Tom NealFilmography

The Great Jesse James Raid

Actors: Willard Parker, Barbara Payton, Tom Neal, Wallace Ford, James Anderson

Synopsis: Within its own modest limits, The Great Jesse James Raid is a well-crafted western. Willard Parker plays Jesse James, who when the film opens is seen comfortably settled into respectable retirement. At the instigation of the unscrupulous Bob Ford (Jim Bannon), Jesse leaves hearth and home behind Read More

Varieties on Parade

Synopsis: This vintage collection includes a cavalcade of vaudeville acts and is hosted by Jackie Coogan. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

G.I. Jane

Actors: Jean Porter, Tom Neal, Iris Adrian, Jean Mahoney

Synopsis: The 62-minute GI Jane may well be the best of Lippert Studios' "pocket" musicals. TV producer Tim (Tom Neal) is in the midst of staging a special featuring WACS when he receives his induction notice. The shock of the news causes Tim to faint, whereupon he imagines he has been promoted to sergeant Read More

Danger Zone

Actors: Hugh Beaumont, Edward S. Brophy, Richard Travis, Tom Neal, Pamela Blake

Synopsis: This film features two mystery stories featuring Hugh "the Beaver's TV Dad" Beaumont. First, he is hired to go to an auction and buy a particular saxophone. Unfortunately, soon after he obtains it he is knocked unconscious and loses the instrument to the bidder he beat. Later he discovers that the Read More

Fingerprints Don't Lie

Actors: Richard Travis, Sheila Ryan, Sid Melton, Tom Neal, Margia Dean

Synopsis: Lippert's Fingerprints Don't Lie stars Richard Travis as fingerprint expert James Stover. At the moment, Stover is attempting to solve the murder of a small-town mayor. When the most likely suspect has been collared, Stover determines that the fingerprints found at the scene of the crime have been Read More

Navy Bound

Actors: Tom Neal, Wendy Waldron, Regis Toomey, John Abbott, Murray Alper

Synopsis: Tuna fisherman Joe Morelli (Tom Neal) is Navy Bound in this Monogram programmer. While on board ship, Morelli becomes the fleet's boxing champion. He gives up pugilistic glory to return home, where he tries to help his family out of a financial dilemma. When things prove harder to handle than he'd Read More

Stop That Cab

Synopsis: In this action comedy, a bunch of bungling jewel thieves are in such a hurry to flee the site of their latest caper that they leave their loot on the back seat of the cab they used for the getaway. Later they return and torment the driver into revealing where he stashed the stones. ~ Sandra Read More

Let's Go Navy!

Actors: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Allen Jenkins, Tom Neal, Charlita

Synopsis: Through an incredible series of circumstances, the Bowery Boys sign up for a hitch in the Navy. While clumsily going about the shipboard duties, Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall) and the rest of the gang search high and low for a couple of crooks disguised in sailor suits who've stolen a large Read More

King of the Bullwhip

Actors: Lash LaRue, Jack Holt, Tom Neal, Anne Gwynne

Synopsis: The title King of the Bullwhip could only refer to one of two western-movie favorites: Lash LaRue or Whip Wilson. Since LaRue was under contract to Ron Ormond productions, it was LaRue who starred herein. Usually associated with the lowest of low-budget productions, LaRue is here surrounded with 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

I Shot Billy the Kid

Actors: Robert Lowery, Wally Vernon, Tom Neal, Wendy Lee

Synopsis: From Lippert Studios, the same company responsible for I Shot Jesse James, comes I Shot Billy the Kid. Those who know their western history will recall that Billy the kid was gunned down by his friendly enemy Pat Garrett. This time around, Garrett is played by Robert Lowery, while the larger part Read More

Red Desert

Actors: Tom Neal, Jack Holt, Margia Dean, Byron Foulger

Synopsis: Don Barry stars as the Pecos Kid in Red Desert. The Kid is a federal agent, assigned by President Ulysses S. Grant to locate an outlaw wanted by the government. The outlaw is something of a frontier fuehrer, hoping to use his ill-gotten gains to set up a nation of his own. The Kid thinks 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

Train to Tombstone

Actors: Robert Lowery, Wally Vernon, Tom Neal, Judith Allen

Synopsis: Written and produced by its star, Donald Barry, Train to Tombstone was a low-budget version of the classic Stagecoach (1939). Once again a group of passengers fight among themselves as their mode of transportation -- a train en route from Albuquerque, NM, to Tombstone, AZ, this time -- is attacked Read More

Call of the Klondike

Actors: Kirby Grant, Anne Gwynne, Lynne Roberts, Tom Neal

Synopsis: Partially filmed in the San Bernardino Mountains, Call of the Klondike was perhaps the best of producer Lindsley Parson's seven "Northwest Mounted" films starring Kirby Grant and the white malamute Chinook. Written by actor Charles Lang, who had played the villain in the earlier The Wolf Hunters Read More

Humphrey Takes a Chance

Actors: Leon Errol, Joe Kirkwood, Jr., Lois Collier, Robert Coogan, Jack Kirkwood

Synopsis: This "Joe Palooka" entry concentrates on Joe's porcine pal Humphrey Pennyworth (played by Robert Coogan, the brother of former child star Jackie Coogan). When soft-hearted pugilist Joe Palooka (Joe Kirkwood Jr.) arrives for a bout in Humphrey's home town, everyone gets sucked into a crooked scheme Read More

Everybody's Dancin'

Actors: Spade Cooley, Richard Lane, Hal Derwin

Synopsis: By the standards of low-budget Lippert Productions, Everybody's Dancin' is an "A" picture. Country-western favorite Spade Cooley (who also co-produced and co-scripted) heads the enormous cast of this innocuous musical comedy. Setting the plot in motion is fast-talking Dick Lane, playing a phony Read More

Amazon Quest

Actors: Tom Neal, Carole Donne, Joseph Crehan, Ralph Graves

Synopsis: Yards and yards of stock footage from the old German jungle actioner Green Hell were used to pad out the 1949 programmer Amazon Quest. Tom Neal stars as a Dutchman who journeys into the wilds of Brazil to find his father. Neal hopes to clear the name of his dad, who has been accused of deserting Read More

Trail of the Mounties

Actors: Russell Hayden, Jennifer Holt

Synopsis: Trail of the Mounties was the last of four "streamlined" actioners released by Screen Guild in the late 1940s. Each of these films was set in Canada, each starred Russell Hayden as a Mountie named "Lucky," and each ran approximately 45 minutes. This time, Lucky is on the trail of the fur thief who Read More

Apache Chief

Actors: Alan Curtis, Tom Neal, Carol Thurston, Russell Hayden, Fuzzy Knight

Synopsis: Apache Chief was the second film to be lensed with the Garutso Balanced Lens, which gave the illusion of a three-dimensional effect (the first was Deputy Marshal). Alan Curtis plays the title character, a pacifistic Native American named Young Eagle. When his tribesmen begin killing off white Read More

Beyond Glory

Actors: George Coulouris, Vincent J. Donahue, Charles Evans, Margaret Field, Dick Hogan, Alan Ladd, George Macready, Donna Reed

Synopsis: An older soldier enters West Point but remains haunted by nagging guilt. It all began in Tunisia during a tremendous battle. The soldier passed out during the fight, and when he awoke he discovered his commanding officer was dead. He blames himself for the death and after being released from the Read More

Case of the Baby Sitter

Actors: Tom Neal, Allen Jenkins, Pamela Blake

Synopsis: The baby sitter is none other than veteran Hollywood tough guy Tom Neal. A private detective, Neal is hired to keep an eye on the child of married couple George Meeker and Rebel Randall. Actually, Meeker and Randall are jewel thieves, and their "baby" is their stolen loot. Neal eventually catches Read More

The Hat Box Mystery

Actors: Tom Neal, Pamela Blake, Allen Jenkins, Virginia Sale

Synopsis: In early 1947, Screen Guild Productions experimented with a new format: a 90-minute double feature package, consisting of two simultaneously-filmed 45-minute mysteries. As it turned out, The Hat Box Mystery and The Case of the Baby Sitter were released separately, within two weeks of one another. Read More

My Dog Shep

Synopsis: An unwanted orphan decides to run away with his dog, but later becomes the goal of an urgent quest when his relatives discover that he has inherited a fortune. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Brute Man

Actors: Rondo Hatton, Jane Adams, Tom Neal, Jan Wiley

Synopsis: The tragic Rondo Hatton, whose acromegaly-disfigured face secured him meaty screen roles in Universal's horror films, had died of a heart attack some eight months before the release of his final film, The Brute Man. Hatton plays former college student Hal Moffat, who when his face is destroyed in Read More

Blonde Alibi

Actors: Martha O'Driscoll, Tom Neal, Donald MacBride, Robert Armstrong, Samuel S. Hinds

Synopsis: Martha O'Driscoll fills the title role quite nicely in Blonde Alibi. The plot of this rapid-fire programmer involves a murder. Aviator Tom Neal is accused of the crime, thanks to the idiotic intervention of absent-minded professor Samuel S. Hinds. It is up to O'Driscoll, Neal's secretary, to prove Read More

Club Havana

Actors: Tom Neal, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Douglas, Isabelita, Dorothy Morris

Synopsis: Edgar G. Ulmer's Club Havana is Grand Hotel, PRC style. The titular club is a popular nightspot where everyone who is anyone congregates. Six couples, none of whom are acquainted with the others, show up at Club Havana on one fateful evening, and the result is sheer murder-literally. Among the Read More

Detour

Actors: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald, Tim Ryan

Synopsis: Edgar G. Ulmer's Detour begins when hitchhiker Al Roberts (Tom Neal) accepts a ride from affable gambler Charles Haskell Jr. (Edmund MacDonald). When Haskell suffers a fatal heart attack, Roberts, afraid that he'll be accused of murder, disposes of the body, takes the man's clothes and wallet, and Read More

First Yank into Tokyo

Actors: Barbara Hale, Richard Loo, Keye Luke, Leonard Strong

Synopsis: This WW II drama is the first to deal with the fateful atomic bomb attack on Japan. Originally, the film centered on the acquisition of a new kind of gun, but as it was in production during the time the Bomb was dropped, the producers were quick to change the story to suit the times. It tells the Read More

Crime, Inc.

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Tom Neal, Martha Tilton, Lionel Atwill, Grant Mitchell

Synopsis: More expensive-looking than most PRC productions, Crime Inc. is based on a story by former crime reporter Martin Mooney. Drawing from his own experiences, Mooney has concocted a tale of a newspaper journalist who faces a prison term because he refuses to reveal his sources. Tom Neal plays the Read More

Thoroughbreds

Actors: Tom Neal, Adele Mara, Roger Pryor, Paul Harvey, Gene Garrick

Synopsis: Rusty Curtis wants his beloved cavalry horse back, but unfortunately the former sergeant's steed has been sold to a society woman desiring to turn it into a steeplechaser. This drama chronicles Rusty's endeavors to get the horse back. He does so by having Sally Crandall, the woman, hire him as the Read More

Two-Man Submarine

Actors: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, J. Carrol Naish, Abner Biberman

Synopsis: Columbia's Two-Man Submarine was predicated on a then-new Japanese invention, designed to maneuver in waters where no normal-sized sub could go. Naturally, the Japanese themselves could not be the heroes of this 1944 film, so Tom Neal and Lloyd Bridges play the good guys, while ersatz Read More

The Unwritten Code

Actors: Ann Savage, Tom Neal, Roland Varno, Howard Freeman, Mary Currier

Synopsis: The Unwritten Code is an offbeat, better-than-average Columbia wartime "B" picture. Though Ann Savage and Tom Neal are top-billed, the central character is supporting-actor Roland Varno. He plays a Nazi spy who sneaks into the U.S., hoping to release hundreds of German prisoners. He fails, but not Read More

Klondike Kate

Actors: Ann Savage, Tom Neal, Glenda Farrell, Constance Worth, Sheldon Leonard

Synopsis: It's nice to see perennial "other woman" Ann Savage in a leading role, even in so antiseptic a film as Klondike Kate. Savage plays Kathleen O'Malley, who comes to the Great White North to claim her inheritance. When she finds that her legacy consists of a rundown hotel, she makes the best of Read More

The Racket Man

Synopsis: An ex-racketeer becomes an undercover for the military in this drama. He keeps his work so secret that his friends become convinced that he is dabbling in illegal activities again. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

She Has What It Takes

Actors: Jinx Falkenburg, Tom Neal, Constance Worth, Douglas Leavitt

Synopsis: In this musical, a lovely and ambitious young woman masquerades as the daughter of a formerly beloved stage actress to help launch her Broadway career. She chooses one entertainment columnist in particular. But the starlet's carefully-made plans begin to unravel when a rival columnist learns of Read More

The Rear Gunner

There's Something About a Soldier

Actors: Tom Neal, Evelyn Keyes, Bruce Bennett, John Hubbard, Jeff Donnell

Synopsis: This flag-waving Columbia programmer concentrates on five young Officer's Candidate School applicants. Each of the protagonists aspires to an officer's commission in the Anti-Artillery Aircraft Command. All the clichéd characterizations are in attendance, from the brash show-off (Tom Neal) to the Read More

Good Luck, Mr. Yates

Actors: Edgar Buchanan, Jess Barker, Tom Neal, Albert Basserman

Synopsis: In this drama, set during WW II, a teacher at a military school is derided by his students because he has not joined the military. The man is deeply disturbed by their ridicule and disrespect and so pleads with the draft-board to reconsider his "essential" status and allow him to join. He is Read More

No Time for Love

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Ilka Chase, Richard Haydn, Paul McGrath

Synopsis: Mitchell Leisen utilizes his stylistic pizzazz to enliven this romantic comedy that proves the old adage "opposites attract" -- but only after three or four reels. Claudette Colbert is Katherine Grant, an upper-crust fashion photographer who has a gang of admirers snapping at her heels. When her Read More

Air Force

Actors: John Ridgely, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy, Harry Carey, Charles Drake

Synopsis: On December 6, 1941, a squadron of nine B-17 bombers takes off for Hickam Field, HI. The crew of the Mary Ann, including two new men, assistant radio man Private Chester (Ray Montgomery) and gunner Sergeant Joe Winocki (John Garfield), assembles for the flight, and in the first 20 minutes, the Read More

Behind the Rising Sun

Actors: Margo, Tom Neal, J. Carrol Naish, Robert Ryan, Gloria Holden

Synopsis: Behind the Rising Sun is a rarity: a WW2 film with a handful of sympathetic Japanese characters. His eyes slanted by the RKO makeup department, Tom Neal plays Taro, the Americanized son of a Japanese diplomat (J. Carroll Naish). During the Sino-Japanese war, Taro's father insists that the boy Read More

The Miracle Kid

Actors: Tom Neal, Carolyn Hughes, Vicki Lester, Betty Blythe, Ben Taggart

Synopsis: The attractive physiques of Tom Neal and Carol Hughes are generously displayed in the PRC comedy The Miracle Kid. Neal is cast as Jimmy, a young boxer who surprisingly wins a bout with the established champ. The loser claims that he was "jinxed" by Jimmy in the ring, whereupon Our Hero is Read More

Bowery at Midnight

Actors: Bela Lugosi, John Archer, Wanda McKay, Tom Neal, Vince Barnett

Synopsis: Bowery at Midnight casts Bela Lugosi as Professor Brenner, a psychology instructor at New York University (which looks a lot like Berkeley in the exterior shots!). When not enlightening his students -- most of them buxom Monogram starlets -- Brenner is engaged in charitable work, running a mission Read More

The Flying Tigers

Actors: John Wayne, John Carroll, Anna Lee, Paul Kelly, Mae Clarke, Gordon Jones

Synopsis: The Flying Tigers were a group of American volunteer aviators, flying against the Japanese on behalf of General Claire Chennault and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek in the months just prior to World War II. John Wayne is the most responsible of the bunch, and John Carroll the least. It's bad enough Read More

One Thrilling Night

Actors: John Beal, Wanda McKay, Warren Hymer, Barbara Pepper

Synopsis: Among the few wartime comedies that are still genuinely funny today, Monogram's One Thrilling Night (aka Horace Takes Over). stars John Beal and Wanda McKay as a somewhat dimwitted newlywed couple honeymooning in New York. Beal hopes to spend some "quality time" with Wanda before he's to report Read More

Ten Gentlemen from West Point

Actors: George Montgomery, Maureen O'Hara, John Sutton, Laird Cregar, Victor Francen

Synopsis: This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century, Congress appropriated the money to build the school, but opponents who believed it to be an illegitimate expansion of the powers of the federal government 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

China Girl

Actors: Gene Tierney, George Montgomery, Lynn Bari, Victor McLaglen, Alan Baxter

Synopsis: China Girl charts the exploits of two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams (George Montgomery), stationed in Burma and China in the early stage of WW II. Captured by the Japanese, he escapes from a concentration camp with the aid of beautiful, enigmatic "China Girl" Miss Young (Gene Tierney Read More

Under Age

Actors: Nan Grey, Tom Neal, Mary Anderson, Alan Baxter, Leona Maricle

Synopsis: Columbia Pictures put a goodly number of its contract starlets to work in the mild exploitationer Under Age. Fresh out of reform school, a bunch of delinquent girls fall in with a gang of crooks and are put to work as "hostesses" in a number of mob-controlled bars and cafes. The girls are expected Read More

Top Sergeant Mulligan

Actors: Nat Pendleton, Carolyn Hughes, Sterling Holloway, Marjorie Reynolds, Frank Faylen

Synopsis: Top Sergeant Mulligan was Monogram Pictures' attempt to cash in on the popularity of such service comedies as Abbott & Costello's Buck Privates and Laurel & Hardy's Great Guns. Frank Faylen and Charlie Hall (a longtime Laurel & Hardy foil) star as Dolan and Doolittle, a pair of goofy druggists who Read More

Jungle Girl [Serial]

Actors: Frances Gifford, Tom Neal, Trevor Bardette, Gerald Mohr, Eddie Acuff

Synopsis: Unavailable for decades, this 15-chapter serial from Republic Pictures was finally re-released on video tape in the late 1990s. Based on a story by Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jungle Girl featured former Paramount starlet Frances Gifford as Nyoka, a white girl raised by her father, Dr. Read More

The Courageous Dr. Christian

Actors: Jean Hersholt, Dorothy Lovett, Robert Baldwin, Tom Neal, Maude Eburne

Synopsis: The second entry in RKO Radio's "Dr. Christian" series, Courageous Dr. Christian was like the first inspired by the popular radio weekly. In this one, kindly general practioner Dr. Christian (Jean Hersholt) tends to the needs of a group of indigents, living in squalor in the town's shanty Read More

Sky Murder

Actors: Walter Pidgeon, Donald Meek, Kaaren Verne, Edward Ashley, Joyce Compton

Synopsis: The last of MGM's "Nick Carter" trilogy, Sky Murder is a tad too cute and clever for its own good, but its mystery angle holds up pretty well. Returning from a weekend party, amateur sleuth Nick Carter (Walter Pidgeon) boards a private plane, where urbane Fifth Columnist Andrew Hendon (Tom Conway) Read More

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante

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

Synopsis: The debutante whom Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) meets-after falling in love with her photograph -- is blonde Diana Lewis (the real-life wife of William Powell). It all comes about when Andy accompanies his dad Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) to New York. Plunging into the Manhattan social whirl, Andy is 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

Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President

Actors: Ann Sothern, Walter Brennan, William Gargan, Marsha Hunt

Synopsis: This Damon Runyon yarn features William Gargan and Ann Sothern as Brooklynites Joe and Ethel Turp. The Turps are up in arms when their faithful old mailman (Walter Brennan) is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President Read More

Four Girls in White

Actors: Florence Rice, Una Merkel, Ann Rutherford, Mary Howard, Alan Marshal

Synopsis: This hospital drama chronicles the exploits of four nursing students enrolled in a three-year training course. One of them decides that she will have a brilliant young doctor, but then she changes her mind and begins pursuing a wealthy playboy. Unfortunately, the playboy loves another nurse. A Read More

Burn 'em up O'Conner

Actors: Dennis O'Keefe, Cecilia Parker, Nat Pendleton, Harry Carey, Addison Richards

Synopsis: The zippy world of auto-racing provided the basis of this off-beat actioner that centers on an auto magnate who is relentlessly driven to break every speed record with his cars. Unfortunately, his drivers keep dying on the track. This doesn't stop the obsessed manufacturer from continuing his Read More

Within the Law

Actors: Ruth Hussey, Tom Neal, Paul Kelly, William Gargan, Paul Cavanagh

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a thieving employee sticks her stolen goods into the locker of a co-worker and causes all sorts of trouble. The stolen items are found in the locker of a store clerk who ends up imprisoned. The store owner's son knows that she is innocent, but he says nothing. The enraged Read More

Stronger Than Desire

Synopsis: Stronger Than Desire is a streamlined remake of 1934's Evelyn Prentice. Instead of the earlier film's William Powell and Myrna Loy, we are offered Walter Pidgeon and Virginia Bruce in the roles of a dynamic attorney and his wife. Little has changed storywise from Evelyn Prentice: Bruce kills (or Read More

They All Come Out

Actors: Rita Johnson, Tom Neal, Bernard Nedell, Edward Gargan, John Gallaudet

Synopsis: Famous filmmaker Jacques Tourneur (known for his compelling film noir and scary horror movies) makes his directorial debut in this crime drama that centers on a gang's getaway driver who is captured and imprisoned. There he undergoes rehabilitation and decides to go straight. The head gangster's Read More

Another Thin Man

Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, C. Aubrey Smith, Virginia Grey, Otto Kruger

Synopsis: Three years after the second Thin Man entry, MGM brought back the property by popular demand with Another Thin Man. As ever, William Powell and Myrna Loy star as sophisticated sleuths Nick and Nora Charles, with the added filip of 8-month-old Nick Charles Jr. At the invitation of munitions Read More

Out West with the Hardys

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

Synopsis: The title tells the story in this fourth of MGM's "Hardy Family" series. Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) takes his family to the Wide Open Spaces when a friend has legal difficulties over water rights. Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) thinks he can pass as a westerner, which results in saddle sores for the Read More