Paul DubovFilmography

Crash!

Synopsis: In this horror move, a husband sends a demonic antique car after his wife. She uses her own black magic to fight back. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

With Six You Get Eggroll

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Doris Day, Brian Keith, Pat Carroll, Barbara Hershey, George Carlin

Synopsis: A young widow with three children and a sheepdog marries a widowed man with a young daughter and a French poodle in this amusing comedy. Abby (Doris Day) is the owner of a lumberyard who falls for Jake (Brian Keith) when her sister Maxine (Pat Carroll) introduce the two at a party. The couple is Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Betrayed Bride

Synopsis: Middle-aged Nellie Dubois (Jeanette Nolan) became a widow when her husband died during their vacation in Europe. Upon her return to the States, Nellie's family is shocked to find her in the company of a new spouse--a much younger Frenchman named Pierre (Michael Forrest). Convinced that Pierre is Read More

Irma La Douce

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Lou Jacobi, Bruce Yarnell, Herschel Bernardi, Sheryl Deauville

Synopsis: This romantic comedy opens with a resounding warning: its chief concerns are passion, bloodshed, desire, and death. "Everything," exclaims the narrator, "that makes life worth living." Irma La Douce (Shirley MacClaine) is Paris' most prosperous prostitute. Wise, endearing, and compulsively clad in Read More

Shock Corridor

Actors: Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans, James Best, Hari (Harry) Rhodes

Synopsis: Shock Corridor represents filmmaker Samuel Fuller at his most excessive, but few would have it otherwise. Peter Breck plays a ruthless journalist who believes that the quickest way to a Pulitzer Prize is to uncover the facts behind a murder at a mental hospital. To glean first-hand information, Breck Read More

The Untouchables: Element of Danger

Synopsis: In his second Untouchables appearance, Lee Marvin is disturbingly convincing as Victor Rate, a brilliant psychopath in cahoots with narcotics kingpin Arnold Stegler (Victor Jory). A cool customer who gets his kicks by deliberately placing himself in dangerous situations, Rate has no qualms about Read More

The Underwater City

Actors: William Lundigan, Julie Adams, Roy Roberts, Carl Benton Reid, Chet Douglas

Synopsis: This sci-fi melodrama about housing construction in the murky deep sea is as clear as the muddied water itself. Enterprising individuals have decided that if humans are going to blow themselves sky-high at some point in the future then it might be a good idea to have an escape hatch down at the Read More

The Untouchables: The Gang War

Synopsis: Victor Buono, who skyrocketed to stardom by virtue of his work in the title role of the earlier Untouchables episode "Mr. Moon", returns to the series in a different characterization. This time Buono is cast as Parnise Surigao, whose booming bootlegging operation is cutting into the profits of 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

The Untouchables: Jigsaw

Synopsis: Following the example of his sworn enemy Elliot Ness (Robert Stack), Frank Nitti sets up his own team of "Untouchables" to root out informers within his criminal organization. The man brought in to head this unit is Walter Traeger (James Gregory), former "counteresponiage" agent for Al Capone. Read More

Underworld U.S.A.

Actors: Cliff Robertson, Dolores Dorn, Beatrice Kay, Paul Dubov, Robert Emhardt, Richard Rust

Synopsis: Cliff Robertson plays Tolly Devlin, an embittered ex-convict who has spent a lifetime tracking down the men who murdered his father. Desirous of handling matters on his own, Devlin pretends to be loyal to both the Mob and the Government, playing one against the other in hopes of flushing out the Read More

The Untouchables: The Scarface Mob

Actors: Robert Stack, Neville Brand, Bruce Gordon, Walter Winchell, Keenan Wynn, Pat Crowley, Abel Fernandez, John Beradino, Barbara Nichols, Paul Picerni

Synopsis: The 1962 theatrical release of The Scarface Mob was created from the first two episodes of the famously popular 1959 TV series, The Untouchables. It stars Robert Stack as the courageous agent whose job is to corral the powerful mobster Al Capone. Nevill Brand plays Capone and Walter Winchell adds Read More

The Purple Gang

Actors: Barry Sullivan, Elaine Edwards, Marc Cavell, Jody Lawrance

Synopsis: Although this story of the making of a gangland hoodlum reflects only some of the real history of the Detroit Purple Gang in it, the violence portrayed is completely truthful. The sense of reality here is increased by the use of newsreel footage. Robert Blake is "Honeyboy" Willard, a juvenile Read More

Ma Barker's Killer Brood

Synopsis: The story of America's most notorious gangster mother is chronicled in this crime drama. The tale starts in Oklahoma during the Depression. It is she who encourages her sons to become criminals. So sage is her advice, that other infamous mobsters such as Dillinger, and Machine Gun Kelly come to Read More

aOne Step Beyond: The Dark Room

Actors: Cloris Leachman, Ann Codee, Paul Dubov, Marcel Dalio, Ivan Triesault

Synopsis: In one of the series' eeriest episodes, American photographer Rita Wallace (Cloris Leachman) sets up shop in Paris, hoping to capture the "soul of France" in her pictures. Advertising for a model, Rita ends up using a strange, reclusive little man (Marcel Dalio) with a haunted look in his eyes. Read More

The Atomic Submarine

Actors: Arthur Franz, Dick Foran, Brett Halsey, Tom Conway, Paul Dubov

Synopsis: Seasoned serial director Spencer Gordon Bennett helmed this story of a one-eyed, octopoidal space alien, wreaking havoc upon atomic subs at the North Pole. The monster is determined to take over the world, though it seems ill equipped for that purpose. Heroes Arthur Franz, Dick Foran, and Brett Halsey Read More

Tokyo After Dark

Actors: Michi Kobi, Richard Long, Lawrence Dobkin, Paul Dubov, Teru Shimada

Synopsis: The drama in this fact-based tale about the killing of a young Japanese man is undermined by trite characters and a transparent storyline. There is no doubt that American GI Sgt. Douglas (Richard Long) killed the youth with his own gun. The dispute lies in whether the gun discharged accidentally Read More

The Crimson Kimono

Actors: Victoria Shaw, Glenn Corbett, James Shigeta, Anna Lee, Paul Dubov

Synopsis: Crimson Kimono stars Glenn Corbett and James Shigeta as Korean War army buddies, working side by side with the LA homicide squad. When stripper Gloria Pall is murdered, Corbett and Shigeta are sent to investigate. Both are smitten by the lovely Victoria Shaw, who is implicated in the crime. Corbett Read More

Verboten!

Actors: James Best, Susan Cummings, Thomas Pittman, Paul Dubov, Harold Daye

Synopsis: Director Samuel Fuller skillfully intercuts footage of the German death camps with scenes from this thought-provoking drama about a forbidden, post-war love affair. David (James Best) is a G.I. stationed in Germany with the American Military Government. He falls in love with Helga (Susan Read More

Forty Guns

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger, John Ericson, Gene Barry

Synopsis: Cult hero Samuel Fuller wrote and directed this visually inventive western, which didn't fare well with American audiences but earned a potent reputation with European cineastes. Jessica Drummond (Barbara Stanwyck) is a despotic landowner who, with a posse of hired guns, has made herself the law Read More

The Brothers Rico

Actors: Richard Conte, Dianne Foster, Kathryn Grant, Larry Gates, James Darren

Synopsis: The Rico brothers are mobsters in the employ of syndicate head Sid Kubick. Richard Conte plays the one Rico brother who has forsaken crime. But the other Ricos (James Darren and Paul Picerni) haven't yet seen the light, causing a deep rift in the brothers' family bonds. Conte gets word that his Read More

China Gate

Actors: Gene Barry, Angie Dickinson, Nat "King" Cole, Lee Van Cleef, George Givot, Warren Hsieh, Paul Dubov

Synopsis: Writer-director Samuel Fuller applies his kino-fist to this raw-boned war drama -- one of the first American films to deal with Vietnam. The film concerns the battle between the Vietnamese and the Chinese, through the efforts of a small band of soldiers to locate and destroy a hidden communist Read More

Gunsmoke: Cain

Synopsis: Gentle, soft-spoken Cain Vestal (Harry Bartell) is told by Doc (Milburn Stone) and several other physicians that he is dying of consumption. En route to Arizona where he intends to end his days, Cain stops over at Dodge City--then confuses everyone by buying a six-gun and asking Chester (Dennis Read More

Dragnet: The Big Saint

Synopsis: Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are up against a well-organized gang of auto thieves, who seem to follow no pattern except for the make of the cars they've stolen. During a routine investigation of local auto-salvage shops, the detectives discover that one of the stolen vehicles has Read More

Voodoo Woman

Actors: Marla English, Tom Conway, Lance Fuller

Synopsis: Advertised as an out-and-out horror picture, Voodoo Woman is more of a "greed and revenge" melodrama than anything else. Mad scientist Dr. Roland Gerard (Tom Conway) squirrels himself away in the jungle, hoping to create a race of super-beings. What he comes up with is a passel of hideous-looking Read More

Shake, Rattle and Rock

Actors: Fats Domino, Lisa Gaye, Sterling Holloway

Synopsis: The endearingly awful Shake, Rattle and Rock! serves as a showcase for four top rock-and-roll talents of the 1950s. Fats Domino heads the cast as "himself", performing "I'm in Love Again", "Ain't it a Shame" and "Honey Chile". Likewise, Joe Turner offers renditions of "Feelin' Happy" and Read More

He Laughed Last

Actors: Frankie Laine, Lucy Marlow, Anthony Dexter, Dick Long, Alan Reed, Sr.

Synopsis: In this amiable imitation Guys and Dolls, Alan Reed plays a big-time 1920s gangster who is rubbed out by his enemies. In his will, Reed bequeaths his nightclub to chorus girl Lucy Marlow--which doesn't sit too well with Lucy's policeman boyfriend (Richard Long). Frankie Laine plays the Read More

That Certain Feeling

Actors: Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint, George Sanders, Pearl Bailey, David Lewis

Synopsis: For reasons unknown, the change-of-pace Bob Hope vehicle That Certain Feeling is out of favor with many Hope buffs. Bob plays Francis X. Dignan, the overly neurotic "ghost" for popular comic-strip artist Larry Larkin (George Sanders). When Larkin's syndicate complains that his work isn't as Read More

The She-Creature

Actors: Chester Morris, Marla English, Tom Conway, Cathy Downs, Lance Fuller

Synopsis: The lovely assistant of an evil hypnotist has no idea that she is the descendant of a horrifying prehistoric sea monster she is mesmerized by her boss. When the monster comes forth, she goes on a killing spree. A promoter learns about the hypnotist's shenanigans and figures a way to cash in on the Read More

Gunsmoke: The Preacher

Synopsis: Two newcomers have arrived in Dodge City: Disillusioned preacher Seth Tandy (Royal Dano) and sadistic ex-boxer Sam Keeler (a pre-Rifleman Chuck Connors. Angered that Seth refuses to talk to him--or to anyone else, for that matter--Sam tries to goad the man into a fight, but no matter how much Read More

The Day the World Ended

Actors: Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, Adele Jergens, Paul Birch, Jonathan Haze

Synopsis: The Day the World Ended was filmmaker Roger Corman's modest entree into the realm of science fiction. The film begins at "The End"--or rather, the years following an all-out atomic war. A group of survivors find refuge in a well-protected valley owned by Maddison (Paul Birch) and his daughter Read More

Cell 2455, Death Row

Actors: William Campbell, Marian Carr, Kathryn Grant, Harvey Stephens

Synopsis: Cell 2455 Death Row is based on the autobiography of condemned prisoner and "jailhouse lawyer" Caryl Chessman. William Campbell plays the Chessman counterpart, here renamed Whit. A seriously disturbed misfit, Whit begins a life of crime, culminating in sexual assault as the "Lover's Lane Bandit." Read More

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops

Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Fred Clark, Lynn Bari, "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, Mack Sennett, Hank Mann

Synopsis: The best thing that can be said about Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops is that it's better than the team's previous outing Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Set in 1912, the film casts Bud Abbott and Lou Costello as a couple of New Yorkers who are swindled out of their Read More

Apache Woman

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Joan Taylor, Lance Fuller, Morgan Jones, Paul Birch

Synopsis: In 1870s Arizona, Anne LeBeau (Joan Taylor) is caught between two cultures in a conflict that may kill her and her brother Armand (Lance Fuller). They're the children of a white French father and an Apache mother (the daughter of a chief, no less), and they find that they're equally despised by Read More

Six Bridges to Cross

Actors: Tony Curtis, George Nader, Julie Adams, Jay C. Flippen, Sal Mineo

Synopsis: This exciting caper outing is loosely based on the famous robbery of Brinks in Boston that netted the crooks $2.5 million. The story covers the six years small-time hood Jerry Florea (Tony Curtis) spent planning the heist. The story begins with the events that led a young Florea (played by Sal Read More

Mad at the World

Synopsis: In this downbeat exploitation drama, a vengeful father vents his wrath on the teenage terrors who bashed his baby's head with a booze bottle. With the hospitalized infant teetering toward death and the cops unable to catch the offending punks, the father suffers a blind rage and goes after the Read More

The Atomic Kid

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Robert Strauss, Elaine Davis, Bill Goodwin, Whit Bissell

Synopsis: The Atomic Kid strives mightily to wring laughs from the otherwise humorless topic of atomic radiation. Mickey Rooney (who also produced the film) and Robert Strauss play a couple of brainless prospectors who stumble upon a A-bomb testing site. Led to believe that the area is rich with uranium, Strauss Read More

The Glass Web

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, John Forsythe, Kathleen Hughes, Marcia Henderson, Richard Denning

Synopsis: John Forsythe plays a successful television writer, Don Newell, who works on the "Crime of the Week" anthology series. Newell is being blackmailed by one of the program's actresses (Kathleen Hughes), who threatens to tell his wife of their clandestine affair. Arriving at the actress' apartment for Read More

I, the Jury

Actors: Jack Stang, Biff Elliot, Preston S. Foster, Peggie Castle, Margaret Sheridan, Alan Reed, Sr.

Synopsis: Mike Hammer, author Mickey Spillane's brutal-but-eloquent private eye, made his screen debut in this cleaned-up cinemadaptation of the Mickey Spillane best-seller I, the Jury. Galvanized into action by the murder of a friend, Hammer (Biff Elliot) barges into the rarefied worlds of art collecting Read More

The Sniper

Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Arthur Franz, Gerald Mohr, Marie Windsor, Frank Faylen

Synopsis: The "regeneration" of blacklisted director Edward Dmytryk was expedited when he was hired by producer Stanley Kramer to helm the location-filmed melodrama The Sniper. In the interests of political expediency, Dmytrk was required to direct Adolphe Menjou, one of the most virulent Red-baiters of the Read More

Deadline U.S.A.

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter, Ed Begley, Sr., Warren Stevens

Synopsis: An abundance of subplots are expertly woven together by screenwriter/director Richard Brooks in Deadline - USA. Humphrey Bogart stars as crusading editor Ed Hutcheson, whose newspaper is on the verge of closing thanks to the machinations of the mercenary daughter (Audrey Christie) of Mrs. Garrison Read More

High Noon

Actors: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado, Otto Kruger

Synopsis: This Western classic stars Gary Cooper as Hadleyville marshal Will Kane, about to retire from office and go on his honeymoon with his new Quaker bride, Amy (Grace Kelly). But his happiness is short-lived when he is informed that the Miller gang, whose leader (Ian McDonald) Will had arrested, is Read More

Kansas City Confidential

Actors: John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston S. Foster, Lee Van Cleef, Neville Brand

Synopsis: Kansas City Confidential, Phil Karlson's low (low) budget, B-grade film noir, opens on a Kansas City armored-car robbery perpetrated by cynical, corrupt ex-policeman Timothy Foster (Preston S. Foster). Foster devises an outrageous scheme: he will recruit three of the most vicious and Read More

I Love Lucy: The Handcuffs

Actors: Will Wright, Veola Vonn, Paul Dubov

Synopsis: Having seen Fred (William Frawley) perform a magic act with a set of trick handcuffs, Lucy (Lucille Ball) decides to use the same "bracelets" to force Ricky (Desi Arnaz) to spend the evening with her rather than attending a rehearsal. Unfortunately, the handcuffs are so old that no key exists to Read More

The Mob

Actors: Broderick Crawford, Betty Buehler, Richard Kiley, Otto Hulett, Neville Brand, Ernest Borgnine, Matt Crowley

Synopsis: Broderick Crawford plays Johnny Damico, a detective who suddenly finds himself up to his neck in trouble and his career on the line. Going home in the rain one night, he finds himself just a few feet from a shooting on a dark street, where the gunman claims to be a detective from another precinct Read More

Suicide Attack

Synopsis: Suicide Attack was assembled from captured Japanese newsreel and propaganda footage. English-language narrator Paul Dubov takes great pains to point out the inaccuracies and downright lies perpetrated by the enemy during WW II. Explicit scenes of emaciated American and British prisoners of war are Read More

Sunny Side of the Street

Actors: Frankie Laine, Billy Daniels, Terry Moore, Jerome Courtland

Synopsis: Pop-music favorites Frankie Laine and Billy Daniels head the cast of The Sunny Side of the Street. Terry Moore plays Betty Holloway, receptionist at a major TV station. Hoping to secure a break for her singer boyfriend Ted Mason (Jerome Courtland), Betty enlists the aid of Laine. Mason's career Read More

Cyrano De Bergerac

Actors: José Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince, Morris Carnovsky, Ralph Clanton, Lloyd Corrigan

Synopsis: Recreating his stage role, Jose Ferrer stars as Edmond Rostand's Cyrano, a 17th-century French cavalier, poet and swordsman whose prominent proboscis is the subject of many a duel. Cyrano is madly in love with the beautiful Roxanne (Mala Powers), but assumes that she'd never love him back due to Read More

Perfect Strangers

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, Thelma Ritter, Margalo Gillmore, Anthony Ross

Synopsis: The Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur Broadway comedy Ladies and Gentlemen formed the basis of the Warner Bros. laughspinner Perfect Strangers. The title characters are Terry Scott and David Campbell, played by Ginger Rogers and Dennis Morgan. She's a divorcee, he's a husband and father. Terry and David Read More

Young Man With a Horn

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, Juano Hernandez

Synopsis: The life of tragic jazz great Bix Beiderbecke is given the "a clef" treatment in Warner Bros. Young Man With a Horn. Kirk Douglas plays the Beiderbecke character, here named Rick Martin. An ace trumpter player, Martin is one of the few white musicians to flourish in the black-dominated jazz scene 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

The Set-Up

Actors: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter, Wallace Ford

Synopsis: As shown by the clock face that opens and closes the film, The Set-Up takes place within a compact 72 minutes, with the action played out in "real time." Robert Ryan plays Bill "Stoker" Thompson, a washed-up boxer who refuses to give up his career despite the pleas of his wife Julie (Audrey Read More

Strange Holiday

Actors: Griff Barnett, Claude Rains, Bobby Stebbins, Barbara Bates, Tommy Cook, Paul Hilton, Gloria Holden, Paul Dubov, Milt Kibbee, David Bradford

Synopsis: In many ways, the history of the cautionary fable Strange Holiday is more fascinating than the film itself. Written and directed by radio's Arch Oboler (of "Lights Out" fame), the story concerns American businessman John Stephenson (Claude Rains), who returns home after an extended vacation to Read More

Follow the Band

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

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

Mug Town

Actors: Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Grace McDonald, Bernard Punsly

Synopsis: In this entry in the "Dead End Kids" series (later they would reappear as "The Bowery Boys") the lads encounter a terribly ill young boy while they stay in a rural boarding house. The lad tries hard to keep up with the lads as they sneak into a train yard and begin playing amongst the box cars. Read More

It Ain't Hay

Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Grace McDonald, Cecil Kellaway, Eugene Pallette

Synopsis: In one of their most genial comedies -- based on a Damon Runyon story -- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello have to help one friend (Cecil Kellaway) replace his beloved carriage horse, and another friend (Leightno Noble) put together a US Army camp show. Through a misunderstanding, they take what they Read More

Boss of Big Town

Actors: John Litel, Florence Rice, H.B. Warner, Jean Brooks, John Miljan

Synopsis: Quality was seldom a consideration in the low-budget films of PRC Studios; still, the company was a welcome harbor for character actors who aspired to occasional leading roles. In Boss of Big Town, veteran supporting player John Litel is top-billed as crusading city market official Michael Lynn. Read More

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

Girls' Town

Actors: Edith Fellows, June Storey, Ken Howell, Alice White, Anna Q. Nilsson

Synopsis: In this WW II-era drama, an over-ambitious beauty contestant's single-minded pursuit of movie stardom causes her to step upon the people who love her the most. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Bombay Clipper

Actors: William Gargan, Irene Hervey, Charles Lang, Maria Montez, Lloyd Corrigan

Synopsis: A "B" picture with "A" aspirations, Bombay Clipper mostly takes place on a flight from India to San Francisco. Someone has absconded with $4,000,000 worth of diamonds, and that someone may very well be a passenger on the Bombay Clipper. International news correspondent Jim (William Gargan) hopes Read More

North to the Klondike

Actors: Broderick Crawford, Evelyn Ankers, Andy Devine, Lon Chaney, Jr., Lloyd Corrigan

Synopsis: It was an open secret in Hollywood that bosom buddies (and fellow Universal contractees) Broderick Crawford and Lon Chaney Jr. usually spent their weekend drunkenly punching one another out. Evidently Universal hoped to harness this pugnacity for box-offices purposes, which may be why North to the Read More

Escape from Hong Kong

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

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

Who Done It?

Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Patric Knowles, William Gargan, Louise Allbritton

Synopsis: With only a minimal romantic subplot and no music whatsoever, Who Done It? is pure, undiluted Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, and a good mystery on its own to boot. Bud and Lou star as Chick Larkin and Mervyn Milgrim, a pair of soda jerks who aspire to become radio detective-show writers (their Read More

The Mystery of Marie Roget

Actors: Patric Knowles, Maria Montez, Maria Ouspenskaya, John Litel, Edward Norris

Synopsis: The Mystery of Marie Roget is more faithful to its Edgar Allan Poe original than most Universal films of its ilk, even though the Poe story and the film aren't exactly twins. Based on the factual unsolved 1842 murder of one Mary Rogers, the film stars Maria Montez as the unfortunate heroine, a Read More

Danger in the Pacific

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

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

Little Tough Guy

Actors: Billy Halop, Helen Parrish, Robert Wilcox, Marjorie Main, Gabriel Dell

Synopsis: The first of the "splinter" groups to emerge from the Dead End Kids was the Little Tough Guys, consisting of veteran Dead-Enders Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsly and David Gorcey (Hally Chester and Billy Benedict would also appear in this new grouping from time to time). Read More