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1988
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This four-hour TV movie is one more of novelist Harold Robbins' "guess who everyone is supposed to really be?" wallowfests...
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1978
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1969
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Usually cited as the absolute nadir of Bob Hope's film career, Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! is by no means a classic, but...
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Martha Meade
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1966
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1957
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In this adventure, a renowned American physician journeys to darkest Africa to help a pair of sibling missionaries stop...
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1955
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In this early disaster film, the tough-minded and strict Los Angeles Harbormaster must use his courage and wits when the...
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Kay Walker
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1955
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Rebel City is a "B" western with "A" aspirations. Wild Bill Elliot plays gambler Frank Graham, who heads to Kansas in search...
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Jane Dudley
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1953
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1953
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Valerie
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1953
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Set in Mexico, this thriller centers on an author who becomes obsessed with solving a murder that occurred fifteen years...
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1953
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The Dumas-inspired Blades of the Musketeers began life as an hour-long TV show, produced by Hal Roach Jr. as a possible...
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1953
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In this action comedy, a bunch of bungling jewel thieves are in such a hurry to flee the site of their latest caper that...
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1951
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The Lost Volcano is the 3rd entry in Monogram's "Bomba the Jungle Boy" series. Johnny Sheffield, formerly "Boy" in the Tarzan...
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Ruth Gordon
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1950
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Anxious to remain active in the 1950s, director Frank Capra wanted to prove to Paramount Pictures that he could deliver an...
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1950
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This Dumas story was presented by Magnavox Theater and produced by Hal Roach Jr. Helmed by veteran western director...
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1950
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Columbia's Chain Gang combines biting social commentary with good old-fashioned melodrama. Reporter Cliff Roberts...
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Rita McKelvey
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1950
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The upsurge in commercial air travel in the postwar years resulted in several films dealing with the trials and tribulations...
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Jennifer White
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1949
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Texas Rangers Tim Holt and Richard Martin are dispatched to halt a gang of masked outlaws terrorizing the frontier....
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Gale
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1949
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Strange Mrs. Crane stars Marjorie Lord, later famous as the TV wife of Danny Thomas (and the real-life mother of actress Anne...
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Gina Crane
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1948
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Only faintly related to the old stage play The Argyle Case, The Argyle Secrets is based on a half-hour radio program...
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Maria
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1948
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New Orleans is Republic Pictures' spin on such "musical origin" films as Birth of the Blues and Dixie. Covering nearly four...
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1947
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One of the silliest and most unbelievable of the Universal Sherlock Holmes series, Sherlock Holmes in Washington is also...
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Nancy Partridge
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1943
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The 12-episode Universal serial The Adventures of Smilin' Jack is based on the Zack Mosely comic strip of the same name. The...
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1943
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Dick Foran and Harriet Hilliard (aka Harriet Nelson) top the cast of the Universal musical quickie Hi, Buddy. Foran plays GI...
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Mary Parker
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1943
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Though Republic's Shantytown keeps threatening to become a musical, it's essentially a romantic drama built around the...
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Virginia Allen
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1943
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For his first independently-produced starring effort, James Cagney chose the sentimental drama Johnny Come Lately. Cagney...
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Jane
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1943
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1943
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Cult-favorite director Anthony Mann's second filmic effort was the unprepossessing Universal mini-musical Moonlight in...
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Patsy Clark
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1942
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Timber is a typical Universal Pictures amalgam of he-man virility and endless spools of stock footage from earlier films....
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Yvette Lacour
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1942
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No relation to the 1953 musical film of the same title, About Face is a 43 minute Hal Roach "Streamliner." Sgt. Doubleday...
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Betty Marlow
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1942
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Its "timely" title notwithstanding, Escape From Hong Kong is simply more of the he-man derring-do that Universal had been...
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Valerie Hale
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1942
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Few promotional films have received such wide circulation, and for so long a period, as 1939's Middleton Family at the NY...
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Babs
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1939
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The cattle rustlers in Border Cafe, a modern-day western from the RKO B-unit, are Eastern gangsters headed by none other than...
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1937
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RKO Radio's "Hildegarde Withers" series, based on the mystery stories by Stuart Palmer, ground to a half with 40 Naughty...
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June
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1937
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Florence Cole
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1937
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Arlene
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1937
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In this crime comedy, a lazy feller and his family take-up residence in an abandoned house. The squatters have no idea that...
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Joan
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1937
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