Vera Ralston Filmography

The Notorious Mr. Monks

Synopsis: In this dark drama a hapless hitchhiker takes a ride with a drunk driver who takes him to his house. There he meets the driver's wife and murder ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Spoilers of the Forest

Actors: Rod Cameron, Vera Ralston, Ray Collins, Hillary Brooke, Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis: Every time Republic Pictures head honcho Herbert J. Yates starred his minimally talented wife Vera Ralston in a film, the studio's stockholders began trembling in their boots. Like most of its predecessors, the 1957 Ralston vehicle Spoilers of the Forest just barely made back its cost. Vera plays Read More

Gunfire at Indian Gap

Synopsis: In this western, passengers of a stagecoach endure danger and hardship as they travel across the Arizona territory. They are protected from renegade Indians by a sheriff who lies concealed on top of the coach. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Accused of Murder

Actors: David Brian, Vera Ralston, Sidney Blackmer, Virginia Grey, Warren Stevens

Synopsis: Nightclub singer Ilona Vance (Vera Ralston) is Accused of Murder in this Republic programmer. And from the looks of things, Ilona is guilty; she was, after all, the last person to see crooked lawyer Hobart (Sidney Blackmer) alive. But Lt. Roy Hargis (David Brian) is convinced that Ilona is Read More

Timberjack

Actors: Sterling Hayden, Vera Ralston, David Brian, Adolphe Menjou, Hoagy Carmichael

Synopsis: Republic's Trucolor process is shown off to good advantage in the outdoors actioner Timberjack. Sterling Hayden and David Brian star as Chipman and Brunner, a pair of rugged lumbermen who vie for the attentions of Lynn Tilton (Vera Ralston). The richer and more powerful of the two, Brunner would Read More

Jubilee Trail

Actors: Vera Ralston, Joan Leslie, Forrest Tucker, John Russell, Ray Middleton, Pat O'Brien

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Gwen Bristow, Jubilee Trail is a sprawling, all-star western from the Republic Studio mills. Despite is vaunted budget, the plot is strictly B-picture material. Ambitious California landowner Charles Hale (Ray Middleton) hopes to add to his riches by marrying off his brother Read More

A Perilous Journey

Actors: Vera Ralston, David Brian, Scott Brady, Charles Winninger, Hope Emerson

Synopsis: The much-maligned Vera Ralston turns in an acceptable performance as star of Republic's A Perilous Journey. Though seemingly inspired by MGM's Westward the Women, the film was actually based on The Golden Tide, a novel by Vingie Roe. In the year 1850, a group of 49 young women charter a Read More

Fair Wind to Java

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Vera Ralston, Robert Douglas, Victor McLaglen, John Russell

Synopsis: Republic Pictures' notion of an "epic", Fair Wind to Java manages to pack in enough entertainment value to send the adventure fans home happy. Tough South Seas skipper Fred MacMurray goes hunting for pearls on a forbidden Javanese island. Native girl Vera Ralston (never mind her Czech accent) Read More

Hoodlum Empire

Actors: Brian Donlevy, Claire Trevor, Forrest Tucker, Vera Ralston, Luther Adler

Synopsis: The Kefauver Committee's ongoing investigation of organized crime spawned several "Torn from Today's Headlines!" films in the early 1950s. Republic's Hoodlum Empire concerns the efforts by gangster Joe Gray (John Russell) to get out of the rackets after WW II. Part of Gray's "reclamation" is to 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

Belle Le Grand

Actors: John Carroll, Vera Ralston, Muriel Lawrence, William Ching, Hope Emerson

Synopsis: Allan Dwan's assured direction is the principal selling card of Republic's Belle le Grand. Based on a story by Peter B. Kyne, the film stars Vera Ralston as the title character, an ex-jailbird who becomes the gambling queen of old San Francisco. Upon meeting miner John Kilton (John Carroll), Belle Read More

Surrender

Actors: Vera Ralston, John Carroll, Walter Brennan, Francis Lederer, William Ching

Synopsis: Of the many attempts by Republic Pictures' CEO Herbert J. Yates to turn his lady friend Vera Ralston into a star, Surrender is one of the better efforts. Ralston plays a conscienceless "femme fatale" who works out a complex scheme to secure her financial comfort. The plan, enacted in a western Read More

The Fighting Kentuckian

Actors: John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Philip Dorn, Oliver Hardy, Marie Windsor

Synopsis: Set shortly after the Battle of New Orleans, the film casts John Wayne as John Breen, a Kentucky trooper making the long journey homeward with his confreres. Breen becomes involved with a plan by robber baron Blake Randolph (John Howard) to deprive hundreds of French army refugees of land granted 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

Angel on the Amazon

Actors: George Brent, Vera Ralston, Brian Aherne, Constance Bennett, Fortunio Bonanova

Synopsis: Angel on the Amazon gives the viewer a pretty good notion of what Lost Horizon or She might have looked like had they been produced by Republic Pictures. Vera Ralston stars as huntress Christine Ridgeway, who embarks on one of her many hunting expeditions in the company of her husband Anthony Brian Aherne Read More

The Flame

Actors: John Carroll, Vera Ralston, Robert Paige, Broderick Crawford, Henry Travers

Synopsis: Carlotta Duval (Vera Ralston) is willing to help her boyfriend George McAllister (John Carroll) get his hands on his ailing brother Barry's (Robert Paige) fortune. She is willing to marry Barry, knowing full well that he has only been given a few months to live. And when she deviates from the Read More

Wyoming

Actors: Roy Barcroft, John Carroll, George Cheseboro, Dick Curtis

Synopsis: Promoted from Republic B westerns to "A" productions, William "Wild Bill" Elliot found himself in the sort of roles previously essayed by John Wayne, Richard Dix and Errol Flynn. In the Republic "special" Wyoming, Elliot plays Charles Alderson, a wealthy Wyoming Territory ranch owner who takes an Read More

Murder in the Music Hall

Actors: Vera Ralston, William Marshall, Helen Walker, Nancy Kelly, William Gargan

Synopsis: Most of this Republic B-plus mystery yarn is set in a penthouse, next door to a music hall where a strange song-and-dance extravaganza is being staged. This production incorporates several ice-skating sequences--a good excuse as any for the presence of leading lady Vera Hruba Ralston, Republic's Read More

The Plainsman and the Lady

Actors: Don "Red" Barry, Andy Clyde, William B. Davidson, Byron Foulger

Synopsis: The 87-minute running time of Plainsman and the Lady was evidence aplenty that this was no mere Republic B western. William Elliot (formerly and latterly "Wild Bill" Elliot) stars as cattleman Sam Cotten, who offers his services-and his six-guns-to the newly formed Pony Express. Erudite villain 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

The Lady and the Monster

Actors: Vera Ralston, Richard Arlen, Mary Nash, Sidney Blackmer

Synopsis: Lady and the Monster was the first film version of the classic Curt Siodmak sci-fi/horror tale Donovan's Brain. The plot involves the brain of a famous but unscrupulous financier, recently deceased. The brain is kept alive artificially by overenthusiastic scientist Erich Von Stroheim, with the Read More

Lake Placid Serenade

Actors: Vera Ralston, Eugene Pallette, Vera Vague, Robert Livingston, Stephanie Bachelor

Synopsis: In this musical romance, an ice skater comes to America to represent her country at a Lake Placid carnival. Unfortunately, while she is there the war breaks out and she is unable to go home. While in America, she is cared for by her rich uncle. She soon falls in love with his handsome junior Read More

Storm over Lisbon

Actors: Vera Ralston, Richard Arlen, Erich Von Stroheim, Otto Kruger, Eduardo Ciannelli

Synopsis: Leonard Maltin once observed that Storm Over Lisbon is what Casablanca would have looked like had it been produced by Republic instead of Warner Bros. This wartime meller reunites the cast and director of the successful Republic melodrama Lady and the Monster, with less than successful results. Read More

Ice-Capades Revue

Actors: Ellen Drew, Richard Denning, Jerry Colonna, Barbara Jo Allen, Harold Huber

Synopsis: Republic's ongoing professional association with the celebrated "Ice-Capades" skating show yielded a number of flashy but forgettable musicals, including 1942's Ice-Capades Revue. Though a plot is hardly necessary, the story concerns New England farm gal Ann (Ellen Drew), whose already-mounting Read More

Ice-Capades

Actors: James Ellison, Jerry Colonna, Dorothy Lewis, Barbara Jo Allen, Alan Mowbray

Synopsis: By Republic Pictures standards, 1941's Ice-Capades certainly qualifies as an "all-star" film. The many subplots center around a performance of the real-life Ice-Capades skating troupe, featuring such luminaries as Belita, Red McCarthy, Megan Taylor, and future Republic film queen Vera Hruba Read More