Robert Kent Filmography

Rebel City

Actors: William "Wild Bill" Elliott, Marjorie Lord, Robert Kent, Keith Richards, I. Stanford Jolley

Synopsis: Rebel City is a "B" western with "A" aspirations. Wild Bill Elliot plays gambler Frank Graham, who heads to Kansas in search of his father's murderer. This being 1864, the local military presence is more preoccupied with keeping Southern sympathizers out of the state to worry about Graham's Read More

The Adventures of Superman: The Case of the Talkative Dummy

Synopsis: The staff of the "Daily Planet" investigates when several armored trucks are hijacked in Metropolis. It turns out that the thieves are being supplied with information concerning the truck's routes by a specially rigged ventriloquist's dummy. Stumbling on to vital evidence, cub reporter Jimmy Olsen Read More

The Wild Blue Yonder

Actors: Vera Ralston, Forrest Tucker, Phil Harris, Walter Brennan

Synopsis: Wendell Corey and Forrest Tucker, the Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy of Republic, star as a pair of World War II Army Air Corps officers. In between their battles over the affections of beautiful nurse Vera Hruba Ralston, Corey and Tucker prepare to fly a bombing mission in the South Pacific. Read More

Radar Secret Service

Actors: John Howard, Adele Jergens, Tom Neal, Myrna Dell, Sid Melton

Synopsis: Filmed under the title Radar Patrol, Lippert's Rader Secret Service wastes no time getting down to business. Indeed, with a 59-minute running time, no waste would have been tolerated. John Howard and Ralph "Dick Tracy" Byrd star as Bill and Static, a pair of secret service operatives, in search of Read More

Federal Agent at Large

Actors: Dorothy Patrick, Robert Rockwell, Kent Taylor, Estelita Rodriguez, Thurston Hall

Synopsis: The federal agent "at large" in this Republic programmer is played by Kent Taylor. On the trail of gold smugglers in Mexico, Matt Reedy (Taylor) crosses the path of hard-boiled lady criminal Solitare (Dorothy Patrick). Her criminal tendencies softened by romance, Solitare decides to work with Read More

For Heaven's Sake

Actors: Clifton Webb, Joan Bennett, Robert Cummings, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Blondell

Synopsis: When the continual bickering of a married couple threatens to tear them apart, an angel is sent to help them get back together and start making babies in this fantasy. The husband is a busy producer for theatrical shows so the angel disguises himself as a wealthy Westerner looking to invest in a Read More

Wild Weed

Actors: Lila Leeds, Alan Baxter, Lyle Talbot, Mary Ellen Popel

Synopsis: This seedy anti-marijuana tract was distributed as She Shoulda Said No. The star is one Lila Leeds, who gained notoriety in 1948 when she and Robert Mitchum were arrested during a Hollywood pot party. Leeds plays an impressionable chorus girl who is hooked onto marijuana by her collegiate brother. Read More

The Counterfeiters

Actors: John Sutton, Doris Merrick, Hugh Beaumont, Lon Chaney, Jr., George O'Hanlon

Synopsis: With Maurice Conn as producer and Peter Stewart (aka Sam Newfield) as director, one suspects that 20th Century-Fox's The Counterfeiters was actually produced by one of the minor companies like Film Classics or PRC. Scotland Yard investigator Jeff McAllister (John Sutton) teams with the FBI to Read More

Dragnet

Synopsis: In this suspenseful, convoluted low-budget mystery, a Scotland Yard inspector travels to the Big Apple to investigate the activities of international jewel thieves. The investigation begins after the corpse of a diplomatic courier, who has upon him a number of smuggled jewels, is found on the Read More

Big Town After Dark

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

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

The Phantom Rider [Serial]

Synopsis: Adhering to the long tradition of casting non-action leads in their serials, Republic Pictures hired former 20th Century-Fox light leading man Robert Kent to headline no less than two chapterplays in 1946, King of the Royal Mounted and The Phantom Rider. In the latter, the amiable, good-looking Kent Read More

Joe Palooka, Champ

Actors: Leon Errol, Elyse Knox, Joe Kirkwood, Jr., Eduardo Ciannelli, Joe Sawyer

Synopsis: In this first entry in the pugilistic comedy series based on Ham Fishers long-running comic strip, Joe Palooka is seen before his boxing career took off. The story begins as he is discovered by Knobby Walsh, a keen-eyed manager. As Knobby trains Joe, gangsters intervene and attempt to insure that Read More

What Next, Corporal Hargrove?

Actors: Robert Walker, Keenan Wynn, Jean Porter, Chill Wills, Hugo Haas

Synopsis: This follow-up to the 1944 hit See Here, Private Hargrove suffers from that common movie malady known as Sequelitis, meaning that it's not quite as good as its predecessor. U.S. artillery corporal Marion Hargrove (Robert Walker) finds himself at large in wartime France -- or at least the MGM Read More

What a Man!

Actors: Johnny Downs, Wanda McKay, Robert Kent, Harry Holman

Synopsis: In this romantic drama, an office clerk's quiet personal life is disrupted when a sick woman appears at his doorstep in desperate need of help. The kindly fellow takes her in and helps her to recover. He then discovers that she isn't sick at all; she was only trying to hide from the cops who Read More

Hot Rhythm

Actors: Dona Drake, Robert Lowery, Tim Ryan, Irene Ryan, Sidney Miller

Synopsis: Robert Lowery and the comedy team of Tim Ryan and Irene Ryan star in this pleasant musical-comedy about a jingle-writer (Lowery) attempting to turn his girlfriend (Dona Drake) into a band vocalist. Unfortunately, there is a case of mistaken identity and the bumbling recording studio owner (Tim Ryan Read More

Yanks Ahoy

Actors: William Tracy, Joe Sawyer, Marjorie Woodworth, Minor Watson, Walter Woolf King

Synopsis: Yanks Ahoy was the last of a series of Hal Roach "streamliners" teaming William Tracy as Sgt. Doubleday, he of the photographic memory, and Joe Sawyer as long-suffering Sgt. Ames. This time, our heroes are at sea, messing up the Navy with the same efficiency with which they screwed up the army. Read More

Find the Blackmailer

Actors: Jerome Cowan, Faye Emerson, Gene Lockhart, Marjorie Hoshelle, Robert Kent

Synopsis: After years of faithful supporting-player service to Warner Bros., Jerome Cowan was rewarded with two starring vehicles, the first of which was Find the Blackmailer. Cowan is cast as private eyes D. L. Trees, who is hired by mayoral candidate John M. Rhodes (Gene Lockhart) to prevent any sort of Read More

Gung Ho!

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

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

Northern Pursuit

Actors: Errol Flynn, Julie Bishop, Helmut Dantine, John Ridgely, Gene Lockhart

Synopsis: The fact that star Errol Flynn had been recently embroiled in a real-life rape trial only served to increase the box-office "pull" of Warner Bros. Northern Pursuit. Flynn is cast as Canadian mountie Steve Wagner, assigned to track down and capture downed Nazi pilot Hugo von Keller (Helmut Dantine) Read More

The Forest Rangers

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Paulette Goddard, Susan Hayward, Albert Dekker, Lynne Overman

Synopsis: In this drama, a dedicated forest ranger begins suspecting that a recent series of fires has been caused by arson. He investigates in a neighboring town. There he meets a beautiful rich girl, and they fall in love and get married. Unfortunately, the other rangers do not react well to the female's Read More

Stagecoach Express

Actors: Don "Red" Barry, Lynn Merrick, Robert Kent, Emmett Lynn

Synopsis: Crooked mail clerk Charles Haney (Emmet Lynn), coveting his boss' stagecoach line, tips off a gang of outlaws whenever a new gold shipment is due. Hero Dave Gregory (Don "Red" Barry) suspects that the subsequent rash of the stage holdups are the work of an "inside" man, but he can't prove it. Dave Read More

The Blonde Comet

Actors: Virginia Vale, Robert Kent, Barney Oldfield, Vince Barnett, William Halligan

Synopsis: PRC Pictures' final 1941 release was the auto-racing melodrama Blonde Comet. Virginia Vale stars as female race-car champion Betty Blake, the toast of the European racing circuit. Upon arriving in America, Betty finds she has a staunch rival in the form of devilishly handsome Jim Flynn (Robert Kent Read More

Twilight on the Trail

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Brad King, Wanda McKay, Jack Rockwell

Synopsis: Twilight on the Trail was one of three "Hopalong Cassidy" entries tradeshown in New York during the last two weeks of September, 1941 (the other two were Stick to Your Guns and Secret of the Wastelands). William Boyd returns as Hoppy, with Brad King and Andy Clyde as his sidekicks Johny and Read More

Sunset in Wyoming

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, George Cleveland, Maris Wrixon, Robert Kent

Synopsis: Not to be confused with his later Home in Wyomin', Gene Autry's Sunset in Wyoming is essentially a musical with western interludes. This time, Autry champions the cause of a group of ranchers who are being victimized by the apparent megalomania of lumber baron George Cleveland. Upon palavering Read More

One Million B.C.

Actors: Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Lon Chaney, Jr., John Hubbard, Mamo Clark

Synopsis: Even taking into consideration Of Mice and Men, One Million BC was inarguably the most ambitious feature-film project ever undertaken by producer Hal Roach. Told in flashback, this is the highly fanciful tale of the prehistoric feud between the Rock Tribe and Shell People. Tumak (Victor Mature) Read More

For Love or Money

Actors: June Lang, Robert Kent, Edward S. Brophy, Etienne Girardot, Richard Lane

Synopsis: To dim-bulb accountants find themselves working for a bookie in this comedy. Their jobs and their lives are placed in jeopardy when they accidently fumble $50,000 worth of the bookie's cash over to the secretary who wastes no time in spending $44,000 of it in less than 8 hours. The bookkeepers are Read More

Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford

Synopsis: This sixth installment in MGM's "Andy Hardy" series is among the best, thanks in great part to the breezy direction of "Woody" Van Dyke. In this outing, teenaged Andy (Mickey Rooney) develops a crush on his high-school drama teacher Rose Meredith (Helen Gilbert). Andy's dad Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone Read More

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

Actors: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Lionel Atwill, Helen Gilbert, Nat Pendleton

Synopsis: In this third installment of MGM's "Dr. Kildare" series, Dr. James Kildare (Lew Ayres) comes to the rescue when his supervisor/mentor Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore) nearly collapses from overwork. Gillespie is seeking a permanent cure for pneumonia, and must ask Kildare for assistance when the Read More

The Phantom Creeps [Serial]

Actors: Bela Lugosi, Robert Kent, Dorothy Arnold, Regis Toomey, Edward Van Sloan

Synopsis: The bravura performance of Bela Lugosi is the main selling card for the 12-episode Universal serial The Phantom Creeps. Unhinged by the death of his wife, Dr. Alex Zorka (Lugosi) vows to avenge himself on the world with a variety of strange inventions, including a "disvisualizer belt" which allows Read More

Convict's Code

Actors: Robert Kent, Anne Nagel, Sidney Blackmer, Victor Kilian, Norman Willis

Synopsis: Monogram's seemingly endless series of inexpensive crime mellers continued with Convict's Code. Robert Kent plays a star football player who is framed by gamblers on a robbery charge and sentenced to prison. Serving three years behind bars, Kent is paroled in the custody of the same gambling boss (Sidney Blackmer Read More

East Side of Heaven

Actors: Bing Crosby, Joan Blondell, Mischa Auer, Irene Hervey, C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis: Bing Crosby plays a tune-happy cab driver who finds himself the reluctant recipient of an abandoned baby. Together with his roommate, dour doorman Mischa Auer, Crosby offers care and shelter to the infant until he can locate the parents. The baby brings in some unwanted publicity for Crosby, which Read More

Calling All Marines

Actors: Don "Red" Barry, Helen Mack, Warren Hymer, Robert Kent, Cy Kendall

Synopsis: In this patriotic spy adventure, a young gangster joins an enemy espionage agency and agrees to enlist in the Marine Corps so he can pilfer the plans for a newly developed aerial torpedo. To get in, the crook steals an innocent young man's papers and forges them for himself. Later, he gets his Read More

The Gladiator

Actors: Joe E. Brown, Man Mountain Dean, June Travis, Dickie Moore, Lucien Littlefield

Synopsis: The most successful of Joe E. Brown's post-Warner Bros. efforts, The Gladiator finds cavern-mouthed Brown winning a cash prize at a movie theatre, then using his windfall to attend college. The son of a legendary athlete, clumsy Brown is unable to live up to his dad's reputation. Genially batty Read More

Stagecoach Days

Actors: Jack Luden, Eleanor Stewart, Harry Woods, Hal Taliaferro, Lafe [Lafayette] McKee

Synopsis: Columbia Pictures' year-long effort to turn utility actor Jack Luden into a western star sputtered onward with Stagecoach Days. Luden is okay in the lead, but the story, about a deadly rivalry between two stage lines, is an exercise in tedium. Things pick up tremendously during the final reel Read More

Wanted by the Police

Actors: Frankie Darro, Lillian Elliott, Robert Kent, Evelyn Knapp, Matty Fain

Synopsis: Diminutive Danny (Frankie Darro) is Wanted by the Police in this Monogram actioner. Danny is basically a good boy, but he's fallen into bad company-specifically, a gang of toughs who have a habit of taking automobiles that belong to others. The hero's Irish mother (Lillian Elliot) finally figures Read More

Little Orphan Annie

Actors: Ann Gillis, Robert Kent, June Travis, John Farrell MacDonald, J.M. Kerrigan

Synopsis: Harold Gray's long-running comic strip Little Orphan Annie was first brought to the screen in 1932, with Mitzi Green as Annie. This 1938 version was produced by Paramount, with Ann Gillis (best known for her performance as Becky Thatcher in Selznick's Adventures of Tom Sawyer) as Gray's Read More

Almost a Gentleman

Actors: James Ellison, Helen Wood, Robert Kent, Leonard Penn, John Wray

Synopsis: Ace the Wonder Dog, RKO's Rin Tin Tin-wannabe, plays Picardy Max, a mongrel dog adopted by Dan Preston (James Ellison) when both are thrown in jail for vagrancy. Dan's legal problems are quickly done away with but his pretty boarder, Shirley Haddon (Helen Wood), is increasingly troubled by Dan's Read More

Mr. Moto Takes a Chance

Actors: Peter Lorre, Rochelle Hudson, Robert Kent, J. Edward Bromberg, Chick Chandler

Synopsis: In this fourth of 20th Century-Fox's "Mr. Moto" series, a beautiful young aviatrix (Rochelle Hudson) on a secret diplomatic mission crash-lands in a remote Indochinese jungle province ruled by a despotic potentate (J. Edward Bromberg). Japanese adventurer Mr. Moto (Peter Lorre) is in the vicinity Read More

Gang Bullets

Actors: Anne Nagel, Robert Kent, Charles Trowbridge, Morgan Wallace, John Farrell MacDonald

Synopsis: Gang Bullets was one of a myriad of late-1930s Monogram crime pictures, bearing such interchangable titles as I Am a Criminal, Convict's Code and Federal Bullets. Morgan Wallace plays a Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out of one town by the authorities immediately sets Read More

Born Reckless

Actors: Rochelle Hudson, Brian Donlevy, Barton MacLane, Robert Kent, Harry Carey

Synopsis: In this actioner, an auto racer becomes a cab driver for a company that is being strong-armed by avaricious gangsters trying to gain control of all of the city's taxi companies. Anyone opposing them is framed, but the brave racer isn't so easily intimidated and he decides to take on the crooks Read More

That I May Live

Actors: Rochelle Hudson, Robert Kent, J. Edward Bromberg, Jack LaRue, Frank Conroy

Synopsis: In this adventure, a young man allows criminals to talk him into cracking a safe. He is caught and sent to prison. After three years, he is released. The criminals again force him to do more crimes. He does, but as soon as the crooks no longer need him, they kill a policeman and frame the lad for Read More

Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo

Actors: Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Virginia Field, Sidney Blackmer, Harold Huber

Synopsis: Charlie Chan was the Jessica Fletcher of the 1930s; no matter where he took a vacation, someone got murdered! This time, the wily Chan (Warner Oland) and son Lee (Keye Luke) are on holiday in Monte Carlo when a casino messenger is killed while en route to Paris. The messenger was carrying a Read More

Nancy Steele Is Missing!

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Walter Connolly, Peter Lorre, June Lang, Robert Kent

Synopsis: Nancy Steele was the baby daughter of a munitions tycoon who was kidnapped by an antiwar activist who did it to protest the magnate's support of WW I. This drama provides a sympathetic portrait of the kidnapper who leaves the baby with two close friend who assume it's his and raise her. The Read More

Angel's Holiday

Actors: Jane Withers, Robert Kent, Joan Davis, Sally Blane, Harold Huber

Synopsis: Lively June (Jane Withers), teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett (Jon Qualen), who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye (Sally Blane) and her companion Stivers (Joan Davis). Reporter Nick Moore (Robert Kent), once sweet on Pauline, is Read More

Step Lively, Jeeves!

Actors: Arthur Treacher, Patricia Ellis, Robert Kent, Alan Dinehart, George Givot

Synopsis: Step Lively, Jeeves was the second 20th Century-Fox programmer to star Arthur Treacher as P.G. Wodehouse's resourceful butler Jeeves. In the first film, Thank You, Jeeves (36), the faithful family retainer extricated his boss Bertie Wooster (David Niven) from a jam. In the second film, Jeeves is Read More

The Country Beyond

Actors: Rochelle Hudson, Paul Kelly, Robert Kent, Alan Hale, Alan Dinehart

Synopsis: The Country Beyond is based on one of the scores of Canadian-Northwest yarns written by James Oliver Curwood. Robert Kent plays Corporal Robert King, a Mountie who has sworn to "get his man" -- the man in question being suspected fur thief Jim Alison (Alan Hale). Kings's resolve is weakened when Read More

Dimples

Actors: Shirley Temple, Frank Morgan, Helen Westley, Robert Kent, Delma Byron

Synopsis: This lavish Shirley Temple starrer is set in New York, sometime in the 1850s. While lovable pickpocket "Professor" Eustace Appleby works the crowd, his talented granddaughter Dimples (Temple) dances for pennies. Dimples demands that Appleby stop his thieving ways, but every time he tries to follow Read More

Reunion

Actors: Jean Hersholt, Rochelle Hudson, Helen Vinson, George "Slim" Summerville, Robert Kent

Synopsis: This second of 20th Century-Fox's Dionne Quintuplets vehicles brings back Jean Hersholt as kindly Canadian obstetrician Dr. Dafoe. The good doctor faces none of the professional crises that plagued him in the first Dionne picture The Country Doctor. Instead, a testimonial dinner is arranged for Read More

The Crime of Dr. Forbes

Actors: Gloria Stuart, Robert Kent, Henry Armetta, J. Edward Bromberg, Sara Haden

Synopsis: Mercy killing is the primary topic of this crime drama when a doctor, who is disabled after a terrible accident begs his student to give him an overdose of pain killers so that he can die peacefully. The young doctor does not. Trouble ensues after the young medico falls for his mentor's wife. Soon Read More

King of the Royal Mounted

Actors: Robert Kent, Rosalind Keith, Alan Dinehart, Frank McGlynn, Sr., Arthur Loft

Synopsis: The Zane Grey story King of the Royal Mounted had already been adapted as a comic strip by the time it was transferred to the screen in 1936. Robert Kent is cast as Sergeant King of the RCMP, while Rosalind Keith co-stars as heroine Helen Lawton. Helen arrives in Canada to claim a gold mine which Read More

Four Hours to Kill

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Joe Morrison, Gertrude Michael, Helen Mack, Dorothy Tree

Synopsis: Adapted from Norman Krasna's Broadway hit A Small Miracle, Four Hours to Kill is a multi-plotted effort that can best be described as "Grand Hotel goes to the theater." Richard Barthelmess stars as Tony, a condemned murderer, who is handcuffed to Detective Taft (Charles Wilson) while en route to Read More

One Hour Late

Actors: Joe Morrison, Helen Twelvetrees, Conrad Nagel, Arline Judge, Ray Walker

Synopsis: Radio baritone Joe Morrison was being groomed for stardom by Paramount when he was top-billed in One Hour Late. Morrison is cast as shipping clerk Eddie Blake, whose girlfriend Betty Dunn (Helen Twelvetrees) is secretary to big boss Stephen Barclay (Conrad Nagel). A trusting soul, Betty sees Read More

Two for Tonight

Actors: Bing Crosby, Joan Bennett, Mary Boland, Lynne Overman, Thelma Todd

Synopsis: Based on an obscure stage comedy, the Paramount musical Two for Tonight stars Bing Crosby as would-be composer and playwright Gilbert Gordon. Hired by music publisher Alexander Myers (Maurice Cass) to write a musical for temperamental stage star Lilly Bianca (Thelma Todd), Gordon is less than Read More

Love in Bloom

Actors: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Dixie Lee, Joe Morrison, J.C. Nugent

Synopsis: Love in Bloom ostensibly stars George Burns and Gracie Allen,but the team is actually comedy relief for the romantic leads, Joe Morrison and Dixie Lee. Burns and Allen are travelling carnival performers working in a rundown tent show for Lee's father. Lee tires of her nomad life and heads to New Read More

College Scandal

Actors: Arline Judge, Kent Taylor, Wendy Barrie, William Frawley, Ben Baker

Synopsis: Never mind the title and the musical content: College Scandal is at heart a murder mystery, and a pretty suspenseful one at that. Several mysterious killings have taken place at a co-ed college, and it looks as though there won't be anyone left alive to appear in the annual campus musical. The Read More