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Synopsis: The Golden Hands of Kurigal is an edited, feature-length version of the 1949 Republic serial Federal Agents vs. Underworld, Inc. The story gets under way when archaeologist Professor Clayton (James Craven) is kidnapped by Underworld Inc. functionary Nila (Carol Forman). Federal agent Dave Worth (Kirk Alyn Read More
Actors: Kirk Alyn, Rosemary La Planche, Roy Barcroft, Carol Forman, James Dale
Synopsis: Kirk Alyn, erstwhile Superman of the serials, plays government man Dave Worth in the Republic serial Federal Agents Vs. Underworld Inc. Worth is put on the trail of a famous archaeologist who has disappeared. He learns that the far-reaching criminal organization Underworld Inc. wants to get its Read More
Actors: Gloria Jean, Jimmy Lydon, John Hubbard, Frances Rafferty
Synopsis: The combination of star Gloria Jean and director Arthur Dreifuss resulted in several pleasant if unmemorable late-1940s musicals. In An Old-Fashioned Girl, Jean is cast as Polly Milton, the poor relation of a prosperous 19th-century Boston family. Rather than accept financial support from her Read More
Actors: Leo Gorcey, Billy Benedict, David Gorcey, Frankie Darro
Synopsis: Angels Alley was the ninth entry in Monogram's Bowery Boys series. This time around, Slip Mahoney (Leo Gorcey) welcomes his cousin Jimmy (Frankie Darro) into his home. Fresh out of jail, Jimmy takes a job with a ring of car thieves. Slip covers for Jimmy to the extent of confessing to a crime that Read More
Synopsis: When scientific mastermind Jack Armstrong is kidnapped by a devious fiend determined to discover the secrets of atom-powered motors, our hero must escape the island fortress of his nefarious captor in this thrilling cliffhanger starring John Hart and Rosemary La Planche. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Read More
Actors: Rosemary La Planche, John James, Michael Hale, Molly Lamont, Nolan Leary
Synopsis: This bargain-basement sequel is unusual in that it completely contradicts the conclusions drawn by its predecessor, Bela Lugosi's 1941 horror film The Devil Bat. It all begins with Nina, the daughter of the notorious Dr. Paul Carruthers, the crazed, vengeful scientist who allegedly created a Read More
Actors: Jean Porter, Shirley Mills, Rosemary La Planche
Synopsis: Jean Porter plays the title role in Betty Co-Ed--and never mind that her character name is Joanne Leeds! The plot gets under way when Joanne, a carnival hootchy-kootchy dancer, is accepted into a snobbish college sorority when it is assumed that she hails from a blueblooded Virginia family. Most Read More
Actors: Phillip Terry, Audrey Long, Robert Benchley, Eve Arden, Ernest Truex
Synopsis: A journalist for a popular travel magazine goes looking for interesting stories in Latin America and finds love instead in this colorful musical. The love angle comes from her fiance who lives there, and from the dashing photographer who accompanies her. Included are many South American acts Read More
Actors: Robert H. Barrat, Rosemary La Planche, Blake Edwards, Charles B. Middleton
Synopsis: In this low-budget thriller, a ferry captain named Douglas (Charles Middleton) is accused of a murder he did not commit and is eventually executed for the crime. Douglas' ghost begins to walk the marshlands he once called home, searching for revenge against those who wronged him. Beautiful Maria (Rosemary LaPlanche Read More
Actors: George Raft, Claire Trevor, Signe Hasso, Lowell Gilmore, Hoagy Carmichael
Synopsis: No relation to the later Shelley Fabares song hit of the same name, RKO Radio's Johnny Angel was adapted by Steve Fisher and Frank Gruber from a short story by Charles Gordon Booth. In one of his better performances, George Raft plays sea captain Johnny Angel, who doggedly pursues the no-good rats Read More
Actors: Tom Conway, Carol Gallagher, Barbara Hale, Joan Barclay, Cliff Clark
Synopsis: The murder of a wealthy, much-married rancher (Lyle Talbot) in a posh Manhattan nightclub is the catalyst for The Falcon Out West. Amateur sleuth Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway), aka The Falcon, deduces that the victim was killed with rattlesnake venom. He follows the trail of evidence to a dude ranch Read More
Actors: Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Frances Langford, Vera Vague, Robert Mitchum
Synopsis: Wally Brown and Alan Carney, RKO's own Abbott and Costello ripoffs, star in the comedy western The Girl Rush. As usual, Brown is cast as fast-talking Jerry Miles and Carney plays slow-witted Mike Strager. This time, Jerry and Mike are travelling showmen, stranded in San Francisco when the 1849 Read More
Actors: Bonita Granville, Kent Smith, Jean Brooks, Glenn Vernon, Tessa Brind
Synopsis: In this WW II-era drama set in a small town, most of the adults are so busy fighting the war or working in the local defense plant that they have little time to supervise their children. A sort of juvenile anarchy ensues with the children and teens doing whatever they please. Soon the town is Read More
Actors: Jim Jordan, Marian Jordan, Eugene Pallette, Gordon Oliver, Raymond Walburn
Synopsis: Heavenly Days was the last of three RKO Radio film vehicles for the popular radio duo of Fibber McGee and Molly (aka Jim and Marion Jordan). Unlike their first two films, which were cacophonous, plotless musical farces, this one actually has a coherent storyline and not a little "heart appeal." Read More
Actors: Frank Sinatra, George Murphy, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria de Haven, Eugene Pallette, Walter Slezak
Synopsis: Previously filmed as a so-so Marx Brothers vehicle in 1938, the John Murray-Alan Boretz Broadway hit Room Service was effectively musicalized in 1944 as Step Lively. The plot remains intact: Fly-by-night theatrical producer Gordon Miller (Groucho Marx in the 1938 film, George Murphy in the remake) Read More
Actors: Simone Simon, John Emery, Kurt Kreuger, Alan Napier, Helen Freeman
Synopsis: One of the few failures for RKO Radio's resident "prestige programmer" producer Val Lewton, Mademoiselle Fifi is based on two Guy De Maupassant tales, with emphasis on Boule de Suif. The story takes place during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, though it is clearly an allegorical representation of Read More
Actors: Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore, Barry Fitzgerald, June Duprez, Jane Wyatt
Synopsis: Cary Grant delivered Oscar-calibre performances all his life, but only when he played against type in None But the Lonely Heart did the Academy Awards people break down and give him a nomination. Grant plays a restless, irresponsible cockney who seeks a better life but doesn't seem to have the Read More
Actors: Mischa Auer, Marcy McGuire, Wally Brown
Synopsis: In this '40s film Kay Kyser parades an entertainment group all over the globe providing laughs for the boys in battle. This film realistically portrays the role of the USO during the WW II time period. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Jimmy Rogers, Joe Sawyer, Marjorie Woodworth, Rosemary La Planche
Actors: Roger Clark, Esther Dale, Judy Clark, Charles Judels, Rosemary La Planche
Synopsis: This musical features a number of old-time country music stars as it follows the exploits of a pretty dairy magnate who impersonates a worker to discover the shenanigans going on inside her plant. Songs include: "Cheese Cake," "Swing Your Partner" (Charles Henderson), "Cracker Barrel County" (Frank Loesser Read More
Actors: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Elaine Shepard, Amelita Ward, Cliff Clark
Synopsis: In this entry, the detective must find two missing industrialists. They and $100,000 suddenly vanished while flying in a passenger plane. It does not take long for the supersleuth to discover that their disappearance is part of a conspiracy against the government. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Rita Corday, Amelita Ward, Isabel Jewell
Synopsis: When an instructor dies mysteriously at an exclusive girl's school, Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway), a devil-may-care sleuth known as "The Falcon," reluctantly agrees to investigate. The death appears to have been induced by a heart attack, but the instructor's roommate (Rita Corday) had predicted that Read More
Actors: Chester Lauck, Norris Goff, Franklin Pangborn, Kay Linaker, Irving Bacon
Synopsis: The title of this "Lum 'N' Abner" comedy isn't explained until the film is half over. Chester Lauck and Norris Goff repeat their radio characterizations of Lum and Abner, proprietors of the Jot-Em-Down Store in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. This time, the boys journey to Chicago, where Abner hopes to Read More
Actors: Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Walter Reed, Elizabeth Risdon
Synopsis: RKO brought its "Mexican Spitfire" saga to a close with the eighth film in the series, Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event. Lupe Velez is back again in the leading role, as is Leon Errol as disguise-happy Uncle Matt, but Velez's husband is now played by Walter Reed. When Lupe purchases a baby ocelot Read More
Actors: Anna Neagle, Ray Milland, Roland Young, Alan Marshal, May Robson
Synopsis: In this remake of the 1926 silent hit (which was in turn based on a hit musical from 1919), Anna Neagle stars as Irene O'Dare, an Irish girl of humble beginnings who comes to New York in search of work. She finds a place as a shopgirl at a fashionable and expensive boutique managed by Mr. Smith (Roland Young Read More
Actors: Deanna Durbin, Adolphe Menjou, Leopold Stokowski, Mischa Auer, Eugene Pallette, Alice Brady
Synopsis: The girl is teenaged singing sensation Deanna Durbin; the one hundred men are out-of-work musicians. Still in her "little miss fix-it" stage, Durbin connives to help the musicians crack the big time. The person Durbin is most concerned with is her father (Adolphe Menjou) the 100th and most Read More
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