Sammy McKimFilmography

Above and Beyond

Actors: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitmore, Larry Keating, Larry Gates

Synopsis: Above and Beyond is the story of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, as told from the perspective of the man who flew the mission. Robert Taylor stars as Col. Paul Tibbetts, commander of the Enola Gay. Once selected for this extremely dangerous mission, Tibbetts must hand-pick a crew worthy of the Read More

Lonely Hearts Bandits

Actors: Dorothy Patrick, John Eldredge, Barbara Fuller, Robert Rockwell, Ann Doran

Synopsis: Dorothy Patrick, the sweetheart of Republic Pictures' "B" unit, stars in Lonely Hearts Bandits. Patrick plays Louise Curtis, a petty crook who teams with mobster Tony Morelli (John Eldredge) to fleece the lonely. Victim number one is a lovelorn farmer, who is summarily robbed and murdered by Read More

Flamingo Road

Actors: Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet, David Brian, Gertrude Michael, Gladys George

Synopsis: The fourth of Joan Crawford's Warner Bros. vehicles, Flamingo Road doesn't hold up as well as her earlier Mildred Pierce or Humoresque, but there's plenty to please the eye and ear. Sideshow kootch-dancer Lane Bellamy (Crawford), stranded in a backwater town, gets a job as a waitress. Lane begins Read More

You're My Everything

Actors: Dan Dailey, Anne Baxter, Anne Revere, Shari Robinson, Stanley Ridges

Synopsis: Set in the 1920s and 1930s, 20th Century-Fox's You're My Everything borrows elements from several true-life showbiz stories, include the rise to fame of Fox's own Shirley Temple. Vaudeville hoofer Timothy O'Connor (Dan Dailey) sweeps proper New England gal Hannah Adams (Anne Baxter) off her feet. Read More

I, Jane Doe

Actors: Ruth Hussey, John Carroll, Vera Ralston, John Howard, Gene Lockhart

Synopsis: In this courtroom drama, a French girl stands trial for murder. Flashbacks tell the grim story of how, during the Great War she got involved with a wealthy soldier and married him. He disappeared after the war. She then came to the U.S. There she finds him married to another woman. To cover Read More

The Hucksters

Actors: Edward Arnold, Clark Gable, Lillian Bronson, Deborah Kerr, Sydney Greenstreet, Ralph Bunker, Kathryn Card, Adolphe Menjou, Jimmy Conlin, Ava Gardner

Synopsis: When he was first offered the film version of the best-selling Frederick Wakeman novel The Hucksters, Clark Gable turned it down, characterizing the book as "filthy and not entertainment." He finally agreed to star in the film after screenwriter Luther Davis' extensive laundering job. Gable plays Read More

We've Never Been Licked

Actors: Richard Quine, Noah Beery, Jr., Anne Gwynne, Martha O'Driscoll, Edgar Barrier

Synopsis: This patriotic WW II-era bit of anti-Japanese propaganda centers on a white Texas college student who becomes such good friends with Japanese students on campus that he goes to their country after he is wrongfully accused of being a traitor. All this happened before the U.S. declared war on Japan. Read More

Public Enemies

Actors: Phillip Terry, Wendy Barrie, Edgar Kennedy, William Frawley, Marc Lawrence

Synopsis: In this drama an eager-beaver reporter loses his job when he prints a false story about a society girl. The unemployed reporter, anxious to redeem himself, then gets involves in a gangster backed smuggling operation. Meanwhile the wronged socialite falls in love with him. Unfortunately, he will Read More

Father's Son

Actors: John Litel, Frieda Inescort, Billy Dawson, Christian Rub, Bernice Pilot

Synopsis: Based loosely on a story by Booth Tarkington, the Warner Bros. B-picture Father's Son puts the talents of character actors John Litel and Frieda Inescourt to excellent use. The central character is Bill Emery (Billy Dawson), an obnoxious brat of a child whose misbehavior causes a rift between his 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

Laddie

Actors: Joan Leslie, Tim Holt, Virginia Gilmore, Joan Carroll, Spring Byington, Robert H. Barrat

Synopsis: 1940's Laddie was the third cinemadaptation of the heartwarming story by Gene Stratton-Porter (the second version, filmed in 1935, was directed by no less than George Stevens). Tim Holt plays the title character, a good-natured Indiana farmer who falls in love with immigrant English girl Pamela (Virginia Gilmore Read More

Texas Terrors

Actors: Don "Red" Barry, Julie Duncan, Arthur Loft, Eddy Waller

Synopsis: Don "Red" Barry, the "Wyoming Outlaw" and "Tulsa Kid" in other Republic westerns, does not play any one of the title characters in Texas Terrors. That honor goes to the film's villains, headed by the murderous mine-jumper who killed the father of hero Bob Millbourne (Barry). Growing up to become a Read More

Little Men

Actors: Kay Francis, Jack Oakie, George Bancroft, Jimmy Lydon, Ann Gillis

Synopsis: Little Men, Louisa May Alcott's followup to her successful novel Little Women, has never truly adapted well to the screen, though this 1940 version is better than most. Kay Francis stars as the all-grown-up Jo March, now in charge of a private school for young boys. Her most contentious charge is 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

Flying G-Men [Serial]

Actors: Robert Paige, Richard Fiske, James Craig, Lorna Gray, Sammy McKim

Synopsis: The then-popular government agents, the so-called G-Men, took to the air in this standard 15-chapter serial thriller courtesy of Columbia Pictures. Hal Andrews, known under the colorful alias "The Black Falcon," and his two fellow operatives, Bart Davis (Robert Fiske) and John Cummings (James Read More

Western Caravans

Actors: Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, Dick Curtis, Russell Simpson, Hal Taliaferro

Synopsis: In this western, a brave hero stops a range war from erupting between homesteaders who are encroaching upon ranchers' land. Much of the trouble is stirred up by greedy outlaws. The hero brings them all to justice, romances a pretty girl and even has time to sing "Serenade to the Night Bird" and Read More

Rovin' Tumbleweeds

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Mary Carlisle, Douglas Dumbrille, William Farnum

Synopsis: While James Stewart was filibustering from his senator's pulpit in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Gene Autry battled congressional bureaucracy in Rovin' Tumbleweeds, which barely could call itself a Western. Gene runs for a congressional seat in order to pass a flood control bill that would Read More

The Night Riders

Actors: John Wayne, Max "Alibi" Terhune, Doreen McKay, Ruth Rogers

Synopsis: This "Three Mesquiteers" western is based upon the exploits of one James Addison Reavis, a clever 19th century con artist who through a series of elaborate land swindlers tried to declare himself owner of the state of Arizona (Reavis' checkered career was later the basis for Samuel Fuller's The Baron of Arizona 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

Red River Range

Actors: John Wayne, Max "Alibi" Terhune, Lorna Gray, Polly Moran

Synopsis: The villains in the "Three Mesquiteers" entry Red River Range are bunch of progressive cattle thieves. This being 1939, the bad guys round up their stolen goods and herd them into streamlined trucks. It's a plot device that had previously used in Republic's Gene Autry series, but it still had Read More

The Lone Ranger [Serial]

Actors: Lynne Roberts, Hal Taliaferro, Herman Brix

Synopsis: Most everyone knows that The Lone Ranger, "masked rider of the plains", was in fact a former Texas Ranger named Reid, who vowed to fight for justice after his older brother was killed. The 1938 Republic serial version of The Lone Ranger muddies the "true identity" waters by offering us five Read More

The Old Barn Dance

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Helen Valkis, Sammy McKim

Synopsis: An enjoyably silly Gene Autry romp, this music Western had an early ecological message: Horse-power instead of tractors. Or at least tractors manufactured by greedy Thornton Farming Equipment. Having lost his horse-trading business to Thornton (Ivan Miller), Autry signs with Helen Valkis' local Read More

Mama Runs Wild

Actors: Mary Boland, Ernest Truex, William Henry, Lynne Roberts, Max "Alibi" Terhune

Synopsis: Veteran character actors Mary Boland and Ernest Truex are aces as the stars of Republic's Mama Runs Wild. "Mama" is social-climbing Alice Summers (Boland), the wife of milquetoast Calvin Summers (Truex). When Alice accidentally causes the arrest of a bank robber, she becomes a local heroine and Read More

Call the Mesquiteers

Actors: Max "Alibi" Terhune, Lynne Roberts, Earl Hodgins

Synopsis: In this episode of the western series, the Mesquitters try to stop a ring of silk thieves while dealing with a shady medicine show man and his kids. One of his offspring is a beautiful young woman. The Mesquiteers must hurry to find the thieves as they too are suspects. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Wild Bill Hickok [Serial]

Synopsis: Co-directed by former supporting player Mack V. Wright and Sam Nelson, The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is considered by connoisseurs of the genre the best serial Columbia Pictures ever made. The star, former supporting actor Gordon Elliott (born Nance) changed his first name to Bill for Read More

Hit the Saddle

Actors: Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Rita Hayworth, Robert Livingston, Max "Alibi" Terhune

Synopsis: Hit the Saddle has enjoyed more latter-day attention than most of Republic's "Three Mesquiteers" western films thanks to the presence of young Rita Hayworth. Billed under her given name of Cansino, Rita plays a seductive saloon thrush who breaks the heart of Mesquiteer Stony Brook (Robert Livingston Read More

Heart of the Rockies

Actors: Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Robert Livingston, Max "Alibi" Terhune, Lynne Roberts, Sammy McKim

Synopsis: Heart of the Rockies launched Republic's second season of popular "Three Mesquiteers" westerns. Returning to the fold are Robert Livingston as Stony Brooke, Ray "Crash" Corrigan as Tucson Smith and Max Terhune as Lullaby Joslin. This time our heroes play modern-day cattle ranchers who are falsely Read More

The Game That Kills

Actors: Charles Quigley, Rita Hayworth, John Gallaudet, John Farrell MacDonald, Arthur Loft

Synopsis: The Game That Kills is professional hockey, at least according to this Columbia "B"-picture. Charles Quigley stars as Ferguson, a rough-and-tumble hockey player who discovers that his chosen profession is nothing more than a racket, a plaything for game-fixing racketeers. When his brother is Read More

Gunsmoke Ranch

Actors: Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Robert Livingston, Max "Alibi" Terhune, Julia Thayer

Synopsis: One of the timelier Three Mesquiteers westerns, Gunsmoke Ranch was inspired by the Ohio and Mississippi river floodings of 1937. As usual, the Mesquiteers are Stony Brooke (Robert Livingston), Tucson Smith (Ray "Crash" Corrigan) and Lullaby Joslin (Max Terhune). After rescuing young Marion (Julia Read More

The Painted Stallion [Serial]

Actors: Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Hoot Gibson, Sammy McKim, LeRoy Mason, Jack Perrin

Synopsis: Western favorites Ray "Crash" Corrigan and Hoot Gibson head the cast of the 12-chapter Republic serial The Painted Stallion. Corrigan plays American federal agent Steve Clark, on assignment in Santa Fe to draw up a trade agreement with the newly installed Mexican governor. Meanwhile, Walter Read More

The Trigger Trio

Actors: Max "Alibi" Terhune, Ralph Byrd, Sandra Corday, Robert Warwick

Synopsis: In this western, the Three Mesquiteers must find a killer and his band after they murder an official from the State Agricultural Service who had come to investigate an outbreak of anthrax. The killer is fearful that the official would quarantine his entire herd. Unfortunately for the foolish Read More

Country Gentlemen

Actors: Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Joyce Compton, Lila Lee, Pierre Watkin

Synopsis: The zany vaudeville comedy team of Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson was still one year away from their smash Broadway hit Hellzapoppin' when they starred in Republic's Country Gentlemen. The daffy duo plays a couple of gold-stock swindlers who try to fleece the citizenry of a small town. They end up Read More

Annie Oakley

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Preston S. Foster, Melvyn Douglas, Moroni Olsen, Pert Kelton

Synopsis: This highly fictionalized biopic of legendary sharpshooter Annie Oakley stars Barbara Stanwyck as "Little Sure Shot" Annie. Coming down from the hills of Ohio, Annie rises to fame with Buffalo Bill's (Moroni Olsen) Wild West Show. Her success as a performer is counterpointed by her stormy romance Read More