: Season 04

Actors: Robert Cummings, Rosemary de Camp, Ann B. Davis, Dwayne Hickman

Synopsis: Moving from its familiar Thursday night time slot to a Tuesday evening berth, and leaving CBS to return to NBC in the bargain, Love That Bob (originally The Bob Cummings Show) enters its fourth season. Even after all these years, Bob Collins (Bob Cummings), the series' cheerfully lascivious Read More

Leave It to Beaver: Party Invitation

Actors: Lyle Talbot, Claudia Bryar

Synopsis: Beaver (Jerry Mathers) happily accepts a party invitation from Linda Dennison -- only to discover that he will be the only boy at the affair. When he tries to wangle out of the invitation, Ward (Hugh Beaumont) and June (Barbara Billingsley), unaware of Beaver's plight, order him to go and won't Read More

Guns Don't Argue

Synopsis: The actions of various criminals such as Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Bonnie and Clyde and Baby Face Nelson are reenacted in this film. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Leave It to Beaver: The Perfect Father

Actors: Lyle Talbot, Richard Smiley

Synopsis: Ward (Hugh Beaumont) is bit hurt when it seems that Beaver (Jerry Mathers) and Wally (Tony Dow) would rather spend time with the father of one of their neighborhood friends. It turns out that the boys are attracted to Mr. Dennison (Lyle Talbot) because he has set up a basketball hoop and backboard Read More

Calling Homicide

Actors: Don Haggerty, Kathleen Case, Myron Healey, Jeanne Cooper

Synopsis: Calling Homicide was another of Bill Elliot's "working-man detective" efforts of the 1950s. This time, Elliot plays LA sheriff's department operative Lieutant Doyle. While searching for a cop killer, Doyle discerns a connection between the first murder and the strangling of a pretty model. The Read More

Plan 9 from Outer Space

Actors: Criswell, Tor Johnson, Maila "Vampira" Nurmi, Carl Anthony, Bela Lugosi, Mona McKinnon, Gregory Walcott

Synopsis: With its incoherent plot, jaw-droppingly odd dialogue, inept acting, threadbare production design, and special effects so shoddy that they border on the surreal, Plan 9 From Outer Space has often been called the worst movie ever made. But it's an oddly endearing disaster; boasting genuine Read More

The Great Man

Actors: José Ferrer, Dean Jagger, Keenan Wynn, Julie London, Joanne Gilbert

Synopsis: Based on a novel by television producer Al Morgan, The Great Man is a Citizen Kane-style look at the private life of a public figure. The Great Man is a beloved radio and television personality who dies suddenly. Jose Ferrer (who also directed) plays a writer/commentator who has a chance to break Read More

Love That Bob: Season 03

Actors: Robert Cummings, Rosemary de Camp, Ann B. Davis, Dwayne Hickman

Synopsis: Happy-go-lucky photographer Bob Collins (Bob Cummings) continues to ardently pursue his lovely models -- and for that matter, any other lovely lady who tickles his fancy -- as Love That Bob (originally The Bob Cummings Show) enters its third season. Also still on hand are future Brady Bunch Read More

Love That Bob: Season 02

Actors: Robert Cummings, Rosemary de Camp, Ann B. Davis, Dwayne Hickman

Synopsis: Moving from NBC to CBS for its second season, Love That Bob (originally The Bob Cummings Show) also moved to a more advantageous time slot, Thursday nights at 8:00 PM. Here it would remain for the next two years -- never a huge ratings hit, but always consistently popular with its target audience Read More

Sudden Danger

Actors: Tom Drake, Beverly Garland, Dayton Lummis, Helene Stanton

Synopsis: Having forsaken westerns for detective melodramas in Dial Red O, William "Wild Bill" Ellliot continues in this vein in Sudden Danger. Elliot is cast as detective lieutenant Doyle, who at present is investigating the alleged suicide of a clothing manufacturer. Doyle suspects that the victim was Read More

Love That Bob: Season 01

Actors: Robert Cummings, Rosemary de Camp, Ann B. Davis, Dwayne Hickman

Synopsis: "Hold it! I think you're gonna like this picture!" With this jaunty assurance, Bob Cummings calmly snuggled into the late-Sunday-night NBC time slot previously occupied by The Hunter for the first season of the breezy sitcom Love That Bob (originally The Bob Cummings Show). Little time is wasted Read More

Jail Busters

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

Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl

Synopsis: Anthony Dexter, who had essayed the title role in the 1951 biopic Valentino, plays a beardless Captain Kidd. Eva Gabor, who would later costar with Arnold the Pig on TV's Green Acres, is the slave girl. Gabor has been dispatched by the villains to seduce Kidd and determine the whereabouts of the Read More

There's No Business Like Show Business

Actors: Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Marilyn Monroe, Dan Dailey, Johnnie Ray

Synopsis: Like Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938), 20th Century-Fox's There's No Business Like Show Business is a "catalogue" film, its thinnish plot held together by an itinerary of Irving Berlin tunes. The story chronicles some twenty years in the lives of a showbiz family, headed by Dan Dailey and Ethel Merman Read More

The Siege at Red River

Actors: Van Johnson, Joanne Dru, Richard Boone, Milburn Stone, Jeff Morrow

Synopsis: Siege of Red River stars Van Johnson as a Confederate officer, who "appropriates" a shipment of gatling guns from the Northern troops in the waning days of the Civil War. Posing as a medicine show entrepreneur, Johnson smuggles the guns through enemy lines in his wagon. Renegade rebel Richard Boone Read More

Tobor the Great

Actors: Charles Drake, Karin [Katharine] Booth, Billy Chapin, Taylor Holmes, Steven Geray

Synopsis: This children's sci-fi adventure chronicles the friendship between an 11-year-old and his grandfather's robot Tobor, who was designed to explore deep space. Tobor, unlike other machines, was endowed with human emotions. Trouble erupts when the communists kidnap him and try to make him do their Read More

The Steel Cage

Actors: Paul Kelly, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Ireland, Lawrence Tierney, Arthur Franz

Synopsis: Like its predecessor Duffy of San Quentin, The Steel Cage is made up of episodes from a never-telecast TV series based on the career of progressive prison warden Clinton T. Duffy. Paul Kelly plays Duffy, while his wife is portrayed by Maureen O'Sullivan. Divided into three separate playlets, the Read More

Gunfighters of the Northwest [Serial]

Synopsis: Yet another serial from penny-pinching producer Sam Katzman, the fifteen chapter Gunfighters of the Northwest suffered from the usual Katzman shortcomings, including grainy stock-footage and slapdash writing. As an added economy measure, not a single scene was filmed indoors! {$Jock Mahoney plays Read More

Target, Sea of China

Actors: Harry Lauter, Aline Towne

Synopsis: A feature version of a twelve chapter Republic Pictures, this drama starred Harry Lauter as Tom Rogers, an enterprising South Seas island trader who gets involved with Nazi thugs, a native revolution and smugglers, ably assisted by a lovely emissary from the United Nations, Aline Towne. One of the Read More

Jail Bait

Actors: Dolores Fuller, Lyle Talbot, Herbert Rawlinson, Steve Reeves, Clancy Malone

Synopsis: Jail Bait was the place where Edward D. Wood Jr.'s career as a director entered the mainstream. Having exposed the world of transvestism in Glen or Glenda, he now turned to less ambitious fare in an effort at commercial success. Loosely patterned after the television series Dragnet, Jail Bait Read More

Mesa of Lost Women

Actors: Jackie Coogan, Richard Travis, Allan Nixon, Mary Hill, Robert Knapp

Synopsis: Mutated spiders, mad geniuses, childlike mental patients, gold-digging blondes, and vengeful little people are only part of the madness in this legendary bit of oddball science fiction. Grant (Robert Knapp) and Doreen (Mary Hill) wander into a shack in the wastelands of Mexico's Muerto Desert Read More

Down Among the Sheltering Palms

Actors: William Lundigan, Jane Greer, Mitzi Gaynor, David Wayne, Gloria de Haven

Synopsis: This colorful musical comedy was obviously inspired by the success of Broadway's South Pacific. Army Captain Bill Willoby (William Lundigan) is ordered to make sure that his men do not fraternize with the girls at a South Sea island base. His mission is forgotten when he himself falls in love with Read More

Tumbleweed

Actors: Audie Murphy, Lori Nelson, Chill Wills, Roy Roberts, Russell Johnson

Synopsis: Audie Murphy plays wagon train scout Jim Harvey in Universal-International's Tumbleweed. Through a series of unfortunate circumstances, Harvey is wrongly accused of saving himself while allowing the people under his protection to be slaughtered by Indians. With the help of sheriff Murchoree (Chill Wills Read More

Glen or Glenda?

Actors: Bela Lugosi, Daniel Davis [Edward D. Wood, Jr.], Lyle Talbot, Dolores Fuller, Tommy Haynes

Synopsis: In his heart-felt cinematic debut, Edward D. Wood, Jr. himself stars under the pseudonym Daniel Davis as a young man with a dilemma: should he tell his lovely young fiancee (played by real-life girlfriend Dolores Fuller) about his burning desire to cross-dress? She has begun to notice articles Read More

Star of Texas

Actors: Wayne Morris, Paul Fix, Frank Ferguson, Rick Vallin, Jack Larson

Synopsis: Wayne Morris plays a Texas ranger who goes undercover to trap a criminal gang. Posing as a wanted killer, Morris is able to move freely amongst the town riffraff, unencumbered by the innocent ingenue (mainly because there is no innocent ingenue). The marshal learns that the brains behind the gang Read More

White Lightning

Actors: Stanley Clements, Steve Brodie, Gloria Blondell, Barbara Bestar, Lyle Talbot

Synopsis: No relation to the 1973 Burt Reynolds vehicle of the same name, White Lightning is a passable programmer about a champion ice hockey team. Stanley Clements plays Mike, an arrogant young hockey player who immediately alienates his new teammates. Team manager Jack (Steve Brodie) tries to convince Read More

Clipped Wings

Actors: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey, Renie Riano, Todd Karns

Synopsis: When the Bowery Boys go to visit a friend on an Air Force base, they are pulled into an investigation to discover why their friend is being accused of treason. Accidentally enlisting in the service, they continue their investigation and eventually stumble on a Nazi plot. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Read More

Son of Geronimo [Serial]

Synopsis: The self-styled son of Indian chief Geronimo gets himself involved with a gang of nasty whites in this typical low-budget 15 chapter serial, which benefitted from a great deal of footage from the the stock piles at Columbia Pictures. Jim Scott (Clayton Moore) and wagon train boss Tulsa (Bus Osborne Read More

Desperadoes Outpost

Actors: Allan Lane, Lyle Talbot, Eddy Waller, Roy Barcroft, Myron Healey

Synopsis: At the time of its release, Republic's Desperadoes Outpost was regarded as one of the studio's better Allan "Rocky" Lane westerns. As was customary, Lane is cast as a federal operative, sent westward to offer aid and comfort to his old pal Nugget Clark (Eddy Waller). This time, Clark runs a Read More

Feudin' Fools

Synopsis: In this entry in the long running "Bowery Boys" series, one of the boys is bequeathed a farm in Kentucky. The boys go there and find themselves in the middle of a hillbilly feud between the Smiths and the Joneses. The warring clans unite when bank robbers break into the Jones' house and force the Read More

Terry and the Pirates: The Maitland Affair

With a Song in My Heart

Actors: Susan Hayward, Rory Calhoun, David Wayne, Thelma Ritter, Robert Wagner

Synopsis: With a Song in My Heart is the story of popular 1930s songstress Jane Froman, here portrayed by Susan Hayward. We first see Ms. Froman as a humble staff singer at a Cincinnati radio stations, but it doesn't take her long to rise to the uppermost rungs of network radio fame. Jane gratefully marries Read More

Untamed Women

Actors: Mikel Conrad, Doris Merrick, Richard Monahan, Mark Lowell, Morgan Jones

Synopsis: Downed Air Force pilots find themselves contending with scantily-clad female druids and stop-motion dinosaurs when they crash land upon an uncharted South Seas island. The castaways must also deal with man-eating plants and the island's dim-bulbed hairy males, who resent the intrusion of rivals. Read More

Texas City

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, James Ellison, Lois Hall, Lorna Thayer, Lane Bradford

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown substitutes brains for brawn during most of Texas City. Cast once more as a U.S. marshal, Johnny investigates when several government gold shipments are hijacked. Someone has been tipping of the outlaws as to when and where the supposedly secret shipments will take place. The Read More

Sea Tiger

Actors: John Archer, Marguerite Chapman, Harry Lauter, Ralph Sanford, Marvin Press

Synopsis: Monogram's Sea Tiger stars John Archer as discredited sea captain Ben McGrun, on the outs for supposedly collaborating with the enemy during the war. Blackballed in the U.S., Ben manages to dig up a job in New Guinea as skipper of a rundown freighter owned by heroine Jenine (Marguerite Chapman). Read More

Kansas Territory

Actors: William "Wild Bill" Elliott, House Peters, Jr., Peggy Stewart, Lane Bradford

Synopsis: Kansas Territory is one of Bill Elliot's latter-day Allied Artists westerns--meaning that even the non-western fan is in for a treat (albeit a violent one). Elliot's brother is killed, which naturally prompts him to seek revenge. On his bloody quest for the guilty party, Elliot learns many facts Read More

Montana Incident

The Old West

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Gail Davis, Lyle Talbot, Louis Jean Heydt

Synopsis: Gene Autry was clearly tiring of the rigors of moviemaking by the time he starred in The Old West. Even so, Autry gives his all to this story of frontier religiosity. Left for dead in an outlaw ambush, Gene is nursed back to health by a travelling parson (House Peters Sr.) Our hero decides to help Read More

Varieties on Parade

Synopsis: This vintage collection includes a cavalcade of vaudeville acts and is hosted by Jackie Coogan. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

African Treasure

Actors: Johnny Sheffield, Laurette Luez, Leonard Mudie, Arthur Space, Lane Bradford

Synopsis: Number Seven in Monogram's Bomba the Jungle Boy series was African Treasure. This time Bomba (Johnny Sheffield) agrees to help geologist Arthur Space and his team locate a hidden diamond mine. Unfortunately for our hero, Space and his cohorts Lane Bradford and Lyle Talbot are actually jewel Read More

The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet [TV Series]

Synopsis: If anyone can be labelled a television auteur, that man was the inimitable Ozzie Nelson. Not only did Ozzie produce, direct, star and occasionally write the long-running (1952-66) TV sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, but he also supplied the cast from his own home! You remember Read More

Outlaw Women

Actors: Marie Windsor, Richard Rober, Allan Nixon, Carla Balenda, Jacqueline Fontaine

Synopsis: This off-beat western is set in a remote western town that has made it illegal for men to enter. The town is owned by a powerful female gambler whose reign is toppled by a handsome and persistent cowboy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Gold Raiders

Actors: George O'Brien, Moe Howard, Shemp Howard, Larry Fine, Sheila Ryan

Synopsis: Filmed in a record five days, Gold Raiders was an attempt by producer Jack Schwartz to inaugurate a new western series starring old favorite George O'Brien. Adding novelty value to the proceedings are the Three Stooges: Shemp Howard, Larry Howard and Moe Howard. The action is fairly divided Read More

Oklahoma Justice

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown goes up against a lady bank robber in this average Mack Brown series late-entry from Monogram. The lady, played by Barbara Allen, is of course called "Ma." In order to get the goods on "Ma" and her "brood," Mack Brown must masquerade as a lone bandit. The ruse works up to a point Read More

Man from Sonora

Mask of the Dragon

Actors: Richard Travis, Sheila Ryan, Sid Melton, Michael Whalen, Lyle Talbot

Synopsis: Lippert's Mask of the Dragon was filmed simultaneously with Fingerprints Don't Lie, utilizing the same director and cast. Richard Travis plays Phil Ramsey, a private eye, headquartered in San Francisco. He is obliged to investigate the murder of an old friend, a Korean war vet who had recently Read More

Fury of the Congo

Actors: Johnny Weissmuller, Sherry Moreland, William Henry, Lyle Talbot, Joel Friedkin

Synopsis: Fury of the Congo was the sixth entry in Columbia's "Jungle Jim" series, though in most markets it was the fifth to be released. Johnny Weissmuller returns as Alex Raymond's comic strip hero Jungle Jim. The plot this time around has Jim coming to the rescue of a native tribe which has fallen under Read More

Texas Lawmen

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, James Ellison, Lee Roberts, Lane Bradford

Synopsis: Texas Lawmen was one of the shortest entries in Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown series, running a scant 54 minutes. This time, Brown is hunting for three desperate criminals. Fortunately for Our Hero, two of the crooks -- Bart and Steve Morrow (Stan Jolley and Lee Roberts) -- are father and son, on Read More

Abilene Trail

Actors: Whip Wilson, Andy Clyde, Tommy Farrell, Steve Clark, Noel Neill

Synopsis: Whip Wilson rides again in the Monogram western Abilene Trail. Wilson and his grizzled sidekick Andy Clyde are accused of horse stealing, a hangin' offense around these here parts. Eluding the authorities, the boys take jobs at a ranch where the real crook is hiding out. Between whip-cracking Read More

Hurricane Island

Actors: Jon Hall, Marie Windsor, Marc Lawrence, Romo Vincent, Edgar Barrier

Synopsis: Jon Hall is right in his element in the Columbia low-budgeter Hurricane Island. Hall plays Captain Carlos Montalvo, second-in-command to Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon (Edgar Barrier). Engaged in a search for the Fountain of Youth, Montalvo gets mixed up with lady buccaneer Jane Bolton (Marie Windsor Read More

Jungle Manhunt

Actors: Johnny Weissmuller, Bob Waterfield, Sheila Ryan, Rick Vallin, Lyle Talbot

Synopsis: Johnny Weissmuller is back as Jungle Jim in Columbia's Jungle Manhunt. In this outing, Jungle Jim leads a search for football hero Bob Miller (Bob Waterfield), who is lost somewhere in the foliage. Our Hero's mission is complicated by the presence of villains Bono (Ric Vallin) and Heller (Lyle Talbot Read More

The Scarf

Actors: John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge, Emlyn Williams, James Barton, Lloyd Gough

Synopsis: Mercedes McCambridge plays a singing waitress named Cash-and-Carry Connie in The Scarf. This alone should be enough to keep the viewer's interest, but in fact the film has much to please the eye and ear. John Ireland stars as John Barrington, an escapee from a institution for the criminally Read More

Purple Heart Diary

Actors: Frances Langford, Judd Holdren, Ben Lessy, Tony Romano, Aline Towne

Synopsis: Singer Frances Langford stars as herself in Purple Heart Diary. The film is a reenactment of Langford's USO tours during WW II, as reported in the singer's newspaper columns for the Hearst syndicate. Also appearing as themselves are two of Langford's fellow troupers, singer Tony Romano and comic Read More

Fingerprints Don't Lie

Actors: Richard Travis, Sheila Ryan, Sid Melton, Tom Neal, Margia Dean

Synopsis: Lippert's Fingerprints Don't Lie stars Richard Travis as fingerprint expert James Stover. At the moment, Stover is attempting to solve the murder of a small-town mayor. When the most likely suspect has been collared, Stover determines that the fingerprints found at the scene of the crime have been Read More

Colorado Ambush

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Myron Healey, Lois Hall, Tommy Farrell, Christine McIntyre

Synopsis: As was customary in his late Monogram westerns, Johnny Mack Brown plays an undercover agent in Colorado Ambush. Brown is sent to Colorado to stem the activities of a particularly vicious outlaw gang. The leader of the gang is played by Myron Healey, who also wrote the script. The best sequence Read More

Blue Blood

Actors: Bill Williams, Jane Nigh, Audrey Long, Harry Shannon, Lyle Talbot

Synopsis: Bill Williams and Jane Nigh, the stars of Monogram's Blue Grass of Kentucky, are reunited in the strikingly similar Blue Blood. Based on Peter B. Kyne's story Dog Meat, the film traces the efforts made to rescue a thoroughbred from being ground into hamburger by a dog-food factory. Harry Shannon Read More

Triple Trouble

Actors: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Richard Benedict

Synopsis: No good deed goes unpunished in the "Bowery Boys" entry Triple Trouble. When Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall) and the rest of the Bowery Boys attempt to stop a robbery, it is they who wind up in prison. Once behind bars, the boys learn of an escape plan, but when they try to relay this Read More

Revenue Agent

Actors: Douglas Kennedy, Jean Willes, Onslow Stevens, William "Bill" Phillips, Ray Walker

Synopsis: Can there actually have once been a film in which an IRS agent is the hero? Yes, and it was titled Revenue Agent. Douglas Kennedy is your friendly tax man, here attempting to to trap a clever smuggler (Onslow Stevens), who plans to sneak $1,000,000 worth of duty-free gold dust into Mexico. Kennedy Read More

Atom Man vs. Superman [Serial]

Actors: Kirk Alyn

Synopsis: The second of Columbia's Superman serials, the 15-episode Atom Man Vs. Superman stars Kirk Alyn in the dual role of Clark Kent and the "Man of Steel." This time, Kent/Superman is pitted against bald-pated Lex Luthor (Lyle Talbot), who, disguised as Atom Man, threatens to devastate Metropolis with Read More

Cherokee Uprising

Actors: Whip Wilson, Andy Clyde, Lois Hall, Sam Flint, Forrest Taylor

Synopsis: The title insurrection in this low-budget Whip Wilson Western consists mainly of Iron Eyes Cody, who is conspiring to raid the wagon trains with crooked sheriff Marshall Reed and nefarious Indian agent Forrest Taylor. Investigating the presumed revolt, the whip-wielding Wilson and grizzled Read More

One Too Many

Actors: Ruth Warrick, Richard Travis, Rhys Williams, William Tracy

Synopsis: Produced and distributed by legendary road-show entrepreneur Kroger Babb, One Too Many details the tragedy of alcoholism. Ruth Warrick stars as concert pianist Helen Mason, who destroys her life and career through drinking. Helen is finally saved from herself when she joins Alcoholics Anonymous. Read More

Lucky Losers

Actors: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Hillary Brooke, Gabriel Dell, Lyle Talbot

Synopsis: Lucky Losers is an uncharacteristically dramatic entry in Monogram's "Bowery Boys" comedy series. Incredibly enough, Slip Mahoney (Leo Gorcey) and Sach Jones (Huntz Hall) have gotten jobs in the office of Wall Street broker David J. Thurston (Selmer Jackson). Soon afterward, Thurston apparently Read More

Champagne for Caesar

Actors: Ronald Colman, Celeste Holm, Vincent Price, Barbara Britton, Art Linkletter

Synopsis: This comedy stars Ronald Colman as Beauregard Bottomley, a self-styled genius in need of a job. He applies for a position with a large soap company, but Burnbridge Walters (Vincent Price), the firm's willfully eccentric president, falls into a "trance" while interviewing Beauregard and decides not Read More

Big Timber

Actors: Roddy McDowall, Jeff Donnell, Lyn Thomas, Gordon Jones, Tom Greenway

Synopsis: Big Timber was another in a series of medium-budget dramas co-produced by actor Roddy McDowall for Monogram. McDowall himself stars as Jimmy, a novice tree surgeon who takes a manual-labor job at a logging camp. Jimmy develops into a fairly competent logger, but his efforts are sabotaged by a Read More

Everybody's Dancin'

Actors: Spade Cooley, Richard Lane, Hal Derwin

Synopsis: By the standards of low-budget Lippert Productions, Everybody's Dancin' is an "A" picture. Country-western favorite Spade Cooley (who also co-produced and co-scripted) heads the enormous cast of this innocuous musical comedy. Setting the plot in motion is fast-talking Dick Lane, playing a phony Read More

Federal Man

Actors: William Henry, Pamela Blake, Robert Shayne, Lyle Talbot, George Eldredge

Synopsis: Former juvenile star William Henry is the all-grown-up hero of Federal Man. Henry is cast as a government agent who dogs the trail of illegal narcotics peddlers. This requires several trips south of the US-Mexico border and back again. Scenes of startlingly vivid violence are counterpointed with Read More

The Jackpot

Actors: James Stewart, Barbara Hale, Natalie Wood, James Gleason, Fred Clark, Patricia Medina, Alan Mowbray

Synopsis: The Jackpot is a generally pleasing satire of quiz programs. James Stewart stars as Bill Lawrence, an average Joe who picks up the phone one day, answers a simple question, and suddenly finds himself the recipient of a radio quiz-show jackpot. Tons of prizes are shipped to Lawrence's house, to the Read More

The Dalton's Women

Synopsis: The plot for this Western involves the wives and girlfriends of the Dalton gang, who decide to carry on the gang's criminal activities after the menfolk were either gunned down or locked up. Old-time B-Western star Lash LaRue shows up to take care of them. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide Read More

Border Rangers

Actors: Robert Lowery, Wally Vernon, Pamela Blake, Lyle Talbot

Synopsis: Don Barry stars as Texas Ranger Bob Standish, sworn to avenge his brother's death in Border Rangers. To achieve his goal, Standish goes undercover, joining the bandit gang. In this guise, he hopes to trap outlaw Mugo (Robert Lowery), his brother's murderer, unawares. Most Lippert Studio Read More

Wild Weed

Actors: Lila Leeds, Alan Baxter, Lyle Talbot, Mary Ellen Popel

Synopsis: This seedy anti-marijuana tract was distributed as She Shoulda Said No. The star is one Lila Leeds, who gained notoriety in 1948 when she and Robert Mitchum were arrested during a Hollywood pot party. Leeds plays an impressionable chorus girl who is hooked onto marijuana by her collegiate brother. Read More

Quick on the Trigger

Actors: Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Lyle Talbot, Helen Parrish, George Eldredge

Synopsis: Quick on the Trigger was Charles Starrett's second "Durango Kid" picture for 1949. It all begins when ousted sheriff Steve Warren (Starrett) is put on trial for the murder of heroine Nora Reed's (Helen Parrish) brother. Steve is innocent, of course, but he doesn't stand a chance against Read More

The Sky Dragon

Actors: Roland Winters, Keye Luke, Mantan Moreland, Tim Ryan, Milburn Stone

Synopsis: Film historian Leonard Maltin has labelled this final entry in Monogram's "Charlie Chan" series as "embarrassing," but it's not quite as bad as its reputation would indicate. True, star Roland Winters steadfastly refuses to take his characterization of Charlie Chan seriously, but that's part of Read More

Ringside

Actors: Tom Brown, Sheila Ryan, Margia Dean

Synopsis: Just before its matriculation into Lippert Pictures, Screen Guild produced the fast-based boxing drama Ringside. Bantam-weight Don Barry stars as Mike, who forsakes a musical career for the boxing ring when his pugilist brother (Tom Brown) is blinded in a bout. Mike intends to confront the fighter Read More

Shep Comes Home

Actors: Robert Lowery, Billy Kimbley, Flame the Dog, Margia Dean, Martin Garralaga

Synopsis: Shep Comes Home was the belated sequel to Screen Guild's My Dog Shep (1946). The title pooch is played by "Flame" (who also starred in Columbia's "Rusty" series), while his orphaned master Larry is portrayed by Billy Kimberly. Escaping from an orphanage, Larry and Shep hit the road, with a Read More

The Mutineers

Actors: Adele Jergens, George Reeves, Noel Cravat, Don C. Harvey

Synopsis: Quickie producer Sam Katzman gathered together a few leftover costumes, sets and props from past Columbia "A" pictures, and the result was The Mutineers. First Mate Nick Shaw (Jon Hall) stumbles across the murdered body of his captain (Lyle Talbot). The evidence indicates that the culprits are Read More

Thunder in the Pines

Actors: George Reeves, Ralph Byrd, Greg McClure, Michael Whalen, Denise Darcel

Synopsis: Future "Superman" George Reeves and former "Dick Tracy" Ralph Byrd co-star in Thunder in the Pines. The stars play a pair of eternally bickering loggers in Tall Timber country. Both vie for the attentions of Gallic charmer Yvette (Denise Darcel), who promises to wed the logger who cuts down the Read More

Mississippi Rhythm

Actors: Jimmie Davis, Veda Ann Borg, Lee "Lasses" White, Sue England

Synopsis: Country western star Jimmie Davis heads the cast of the Monogram musical western Mississippi Rhythm. Teamed with perennial comedy sidekick Lee "Lasses" White, Jimmie (playing himself) rides into a small unincorporated community where the citizens are being victimized by crooked land developers. Read More

Parole, Inc.

Actors: Michael O'Shea, Turhan Bey, Virginia Lindley, Charles Bradstreet

Synopsis: Government agent Richard Hendricks (Michael O'Shea) goes undercover to get goods on a gang responsible for dispensing illegal paroles. Posing as a prisoner, Hendricks links up with the gang's inside man, Barney Rodescu (Turhan Bey). As often happens in real life, several pillars of society are Read More

Fighting Fools

Actors: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Frankie Darro, Billy Benedict

Synopsis: In this entry in the long running comedy-drama series, the boys get into the world of prizefighting. When one of Slip's pals is killed in the ring, he and the boys plot their revenge against the gangster responsible. They enlist the aid of the late fighter's boozy brother, who was also a fighter. Read More

Joe Palooka in the Big Fight

Actors: Leon Errol, Joe Kirkwood, Jr., Lina Romay, David Bruce, George O'Hanlon

Synopsis: Monogram's low-budget, high-grossing "Joe Palooka" series carries on in this 66-minute entry. Joe Kirkwood plays Joe Palooka, the soft-hearted pugilist created for the funny papers by Ham Fisher. This time, Joe is framed on a bum rap by a group of gamblers who hope to fix the outcome of an Read More

Batman and Robin [Serial]

Actors: Robert Lowery

Synopsis: Following up on the popular 1943 film serial The Batman, this 15-part serial is about a nefarious masked figure called the Wizard, who swipes a diamond-powered remote control device that renders all of Gotham City's machines immobile. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

The Circle

Actors: David Alexander, Sam Bernard, Peter Brocco, Rudolph Cameron, Robert Cherry

Synopsis: The positive public response to such productions as Crossfire and Gentleman's Agreement led to a mini-cycle of postwar anti-prejudice films. One of these was The Vicious Circle, based on a true incident which had previously been dramatized in G. W. Pabst's The Trial. In the late-19th century, an Read More

The Devil's Cargo

Actors: John Calvert, Rochelle Hudson, Roscoe Karns, Lyle Talbot, Tom Kennedy

Synopsis: Dropped by RKO Radio in 1946, the "Falcon" mystery series was briefly revived by low-budget Film Classics productions in 1948. In Devil's Cargo, professional magician-turned-actor John Calvert takes over from Tom Conway in the role of amateur sleuth Michael Waring, aka The Falcon. The story gets Read More

Highway 13

Actors: Robert Lowery, Pamela Blake, Michael Whalen, Dan Seymour, Clem Bevans

Synopsis: There's a thrill a minute in the economical actioner Highway 13. Robert Lowery plays Hank Wilson, an honest truck driver who suspects foul play after a series of trucking "accidents". Offering his services to undercover detective George Montgomery (Gaylord Pendleton), Wilson finds himself at the Read More

Appointment with Murder

Actors: John Calvert, Catherine Craig, Jack Reitzen

Synopsis: Appointment with Murder is the second of three "Falcon" mysteries produced by bargain-basement Film Classics Productions in the late 1940s. Professional magician John Calvert assumes the leading role of private eye Michael Lanyard, aka The Falcon. Working for an insurance company, Lanyard travels Read More

Joe Palooka in Winner Take All

Actors: Joe Kirkwood, Jr., Elyse Knox, William Frawley, Stanley Clements, John Shelton

Synopsis: Ham Fisher's comic-strip pugilist Joe Palooka is once more visualized on-screen in Monogram's Winner Take All. In this one, soft-hearted boxer Joe (Joe Kirkwood) is approached by a trio of gamblers, who want him to throw an upcoming bout. Naturally he refuses, but has cause to regret this decision Read More

The Vigilante

Actors: Robert Barron

Synopsis: Based on an adventure feature in Action Comics, this 15 chapter serial starred the erstwhile Dick Tracy, Ralph Byrd, as the title character, a Western movie star going undercover to investigate the disappearance of a string of pearls known as the "100 Tears of Blood." As it turns out, the pearls Read More

Danger Street

Actors: Jane Withers, Robert Lowery, Bill Edwards, Elaine Riley

Synopsis: Having just come into a $375,000 trust fund on her 21st birthday, former child star Jane Withers certainly didn't need to star in the Pine-Thomas melodrama Danger Street, but she was determined to prove her worth as an adult dramatic actress. Withers and Robert Lowery costar as Pat Marvin and Read More

Murder Is My Business

Actors: Hugh Beaumont, Cheryl Walker, Lyle Talbot, George Meeker, Pierre Watkin

Synopsis: Several years after the "Michael Shayne" B-movie series ran its course at 20th Century-Fox, PRC Pictures revived the property with Murder is My Business. Hugh Beaumont-yes, Ward Cleaver!--replaces Fox's Lloyd Nolan as Brett Halliday's red-headed gumshoe Michael Shayne. This time around, Shayne is Read More

Chick Carter, Detective

Actors: Charles King

Synopsis: That dependable sleuth of pulp fiction fame, Nick Carter, apparently had an equally stalwart son. Chick Carter, Boy Detective did his sleuthing on radio before Columbia producer Sam Katzman brought him to the screen in Chick Carter, Detective. The juvenile hero of the radio waves had underwent Read More

North of the Border

Actors: Russell Hayden, Inez Cooper, Douglas Fowley, Lyle Talbot, Anthony Warde

Synopsis: Russell Hayden, formerly of the Hopalong Cassidy Westerns, stars in this mini-Western as "Utah" Nyes, a young rancher searching for his partner, Bill Lawton, in the Canadian Northwest. When Bill's body turns up, nasty "Nails" Nelson (Douglas Fowley), whom the murder victim had accused of stealing Read More

Strange Impersonation

Synopsis: Nora Goodrich (Brenda Marshall) is a dedicated research scientist who is very close to a breakthrough in her field of anesthetics. She allows herself to be used as the subject of an experiment, and becomes the victim of sabotage by her jealous assistant (Hillary Brooke), who is her rival for the Read More

Song of Arizona

Actors: Johnny Calkins, Michael Chapin, Edmund Cobb, Tommy Cook

Synopsis: Roy Rogers could do no wrong at the box office in 1946, so it's safe to assume that Song of Arizona would have been a hit even if it hadn't been as good as it is. The plot is slightly reminiscent of Boys Town, with Gabby Whittaker (Gabby Hayes) running an Arizona ranch for homeless boys. One of Read More

Gun Town

Actors: Kirby Grant, Fuzzy Knight, Lyle Talbot, Louise Currie

Synopsis: In this western, the leader of an outlaw band tries to take over the reins of a stagecoach line. The outlaw's gal is a singer and saloon keeper who does all she can to assist her man. It looks as if they will succeed in stealing the stage company when a good-guy intervenes. Not only does he save Read More

Sensation Hunters

Actors: Robert Lowery, Doris Merrick, Eddie Quillan, Constance Worth, Isabel Jewell

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a naive, honest young woman falls for a louse who takes her to illicit gambling houses. When one of them is raided and she is there, her angry father throws her out of the house. After that her life takes a real dive until she is able to talk her way into joining a chorus-line Read More

Gambler's Choice

Actors: Chester Morris, Nancy Kelly, Russell Hayden, Sheldon Leonard, Lee Patrick

Synopsis: Paramount's Pine-Thomas production unit continued its unbroken string of box-office successes with Gambler's Choice. Pine-Thomas perennial Chester Morris plays turn-of-the-century gambler Ross Hadley, owner of a posh gaming establishment in the heart of New York. Hadley's chief antagonist is his Read More

Sensations of 1945

Actors: Eleanor Powell, Dennis O'Keefe, C. Aubrey Smith, Eugene Pallette, Mimi Forsythe

Synopsis: Originally titled simply Sensations, this musical comedy was the final starring film for dancer Eleanor Powell and the final film, period, for comedian W.C. Fields. Powell is the prize client of flamboyant press agent Eugene Pallette. Dennis O'Keefe, Pallette's stiff-necked son, disapproves of his Read More

Dixie Jamboree

Actors: Frances Langford, Guy Kibbee, Eddie Quillan, Charles Butterworth, Fifi D'Orsay

Synopsis: Ever so slightly, the quality of PRC Pictures' film output improved as the 1940s rolled on. In PRC's Dixie Jamboree, Frances Langford plays Susan Jackson, the daughter of a showboat skipper (Guy Kibbee). Captain Jackson's vessel, the Ellabelle, is the last of the Mississippi showboats, and Read More

Up in Arms

Actors: Danny Kaye, Dinah Shore, Dana Andrews, Constance Dowling, Louis Calhern

Synopsis: It is said that producer Sam Goldwyn had a habit of addressing his new star of the 1940s, Danny Kaye, as "Eddie", confusing Kaye with Eddie Cantor. If true, it may be because Kaye's first starring film for Goldwyn, Up in Arms, was a remake of Cantor's Whoopee--which in turn was a musical version Read More

Are These Our Parents?

Actors: Helen Vinson, Lyle Talbot, Ivan Lebedeff, Noel Neill, Richard Byron

Synopsis: This 1940s drama implies that children do indeed learn what they live as it tells the story of a teenage girl who runs away from her posh boarding school to be with her ne'er-do-well, blue-collar boy friend because she believes her wealthy parents do not care about her. Soon the idle kids are Read More

Trail to Gunsight

Synopsis: In this western, an innocent saddletramp is blamed for killing a man. Fortunately he finds the real culprit before it is too late. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

One Body Too Many

Actors: Jean Parker, Bela Lugosi, Bernard Nedell, Blanche Yurka

Synopsis: Another of Jack Haley's comedy vehicles for Pine-Thomas productions, One Body Too Many casts Haley as timid insurance salesman Albert Tuttle. Much against his better judgment, Tuttle makes a business call at a sinister old mansion, intending to sell life insurance to the owner. He proves a bit Read More

The Falcon out West

Actors: Tom Conway, Carol Gallagher, Barbara Hale, Joan Barclay, Cliff Clark

Synopsis: The murder of a wealthy, much-married rancher (Lyle Talbot) in a posh Manhattan nightclub is the catalyst for The Falcon Out West. Amateur sleuth Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway), aka The Falcon, deduces that the victim was killed with rattlesnake venom. He follows the trail of evidence to a dude ranch Read More

Mystery of the Riverboat

Synopsis: This mystery is set upon the mighty Mississippi and within the dark bayous of Louisiana. Originally it was a 13- episode serial. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Man of Courage

Actors: Barton MacLane, Charlotte Wynters, Lyle Talbot, Dorothy Burgess, Patsy Nash

Synopsis: Barton MacLane dominates the proceedings in the PRC quickie Man of Courage. Taking a break from his usual gangster and convict roles, MacLane plays a crusading district attorney. His number one target is mob boss Lyle Talbot, who enjoys the protection of several crooked politicos. With Read More

Mexican Spitfire's Elephant

Actors: Lupe Velez, Walter Reed, Elizabeth Risdon, Lydia Bilbrook

Synopsis: This raucous series entry reunites Lupe Velez as Carmelita (aka "The Mexican Spitfire") and Leon Errol as Uncle Matt, with Walter Reed taking over from Charles "Buddy" Rogers as Carmelita's staid American husband Dennis Lindsay. The titular elephant is a tiny glass figurine, brought back from a Read More

They Raid by Night

Actors: Lyle Talbot, June Duprez, Victor Varconi, George Neise

Synopsis: Directed by serial specialist Spencer Gordon Bennet, They Raid by Night is a PRC "special" dealing with the activities of the commandos in WWII. Lyle Talbot plays Capt. Robert Owen, the head of a three-man commando squad who parachute into Norway to rescue an Allied general (Paul Baratoff) from a Read More

A Night for Crime

Actors: Glenda Farrell, Lyle Talbot, Lina Basquette, Donald Kirke, Ralph Sanford

Synopsis: Glenda Farrell reprises her fast-talking girl reporter persona in PRC's Night for Crime. Ms. Farrell is cast as Susan, a big-city sob sister who investigates the murder of movie extra Ellen Smith (Marjorie Manners). Adding to the confusion, movie star Mona (Lina Basquette) disappears in the middle Read More

She's in the Army

Actors: Lucille Gleason, Veda Ann Borg, Marie Wilson, Lyle Talbot, Robert Lowery

Synopsis: She's in the Army is a fascinating vehicle for character actress Lucille Gleason (aka Mrs. James Gleason), heretofore usually confined to supporting roles. Gleason is cast as Hannah, a crusty, all-knowing sergeant in the Women's Ambulance and Defense Corps. Brassy nightclub singer Diane (Veda Ann Read More

Parole Fixer

Actors: William Henry, Virginia Dale, Robert Paige, Gertrude Michael, Richard Denning

Synopsis: Parole Fixer is another entry in Paramount's unofficial "J. Edgar Hoover" series, purportedly based on an actual case in the files of the FBI. The plot revolves around the activities of crooked attorney Paul McGrath, who secures paroles for big-time criminals by pulling a number of political Read More

He Married His Wife

Actors: Joel McCrea, Nancy Kelly, Roland Young, Mary Boland, Cesar Romero

Synopsis: This slick marital farce features Joel McCrea as T. H. Randall, a race horse owner whose devotion to his work causes a strain in his relationship with wife Valerie (Nancy Kelly). Unable to stand any more neglect, Valerie divorces Randall, even though the audience is well aware that she's still in Read More

A Miracle on Main Street

Synopsis: In this touching holiday drama, a sad carnival dancer happens upon an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve. She takes the infant in, but when her cruel estranged husband suddenly appears, trouble follows. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Torture Ship

Actors: Lyle Talbot, Irving Pichel, Jacqueline Wells, Sheila Bromley, Anthony Averill

Synopsis: Torture Ship is a strange amalgam of crime thriller and horror chiller that can't quite make up its mind what it wants to be. Irving Pichel plays Dr. Herbert Stander, a well-meaning physician who becomes a little too much the single-minded visionary. Convinced that criminality is a result of a Read More

Second Fiddle

Actors: Tyrone Power, Rudy Vallee, Edna May Oliver, Mary Healy

Synopsis: Sonja Henie, the Norwegian skating star, reportedly played second fiddle to no one at Fox in the late '30s, and this backstage musical extravaganza is all Henie. Taking a leaf from producer David O. Selznick, Consolidated Pictures send public relation expert Tyrone Power in search of an unknown to Read More

They Asked for It

Actors: William Lundigan, Joy Hodges, Michael Whalen, Isabel Jewell, Lyle Talbot

Synopsis: In this crime drama, the owner and chief editor of a newspaper gets together with two college pals and begins looking into the strange death of an old hermit who lived on the fringe of town. The official cause of death is alcoholism, but the editor thinks otherwise. Sure enough, the man's daughter Read More

Forged Passport

Actors: Paul Kelly, June Lang, Lyle Talbot, Billy Gilbert, Cliff Nazarro

Synopsis: In this actioner, a U.S. border patrol agent stationed in Tijuana loses his job and gets into deep trouble after a friend is shot while the agent was doing an investigation. When the agent discovers that it was he, not his friend, who was targeted for the hit, he decides to get revenge upon the Read More

Change of Heart

Actors: Gloria Stuart, Michael Whalen, Lyle Talbot, Delmar Watson, Jane Darwell

Synopsis: Gloria Stuart plays Carol Murdock, a champion golfer whose businessman husband Anthony (Michael Whalen) cares nothing for the game. Only when Carol teams up with handsome golf pro Philip Reeves (Lyle Talbot) does Anthony experience the "change of heart" of the title. As Carol and Philip win Read More

One Wild Night

Actors: June Lang, Dick Baldwin, Lyle Talbot, J. Edward Bromberg, Sidney Toler

Synopsis: In the course of One Wild Night, four prominent businessmen withdraw their savings from the bank and disappear from sight. Student criminologist Jimmy Nolan (Dick Baldwin) suspects foul play, and with the help of girl reporter Jennifer Jewel (June Lang) he intends to prove his thesis. During a Read More

Gateway

Actors: Don Ameche, Arleen Whelan, Gregory Ratoff, Binnie Barnes, Gilbert Roland

Synopsis: En route to America, Irish immigrant Arleen Whelan is the victim of shipboard masher Raymond Walburn. Pushed away by the girl, Walburn is slightly injured, whereupon he brings up charges against Whelan and holds up her entry visa at Ellis Island. War correspondent Don Ameche comes to the rescue Read More

The Arkansas Traveler

Actors: Fay Bainter, John Beal, Jean Parker, Lyle Talbot

Synopsis: In its never-ending efforts to find a "rustic" screen personality to replace the late Will Rogers, Hollywood turned to popular radio humorist Bob Burns. In Paramount's The Arkansas Traveller, Burns plays the nameless title character, who wanders in out of the nowhere to settle down in a dusty Read More

Call of the Yukon

Actors: Richard Arlen, Beverly Roberts, Lyle Talbot, Garry Owen

Synopsis: In this saccharine Klondike adventure, a brave female reporter who has a rapport with wild animals heads north to cover a story. Included in her animal entourage are a pair of bear cubs, a talking rook, and a homeless collie. After she gets lost, a handsome guide shows up to lead her out of the Read More

I Stand Accused

Actors: Robert Cummings, Helen Mack, Lyle Talbot, Thomas Beck, Gordon Jones

Synopsis: This drama chronicles the different paths taken by former partners in law. One of them, an avaricious attorney who will stop at nothing to find success, becomes a lawyer for the mob. His dreams are soon realized, but their achievement cost him his marriage, family and partner. Meanwhile his Read More

Mind Your Own Business

Actors: Charlie Ruggles, Alice Brady, Lyle Talbot, Ben Baker, Jack LaRue

Synopsis: In this drama, a Boy Scout leader hosts a local gossip show. Trouble ensues when he predicts a politician's murder just before it occurs. He is arrested by the DA, but before getting to jail, he is abducted by irate gangsters--the real killers. Fortunately, his loyal Scout troop rallies to his Read More

The Affairs of Cappy Ricks

Actors: Walter Brennan, Mary Brian, Lyle Talbot, Frank Shields, Frank Melton

Synopsis: Returning from a trip, wealthy seaman Cappy Ricks (Walter Brennan) is annoyed to find his home automated, his daughters' romances awry and his business in disarray, so he schemes with Bill (Lyle Talbot) to trap everyone aboard Cappy's yacht. Later, they fake a fire to maroon everyone on an island Read More

Westbound Limited

Actors: Lyle Talbot, Polly Rowles, Henry Brandon, Frank Reicher, Henry Hunter

Synopsis: In this mystery, a railroad agent is blamed for a terrible train crash. Actually, just before the crash, the agent was trying to keep a gunman from hijacking the train. The agent then runs from the authorities. He ends up sheltered by an impoverished family whom he tries to help while conducting Read More

Vengeance

Actors: Lyle Talbot, Wendy Barrie, Marc Lawrence, Eddie Acuff, Lucille Lund

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a cop is ashamed because a fearful moment prevented him from stopping a bank robbery. He feels so bad he turns in his badge. He then joins the bank robbers' gang and brings them to justice. The story was originally titled What Price Vengeance? ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Three Legionnaires

Actors: Robert Armstrong, Lyle Talbot, Fifi D'Orsay, Anne Nagel, Donald Meek

Synopsis: More ambitious than its budget will permit, Three Legionnaires details the misadventures of comrades-in-arms Chuck (Robert Armstrong), Jimmy (Lyle Talbot) and Grant (Donald Meek). In the days just following the Armistice, American doughboys Chuck and Jimmy separate themselves from the rest of Read More

Second Honeymoon

Actors: Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Stuart Erwin, Claire Trevor, Marjorie Weaver

Synopsis: This cinematic meringue stars Loretta Young as a young woman whose second husband (Lyle Talbot) is a hard working but dull business exec. She pines for hubby Number One (Tyrone Power), an irresponsible playboy. Young runs into Tyrone again during a Florida vacation, spurning him at first because Read More

The Singing Kid

Actors: Al Jolson, Allen Jenkins, Lyle Talbot, Frank Mitchell

Synopsis: Strictly for Al Jolson's most fervent fans, The Singing Kid casts Jolie as neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson. Facing professional ruin when he loses his voice, Al heads to the country to regain his vocal timbre and to get his head back together. While recuperating, he falls in love with farm girl Read More

The Law in Her Hands

Actors: Margaret Lindsay, Glenda Farrell, Warren Hull, Lyle Talbot, Eddie Acuff

Synopsis: According to encyclopedic film historian Roger Dooley, The Law in Her Hands is the only film of the 1930s to concern itself with a pair of female legal partners. The firm of Mary Wentworth (Margaret Lindsay) and Dorothy Davis (Glenda Farrell) specializes in defending criminals -- and ethics are Read More

Boulder Dam

Actors: Ross Alexander, Patricia Ellis, Lyle Talbot, Eddie Acuff, Henry O'Neill

Synopsis: In this romantic crime drama a young Detroit criminal flees into the West after killing his boss. It was accidental, but he fears retaliation. He finds work in Colorado building the great dam, proves to be a hard-working honest young man and is promoted to foreman. When not working, he woos a Read More

Go West, Young Man

Actors: Mae West, Warren William, Randolph Scott, Lyle Talbot, Alice Brady

Synopsis: Go West, Young Man represented the first time that Mae West starred in a film not originally written with her in mind. Based on Lawrence Riley's stage comedy Personal Appearance (which starred Gladys George on Broadway), the film casts La West as Mavis Alden, a pretentious and somewhat stupid Read More

Murder by an Aristocrat

Actors: Lyle Talbot, Marguerite Churchill, Claire Dodd, Virginia Brissac

Synopsis: Nurse Sarah Keate, the middle-aged crime-solver created by mystery novelist Mignon Eberhardt, was reshaped as a much younger and prettier woman in Murder by an Aristocrat. Marguerite Churchill is the white-clad heroine, here rechristened Sarah Keating, while Lyle Talbot is her doctor boyfriend Read More

Trapped by Television

Actors: Mary Astor, Lyle Talbot, Nat Pendleton, Joyce Compton, Thurston Hall

Synopsis: Back in 1936 it was assumed that, once perfected, television would be a two-way device, enabling viewers to transmit as well as receive. In Trapped by Television, such a device is developed by inventor Fred Dennis (Lyle Talbot), who needs financial backing to complete his experiments. He is Read More

Our Little Girl

Actors: Shirley Temple, Rosemary Ames, Joel McCrea, Lyle Talbot, Erin O'Brien-Moore

Synopsis: With Shirley Temple heading the cast of Our Little Girl, it's a moot point as to who plays the title role. Temple is cast as Molly Middleton, daughter of Dr. Donald Middleton (Joel McCrea) and his wife Elsa (Rosemary Ames). Long unhappy in their marriage, Donald and Elsa have stayed together this Read More

While the Patient Slept

Actors: Aline MacMahon, Guy Kibbee, Lyle Talbot, Patricia Ellis, Allen Jenkins

Synopsis: Based on a mystery novel by Mignon Eberhardt, While the Patient Slept stars Aline MacMahon as Eberhardt's middle-aged amateur sleuth, Nurse Sarah Keate. Our heroine is summoned to the home of millionaire Adolphe Federie (Robert H. Barrat), who has suffered a stroke. Federie sleeps through an Read More

It Happened in New York

Actors: Lyle Talbot, Gertrude Michael, Heather Angel, Hugh O'Connell, Robert Gleckler

Synopsis: A famous movie actress takes a trip to New York City. While there, she gets involved with a wisecracking cab driver who is in need of $200. Recognizing her, he devises a plan to get the money he needs from her. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More

Page Miss Glory

Actors: Marion Davies, Pat O'Brien, Dick Powell, Mary Astor, Frank McHugh

Synopsis: William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions moved from MGM to Warners with Page Miss Glory--along with Cosmopolitan's biggest commodity, actress Marion Davies. The plotline has something to do with a composite photo prepared for a magazine contest: The combined facial attributes of Garbo, Dietrich Read More

Chinatown Squad

Actors: Lyle Talbot, Valerie Hobson, Hugh O'Connell, Andy Devine, E. Alyn Warren

Synopsis: Dore Schary, several years removed from his tenure as head of MGM, was screenwriter for the modest Universal actioner Chinatown Squad. Lyle Talbot plays Ted Lacey, a disgruntled ex-cop reduced to driving a sightseeing bus in Chinatown. When a man who has been collecting funds for the Chinese Read More

Oil for the Lamps of China

Actors: Pat O'Brien, Josephine Hutchinson, Jean Muir, Lyle Talbot, John Eldredge

Synopsis: This drama about corporate treachery was based on the best-selling novel by Alice Tisdale Hobart. Stephen Chase (Pat O'Brien) is a salesman and inventor with an American oil company who is sent to China to reach that nation's untapped market. While Stephen is often told that his company looks Read More

The Case of the Lucky Legs

Actors: Warren William, Genevieve Tobin, Patricia Ellis, Lyle Talbot, Allen Jenkins

Synopsis: The legs in question in this the second of Warner Bros. Perry Mason whodunits belong to Margy Clune (Patricia Ellis), the first-prize winner in a Lucky Legs contest and the fiancée of Dr. Bob Doray (Lyle Talbot). But when Margy goes to collect her winnings, she finds that the contest's promoter Read More

Broadway Hostess

Actors: Genevieve Tobin, Lyle Talbot, Allen Jenkins, Phil Regan

Synopsis: An aspiring singer learns the bitter price of stardom in this musical drama. She starts out a small-town girl and soon becomes a big star. Unfortunately, she still cannot find true love and so must lead a successful but lonely life. Songs include: "He Was Her Man", "Let It Be Me", "Weary", and Read More

Red Hot Tires

Actors: Lyle Talbot, Mary Astor, Roscoe Karns, Frankie Darro, Gavin Gordon

Synopsis: In this action film, Wallace Storm, ace race car driver, gets into real trouble when he is accused of killing his partner over the love of a pretty girl. In court he is found guilty of tampering with his partner's car, causing it to crash during a race, and is sent to prison. While there, his good Read More

Fog over Frisco

Actors: Bette Davis, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbot, Hugh Herbert

Synopsis: Cited by film historian William K. Everson as one of the fastest-moving crime melodramas of the 1930s (if not the fastest) Fog Over Frisco still manages to leave viewers breathless. Top-billed Bette Davis plays giddy heiress Arlene Bradford, whose perverse fascination with gangsters gets her mixed Read More

The Dragon Murder Case

Actors: Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbot, Eugene Pallette, Robert McWade

Synopsis: Warren William delivers a curiously subdued performance as dilettante sleuth Philo Vance in The Dragon Murder Case. The plot centers around a mysterious "dragon pool" on the Stamm estate, which figures prominently in the deaths of several unsympathetic society types. As usual, Inspector Markham (Robert McWade Read More

One Night of Love

Actors: Grace Moore, Tullio Carminatti, Lyle Talbot, Mona Barrie, Jessie Ralph

Synopsis: After several false starts, opera star Grace Moore became a motion picture success in the sublimely assembled One Night of Love. Moore opens the film by losing a radio talent contest in New York. She disconsolately heads to Europe, where the best job she can come up with is singing in a Read More

Heat Lightning

Actors: Aline MacMahon, Ann Dvorak, Preston S. Foster, Lyle Talbot, Glenda Farrell

Synopsis: An interesting precursor to such films as The Petrified Forest and Bus Stop, Heat Lightning takes place in a remote California-desert gas station-café. Several strange characters pass through the establishment's portals during one fateful 24-hour period, including cad-and-bounder George (Preston S. Foster Read More

A Lost Lady

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Frank Morgan, Ricardo Cortez, Lyle Talbot, Phillip Reed

Synopsis: This is the second movie version of Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize winning novel that tells the story of a bride-to-be whose fiance is near-fatally injured by the jealous husband of a woman he had an affair with. The poor young woman is so upset by the situation that she swears she will never love Read More

Murder in the Clouds

Actors: Lyle Talbot, Ann Dvorak, Gordon Westcott, Robert Light, George Cooper

Synopsis: Lyle Talbot stars as "Three Star" Halsey, a hotshot West Coast aviator with a reputation for recklessness. Time and time again, Halsey promises his stewardess sweetheart Judy Wagner (Ann Dvorak) that he'll stop taking risks, and time and again he breaks his word. After several misadventures Read More

Mandalay

Actors: Kay Francis, Lyle Talbot, Ricardo Cortez, Warner Oland, Lucien Littlefield

Synopsis: The official cast list of Warner Bros. Mandalay states that Kay Francis plays a character named Tanya. For most of the film, however, the heroine -- if she can be called that -- goes by the name of Spot White (or "Spot Cash," as she's cynically designated by one of the lesser characters). Betrayed Read More

Registered Nurse

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Lyle Talbot, John Halliday, Irene Franklin, Sidney Toler

Synopsis: In this sudsy hospital melodrama, a married nurse finds herself falling in love with one of two surgeons when her husband goes mad and needs an operation. One of the surgeons regards his pursuit a lark, while the other harbors genuine affections for the nurse. At first, she is attracted to the Read More

Return of the Terror

Actors: Mary Astor, Lyle Talbot, John Halliday, Frank McHugh, J. Carrol Naish

Synopsis: An Edgar Wallace yarn was the basis for the uncharacteristic Warner Bros. melodrama Return of the Terror. Hoping to escape prosecution for a series of poison murders, Dr. Redmayne (John Halliday) feigns insanity at his trial. The audience knows that Redmayne is innocent, so when he escapes from Read More

Ladies They Talk About

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Preston S. Foster, Lyle Talbot, Dorothy Burgess, Lillian Roth

Synopsis: One of the earliest girls-in-prison yarns, Ladies They Talk About has everything but Ida Lupino as the warden--and had she been in Hollywood at the time, she would probably be here as well. Gun moll Barbara Stanwyck is thrown into San Quentin (which looks more like a summer resort than a house of Read More

College Coach

Actors: Dick Powell, Ann Dvorak, Pat O'Brien, Arthur Byron, Lyle Talbot

Synopsis: Those who only know Pat O'Brien from his later, slightly more avuncular roles may be surprised to see him pumping out almost as much energy as his friend (and sometime co-star) James Cagney, in the lead and title role of College Coach. As James Gore, the head football coach for Calvert College, he 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

She Had to Say Yes

Actors: Loretta Young, Regis Toomey

Synopsis: In this comedy, a hard-working secretary is often too busy taking prospective buyers out on the town to pay much attention to her fiancé. In the end, she drops the jealous fellow in favor of another who seems to be a better prospect. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

No More Orchids

Actors: Carole Lombard, Lyle Talbot, Walter Connolly, Louise Closser Hale, Allen Vincent

Synopsis: A wealthy, but sad young woman falls in love with an impoverished fellow in this bittersweet romance. While her father is only concerned with her happiness, her uncle strongly objects to the match as he wants her to marry into royalty. When the father's bank is on the verge of collapsing, he asks Read More

20,000 Years in Sing-Sing

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Arthur Byron, Lyle Talbot, Sheila Terry, Warren Hymer, Edward McNamara

Synopsis: Sent to Sing Sing prison, influential crook Spencer Tracy is unregenerate and refuses to adhere to the rules. While in solitary confinement, Tracy reconsiders his attitude. Thanks to the correctional facility's compassionate warden (Arthur Byron), Tracy becomes a model prisoner, even refusing to Read More

Mary Stevens, M.D.

Actors: Kay Francis, Lyle Talbot, Glenda Farrell, Thelma Todd, Una O'Connor

Synopsis: In this melodrama, a female physician encounters professional and personal turmoil when she finds herself having an affair with an alcoholic peer. He impregnates her and she travels to Paris to have the baby in private. As she is returning to the States, the baby dies from infantile paralysis. Read More

42nd Street

Actors: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler, Una Merkel, Guy Kibbee, Ginger Rogers, Dick Powell

Synopsis: The quintessential "backstage" musical, 42nd Street traces the history of a Broadway musical comedy, from casting call to opening night. Warner Baxter plays famed director Julian Marsh, who despite failing health is determined to stage one last great production, "Pretty Lady." Others involved Read More

The Life of Jimmy Dolan

Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Loretta Young, Guy Kibbee, Lyle Talbot

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a prizefighter goes on the lam after he engages in fisticuffs with a reporter and believes that he has killed him. He ends up at a crippled children's home. The film is also called The Kid's Last Fight. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Havana Widows

Actors: Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Guy Kibbee, Lyle Talbot, Allen Jenkins

Synopsis: The wonderful Warner Bros. stock company goes through its customarily breezy paces in Havana Widows. Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell star as Mae and Sadie, a couple of hard-boiled dames who support themselves by shaking down wealthy and susceptible older men in Havana. Their current target is Read More

A Shriek in the Night

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, Arthur Hoyt, Purnell Pratt, Harvey Clark

Synopsis: The second of two low-budget murder melodramas starring Ginger Rogers and Lyle Talbot, A Shriek in the Night is not quite as good as the first (The Thirteenth Guest), but it far outclasses most other poverty-row thrillers of its period. The titular nocturnal shriek is heard just before a wealthy Read More

Girl Missing

Actors: Ben Lyon, Glenda Farrell, Mary Brian, Peggy Shannon, Lyle Talbot

Synopsis: The missing girl in this weak whodunit from Warner Bros. is redheaded Peggy Shannon, once seen as the successor of "It Girl" Clara Bow. Shannon plays Daisy Bradford, a chorine who mysteriously disappears after dallying with millionaire Henry Gibson (Ben Lyon). Not only has Daisy gone missing, the Read More

The Thirteenth Guest

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, John Farrell MacDonald, James C. Eagles, Eddie Phillips

Synopsis: Thirteen years after a dinner party where the wealthy host dropped, the thirteen guests are invited to reassemble at the dinner table. First to arrive is Ginger Rogers--who is promptly killed. It turns out that the dead woman was an impostor, hired to impersonate a real guest (Ginger Rogers Read More

The Purchase Price

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Lyle Talbot, Hardie Albright, David Landau

Synopsis: Barbara Stanwyck, displayed in all her pre-Code glory, once again plays "damaged goods" in Warner Bros.' The Purchase Price. Hard-boiled nightclub singer Joan Gordon (Stanwyck) gets fed up being the kept woman of her married boss, bootlegger Ed Fields (Lyle Talbot). Fleeing New York City, she ends Read More

Big City Blues

Actors: Joan Blondell, Eric Linden, Inez Courtney, Evelyn Knapp, Guy Kibbee, Humphrey Bogart

Synopsis: Based on the play New York Town by Ward Morehouse, Mervyn LeRoy directs the black-and-white 1932 comedy drama Big City Blues. A small-town innocent from Indiana, Bud Reeves (Eric Linden) inherits money and goes to New York to get in all sorts of trouble. He meets up with his cousin Gibby (Walter Read More

Unholy Love

Actors: H.B. Warner, Lila Lee, Beryl Mercer, Joyce Compton, Lyle Talbot

Synopsis: It took nerve for low-budget producer M.H. Hoffman to update Gustave Flaubert's 19th century novel Madame Bovary and relocate the story to Rye, New York. It was equally nervy to retitle the film as Unholy Love and to cast Joyce Compton, usually cast as a dumb blonde, in the central role. Compton Read More

Love is a Racket

Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Ann Dvorak, Frances Dee, Lee Tracy, Lyle Talbot

Synopsis: James Cagney was originally pegged to play brash Broadway columnist Jimmy Russell in this pleasant if somewhat lightweight newspaper yarn, but when director William Wellman called "action," Douglas Fairbanks Jr. had replaced him. In love with pretty actress Mary Wodehouse (Frances Dee), Jimmy can Read More

Klondike

Actors: Lyle Talbot, Frank Hawks, Thelma Todd, Henry B. Walthall, Jason Robards, Sr.

Synopsis: Famed aviator Frank Hawks proves anew in Klondike that, as an actor, he was an excellent pilot. Though billed second, Hawks plays a comparatively minor role in the story, which deals with the redemption of one Dr. Cromwell (Lyle Talbot). Having failed to pull off a delicate operation, Cromwell Read More

Three on a Match

Actors: Joan Blondell, Warren William, Ann Dvorak, Bette Davis, Buster Phelps

Synopsis: Three on a Match covers approximately 13 years in the lives of girlhood chums Mary Keaton (Joan Blondell), Ruth Wescott (Bette Davis) and Vivian Deverse (Ann Dvorak). Having graduated from grammar school together in 1919, the girls stage a reunion ten years later. Hard-boiled Mary is now a chorus Read More

Miss Pinkerton

Actors: Joan Blondell, George Brent, Mae Madison, John Wray, Ruth Hall

Synopsis: In this murder mystery, a nurse with an unusual eye for detail solves a puzzling case. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Stranger in Town

Actors: Ann Dvorak, David Manners, Raymond Hatton, Noah Beery, Sr.

Synopsis: Homespun vaudeville monologist Chic Sale repeats his "old geezer" characterization in Warner Bros.' Stranger in Town. Sale is cast as Crickle, a tenacious small-town grocer who stubbornly resists the efforts of a monopolistic chain-store firm to purchase his establishment. The chain manager Read More