Sarah Padden Filmography

The Kettles in the Ozarks

Actors: Marjorie Main, Arthur Hunnicutt, Una Merkel, Ted de Corsia, Olive Sturgess

Synopsis: The Kettles in the Ozarks was the eighth of Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series--minus "Pa" (actor Percy Kilbride had left the series). Carrying on without the Kettle paterfamilias, Ma Kettle (Marjorie Main) and her large brood of children head for the Ozarks to visit her brother-in-law Sedge (Arthur Hunnicutt Read More

Dragnet: The Big Sisters

Synopsis: Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) answer the call when elderly Martha Dunbetter (Sarah Padden) reports that a burglar has broken into her apartment. On the basis of the woman's description, the two detectives haul in career criminal Ralph Portland (John Beradino). But though they manage Read More

Prince of Players

Actors: Richard Burton, Maggie McNamara, John Derek, Raymond Massey, Charles Bickford

Synopsis: Screenwriter Philip Dunne doubled as director on the elaborate filmed biography Prince of Players. Richard Burton stars as the eminent American tragedian Edwin Booth, whose life and career is thrown into turmoil after his younger brother John Wilkes Booth (John Derek) assassinates Abraham Lincoln. Read More

The Adventures of Superman: The Haunted Lighthouse

Synopsis: Cub reporter Jimmy Olsen (Jack Larson) pays a visit to his Aunt Louisa (Sarah Padden) who lives in a lighthouse off the coast of Maine. Upon arrival, Jimmy begins to suspect that something is amiss: Though he's never met Aunt Louise, she sure doesn't live up to her description. And besides Read More

Big Jim McLain

Actors: John Wayne, Nancy Olson, James Arness, Alan Napier, Veda Ann Borg

Synopsis: Of all the "kill the commies" cold war films of the 1950s, John Wayne's Big Jim McLain may well be the worst. Certainly it's the hardest one to sit through today. The Duke and his partner Jim Arness (Wayne's real-life protege) head to Hawaii to investigate a subversive pro-Red organization. Read More

Utah Wagon Train

Actors: Rex Allen, Penny Edwards, Buddy Ebsen, Roy Barcroft

Synopsis: "Arizona Cowboy" Rex Allen and his faithful horse Koko head the cast of Republic's Utah Wagon Train. Allen plays a modern-day cowpoke who agrees to shepherd a group of Easterners along the same route used by a long-ago wagon train. The purpose is to hopefully locate a fortune in gold, left behind Read More

The Missourians

Actors: Monte Hale, Paul Hurst, Roy Barcroft, Lyn Thomas, Howard Negley

Synopsis: This Monte Hale western casts the tall-in-the-saddle hero as a wandering cavalier who strikes a blow for tolerance. Hale is sheriff of a jerkwater frontier town where Polish/American Robert Neil is treated with contempt by certain prejudiced townsfolk. Neil's kinsman Roy Barcroft comes to town Read More

A Life of Her Own

Actors: Lana Turner, Ray Milland, Tom Ewell, Louis Calhern, Ann Dvorak, Jean Hagen

Synopsis: Lana Turner stars as an ambitious model who seeks her fortune in New York City. She is befriended by over-the-hill cover-girl Ann Dvorak, whose performance carries the story until she commits suicide twenty minutes into the film. Turner promises herself that she won't end up burned out like Read More

The House by the River

Actors: Louis Hayward, Lee Bowman, Jane Wyatt, Dorothy Patrick, Ann Shoemaker

Synopsis: Fritz Lang was the guiding hand of this laudable Republic Studios melodrama. Louis Hayward stars as a wealthy wastrel who tries to seduce the family maid. She resists, and he kills her. Long jealous of his brother Lee Bowman, Hayward does his best to pin the blame for the murder on his sibling. Read More

Gunslingers

Actors: Whip Wilson, Andy Clyde, Reno Browne, Sarah Padden, Bill Kennedy

Synopsis: Gunslingers is another of Monogram's Whip Wilson western series, built around the bullwhip-wielding skills of its star. This time, Wilson and his saddle pal Andy Clyde come to the rescue of a group of ranchers who are being victimized by villain Ace Larabee (Douglas Kennedy). Ace has inside Read More

Range Justice

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Max "Alibi" Terhune, Felice Ingersoll, Sarah Padden, Riley Hill

Synopsis: Johnny Mack Brown does his usual Johnny Mack Brown thing in the Monogram western Range Justice. Once more teamed with comic sidekick Max Terhune, Brown champions the cause of feisty lady rancher Ma Curtis (Sarah Padden). A gang of crooks led by the scurrilous Stoner (Fred Kohler Jr.) is trying to Read More

Homicide

Actors: Robert Douglas, Helen Westcott, Robert Alda, Monte Blue, Warren Douglas

Synopsis: British actor Robert Douglas stars in the Warner Bros. crime melodrama Homicide. Douglas plays police lieutenant Michael Landers, whose suspicions are aroused when the only witness to an accidental killing is found dead, an apparent suicide. Though the case is officially closed, Landers Read More

Fighting Mad

Actors: Virginia Belmont, Paul Bryar, Charles Cane, Roberl Conway, Patricia Dane

Synopsis: Joe Palooka, Ham Fisher's famed comic-strip fighter, risks his life to clear the name of his manager in this series entry. In this episode, Palooka is blinded during a fight. Although surgery restores his vision, the doctors strongly caution him not to fight again for at least a year. Meanwhile Read More

Frontier Revenge

Synopsis: Produced on the cheap by Ron Ormond and his wife, June Carr, this Western was one of ten to star Lash LaRue and Al St. John, formerly of PRC. They are assigned to catch a gang of outlaws working out of Rhyolite, a town run by Duce Rago (Ray Bennett), who is posing as a legitimate businessman. With Read More

The Return of the Whistler

Actors: Lenore Aubert, Trevor Bardette, James B. Cardwell, Edgar Dearing, Ann Doran

Synopsis: This final entry in Columbia's "Whistler" series is also the first to dispense with the services of star Richard Dix. This time around, hero Ted Nichols (Michael Duane) tries to ascertain the whereabouts of his wealthy fiancee Alice Barclay (Lenore Aubert). Finally locating the girl in a mental Read More

The Dude Goes West

Actors: Eddie Albert, Binnie Barnes, Catherine Doucet, Dick Elliott, Tom Fadden

Synopsis: In this western comedy, a milquetoast gunsmith from the East Coast goes to Arsenic City, Arizona because he has heard that everybody their carries guns. His trip West is an exercise in misfortune. Everything that could go wrong on the journey, does. At least he meets a pretty woman, also en route Read More

Ramrod

Actors: Veronica Lake, Joel McCrea, Preston S. Foster, Lloyd Bridges, Jeff Corey, Charlie Ruggles, Donald Crisp

Synopsis: This cowboy drama from Hungarian director Andre De Toth was the first of several films based on the stories of Western author Luke Short. Veronica Lake stars as Connie Dickason, strong-willed daughter of Ben Dickason (Charles Ruggles), a ranch owner who has become the toady of a powerful local Read More

Possessed

Actors: Griff Barnett, Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Monte Blue, Raymond Massey, Geraldine Brooks, Nana Bryant, Stanley Ridges

Synopsis: We first meet Joan Crawford, star of the moody flashbackfest Possessed, wandering aimlessly through the city streets, moaning "David....David." She goes to pieces in public and is rushed to the mental ward, where a team of psychiatrists try to find out who she is and where she's been. Who she is Read More

The Millerson Case

Synopsis: In this mystery, the Crime Doctor, an amnesiac ex-crook, takes on yet another intriguing psychological murder case. This time he is on vacation, but the kindly fellow cannot help but look into a murder to help a troubled soul. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Trail Street

Actors: Randolph Scott, Robert Ryan, Anne Jeffreys, George "Gabby" Hayes, Madge Meredith

Synopsis: Quick-draw legend Bat Masterson is summoned to Kansas to end a small-town feud between local farmers and criminal ranch owners in this western starring Randolph Scott. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

That Brennan Girl

Actors: James Dunn, Mona Freeman, William Marshall, June Duprez, Frank Jenks

Synopsis: In this melodrama, a self-absorbed mother unwittingly teaches her daughter some terrible habits. From her, the girl learns that she should simply take everything she wants without considering the consequences of her actions. Her conniving tactics make her rich, but unlucky in love. Fortunately Read More

Wild West

Actors: Eddie Dean, Lee Bennett, Roscoe Ates, John Bridges, Jean Carlin, Louise Currie

Synopsis: Filmed in less than glorious two-strip Cinecolor, this average Eddie Dean western benefited from Dean performing "Ride on the Tide of a Song", "Journey's End"and "I Can Tell by the Stars". The story surrounding all this warbling, however, was the standard one of a gang of thugs interfering with Read More

Angel on My Shoulder

Actors: Paul Muni, Anne Baxter, Claude Rains, Onslow Stevens, George Cleveland

Synopsis: In this comedy, Paul Muni plays a recently murdered gangster who finds himself roasting in Hell. Muni can't believe that he's in for All Eternity and keeps trying to "bust out," which brings him to the attention of the Head Man (Claude Rains), who calls himself Nick. Nick strikes a bargain with Muni 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

Idea Girl

Actors: Jess Barker, Julie Bishop, George Dolenz, Alan Mowbray

Synopsis: The Idea Girl in this Universal mini-musical is songplugger Pat O'Rourke (played by Julie Bishop, formerly Jacqueline Wells). Hoping to hit the big time, Pat pitches the notion of an amateur song-writing contest. Her zany publicity-seeking efforts cause nothing but grief for a group of Read More

Marshal of Laredo

Synopsis: Substituting for Allan Lane, who'd been called away to active military service, Bill Elliot stars in the Republic "Red Ryder" western Marshal of Laredo. This time, Red comes to the aid of a frontier lawyer, who is suspected of being an outlaw (a logical enough error). Enlisting the aid of his Read More

Dakota

Actors: John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond, Mike Mazurki

Synopsis: According to Hollywood lore, both John Wayne and director Frank Borzage refused to work with Vera Hruba Ralston, the Czech-born inamorata (and future wife) of Republic Pictures owner Herbert I. Yates. Yates somehow managed to convince Wayne to change his mind, but Borzage was replaced by contract Read More

Riders of the Dawn

Actors: Jimmy Wakely, Lee "Lasses" White, John James, Sarah Padden, Horace Murphy

Synopsis: An otherwise ordinary Monogram western songfest, this movie opens with a grizzly double homicide. Star Jimmy Wakely and sidekicks John James and Lee "Lasses" White are members of a medicine show who discover the slain parents of a small child (Michael Joseph Ward). Very much alive, the abandoned Read More

Identity Unknown

Actors: Richard Arlen, Cheryl Walker, Roger Pryor, Bobby Driscoll, Lola Lane

Synopsis: Predating 20th Century-Fox's Somewhere in the Night by at least a year, Identity Unknown is one of the first (if not the first) 1940s melodramas centering around an amenisiac ex-GI. Richard Arlen plays Johnny March, who returns from WW2 with nary a clue as to his true identity or the details of Read More

Wildfire

Actors: Bob Steele, Sterling Holloway, William Farnum

Synopsis: Wildfire was the first release from Screen Guild Productions, the adventuresome little independent that would eventually metamorphose into Lippert Pictures Inc. The title character is a magnificent wild horse, slated to be destroyed by a group of ranchers. It seems that Wildfire is being held Read More

Song of Old Wyoming

Actors: Eddie Dean, Sarah Padden, Jennifer Holt, Emmett Lynn

Synopsis: Statehood for Wyoming became the weighty focal point in this very low-budget music Western from poverty row company PRC, which served to introduce Eddie Dean as the company's newest singing cowboy. Old Ma Conway (Sarah Padden) champions statehood for Wyoming, believing the measure would put an end Read More

Honeymoon Ahead

Synopsis: In this musical, a chorus of convicts conspires to get a paroled crooner chucked back in the clink. Songs include: "Time Will Tell," "Now And Always," "Round The Bend," and "How Lovely." ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

San Diego, I Love You

Actors: Jon Hall, Louise Allbritton, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore

Synopsis: Louise Allbritton, a talented but neglected film star of the 1940s, plays the oldest sister in a large motherless family. Papa (Edward Everett Horton) is an erstwhile inventor working on a collapsible life raft, which Allbritton tries to promote to a handsome financier (Jon Hall) who mistrusts Read More

Ghost Guns

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

Girl Rush

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

The Master Key

Synopsis: A machine able to extract gold from the ocean floor is desired by both Axis powers and the FBI in this 13 chapter Universal serial directed by the team of Ray Taylor and Lewis D. Collins. Milburn Stone -- later "Doc Adams" on television's Gunsmoke -- starred as G-Man Tom Brant, with blond Jan Wiley 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

Trail to Gunsight

Synopsis: In this western, an innocent saddletramp is blamed for killing a man. Fortunately he finds the real culprit before it is too late. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Casanova Brown

Actors: Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Frank Morgan, Anita Louise, Patricia Collinge

Synopsis: When he finds out his ex-wife has just had his child and plans to give her up for adoption, a timid English instructor dashes to the child's rescue and attempts to care for her in a hotel room. Before too long, however, his new fiancee and his ex confront him and he must decide what he will do. Read More

Uncertain Glory

Actors: Errol Flynn, Paul Lukas, Jean Sullivan, Lucile Watson, Faye Emerson

Synopsis: Uncertain Glory finds Errol Flynn atypically cast as French criminal Jean Picard, a craven coward whose many misdeeds have earned him a date with the guillotine. Detective Marcel Bonet (Paul Lukas) intends to see that Picard keeps his appointment with the executioner, despite the fact that there's Read More

Summer Storm

Actors: George Sanders, Linda Darnell, Anna Lee, Edward Everett Horton, Hugo Haas

Synopsis: Summer Storm is a remarkably effective Hollywood filmization of Anton Chekhov's The Shooting Party. Linda Darnell stars as the young and beautiful wife of a middle-aged Russian civil servant (Hugo Haas). Darnell becomes the object of the affections of her husband's employer, a lecherous count (Edward Everett Horton Read More

So This Is Washington

Actors: Chester Lauck, Norris Goff, Alan Mowbray, Roger Clark, Mildred Coles

Synopsis: So This is Washington is one of the better entries in the "Lum 'N' Abner" film series. Chester Lauck and Norris Goff recreate their popular radio characters of Lum and Abner, folksy general-store proprietors in the village of Pine Bluff, Arkansas. This time, the boys become convinced that they've Read More

Family Troubles

Actors: Bobby Blake, Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas, Billy "Froggy" Laughlin, Janet Burston

Synopsis: Our Gang member Janet Burston believes that her family is neglecting her, so she decides to run away from home. The other gang members try to help Janet get adopted (or "adapted") by a more agreeable family, choosing a kindly elderly couple (Sarah Padden and Harry C. Bradley) for the honor. But Read More

Hangmen Also Die!

Actors: Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Gene Lockhart, Dennis O'Keefe

Synopsis: Hangmen Also Die is set in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation. Czech loyalist Brian Donlevy assassinates the vicious Gestapo leader Heydrich, then goes into hiding. The wounded patriot is sheltered by history professor Walter Brennan, who is already under surveillance by the Nazis thanks to Read More

The North Star

Actors: Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan, Farley Granger, Ann Harding

Synopsis: In this bit of WWII propaganda (designed to boost support of America's alliance with Russia against Germany), Kolya (Dana Andrews), Kurin (Walter Huston), Damian (Farley Granger), and Marina (Anne Baxter) are members of a farming collective in the Ukraine known as the North Star. The hard-working Read More

Jack London

Actors: Michael O'Shea, Susan Hayward, Osa Massen, Virginia Mayo, Harry Davenport, Frank Craven

Synopsis: This ambitious filmed biography of writer-adventurer Jack London is somewhat compromised by its too-tight budget. Michael O'Shea is well cast as London, whose rugged adventures range from the high seas to the Klondike. London's insatiable wanderlust causes friction in his marriage to the lovely Read More

Assignment in Brittany

Actors: Jean-Pierre Aumont, Susan Peters, Richard Whorf, Margaret Wycherly, Signe Hasso

Synopsis: Jean-Pierre Aumont (billed simply as Pierre Aumont) makes his American film debut in Assignment in Brittany. Set during WW2, the film casts Aumont as Free French captain Metard, who bears a remarkable resemblance to Bertrand Conlay, a prisoner of the Allies whom is suspected of being a fifth Read More

The Mad Monster

Actors: Johnny Downs, George Zucco, Anne Nagel, Sarah Padden, Glenn Strange

Synopsis: Bland former child actor Johnny Downs earns top billing in this low-budget horror film, but the real star is that most psychotic of all the mad doctors George Zucco. The British-born character actor plays Dr. Lorenzo Cameron, a discredited -- and quite mad -- medico who has discovered a way to Read More

Law and Order

Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Sarah Padden, Wanda McKay

Synopsis: Also known as Billy the Kid in Law and Order, this PRC sagebrusher stars Buster Crabbe as Billy "The Kid" Carson and Al St. John as Fuzzy Q. Jones. This time, Billy must impersonate a dead army lieutenant, in order to save the decedent's aunt (Sarah Padden) from marrying the villain of the piece (Charles King Read More

Lady in a Jam

Actors: Irene Dunne, Patric Knowles, Eugene Pallette, Samuel S. Hinds

Synopsis: Irene Dunne plays a flibbetygibbet socialite who inherits a farm in Arizona. She can't seem to manage either her money or her private life, thus seeks advice from outside sources. Irene falls in love with fledgling Manhattan psychiatrist Patric Knowles, and marries him in the hope that he'll solve Read More

Heart of the Rio Grande

Actors: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Fay McKenzie, Edith Fellows, Pierre Watkin

Synopsis: Spoiled little rich girl Edith Fellows does what she can to avoid spending time on Gene Autry's dude ranch in this tuneful Western restored by U.C.L.A. in 2001 for Gene Autry Entertainment. Despite the best efforts of her teacher Alice Bennett (Fay McKenzie), Connie Lane (Fellows) quickly manages Read More

This Gun for Hire

Actors: Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Alan Ladd, Tully Marshall

Synopsis: Though billed fourth in This Gun For Hire, Alan Ladd was catapulted to stardom in the role of Phillip Raven, a ruthless professional killer with a long-suppressed streak of decency. After successfully pulling off his latest murder, Raven reports to his boss, effeminate fifth columnist Willard Read More

The Pride of the Yankees

Actors: Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, George Herman "Babe" Ruth, Walter Brennan, Dan Duryea

Synopsis: "It's box office poison," producer Samuel Goldwyn is said to have exclaimed when he heard the idea of filming the life story of fabled first baseman Lou Gehrig. "If people want baseball, they go to the ballpark!" The story begins before World War I, when young Lou Gehrig (played as a boy by Douglas Croft Read More

The Devil's Trail

Synopsis: Cowboy-pic legends Wild Bill Elliot and Tex Ritter team up in The Devil's Trail. While the film contains barely enough plot for one star, it's nice to see Bill and Tex working together so smoothly. Our heroes head to a wide-open town in search of a gang of desperadoes, headed by swarthy Noah Beery 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

Snuffy Smith, Yard Bird

Synopsis: In this zany comedy, based on an enduringly popular comic strip, the irascible mountain man and moonshiner finds himself drafted into the military. Unfortunately, his sergeant is the "revenooer" who pursued him back home. Mayhem ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Outlaws of the Cherokee Trail

Synopsis: In this western, the Three Mesquisteers face down angry Indians and outlaws while fighting to save the life of am abducted young woman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder by Invitation

Actors: Wallace Ford, Marian Marsh, Sarah Padden, George Guhl, Wallis Clark

Synopsis: Stars-on-the-downslide Wallace Ford and Marian Marsh briefly rallied in the above-average Monogram melodrama Murder by Invitation. Ford is cast as usual as a wisecracking reporter, this time christened Bob White. Our hero is one of several acquaintances and relatives invited to an old dark house Read More

In Old Colorado

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Russell Hayden, Andy Clyde, Maggie Hayes, Morris Ankrum

Synopsis: The cast and crew of Paramount's "Hopalong Cassidy" Westerns returned once again to Lone Pine's famous Alabama Hills for this above-average entry in the long-running series. Ma Woods (Sarah Padden) is about to lose her ranch due to the machinations of the not so neighborly George Davidson (Stanley Read More