Raymond HattonFilmography

In Cold Blood

Actors: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Paul Stewart, Gerald O'Loughlin, John Gallaudet

Synopsis: Richard Brooks wrote and directed this stark black-and-white (with brilliantly evocative cinematography by Conrad Hall) study of two drifters who murder a family, based on Truman Capote's non-fiction novel In Cold Blood. The film takes place in Holcomb, Kansas, where four members of the Herbert Read More

Requiem for a Gunfighter

Synopsis: In this western, a gunfighter finds himself mistaken for a judge when he journeys to a beleaguered town that is under the oppressive influence of an outlaw and his evil gang. One couple knows the gunslinger's true avocation and they talk him into working as a lawman and putting one of the crooks Read More

The Quick Gun

Actors: Audie Murphy, Merry Anders, James Best, Ted de Corsia, Walter Sande

Synopsis: In this western, a cowboy finally returns to his home after a long absence precipitated by his killing a wicked rancher's son in a forced duel. The cowboy wants to live peacefully on his daddy's ranch and be with the woman that he loves. While on the trail home, he encounters a ruthless outlaw Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Tax Gatherer

Synopsis: The town of Bad Dog, Oregon is populated by wealthy ranchers who refuse to pay their cattle taxes. Actually, it goes beyond a mere refusal: Three tax collectors have already been killed in their efforts to get the cattlemen to pay up. You guessed it: Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired as Collector Read More

Maverick: The Marquesa

Synopsis: Winning a high-stakes poker game, Bart (Jack Kelly) finds himself the owner of the Lucky Lady Saloon in Santa Leora. But when he shows up to claim his prize, he is confronted by the hired guns of Marquessa Luisa de Ruisenor (played byAdele Mara, the wife of Maverick producer-creator Roy Huggins). Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Trial

Synopsis: Wealthy Morgan Gibbs (Robert F. Simon) hires Paladin (Richard Boone) to locate Gibbs' son David (Bud Slater), a fugitive from justice, and bring him back alive. Shortly thereafter, Paladin returns with David's dead body in tow. Accused of murdering the boy in order to collect a $500 body, Paladin Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Full Circle

Synopsis: Paladin (Richard Boone) receives an urgent message from a notorious con artist named Simon Quill (Adam Williams), who hopes to avoid being hanged on a murder charge. Unfortunately, Paladin cannot forget that Quinn not only once swindled him with a phony gold mine, but also left him to die in Read More

Maverick: Royal Four-Flush

Synopsis: Showing up in Virginia City to collect a $4000 debt from Captain Rory Fitzgerald (David Frankham), Bart has trouble believing that the prosperous-looking Fitzgerald is as penniless as he claims. Rather than absorb the loss, Bart decides to hang around in town until the Captain is able to make good Read More

Alaska Passage

Actors: Bill Williams, Nick Dennis, Nora Hayden, Leslie E. Bradley, Lyn Thomas

Synopsis: Set in the new state of Alaska, this 1959 "B" drama features both a romantic quadrangle, if not pentagon, and a failing trucking company. Al (Bill Williams) manages the company out of a small town where the trucks make regular runs to Fairbanks. On top of rock slides and bad weather, he now has to Read More

Maverick: Burial Ground of the Gods

Synopsis: Cheated by con artist Paisley Briggs (Claude Akins), Bart trails the man to Denver, where Briggs is preparing to fleece a young widow named Nancy Gates (Laura Stunton), whose husband may or may not have been killed by Indians. Persuading Nancy that her husband is still alive, Briggs talks her into Read More

The Adventures of Superman: The Prince Albert Coat

Synopsis: Grandfather Jackson (Raymond Hatton) has sewn his life savings into the lining of an old coat. His grandson Bobby (Stephen Wooton) unwittingly donates the coat to a flood-relief fund drive. Reporters Lois (Noel Neill) and Jimmy (Jack Larson) endeavor to retries the coat back, but a couple of Read More

Flesh and the Spur

Actors: John Agar, Marla English, Raymond Hatton, Maria Monay

Synopsis: One of the least-known of the American-International "B" westerns of the 1950s, Flesh and the Spur offers the spectacle of the inimitable John Agar in a dual role. When his twin brother Mathew is killed, Luke Random goes gunnin' for his brother's murderer. Along the way, he teams up with Read More

Leave It to Beaver: The Clubhouse

Actors: James Gleason, Raymond Hatton, Allen Windsor, Charles Wagenheim, Johnny Silver

Synopsis: Wally (Tony Dow) and his friends build a clubhouse and then (naturally) form a club, with one-dollar dues for their fellow eighth-graders. When Beaver asks to join the club, he is flatly informed that dues for younger kids amount to three bucks! Though it's daunting task, Beav canvasses the Read More

Pawnee

Actors: George Montgomery, Bill Williams, Lola Albright, Francis McDonald, Robert Griffin

Synopsis: George Montgomery stars in Pawnee as Paul, a white man raised by Indians. Upon attaining adulthood, Paul finds himself rejected by both the Pawnee tribe and the white community. He manages to attain a job as a wagon train scout, but even in this position of respect and authority he is treated with 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

Motorcycle Gang

Actors: Anne Neyland, Steve Terrell, John Ashley, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, Raymond Hatton

Synopsis: The title tells practically all in the American-International exploitationer Motorcycle Gang. The film's main conflict arises from the rivalry between "good" cyclist Randy (Steve Tyrrell) and his "bad" counterpart Nick (John Ashley). Recently released from a jail term, Nick forces Randy (who Read More

Invasion of the Saucer Men

Actors: Steve Terrell, Gloria Castillo, Frank Gorshin, Raymond Hatton, Lynn Osborn

Synopsis: Invasion of the Saucer Men can't make up its mind whether it wants to be a comedy, a j.d. melodrama or a horror outing. When a spaceship lands in the woods, Johnny (Steve Terrell) and Joan (Gloria Castillo) accidentally run over one of the aliens. In retaliation, the saucer-men kill Joe (Frank Gorshin 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

Dig That Uranium

Actors: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey, Mary Beth Hughes, Raymond Hatton, Harry Lauter

Synopsis: The Bowery Boys--Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall) et. al.--are suckered into buying a uranium mine near the western town of Panther Pass. Though the boys find none of the precious mineral, a gang of bad guys, led by Ron Haskell (Harry Lauter), are led to believe that mine is valuable. The Read More

The Adventures of Superman: Dagger Island

Synopsis: In this precursor to the "reality" series Survivor, the staff of the "Daily Planet" serve as referees for a treasure hunt conducted on a remote island by the three heirs to the fortune of Jonathan Skag (Raymond Hatton). It turns out, however, that the "late" Mr. Skag is very much alive, and is Read More

Girls in Prison

Actors: Richard Denning, Joan Taylor, Adele Jergens, Helen Gilbert, Lance Fuller

Synopsis: Girls in Prison is a typical babes-behind-bars affair, elevated by a better than usual cast. Richard Denning stars as a prison chaplain who believes inmate Joan Taylor's story that she's been framed. But Joan's cellmates, convinced that the girl has salted away several thousand dollars of stolen Read More

The Twinkle in God's Eye

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Coleen Gray, Hugh O'Brian, Joey Forman

Synopsis: Twinkle in God's Eye, Mickey Rooney's second personal production for Republic Pictures, is at the very least an improvement upon the first (The Atomic Kid). More subdued than usual, Rooney stars as Rev. Macklin, a greenhorn clergyman who tries to spread the Good Word to a rowdy western town. Read More

Treasure of Ruby Hills

Actors: Zachary Scott, Carole Mathews, Barton MacLane, Dick Foran, Lola Albright

Synopsis: Zachary Scott heads the cast of the heavily plotted western Treasure of Ruby Hills. The son of a notorious outlaw, Haney (Scott) intends to settle down peacefully in Soledad, Arizona. This proves difficult when Haney finds himself in the middle of a violent feud over water rights. The heavy of the Read More

The Adventures of Superman: The Bully of Dry Gulch

Synopsis: Arriving in the western town of Dry Gulch to cover a rodeo, Lois (Noel Neill) and Jimmy (Jack Larson) attract the attention of brutish Gunner Flinch (Myron Healey). After forcing his attentions on Lois, Gunner orders Jimmy to leave town by sundown, or else he'll fill him full of lead--and to prove Read More

Thunder Pass

Synopsis: A U.S. Army cavalry officer (Dane Clark) leads westward-bound settlers through Indian territory. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Cow Country

Actors: Edmond O'Brien, Helen Westcott, Bob Lowry, Barton MacLane, Peggie Castle

Synopsis: A "big" western by Allied Artists standards, Cow Country is directed with his usual panache by horse-opera expert Lesley Selander. Adapted from a novel by Curtis Bishop, the film stars Edmond O'Brien as Ben Anthony, an adventurer-for-hire who casts his lot with Texas cattleman Walt Garnet (Robert H. Barrat Read More

The Golden Hawk

Actors: Rhonda Fleming, Sterling Hayden, Helena Carter, John Sutton, Paul Cavanagh

Synopsis: This Sam Katzman costume quickie stars Sterling Hayden as 17th-century privateer Kit Gerardo, and (inevitably in a buccaneer meller of this sort) Rhonda Fleming as a gorgeous female pirate named Rouge. When Rouge's vessel is besieged by the minions of evil Caribbean governor Luis del Toro (John Sutton Read More

Trail of the Arrow

Skipalong Rosenbloom

Actors: "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, Max Baer, Jackie Coogan, Fuzzy Knight, Hillary Brooke

Synopsis: Originally slated for release by Eagle Lion, Skipalong Rosenbloom purchased by United Artists -- who gave it a cursory theatrical release before selling the film to television. As it turned out, TV was the appropriate medium for this heavy-handed satire of video westerns. Former boxing champ Maxie Rosenbloom Read More

Kentucky Jubilee

Actors: Jerry Colonna, Jean Porter, James Ellison, Fritz Feld, Raymond Hatton

Synopsis: From the opening credits onward, bombastic comedian Jerry Colonna dominates the proceedings in Kentucky Jubilee. Colonna plays second-rate entertainer Jerry Harris, who links up with aspiring singer Sally Shannon (Jean Porter) and hotshot reporter Jeff Benson (James Ellison). The trio heads to the Read More

The Haunted Mine

Synopsis: A series of prospector murders near an abandoned mine are investigated by a lawman in this exciting western. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Hostile Country

Actors: James Ellison, Russell Hayden, Raymond Hatton, Fuzzy Knight, Betty Adams

Synopsis: Though released second, Hostile Country was the first of six "Four Star" westerns, filmed back to back within the space of four weeks by Lippert Productions. Starring in all six of these quickie oaters are Jimmie Ellison and Russell Hayden as a couple of wandering cavaliers named Shamrock and Read More

Marshal of Heldorado

Actors: James Ellison, Russell Hayden, Raymond Hatton, Fuzzy Knight

Synopsis: Marshal of Heldorado is one of six "Four-Star" westerns produced and released by Lippert Pictures in 1950. If these six films tend to look alike, it isn't surprising. All six were filmed at the same time within a space of four weeks, and all starred Russell "Lucky" Hayden, Jimmy "Shamrock" Read More

The Last Bullet

Synopsis: After his parents are killed, a cowboy vows to avenge their deaths. (AKA Crooked River) ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Operation Haylift

Actors: Bill Williams, Ann Rutherford, Tom Brown, Jane Nigh, Joe Sawyer

Synopsis: Veteran character actor Joe Sawyer produced, co-wrote and co-starred in the diverting docudrama Operation Haylift. Based on an actual incident that took place in 1949, the film recounts the efforts of the U.S. Air Force to rescue stranded cattle during a devastating series of blizzards. Sawyer's Read More

The Dalton's Women

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

Blazing Guns

Synopsis: Blazing Guns is the television title of the Lippert Studios western Marshal of Helldorado. Jimmie Ellison and Russell Hayden star as perennial frontier do-gooders Shamrock and Lucky. This time, our heroes come to the assistance of banker Raymond Hatton, who is being blackmailed by an outlaw band Read More

Sudden Death

Synopsis: Sudden Death is the TV title of the 55-minute western Fast on the Draw. Colorado Ranger Jimmy Ellison has a phobia about handling guns, but it's his job to keep the peace. So Ellison poses as a famous gunslinger, hoping to intimidate a crooked land baron into capitulation. There comes a time in Read More

Dick Tracy [TV Series]

Actors: Ralph Byrd

Crooked River

Actors: James Ellison, Russell Hayden, Raymond Hatton, Fuzzy Knight, Betty Adams

Synopsis: Crooked River is another of Lippert Studio's "Four Star" western series. These six films were shot back-to-back in the space of a month; all were directed by Thomas Carr, and all starred Russell "Lucky" Hayden, Jimmy "Shamrock" Ellison, Raymond Hatton, Fuzzy Knight and Betty (later Julie) Adams. Read More

West of the Brazos

Actors: James Ellison, Raymond Hatton, Fuzzy Knight

Synopsis: West of the Brazos was one of six westerns filmed back-to-back within a single month by Lippert Studios in 1950. All of these films starred Russ "Lucky" Hayden, Jimmy "Shamrock" Ellson, Raymond Hatton, Fuzzy Knight and Betty (later Julie) Adams. In Brazos, "Lucky" and "Shamrock" try to foil the Read More

County Fair

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Jane Nigh, Florence Bates, Warren Douglas, Raymond Hatton

Synopsis: County Fair is an amiable racetrack drama starring Rory Calhoun. A veteran horse trainer, Calhoun has developed a somewhat unsavory reputation. He redeems himself by arranging for near-impoverished matron Florence Bates to win an important race. It's all for the love of a good woman--in this case, Bates Read More

Guns of Justice

Actors: James Ellison, Russell Hayden, Raymond Hatton, Fuzzy Knight, Betty Adams

Synopsis: Colorado Ranger was the third in Lippert Studio's six-film "Four Star Western" series. All six entries were filmed simultaneously within the same month, and all starred Russell "Lucky" Hayden, James "Shamock" Ellison, Raymond Hatton, Fuzzy Knight, and Betty (later Julie) Adams. In this Read More

Fast on the Draw

Actors: James Ellison, Russell Hayden, Raymond Hatton, Fuzzy Knight

Synopsis: Fast on the Draw was one of six Lippert Studios "Four Star" westerns, all of which were filmed simultaneously in the space of a single month. Jimmy Ellison plays Shamrock, a Colorado Ranger who suffers from a fear of firearms. Despite this handicap, Shamrock is assigned to pose as a gunman, the Read More

Hidden Danger

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Max "Alibi" Terhune, Christine Larson, Myron Healey

Synopsis: Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown western series galloped ever onward in Hidden Danger. This time, Johnny and his saddle pal Banty (Raymond Hatton) come in contact with a cattlemen's protective organization. Ostensibly an honest venture, the association is the front for an extortion racket, headed by a Read More

The Sheriff of Medicine Bow

Synopsis: Sheriff of Medicine Bow is one of the slower-moving Johnny Mack Brown westerns for Monogram. Once, again, Brown is teamed with Raymond Hatton, but something new has been added. Max Terhune plays Hatton's comic foil, travelling under the same character name-"Alibi"-that he used when costarring in Read More

Rolling Home

Synopsis: In this western, an ol' cowhand and his grandson enter a nice, but lame horse in a trotting race in hopes of raising enough money to save the little town church. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Overland Trails

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown stars in this above-average B-Western from Monogram, penned under the pseudonym of Jess Bowers by veteran genre specialist Adele Buffington. Mack Brown plays Johnny Murdoch, a drifter arriving in Gold Flats in search of his prospector father. From old-timer Dusty Hanover (Raymond Hatton Read More

Back Trail

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Mildred Coles, Marshall Reed

Synopsis: Back Trail is one of the livelier entries in Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown western series. Brown rides into a small town where he becomes embroiled in a blackmail scheme. The town's banker (Ted Adams), a pillar of respectability, once served a jail term. Outlaw leader Pierce Lyden threatens to Read More

The Fighting Ranger

Synopsis: In this western, a Texas Ranger and his pardner gallop after a band of desperadoes. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Crossed Trails

Actors: Raymond Hatton, Johnny Mack Brown, Lynne Carver, Douglas Evans, Kathy Frye

Synopsis: "Some were good, some were bad, and all looked pretty much alike." This was "B"-western historian Don Miller's assessment of Johnny Mack Brown's Monogram westerns of the 1940s. One of the better look-alikes was Crossed Trails, in which Brown champions the cause of pretty ranch owner Maggie (Lynne Carver Read More

Frontier Agent

Synopsis: A rather corpulent Johnny Mack Brown more than fills the title role of Frontier Agent. Once more, Brown plays a government man, sent to the badlands to round up an elusive outlaw gang. And once more, he is aided and abetted by Raymond Hatton, an old codger who has a lot more on the ball than Read More

Triggerman

Gun Talk

Actors: Christine McIntyre, Douglas Evans, Geneva Gray

Synopsis: In this western, a hero prevents a stagecoach robbery and wins the respect and confidence of a mine owner and a pretty woman who is going west to see her sister. Two outlaws next try to jump the miner's claim. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Gunning for Justice

Synopsis: Three fellows band together to help a woman find her uncle's cache of gold in this western. All they have to help them is a tattered map that her uncle, a prisoner of war, created in camp. Unfortunately two badguys have the map and try to turn the three goodguys against the niece. They do not Read More

Raiders of the South

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown races to the rescue in the Monogram western Raiders of the South. But we're a bit ahead of ourselves here: we should explain that Johnny has come to the aid of helpless settlers who've been victimized by a vigilante group. The mysterious masked leader turns out be...but wait Read More

Code of the Saddle

Synopsis: Smokin' guns, swingin' fists, and a lovable side-kick can be found in this western. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Prairie Express

Actors: Ted Adams, Virginia Belmont, Johnny Mack Brown, Steve Clark

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown comes to the aid of a beleaguered female freight line operator in this standard Monogram oater directed by veteran Lambert Hillyer. Having saved his old friend Faro Jenkins (Raymond Hatton) and young Dave Porter (Robert Winkler) from marauding outlaws, Ranger Johnny Hudson (Mack Read More

The Law Comes to Gunsight

Synopsis: One film critic compared Monogram's eight Johnny Mack Brown westerns of 1947 to strawberries: it was up to the viewer sort out which were good, and which were bad. Law Comes to Gunsight is a little of both. Brown arrives in the town of, yes, Gunsight, in the company of saddle pal Raymond Hatton. Read More

Flashing Guns

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Jan Bryant, Douglas Evans, James Logan

Synopsis: After a brief mid-1940s burst of originality, Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown western series settled back into the commonplace with such entries as Flashing Guns. In this outing, Brown tries to save his pal Shelby (Raymond Hatton) from being thrown off his ranch by crooked banker Ainsworth (James E. Read More

Black Gold

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Katherine de Mille, Elyse Knox, Kane Richmond

Synopsis: A kind-hearted Native American adopts a homeless, orphaned Chinese boy who has only a horse to his name. This touching melodrama chronicles the years they spend together. The boy's new parents mate his horse with their mare and the resulting filly proves to be fast. They nearly lose the filly, but Read More

Valley of Fear

Land of the Lawless

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown goes up against a female boss villain in this unusual Western from Monogram. Hired to look into dirty dealings in the town of Medicine Flats, Johnny learns that Kansas City Kate (Christine McIntyre), the owner of the Golden Spur Saloon, has been waging a war against local Read More

Unconquered

Actors: Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva, Boris Karloff, Katherine de Mille, Ward Bond

Synopsis: Cecil B. DeMille's first postwar production, the $5 million Technicolor historical spectacular Unconquered lacks only the kitchen sink. The story begins in England in the 1760s, as Abigail Martha Hale (Paulette Goddard), unjustly accused of a crime against the Crown, is sentenced by the Lord Chief Read More

Trailing Danger

Synopsis: Trailing Danger is one of Johnny Mack Brown's cookie-cutter Monogram westerns. Once again, Brown is teamed with grizzled Raymond Hatton. Once again, he plays his cards close to his chest throughout most of the film. And once again, he springs into action in reel six, trouncing the villains whom Read More

Northwest Trail

Synopsis: Produced by Gower Gulch maverick Robert L. Lippert and filmed in not-so-glorious two-strip Cinecolor near Idyllwild, California, this Northwest Mounted melodrama starred the veteran Bob Steele as a rather surly mountie who, against his own better judgment, is persuaded to escort a patronizing Read More

Trigger Fingers

Fool's Gold

Actors: Stephen Barclay, Bob Bentley, William "Hopalong" Boyd, Rand Brooks, Andy Clyde

Synopsis: The second of William Boyd's self-produced "Hopalong Cassidy" films, Fool's Gold maintains the standards set by the first (Devil's Playground), though it's a step down from the vintage Cassidy films of the late 1930s-early 1940s. Once again, Hoppy (Boyd) is teamed with California Carson (Andy Read More

Gentleman from Texas

Synopsis: In one of his better Monogram Westerns, Johnny Mack Brown goes up against a crooked saloon owner with more than one murder on his conscience. Steve Corbin (Tristram Coffin) and his gang of cutthroats are terrorizing the townspeople of Rimrock, who in self-defense hire Johnny Macklin (Mack Brown) Read More

Desert Command

Under Arizona Skies

Synopsis: Monogram added a bit of music to this otherwise standard Johnny Mack Brown oater, courtesy of former star Smith Ballew, who performs Cindy Walker's "The Strawberry Blonde" and Don Swander and June Hershey's "Livin' Western Style" accompanied by Dusty Rhodes and the Sons of the Sage. Mack Brown Read More

Drifting Along

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Lynne Carver, Raymond Hatton, Smith Ballew

Synopsis: Monogram added several songs and a barn dance to this otherwise standard Johnny Mack Brown hay burner, in which the veteran cowboy star comes to the aid of a beleaguered female rancher. Just "drifting along," Steve Garner (Mack Brown) obtains the job of foreman on a spread belonging to pretty Pat Read More

Silver Range

Synopsis: Veteran cowboy star Johnny Mack Brown plays a cattle buyer turned prairie sleuth in this low-budget oater from Monogram, which co-stars perennial old-timer Raymond Hatton as a retired U.S. Marshal assigned to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a rancher. As the two old friends soon learn Read More

Border Bandits

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Riley Hill, John Merton

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown dons a marshal's badge in the Monogram western Border Bandits. Brown's sworn duty is to bring in a gang of crooks whose hideout is on the other side of the Mexican border. Aiding Brown in his task are faithful sidekicks Raymond Hatton and Riley Hill. For reasons unknown, Brown is Read More

Shadows on the Range

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown stars in the formula oater Shadows on the Range. The film was made at a time when Monogram was experimenting with the notion of passing Brown off as a singing cowboy. While his voice is dubbed, he's definitely handling all the action sequences himself, and that's what the fans Read More

Sunbonnet Sue

Actors: Gale Storm, Phil Regan, George Cleveland, Minna Gombell, Raymond Hatton

Synopsis: Set in New York's Lower East Side during the Gay '90s, this lively low-budget musical follows the exploits of a feisty and talented saloon owner's daughter who loves nothing more than to perform in her father's tavern. Her late-night shenanigans appall her wealthy and socially conscious aunt who Read More

The Stranger from Pecos

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Kirby Grant, Christine McIntyre, Steve Clark

Synopsis: Though it wasn't the first of the batch, The Stranger from Pecos would have been an excellent starting point for Johnny Mack Brown's Monogram western series. Containing a great deal more excitement than the official first entry (The Ghost Rider), the film casts Brown as Nevada, a US marshal Read More

Frontier Feud

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Dennis Moore, Christine McIntyre, Jack Ingram

Synopsis: A bit paunchier but no less energetic, Johnny Mack Brown is back as Nevada Jack McKenzie in Frontier Feud. Once again, Nevada and his grizzled sidekick Sandy (Raymond Hatton) are US marshals posing as drifters. Rancher Joe (Dennis Moore) is accused of a series of murders, but Nevada and Sandy Read More

Gun Smoke

Synopsis: The trail provides great adventure for a cowboy in this western. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Flame of the West

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Joan Woodbury, Douglas Dumbrille, Lynne Carver

Synopsis: Flame of the West has always attracted more attention than most of Johnny Mack Brown's Monogram westerns, if for no other reason than the offbeat casting of Douglass Dumbrille. Usually seen in villainous roles, Dumbrille herein offers a sincere, effective performance as a scrupulously honest US Read More

Stranger from Santa Fe

Synopsis: Burly Johnny Mack Brown once again plays undercover U.S. Marshal Nevada McKenzie in this overly complicated series oater from low-budget Monogram. This time, McKenzie, who goes under the alias of Roy Ferris, is waylaid by would-be stage robber Cy Manning (John Merton) en route to the Bar X Ranch. Read More

The Lost Trail

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Jennifer Holt, Riley Hill, Kenneth MacDonald

Synopsis: Having briefly abandoned his standard "Nevada Jack McKenzie" characterization in Flame of the West, cowboy star Johnny Mack Brown was back as Nevada Jack in Monogram's The Lost Trail. Vowing to bring in a gang of stagecoach outlaws, Nevada redoubles his efforts when he learns that the owner of the Read More

The Navajo Trail

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton once again play undercover U.S. marshals Nevada McKenzie and Sandy Hopkins. This time, Sandy's sergeant, Trevor (Jasper L. Palmer), is shot in the back by Slim Ramsey (Raphael Bennett), an outlaw he had been tracking. Masquerading as a desperado himself, Nevada Read More

Rhythm Round-Up

Synopsis: This mild musical western was the first starring vehicle for former Sons of the Pioneers member Ken Curtis. The Hoosier Hot Shots, of National Barn Dance fame, co-starred as themselves, a radio country band who buys shares in a dilapidated Western hotel. Arriving in Arizona, the band members Read More

Range Law

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Sarah Padden, Ellen Hall, Lloyd Ingraham

Synopsis: Range Law stars Johnny Mack Brown as "Nevada" and Raymond Hatton as "Sandy", the same characters they played in most of their mid-1940s Monogram westerns. This time, Nevada and Sandy, US marshals both, set out to collar some renegades who've been driving out the local ranchers. It's just possible Read More

Partners of the Trail

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Christine McIntyre, Craig Woods, Robert W. Frazer

Synopsis: This Johnny Mack Brown western once more teams its star with leathery Raymond Hatton. The boys are cast as U.S. marshals Nevada and Sandy, assigned to solve a series of frontier murders. The victims are all ranchers, with no apparent connection between the killings. To everyone's surprise but the Read More

West of the Rio Grande

Ghost Guns

Synopsis: Supernatural events on the range prompt an investigation by cowboy Brown in this western. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Law of the Valley

Actors: Charles King

Synopsis: Saddle pals Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton give as good as they get in the action-packed Monogram oater Law of the Valley. In trying to rescue a small western town from the grip of the villains, Brown and Hatton are pummeled and shot at from all directions. But, as every Brown fan can tell Read More

Raiders of the Border

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Craig Woods, Ellen Hall, Raphael Bennett

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton return to the screen as saddle pals Nevada and Sandy in Monogram's Pals of the Border. In this one, our heroes are US marshals, hot on the trail of cattle rustlers. To rout out the thieves, Nevada poses as a crook, while Sandy pretends to be hard of hearing. Read More

Land of the Outlaws

Synopsis: The old bromide about the western town run by outlaws as a hideout for their fellow crooks makes a return appearance in Monogram's Land of the Outlaws. Since the crooks include such reliable disreputables as Charles King and John Merton, the good guys really have their work cut out for them. But Read More

Lawmen

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Jan Wiley, Kirby Grant, Robert W. Frazer

Synopsis: Law Men is a typically austere entry in Johnny Mack Brown's Monogram western series. This one finds saddle pals Nevada (Brown) and Sandy (Raymond Hatton) working as undercover US marshals. Hoping to thwart a gang of stage robbers, Nevada joins the gang, while Sandy poses as a shoemaker in order to Read More

The Texas Kid

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Marshall Reed, Shirley Patterson, Robert Fiske

Synopsis: Though the film's title is The Texas Kid, the film's star Johnny Mack Brown plays a cowboy named Nevada. The titular "kid", played by Marshall Reed, is a former bandit leader who decides to go straight-and gets a bullet in his back for his trouble. Nevada and his sidekick Sandy (Raymond Hatton) Read More

The Ghost Rider

Synopsis: In his first of 20 "Nevada McKenzie" Westerns for Monogram Pictures, brawny Johnny Mack Brown plays the title role, a drifter happening upon the dying owner of a local abattoir (Jack Daley). The latter, with his dying breath, warns our hero about Lash Edwards (Harry Woods, a cattle rustler turned Read More

Six Gun Gospel

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Inna Gest, Eddie Dew, Kenneth MacDonald

Synopsis: U.S. Marshal Johnny Mack Brown once again goes undercover in this Nevada Mckenzie series entry from Great Westerns Prod./Monogram. Masquerading as a parson and a drifter, Sandy Hopkins (Raymond Hatton) and Nevada Jack McKenzie (Mack Brown) come to the aid of the beleaguered residents of Goldville Read More

Outlaws of Stampede Pass

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown heads the cast of Monogram's Outlaws of Stampede Pass. Per the title, the film concerns a western community held in the grip of a gang of desperadoes. Brown and his dusty sidekick Raymond Hatton set about to round up the bad guys. We know what's going to happen, but as always Read More

Cadets on Parade

Synopsis: In this drama a military cadet must demonstrate his courage to quell accusations of cowardice. His friend assists him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Below the Border

Actors: Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, Raymond Hatton, Linda Brent, Charles King

Synopsis: The Rough Riders-Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, and Raymond Hatton-go through their customary paces in the Monogram western Below the Border. Once again, the three stars play characters who are outwardly strangers to one another, but who are secretly working together to defeat a common enemy. This time Read More

Dawn on the Great Divide

Actors: Buck Jones, Rex Bell, Raymond Hatton, Mona Barrie, Robert Lowery

Synopsis: The Rough Riders--Buck Jones, Raymond Hatton and Rex Bell--endeavor to provide a wagon train safe passage through Indian country. With Jones heading the caravan and Bell and Hatton working undercover, the threesome discover that the "savages" planning to attack the settlers are actually renegade Read More

Down Texas Way

Actors: Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, Raymond Hatton, Luana Walters, Dave "Tex" O'Brien

Synopsis: Monogram's "Rough Riders" rolled along smoothly with the 1942 entry Down Texas Way. Once again, the star trio consists of Buck Jones as Buck Roberts, Tim McCoy as Tim McCall, and Raymond Hatton as Sandy Hopkins. The plot, as always, finds Buck, Tim and Sandy cast as undercover US Marshals who Read More

Reap the Wild Wind

Actors: Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Raymond Massey, Robert Preston

Synopsis: Cecil B. DeMille's Technicolor historical spectacle Reap the Wild Wind was to have starred Gary Cooper, but Cooper's prior commitment to Goldwyn's Pride of the Yankees compelled DeMille to recast the leading role with John Wayne. The film, set in the mid-19th century, centers around Key West Read More

West of the Law

Synopsis: The last of Monogram's eight "Rough Riders" westerns starring oldtimers Buck Jones, Tim McCoy and Raymond Hatton, West of the Law has the three lawmen coming to the aid of a beleaguered newspaper editor, Rufus Todd (Milburn Morante), who has been exposing a rash of stage robberies near Gold Creek. Read More

The Girl From Alaska

Actors: Ray Middleton, Jean Parker, Jerome Cowan, Robert H. Barrat

Synopsis: In this drama, set during the gold-rush, an unsuccessful prospector prepares to leave Alaska. But first he has a grand, drunken send-off. During the celebration a lawman is killed. The prospector is the prime suspect, and so he escapes to keep from being arrested. While on the lam, he encounters a Read More

Riders of the West

Actors: Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, Raymond Hatton, Sarah Padden, Harry Woods

Synopsis: Riders of the West is another entry in Monogram's repetitious but profitable "Rough Riders" series. Back in the saddle again are Buck Jones as Buck Roberts, Tim McCoy as Tim McCall, and Raymond Hatton as Sandy Hopkins. The three heroes take on a gang of cattle rustlers, using their standard method Read More

Ghost Town Law

Actors: Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, Raymond Hatton, Virginia Carpenter

Synopsis: The old plot device of a western "ghost town" being used as a hideout for criminals is trotted out again in Monogram's Ghost Town Law. This time around, the heroes are The Rough Riders: namely, Buck Roberts (Buck Jones), Tim McCall (Tim McCoy) and Sandy Hopkins (Raymond Hatton). Following their Read More

Arizona Bound

Actors: Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, Raymond Hatton, Luana Walters, Dennis Moore

Synopsis: Monogram Pictures launched its lucrative "Rough Riders" western series with 1941's Arizona Bound. Producer Scott Dunlap hoped to attract new customers by teaming two of the most popular cowboy stars in the movies, Buck Jones and Tim McCoy, throwing in another old favorite, Raymond Hatton, as Read More

White Eagle

Synopsis: Serials usually spawned feature film versions, but with this film, it was the other way around. A 1932 Buck Jones Western, White Eagle was made into a serial nine years later, again starring Jones in the title role, a (supposedly) Native American Pony Express Rider defending his people against a Read More

Texas

Actors: William Holden, Glenn Ford, Claire Trevor, George Bancroft, Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis: Texas was Columbia Pictures' lighthearted (and frankly more enjoyable) follow-up to its 1940 big-budget western Arizona. William Holden and Glenn Ford, looking collectively 28 years old, play a couple of ex-Confederate soldiers who get into all sorts of trouble in a wide-open Texas town. The two Read More

Tall in the Saddle

Actors: John Wayne, Ella Raines, Audrey Long, George "Gabby" Hayes, Ward Bond, Elizabeth Risdon

Synopsis: John Wayne stars in this hard-driving oater which was co-written by character actor Paul Fix. Wayne plays Rocklin, a chauvinistic cowboy who arrives at the KC Ranch in Santa Inez to apply for a job as a foreman. But when he finds that the owner has died and that the ranch is now being run by two Read More

The Gunman from Bodie

Actors: Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, Raymond Hatton, Christine McIntyre, Dave "Tex" O'Brien

Synopsis: Veteran action and western director Spencer G. Bennet certainly opens this the second of Monogram's eight "Rough Riders" oaters on a suspenseful and unusual note. On a dark and stormy night, a lone rider enters a secluded and seemingly vacant ranch house to find the slain bodies of the occupants Read More

Forbidden Trails

Actors: Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, Raymond Hatton, Tristram Coffin, Charles King

Synopsis: The "Rough Riders"-Buck Jones, Tim McCoy and Raymond Hatton-are back in the saddle in Forbidden Trails. As was customary, the stars play three wildly diverse types who are apparently strangers to one another when the film begins. In this instance, Buck Roberts (Jones) is a dude gambler, Tim McCall Read More

Pioneers of the West

Actors: Robert Livingston, Raymond Hatton, Duncan Renaldo, Noah Beery, Sr., Beatrice Roberts

Synopsis: When an evil land grabbers forces settlers out of their homes, the courageous Three Mesquiteers ride up to stop him. Rootin' tootin' western action ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Heroes of the Saddle

Synopsis: A fast-paced, enjoyable entry in the long-running Three Mesqueteers Western series, Heroes of the Saddle featured the three cowboy pals promising to look after Peggy Bell (Patsy Lee Parsons), the little daughter of mortally wounded rodeo champ Montana (Kermit Maynard). Legal technicalities Read More

Hi-Yo Silver

Actors: Lee Powell, Lynne Roberts

Synopsis: Hi-Yo Silver is a 69-minute abridgement of the 1938 Republic serial The Lone Ranger. Departing from the continuity established by the Lone Ranger radio program (which had been running since 1933), the film offers five leading man, any one of whom might be the legendary "masked rider of the Read More

Oklahoma Renegades

Synopsis: The three Mesquiteers ride the long trail home following the Spanish-American war in this western. En route, they have many exciting adventures. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Kit Carson

Actors: Jon Hall, Lynn Bari, Dana Andrews, Harold Huber, Ward Bond

Synopsis: This typically economical Edward Small historical drama stars Jon Hall as legendary frontiersman Kit Carson. Wasting no time, the film gets off to an exciting start as Carson and his two saddle pals (Ward Bond and Harold Huber) are attacked by Indians. They manage to escape unscatched and make Read More

Covered Wagon Days

Actors: Robert Livingston, Raymond Hatton, Duncan Renaldo, Kay Griffith, George Douglas

Synopsis: Republic's "Three Mesquiteers" western series hopscotched all over the calendar, with some entries taking place in the present, others in the far-distant past. As indicated by its title, Covered Wagon Days is a period piece, with heroes Stony Brooke (Robert Livingston), Rusty Joslin (Raymond Hatton Read More

Queen of the Mob

Actors: Ralph Bellamy, Blanche Yurka, J. Carrol Naish, William Henry

Synopsis: Though the title character is loosely based on that of the notorious killer/robber Ma Barker, she has been sanitized and prettified to meet the perceived conservative values of Hollywood movie audiences. Unlike Barker, who was bad to the bone, Ma Webster is simply a matriarch who would do anything Read More

Rocky Mountain Rangers

Actors: Robert Livingston, Raymond Hatton, Duncan Renaldo, Rosella Towne, Sammy McKim

Synopsis: This "Three Mesquiteers" western entry stars Robert Livingston as Stony Brooke, Raymond Hatton as Rusty Joslin and Duncan Renaldo as Rico Rinaldo. Livingston also does double duty as the villain of the piece, a desperado known as The Laredo Kid. Working undercover for the Texas Rangers, Stony Read More

6,000 Enemies

Actors: Walter Pidgeon, Rita Johnson, Paul Kelly, Nat Pendleton, Harold Huber

Synopsis: District attorney Walter Pidgeon pursues the conviction of criminals so diligently that word has gone out in the state prison to "get" Pidgeon at the first opportunity. The DA has several enemies on the outside as well, one of whom frames him on a bribery charge. Pidgeon is sentenced to the prison Read More

The Kansas Terrors

Actors: Robert Livingston, Raymond Hatton, Duncan Renaldo, Jacqueline Wells, Howard Hickman

Synopsis: When both John Wayne and Ray "Crash" Corrigan defected from Republic's "Three Mesquiteers" series, the studio hastily replaced them with Robert Livingston (whom Wayne had originally replaced) and future "Cisco Kid" Duncan Renaldo. In Kansas Terrors, Stoney (Livingston) and his saddle pal Read More

Wall Street Cowboy

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Raymond Hatton, Ann Baldwin, Pierre Watkin

Synopsis: Despite its tantalizing title, Wall Street Cowboy must rank as one of the lesser Roy Rogers films. The story is set in motion by a crooked cartel of stock marketeers who hope to swindle Rogers out of his ranch. It seems that his property is rich with the valuable mineral molybdenum, which the Read More

Wyoming Outlaw

Actors: John Wayne, Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Raymond Hatton, Don "Red" Barry, Pamela Blake

Synopsis: Forever keeping apace of current headlines, Republic's "Three Mesquiteers" series came up with the 1939 entry Wyoming Outlaw. The story is based on a true incident, wherein a disgruntled young lawbreaker took refuge in the mountains of Wyoming, successfully eluding a large posse for several days. Read More

Ambush

Actors: Gladys Swarthout, Lloyd Nolan, William Frawley, Ernest Truex, Broderick Crawford

Synopsis: Finishing out her Paramount Pictures contract, opera star Gladys Swarthout sings not a single note in the tense little thriller Ambush. After pulling off a bank robbery, a clever gang of thieves squirrels itself away in a rural hideout. Complicating matters is the unexpected arrival of Jane Read More

Career

Actors: Anne Shirley, Edward Ellis, Samuel S. Hinds, Leon Errol

Synopsis: Set in a tiny midwestern town, this sentimental drama centers on the rivalry between two life-long acquaintances whose early friendship falls apart when they woo the same woman. She makes her choice and marries the one who eventually takes over the town bank. Meanwhile the other man becomes a Read More

Undercover Doctor

Actors: Lloyd Nolan, Janice Logan, J. Carrol Naish, Heather Angel, Broderick Crawford

Synopsis: Undercover Doctor, like the other entries in Paramount's "FBI" series, could lay claim to being "drawn from today's headlines." The film was loosely based on the career of Dr. Joseph P. Moran, who violated the ethics of his profession by tending to the gunshot wounds of gangster Eddie Krator Read More

Frontier Pony Express

Actors: Roy Rogers, Mary Hart, Raymond Hatton, Edward Keane, Noble Johnson

Synopsis: Frontier Pony Express is a fast-paced Roy Rogers program western which could stand up on its own with any big-budgeted "A" picture. Per the title, Rogers plays an express rider, working the California-to-Kansas City route. While the Civil War rages in the East, our hero must contend with Yankee Read More

Frontier Horizon

Actors: John Wayne, Raymond Hatton, Phyllis Isley, Eddy Waller

Synopsis: The Three Mesqueteers attempt to prevent wholesale slaughter in this fine Republic Western starring John Wayne, Ray "Crash" Corrigan, and Raymond Hatton. Planning to build a reservoir on the site, the state government has condemned the town of New Hope and surrounding ranches. Construction chief Read More

Tom Sawyer, Detective

Actors: Billy Cook, Donald O'Connor, Porter Hall, Philip Warren, Janet Waldo

Synopsis: Even geniuses have to eat, and when Mark Twain was offered a substantial sum of money to slap together a quickie sequel to his classic novel Tom Sawyer, he responded with the pulpish but entertaining Tom Sawyer, Detective. Billy Cook is sublimely cast as Tom, while Donald O'Connor steals the film Read More

Rough Riders' Roundup

Actors: Roy Rogers, Mary Hart, Raymond Hatton, Eddie Acuff, William Pawley

Synopsis: Hot on the heels of Frontier Pony Express came the equally exciting Roy Rogers vehicle Rough Riders' Roundup. In the first film, Rogers was an express rider during the Civil War era; in the second, he's a veteran of the Spanish American war (ubiquitous fellow, isn't he?) With several of his fellow Read More

I'm from Missouri

Actors: Gladys George, Gene Lockhart, Judith Barrett, William Henry

Synopsis: In this comedy, a Missouri mule breeder faces financial ruin after the market collapses. He takes his best mule to a Kansas livestock show where he impresses a representative from the British army. He, his wife, and his best mules then sail to England to sell them. Soon the Missouri couple are Read More

Cowboys from Texas

Actors: Robert Livingston, Raymond Hatton, Duncan Renaldo, Carole Landis, Charles B. Middleton

Synopsis: In this episode of the Three Mesquiteers series of westerns the trio must help two rival sides involved in a range war settle their differences. The story is set in 1906, and the rivals are homesteaders trying to take advantage of Roosevelt's Reclamation Act and the landowners who oppose the act Read More

The Texans

Actors: Joan Bennett, Randolph Scott, May Robson, Walter Brennan, Robert Cummings

Synopsis: In the rough-and-tumble world of post-Civil War Texas, ex-Confederate soldier Kirk Jordan (Randolph Scott) crosses paths with ranch owner Ivy Preston (Joan Bennett). Although a loyal Southerner, Jordan can't get past the waste and tragedy of the four years that have just ended, but Ivy is eager to Read More

Come on Rangers

Actors: Roy Rogers, Mary Hart, Raymond Hatton, John Farrell MacDonald, Purnell Pratt

Synopsis: This Roy Rogers musical western (his second starring vehicle for Republic) concerns itself with a group of Texas Rangers, forced to disband when Texas is admitted the Union. The state brings in members of the U.S. Cavalry to provide law enforcement in the Rangers' stead, yet the Cavalry officers Read More

Over the Wall

Actors: Dick Foran, June Travis, Dick Purcell, Veda Ann Borg

Synopsis: In this drama, an innocent man is framed for murder and sent to Sing Sing where he meets a kindly prison chaplain who helps him prove that he was wronged. He also learns to sing, and decided that he will become a professional after he is released. He is good, and is soon allowed to travel with the Read More

Paris Honeymoon

Actors: Bing Crosby, Franziska Gaal, Akim Tamiroff, Shirley Ross, Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis: Directed by Frank Tuttle, Paris Honeymoon stars Bing Crosby as Lucky Lawton, a wealthy Texan whose plans for a Parisian honeymoon with the noblewoman he has been romancing are interupted when he visits the city itself. Though he had intended only to make the proper arrangements, he falls in love Read More

Love Finds Andy Hardy

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden

Synopsis: The third of MGM's Andy Hardy series (discounting the "pilot" film, A Family Affair) stars, as ever, Mickey Rooney as the teenaged protagonist. Andy finds himself in dutch with girlfriend Polly Benedict (Ann Rutherford) when he agrees to escort his best friend's gal, Cynthia Potter (Lana Turner). Read More

He Couldn't Say No

Actors: Frank McHugh, Jane Wyman, Cora Witherspoon, Diana Lewis, Berton Churchill

Synopsis: In this comedy, a milquetoast office clerk is forcibly betrothed to a woman by her overbearing mother. The trouble begins when the man buys a rather erotic statue of a woman. The mother and her daughter are so appalled that they leave. The man loves his statue and soon learns that the model is the Read More

Touchdown, Army

Actors: John Howard, Robert Cummings, Mary Carlisle, Owen Davis, Jr., William Frawley

Synopsis: It can be said with some certainty that Paramount's Touchdown, Army is not a baseball picture. Taking time out from his "Bulldog Drummond" series, John Howard stars as Brandon Culpepper, a self-admiring West Point football hero. A true Southerner, Culpepper is mercilessly heckled by his teammates Read More

Marked Woman

Actors: Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Isabel Jewell, Eduardo Ciannelli, Lola Lane, Rosalind Marquis

Synopsis: Bette Davis' famous walk-out from her home studio of Warner Bros. may have hurt her financially, but in the long run it paid off with bigger parts in better films. Like many Warners films of the period, Marked Woman was "torn from today's headlines." Specifically, it was inspired by the recent Read More

Roaring Timber

Actors: Jack Holt, Grace Bradley, Ruth Donnelly, Raymond Hatton, Willard Robertson

Synopsis: In this outdoor drama, a plucky young woman inherits her father's logging business and decides to try running it, even though she knows nothing about it. In her innocence, she fires all her trustworthy workers and instead hires a band of slick talking hoods who immediately try to cheat her. Read More

San Quentin

Actors: Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Barton MacLane, Joe Sawyer

Synopsis: One of a slew of prison reform picture that flourished during the Great Depression, this melodrama was banned in Finland. Pat O'Brien stars as Steve Jameson, a former Army officer who is hired at the infamous California prison of the title and quickly brings military order to the facility Read More

The Adventurous Blonde

Actors: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Anne Nagel, Tom Kennedy, George E. Stone

Synopsis: In their third crime-solving adventure, smart-aleck newspaper woman Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell) and slightly dense homicide dick Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) are about to get hitched when Torchy's reporter friends pull a practical joke on them. As a wedding present, the harebrained newsboys Read More

Fly-Away Baby

Actors: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Gordon Oliver, Hugh O'Connell, Marcia Ralston

Synopsis: This is the second entry in the Torch Blane reporter series. In this episode, ace reporter Torchy, wanting to impress her beau the police lieutenant, begins looking into a notorious murder. She gets a hot tip, boards a plane and sets off to follow up. She is accompanied by two rival journalists. Read More

Public Wedding

Actors: Jane Wyman, William Hopper, Dick Purcell, Marie Wilson, Berton Churchill

Synopsis: Coincidentally, Warner Bros. contractee Jane Wyman made her starring debut in the same year as her husband-to-be Ronald Reagan. In Public Wedding, Wyman plays Flip Lane, one of five young and healthy carnival workers. Broke and jobless, the five "carnies" concoct a publicity stunt to get work: a Read More

Missing Witnesses

Actors: John Litel, Dick Purcell, Jean Dale, William Haade

Synopsis: The racket-busting activities of New York DA Thomas E. Dewey was the inspiration for several late-1930s crime films, including Warner Bros.' Missing Witnesses. The Dewey counterpart this time out is Inspector Lane (John Litel), assigned to drive all organized crime out of his community. But Lane Read More

The Devil's Saddle Legion

Actors: Dick Foran, Anne Nagel, Willard Parker, Granville Owen, Carlyle Moore, Jr.

Synopsis: Returning to his home spread in the Red River border area between Texas and Oklahoma, Tal Holladay (Dick Foran) is falsely accused of murdering a young family friend (Carlyle Moore, Jr.) in this frequently entertaining Western directed, incongruously, by dance director Bobby Connolly. Imprisoned Read More

Over the Goal

Actors: June Travis, William Hopper, Johnnie Davis, Mabel Todd, Gordon Oliver

Synopsis: In this football drama, a college gridiron star attempts to leave the game, at the request of his girl friend who does not want to see him injured. Unfortunately, it is not that simple for his college will win a large donation if they can win the Big Game. When he learns that his family is betting Read More

Love Is on the Air

Actors: Ronald Reagan, Eddie Acuff, Robert H. Barrat, Raymond Hatton, Willard Parker

Synopsis: The first of three remakes of the 1933 Paul Muni picture Hi, Nellie, Love is on the Air is historically important as the screen debut of Ronald Reagan. In the original Hi, Nellie, a Winchellesque newspaper reporter is demoted to writing the "advice to the lovelorn" column when he steps on too many Read More

Jungle Jim [Serial]

Actors: Grant Withers, Betty Jane Rhodes, Raymond Hatton, Henry Brandon, Bryant Washburn

Synopsis: The 12-episode Universal serial Jungle Jim was based on the Alex Raymond comic strip of the same name. Grant Withers stars as Jungle Jim, who on this occasion is leading an expedition into darkest Africa. His employers hope to ascertain the whereabouts of Joan (Betty Jane Rhodes), a young heiress Read More

Fury

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Sylvia Sidney, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellis

Synopsis: Fritz Lang's first American film is a vigorous and perceptive indictment of mob law, starring Spencer Tracy and Sylvia Sidney. Katherine (Sidney) leaves her boyfriend, Joe Wilson (Tracy), behind in their Midwestern hometown when she takes a job in another city. Joe is a decent, hard-working soul Read More

Nevada

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Kathleen Burke, Sid Saylor, Monte Blue, William Duncan

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1927 with Gary Cooper and Thelma Todd, the Zane Grey story Nevada was remade in 1936 with Buster Crabbe and Kathleen Burke. Crabbe plays Nevada, a cattle-drive trail boss, while Burke is cast as Hettie Ide, who is brought into the story when Nevada rescues her from a runaway Read More

Timothy's Quest

Actors: Dickie Moore, Virginia Weidler, Eleanore Whitney, Tom Keene, Elizabeth Patterson

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1919, the Kate Douglas Wiggin novel Timothy's Quest was remade as a talkie in 1935. Dickie Moore plays Timothy Tarbox, a dewy-eyed orphan united in misery with his little sister Samantha (Virginia Weidler). The kids are taken in by maiden lady Vilda Cummins (Elizabeth Patterson Read More

Desert Gold

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Robert Cummings, Marsha Hunt, Tom Keene

Synopsis: Generous stock footage from Paramount's silent Zane Grey series enhances the production values of the entertaining "pocket" western Desert Gold. Though most of the storyline is taken up the romance between young pioneers Dick Gale (Tom Keene) and Jane Belding (Marsha Hunt), the most compelling Read More

Exclusive Story

Actors: Franchot Tone, Madge Evans, Stuart Erwin, Joseph Calleia, Robert H. Barrat

Synopsis: Former newspaperman Martin Mooney based his script for Exclusive Story on the racket-busting activities of New York district attorney Thomas E. Dewey. Franchot Tone plays the lawyer for a major newspaper which is conducting a campaign against gang boss Joseph Calleia. The paper can't get any Read More

The Vigilantes Are Coming [Serial]

Actors: Fred Kohler

Synopsis: Yet another Zorro imitation, this adventure serial starred Robert Livingston as Don Loring, whose father and brother are killed by the evil General Burr (Fred Kohler). Seeking revenge, Loring dons a black cape and mask, calls himself "The Eagle," and goes about bringing Burr and his men to Read More

Laughing Irish Eyes

Actors: Phil Regan, Walter "Judge" Kelly, Evelyn Knapp, Ray Walker, Mary Gordon

Synopsis: Singer-bandleader Phil Regan, Republic Pictures's answer to Dick Powell, stars in Laughing Irish Eyes. Regan plays Danny O'Keefe, a pugnacious County Cork blacksmith who rises to prizefighting fame in the U.S. Fight manager Pat Kelly (Walter C. Kelly) isn't above using his pretty daughter Peggy (Evelyn Knapp Read More

Yellowstone

Actors: Henry Hunter, Judith Barrett, Ralph Morgan, Alan Hale, Andy Devine

Synopsis: The real-life Yellowstone National Park provides a colorful backdrop to this melodramatic actioner. Henry Hunter stars as park ranger Dick Sherwood, who gets mixed up in a series of murders. The killings are tied in with $90,000 in stolen money, which the four villains had hidden in a Yellowstone Read More

The Arizona Raiders

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Raymond Hatton, Marsha Hunt, Jane Rhodes, Johnny Downs

Synopsis: Another above-average entry in Paramount's Zane Grey series, Arizona Raiders was adapted from Grey's Riders of Spanish Peaks. Buster Crabbe, here billed under his given name of Larry, stars as outlaw Laramie Nelson, who at the beginning of the picture manages to escape a "necktie party." A sense Read More

Women Are Trouble

Actors: Stuart Erwin, Paul Kelly, Florence Rice, Margaret Irving, Cy Kendall

Synopsis: Ace reporter Casey (Stu Erwin) and city editor Blaine (Paul Kelly) are agreed on only one point: women are trouble! This is confirmed when Casey is constantly outscooped by rival news-hound Ruth (Florence Rice), whose sugary Southern-belle accent conceals a will of iron. Casey and Ruth are forced Read More

Mad Holiday

Actors: Edmund Lowe, Elissa Landi, ZaSu Pitts, Ted Healy, Edmund Gwenn

Synopsis: The overlong but absorbing MGM "B" melodrama Mad Holiday stars Edmund Lowe as vacationing movie idol Philip Trent. Tired of starring in murder mysteries, Trent discovers he can't escape typecasting even on an ocean voyage: one of the passengers is murdered in our hero's cabin. The killing is tied Read More

Calm Yourself

Actors: Robert Young, Madge Evans, Betty Furness, Nat Pendleton, Hardie Albright

Synopsis: Calm Yourself starts off as ace advertising man Pat (Robert Young) is fired from his job when he offends the highly offendable -- and none too likeable -- Mary Elizabeth (Betty Furness). This segues into a phony kidnapping scheme that thrusts Pat and Mary together, furthering their mutual Read More

Murder in the Fleet

Actors: Robert Taylor, Jean Parker, Ted Healy, Una Merkel, Nat Pendleton

Synopsis: Having gained considerable audience attention for his appearance in the 1935 "Crime Does Not Pay" 2-reeler Buried Loot, new MGM contractee Robert Taylor was awarded with his first starring feature, the modestly budgeted Murder in the Fleet. Taylor is cast as Lt. Tom Randolph, one of several naval Read More

Red Morning

Synopsis: Poverty-row director Wallace Fox came up in the world a bit when he signed on to helm RKO Radio's Red Morning. Steffi Duna, playing the tomboyish daughter of sea captain Mitchell Lewis, is abandoned on the shores of New Guinea when her dad's crew mutinies and scuttles the ship. Wasting little Read More

Steamboat Round the Bend

Actors: Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Irvin S. Cobb, Eugene Pallette, John McGuire

Synopsis: Two of America's most distinguished humorists, Oklahoma's Will Rogers and Kentucky's Irvin S. Cobb, costar in Steamboat Round the Bend. Cobb isn't much of an actor, so it is Rogers who carries the comic weight of this fast-paced slice of Americana. Will uncharacteristically sticks to the script Read More

Times Square Lady

Actors: Robert Taylor, Virginia Bruce, Helen Twelvetrees, Isabel Jewell, Nat Pendleton

Synopsis: In this drama, a prominent Broadway producer's daughter inherits a fortune when her father dies. Included in the estate is a nightclub managed by an unscrupulous louse who teams up with the sneaky executor to steal her inheritance. Fortunately, after meeting his pretty young victim, the manager Read More

G-Men

Actors: James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Lloyd Nolan, Ann Dvorak, Robert Armstrong, Barton MacLane

Synopsis: In G Men, Warner Bros. "bad boy" James Cagney plays James "Brick" Davis, a young lawyer whose education has been financed by soft-hearted racketeer McKay (William Harrigan). When Cagney's best pal, detective Eddie Buchanan (Regis Toomey), is killed in a gangland shooting, James decides to become a Read More

The Daring Young Man

Actors: James Dunn, Mae Clarke, Neil Hamilton, Sidney Toler, Warren Hymer

Synopsis: The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and Read More

Wanderer of the Wasteland

Actors: Dean Jagger, Gail Patrick, Edward Ellis, Ben Baker, Larry "Buster" Crabbe

Synopsis: This Zane Grey adaptation stars Dean Jagger as Adam and Gail Patrick as Ruth, two rugged individuals heading to gold country by riverboat. The couple's burgeoning romance is interrupted when Adam inadvertently gets involved in a murder. On the lam from the authorities, he links up with grizzled Read More

The Defense Rests

Actors: Jack Holt, Jean Arthur, Nat Pendleton, Arthur Hohl, Raymond Walburn

Synopsis: A sleazy lawyer is the focus of this courtroom drama. His favorite technique is to teach his female clients how to use their bodies provocatively in court to sway the jury. Without a doubt, his methods are successful. Unfortunately, his female assistant is offended by the tactics and threatens to Read More

Fifteen Wives

Actors: Conway Tearle, Natalie Moorhead, Raymond Hatton, Noel Francis, John Wray

Synopsis: A much-married man of the world is found murdered in this typical low-budget whodunit and each and every one of his fifteen wives seems to have possessed a motive. When Steven Humboldt is found dead in his apartment everyone but Homicide Inspector Decker Dawes (Conway Tearle) assumes he has Read More

The Women in His Life

Actors: Otto Kruger, Una Merkel, Ben Lyon, Isabel Jewell, Roscoe Karns

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a famous criminal attorney is abandoned by his wife who has tired of his neglect and heavy drinking. She runs to the arms of a prominent gangster. Later, the lawyer must take a murder case--his ex-wife is the victim. It is quite a shock, but somehow he manages to keep it Read More

Lazy River

Actors: Jean Parker, Robert Young, Ted Healy, Nat Pendleton

Synopsis: Based on Lea David Freeman's play Ruby, Lazy River takes place somewhere in the Mississippi River Valley. Jean Parker plays Sarah, a young Bayou girl who tries to guide three ex-convicts to moral redemption. Two of Sarah's charges, Gabby (Ted Healy) and Tiny (Nat Pendleton), seem to be beyond Read More

Wagon Wheels

Actors: Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick, Billy Lee, Leila Bennett, Jan Duggan

Synopsis: Adapted from a Zane Grey story, Wagon Wheels is a remake of the 1931 Gary Cooper starrer Fighting Caravans. Randolph Scott assumes Cooper's role, playing a trail guide named Clint Belmet. The plot follows the progress of a typical wagon train journey from Missouri to Oregon, with the usual quote Read More

Straight is the Way

Actors: Franchot Tone, May Robson, Karen Morley, Gladys George, Nat Pendleton

Synopsis: Based on John Golden's stage play Four Walls, MGM's Straight is the Way offers the monumentally miscast Franchot Tone as tough ex-convict Benny Horowitz, who announces his plans to go straight. This warms the heart of Benny's Jewish mama (May Robson), but his ex-moll Shirley (Gladys George) is Read More

Once to Every Bachelor

Actors: Marian Nixon, Neil Hamilton, William Austin, Raymond Hatton, Aileen Pringle

Synopsis: Marian Nixon made the first of a brace of starring appearances at low-budget Liberty Pictures in Once to Every Bachelor. Nixon plays a young innocent who through no fault of her own has become involved with gangsters. Seeking a way out, she latches on to a wealthy playboy (Neil Hamilton). Having Read More

Day of Reckoning

Actors: Richard Dix, Madge Evans, Conway Tearle, Una Merkel, Stuart Erwin

Synopsis: In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a high-rise facility in LA. It seems the fellow was only following the instructions of his domineering, constantly nagging wife who, as soon as he is put Read More

Buffalo Stampede

Actors: Randolph Scott, Judith Allen, Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Noah Beery, Sr., Raymond Hatton

Synopsis: Zane Grey's Thundering Herd was first filmed by Paramount in 1925, with Jack Holt in the lead. This 1933 remake utilizes a great deal of stock footage from the original, going so far as to rehire several of the supporting players from the earlier film to match the old scenes with the new; in Read More

Rock-a-Bye Cowboy

Actors: James Gleason, Vince Barnett, Raymond Hatton, Marie Prevost

Synopsis: To look at his later dramatic work, one would never guess that award-winning director George Stevens got his start working on two-reel comedies. But that's exactly where he cut his teeth, first as cinematographer, then director for Hal Roach and then as director of two-reelers for Universal and Read More

Made on Broadway

Actors: Robert Montgomery, Sally Eilers, Madge Evans, Eugene Pallette, C. Henry Gordon

Synopsis: Heroine Mona (Sally Eilers) is "made" in more ways than one in this free-wheeling spoof of the press-agent business. A would-be suicide, Mona is rescued by public-relations whiz Jeff (Robert Montgomery), who decides to turn the girl into a celebrity -- and line his own pockets in the process. But Read More

Malay Nights

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Dorothy Burgess, Ralph Ince, Raymond Hatton, Carmelita Geraghty

Synopsis: Dorothy Burgess, the fiery Tonia of the Academy award-winning In Old Arizona (1929), plays a woman who will do anything to locate her missing child in Malay Nights, a rather sordid low-budget melodrama from Mayfair Pictures Corp. After reluctantly marrying handsome pearl fisherman Jim Wilson Read More

The Big Cage

Actors: Clyde Beatty, Anita Page, Andy Devine, Vince Barnett, Raymond Hatton

Synopsis: Renowned animal-trainer Clyde Beatty plays himself as a circus owner in this adventure that centers on an enthusiastic youth who idolizes Beatty. The story's highlight is a fight with the lions and tigers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Missing Witness

Hidden Gold

Actors: Judith Barrie, Tom Mix, Raymond Hatton, Eddie Gribbon, Donald Kirke

Synopsis: Tom Mix goes undercover as a prison inmate in this Western from Universal. The reason for Tom's masquerade is a bank robbery that wiped out his pretty boss, Nora Lane (Judith Barrie). The perpetrators, Doc (Donald Kirke), Spike (Raymond Hatton), and Big Ben (Eddie Gribbon), were all sent to the Read More

Under the Tonto Rim

Synopsis: This western is an adaptation of a Zane Grey novel and chronicles the exploits of a simple-minded cowpoke who proves his mettle and wins the heart of his employer's daughter. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide 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

Alice in Wonderland

Actors: Charlotte Henry, Richard Arlen, Roscoe Ates, William Austin, Billy Barty

Synopsis: This star-laden version of Lewis Carroll's novel combines elements of both the title novel and Carroll's sequel, Through the Looking Glass. In England of the 19th century, young Alice finds that the mirror over the library fireplace opens into a strange world. She has odd adventures and changes Read More

Terror Trail

Actors: Tom Mix, Naomi Judge, Arthur Rankin, Raymond Hatton, Francis McDonald

Synopsis: Tom Mix goes up against a ruthless gang of rustlers headed by a crooked army colonel in this, his penultimate Western for Universal. When a vigilante group assembled by Colonel Charles Ormsby (John St. Polis) fails to make a dent in the rustlings -- primarily because Ormsby and the local sheriff (Frank Brownlee Read More

Lady Killer

Actors: James Cagney, Mae Clarke, Leslie Fenton, Margaret Lindsay, Henry O'Neill

Synopsis: We first lay eyes on Jimmy Cagney in Lady Killer while he's working as a movie theater usher. This job lasts just long enough for Jimmy to be swindled in a "badger game" orchestrated by hard-boiled Mae Clarke and a gang of crooks headed by Douglass Dumbrille. Knowing a good thing when he sees it, Cagney Read More

Penthouse

Actors: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Charles Butterworth, Mae Clarke, Phillips Holmes

Synopsis: Society-lawyer Warner Baxter loses his prestige in the legal community when he successfully defends gangster boss Nat Pendleton. Later on, the soft-hearted Pendleton gets the opportunity to "do right" by saving Baxter's life. This redemptive move comes at the end of a complicated plot involving Baxter Read More

The Fourth Horseman

Actors: Margaret Lindsay, Raymond Hatton, Edmund Cobb, Buddy Roosevelt, Rychard Cramer

Synopsis: Tom Mix once again goes up against corrupt Fred Kohler in this would-be epic Western filmed on-location at Kanab, UT. Retiring from a life of train robbing, Benjamin R. Jones (Kohler) takes over the ghost town of Stillwell, knowing full well that the property belongs to Molly O'Rourke (Margaret Read More

State Trooper

Actors: Regis Toomey, Evelyn Knapp, Raymond Hatton, Matthew Betz, Edwin Maxwell

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a highway patrolman gives an oil magnate a ticket. He later quits the force to begin working for the tycoon as a guard for the refinery. He is to prevent gangsters from sabotaging the operation for the duration of a price war. In the end he single-handedly defends the refinery Read More

Cornered

Synopsis: Not the best of Tim McCoy's 16 Westerns for Columbia (1931-1932), Cornered, directed by action specialist B. Reeves Eason, was also far from the worst, with plenty of fast riding and shooting to please the small fry. McCoy played Sheriff Tim Laramie whose best friend, Moody Pearson (Niles Welch) Read More

The Crooked Circle

Actors: Ben Lyon, ZaSu Pitts, James Gleason, Irene Purcell

Synopsis: The "Crooked Circle" gang consists of a dozen or so hooded villains, all of whom have sworn revenge on the Sphinx Club, a dedicated anti-criminal organization. It's difficult to differentiate the heroes and the villains without a score card: sinister swami Yoganda (C. Henry Gordon), for example Read More

Drifting Souls

Synopsis: A rather complicated but well-made little Poverty Row thriller, Drifting Souls features silent screen star Lois Wilson as Linda Lawrence, a woman lawyer whose father needs 5,000 dollars for an operation. A dutiful daughter, Linda places a newspaper ad promising marriage to anyone who will pay Read More

Vanity Street

Actors: Charles Bickford, Helen Chandler, Mayo Methot, George Meeker, Arthur Hoyt

Synopsis: In this melodrama, a starving orphan deliberately breaks a store window in hopes that she'll be tossed in jail and get a hot meal. The arresting officer does feed her, but then he gets her a job dancing in the Follies. Eventually the girl falls madly in love with the policeman. Unfortunately, he Read More

Polly of the Circus

Actors: Clark Gable, Marion Davies, C. Aubrey Smith, Raymond Hatton, David Landau

Synopsis: In this romantic drama, a strait-laced preacher creates controversy when he marries a seductive trapeze artist . The two meet after the swinger is injured during a performance and taken to his home to recover. Love blossoms while she heals and they surreptitiously marry. When the minister's snooty Read More

The Vanishing Frontier

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Evelyn Knapp, ZaSu Pitts, Raymond Hatton, John Farrell MacDonald

Synopsis: In one of his first westerns, Johnny Mack Brown plays Kirby Tornell, who does the "Robin Hood" bit on the wide open spaces. When not flummoxing the Cavalry, Kirby relaxes by playing the piano and rendering a song or two. Despite Kirby's notorious reputation, Carol Winfield (Evalyn Knapp), the Read More

Exposed

Actors: William Collier, Jr., Barbara Kent, Raymond Hatton, Walter McGrail

Synopsis: William Collier Jr. stars as an ambulance surgeon, forced by circumstances to work for a gang of criminals. What the villains don't know is that Collier is in league with the police, informing the authorities of the crooks' every move. To rescue nurse Barbara Kent from harm, our hero is forced to Read More

Uptown New York

Actors: Jack Oakie, Shirley Grey, Leon Waycoff [Ames], George Cooper, Lee Moran

Synopsis: Roly-poly comedian Jack Oakie in a serious role? Yes, that is exactly what you get with Uptown New York, an otherwise humdrum melodrama from lower echelon company World Wide Pictures. Oakie plays Eddie Doyle, a gumball machine salesman who marries Pat Smith (Shirley Grey) knowing full well that Read More

Law and Order

Actors: Walter Huston, Harry Carey, Raymond Hatton, Russell Simpson, Russell Hopton

Synopsis: An early screen version of the oft-filmed tale of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Law and Order was adapted by young screenwriter John Huston from W. R. Burnett's novel, which alters the names of the principals but few of the facts. The film opens with a montage of Read More

Alias Mary Smith

Actors: Blanche Mehaffey, Myrtle Stedman, Edmund Breese, Alec B. Francis

Synopsis: Alias Mary Smith might have been completely forgotten were it not for the diligent efforts of "B"-picture aficionado John Cocchi, who in such books as Second Feature has elevated this unintentionally hilarious cheapie to near-classic status. John Darrow plays a bibulous playboy who rescues Read More

Stranger in Town

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

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

Drifting

Actors: Shirley Grey, Theodore Von Eltz, Raymond Hatton, Edmund Breese

Synopsis: Originally titled Drifting Souls, this is the excessively melodrama story of wealthy Theodore Von Eltz, who is framed on a charge of vehicular manslaughter. To establish an alibi, the innocent Von Eltz claims that he was getting married at the time the accident occurred. This obliges him to enter Read More

The Squaw Man

Actors: Paul Cavanagh, Lupe Velez, Eleanor Boardman, Roland Young

Synopsis: Cecil B. DeMille's third remake of his debut film, this was the first sound version of Edwin Milton Royle's stage western melodrama. The story centers on a British captain who heads into the American West after taking the blame for his embezzling, blue-blooded cousin to protect the reputation of Read More

Arrowsmith

Actors: Ronald Colman, Helen Hayes, Richard Bennett, A.E. Anson, Clarence Brooks, DeWitt Jennings

Synopsis: One of the more prestigious films of its time, John Ford's film adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has a sleek Art Deco look strangely out of tune with its tale of moral struggle. Ronald Colman stars as Martin Arrowsmith, an idealistic young doctor, who, after graduating Read More

Honeymoon Lane

Actors: Eddie Dowling, June Collyer, Raymond Hatton, Noah Beery, Sr.

Synopsis: The vaudeville and Broadway comedy team of Eddie Dowling and Ray Dooley (husband and wife, despite Dooley's masculine moniker) star in the 1931 musical Honeymoon Lane. Based on Dowling's 1925 stage vehicle of the same name, the story is set in motion when the king (Armand Kaliz) of the mythical Read More

Woman Hungry

Actors: Lila Lee, Raymond Hatton, Fred Kohler, Ken Thomson

Synopsis: In this western, three rambunctious young cowboys head for the hills after spending a night painting a town red and terrorizing its residents. During their flight, they find a woman from the East alone at her brother's home. They are preparing to rape her, but they do not count on her ingenuity. Read More

The Lion and the Lamb

Actors: Walter Byron, Carmel Myers, Raymond Hatton, Montagu Love, Miriam Seegar

Synopsis: Lion and the Lamb takes place in Columbia Pictures' idea of London. Upon returning home after a long absence, globetrotting playboy Dave (Walter Byron) finds that he's inherited an Earldom. Thanks to a case of mistaken identity, however, Dave is intercepted en route to his ancestral estate by a Read More

Rogue of the Rio Grande

Actors: Raymond Hatton, Carmelita Geraghty, Walter Miller, Myrna Loy

Synopsis: This somewhat obscure early musical western produced by George W. Weeks for poverty row's Sono Art-World Wide has gone down in film history as Myrna Loy's talkie debut. Loy and Carmelita Geraghty played South-of-the-Border Belles dallying with notorious bandit El Malo (Jose Bohr) who, of course Read More

Road to Paradise

Actors: Loretta Young, George Barraud, Raymond Hatton, Kathlyn Williams

Synopsis: 17-year-old Loretta Young is as cute as all get out in Road to Paradise. This compensates for the fact that Young isn't quite up to the dramatic demands of the script. She plays a dual role, as a society deb and her twin sister. Looking for thrills, Young ties up with a couple of crooks (Raymond Hatton Read More

The Silver Horde

Actors: Evelyn Brent, Blanche Sweet, Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea

Synopsis: A somewhat primitive early talkie version of Rex Beach's lusty 1909 novel of Alaska salmon fishers, RKO's The Silver Horde was one of Joel McCrea's earliest breaks. Although third-billed to the more established Evelyn Brent and character star Louis Wolheim, McCrea played the leading role of Boyd Read More

Murder on the Roof

Actors: Dorothy Revier, Raymond Hatton, Margaret Livingston, David Newell, Paul Porcasi

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a down-on-his-luck attorney with connections to a diamond thief is framed for the thief's murder by the owner of the night club whose roof the body was found on. The attorney's daughter sets out to prove her father's innocence and gets a job singing at the club, becoming a Read More

Her Unborn Child

Synopsis: Elisha Cook Jr. made his screen debut in this early exploitation talkie from De Forest Phonofilm. Cook and Pauline Drake appear as innocent lovers who can only stand by and watch while their friend Dorothy Kennedy (Adele Ronson) becomes pregnant by careless Jack Conover (Paul Clare). When Jack Read More

The Bishop Murder Case

Actors: Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams, Roland Young, Alec B. Francis, George F. Marion

Synopsis: Nine years before stepping into the role of Sherlock Holmes, Basil Rathbone essayed the character of S.S. Van Dyne's dilettante detective Philo Vance in The Bishop Murder Case. The murderer this time is a mysterious figure known only as "The Bishop." Plotting his killings in the systematic manner Read More

Hell's Heroes

Actors: Charles Bickford, Fred Kohler, Fritzi Ridgeway, Maria Alba, Raymond Hatton

Synopsis: William Wyler was still primarily a western specialist when he was assigned to direct Hell's Heroes. Based on Peter B. Kyne's Three Godfathers (which was filmed officially and unofficially several times), the story deals with three frontier bandits (Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, and Fred Kohler Sr Read More

Midnight Mystery

Actors: Betty Compson, Hugh Trevor, Lowell Sherman

Synopsis: Several able silent-screen veterans converge in RKO Radio's Midnight Mystery. Sally (Betty Compson), Tim (Lowell Sherman), Mischa (Ivan Lebedeff) and Paul (Raymond Hatton) are among the shady types whom wealthy Gregory (Hugh Trevor) invites to his isolated island mansion off the coast of Maine. Read More

The Office Scandal

Actors: Phyllis Haver, Raymond Hatton, Margaret Livingston

Synopsis: In this early, early talkie, a newspaper reporter convinces a judge to release an accused killer who used to be a colleague before he became an alcoholic. The reporter then gets the fellow a job at the paper. Trouble ensues when the city editor continues to doubt the innocence of the new employee Read More

The Mighty

Actors: George Bancroft, Esther Ralston, Warner Oland, Raymond Hatton, Dorothy Revier

Synopsis: In this melodrama set during WW I, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then returns from war torn Europe to tell a family that their beloved son had died in his arms during a battle. The major then falls in love with the late soldier's sister and decides to accept a position in Read More

Trent's Last Case

Wife Savers

Actors: Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton, ZaSu Pitts, Sally Blane, Tom Kennedy

Synopsis: Another in the popular series of Wallace Beery-Raymond Hatton farces, Wife Savers eschews the slapstick of the earlier efforts in favor of situation comedy. While stationed in Switzerland, soldiers Louis (Beery) and Rodney (Hatton) fall in love with local damsel Colette (Sally Blane), much to the Read More

Big Killing

Actors: Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton, Anders Randolph, Mary Brian, Gardner James

Synopsis: A popular comedy duo towards the end of the silent era, Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatten once again join forces for this rollicking comedy concerning a pair of nitwits who unwittingly become embroiled in an age old feud between two mountain families. When snake-oil salesmen Pete (Beery) and Gus Read More

Partners in Crime

Actors: Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton, Mary Brian, William Powell, Jack Luden

Synopsis: Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton team up again in this silent comedy, in which they (respectively) play Mike Doolan, a half-bright gumshoe, and Scoop McGee, his equally dim-witted journalist pal. While on the trail of a group of gangsters, Doolan and McGee unwittingly fall in with a group of Read More

We're in the Navy Now

Actors: Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton, Chester Conklin, Tom Kennedy, Donald Keith

Synopsis: A follow-up to the enormously successful Behind the Front, We're in the Navy Now reteams the stars of the earlier film, Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton. Beery plays dimwitted boxer Knockout Hannigan, while Hatton is his larcenous manager Stinkey Smith. KO'ed during a preliminary bout, Hannigan Read More

Fashions for Women

Actors: Esther Ralston, Raymond Hatton, Edward Martindel, Agostino Borgato

Synopsis: Former film editor Dorothy Arzner made her directorial debut with the Esther Ralston vehicle Fashions for Women. Ralston stars as Celeste de Givray, renowned throughout Europe as the most beautiful and best-dressed model in all Paris. Her press agent DuPont (Raymond Hatton) concocts an Read More

Two Flaming Youths

Actors: W.C. Fields, Chester Conklin, Mary Brian, Jack Luden, George Irving

Synopsis: Although the silent W.C. Fields vehicle Two Flaming Youths no longer exists, a surviving script (titled Side Show) offers a tantalizing peek at this long-lost effort. Fields is cast as Gabby Gilfoil, owner of "Gilfoil's Nonpareil Circus," a dog-and-pony operation that must forever stay one step Read More

Fireman, Save My Child

Actors: Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton, Josephine Dunn, Tom Kennedy, Walter Goss

Synopsis: Fireman Save My Child is an exceptionally well-constructed slapstick comedy, utilizing the talents of stars Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton to the utmost. Beery and Hatton go through their usual paces as Elmer and Sam, a pair of firefighters who spend most of their time waiting hand and foot on Read More

Now We're in the Air

Actors: Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton, Louise Brooks, Russell Simpson, Emile Chautard

Synopsis: During the late '20s, Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton made a series of comedies for Paramount. Although the studio hyped them quite a bit, there was nothing really special about the pairing, and the two actors (Beery especially) had better success apart in the long run. This picture was made Read More

Behind the Front

Actors: Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton, Mary Brian, Hayden Stevenson

Synopsis: Behind the Front is a raucous silent vehicle for Paramount's Mutt-and-Jeff comedy team of Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton. The film begins during the early months of World War I; myopic detective Beery chases pickpocket Hatton into an "enlistment" party held by pretty socialite Mary Brian. The Read More

Silence

Actors: Vera Reynolds, H.B. Warner, Raymond Hatton, Rockliffe Fellowes, Jack Mulhall

Synopsis: Produced by Cecil B. DeMille -- but directed by Rupert Julian -- Silence affords new DeMille contractee Vera Reynolds the opportunity to play a dual role. Told in flashback, the story endeavors to explain why Jim Warren (H.B. Warner) is about to be hanged for a murder he didn't commit. A petty Read More

Born to the West

Actors: Jack Holt, Margaret Morris, Raymond Hatton, Arlette Marchal, George Siegmann

Synopsis: Another entry in Paramount's long-running "Zane Grey" series, Born to the West represented the first directorial effort of John Waters. The story concerns the lifelong rivalry between two men over the love of one woman. Most of the action takes place in Nevada during the Gold Rush, where trail Read More

Forlorn River

Actors: Jack Holt, Raymond Hatton, Arlette Marchal, Edmund Burns, Tom Santschi

Synopsis: Filmed in majestic Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon, Utah, this Paramount Zane Grey Western starred Jack Holt as Nevada, a fugitive from justice left to die in the desert by his treacherous partner Bill Hall (Tom Santschi). Nevada is rescued by Ben Ide (Edmund Burns), a young rancher engaged to Read More

The Devil's Cargo

Actors: Wallace Beery, Pauline Starke, Claire Adams, William Collier, Jr., Raymond Hatton

Synopsis: The subject matter to this Victor Fleming-directed drama is typically virile -- it takes place in Sacramento during the Gold Rush days of 1849. And the star who stands out the most is also the most manly: big Wallace Beery. John Joyce (William Collier Jr.) arrives in Sacramento with his sister Read More

In the Name of Love

Actors: Greta Nissen, Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton, Lillian Leighton

Synopsis: Naturalized American Raoul Melnotte (Ricardo Cortez) travels from Chicago to his native France in search of his childhood sweetheart, Marie Dufrayne (Greta Nissen). Unfortunately, he discovers that she has become a wealthy, snobbish social climber. Since she wants a husband with a title, she has Read More

Tomorrow's Love

Actors: Agnes Ayres, Pat O'Malley, Raymond Hatton, Jane Winton, Ruby Lafayette

Synopsis: Paul Bern became more well known as an MGM producer under Irving Thalberg than he did as a director, but had he stuck to directing, he probably would have been a major success there too. Bern approached this simple domestic comedy-drama with a sophisticated touch. The Stanleys, Judith and Robert Read More

Top of the World

Actors: Anna Q. Nilsson, James Kirkwood, Raymond Hatton, Sheldon Lewis, Charles A. Post

Synopsis: This romantic drama was based on the novel by Ethel M. Dell, a very popular author of the day. Her work doesn't seem to translate to a modern-day mentality, however, especially here where the hero seems decidedly unsympathetic. At least he's played effectively by James Kirkwood, who actually has a Read More

Thundering Herd

Actors: Jack Holt, Lois Wilson, Noah Beery, Sr., Raymond Hatton, Tim McCoy

Synopsis: Zane Grey's 1925 story of the great Buffalo hunts became a sprawling silent Western produced by Paramount and starring the studio's stalwart Jack Holt as a trader who uncovers a scheme to blame the Indians for a Buffalo massacre. The film's highlight, a breathtaking shot of wagons careening across Read More

Adventure

Actors: Tom Moore, Pauline Starke, Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton, Walter McGrail

Synopsis: Adventure was an appropriate title for a book by Jack London, and when his tale of the South Seas was made into a film, the virile Victor Fleming was the right man to direct it. David Shelton, a plantation owner (Tom Moore), is faced with ruin because some of his native workers are sick and the Read More

Contraband

Actors: Lois Wilson, Noah Beery, Sr., Raymond Hatton, Raymond McKee, Charles Ogle

Synopsis: Lois Wilson stars in this drama, which was based on the novel by Clarence Buddington Kelland. Schoolteacher Carmel Lee (Wilson) inherits a run-down country newspaper from her uncle. With the help of eccentric Professor Pell (Raymond McKee) and Jed Tubal, an old printer (Luke Cosgrave), she starts Read More

Son of His Father

Actors: Bessie Love, Warner Baxter, Raymond Hatton, Walter McGrail, Carl Stockdale

Synopsis: Based on a story by Harold Bell Wright, this average silent western starred Warner Baxter as the son who almost loses his ranch to cover his late father's debts. Star-billed Bessie Love had little to do other than looking pretty as Baxter's Irish romantic interest. A former leading man with the Read More

Lord Jim

Actors: Percy Marmont, Shirley Mason, Noah Beery, Sr., Raymond Hatton, Joseph J. Dowling

Synopsis: Almost 30 years before the Peter O'Toole picture, Joseph Conrad's novel was first filmed as a silent. It was directed in typically virile manner by Victor Fleming, starred Percy Marmont as Jim, and was actually truer to the novel than the 1964 version. Jim is a seaman under the despicable Captain Read More

Triumph

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Rod La Rocque, Victor Varconi, Charles Ogle, Theodore Kosloff

Synopsis: After the spectacular epic The Ten Commandments, filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille returns to the drawing room for this pleasingly straightforward drama. King Garnet (Rod La Rocque) is the idle son of factory owner David Garnet (George Fawcett). He is in love with Ann Land (Leatrice Joy), the factory's Read More

Half-A-Dollar Bill

Cornered

Actors: Marie Prevost, Rockliffe Fellowes, John Roche, Cissy Fitzgerald, Raymond Hatton

Synopsis: Two crooks, Jerry the Gent (Rockliffe Fellowes) and Nick the Dope (Raymond Hatton), discover that their compatriot, Mary Brennan (Marie Prevost), is a dead ringer for heiress Margaret Waring (Prevost again). They create a plan which places Mary in the Waring home while Margaret is out of town. The Read More

The Mine with the Iron Door

Synopsis: This epic Western-melodrama was based on the popular novel by Harold Bell Wright. Two old prospectors, Thad Grove (Charlie Murray) and Bob Hill (Bert Woodruff) find an infant in the cabin belonging to Sonora Jack (Mitchell Lewis), a notorious bandit. The girl, Marta, grows to womanhood (to be Read More

The Fighting American

Actors: Pat O'Malley, Mary Astor, Raymond Hatton, Warner Oland

Synopsis: The story to this romantic satire was penned by William Elwell Oliver, the winner of a writing contest that Universal Studios held for college students. Not surprisingly, it opens up on campus, where Bill Pendleton (Pat O'Malley) has made a bet with his fraternity brothers -- he will propose to Read More

True As Steel

Actors: Aileen Pringle, Huntly Gordon, Cleo Madison, Eleanor Boardman, Norman Kerry

Synopsis: Centering a story on the dilemmas of a "modern business woman" seemed like a fine idea in 1924, so Rupert Hughes (whose nephew was a teenager named Howard R. Hughes) wrote and directed this drama for MGM. Aileen Pringle stars as the businesswoman in question, Eva Boutelle, whose husband, Harry (Norman Kerry Read More

Barefoot Boy

Actors: John Bowers, Marjorie Daw, Sylvia Breamer, Raymond Hatton

Synopsis: This sentimental rural drama was based on the poem by John Greenleaf Whittier. Frankie Lee plays Dick Alden, the barefoot boy of the title. He is abused by his stepfather and his only friends in the village where he lives are his mother, a little girl named Mary Truesdale (Gertie Messinger), and Read More

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Actors: Lon Chaney, Ernest Torrence, Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry, Kate Lester

Synopsis: This second film version of the Victor Hugo novel Notre Dame de Paris (the first was a Theda Bara vehicle, The Dancer of Paris) was a super-duper-spectacular as only Hollywood of the 1920s could make them, but it is never so large that it dwarfs the contribution of its star, Lon Chaney. As Read More

Half A Dollar Bill

Actors: Anna Q. Nilsson, George MacQuarrie, Mitchell Lewis, Raymond Hatton

Synopsis: When she is deserted by her husband, the Stranger (Anna Q. Nilsson) leaves her baby on a doorstep with half a dollar bill pinned to his chest, and a note saying that one day she will return for the child with the other half as identification. The baby is found by Captain McTeague (William T. Read More

A Man of Action

Actors: Douglas MacLean, Marguerite de la Motte, Raymond Hatton, Arthur Millett

Synopsis: Light-comedy actor Douglas MacLean stars in this hilarious mystery capably directed by James W. Horne. Bruce MacAllister, a wealthy San Franciscan (MacLean), leads a pampered and uneventful life. That changes when his sweetheart Helen Summer (Marguerite de la Motte) says she likes "a man of Read More

Java Head

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Jacqueline Logan, Albert Roscoe, Arthur Stuart Hull

Synopsis: Louisiana-born Leatrice Joy plays Chinese princess Taou Yuen in Java Head. To save himself from being executed in a gruesome manner, American Jeremy Ammidon (Frederick Strong) marries Taou Yuen. Once he arrives in his New England home, Ammidon tries but fails to suppress his love for hometown Read More

The Virginian

Actors: Kenneth Harlan, Florence Vidor, Russell Simpson, Pat O'Malley, Raymond Hatton

Synopsis: This second of four film versions of Owen Wister's The Virgininian stars Kenneth Harlan as the nameless principal character. Signed on as ranchhands on a huge spread, the Virginian and his best friend Steve (Pat O'Malley) have themselves a high old time until New England schoolmarm Molly Woods Read More

Enemies of Children

Actors: Anna Q. Nilsson, Claire McDowell, Lucy Beaumont, Joseph J. Dowling

Synopsis: This old-fashioned drama was based on the novel Youth Triumphant by George Gibb. Patsy, a little slum girl (Virginia Lee Corbin), runs away from Ma Slavin, her alcoholic guardian (Eugenie Besserer). She is found and adopted by the wealthy Godfrey sisters (Lucy Beaumont and Claire McDonald). The Read More

The Tie That Binds

Actors: Robert Edeson, Walter Miller, Barbara Bedford, Marian Swayne

Synopsis: Mary Ellen Grey (Barbara Bedford) is the secretary to toy-manufacturer Daniel Kenyon (William P. Carleton). After Mary Ellen turns down a marriage proposal from Daniel and instead marries fellow-worker David Winthrop (Walter Miller), David is fired and Mary Ellen leaves her position three weeks Read More

Big Brother

Actors: Tom Moore, Edith Roberts, Raymond Hatton, Mickey Bennett, Joe King

Synopsis: The Big Brother organization hadn't yet gone national in 1923, but it had enough of a reputation to inspire the title to this heart-warming drama, based on a story by Rex Beach. Jimmy Donovan (Tom Moore) is the leader of a tough East Side gang. When his pal Big Ben (Joe King) is killed by a rival Read More

Three Wise Fools

Actors: Eleanor Boardman, William H. Crane, Alec B. Francis

Synopsis: Eleanor Boardman and William Haines came to Hollywood when they were winners in the same contest held by the Goldwyn studios. While Boardman's star rose faster than Haines' (with Brown of Harvard, he would eventually catch up), they appeared together in this comedy-drama adapted from the play by Read More

Head over Heels

Synopsis: The Goldwyn studios had apparently been hanging onto this Mabel Normand comedy for quite a while -- by the time it was released, she was already back making pictures for Mack Sennett. Considering the jumbled mess that reached the theaters, the studio may have had good reason to hide it away. Read More

Ebb Tide

Actors: Lila Lee, James Kirkwood, Raymond Hatton, George Fawcett, Noah Beery, Sr.

Synopsis: This romantic adventure was based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. An old skipper, Captain Davis (George Fawcett), has as his companions two derelicts -- one, Huish (Raymond Hatton), is a Cockney, and the other, Robert Herrick (James Kirkwood) was once a gentleman. In Tahiti they board a Read More

Manslaughter

Actors: Thomas Meighan, Leatrice Joy, Lois Wilson, John Miltern, George Fawcett

Synopsis: This Cecil B. DeMille morality play came at just the right time -- the Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle scandal and William Desmond Taylor murder were both still fresh in the public's mind. Leatrice Joy plays Lydia Thorne, a rich society girl who is addicted to thrills. Because of her reckless driving, she Read More

Pink Gods

Actors: Bebe Daniels, James Kirkwood, Anna Q. Nilsson, Raymond Hatton, Adolphe Menjou

Synopsis: This melodrama, based on the novel Pink Gods and Blue Demons by Cynthia Stockley, wasted the talents of James Kirkwood, Anna Q. Nilsson, Raymond Hatton, and especially Bebe Daniels, whose forte was comedy, not drama. Lorraine Temple (Daniels) lusts after diamonds, so while her husband, Colonel Pat Read More

Hottentot

Actors: Douglas MacLean, Madge Bellamy, Lila Leslie, Truly Shattuck

Synopsis: Producer Thomas Ince brought the William Collier/Victor Mapes-penned stage farce to the screen for his light comedy star Douglas MacLean. A few changes were made -- in the play Sam Harrington was an adept horseman who shied away from the beasts after an accident. In the film, MacLean as Harrington Read More

To Have and to Hold

Actors: Betty Compson, Bert Lytell, Theodore Kosloff, W.J. Ferguson, Raymond Hatton

Synopsis: This epic historical romance, based on the novel by Mary Johnston, was one of Paramount's big releases for 1922, and it featured some of the studio's best talent. King James I (Raymond Hatton) gives his consent to the marriage between Lord Carnal (Theodore Kosloff) and Lady Jocelyn Leigh (Betty Read More

Doubling for Romeo

Actors: Will Rogers, Sylvia Breamer, Raymond Hatton, Al Hart

Synopsis: It is said that every actor wants to play Shakespeare. Will Rogers would seem a likely exception to that rule, but here he is in this silent, taking a stab (albeit comic) at Romeo. Slim (Rogers), of course, begins as a cowpuncher but his boss switches from cattle to sheep, throwing him out of Read More

Concert

Actors: Lewis Stone, Myrtle Steadman, Raymond Hatton, Mabel Julienne Scott, Gertrude Astor

Synopsis: This sophisticated light comedy was based on a successful stage play by Herman Bahr. Augustus Martinot (Lewis Stone) is a famed pianist. He is also no great catch, although his wife Mary (Mary Stedman) knows how to handle him. Nevertheless, women are fascinated by Martinot, primarily because of Read More

All's Fair in Love

Synopsis: Wife May Collins is convinced by a homewrecking female (Marcia Manon) that her husband Richard Dix is unfaithful. Upon learning that she's been hoodwinked, Collins decides to use a few underhanded feminine wiles herself. By proving herself the equal of the woman who broke up her home, wifey wins Read More

Salvage

Synopsis: Bernice Ridgeway (Pauline Frederick) gives birth to a baby that is deformed. Her husband, Cyrus Ridgeway (Ralph Lewis), spirits the child away and tells Bernice that it was born dead. When she discovers the truth, she leaves him and goes to live in a tenement. Her neighbor across the hall is Kate Read More

Bunty Pulls the Strings

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Russell Simpson, Raymond Hatton, Cullen Landis

Synopsis: Bunty Pulls the Strings was adapted from the immensely popular stage farce by Graham Moffat. Leatrice Joy stars as a Scottish lassie who has her hands full solving various domestic problems. Her brother Raymond Hatton faces a prison term, and she herself is in danger of losing boyfriend Cullen Landis Read More

Pilgrims of the Night

Actors: Lewis Stone, Rubye DeRemer, William V. Mong, Kathleen Kirkham, Raymond Hatton

Synopsis: Director Edward H. Sloman had only himself to blame for this melodramatic misfire: he also wrote the script. A now forgotten actress, Rubye de Remer, starred as Christine, a Parisian demi-monde involved with a gang of criminals headed by Marcel (Frank Leigh), who she mistakenly believes to be her Read More

The Ace of Hearts

Synopsis: Based on a story by Gouverneur Morris, this drama involves a group of terrorists whose motive is to do away with capitalists of their choosing. To pick the assassin for their latest mark, they draw cards, and a pretty female member, Lillith (Leatrice Joy), offers to marry the man chosen. Forrest Read More

Peck's Bad Boy

Actors: Jackie Coogan, Wheeler Oakman, Doris May, Raymond Hatton, James Corrigan

Synopsis: After his appearance in The Kid, little Jackie Coogan was obviously destined for stardom. For his first starring role, he was given this story written by George W. Peck, which had been made into a stage play by George M. Cohan. While the film didn't live up to the stage version (Moving Picture Read More

The Affairs of Anatol

Actors: Wallace Reid, Gloria Swanson, Elliott Dexter

Synopsis: Cecil B. DeMille's much-maligned cinemadaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's The Affairs of Anatol holds up better than its reputation suggests. Wallace Reid stars as New York socialite Anatol DeWitt Spencer, who after only a few day's marriage has become bored with his new bride Vivian (Gloria Read More

Dancin' Fool

Synopsis: Sylvester Tibble (Wallace Reid) comes to New York City to work at the jug business run by his uncle, Enoch Jones (Raymond Hatton). He winds up supplementing his $6.00 a week when dancer Junie Budd (Bebe Daniels) discovers his slick footwork and takes him on as a dancing partner. His gig at one of Read More

The Sea Wolf

Synopsis: Although Humphrey Van Weyden (Tom Forman) is in love with Maud Brewster (Mabel Julienne Scott), she won't give him the time of day, because he's not manly enough for her. The ferry they are on sinks, and they wind up on a schooner headed for the Behring Sea. The Captain is Wolf Larsen (Noah Beery Read More

Stop Thief

Synopsis: Stop Thief was adapted from the popular Broadway comedy of the same name, with Mary Ryan repeating her original stage role. The story revolves around a pair of thieves, Nell Jones (Ryan) and Jack Doogan (Harry Mestayer), and their efforts to go straight. But before they can do so, Nell and Jack Read More

Jes' Call Me Jim

Synopsis: During the silent era, Will Rogers was generally on the losing end of a romantic triangle; this time his good-natured common sense wins out. Although trapper Jim Fenton (Rogers) loves Miss Butterworth (Irene Rich), he thinks that she really cares for inventor Paul Benedict (Raymond Hatton), who Read More

Experimental Marriage

Actors: Harrison Ford

Synopsis: This film, based on the stage play Saturday to Monday by William J. Hurlburt, made a nice vehicle for the charms of Constance Talmadge. Constance plays Suzanne Ercoll, a young widow who believes in women's suffrage (the feminist cause of the day). When the handsome Foxcroft Grey (Connie's frequent Read More

You're Fired

Synopsis: This comedy had several winning elements, among them a screenplay based on O. Henry's story, The Halberdier, and dashing star power in handsome Wallace Reid. Billy Deering (Reid) wants to marry Helen Rogers (Wanda Hawley), but her father (Theodore Roberts) objects because he feels that Billy Read More

Everywoman

Synopsis: Allegory is a storytelling form little used in cinema today, but it popped up frequently during the silent era, especially before the '20s kicked in. This particular film was based on a morality play by Walter Browns. Everywoman (Violet Heming) is on a quest for love, but Flattery (Raymond Hatton) Read More

The Dub

Synopsis: Paramount's silent matinee idol Wallace Reid plays John Craig, a struggling young contractor who falls into a crooked business scheme. A trio of unsavory partners on the verge of dissolving their company have hired him for a job, assuming that he will fail -- but of course they don't realize that Read More

Male and Female

Actors: Thomas Meighan, Gloria Swanson, Lila Lee, Bebe Daniels, Theodore Roberts

Synopsis: Don't let that title fool you: Male and Female is really James M. Barrie's The Admirable Crichton, as interpreted by Cecil B. DeMille. Thomas Meighan plays Crichton, the very proper butler in the British household of Lord Loam (Theodore Roberts). When masters and servants go on a yachting Read More

For Better, for Worse

Synopsis: Director Cecil B. DeMille tones down his usual elegance and instead focuses on the drama of America during the Great War. Sylvia Norcross (Gloria Swanson) is being courted by two men, Edward Meade (Elliot Dexter) and Richard Burton (Tom Forman). Both Edward and Richard have enlisted, but Edward, a Read More

Love Burglar

Synopsis: In order to rescue his brother, society boy David Strong (Wallace Reid) has to travel through the underworld. He disguises himself as "the Colt Kid," who has just gotten out of prison. During his travels, Strong winds up in a cabaret where he meets singer Joan Gray (Anna Q. Nilsson). Joan is being Read More

Johnny Get Your Gun

Synopsis: This action-comedy has nothing to do with WWI -- Dalton Trumbo's novel would not be written for another 20 years. Stage luminary Fred Stone, known in silent film for his acrobatic roles, stars. Johnny Wiggins (Stone) is a cowboy stunt actor whose friend Bill Burnham (Hart Hoxie) lands in jail. Read More

Source

Synopsis: Van Twiller Yard (Wallace Reid) has drifted from his well-to-do roots and landed on the skids. Along with several other derelicts, he is shanghaied and taken off to a lumber camp, where he is put to work. The superintendent's daughter, Svea Nord (Ann Little), snubs Yard when he is knocked out by Read More

Jules of the Strong Heart

Synopsis: Abstaining from his usual "Italian" characterization, George Beban played a roistering French Canadian in Paramount's Jules of the Strong Heart. Outwardly a brutish bully, lumberjack Jules Lemaire (Jules Lemaire) is actually a big bowl of porrage and proves it by adopting the orphaned child Read More

Firefly of France

Synopsis: Played by Raymond Hatton, the "Firefly of France" is an elusive master criminal of uncertain loyalties. When the Firefly disappears from view with a satchel of important government documents in his possession, his sister Esme Falconer (Ann Little) is suspected of beings in cahoots with him. Read More

Sandy

Synopsis: Jack Pickford plays Sandy, a young Irishman who stows away on a ship headed for America. En route, he meets Ruth Nelson (Louise Huff), the daughter of a Kentucky couple. Falling in love with Ruth, he follows her to the Blue Grass state, where he is taken under the wing of a kindly judge. Read More

Less Than Kin

Synopsis: The plot of Less Than Kin hinges upon the astonishing resemblance between its two protagonists (both of whom, for the sake of convenience and "box-office insurance, are played by the popular Wallace Reid.) The story opens in Central America, where Lewis Vickers (Reid) has fled to escape Read More

Arizona

Synopsis: Silent star Douglas Fairbanks made a rare visit to the director's chair (accompanied by his friend and frequent collaborator Albert Parker) in 1918's Arizona. Utilizing a play by Augustus Thomas as his guide, Fairbanks fashioned another of his easterner-goes-west escapades. This time Fairbanks Read More

The Whispering Chorus

Synopsis: The Whispering Chorus was arguably the closest Cecil B. DeMille ever came to making an "art" picture. Stalwart DeMille supporting player Raymond Hatton gave the performance of his career as embezzling bank clerk John Trimble. Hoping to escape punishment for his crimes, Trimble arranges for an Read More

We Can't Have Everything

Synopsis: We Can't Have Everything was at once a typical Cecil B. DeMille marital comedy and also a satire of the whole genre. Aware that her wealthy husband Peter (Thurston Hall) is cheating on her, socialite Charity Cheever (Kathlyn Williams) nonetheless remains faithful to him, spurning the affections of Read More

One More American

Synopsis: One More American represented one more superb "ethnic" portrayal by the versatile George Beban. The star plays feisty Italian immigrant Luigi Riccardo, the eternal thorn in the side of New York political boss Regan (H.B. Carpenter). Fed up with Riccardo's interference in his graft-grabbing, Regan Read More

The Woman God Forgot

Synopsis: With the exception of Joan the Woman, which contained a "contemporary" subplot, The Woman God Forgot was Cecil B. DeMille's first all-out historical spectacular. The story is set in Mexico during the reign of Emperor Montezuma (Raymond Hatton). Upon his arrival on Mexican soil, Spanish Read More

The Immigrant

Actors: Charles Chaplin, Eric Campbell, Edna Purviance, Henry Bergman, Albert Austin

Synopsis: Charles Chaplin's next-to-last Mutual Studios 2-reeler is as funny as his other 11 Mutual entries, though there's a stronger inner lining of poignancy. En route by boat from an unnamed country, immigrant Chaplin tries to make the best of the nausea-inducing rough seas. He then befriends fellow Read More

A Romance of the Redwoods

Synopsis: Reportedly, director Cecil B. DeMille and leading lady Mary Pickford did not see eye to eye during the making of this lavish Western melodrama filmed on location among the giant redwoods in northern California. "Little Mary" actually plays a female her own age this time (maybe that was the Read More

The Secret Game

Synopsis: Even popular Japanese leading man Sessue Hayakawa was swept up into the distinctly occidental intrigues of WWI in William C. DeMille's The Secret Game. Flying in the face of the "Yellow Peril" scare fomented by such reactionaries as William Randolph Hearst, the film cast Hayakawa as heroic Read More

Squaw Man's Son

Synopsis: This Jessie L. Lasky production was a sequel to the pioneering feature film The Squaw Man; both properties, in fact, were based on novels written by Edwin Milton Royle. Wallace Reid stars as Lord "Hal" Effington, the grown son of the character played by Dustin Farnum in the original Squaw Man. Read More

The Little American

Actors: DeWitt Jennings

Synopsis: It would be easy to assume that combining Mary Pickford's charm with director Cecil B. DeMille's penchant for the spectacular would create an exceptional piece of work. But judging from this picture, and the one made before it -- Romance of the Redwoods -- that just wasn't the case. The bottom Read More

The American Consul

Synopsis: Character actor Theodore Roberts had to carry this film all on his own, which was a near-impossible task. He plays country lawyer Abel Manning, who is very passionate about his political party. Through the force of his oratory, he helps elect James Kitwell (Ernest Joy) to the U.S. Senate. Kitwell Read More

Nan of Music Mountain

Synopsis: Handsome silent screen idol Wallace Reid takes a job as manager of a stage-line in this early silent western directed by the prolific George Melford. Reid's Henry DeSpain not only defeats the notorious Morgan gang but falls for the gang leader's (Theodore Roberts) lovely daughter, Nan (Ann Read More

Honorable Friend

Synopsis: Charismatic Japanese film star (Sessue Hayakawa and his charming wife Tsuri Aoki were teamed in the complicated melodrama Honorable Friend. The story takes place in an Japanese community in coastal California, where crooked antique dealer Kayosho (Raymond Hatton) holds sway as the richest man in Read More

Joan the Woman

Synopsis: A sweeping chronicle of the life and death of Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orlean, this epic stands as one of director Cecil B. DeMille's finest works and offers film buffs a fascinating look into the early years of one of Hollywood's greats. The story of the valiant French martyr is framed by the Read More

Tennessee's Pardner

Synopsis: The first of several screen versions of Bret Harte's venerable action yarn Tennessee's Pardner was delivered to the movie-going public in 1916 by producer