Noah Beery, Jr.Filmography

Waltz Across Texas

Actors: Anne Archer, Terry Jastrow, Noah Beery, Jr., Mary Kay Place, Josh Taylor

Synopsis: In this easily predictable romantic comedy, Gail (Anne Archer) is a no-nonsense geologist from the East Coast and John (Terry Jastrow) is a down-home, intuitive Texan whose expertise lies in guessing where petroleum is located -- Gail, as a geologist, is not in the habit of guessing. As the two Read More

The Capture of Grizzly Adams

Actors: Dan Haggerty, Chuck Connors, Kim Darby, June Lockhart, Sydney Penny

Synopsis: A wilderness-loving man must clear himself of a wrongful murder charge and rescue his daughter who may be sent to an orphanage in this made-for-TV movie. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Follow Me If You Dare

Mysterious Two

Synopsis: In this sci-fi adventure, space aliens try to convince a couple of cynical Earthlings to come and help them establish a new colony on a better world. The film is also known as Follow Me If You Dare. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise, Charles Durning, Jim Nabors

Synopsis: In this filmization of the hit Broadway musical, a popular brothel is threatened with a shutdown by Texas authorities. Burt Reynolds plays the Sheriff, while Dolly Parton portrays the Chicken Ranch madam. While this film has its moments, it never reaches the entertainment heights of its stage Read More

Magnum, P.I.: All Roads Lead to Floyd

Synopsis: Cindy Lewellyn (Anne Bloom) hires Magnum (Tom Selleck) to locate her father Floyd (Noah Beery Jr., who has been missing for ten years, but who has suddenly begun trying to reconnect with her. It turns out that Floyd is a small-time crook who insists he has a lot of good reasons for remaining out Read More

The Great American Traffic Jam

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV farce, the urban phenomenon of the traffic jam and the effect it has on the lives of the participants is examined. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Story of Esther

The Rockford Files: Season 06

Actors: James Garner, Noah Beery, Jr., Joe Santos, Stuart Margolin, Bo Hopkins

Synopsis: Season six of The Rockford Files marks the return of James Garner as wryly humorous ex-con turned private eye Jim Rockford -- but not for long. Weary of the role, fed up by constant quarrelling with the production staff over story values and working conditions, and racked with pain from a variety Read More

The Bastard

Synopsis: Produced for the syndicated "Operation Prime Time" series, The Bastard is the first of John Jakes' "Kent Family Chronicles" (followed by The Rebels and The Seekers). Presented in two parts, the story begins in 1771, with 17-year-old French commoner Philippe Charboneau (Andrew Stevens) discovering Read More

The Ransom of Red Chief

Synopsis: This fun film is based upon the classic O. Henry tale about a bratty kid who kidnappers find to be more than they can handle, so they're happy to de-kidnap him. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Rockford Files: Season 05

Actors: James Garner, Noah Beery, Jr., Joe Santos, Stuart Margolin, Bo Hopkins

Synopsis: James Garner is back as Jim Rockford, an ex-con turned private eye with a penchant for righting old wrongs (and a predilection for getting beaten up by those who don't want those wrongs righted) in season five of The Rockford Files. Also returning are Noah Beery Jr. as Jim's dad Rocky, Joe Santos Read More

The Rockford Files: Season 04

Actors: James Garner, Noah Beery, Jr., Joe Santos, Gretchen Corbett, Stuart Margolin

Synopsis: Ex-con turned private eye Jim Rockford (James Garner) continues serving the cause of justice by reopening closed cases in his own cynical, deceptively disheveled fashion in season four of The Rockford Files. The proceedings begin with "Beamer's Last Case," in which Jim must deal with someone who Read More

The Ghost of Cypress Swamp

Synopsis: A lost teenager and solitary murderer form an unusual friendship in this film. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident

Synopsis: Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy is a TV dramatization of the notorious Cold War incident of 1960. The story is told from the point of view of Powers (Lee Majors), an American pilot who was shot down over Russia while taking photographs on behalf of the CIA. The event occurs just Read More

The Rockford Files: Season 03

Actors: James Garner, Noah Beery, Jr., Joe Santos, Gretchen Corbett, Stuart Margolin

Synopsis: James Garner won an Emmy for his continuing performance as disheveled, cynically humorous ex-convict turned private detective Jim Rockford during season three of The Rockford Files. This honor may very well have been due to Garner's work in the season's best and most pungent episode, "So Help Me Read More

Walking Tall, Part 2

Synopsis: Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser and his trusty club return in this sequel. As with the first, he continues his single handed crusade against organized crime. Violence ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Savages

Synopsis: Andy Griffith goes from good guy to bad, in this thriller. He plays a murdering lawyer who chases his hunting guide across the desert because the guide witnessed him murder an old miner. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Rockford Files: The No-Cut Contract

Synopsis: At the height of his fame as "The Meathead" on All in the Family, Rob Reiner accepted a guest-star assignment on this episode of The Rockford Files. Reiner is cast as Larry "King" Sturtevant, a second-string quarterback for the Southern Illinois Warriors football team. Jim Rockford (James Garner) Read More

The Rockford Files: Season 02

Actors: James Garner, Noah Beery, Jr., Joe Santos, Gretchen Corbett, Stuart Margolin

Synopsis: James Garner is back as rumpled, wryly humorous ex-con turned private eye Jim Rockford in season two of The Rockford Files. In addition to established supporting players Noah Beery Jr. (as Jim's dad Rocky), Gretchen Corbett (as Jim's lawyer girlfriend Beth Davenport), Stuart Margolin (as Read More

The Revenge of Red Chief

Synopsis: This half-hour sequel to the famous O. Henry tale The Ransom of Red Chief finds our hero, the little boy who pretends to be a legendary American Indian named Red Chief, using his powers of deception to outwit a group of con artists. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: The Hard Breed

Synopsis: The guest-star cast in this episode is studded by several seasoned movie-western veterans, including Jim Davis, Noah Beery Jr and Harry Carey Jr.--not to mention comparative newcomer Sam Elliott. The plot involves a rodeo rider whose biggest professional rival is his own brother. It so happens Read More

Sidekicks

Synopsis: This comedy western is the failed pilot for a TV series based on the 1971 feature film Skin Game. Like the original, this tells the story of two bungling con artists, one white the other black, who ride around trying to collect an outlaw bounty and outsmart slave traders. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

The Waltons: The Heritage

Synopsis: John (Ralph Waite) is torn between financial considerations and concern for his children's birthright when he is offered $25,000 for Walton's Mountain by a developer (Noah Beery Jr.) who wants to build a tourist resort. Of course, John needs the money--but does he need THAT much money? (A fine Read More

The Rockford Files: The Big Ripoff

Synopsis: This episode offers the viewer a glimpse of two stars in the making: Jill Clayburgh and Suzanne Somers). Clayburgh plays Marilyn Polanski, a model whom Jim Rockford (James Garner) meets while working for Ginny Nelson (Somers), the "widow" of a man (Fred Beir) reported killed in a plane crash. It Read More

43: The Petty Story

Actors: Richard Petty, Darren McGavin, Kathie Browne, Noah Beery, Jr.

Synopsis: Though it barely received big-city release (it lay on the shelf for nearly two years before it received any sort of release), The Petty Story did quite well on a regional basis. As indicated by the title, this is the story of the Petty family of stock-car racing fame. Richard Petty, who won Read More

The Rockford Files: Season 01

Actors: James Garner, Noah Beery, Jr., Joe Santos, Gretchen Corbett, Stuart Margolin

Synopsis: Introduced as a 90-minute TV movie in March of 1974, The Rockford Files began its weekly, hour-long series run in September of that year. The opening episode, "The Kirkoff Case," finds ex-con turned private eye Jim Rockford (James Garner) trying to prove that his earnest but obnoxious young client Read More

The Rockford Files: The Kirkoff Case

Synopsis: The first "official" case for private detective Jim Rockford (James Garner)--that is, the first case on the TV-series version of The Rockford Files, rather than the 1974 TV-movie pilot--finds him typically championing the underdog. In this instance, that "underdog" is not some impoverished wretch Read More

The Spikes Gang

Synopsis: In this western, an outlaw is wounded in battle and manages to escape to the home of two helpful runaways who help him recuperate. During this time, the outlaw regales them with thrilling tales of his adventurous exploits. His stories inspire the lads to form a gang of their own; the outlaw is Read More

Walking Tall

Actors: Joe Don Baker, Elizabeth Hartman

Synopsis: A runaway box-office hit to the tune of 17 million dollars, Walking Tall is the unabashedly manipulative story of real-life Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser. As played by Joe Don Baker, Pusser can either be regarded as a tireless champion of justice or a baseball-bat-wielding hooligan. But with Read More

The Alpha Caper

Actors: Henry Fonda, Leonard Nimoy, Larry Hagman, James McEachin, Elena Verdugo

Synopsis: Henry Fonda stars in this TV movie as a worn-out probation officer who decides to heist a $30,000,000 gold shipment, using three ex-convicts as his "mob". Fonda's cohorts include Leonard Nimoy, James McEachin and Larry Hagman. The plan is meticulous (due in part to Fonda's inside knowledge), the Read More

Little Fauss and Big Halsy

Actors: Robert Redford, Michael J. Pollard, Lauren Hutton, Noah Beery, Jr., Lucille Benson

Synopsis: Little Fauss (Michael J. Pollard) and Halsy Knox (Robert Redford) are competing motorcycle racers who form an unusual partnership. The pompous and arrogant Halsy agrees to race under Fauss' name while Fauss serves as his mechanic. Rita (Lauren Hutton) is the rich girl recovering from drugs who Read More

The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County

Actors: Dan Blocker, Nanette Fabray, Jim Backus, Wally Cox, Jack Elam

Synopsis: Charley (Dan Blocker) is the kindly but simple-minded blacksmith who sends a year's earnings back East for a mail-order bride. When he and the town turn out for the woman's arrival at the train station, he is embarrassed when she never appears. The saddened giant plans to leave town. The Read More

Heaven with a Gun

Actors: Glenn Ford, Carolyn Jones, Barbara Hershey, John Anderson, David Carradine

Synopsis: Jim Killian (Glenn Ford) is a reformed gunslinger who takes a job as a local preacher in Vinagaroon, Arizona. He arrives during a time of conflict between shepherds and cattlemen who are engaged in a bloody range war. When Coke Beck (David Carradine) hangs a local Indian, the victim's daughter Read More

Bonanza: The Crime of Johnny Mule

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Noah Beery, Jr.

Synopsis: Noah Beery Jr. guest-stars as Johnny Mule, on trial for the murder of David Lowdon. Typically, Hoss Cartwright casts the vote which deadlocks the jury, convinced that there is reasonable doubt regarding Johnny's guilt. But when Johnny breaks out of jail rather than face a retrial, Hoss must come Read More

Journey to Shiloh

Actors: James Caan, Michael Sarrazin, Brenda Scott, Don Stroud, Paul Petersen

Synopsis: In this adventure, seven young west Texans ride out to volunteer for the Confederate army during the mid-point of the Civil War. The Concho County Comanches, as they call themselves, find that it is truly a long way to Shiloh, Tennessee where a major battle is about to occur. En route they Read More

Hondo and the Apaches

Synopsis: Released theatrically in Europe, Hondo and the Apaches was stitched together from the first two episodes of the Hondo TV series, telecast September 7 and 15, 1967. Ralph Taegar plays the title role of western U.S. Army agent Hondo Lane, with Noah Beery Jr. as sidekick Buffalo Baker. Guest-star Robert Taylor Read More

Incident at Phantom Hill

Actors: Robert Fuller, Jocelyn Lane, Dan Duryea, Tom Simcox, Linden Chiles

Synopsis: In this western, set at the end of the Civil War, a group of rebels steal a million bucks from a Union shipment, and stash the gold in a cave near Phantom Hill, Texas. They are subsequently captured. The ring leader bargains with his captors offering to reveal the loot's location in exchange for Read More

Combat!: A Little Jazz

Synopsis: Deep in enemy territory, Saunders (Vic Morrow) and the squad come across a stranded Special Services jazz combo. In his efforts to escort the musicians back to safety, Saunders is stymied by the mercurial behavior of bandleader Bernie (Dan Duryea), who seems eager and willing to surrender to the Read More

Bonanza: Ride the Wind, Part One

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Noah Beery, Jr., Victor Jory, Dorothy Green, Rod Cameron

Synopsis: Written by Paul Schneider, "Ride the Wind" was Bonanza's first two-part story. Ben Cartwright is willing to provide Charles Ludlow (Victor Jory) with money to help finance the new Pony Express service, but isn't keen on allowing his son Joe to join Ludlow's riders. Nor is the Paiute Indian tribe Read More

Branded: Now Join the Human Race

Synopsis: Burt Reynolds appears in this episode as Red Hand, a rebellious young Apache chief who has jumped the reservation with his family. Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) hopes to avert an all-out war with the Indians by negotiating the peaceful surrender of Red Hand, but his efforts may be thwarted by the Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Hasty Honeymooner

Synopsis: Wealthy California widow Millie Barton (Cathy Downs) is matched up by a computer-dating service with Oklahoman Lucas Tolliver (Noah Beery Jr.). Though he pretends to be a poverty-stricken rube, Lucas is actually a filthy-rich oil man. This sets Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) to wondering why Lucas Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Golden Venom

Synopsis: Lucille Forrest (Frances Reid) is the wealthiest widow in Forrest Junction, but only as long as she obeys the condition in her husband's will which forbids her from reopening the investigation of her son's mysterious death. Not long after consulting with Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) to have this Read More

Seven Faces of Dr. Lao

Actors: Tony Randall, Barbara Eden, Arthur O'Connell, John Ericson, Kevin Tate

Synopsis: Tony Randall has the showcase of a lifetime in the marvelous George Pal production The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao. We first see Randall as Dr. Lao, an enigmatic Chinese medicine-show impresario. The doctor brings his travelling show into the frontier town of Abalone, which is chafing under the Read More

The Great Chase

Synopsis: The art of the movie chase sequence hardly began with Bullitt or The French Connection -- no thriller of the silent era was complete without a hair-raising chase scene, and this compilation pulls together highlights from some of the great films of the early 20th century. Starting with The Great Read More

Riverboat: Season 02

Actors: Darren McGavin, Noah Beery, Jr.

Guns of the Timberlands

Actors: Alan Ladd, Jeanne Crain, Gilbert Roland, Frankie Avalon, Lyle Bettger

Synopsis: In this action drama, ranchers and lumberjacks are at loggerheads over the proper usage of the land. When the logging team finds a prime stand, the ranchers beg the loggers not to harvest it because the lack of trees will cause deadly mud slides during the rainy season that will destroy their Read More

Inherit the Wind

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Florence Eldridge, Dick York, Henry "Harry" Morgan

Synopsis: The Evolution vs. Creationism argument is at the center of the Jerome Lawrence-Robert E. Lee Broadway play Inherit the Wind. Lawrence and Lee's inspiration was the 1925 "Monkey Trial," in which Tennessee schoolteacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in violation Read More

Escort West

Actors: Victor Mature, Elaine Stewart, Faith Domergue, Reba Waters

Synopsis: This trite, low-budget western stars Victor Mature as Ben Lassiter, a former Confederate soldier who is traveling to the Western U.S. with his daughter Abbey (Reba Waters) just after the Civil War. Their journey is interrupted by a group of Union soldiers on patrol and the recent war casts its Read More

Circus Boy: Season 02

Actors: Mickey Braddock, Noah Beery, Jr., Robert Lowery, Leo Gordon, Billy Barty, Olin Howlin, Eddie Marr, Guinn Williams

Decision at Sundown

Actors: Randolph Scott, John Carroll, Karen Steele, Valerie French, Noah Beery, Jr.

Synopsis: Decision at Sundown was one of several felicitous collaborations between star Randolph Scott and director Budd Boetticher. Scott plays a flint-eyed gunman who rides into a sleepy town to drive out local tough guy John Carroll by sundown. Scott is motivated not by justice but by revenge; years Read More

Jubal

Actors: Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Rod Steiger, Valerie French, Felicia Farr

Synopsis: Jubal could just as easily have been titled Othello Out West, even though it was officially based on a novel by Paul I. Wellman. The Othello counterpart is likable (and extremely gullible) ranch owner Shep Horgan (Ernest Borgnine). Horgan hires handsome drifter Cassioer, Jubal Troop (Glenn Ford) Read More

Circus Boy: Season 01

Actors: Mickey Braddock, Noah Beery, Jr., Robert Lowery, Leo Gordon, Billy Barty, Olin Howlin, Eddie Marr, Guinn Williams

The Fastest Gun Alive

Actors: Glenn Ford, Jeanne Crain, Broderick Crawford, Russ Tamblyn, Allyn Joslyn

Synopsis: In this western, a pacifistic store owner does all he can to avoid association with his father, a notorious gunfighter. One day he gets drunk and shows off his own considerable skills with a pistol. Unfortunately, this attracts the attention of the man who fancies himself the town's fastest draw Read More

White Feather

Actors: Robert Wagner, John Lund, Debra Paget, Jeffrey Hunter, Eduard Franz

Synopsis: Unusual for its time, this 1955 film is a sympathetic treatment of the U.S. Army's resettlement of Native Americans in the Old West. The Cheyenne tribe agrees to leave its hunting grounds in Wyoming so that white settlers looking for gold can move in. Colonel Lindsay (John Lund) is in charge of Read More

The Yellow Tomahawk

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Peggie Castle, Noah Beery, Jr., Warner Anderson, Peter Graves

Synopsis: The Yellow Tomahawk stars Rory Calhoun as a Wyoming Indian scout who forms a strong friendship with Cheyenne warrior Lee Van Cleef. Their relationship is sorely tested when martinet army major Warner Anderson inaugurates a vicious anti-Indian policy, targetted at the Cheyenne women and children. Read More

The Black Dakotas

Actors: Gary Merrill, Wanda Hendrix, John Bromfield

Synopsis: Gary Merrill heads the cast of the unorthodox western The Black Dakotas. The story is set during the Civil War, as President Lincoln tries to mollify the Sioux Indians in order to free up soldiers for more important fighting. Disguised as a Northerner, Brock Marsh (Gary Merrill) intercepts Read More

Tropic Zone

Actors: Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming, Noah Beery, Jr., Grant Withers

Synopsis: It's always fun to watch Ronald Reagan play a slightly disreputable type, and Tropic Zone is no exception. Reagan stars as Dan McCloud, a self-styled "banana expert" who is hiding out in a mythical South American country for obscure political reasons. Motivated by greed, McCloud comes to the aid Read More

Wings of the Hawk

Actors: Van Heflin, Julie Adams, Abbe Lane, George Dolenz, Antonio Moreno

Synopsis: Adapted from a novel by Gerald Drayon Adams, Wings of the Hawk stars Van Heflin as Irish Gallegher, an American mining engineer working in Mexico. When his gold mine is confiscated by the local government, Gallegher aligns himself with a renegade group of insurrectionists, led by Arturo (Rodolfo Acosta Read More

War Arrow

Actors: Maureen O'Hara, Jeff Chandler, John McIntire, Suzan Ball, Noah Beery, Jr.

Synopsis: War Arrow is another of Universal's efficiently produced A plus/B minus Technicolor westerns of the early 1950s. Maureen O'Hara and Jeff Chandler star as, respectively, army major Howell Brady and his former sweetheart Elaine Corwin. As Elaine awaits anxiously on the sidelines, Major Brady trains Read More

The Story of Will Rogers

Actors: Will Rogers, Jr., Jane Wyman, Carl Benton Reid, Eve Miller, James Gleason

Synopsis: Will Rogers Jr. stars as his own father in this slow, sentimental biopic. The film begins with Rogers' days on his father's ranch in Indian Territory (later Oklahoma). We see Will court his future wife, Betty (Jane Wyman), just before he strikes out on his own as a rodeo performer. Attempting to Read More

Wagons West

Actors: Rod Cameron, Noah Beery, Jr., Peggie Castle, Michael Chapin, Henry Brandon

Synopsis: Rod Cameron's western vehicles for Monogram were always worth watching, even when Cameron was better than the scripts. In Wagons West, the star plays wagonmaster Jeff Curtis, who guides a group of Easterners to California in the 1870s. Trouble looms in the form of a Cheyenne tribe who is being Read More

Cavalry Charge

Actors: Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming, Bruce Bennett, Bill Williams, Peter Hansen, Noah Beery, Jr.

Synopsis: Paramount's immensely successful Pine-Thomas production unit once more struck box-office gold with The Last Outpost. Ronald Reagan stars as devil-may-care Confederate officer Vance Britton, who leads a band of guerillas on a series of sabotage raids. The Northern Army dispatches Vance's brother Read More

The Texas Rangers

Actors: George Montgomery, Gale Storm, Jerome Courtland, Noah Beery, Jr., William Bishop

Synopsis: Not a remake of the 1936 film of the same name, The Texas Rangers is an enjoyable second-echelon western from the Columbia Pictures mill. George Montgomery stars as Johnny Carver, a former outlaw serving a life sentence in prison. Carver is given a second chance by the Texas government. Here's the Read More

The Cimarron Kid

Actors: Audie Murphy, Yvette Dugay, Beverly Tyler, John Hudson, James Best

Synopsis: Though director Budd Boetticher is best known to western fans for his collaborative efforts with star Randolph Scott, Boetticher also turned out several worthwhile actioners with other cowboy stars. The Cimarron Kid stars Audie Murphy in the title role. After being falsely accused of a payroll Read More

Rocketship X-M

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen, John Emery, Noah Beery, Jr., Hugh O'Brian

Synopsis: Together with The Steel Helmet and Baron of Arizona, Rocketship X M is one of the best films ever turned out by the usually unimpressive Lippert Studios. Set sometime in the future, the film details the first manned space flight to the moon. John Emery plays the head of the expedition, with Lloyd Bridges Read More

The Savage Horde

Actors: Adrian Booth, Grant Withers, Barbara Fuller, Noah Beery, Jr.

Synopsis: William Elliot is the multitextured hero of the deluxe Republic western Savage Horde. Elliot plays a gunslinger named Ringo, who, though no paragon of virtue, is not a murderer. After killing a man in self-defense, Ringo takes it on the lam from the law. Hiding out in a remote frontier town, Ringo Read More

Two Flags West

Actors: Joseph Cotten, Linda Darnell, Jeff Chandler, Cornel Wilde, Dale Robertson

Synopsis: Two Flags West is set in the waning days of the Civil War. Colonel Clay Tucker (Joseph Cotten) is one of several Confederate prisoners who agree to fight alongside Union soldiers against the Indians in New Mexico. Tucker's Union commander Kenniston (Jeff Chandler) despises all "Johnny Rebs," Read More

Davy Crockett, Indian Scout

Actors: George Montgomery, Ellen Drew, Phillip Reed, Noah Beery, Jr., Paul Guilfoyle

Synopsis: Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier, didn't become a nationwide craze (and merchandising cash cow) until Disney got hold of him in 1954. In the meantime, however, there was Columbia's Davy Crockett, Indian Scout, which in fact had little to do with the famed frontiersman. George Montgomery Read More

The Doolins of Oklahoma

Actors: Randolph Scott, George Macready, Louise Allbritton, John Ireland, Virginia Huston

Synopsis: Randolph Scott both co-produced and starred in this above average Western chronicling the career of one of the last of the legendary Western outlaws. When the Dalton gang is ambushed by U.S. Marshals, Bill Doolin (Scott), the last surviving member, forms his own group of bank robbers that includes Read More

Red River

Actors: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan, Coleen Gray

Synopsis: John Wayne -- showing off a darker side to his screen persona than we'd previously seen -- portrays Thomas Dunson, a frontiersman who, with his longtime partner Nadine Groot (Walter Brennan), leaves abandons a westbound wagon train in 1851 to make his future as a rancher in Texas. Doing so forces Read More

Indian Agent

Actors: Tim Holt, Noah Beery, Jr., Nan Leslie, Richard Martin, Harry Woods

Synopsis: In the early 1930s, Tom Keene was RKO's resident western star. By 1948, Keene had changed his name to Richard Powers, and had slipped unobtrusively into supporting roles. Back at RKO for Indian Agent, Keene/Powers plays a crooked government man who has been rerouting the Indian's food supplies to Read More

Desert Command

The Beautiful Cheat

Actors: Bonita Granville, Margaret Irving, Sarah Selby, Irene Ryan, Tommy Bond

Synopsis: The Beautiful Cheat was one of the last B pictures produced by Universal studios before its merger with International Productions. The title character, played by Bonita Granville, is the secretary at a boys' reformatory. Sociology professor Noah Beery Jr. shows up to study the juvenile-delinquent Read More

The Cat Creeps

Actors: Noah Beery, Jr., Lois Collier, Paul Kelly, Douglas Dumbrille, Fred Brady

Synopsis: Advertised as a typical Universal horror film, The Cat Creeps is more of a crime melodrama, and not a particularly distinguished one at that. Fifth-billed Fred Brady essays the leading role as a reporter named Terry Nichols, who endeavors to prove that a girl's suicide was actually murder. Though Read More

The Daltons Ride Again

Actors: Alan Curtis, Kent Taylor, Lon Chaney, Jr., Noah Beery, Jr., Martha O'Driscoll

Synopsis: In this action western, the notorious Dalton Boys have decided to go straight and move to Argentina. Just before they leave, they learn of a friend whose land is about to be seized by a greedy land company. Before they can help, the man is killed by a company assassin. The brothers do manage to Read More

The Crimson Canary

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

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

See My Lawyer

Actors: Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Alan Curtis, Grace McDonald, Noah Beery, Jr.

Synopsis: Bearing little relation to the hit Broadway play on which it was based, See My Lawyer was the last and least of Olsen and Johnson's starring vehicles for Universal. The zany Hellzapoppin stars play a couple of nightclub entertainers who want to break their contract with proprietor R. J. Wagenhorn Read More

Her Lucky Night

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, three man-hungry sisters consult a fortune-teller to help them with their romantic futures. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Weekend Pass

Actors: Martha O'Driscoll, Noah Beery, Jr., George Barbier, Andrew Tombes, Irving Bacon

Synopsis: Although coming in at an odd running time -- 40 minutes -- this interesting, low-budget drama looks at the adventures, or rather misadventures of a sailor (Paul von Schreiber) with a weekend leave in Los Angeles. The seaman is a country boy unused to the ways of big city women and so he gets his Read More

Million Dollar Kid

Actors: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Billy Benedict, Louise Currie

Synopsis: The East Side Kids were betwixt and between their earlier roughneck characterizations and their later Bowery Boys buffoonery when Million Dollar Kid came out early in 1944. Vowing to rid the East Side of hoods and holdup men, Muggs McGinniss (Leo Gorcey) and his gang rescue wealthy John Cortland Read More

Follow the Boys

Actors: George Raft, Vera Zorina, Charles Grapewin, George Macready, Charles Butterworth, Regis Toomey, Grace McDonald

Synopsis: Paramount Pictures did their patriotic duty with this World War II era musical, with a number of the studio's biggest stars making cameo appearances. Tony West (George Raft), his sister Kitty (Grace McDonald), and their father Nick (Charles Grapewin) tour together as The Three Wests, a failing act Read More

Allergic to Love

Actors: Martha O'Driscoll, Noah Beery, Jr., David Bruce, Franklin Pangborn, Fuzzy Knight

Synopsis: Newlywed bliss surround O'Driscoll and Beery until they get on board the ship for their honeymoon in South America. Then she starts sneezing, and hay fever's uncontrollable grip does not seem to want to let up. They try everything, then finally seek out a doctor on the ship. The trouble is 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

Gung Ho!

Actors: Randolph Scott, Grace McDonald, Noah Beery, Jr., Alan Curtis, J. Carrol Naish, Robert Mitchum

Synopsis: Accepted in 1943 as standard wartime propaganda, Gung Ho can be seen today as an outrageous exercise in raging machismo. Randolph Scott plays Thorwald, a marine colonel assigned to assemble a crack squadron of fearless jungle fighters for the all-important raid on Japanese-held Makim Island (which Read More

Prairie Chickens

Actors: Jimmy Rogers, Joe Sawyer, Marjorie Woodworth, Rosemary La Planche

We've Never Been Licked

Actors: Richard Quine, Noah Beery, Jr., Anne Gwynne, Martha O'Driscoll, Edgar Barrier

Synopsis: This patriotic WW II-era bit of anti-Japanese propaganda centers on a white Texas college student who becomes such good friends with Japanese students on campus that he goes to their country after he is wrongfully accused of being a traitor. All this happened before the U.S. declared war on Japan. Read More

Corvette K-225

Actors: Randolph Scott, James Brown, Ella Raines, Barry Fitzgerald, Andy Devine

Synopsis: Randolph Scott was the star of Corvette K-225, a tribute to the World War II corvette escorts which guided Allied convoys through treacherous Atlantic waters. Scott plays the officer in charge of a Royal Canadian corvette cruiser, dedicated to keeping the troops safe from enemy submarine attack. Read More

Clancy Street Boys

Actors: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Bennie Bartlett

Synopsis: Even non-fans of the East Side Kids will get a goodly share of laughs out of the 1943 series entry Clancy Street Boys. The story commences when Muggs McGinnis (Leo Gorcey) learns that his wealthy Uncle Pete (Noah Beery Sr.) is coming to town for a visit. The problem: Muggs' mom (Martha Wentworth) Read More

Campy Kids from Boot Camp

Synopsis: Campy Kids From Boot Camp was cobbled together from a brace of "streamliners" (second features running between 43 and 50 minutes) produced in the 1940s by Hal Roach Studios. The films are Tanks a Million (1941) and Hayfoot (1942); both star William Tracy as Doubleday, an Army draftee with a Read More

'Neath the Brooklyn Bridge

Synopsis: The East Side Kids, featuring Leo Gorcey, Gabriel Dell and Huntz Hall, star in this spirited blend of action and comedy. The kids come to the rescue of a hysterical young girl who is discovered in the apartment with a murdered man. Convinced she's not the killer, the guys hide her as they comb the Read More

Hay Foot

Synopsis: Instant recall allows a man to become a very valuable Good Samaritan in this comedy. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Dudes Are Pretty People

Actors: Jimmy Rogers, Noah Beery, Jr., Marjorie Woodworth, Paul Hurst, Marjorie Gateson

Synopsis: The 43-minute Hal Roach "streamliner" Dudes are Pretty People was one of three films teaming Jimmy Rogers (son of Will) with Noah Beery Jr. (son of Noah Sr.) Our heroes play Jimmy and Pidge (Beery's real-life nickname), a pair of cowhands who work near a posh dude ranch. A bit slow on the uptake Read More

All-American Coed

Actors: Frances Langford, Johnny Downs, Marjorie Woodworth, Noah Beery, Jr., Esther Dale

Synopsis: This 48-minute Hal Roach "streamliner" represents a rare directorial assignment for veteran Hollywood choreographer LeRoy Prinz, who also produced the film. Johnny Downs stars as Bob Sheppard of Quinceton University, who is appointed by his frat brothers to get even with the snotty sorority gals Read More

Tanks a Million

Actors: William Tracy, James Gleason, Noah Beery, Jr., Joe Sawyer, Elyse Knox

Synopsis: In 1941, producer Hal Roach abandoned production of full-length features in favor of a new concept: The "Streamliner", a four-reel film-halfway between a short subject and a feature-designed for the double-bill market. The first Roach streamliner was the timely service comedy Tanks a Million 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

Overland Mail

Synopsis: Frontier marshall Jim Lane (Lon Chaney) is investigating a local Indian tribe that he believes to be responsible for a series of recent attacks on Pony Express riders. The task may appear straightforward, but Jim has a feeling that there is another force at work behind the scenes. With bodies Read More

Sergeant York

Actors: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, Ward Bond, Margaret Wycherly, Stanley Ridges

Synopsis: When World War I hero Alvin York agreed to sell the movie rights to his life story to Warner Bros., it was on three conditions: (1) That the film contains no phony heroics, (2) that Mrs.York not be played by a Hollywood "glamour girl" and (3) That Gary Cooper portray York on screen. All three Read More

Passport to Alcatraz

Actors: Jack Holt, Noah Beery, Jr., Cecilia Callejo, "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom

Synopsis: Another of Columbia's myriad of Jack Holt actioners, Passport to Alcatraz casts the star as supposed enemy saboteur George Hollister. In truth, Hollister is on "our side", merely posing as a foreign spy to get the goods on a sabotage ring. The story reaches its peak in an explosives factory which Read More

The Carson City Kid

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Bob Steele, Noah Beery, Jr., Pauline Moore

Synopsis: Roy Rogers plays an outlaw out to avenge the murder of his brother in this fine Republic Western directed by one of the masters of the genre, Joseph Kane. Learning that the man he believes to be the killer, Lee Jessup (Bob Steele), is running a gambling establishment in Sonora, the Kid manages to Read More

Light of the Western Stars

The Light of Western Stars

Actors: Victor Jory, Jo Ann Sayers, Russell Hayden, Morris Ankrum, Noah Beery, Jr.

Synopsis: Previous filmed three times (most recently in 1930), the 1940 Paramount production Light of Western Stars was the latest in the studio's "Zane Grey" series. Victor Jory earns a rare top-billing slot as Gene Stewart, a hard-drinking Westerner who is reformed through the love of Boston debutante Read More

The Strange Case of Dr. Meade

Actors: Jack Holt, Beverly Roberts, Paul Everton, Noah Beery, Jr., John Qualen

Synopsis: In this drama, a New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he encounters a nurse working in the backwoods and ends up helping her to combat an epidemic that rages through the mountain communities. The doctor she works for prefers traditional herbs to modern Read More

Bad Lands

Actors: Robert H. Barrat, Noah Beery, Jr., Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Douglas Walton, Andy Clyde

Synopsis: Bad Lands is a remake of John Ford's The Lost Patrol, with the locale changed from the Mesopotamian to the Arizona desert. The year is 1875: A posse headed by sheriff Robert Barrat is held at bay by Apache warriors. Following the pattern established by the Ford film, the posse members are Read More

Parents on Trial

Actors: Jean Parker, Johnny Downs, Linda Terry, Noah Beery, Jr., Henry Kolker

Synopsis: According to Hollywood, the parents were generally at fault when good kids went bad. This theory is elucidated in Columbia's Parents on Trial, wherein strict disciplinarian James Westley (Henry Kolker) fails to understand or appreciate the real needs and feelings of his teenaged daughter Susan (Jean Parker Read More

Flight at Midnight

Actors: Phil Regan, Jean Parker, Roscoe Turner, Robert Armstrong, Noah Beery, Jr.

Synopsis: In this high-flying drama, a foolhardy, free-spirited pilot throws his responsibilities as a mail pilot to the wind when he begins aggressively courting a beautiful flight attendant. Unfortunately, he pays so much attention to her, that he neglects his plane, resulting in the senseless death of Read More

Only Angels Have Wings

Actors: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess, Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell, John Carroll, Allyn Joslyn

Synopsis: Virtually a textbook example of Howard Hawks' "macho" mode, Only Angels Have Wings takes place high in the Peruvian Andes. Cary Grant heads a ramshackle airmail and freight service, forced to fly in the most perilous of weather conditions to the most treacherous of destinations. Facing death on a Read More

Of Mice and Men

Actors: Burgess Meredith, Lon Chaney, Jr., Betty Field, Charles Bickford, Roman Bohnen

Synopsis: This 1939 film version of John Steinbeck's classic novel was a surprising choice for comedy producer Hal Roach; in fact, Roach had no intention of filming the property until forced to do so as a result of a lawsuit brought by director Lewis Milestone. Burgess Meredith stars as itinerant farm Read More

Outside the Law

Girls' School

Actors: Anne Shirley, Nan Grey, Dorothy Moore, Gloria Holden, Marjorie Main

Synopsis: In this comedy, wealthy girls attend boarding school to learn proper etiquette. The well-mannered character of the class is disrupted when one of the proper young women plans to elope with a handsome young simpleton. Unfortunately she is outfoxed by a young teacher who elopes with the boy before Read More

Forbidden Valley

Actors: Noah Beery, Jr., Frances Robinson, Fred Kohler, Alonzo Price, Samuel S. Hinds

Synopsis: In this youth-oriented western, a young man's father is wrongfully accused of murder. Unfortunately, his pa can't prove it and so flees into the rugged mountains. He brings his boy with him. In those lonely hills lives a sad, but wealthy young woman. Love blossoms between the son and the girl as Read More

The Road Back

Actors: Richard Cromwell, George "Slim" Summerville, Andy Devine, Barbara Read

Synopsis: A handful of German soldiers readjust to civilian life in the bitter wake of World War I in this follow-up to the classic All Quiet On The Western Front, which like the first film was based on a novel by Erich Maria Remarque. After the signing of the armistice, Capt. Von Hagen (John Emery) Read More

Zorro Rides Again [Serial]

Actors: John Carroll, Helen Christian, Reed Howes, Duncan Renaldo, Richard Alexander

Synopsis: Actually it's the great-grandson of legendary 19th century do-gooder Zorro who rides in this 12-chapter Republic serial. Villainous modern-day tycoon Marsden (Noah Beery) supervises the activities of a western outlaw gang from the plush confines of his Manhattan skyscraper. It is Marsden's hope to Read More

Trouble at Midnight

Actors: Noah Beery, Jr., Catherine Hughes, Larry Blake, Bernadene Hayes, Louis Mason

Synopsis: Noah Beery Jr. stars as Kirk Cameron in the modern-day western Trouble at Midnight. Freshly discharged from WWI, Cameron goes into the dairy-farming business, only to be hounded by his chief creditor, flint-hearted banker Everett Benson (Charles Halton). Despite his uncharitable feelings for Read More

Some Blondes Are Dangerous

Actors: Noah Beery, Jr., William Gargan, Dorothea Kent, Nan Grey, Roland Drew

Synopsis: Some Blondes are Dangerous is a remake of 1931's The Iron Man, using the same W. R. Burnett novel as its source. Noah Beery Jr. stars as Bud "Iron Man" Mason, a talented but rather dimwitted prizefighter. Against the advice of his crusty old manager George Regan (William Gargan), Mason dumps his Read More

The Mighty Treve

Actors: Noah Beery, Jr., Barbara Read, Samuel S. Hinds, Hobart Cavanaugh, Alma Kruger

Synopsis: Twenty-four-year-old Noah Beery Jr. heads the cast of Universal's The Mighty Treve. Beery, however, does not play the title character; that honor is reserved for a remarkably talented canine actor named "Tuffy." The Mighty Treve is a sheep-dog owned by gangly farm youth Bud (Beery). Thanks to Read More

Ace Drummond [Serial]

Synopsis: Ostensibly based on the life of World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker, whose smiling visage opened each of the 13 chapters, this fanciful serial depicted the travails of a globe trotting airline company. It seems that a villain known only as The Dragon (Arthur Loft) is determined to sabotage Read More

Parole

Actors: Henry Hunter, Alan Dinehart, Noah Beery, Jr., Grant Mitchell

Synopsis: A lesser but still effective entry in the mid-1930s "prison" cycle, Parole catalogues the many problems facing prisoners who've served their debt to society. The story concentrates on Russ Whalen (Henry Hunter), one of several parolees trying to find work on the outside. The "ex-con" onus forces Read More

Devil's Canyon

Tailspin Tommy and the Great Air Mystery

Synopsis: In this adventure serial, Tailspin Tommy discovers that a gang of profiteers are out to steal an island's oil reserves. The gang, learning of Tommy's efforts to stop them, attack him with everything they have -- including anti-aircraft guns, bombs, and even a volcano! ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Read More

Five Bad Men

Tailspin Tommy

Synopsis: A young auto mechanic gets a job with Three Points Airlines, and helps to get them a government mail contract in this action serial. The head of a rival cargo airline, angered that he didn't get the contract, plots the destruction of Three Points in order to take over the contract. ~ Brian Gusse Read More

The Trail Beyond

Synopsis: Loosely based on a story by pulp writer James Oliver Curwood, this Lone Star Western released by Monogram starred a young John Wayne helping an old family friend (James Marcus) find his long-lost brother and niece. Traveling by train to the Canadian Northwest, Rod Drew (Wayne) is reacquainted with Read More

Happy Landing

Actors: Ray Walker, William Farnum, Hyram A. Hoover

Synopsis: Unrelated to the same-named 1939 Sonja Henie vehicle, the 1934 Monogram release Happy Landing is an airborne cops-and-robbers affair. Ray Walker stars as brash U.S. border patrolman Nick Terris, on the trail of a gang of international crooks. Anticipating such later films as Assault on a Queen Read More

Rustlers' Roundup

Synopsis: Rustler's Roundup was western star Tom Mix's final feature film; only the 1935 serial Mystery Rider remained before Mix bid adios to the movies. Our Tom comes to the aid of heroine Diane Sinclair, who is being victimized by swarthy Noah Beery Jr. Sinclair's dad has been murdered, and Beery Jr. Read More

Sunset Pass

Synopsis: In this western, a US marshal goes undercover to bust up a bunch of rustlers. The history behind the film is as interesting as the story. Paramount made this during the Depression when the studio was teetering towards bankruptcy. To save money, much of this film was comprised of footage from the Read More

The Three Musketeers [Serial]

Synopsis: Adapted from Alexander Dumas's novel, this adventure is about a trio of Foreign Legion friends who confront the Devil of the Desert. Three Musketeers is the last of actor John Wayne's three serials for Mascot Studios. It was later edited down to just below feature length and released as the 1946 Read More

Savage Fury

Synopsis: Not one of Universal's proudest moments, this 12 chapter serial, set in what they used to refer to as "Darkest Africa," starred Noah Beery, Jr. as the son of a medical doctor adopted by a band of simians. Beery, Jr., however, is no Tarzan, merely Jan of the Jungle, the hero of a book by Otis Read More

Laughing at Life

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Conchita Montenegro, Lois Wilson, Henry B. Walthall

Synopsis: At first concentrating exclusively on westerns and serials, up-and-coming Mascot Pictures began branching out in the early 1930s with such lavish star vehicles as Laughing at Life. Victor McLaglen is in his element as a devil-may-care globetrotting adventurer named McHale. After risking his neck Read More

Heroes of the West

Synopsis: Second-generation star Noah Beery, Jr. and 1934 Wampas Baby Diane Duval starred in this 12 chapter serial version of Peter B. Kyne's The Tie That Binds. Beery and Duval played the buckskin clad offspring of William Desmond, a construction company owner assigned to build a portion of the Read More

Showgirl in Hollywood

Renegades

Actors: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Noah Beery, Sr., Gregory Gaye, George Cooper

Synopsis: In this action-adventure opus, Deucalion (Warner Baxter), Machwurth (Noah Beery), Mordiconi (C. Henry Gordon) and Biloxi (George Cooper) are four members of a desert patrol fighting off godless villains amidst the sand dunes. The four soldiers are lured away from their mission by Eleanore (Myrna Read More

Father and Son

Actors: Jack Holt, Dorothy Revier, Mickey McBan, Helene Chadwick, Wheeler Oakman

Synopsis: A phonograph recorder provides incriminating evidence in this mystery that centers upon a widower and his 10-year old child who receives it as a birthday present. The devoted father journeys to Paris and there falls in love with a secretive countess of dubious character. Though his father is Read More

Penrod

Actors: Wesley Barry, Tully Marshall, Claire McDowell, John Harron, Gordon Griffith

Synopsis: 14-year-old boys are far more sophisticated now than they were during the 1910s and 1920s, so this picture, based on the Booth Tarkington stories, may sound a bit puerile. The moviegoers of its day, however, were able to relate back to their own childhoods, especially with the capable direction of Read More

The Mark of Zorro

Actors: Douglas Fairbanks

Synopsis: Johnston MacCulley's 1913 adventure yarn The Curse of Capistrano was given its first filmization in Douglas Fairbanks' 1920 The Mark of Zorro. Fairbanks plays the outwardly foppish Don Diego de la Vega, the son of wealthy Spanish Californian rancher. In reality, Don Diego is the dashed Read More

The Mutiny of the Elsinore

Synopsis: When Captain Nathaniel Somers (Norval MacGregor) is killed by his stepbrother, Andreas Mollaire (Noah Beery, Sr.), he leaves his ship, the Elsinore, to his son Dick (Casson Ferguson). He also appoints his loyal first mate, John Pike (Mitchell Lewis), to look after Dick, which is a good thing Read More

Spirit of '76

Synopsis: Although no existing prints of this film seems to have survived, the history of The Spirit of '76 resurfaced in 2000 due to the controversial Mel Gibson vehicle The Patriot. A wildly fantastic Revolutionary War melodrama undoubtedly inspired by Archibald McNeil Willard's famous 1876 painting of Read More