Phillip ReedFilmography

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Big Score

Synopsis: In order to help her burglar boyfriend, Mike (Tom Gilleran), and his pal Gino (Rafael Campos) gain access to the safe of wealthy F. Hubert Fellowes (Phillip Reed), a girl named Dora (Evans Evans) lands a job as Fellowes' babysitter. The plan goes off without a single hitch, save one: Fellowes Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Sylvia

Synopsis: Suicidal Sylvia (Ann Todd) desperately wants to be reunited with Peter, the callous fortune-hunter whom she'd married after a whirlwind courtship, and whom she was forced to divorce by her wealthy father John Leeds (John McIntire). Aware of Sylvia's ardor, Peter approaches John and offers to leave Read More

The Tattered Dress

Actors: Jeff Chandler, Jeanne Crain, Jack Carson, Gail Russell, Elaine Stewart, George Tobias

Synopsis: Jeff Chandler plays big-city lawyer James Gordon Blane, who heads to a small Nevada town to defend a playboy (Phillip Reed) accused of murder. Blane wins the case, but is then himself charged with accepting bribes. The man behind this accusation is vindictive town sheriff Nick Hoak (Jack Carson) Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Bullet for Baldwin

Synopsis: Fired after decades of loyal service to an investment firm, mousy Benjamin Stepp (John Qualen) retaliates by murdering his boss Mr. Baldwin (Sebastian Cabot). Imagine Stepp's astonishment when, the day after the murder, Mr. Baldwin shows up in the office alive and well -- and not only rehires Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Derelicts

Synopsis: A derelict named Goodfellow (Robert Newton) comes into possession of an IOU written by Ralph Cowell (Phillip Reed) to his principal creditor. As luck would have it, Goodfellow has also witnessed the murder of said creditor at the hands of Mr. Cowell. Thus it is that Goodfellow and a fellow bum Read More

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing

Actors: Ray Milland, Joan Collins, Farley Granger, Luther Adler

Synopsis: Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, the real-life personality so brilliantly (albeit briefly) portrayed by Elizabeth McGovern in Ragtime (1981), is given the full biopic treatment in 20th Century Fox's The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing. Since the real Mrs. Thaw served as technical advisor for the film, it isn't Read More

Take Me to Town

Actors: Ann Sheridan, Sterling Hayden, Phillip Reed, Lee Patrick, Lee Aaker

Synopsis: An outdoor adventure musical comedy, Take Me to Town features Ann Sheridan as Vermilion O'Toole, a barroom singer with a shady past who has taken refuge in a small timber town in the Pacific Northwest. She's on the run from a federal agent, Ed Daggett (Larry Gates). Just out of town lives Will Read More

Kate Smith Evening Hour

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

Bandit Queen

Actors: Barbara Britton, Willard Parker, Phillip Reed, Barton MacLane, Martin Garralaga

Synopsis: Long before she became a TV cosmetic-commercial spokeswoman, Barbara Britton essayed the title role in Bandit Queen. Britton plays Lola, daughter of a American father and Spanish-aristocrat mother. When her parents are murdered, Lola forms an outlaw band, dedicated to reclaiming those portions of Read More

Tripoli

Actors: Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Howard Da Silva, Phillip Reed, Grant Withers

Synopsis: The fabled 19th-century clashes between U.S. Marines and the pirates of Tripoli have provided story material for dozens of films. Tripoli stars John Payne as two-fisted marine lieutenant O'Bannon, though top billing is bestowed upon Maureen O'Hara as Countess D'Arneau, who has come to Tripoli Read More

Daughter of the West

Actors: Martha Vickers, Phillip Reed, Donald Woods, William Farnum

Synopsis: Martha Vickers was given a rare leading-role opportunity in Daughter of the West. Vickers plays Lolita Moreno, a part-Native American girl who falls in love with college-educated Navajo Navo (Philip Reed). The film's Indian characters are depicted in a dignified, respectful manner: not so the Read More

Bodyguard

Actors: Lawrence Tierney, Priscilla Lane, Phillip Reed, June Clayworth, Elizabeth Risdon

Synopsis: Granite-jawed Lawrence Tierney is the Bodyguard in this second-echelon noir thriller. Invited to resign from the LA police, short-tempered Mike Carter (Tierney) hires on to protect wealthy dowager Eugenia Dyson (Elizabeth Risdon). Before the film has reached its halfway point, Carter has been Read More

Manhandled

Actors: Dorothy Lamour, Sterling Hayden, Dan Duryea, Irene Hervey, Phillip Reed

Synopsis: Produced by Paramount's Pine-Thomas unit, Manhandled is a no-nonsense film noir with a well-chosen cast. Small-time hoodlum Karl Benson (Dan Duryea) uses and abuses several innocent people in his efforts to get ahead. Among Benson's victims is Merl Kramer (Dorothy Lamour), who doesn't find out Read More

Big Town Scandal

Actors: Phillip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Stanley Clements, Darryl Hickman, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer

Synopsis: Pine-Thomas Productions' "Big Town" film series, based on the radio program of the same name, came to an end with Big Town Scandal. Returning for their fourth go-round are Philip Reed as Steve Wilson, crusading editor of the Illustrated Daily Press, and Hillary Brooke as Lorelei Kilbourne Read More

Unknown Island

Actors: Virginia Grey, Phillip Reed, Richard Denning, Barton MacLane, Dick Wessel

Synopsis: In this science fiction adventure, John Fairbanks (Richard Denning) is a former Marine who, while on duty, discovered a previously unknown island in the Pacific where dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals have somehow managed to escape extinction and live as they did millions of years ago. Still Read More

Song of the Thin Man

Actors: Leon Ames, Warner Anderson, William Bishop, Bruce Cowling, Bess Flowers

Synopsis: In the sixth and final Thin Man whodunit, Nick (William Powell) and Nora Charles (Myrna Loy) look into the mysterious killing of bandleader Tommy Drake (Phillip Reed). The police quickly hone in on the owner of a gambling ship, Phil Brant (Bruce Cowling), who was about to lose Drake's band to a Read More

Pirates of Monterey

Actors: Rod Cameron, George Lewis, George Magrill

Synopsis: Pirates of Monterey is set during the early 19th century, at a time when California was asserting its independence from Mexico. Rod Cameron plays Phillip Kent, a devil-may-care mercenary hired to transport a shipment of rifles to the American army detachment at Monterey. Along the way, he is Read More

Song of Scheherazade

Actors: Patricia Alphin, Yvonne De Carlo, Brian Donlevy, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Eve Arden, Phillip Reed, William Brooks

Synopsis: Bearing little resemblance to reality, this musical biography of 19th century Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov takes liberal poetic license with the truth. Jeanne-Pierre Aumont stars as Nicky, a Naval Academy cadet assigned to a vessel undergoing a world cruise. On shore leave in Morocco Read More

Big Town After Dark

Actors: Phillip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Richard Travis, Vince Barnett

Synopsis: Top-notch police reporter Lorelei Kilbourne (Hillary Brooke) decides to resign her job when her novel is published, and gives Big Town Illustrated Press editor-in-chief Steve Wilson (Philip Reed) her two-weeks' notice. Lorelei is surprised when Steve hires a replacement that day, Susan Peabody Read More

Big Town

Actors: Phillip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Robert Lowery, Byron Barr, Veda Ann Borg

Synopsis: Big Town was the first of a series of Pine-Thomas productions inspired by the radio series of the same name--which in turn was spun off into a long-running TV series. Philip Reed stars as crusading newspaper editor Steve Wilson, while Hillary Brooke portrays Wilson's ever-loving, ever-efficient Read More

I Cover Big Town

Actors: Phillip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Robert Lowery, Robert Shayne, Louis Jean Heydt

Synopsis: This was the second entry in Pine-Thomas' film series based on the popular radio show Big Town. Philip Reed and Hillary Brooke return respectively as Steve Kilgore, crusading editor of the Illustrated Daily Press, and Steve's plucky Gal Friday Lorelei Kilbourne. In this one, Steve suspects Read More

Hot Cargo

Actors: William Gargan, Jean Rogers, Phillip Reed, Larry Young, Harry Cording

Synopsis: In this drama two wandering WW II vets visit the family of a former buddy who had been killed in action. Finding the family nearly destitute and their trucking business on the brink of ruin, the friends decide to stay and help them fight the rival companies behind the mayhem. Unfortunately, the Read More

People Are Funny

Actors: Jack Haley, Helen Walker, Rudy Vallee, Ozzie Nelson, Phillip Reed

Synopsis: Art Linkletter had only recently taken over the popular audience-participation radio series People are Funny from Art Baker when he appeared as "himself" in this lighthearted musical comedy. The film's plot concerns a rivalry between two radio producers, both of whom want to produce a Read More

Rendezvous with Annie

Synopsis: Director Allan Dwan moved to Republic Pictures in 1946, there to make the same sort of marital farce he'd been specializing in at United Artists throughout the 1940s. Eddie Albert plays an American pilot stationed in England who pines for his stateside wife (Faye Marlowe). Denied a pass, he goes Read More

Her Sister's Secret

Actors: Nancy Coleman, Margaret Lindsay, Phillip Reed, Felix Bressart, Regis Toomey

Synopsis: An unusually elaborate film from the bargain-basement PRC studios, Her Sister's Secret is set in New Orleans at Mardi Gras time. The "secret" involves an illegitimate child. Nancy Coleman is impregnated by a soldier on leave, and when she fears that he'll never return, she persuades her married Read More

Old Acquaintance

Actors: Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young, John Loder, Dolores Moran

Synopsis: After the box office success of The Old Maid, Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins were reunited for this catty drama. Kitty Marlowe (Davis) is a well-respected author who returns to the small town of her birth, where she becomes reacquainted with her childhood friend Millie Drake (Hopkins). While Read More

A Gentleman After Dark

Actors: Brian Donlevy, Miriam Hopkins, Preston S. Foster, Harold Huber, Phillip Reed

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a remake of Forgotten Faces (1936), a convict busts out of prison to protect his daughter from her conniving mother so that the girl will be able to marry a decent guy in the future. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Weekend for Three

Actors: Dennis O'Keefe, Jane Wyatt, Phillip Reed, Edward Everett Horton, ZaSu Pitts

Synopsis: Boasting a script cowritten by Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell from a story by Budd Schulberg, Weekend for Three should have been a comedy classic-but alas, it isn't. Over the protests of her husband Jim (Dennis O'Keefe), Ellen Craig (Jane Wyatt) invites her old friend Randy (Dennis O'Keefe) to Read More

Aloma of the South Seas

Actors: Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Lynne Overman, Phillip Reed, Katherine de Mille

Synopsis: The South Seas romance is set on the scenic island of Tahiti where the island chief betroths his son to a woman and then ships him to the US to attend Harvard. During the return voyage the lad is befriended by the ship's captain who also protects the beautiful girl the boy meets, but doesn't know Read More

Little Miss Molly

Synopsis: In this heartwarming drama, an orphaned 5-year old is sent to live with her cold-hearted aunt who keeps her around because the girl is the only one who knows the secret of her father's will. The little girl will not even tell her big sister who is in love with an American writer. ~ Sandra Brennan Read More

My Irish Molly

Actors: Maureen O'Hara, Binkie Stuart, Tom Burke, Phillip Reed, Maire O'Neill

Synopsis: Filmed in 1938, My Irish Molly was released in US in 1940 to capitalize on the popularity of Maureen O'Hara. The actress enjoys top billing in the American prints, but the film's real star is juvenile music-hall star Binkie Stuart as the titular Molly. An orphan girl, poor but plucky Molly is Read More

Merrily We Live

Actors: Constance Bennett, Brian Aherne, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray, Patsy Kelly

Synopsis: Merrily We Live is a blatant imitation of My Man Godfrey, courtesy of producer Hal Roach. This time Brian Aherne is the gentleman vagabond whom flighty society matron Billie Burke hires as a butler. Aherne's down-to-earth attitude jars against the high-toned phoniness of Burke's wealthy household Read More

Madame X

Actors: Gladys George, John Beal, Warren William, Reginald Owen, William Henry

Synopsis: Sam Wood directed this fourth version of the Alexandre Bisson weeper, buffed to a high gloss by shimmering M.G.M. production values. Gladys George plays Jacqueline Fleuriot this time around, the wife of a diplomat who has an affair and is compelled to leave her husband and son. After abandoning Read More

The Luckiest Girl in the World

Actors: Jane Wyatt, Louis Hayward, Nat Pendleton, Eugene Pallette, Catherine Doucet

Synopsis: In this comedy, an sheltered heiress bets her father that she can make it in New York city on only $150 per week. She does this to prove to her father that she will be able to live a scaled down existence with her fiancé, who is not wealthy. Her father agrees to the bet, and she goes to the Big Read More

The Murder of Dr. Harrigan

Actors: Kay Linaker, Ricardo Cortez, Mary Astor, John Eldredge, Joseph Crehan

Synopsis: The Murder of Dr. Harrigan is based on a "Nurse Sarah Keats" mystery novel by Mignon Eberhardt. The middle-aged protagonist of the novel has been transformed into pretty, young nurse Sally Keating (Kay Linaker), in love with handsome doctor George Lambert (Ricardo Cortez). The founder of the Read More

Klondike Annie

Actors: Mae West, Victor McLaglen, Phillip Reed, Harold Huber, Lucille Gleason

Synopsis: Mae West butts heads with Victor McLaglen in Raoul Walsh's Klondike Annie, but the real victor was the Legion of Decency, whose censorship strictures transformed a saucy and spicy gumbo into something closer to chicken noodle soup. West plays Rose Carlton, the kept woman of Chan Lo (Harold Huber) Read More

The Last of the Mohicans

Actors: Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes, Heather Angel, Hugh Buckler, Henry Wilcoxon

Synopsis: Randolph Scott has one of his best roles as Hawkeye in this exciting film adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's often filmed novel. During the brutal French and Indian War, Hawkeye is prevailed upon to escort Major Duncan Heyward (Henry Wilcoxon), and the two daughters of Fort William Henry Read More

Sweet Music

Actors: Rudy Vallee, Ann Dvorak, Ned Sparks, Helen Morgan, Robert Armstrong

Synopsis: Rudy Vallee made his third feature-film starring appearance in the breezy Warner Bros. musical Sweet Music. Vallee is appropriately cast as singer-bandleader Skip Houston, who falls in love with aspiring dancer Bonnie Haydon (Ann Dvorak). Though Bonnie feels the same way about Skip, the two leads Read More

The Girl From Tenth Avenue

Actors: Bette Davis, Ian Hunter, Colin Clive, Alison Skipworth, John Eldredge

Synopsis: The fourth screen version of Hubert Henry Davies' 1914 play Outcast, this comedy-drama stars Bette Davis as Miriam Brady, a shop girl offered 100 dollars to keep drunken socialite Geoffrey Sherwood (Ian Hunter) out of trouble. The next morning, alas, Miriam discovers that she has become Mrs. Read More

The Case of the Curious Bride

Actors: Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Woods, Claire Dodd, Allen Jenkins, Errol Flynn

Synopsis: Errol Flynn makes his Hollywood screen debut as a corpse in this funny, fast-paced whodunit, the third of six Perry Mason vehicles produced by Warner Bros. from 1934 to 1937. Flynn's murder victim is one Gregory Moxley, the estranged and long-thought dead husband of Perry's client, Rhoda Montaine Read More

Accent on Youth

Actors: Sylvia Sidney, Herbert Marshall, Phillip Reed, Holmes Herbert, Catherine Doucet

Synopsis: Based on Samson Raphaelson's stage play, Accent on Youth focuses on a May-December romance. Herbert Marshall (46 years old at the time) is a successful middle-aged playwright; Constance Cummings is his young secretary, who prefers the company of mature men. She sets her cap on marrying the Read More

Maybe It's Love

Actors: Gloria Stuart, Ross Alexander, Frank McHugh, Helen Lowell, Phillip Reed

The Woman in Red

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Gene Raymond, Genevieve Tobin, Phillip Reed

Synopsis: In this romantic drama, a horsewoman is forced to work in a society dame's stable. There she meets and falls in love with a destitute polo-player who has curried the favor of his lovely employer. The matron gets jealous of the budding relationship between the horsewoman and the player. A wealthy Read More

Fashions of 1934

Actors: Bette Davis, William Powell, Veree Teasdale, Reginald Owen, Hugh Herbert, Frank McHugh

Synopsis: Now known simply as Fashions, the lavish Warner Bros. musical Fashions of 1934 stars the unlikely but copacetic team of William Powell and Bette Davis. It all begins when genial con artist Sherwood Nash (Powell) transfers his base of operations from New York to Paris. Sensing that the fashion Read More

British Agent

Actors: Leslie Howard, Kay Francis, William Gargan, Phillip Reed, Irving Pichel

Synopsis: British Agent starred the Hungarian/British actor Leslie Howard in the title role, was directed by full-fledged Hungarian Michael Curtiz, and costarred American leading lady Kay Francis as a Russian spy. Based on the memoirs of R. H. Bruce Lockhart, who had been the unofficial British emissary to Read More

Big Hearted Herbert

Actors: Guy Kibbee, Patricia Ellis, Helen Lowell, Phillip Reed

Synopsis: Guy Kibbee trots out his small-town blowhard routine in the title role of Big Hearted Herbert. He plays a former plumber who strikes it rich in the bathroom-fixture manufacturing business (guess which fixture we don't see in this Post-Code film). A stingy soul, Kibbee prefers the company of Read More

Affairs of A Gentleman

Actors: Paul Lukas, Leila Hyams, Patricia Ellis, Phillip Reed, Onslow Stevens

Synopsis: The mysterious death of a notoriously candid author provides the basis of this mystery. Investigators do not believe the suicide note found with his corpse. It seems the author had written a scandalous autobiography detailing his many affairs, with no regard to the feelings of the women involved. Read More

Glamour

Actors: Paul Lukas, Constance Cummings, Phillip Reed, Joseph Cawthorn, Doris Lloyd

Synopsis: Another of director William Wyler's "apprenticeship" films, Glamour is based on a story by Edna Ferber. The original story covered 24 hours in the life of actress Linda Fayne (Constance Cummings), who is so busy with her career that there's no time left over for her baby. This plotline was used as 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

Journal of a Crime

Actors: Ruth Chatterton, Adolphe Menjou, Claire Dodd, George Barbier, Douglas Dumbrille

Synopsis: A Hollywood version of Jacques Deval's 1933 French drama Un Vie Perdue, Journal of a Crime stars Ruth Chatterton as Françoise Moliet, a proud Parisian who refuses to divorce her playwright husband Paul (Adolphe Menjou), even though he is rather publicly dallying with the star of his latest Read More

Gambling Lady

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Pat O'Brien, Claire Dodd, C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis: Born on the proverbial wrong side of the tracks, Lady Lee (Barbara Stanwyck) rises to prominence as a professional gambler. Though she works in a somewhat shady casino, our heroine enjoys a reputation for utter honesty, refusing all entreaties to turn crooked. Impressed by this quality, wealthy Read More

Jimmy the Gent

Actors: James Cagney, Bette Davis, Alice White, Allen Jenkins, Alan Dinehart, Arthur Hohl

Synopsis: James Cagney runs a shady missing-heir tracing service, occasionally providing phony heirs in order to collect his fee. He suffers a tinge of jealousy when he takes a gander at the offices of a legitimate tracing firm, where his former girlfriend (Bette Davis) has taken a job. Jimmy soon learns Read More

Doctor Monica

Actors: Kay Francis, Warren William, Jean Muir, Veree Teasdale, Phillip Reed

Synopsis: The second of three Kay Francis films in which the star was cast as a dedicated lady physician, Doctor Monica was adapted from a Polish play by Marja Morozowicz Szezepkowska. Francis plays obstetrician Dr. Monica, whose husband John (Warren William) cheats on her with young Mary (Jean Muir). When 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

Female

Actors: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Philip Faversham, Ruth Donnelly, Johnny Mack Brown

Synopsis: Ruth Chatterton tears up the screen in this fast-paced, lusty comedy. Alison Drake is an automobile magnate, a hard-nosed, hardboiled business woman making dozens of important decisions a day. In her private life, however, she is passionate and bold in her pursuit of male companionship, which she 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

The House on 56th Street

Actors: Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Gene Raymond, John Halliday, Margaret Lindsay

Synopsis: This melodrama chronicles three decades in the life of the New York located title house beginning at the turn of the century when a chorine falls in love with a wealthy young man. He loves her too and this inspires the lass to leave her sugar daddy, marry and move into the beautiful home that is Read More

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